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With our upcoming exhibition, Behind the Seams: Clothing and Textiles on Nantucket, opening in May, we continue to reshare clips from our Symposium: Nantucket Needlework that was held at the Friends Meeting House in September 2019.
Susan Boardman is a needlework artist who has taken Nantucket for her muse. She talks about the notable historic and contemporary Nantucket women who inspired her to create her exquisite embroidered narratives and also describes her unique process. The collection of Susan’s narratives and the stories that inspired them are beautifully documented in Sometimes Think of Me: Notable Nantucket Women through Centuries by Betsy Tyler, now in its second printing, available in the online shop at NHA.org.
Watch the full presentation on our YouTube channel! Link 🔗 here: https://youtu.be/nYmyd0K-a-Q?si=CE4y4d5ULnoTKRIh
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Flower Power 🌼 2025!
Thank you to everyone who joined us this evening at the Whaling Museum for a festive celebration to kick off Daffodil Weekend.
And a special thank you for our lead sponsor @nantucket_magazine as well as supporting sponsors @iknantucket Nantucket Flower Box Company and @ackchamber
Happy DAFFY! #ackdaffy #nantucket #nantucketisland #nantucketdaffodilfestival
We are pleased to highlight a recent donation to the collection, this painting of a Nantucket Beach Scene by William Trost Richards.
William Trost Richards was born in Philadelphia and began to draw at a young age. At thirteen, he was forced to leave school to support his family and found a job designing ornamental metal fixtures. He continued to study art, eventually taking classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and exhibiting his first work there in 1852. Richards began painting New England shorelines in the 1860s. In 1865, he spent the summer on Nantucket and painted this panoramic view. It is not known how many paintings he painted on Nantucket during the few months he was here, only six or eight paintings are known to have been painted on Nantucket.
Painting, Nantucket Beach Scene by William Trost Richards
Gift of Diane Durnin in memory of Ann E. Durnin
It’s beginning to look a lot like Daffodil Weekend at the Whaling Museum 🌼
With over 100 student artworks in our front windows and the Discovery Center made by first grade Nantucket Elementary School students with art teacher Sue Grant.
Stop by to enjoy the beautiful display, we are open today and through the weekend 10-4!
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Happy National Picnic Day!
Who is ready to pull out their floral attire and lay down their picnic blankets?!
Photo: Group of women on the beach having a picnic on Coatue in the summer of 1931. Left to right: Shirley Carpenter, Nettie Carpenter, Kay Bruce, Kay Davidson; Miss Williams (seated). Gift of Mr & Mrs Donald Harris, PH47-1-6.
Did you hear?! 🎙️We are launching a new podcast on May 1, The Nantucket Gam!
Let’s meet some of our contributing cast members that you will hear in the first episode:
🎤Adam
📖Annalie
🔍Thomas
The Nantucket Gam will surround each episode around a particular theme, with the episode consisting of about 20-25 minutes of storytelling and conversation around the topic, bringing in present-day storytelling at the conclusion of each episode by having a guest community member who can speak to the theme.
Stay tuned for more details as we get ready to launch our first episode about Nantucket Fires 🔥 next week on May 1!
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