This Week on Nantucket, July 2-9 by The Inquirer And Mirror

This Week on Nantucket

July 2-July 9 –In This Issue –

•Complete Island Calendar

•Let’s Eat! Bliss

•MusACK: Jammy Buffet

•Noble Grape: Rosé

Independence Day

On Saturday, July 4th, the Town of Nantucket will offer activities all day long to celebrate the nation’s Independence Day. Locations include the Main Street area, Children’s Beach, and Jetties Beach.

Main Street Area

Sustainable Nantucket’s Farmer’s Market

8:30 am to 12:30 p.m.,

Cambridge Street between North Union and South Water Streets

Food Trucks

8:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m.,

Federal Street between Main and India Street

27th Anniversary Reading of the Declaration of Independence

9:00 a.m., St. Paul’s Church, 20 Fair Street

USA 250th Nantucket High School

Drumline Parade

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Main Street

Community Band Performance

10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.,

Federal Street between Main and India Street

Annual Water Contest

Noon - 12:30 p.m., Main Street

Jetties Beach Fireworks, 9:00 p.m.

The show lasts approximately 25-27 minutes and is shot from a barge just offshore

Children’s Beach

P.J. Moody Sings the National Anthem & Other Patriotic Music

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.,

Children’s Beach bandstand

Matt Fee Tea Toss, Cornhole Tournament & Other Family-friendly Games

10:00 a.m. - Noon, Lawn in front of bandstand

Face Painting

10:00 a.m. - Noon, Corner lawn near boat ramp

Magic Show with Magic Mark

10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.,

Children’s Beach bandstand

Kids Music & Movement with Cory Morgan

11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.,

Children’s Beach bandstand

P.J. Moody

12:15 p.m.- 12:45 p.m.,

Children’s Beach bandstand

Bike Parade 12:20 p.m.- 12:30 p.m.

Family Games

5:00 p.m, on the beach

Transportation to Jetties Beach:

Starting at 6:00 p.m., NRTA Wave buses will depart from in front of The Whaling Museum on Broad Street every 10-15 minutes and will return from Jetties Beach after the fireworks up to 10:30 p.m.

Thursday, July 2

Sunrise Yoga

7:30 a.m. daily, Children’s Beach, Harborview Way. Bettina Broer leads this early-morning yoga session. Bring your own mat.

Pick Your Own Vegetables

8:30 a.m. Bartlett’s Ocean View Farm, 33 Bartlett Farm Road. Journey on the Bartlett’s Farm hay wagon into the heart of its produce fields, with plenty of time to fill your own bag.

Feeding Frenzy at the Aquarium

9 a.m. Monday-Saturday, Maria Mitchell Aquarium, 32 Washington St. Join MMA aquarists and staff as they feed the creatures at the aquarium and learn about their feeding behaviors. Registration required on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Ravenous Reptiles

9 a.m. Monday-Saturday, Hinchman House Natural Science Museum, 7 Milk St. Join MMA staff as they feed the hungry animals at the museum and learn about the adaptations of turtles, frogs, snakes and more. $20. Registration recommended on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Island Calendar

Marine Storytime

9:15 a.m. Monday-Saturday, Maria Mitchell Aquarium, 32 Washington St. An MMA educator will read a marine- or science-themed book, introduce one of the MMA’s animal friends and finish with an activity related to the book. $15 per child, chaperones free. Registration recommended on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Dance Party in the Garden

9:45 a.m. Atheneum garden, 1 India St. Cory Morgan leads an energetic, joy-filled dance time with songs, silly dance moves and challenges like Freeze Dance and the Cha-Cha Slide. Weather permitting. Bring a blanket.

Crafting at the Beach

10 a.m. Children’s Beach bandstand, Harborview Way. Create a Fourth of July craft. Hosted by Nantucket Culture & Tourism.

NISDA Open House

10 a.m. Thursday and Friday, Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts, 23 Wauwinet Road. Create art, listen to music, see arts demonstrations and tour the Seaview Farm Arts Center. For more information, visit www.nisda.org.

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Nantucket’s Fourth of July fireworks will be launched from a barge in Nantucket Harbor over Jetties Beach Saturday evening. See listing, page 22, for details.

Colin Coyle, the culinary mad scientist of Bliss

By Francesca Giangiulio fgiangiulio@inkym.com

Across his knuckles, Colin Coyle has a tattoo: block letters that read “HOMEMADE.”

It immediately reminded me of Radio Raheem’s iconic “LOVE” and “HATE” rings in “Do the Right Thing.”

Except, instead of a battle between opposing forces, Coyle’s hands tell the story of a promise, what he describes as a “contract” to himself: to cook, to create and eventually build something entirely his own. He got the tattoo at 24 years old.

“It was my realization that I’m good at this,” he says. “It was just kind of me sealing my fate. I’m just gonna cook, and I’m gonna be a chef.”

Funny, for someone who never wanted to be a chef.

Two opposing forces can only resist each other for so long before one takes over. Coyle may not have set out to be a chef, but the kitchen called him anyway.

“I just saw how my dad lived, and it was never really appealing,” he says with a laugh.

Coyle, who now owns a successful private chef business and grab-and-go cafe, has been in the restaurant world his whole life.

His father was a chef at country clubs in Florida, and, when Coyle was a teenager, he started joining his dad in the kitchen, washing dishes and eventually working the line.

“I kind of just thought I would do whatever came natural, and it ended up being cook-

Let’s Eat!

ing, so I stuck with it,” he says.

One job led to another until he eventually found himself on Martha’s Vineyard, knocking on the back door of Red Cat Kitchen saying, “I heard you’re the best restaurant on the island, and I want to work for you.”

Eventually, he crossed the sound to Nantucket, where he spent three years at the Club Car before launching his own private chef and catering business, The Private Plate, in 2023.

His most recent endeavor? Bliss Nantucket, a wellness cafe that opened earlier this summer.

The grab-and-go cafe shares the space at 5 West Creek Road with Eat Fire Farm’s Little Farm Store. Customers can drift between the two spaces, ordering coffee while they inspect the latest Nantucket-raised pork cuts or grab a bouquet of fragrant local flowers while sipping a brightly colored freshpressed juice.

The floor-to-ceiling shelves stocked with unique pantry staples make it difficult not to linger a little longer.

Bliss calls itself a wellness cafe, serving protein smoothies, cold-pressed juices, build-your-own salads and more.

“It’s food that makes you feel good,” Coyle says.

But you’ll also find buttery marcona

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Photo by Francesca Giangiulio Bliss’ lemon chicken over couscous.

Photo by Francesca Giangiulio Bliss’ carrot cake with frosting.

Photo by Francesca Giangiulio

The Bliss fried egg sandwich with bacon.

Doors open at 6:30pm • Tickets $30 at the door • Handicap Accessible, very limited parking

Curtis on Tour

Elissa Lee Koljonen, violin

Hao Yang, guitar

Romain-Olivier Gray, cello

July 21

Ying Li Piano solo

Peter Sirotin, violin Ya-Ting Chang, piano

Paul Galbraith Guitar solo

July 14 July 28 August 11 August 4 August 18

Beo String Quartet

Christine Lee, cello Jung-A Bang piano

“MEET THE ARTISTS” - FREE, FUN & INFORMATIVE

These informal events are held each Monday before the Tuesday concert at the Atheneum at 5:30 PM at their Great Hall and are FREE.

