The Nantucket Atheneum plays a vital role in sustaining and supporting the values islanders hold dear: a place where connections run deep, where people feel safe and where diversity is celebrated. The Atheneum, open six days per week and year round, holds our community together by fusing people and knowledge. In 2017 the library welcomed […]
By Elizabeth Kelly In 2007, massive lots of photo negatives went up for auction as part of an abandoned storage locker sale in Chicago. Interested buyers bid on large bulk bins, sight-unseen, hoping to score a few treasures. Real estate agent John Maloof bought a box of negatives for about four-hundred dollars. Two years later […]
If you could share a dessert in Paris with your favorite author what would you eat and who would you invite? That is the question posed to the Atheneum staff at its monthly meeting in January. Their answers confirmed what we already knew – our co-workers are an interesting and diverse bunch. There were a […]
Now in its 12th year, the One Book One Island community reading project is distributing free copies of the book TransAtlantic, by Collum McCann, at island businesses. Beginning March 9 there will be nine days of free events related to the book’s themes and characters. The acclaimed and award-winning novel spans continents, leaps across centuries, […]
The Artists’ Association of Nantucket and the Nantucket Atheneum present a one year community-based stitching and textile project inspired by life on Nantucket. Participants are asked to create a work that celebrates their experience of Nantucket. It can be made up of images or words or both. The content of the pages will be open […]
