Quotes About Nantucket

I lived on Nantucket in college during the summer and have spent a lot of time there since. It's a special place for me.

The whaling era that opened after the War of 1812, from about 1817 to the mid-1850s, has come to be called whaling's golden age. Its primary anchorage shifted from Nantucket Island to New Bedford, below Cape Cod at the mouth of the Acushnet River.

Sag Harbor, Cold Spring Harbor, Mystic, New Bedford, Nantucket, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard.

By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population.

Right whales - so named because they were 'the right whale to kill' - grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of baleen in their perpetually grinning mouths.

Nantucket's English settlers, who first disembarked on the island in 1659, had been mindful of the sea's dangers. They had hoped to earn their livelihoods not as fishermen but as farmers and shepherds on this grassy isle dotted with ponds, where no wolves preyed.

June and July are foggy months. In the early summer on Nantucket, warm moist air flows over the colder water. The moist air cools to its dew point and a cloud forms at the water's surface. This is fog.

The body of water between Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket is the Muskeget Channel. "I

The Greydon House is the new hot spot on Nantucket; Bart remembers when it was his dentist's office. It has been reimagined as a hotel and fine restaurant. The bar is dark paneled, the lighting is low, the furniture is ornate, and the overall effect

town as "Nantucket Visitor Services"), 508-228-0925. Visitor Services keeps a list of available hotel rooms (and, yes, there were nights in the past few summers when the island was completely sold out!). They have a host of helpful practical information for your visit! Website: Nantucket-ma.gov.

As Lizbet says in this novel, Great Point is Nantucket's ultimate destination. Great Point Light sits at the tippy-top of the long arm of sand that juts into the water to the north. Great Point is part of a nature preserve (hence the hefty sticker price for your vehicle) run by the Trustees of Reservations.

It's a wild, windswept landscape with the ocean on your right and the harbor on your left as you drive out. There are almost always seals. There are sometimes sharks—you've been warned! It is "far away" (it takes nearly forty-five minutes to get there from town), but it's a Nantucket experience

beaches that you cannot drive on. North shore beaches front Nantucket Sound and have calm water without large waves. South shore beaches are ocean beaches and normally have waves. There are sometimes rip currents. Please be careful! North Shore Jetties Beach is walkable from town and has the added attraction of the Sand Bar, which I'll discuss in the restaurant section.

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If I had stayed on Nantucket in 1993 instead of going home…my sister's life, my friend Jake's life, and my friend Fray's life all would have been different.

The Blue Book Time and again I'm asked for recommendations of must-do's while visiting Nantucket. As Lizbet Keaton says in this novel, "The world needs a Nantucket guidebook written by an island

They have a host of helpful practical information for your visit! Website: Nantucket-ma.gov. Getting Here (and Back Home) Is the Hardest Part "How much is the toll for the bridge?

There is no bridge! Nantucket Island is thirty miles out to sea and therefore is accessible only by boat or plane. There are direct flights from New York (JFK), Newark, Washington, DC, and certain other cities in the summer on JetBlue, United, American, and Delta. Cape Air runs a nine-seat Cessna from Boston and JFK year-round. (Warning: these Cessnas are not for the faint of heart, as per the scene in Golden Girl!)

We also have ferries, known on the island as "the fast boat" and "the slow boat." The slow boat is operated by the Steamship Authority and is the only way to bring a vehicle. If you want to bring your vehicle to Nantucket, you must get a reservation (and these sell out way in advance, starting in early January!).

Although the hotel in the book is a creation of my imagination, the Nantucket Hotel does have certain similarities: It has both rooms and suites, a family pool and an adult pool, a fabulous fitness center, a yoga

Cliffside's lobby is one of the most spectacular spaces on the island. The hotel has twenty-three rooms (where you step out into sand), a pool and a fitness center, a small private café, and a private beach on Nantucket Sound. (The water is calm and good for swimming.) Cliffside is a splurge—if you can get in!

Website: Greydonhouse.com; Instagram: @greydonhouse. When you really want to get away from it all, check out the Wauwinet Inn. It's nine miles out of town (this is very far by Nantucket standards), but the drive takes you along the beautiful, winding Polpis Road

where you'll pass farms, ponds, and the Nantucket Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum. The Wauwinet is located on the harbor at the entry to Great Point. The hotel has an expansive deck lined with Adirondack chairs that overlook the harbor. There's a library, a charming tucked-away bar, and a fine-dining restaurant, Topper's (which is where Bone Williams takes Alessandra in this book and where Benji and Celeste

you'll never forget. There is a guardhouse just before the Wauwinet Inn where you purchase your sticker. On your way home, you can pop into the Wauwinet's super-cute tiny bar for a drink. (Topper's, the restaurant, is exquisite but expensive, even by Nantucket standards.) There are some people who think driving on a beach is an abomination. I respect that—and so does Nantucket. Most beaches do not allow cars. Here are some of my favorite