We’ll see you Tuesdays at 7pm in our new home, St. Paul’s Church Children under 18 free, + all students with a current ID Tickets available online & at Antiques Depot, South Beach Street

Busy beach day at the Nantucket Field Station

By Neil Foley I&M Columnist

A beach day is the constant daydream of every working stiff this time of year. It is the chance to cast away all obligations and chores to fully immerse yourself in the summer sun.

But here is the problem for me: I do not like to lay around on the beach slowly baking in the radiant heat while pretending that the grit of the sand does not bother me. I would much rather go to a beach where there are things to find, birds to search for and creatures to appreciate among the cobble and tide pools. Luckily, the perfect beach for the lover of cobbles and rocky tidal edges exists at the University of Massachusetts-Boston’s Nantucket Field Station.

The summer has roared into the end of June, leaving lawns crispy and plants thirsty. To put it bluntly, it was a long way off from the June-uary of years past.

Driving across the moors shows the stunt-

ed scrub oak greenery from the one-two punch of prolonged frost pockets and sustained drought conditions.

Other flowering plants and insect development seem to be a week or so behind the phenology timetables of the last few years.

Now in the strong current of July humidity, it feels more like the end of summer than the beginning.

From the public parking lot at 180 Polpis Road, walk the gravel driveway up to the overlook at the laboratory. From here you can survey the entirety of Folger’s Marsh and see the meandering estuary at the center of the salt marsh.

Shallow pools and salt pans diverge from the estuary as it flows toward the constricted culvert under Polpis Road.

A view like this is a birder’s dream. You can scope the entire marsh for daily feeding flights by American oystercatchers, ospreys

Photo by Neil Foley

A great egret hunting in the estuary in Folger’s Marsh near the University of Massachusetts-Boston’s Nantucket Field Station in Quaise.

Photo by Neil Foley

American oystercatchers fly as a pair over the saltmarsh.

Walk with Neil

chirping loudly as they circle high over the marsh, reclusive saltmarsh sparrows flashing between clumps of saltmeadow cordgrass and a revolving door of migratory waterbird species.

The shrubs along the marsh edge are similarly alive with catbirds, warblers, grackles and a cosmopolitan crew of songbirds. Their calls led me further down the road toward the beach.

I take a peek into Peabody’s Pond, a human-expanded fresh-water pond once stocked with fish. Separate from the salt-water marsh due to elevation, it was named for the Peabody family who sold their farm here to UMass back in the 1960s.

At a fork in the road, I wander down the left path down to the marsh level and the beach beyond.

Summer in the salt marsh is a congrega-

tion of all forms. Striped bass find their way through the bends of the estuary to feed on killifish and mummichogs while horseshoe crabs scuttle over sandy-bottomed bends and shallow sandbars.

The colors and smells in grassless pockets of the marsh let me know that the habitat is alive not just at the surface, but in layers below ground. A salt marsh is anything but skin deep.

Yellow-crowned night herons have been guest stars of Folger’s Marsh this year, showing off beautiful plumage and long crown feathers to the delight of island birders.

There has been a nice group of them hanging out here for months, with a high count of seven spotted in early May.

From the marsh edge I see one about 30 feet away popping its head out of the dense

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Photo by Neil Foley

Peabody’s Pond, a distinctive fresh-water pond close to the salt marsh.

Photo by Neil Foley

The cobble-strewn beach outside the Nantucket field station.

Jammy Buffet reimagines Buffett for a new generation

By Kendall Graham kgraham@inkym.com

Singer-songwriter Bob Barrick grew up as an unabashed Parrothead.

The moniker refers to the fandom of legendary musician and cultural icon Jimmy Buffett, whose timeless tunes and laid-back sound have shaped multiple generations of musicians.

Barrick is the lead singer of Jammy Buffet, a jam-band tribute to the late Buffett, who spent significant amounts of his down time on Nantucket, and his extensive repertoire.

“I’m such a mega-fan that I could sing every song by heart,” said Barrick, who grew up in Indiana and made a tradition of seeing Buffett every year at the Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville.

But Jammy Buffet isn’t just a nostalgia machine.

They play Buffett’s hit songs, because, as a tribute band, how could you not, but they are especially fond of diving into his 1970s country-rock era, and they stretch and reshape the songs in real time into something slightly more contemporary.

They will bring their twist on the tropical

troubadour’s music to The Chicken Box for two nights Tuesday, July 7 and Wednesday, July 8.

To avoid letting his personal Buffett obsession dominate the set-list creation, Barrick intentionally relies on his bandmates for their input.

“The way that I do it is that I hand it over to members of the band who are less familiar with his discography and I say, ‘Hey, what do you guys think of this tune or that tune’?” Barrick said.

“I want to hear from a neutral perspective what we should attack.”

The band infuses Buffett’s laid-back Gulf Coast sound with the freewheeling spirit of a jam band, weaving lengthy solos, tempo shifts and spontaneous riffs into classics like “Cheeseburger in Paradise” and “Son of a Son of a Sailor.”

The project launched three years ago as a one-off tribute called “Living and Dying in 3/4 Time,” a nod to Buffett’s 1974 album of the same name.

Courtesy of Jammy Buffet

Jammy Buffet plays tribute to the iconic music of Jimmy Buffett, with laid-back, spontaneous riffs and expansive solos in the finest jam-band tradition.

Photo by Bridget Dorr

Jammy Buffet will play The Chicken Box Tuesday and Wednesday.

MusACK

Rosé: From blush to blockbuster to the real thing

Bandol Vineyards in the south of France, producers of some of the world’s finest rosé wines.

By Peter McEachern I&M Columnist

Before we talk about what rosé is, let’s talk about what it was – and what it became – because the story of pink wine in the 20th century is a great cautionary tale in the history of fermented grape juice. It is, in its own way, surprisingly entertaining.

Once upon a time, rosé was serious. The great rosés of Provence – from Bandol, Cassis and the Côteaux d’Aix-en-Provence –were made for centuries by Mediterranean fishermen and farmers who intuitively knew that pink wine was the natural companion to their region’s food: bouillabaisse, ratatouille and grilled fish pulled that morning from the sea.

Tavel, in the southern Rhône, produced a rosé so structured and serious that it was long considered one of France’s great wines. The rosés of the Anjou Loire Valley had their

Wine Cellar: The Noble Grapes

admirers. The Spanish had their own traditions.

Pink wine, in its proper context, was a noble and respectable thing, made from good grapes by people who took their craft seriously and served it cold on warm evenings with food that deserved it.

And then came the 1970s. And with it, white zinfandel.

Hollywood goes to the vineyard

In 1975, a winemaker at Sutter Home in Napa Valley accidentally invented white zinfandel when a stuck fermentation left residual sugar in what was supposed to be a dry rosé.

Rather than discard the batch, they bot-

Courtesy of Peter McEachern

Courtesy of Peter McEachern Various hues of rosé.

tled it. It was pink, slightly sweet and tasted faintly of strawberry candy and watermelon. It sold in quantities that would have been incomprehensible to the Provencal fishermen who had been making serious rosé for 300 years. By the mid-1980s, white zinfandel was the best-selling wine in the United States.

