Windsor Nantucket

27/03/2023

We have availability Daffodil Weekend! Located only 15 minutes from the Sconset picnic grounds.

(March 26, 2023) The 47th annual Nantucket Community Daffodil Flower Show, sponsored by the Nantucket Garden Club, will be held from 2-5 p.m. Saturday, April 29 and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, April 30 at …

11/09/2022

Beautiful Harvest Moon tonight!

20/05/2022

We are one week away from the opening of our exhibition, Asian Treasures from the Billings Collection, here at the Whaling Museum!

The exhibition draws from the collection that longtime Nantucket residents and world travelers David Billings and Beverly Hall Billings have assembled over 50 years. It all started with a book, and two pieces of Asian art David Billings received as a gift, and now their collection includes 4,000 artifacts.

Most pieces included in the show are being shown for the first time publicly, and the NHA is excited to be able to give islanders and visitors the opportunity to see a significant portion of the collection.

The exhibition will feature paintings, textiles, bronzes, and jade items. However, ceramics will predominate, including some of the earliest known pieces of earthenware from 5,000 BCE and porcelain, which dates from the Qing Dynasty, the last Imperial Chinese Dynasty.

Book your visit now on NHA.org for opening day on Friday, May 27! https://nha.org/visit/info-times/tickets-and-hours/

Photo above: A pair of large kingfisher feather-embellished gilt metal finials of a roaring dragon, Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1911), 21 ½” x 16”. Provenance: Christies, New York City.

Asian Treasures from the Billings Collection is generously sponsored by

22/03/2022

21/03/2022

Just 16 miles off the coast of Cape Cod, Nantucket is a great escape ready to be explored by you and your family. Eat at world class restaurants, surf great waves, have ice cream every day and live like a local on the serene island of Nantucket. Grab your beach bag and get on that ferry, here are 20...

09/03/2022

There is nothing better than a Sconset Day as beautifully described in this poem by Hector Fezandie and illustrated by his brother-in-law, Victor Perard.

We shared his valentine’s day poem to his wife recently, check it out in our past posts.

Scanned gift of Pam and Chris Lohmann, SC674-13.

25/02/2022

Just a little bit of snow this morning. We're going to be putting that fireplace to good use!

29/12/2021

Yankee Magazine: "Sankaty Head Lighthouse (Siasconset) One of New England's Best"

https://newengland.com/weekends-with-yankee-episodes/episode-311-the-seacoast/best-new-england-lighthouses/

24/12/2021

30/11/2021

In our latest episode of Nantucket Sound, Sconset homeowner and the director of the hit Netflix limited series This Is a Robbery, Colin Barnicle takes host Robert Cocuzzo behind the scenes of one of the most famous unsolved crimes, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist. 🔍👀

To listen on Apple Podcasts, click here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/colin-barnicle-this-is-a-robbery/id1559966418?i=1000542402733

To listen on Spotify, click here:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3m2DtUYjrwCk2Gr34ulVL5?si=KRpRNlwYSge6i7PPUOOIIQ

Nantucket Sound is brought to you by our partners at Serena & Lily and

24/11/2021

28/04/2021

‘Nantucket: Classic American Style 30 Miles Out to Sea’ by authors Liza Gershman and Carrie Nieman Culpepper features natural photographic portraits and...

28/04/2021

Who else is looking forward to summer?

26/01/2021

On this day in 1824, Peter F. Ewer wanted to know how long it took his horse to make the trip from Siasconset village to town, a distance of roughly seven miles. As a way to measure his progress, Ewer placed stone mileage markers along the road, now known as the Milestone Road.

In the 1820s trips to ’Sconset took most of a day. The January 26, 1824 edition of took note of Ewer’s project with interest. In the 19th Century the ’Sconset road changed course several times and the milestones were moved each time. There is a tradition in the family that Peter F. Ewer’s descendants keep the milestones painted white. The white markers still remain along the Milestone Road.

Born in 1800, Ewer would later be well known for another accomplishment: the invention of the camels, which were flotation devices designed to lift whaleships over the sandbar which blocked the entrance to Nantucket Harbor in the mid-1800s. The NHA owns a portrait of Ewer, which shows him with a diamond-shaped tattoo between his eyes (see our Instagram post from October 23, 2020 to see his portrait and learn more).

Excerpted from On This Day In Nantucket History by Amy Jenness.

Photo: milestone #6 in 1890s with sheep in the background (image: gpn2919).