By the late 1980s, every major California producer had a blush-wine program. By 1990, the word “rosé” had become, in the minds of a significant portion of the wine-drinking public, synonymous with something sweet, pink, cheap and fundamentally unserious.

Think of it as Hollywood’s influence on the vineyard. In the 1970s and 1980s, the film industry discovered that a certain formula – high concept, broad appeal, maximum sugar, minimum challenge – could generate revenue that more serious work could only dream of. “Jaws.” “Star Wars.” “Top Gun.”

These are not bad films, and white zinfandel is not a bad product. It gives a large number of people exactly what they want, at a price they can afford, with consistency that is genuinely impressive.

But just as the blockbuster era crowded serious cinema to the margins and convinced a generation of moviegoers that films were supposed to be simple, loud and sweet, the blush-wine era convinced a generation of wine drinkers that pink wine was not a category in which seriousness was either possible or desirable.

The casualties were real. Tavel, which had been producing one of France’s most admired rosés for centuries, found itself lumped in with wines it had nothing in common with.

Bandol rosé, made from Mourvèdre and Grenache and aged with genuine care, was dismissed as the same category as the pink liquid sold in jugs at supermarkets across

the country.

The serious rosé producers of Provence spent the 1980s and much of the 1990s watching their category be defined by a product that bore no relation to what they were making.

It was, to borrow from the cinema analogy, as if “Citizen Kane” had been filed in the same section of the video store as “Police Academy.”

When pink became the new gold

Then something happened. Around 2010, rosé began its rehabilitation, and, like most rehabilitations, it overcorrected magnificently.

The catalyst was Provence. A combination of fashion, social media, warm summers and a genuine improvement in the quality of Provencal rosé production – particularly from estates like Château d’Esclans, whose owner, Sacha Lichine, spent serious money making a rosé called Whispering Angel that retailed at a price point previously unthinkable for pink wine – turned rosé into the beverage of a particular kind of aspirational summer.

It was pale. It was Provencal. It came in a beautiful bottle. It was photographed at every pool in the Hamptons, every yacht in Saint-Tropez and every rooftop in Manhattan. It was, in the language of the moment, a moment.

And then, as night follows day, the Grape Rush began. If consumers would pay $15, $20 or $25 a bottle for a Provencal rosé –and they demonstrably would, in quantities that made the Provence appellation’s production capacity look suddenly inadequate, the market would supply rosé at those prices from every corner of the wine-producing world, regardless of whether the grapes, CELLAR, PAGE 26

Photo by Max Labeille

Vineyards facing the hill of the famous village of Gordes, in the Luberon, France.

Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” stands the test of time

By James Estrada Flores Contributing Writer

This is one of the greatest books I’ve ever read in my 25 years of life. I was recommended this book (thank you Virginia) my freshman year of high school, 10 years ago. I put it off until spring 2025 and promptly scorched my way right through all 640 pages of it, every chapter keeping me grounded and immersed to the insane and beautiful train wreck of a story unfolding itself page after page until the very end.

Up until that point I had only read “The Pearl” and “Of Mice And Men” by John Steinbeck, both of which are incredibly good as well, but neither had the effect and impact on me that “East of Eden” did.

This book has characters that I feel like I’ve known personally in different lifetimes, and at the same time, reminds me of the ones I do know in this one.

Being part of a generation that is chronically online, often misguided and misinformed by AI slop, trashy influencers, getrich-quick schemes and soulless recycled storytelling, I consistently try to stay away from pieces of media and literature that bring me dread and other less than desirable human emotions.

I always want to make sure that I’m aware of what I am consuming, whether it be a movie that makes me feel and think a certain way after watching, a song that changes

Good Reads

my mood or gets stuck in my head for days on end, or a book that allows me to reflect on and regulate my own character.

As a big fan of action, adventure, thrillers, horror, comedy and sci-fi, I remember being bored by classic literature and never finding anything worthy of my attention because I thought they were dull, dated, daunting books made solely to become adaptations for British soap operas.

When I started, I thought that would be the case with this book, but I didn’t know I would be so happy to be proven wrong.

Instead, I found peace and understanding, what it means to be a good neighbor, how to trust in people, raising yourself when no one else can, family and friendship, recognizing deception and moving through betrayal, seeing through lies and corruption, dealing with jealousy, steering clear of true evil, realizing your potential, all of the good in the bad as well as the bad in the good, and remembering that time can serve as a healing factor.

The story can ultimately be summed up to this: biblical retellings with the American Dream as the background and the generational legacy of two different families as the foreground.

That is all I feel I can tell you to not ruin anything, so if you were expecting a summary of

the book I sincerely apologize, but I’m not sorry. The devil is quite literally in the details.

There were times where I read something in this book and despite it being a work of fiction, I felt it in my soul that something had to have happened at some point in time in the exact same way.

Reading this book made me think that this was how God probably feels sitting back in a divine recliner and watching humanity teach itself transcendental lifelong lessons like the most bingeable Netflix original series ever created.

It’s kind of funny. I found out not too long ago that Netflix actually was adapting this book, and after watching the trailer I personally think that it unfortunately looks

like garbage and they got a couple of fundamental things very wrong.

In conclusion, John Steinbeck’s writing effortlessly paints a cinematic visual setting like Bob Ross paints a canvas, and I am just grateful, humbled and privileged to have been alive in a time where I can experience a book as monumental as this the way I did.

I wholeheartedly recommend “East of Eden” to anyone looking for wisdom, guidance, self-reflection, or just a good time and entertainment.

I feel lots of themes in this book are still remarkably relevant today, for better or for worse, and I hope my review has made you want to pick up a copy for yourself.

James Estrada Flores is a library associate at the Nantucket Atheneum.

John Steinbeck

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Hands-on History

10:15 a.m.4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, Nantucket Whaling Museum Discovery Room, 13 Broad St. Hands-on family programming connecting the Nantucket Historical Association’s 2026 exhibition “The Wider World and Scrimshaw” with a craft for participants to make and take home. Register on calendar page of www.nha.org

Tech Tips for iPhone Users

10:30 a.m. Saltmarsh Senior Center, 81 Washington St. Janie Hobson-Dupont teaches seniors how to use their iPhones, offering tips and tricks to make your experience easier and smoother. Call (508) 2284490 to register.

Hands-on History at the Old Jail

11 a.m.-4 p.m. Old Gaol (Jail), 15R Vestal St. Learn about the Nantucket Historical Association’s Old Jail and some of its inhabitants, and make a beaded keychain. Free.

Mini Movers

11 a.m. Hinchman House Natural Science Museum, 7 Milk St. Young children and their caregivers are invited to wiggle, dance and explore the animal kingdom through movement, music and hands-on discovery. $15. Additional session Saturday. Registration recommended on calendar page of www.mariamitchell. org. Additional session Tuesday.

Live Music: Jimmy Denny

Noon, Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Atlanta based indie singer-songwriter Jimmy Denny will perform. Second show noon Friday.

Kids Metal Detecting 101

2 p.m. Maria Mitchell Aquarium, 2 p.m. Metal detectorist Nikoline Bohr leads this hands-on adventure just for kids. Learn the basics of metal detecting while searching for treasure on the beach. $30. Registration required on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org. Additional session Tuesday.

Art Opening: Hostetler Gallery

5 p.m. Hostetler Gallery, 42 Centre St. The gallery will host a reception for its current exhibition of work along with a wine tasting by Burgundy expert Nick Setterberg.

Evening Art

5 p.m. Maria Mitchell Association Natural Science Museum, 7 Milk St. Artist Nikoline Bohr instructs participants on how to create a personal work of art inspired by Nantucket’s iconic lighthouses and resident animal ambassadors in the museum’s collection. Intended for adults. $45. Registration required on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Island Calendar

Art Reception: AAN

5 p.m. Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery, 8 Federal St. The Artists Association of Nantucket will host a public reception for its From Moors to Moorings exhibition.

Book Talk

6 p.m. Mitchell’s Book Corner, 54 Main Street. Mitchell’s will host a book talk and signing for County Highway’s “250 Great American Things,” compiling pieces by some of America’s finest writers about what makes America great.

Sip and Stitch

6 p.m. Erica Wilson, 25 Main St. An evening of creativity, conversation and community. All are welcome, whether you’re a seasoned embroiderer or threading your first needle. Free.

Friends Fête

6:30 p.m. Almanack Arts Colony, Almanack Pond Farm, 25 Almanack Pond Road. Celebrate the wild, preserved beauty of Nantucket’s open spaces with hors d’oeuvres from Nantucket Catering Co. and Yoho Raw Bar, wines from Donelan Family Wines and libations from Cisco Brewers and Triple 8 Distillery in this fundraiser for the Almanack Arts Colony and the Nantucket Land & Water Council. Tickets at www.nantucketlandandwater.org

Owl Prowl

8 p.m. Maria Mitchell Association, 4 Vestal St. MMA field ornithologist and I&M columnist Ginger Andrews leads this search for owls and other nocturnal animals and birds. Intended for adults and children 8 and up. $30. Registration required on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Nighttime Marine Ecology Field Trip

8:30 p.m. Maria Mitchell Aquarium, 32 Washington St. The aquarium staff discusses the fish, squid, crabs and other creatures that come out to feed at night in the shallow waters of Nantucket Harbor. Register on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Live Music: 7 Day Weekend

10 p.m. The Chicken Box, 6 Dave St. Boston party band 7 Day Weekend will perform. 21 and over. Additional shows Friday and Saturday.

Live Music: Local Notes

10 p.m. Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Nantucket’s homegrown rock band Local Notes will perform. 21 and over.

Live Music: Arcy Drive

10:30 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. Long Island-based indie rock band Arcy Drive will perform. 21 and over.

Friday, July 3

Marine Ecology Field Trip

8:30 a.m. Hither Creek, Madaket, near 25 Massachusetts Ave. Adults and children 8 and older are invited to help Maria Mitchell Association staff collect, identify and release fish, crabs, shrimp and other marine creatures with a seine net. Additional sessions Monday and Wednesday. Tickets, $35, on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Kids Bird Watching

9 a.m. Maria Mitchell Aquarium, 32 Washington St. Children 7 and up are invited to learn how to observe, listen for and identify the birds of Nantucket’s coastal ecosystem. $25. Register on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Guided Nature Walk

10 a.m. Linda Loring Nature Foundation, 110 Eel Point Road. LLNF director of research and conservation Sarah Bois leads a guided tour of the eastern side of the foundation’s property, a section currently closed to the public. Free, but registration required on calendar page of www.llnf.org

Dharma Yoga

10:15 a.m., Bartlett’s Ocean View Farm, 33 Bartlett Farm Road. Joanne Burnham of Dharma Yoga leads this session to strengthen and lengthen, enliven and invigorate, soothe and calm. Visit www.dharmayoganantucket.com to register or for additional dates and times.

Book-signing

10:30 a.m. Mitchell’s Book Corner, 54 Main St. Island author Nancy Thayer will sign copies of her book “Summer Light on Nantucket,” and Kyleigh Leddy will sign her “Worse Than Strangers.”

Bug Bonanza

11 a.m. Mill Hill Park, off Prospect Street. Maria Mitchell Association staff lead this exploration of the insects and small creatures that live in the grasses, flowers and trees of Nantucket. Intended for children 4 and up and adults. $20. Register on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org. Additional sessions Monday and Wednesday.

Dreamland Kids Weekly Showcase

11 a.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. Young performers in the Dreamland’s Stage Explorers showcase what they’ve learned through theater, language and etiquette, followed by an interactive tea service and sing-along. Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org

(Thursday,

Courtesy of Third Eye Blind

Stephan Jenkins, front man of Third Eye Blind, will play The Muse Thursday, July 9.

Hands-on History at the Oldest House

11 a.m.-4 p.m. Oldest House, 16 Sunset Hill Lane. Learn about the Nantucket Historical Association’s Jethro Coffin House and the generations of Nantucketers who lived there, and create your own cup-and-ball game. Free.

Intro to Mah Jongg

1:15 p.m. Saltmarsh Senior Center, 81 Washington St. Learn about this ancient Chinese tile game from volunteers excited to share their interest.

Wines & Rinds

3:30-5 p.m. Bartlett’s Ocean View Farm, 33 Bartlett Farm Road. A relaxed, guided pairing of the farms favorite wines and cheeses.

Live Music: Chris Ruediger

4 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Nashville-based singer-songwriter Chris Ruediger will perform. Second show noon Saturday.

Sconset Trust Annual Meeting

5 p.m. Sconset Casino, 10 New St. Members of the Sconset Trust are invited to hear updates on its upcoming activities and current issues of interest. Followed by the Trust’s annual celebration.

Island Calendar

Art Opening: Gallery at Four India

5:30 p.m. Gallery at Four India Street, 4 India St. The gallery will host an opening reception for its exhibition of work by Tina Cobelle-Sturges and Clara Berta.

Teen Game Night

6 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. Teens and tweens are invited to play a selection of Nintendo Switch games like Just Dance, Mario Party and more. The games will rotate and are first-come, first-served.

Dreamland Comedy: T.J. Miller

8 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. T.J. Miller (“Silicon Valley,” “Deadpool,” “Cloverfield,”) the man billed as “Hollywood’s most unpredictable comic,” brings his unfiltered chaos to the stage for one show only. Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org

Stargazing at the Observatory

9:30 p.m. Loines Observatory, 59 Milk St. Join Maria Mitchell Association astronomers for a tour of the night sky, including the moon, planets, star clusters, nebulae and other galaxies. $27 for adults, $17 for children. Register on calendar page of www. mariamitchell.org. Additional sessions Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Karaoke

10 p.m. The Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Channel your inner rock star on The Rose & Crown stage.

Live Music: Porch Light

10:30 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. Minneapolis-based indie rock band Porch Light will perform. 21 and over.

Saturday, July 4

Independence Day

Firecracker 5K

7 a.m. same-day registration, 8 a.m. start, Jetties Beach, end of Bathing Beach Road. Nantucket’s most popular road race, the Firecracker last year attracted more than 800 runners and walkers to the streets of Brant Point last year. Sign up at https://runsignup. com/Race/MA/Nantucket/FirecrackerFiveK

Nantucket Clean Team

8 a.m. Handlebar Café, 15 Washington St., and Inquirer and Mirror parking lot, Milestone Rotary. The Nantucket Clean Team meets Saturdays from spring through fall to pick up trash around the island. Pickers and bags provided.

Farmers & Artisans Market

8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cambridge Street, between North Union and South Water streets. Sustainable Nantucket hosts a market of fresh local produce, island cottage-industry artisans and food. Weather permitting.

Food Trucks

8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Federal Street between Main and India streets. A variety of Nantucket’s popular food trucks off Fourth of July breakfast and lunch.

Capoeira at the Beach

9 a.m. Children’s Beach, Harborview Way. Kick off your Saturday mornings with an exciting Brazilian martial arts experience that’s fun for all ages. Free.

Declaration of Independence Reading

9 a.m. St. Paul’s Church, 20 Fair St. The traditional reading of the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights moves this year from the Unitarian Meeting House to St. Paul’s Church.

NanPuppets

9:30 a.m. Something Natural, 50 Cliff Road. Lizza Obremski brings her puppet friends for a half hour of education and fun. $10, kids under 1 free. Bring a blanket.

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Activities:

Absolute Sport Fishing

19 Straight Wharf (508) 325-4000

ACK Surf School

64 Nobadeer Ave (508) 246-7872

Albacore Charters

Slip 1010, Straight Wharf (508) 228-5074

Albacore Charters

Slip 1010 Straight Wharf (508) 228-5074

Altar Rock & The Moors

50 Altar Rock Rd

Althea K Sport Fishing

50 Easton St (508) 325-2167

Ara’s Tours 6 Fair St (508) 228-1951

Bamboo Forest 52 Madaket Rd

Barrett’s Tours 25 Federal St (508) 228-0174

Bill Fisher Outfitters 20 N Cambridge St (203) 962-8867

Captain Tom’s Charters F St, Madaket (508) 228-4225

Cisco Beach Hummock Pond Road

Cisco Brewery Tours

18b Federal St (508) 325-5929

Cook’s Cycles Nantucket

6 S Beach St, Ste B (508) 458-8042

Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge 107 Wauwinet Rd (508) 228-5646

Critter Cruise

Straight Wharf, Slip 1018

Cross Rip Outfitters

26 Mizzenmast Rd (508) 221-1201

Discover Nantucket Tours

77 Easton St (917) 716-5973

Discovery Playground at Hinsdale Park

54 Old South Rd

Easy Riders Bicycle Rentals

65 Surfside Rd (508) 325-2722

Endeavor Sailing Adventures

Straight Wharf, Slip #1015 (508) 228-5585

Gail’s Tours, Inc.

28 Longwood Dr (508) 257-6557

Herbert T Sport Fishing Slip 14, Straight Wharf (508) 228-6655

Island Bike Company Inc. 25 Old South Rd (508) 228-4070

Island Experience Transportation Nantucket, MA (508) 221-4590

Just Do It Too 1013 Straight Wharf (508) 228-7448

Linda Loring Nature Foundation 110 Eel Point Rd (508) 325-0873

Lisa Lynn Charters Town Pier, 34 Washington St (508) 221-6124

Lost Farm Wildlife Sanctuary Hummock Pond Rd (508) 228-9208

Masquetuck Reservation 15 Quaise Pasture Rd (508) 228-2884

Mass Audubon’s Sesachacha Heathlands Barnard Valley Rd (508) 228-9208

Nantucket Bike Shop

4 Broad St (508) 228-1999

Nantucket Bike Tours 77 Easton St (917) 716-5973

Nantucket By Water Slip 1011, Straight Wharf (508) 228-7037

www.nantucketcommunitysailing.org

Nantucket Conservation Foundation 118 Cliff Rd (508) 228-2884

Nantucket Fishing Hither Creek (508) 325-1575

Nantucket Historical Association 15 Broad St (508) 228-1894

Nantucket Information Bureau 25 Federal St (508) 228-0925

Nantucket Island Tours 42 Straight Wharf (508) 228-0334

Nantucket National Wildlife Refuge 107 Wauwinet Rd (978) 443-4661

Nantucket Tug Company 34 Washington St (831) 251-8018

Nantucket Walkabout 15 Washington St (508) 422-7466

Next Level Watersports 24 Washington St (508) 680-3343

Sandy Pedals Bikes 65 Surfside Rd (508) 680-4497

Sanford Farm 118 Madaket Rd (508) 228-2884

Sconset Bluff Walk 27 Bank St, Siasconset

Sea Nantucket Paddle Sports Rentals and Tours

76 Washington St (508) 228-7499

Seabilly Fishing Charters Public Pier, F St (617) 943-1990

Serengeti Nantucket Tom Nevers Rd (508) 228-2884

Your Destination for all things Nantucket

Smith’s Point Madaket, MA

Starr Fish Charters

34 Washington St, Slip 71 (508) 221-0298

Steve Tuna’s Beach Fishing Adventures Nantucket, MA (508) 325-5587

Swain’s Travel Inc.

35 Old South Rd, #2 (508) 228-3201

The Creeks Preserve

2 Milestone Road (508) 228-7240

Topspin Fishing Charters Town Pier, 34 Washington St (508) 246-6210

Tupancy Links 157 Cliff Rd (508) 228-2884

Val’s Cab and Tours

5 Fairgrounds Rd (508) 228-9410

Windswept Bog 301 Polpis Rd (508) 228-2884

Young’s Bicycle Shop

6 Broad St (508) 228-1151

Health & Wellness

ACK Infusion (469) 235-7864

ACK Natural Cannabis Dispensary

19 Spearhead Drive (508) 901-5225

Collective Wellness

35 B Old South Road (978) 771-8857

EZIA Athletic Club 117 Orange Street (508) 901-9251

Glistn Nantucket

5 Old South Road (774) 485-9605

Great Harbor Yacht Club 96 Washington Street (508) 325-5200

Health Imperatives Nantucket 20 Vesper Lane #3 (508) 228-9189

Island Chiropractic

MAST 49 Fairgrounds Road (508) 534-8378

Nantucket Aesthetics 1 Hooper Farm Road (508) 221-4705

Nantucket CBD 110 Pleasant Street (508) 825-9100

Nantucket Cycling & Fitness 25 Youngs Way (508) 901-5230

Nantucket Energy Therapy 35 Old South Road (508) 901-3558

Nantucket Healing Arts 16 B Amelia Drive (203) 628-5827

Nantucket Health Club 10 Youngs Way (508) 228-4750

Nantucket Holistic Health 37 C Old South Road (508) 228-7577

Surfside Somatics 6 Holly Street (508) 901-9608

The Copper Rose 16A Amelia Drive (508) 221-5023

The Green Lady Dispensary 11 Amelia Drive (774) 333-3875

The Westmoor Club 10 Westmoor Lane (508) 228-9494

Galleries

Artists Association of Nantucket Gallery 8 Federal St (508)228-0294

Cavalier Ebanks Galleries 10 Federal St (508)325-4405 East End Gallery 3 Old North Wharf (508)228-4515 Eric Holch Gallery 5 Pine St (508)246-7653

G.S. Hill Gallery 40 Straight Wharf (508)228-1353 John Rugge Antiques Shop 5 India St (508)332-4256 Marcus Foley | Thomas Macy Gallery 12 Straight Wharf (508)332-9833 Pete’s Fresh Fish Prints 17 Old South Wharf (508)325-1842

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Pierce Galleries Inc.

5 S Water St (508)228-1789

Quidley & Company Fine Art Galleries 26 Main St (508)228-4300

Samuel Owen Gallery 40 Centre St (508)680-1445

Sylvia Antiques 15 Main St (508)228-0960

The Gallery at Four India Street 4 India St (508)228-8509

The Scrimshander Gallery 38 Centre St (508)228-1004

Vanderbilt Gallery 18 Federal St (508)325-4454

Lodging:

21 Broad Hotel 21 Broad St (508) 228-4749

29 Fair Street Inn 29 Fair St (508) 257-4577

29 India House Bed & Breakfast 29 India St (508) 228-0308

76 Main Ink Press Hotel 76 Main St (508) 228-2533

Anchor Inn 66 Centre St (508) 228-0072

Blue Iris

10 Hussey St (844) 970-3677

Brant Point Courtyard 15 Swain St (508) 228-0241

Brass Lantern Inn 11 North Water St (508) 228-4064

Carlisle House Inn 26 North Water St (508) 228-0720

Chapman House 20 N Water St (855) 652-0137

Cliff Lodge Bed & Breakfast

9 Cliff Rd (508) 228-9480

Cliffside Beach Club 46 Jefferson Ave (508) 228-0618

Faraway Nantucket 29 Centre St (877) 279-1405

Greydon House 17 Broad St (508) 228-2468

Harborview Nantucket

24 Washington St (508) 301-7551

Hotel Pippa 5 Chestnut St (508) 228-5300

Jared Coffin House 29 Broad St (800) 248-2405

Life House Nantucket 10 Cliff Rd (508) 338-9816

Martin House Inn 61 Centre St (508) 228-0678

Seven Sea Street Inn 7 Sea St (508) 228-3577

Sherburne Inn 10 Gay St (855) 652-0137

Ships Inn 13 Fair St (508) 228-0040

The Barnacle Inn 11 Fair St (508) 228-0332

The Beachside Hotel 30 North Beach St (833) 670-2164

The Brant 6 North Beach St (508) 960-6528

The Centerboard Nantucket 8 Chester St (508) 825-5954

The Chestnut House 3 Chestnut St (508) 228-0049

The Cottages at Nantucket Boat Basin 24 Old South Wharf (866) 838-9253

The Nantucket Hotel & Resort 77 Easton St (866) 807-6011

The Nantucket Inn 1 Miller Ln (508) 228-6900

The Periwinkle Inn 9 North Water St (508) 228-9267

The Regatta Inn 78 Centre St (855) 652-0137

The Summer House Cottages 17 Ocean Ave (508) 257-4577

The Veranda House 3 Step Ln (855) 652-0137

The Wade Cottages 35 Shell St (508) 680-1272

The Wauwinet 120 Wauwinet Rd (508) 228-0145

The White Elephant 50 Easton St (800) 445-6574

Union Street Inn 7 Union St (508) 228-9222

Nightlife:

Brotherhood of Thieves 23 Broad St (774) 325-5812

Cisco Brewers 5 Bartlett Farm Rd (508) 325-5929

Dreamland 17 S Water St (508) 332-4822

Nantucket Tavern & Gazebo 1 Harbor Square (508) 228-1266

Sandbar at Jetties Beach Bar & Restaurant 4 Bathing Beach Rd #2234 (508) 228-2279

Your Destination for all things Nantucket

Sister Ship 29 Centre St (508) 257-1318

The Chicken Box 16 Dave St (508) 228-9717

The Club Car 1 Main St (508) 228-1101

The Gaslight

3 N Union St (508) 228-6464

The Muse & Pizza Joint

44 Surfside Rd (508) 228-6873

The Rose and Crown 23 S Water St (508) 228-2595

The Tree Bar

6 Oak St #3527 (508) 325-8696

Salons & Spas:

A Cut Above 14 Macys Ln (508) 228-4288

ACK Beauty & Barbershop 57 Old South Rd (508) 680-1188

BE ACK Salon

19 Washington St (508) 901-9630

Beauty Bar

3 Hanabea Ln (508) 228-1905

Color Up Nails & Spa

31 Old South Rd (508) 825-5505

Daiva Salon 56 Pleasant St (508) 325-4091

Darya Salon & Spa 7 South Beach St (508) 228-0550

Emma Ross Hair & Beauty

19 North Beach St (508) 228-0436

ES Beauty Lounge by Gen

35B Old South Rd (844) 666-0878

Gigi Hair Studio 35C Old South Rd (508) 680-1394

Glistn Nantucket 5 Old South Rd (774) 485-9605

Hair Concern

35 Old South Rd, Unit 4 (508) 228-4864

Huna Bodywork with Allison 6 Toms Way (774) 812-8999

Island Glow Nantucket 2 Sanford Road (508) 680-4715

L and R Barbershop 7A Hanabea Ln (774) 325-6836

Lavender Farm Wellness

6 West Creek Rd (508) 332-3382

Monarch Face & Body

37 Old South Rd (508) 680-1416

Nantucket Holistic Health

37 Old South Rd C (508) 228-7577

Ocean Day Spa at The Nantucket Hotel

77 Easton St (508) 272-7703

On Glaze 8 West Creek Rd (508) 228-6245

Rachel Dixon LLC –Massage & Wellness 4 Bartlett Rd (508) 364-2380

6 Amelia Dr. • 508-228-3446 rjmillersalons.com

Scissorhands 68 Old South Rd (508) 901-1417

Sisters’ Salon & Spa 117 Pleasant St (508) 228-7720

Suzanne’s Hair Design

78 Surfside Rd (508) 228-7444

Valero Salon & Spa

68 Old South Rd (508) 221-1648

White Elephant Spa by Darya 50 Easton St (508) 638-3440

Wilbert Barber Shop

15 Amelia Dr (508) 208-7477

Shopping Clothing:

Alice Walk

18b Federal St (508) 680-2423

Annie & the Tees 19 S Water St (508) 228-5505

ASHA Nantucket 18 Federal St (508) 221.6180

Assemble

18 Federal St (508) 680-1845

Atlantic Nantucket 4 India St (508) 228-7776

Beau & Ro Nantucket 4 Federal St (508) 901-5792

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Breezin Up 48 Main St (508) 325-4622

Cartolina 22 Centre Street (508) 228-4900

Cattivo Nantucket 20 Centre St (508) 680-1215

Centre Pointe 22 Centre St (508) 228-4900

Charleston Shoe Co. 4 S Water St (508) 901-9134

Clorinda Antinori 58 Main St (508) 825-5321

Commonwealth 16 Federal St (508) 901-9222

D Dream & Poeta 26 Center St (508) 742-8328

Dairy Boy 14 Federal St (508) 901-2159

David Chase Inc 56 Main St (508) 325-8678

DAWN 2 Harbor Sq (508) 901-5406

DÔEN

32 Main St (877) 756-7353

Ellsworth + Ivey 34 Main St (774) 333-3661

Erica Wilson Inc 25 Main St (508) 228-9881

Erin Hielle Nantucket 0 Main St (508) 901-5561

Faherty Nantucket 0 Candle St (774) 325-5161

For Now 48 Centre St

Four Winds Gifts 8 Straight Wharf (508) 228-1597

Grace Geier 16 Straight Wharf #1 (603) 667-5862

Gypsy 20 Federal St (508) 228-4404

Hepburn 3 Salem St (508) 228-1458

Hill House Home 33 Main St

Hospital Thrift Shop 17 India Street (508) 228-1125

Inkerman Nantucket 13 Centre St (508) 825-5865

Island Treasures Retail Store

128 Old South Rd (508) 228-0789

J. McLaughlin 1 Salem St (508) 325-6351

Julia Amory 28B Easy St (774) 325-5490

Ladybird Lingerie 7 Centre St (508) 228-6093

Legit 12 Old South Wharf Levitate Surf Shack 39 Straight Wharf

Lilly Pulitzer 5 S Water St (508) 228-0569

Long Wharf Supply Co. 31 Centre St

Marissa Collections 25 Centre St (774) 325-5193

Milly & Grace 2 Washington St (508) 901-5051

Monelle 32 Centre St (508) 680-1316

Murray’s Toggery Shop 62 Main St (508) 228-0437

Nalu 14 Cambridge St (508) 325-6110

Nantucket Beach Chair Company 24 Macys Ln (508) 325-7793

Nantucket Clothing Company 6 S Water St (508) 228-3356

Nantucket Peddler 37 Straight Wharf (508) 325-5654

Nantucket Surf Club 21 S Water St (508) 325-2792

Peachtree Kids & Monogram Shop 19 Main St (508) 228-8555

Peter England Nantucket 3 Old South Wharf (508) 241-8301

Polo Ralph Lauren 16 Main St (508) 228-9451

REMY

2 Old South Wharf (617) 840-5898

Res Ipsa 3 India St (508) 955-2288

Respoke

41 Straight Wharf (508) 413-3221

Sal Amore 8 Washington St

Sara Campbell 5 S Beach St (508) 680-1626

Seconds Shop 32 Sparks Ave (508) 228-6677

Serenella 9 S Beach St (508) 228-3400

Southern Tide Nantucket 34 Main St (774) 325-5171

Stephanie’s Nantucket 42 Main St (508) 228-0624

Your Destination for all things Nantucket

Steplane 29 Centre St (617) 455-2318

Summer Shades 16 Straight Wharf (508) 325-5530

Sunken Ship 12 Broad St (508) 228-9226

The Black Dog Nantucket 40 Straight Wharf (508) 325-5411

The Dress Code

9 Centre St (508) 680-1716

The General Store by Roller Rabbit 44 Centre St (917) 692-0316

The Rainbow Fleet 167 Orange St (508) 680-1159

The Shop by WHEAT Nantucket 5 S Water St (774) 382-6787

The Skinny Dip: A Summer Collective 23 Old South Wharf (508) 901-5870

Townpool 53 Main St

Trish Wescoat Pound 33 Main St (774) 317-5790

Tuckernuck 23 Centre St University of Nantucket 14 S Water St (508) 228-4795

Valentina Kova 44 Main St (508) 257-2006

Veronica Beard Nantucket 11 S Water St (508) 556-9936

Vineyard Vines 2 Straight Wharf (508) 325-9600

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Drum Line Parade

10 a.m. Main Street. The Nantucket High School Drum Line will parade up Main Street.

Face Painting

10 a.m.-noon, Children’s Beach lawn near the boat ramp. Get festive or patriotic for the Fourth of July.

Family-friendly Games

10 a.m.-noon, Children’s Beach lawn, Harborview Way. The Matt Fee Tea Toss, cornhole, tug-of-war, three-legged races and other family friendly games.

Patriotic Music

10 a.m. Children’s Beach bandstand, Harborview Way. P.J. Moody sings the national anthem and other patriotic music.

Community Band Performance

10:45 a.m. Federal Street between Main and India Street. The Nantucket Community Music Center community band will perform.

Magic Show

10:45 a.m. Children’s Beach bandstand, Harborview Way. Mark “Magic Mark” Carapezza will display his feats of magic.

America at 250: The Past, Present and Future

11 a.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. “Wavemaker” host Michael Schulder will be joined by Yale history professor David Blight, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Frederick Douglass; Peter Baker, White House correspondent for The New York Times and Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker. Tickets, $59, at www.nantucketdreamland.org

Music and Movement

11:45 a.m. Children’s Beach bandstand, Harborview Way. Cory Morgan leads a half hour of song and dance intended for children.

Water Contest

Noon, Main Street. Nantucket’s Fourth of July Main Street activities culminate in the popular water contest, pitting the Nantucket Fire Department against the Boynton Lane Fire Reserves. Public participation is encouraged.

Live Music: P.J. Moody

12:15-12:45 p.m. Children’s Beach bandstand, Harborview Way. Nantucket singer-songwriter P.J. Moody will perform.

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Nantucket’s Fourth of July bike parade will be held Saturday at Children’s Beach. See listing below for details.

Kids’ Bike Parade

12:20 p.m. Children’s Beach, Harborview Way. Children are invited to enter this parade with any non-motorized wheeled vehicle: bike, trike, scooter, etc.

Bartlett Farm Walking Tour

2 p.m. Meet in front of farm market, 33 Bartlett Farm Road. A free, 30-minute behind-the-scenes journey into 200 years of agricultural history on this farm owned by the same family since the early 1800s.

Live Music: Dave Matthews Tribute Band

4 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. The Dave Matthews Tribute Band, the only nationally-touring DMB tribute band, will perform.

Family Games

5 p.m. Children’s Beach, Harborview Way. Tug-of-war, three-legged races, sack races and other family-friendly games.

Red, White and Blues: A Celebration of America

6 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. Celebrate America’s 250th birthday with music by the Jamie McLean Band, barbecue buffet and Harborview Deck views of the Jetties Beach fireworks. Tickets, $143, at www.nantucketdreamland.org

Fireworks

9 p.m. Jetties Beach, end of Bathing Beach Road. Nantucket Culture and Tourism hosts this 25- to 30-minute fireworks show, with the pyrotechnics launched from a barge in Nantucket Harbor. Free.

Live Music: Smallpools

10 p.m. The Muse, 44 Surfside Road. Los Angeles-based indie pop band Smallpools will perform. 21 and over. Tickets at musenantucket.com/shows

Karaoke

10 p.m. The Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Channel your inner rock star on The Rose & Crown stage.

Live Music: Buckle & Shake

10:30 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Water St. Nantucket’s own alt-country band Buckle & Shake will perform. 21 and over.

Sunday, July 5

Nantucket Bird Walk

7:45 a.m. 4 Vestal St. Island bird guide and Inquirer and Mirror birding columnist Ginger Andrews leads this exploration of birding landscapes and hidden nooks. Loaner binoculars available. Dress for the weather. $35. Register on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Live Music: Porch Light Noon, Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Minneapolis-based indie rock band Porch Light will perform.

Live Music: Cranberry Alarm Clock

3-6 p.m. Sandbar, end of Bathing Beach Road. Nantucket’s favorite Beatles tribute band, Cranberry Alarm Clock, will perform.

Live Music: Jeff Tuohy

3 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Nationally touring singer-songwriter Jeff Tuohy will perform. Additional shows 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday.

Beginner’s Ukulele

5:30 p.m. Nantucket Community Music Center, 56 Centre St. No instrument? No problem. Ukuleles availa5ble. All ages welcome. Free.

Big Screen Bucket List: “2001, A Space Odyssey”

6 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. The Dreamland screens 1968’s “2001, A Space Odyssey,” starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, as part of its summer Big Screen Bucket List series.

Live Music: Earth Got the Blues

6 p.m. Children’s Beach bandstand, Harborview Way. Nantucket’s own blues band, Earth Got the Blues, will perform. Free.

Live Music: Julia Newman

6 p.m. Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Nantucket singer-songwriter Julia Newman will perform.

Live Music: La Tulipe

10:30 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. Nantucket vocal duo La Tulipe performs a versatile repertoire ranging from classic rock covers to dance hits. 21 and over.

Monday, July 6

Nantucket Dance Festival

Through July 12, various locations. A week of dance performances, classes and social events. Visit www.nantucketdancefestival.org for complete schedule, tickets and more information.

En Plein Air

10 a.m. Maria Mitchell Association Outdoor Classroom, 33 Washington St. Artist Nikoline Bohr leads this class that guides participants through the techniques of creating art directly in nature. Intended for adults. $45. Register on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Monday Magic

10 a.m. Children’s Beach bandstand, Harborview Way. Magician, musician and artist Mark Carapezza provides free, family-friendly entertainment and hands-on activities.

Drop-in Craft Gam

1 p.m. 1800 House, 4 Mill St. Have an unfinished chair, basket, beading or stitching project? Bring any project and work in the company of other creative people. Free.

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Outdoor Art

2 p.m. Maria Mitchell Association Classroom, 33 Washington St. Outdoor art invites participants to slow down, observe and connect with the natural world through closeup drawing and artistic exploration. $45. Register on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Art Talk

5:30 p.m. Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery, 8 Federal St. The Artists Association of Nantucket hosts Julie Gifford discussing her artistic process and inspiration. Free.

Geschke Lecture: Danielle Allen

5:30 p.m. Great Harbor Yacht Club, 96 Washington St. Harvard professor and American political theorist Danielle Allen will discuss her upcoming book, “Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat – and the American Revolution – Transformed Britain.” Tickets on calendar page of www.nantucketatheneum.org

Harborview Concert Series

6 p.m. Dreamland Theater Harborview Room, 17 South Water St. Nantucket’s own roots reggae band, Foggy Roots, will perform. Tickets, $38, at www.nantucketdreamland.org

Live Music: Dougie Poole

6 p.m. Almanack Arts, 25 Almanack Pond Road. Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Dougie Poole will perform. Visit www.almanackarts.com for more information.

Live Music: Merrick & Cole

7:30 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. Nantucket duo Merrick Brannigan and Cole Corper will perform.

Karaoke

10:30 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. The Gaslight continues its summer of karaoke with Yolo Joe. 21 and over.

Tuesday, July

Nantucket Garden Festival

Through Thursday, various venues around town. The island’s annual celebration of gardening includes three days of talks, tours and social events to benefit the Nantucket Lighthouse School. Many events are already sold out. For a complete schedule or to join the waiting list, visit www.nantucketgardenfestival.org

Nature Walk: Ruddick Commons

8:30 a.m. Linda Loring Nature Foundation, 110 Eel Point Road. Join the Linda Loring Nature Foundation for a guided nature walk through the Sconset Trust’s Ruddick Commons and learn about the flora and fauna found there. Register on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Music in the Morning

9:45 a.m. Atheneum garden, 1 India St. Island musician and teacher Cory Morgan invites babies and children to explore rhythm, sound and music through clapping, instrument play and music games. Free. Weather permitting.

Little Riders and Lasting Connections

10 a.m. Tuesdays through June 9. The Creeks Reserve, 2 Milestone Road. A stroller walking group for parents and children eight weeks to five years. Meet new people, enjoy the outdoors and support community wellbeing. Call (508) 957-7423 to register.

Tie-Dye at the Beach

10 a.m. Children’s Beach bandstand, Harborview Way. A fun-filled tie-dye session T-shirts and all materials are included. Free.

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Book-signing

10:30 a.m. Mitchell’s Book Corner, 54 Main St. Christian John Wikane will sign copies of his book, “A Night at the Disco.”

Family Connections Tour

10:30 a.m. Nantucket Whaling Museum, 13 Broad St. Museum guides bring the NHA’s 2026 exhibit, “The Wider World and Scrimshaw,” to life with visual and tactile elements. Concludes with a take-home craft activity in the Discovery Room. Free with museum admission. Register on calendar page of www.nha.org

NanPuppets

11:30 a.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Lizza Obremski brings her island puppet friends to the brewery. Fun for all ages. Free, but donations welcome.

Somatic Yoga

12:30 p.m. Atheneum gallery, 1 India St. Forty-five minutes of slow, focused movement concluding with full-body relaxation that will leave you feeling relaxed and recharged. Registration required on calendar page of www.nantucketatheneum.org

Golden Age Films: “Citizen Kane”

1:30 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. The Dreamland will screen 1941’s “Citizen Kane,” starring Joseph Cotton and Dorothy Comingore. Free for seniors. Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org

Adult Metal Detecting

2 p.m. Maria Mitchell Association Aquarium, 32 Washington St. Metal Detectorist Nicoline Bohr leads this hands-on introductory course intended for adults interested in exploring the world of metal detecting. $40. Additional session Wednesday. Register on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Saltmarsh in Nature

2:30 p.m. Saltmarsh Senior Center, 81 Washington St. Seniors are invited to explore the coastal wetland habitat around the Saltmarsh Senior Center with the Linda Loring Nature Foundation.

Teen Tuesday Crafternoon

4 p.m. Atheneum courtyard, 1 India St. Teens 12-18 are invited to make charm necklaces and bracelets. Weather permitting.

Brant Point Runners

5:30 p.m. corner of Easton and North Beach streets. Brant Point Runners meets weekly at the corner of Easton and North Beach streets until early July, when the route will change, for a friendly but competitive 5K run. All are welcome.

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Open Arts Night

6:30 p.m. Atheneum Great Hall, 1 India St. The stage and mic are still open for any and all, but the library has added an arts a crafts component so people may feel free to come and work on any kind of art project while watching the stage show. Free.

Line Dancing

6:45 p.m. Children’s Beach bandstand, Harborview Way. Nantucket Culture and Tourism hosts an evening of line dancing. Bring comfortable dancing shoes.

Night at the Aquarium

8:30 p.m. Maria Mitchell Aquarium, 32 Washington St. Discover what Nantucket’s fishy friends do when the sun falls below the horizon and the moon fills the sky. $20. Registration required on calendar page of www. mariamitchell.org

Live Music: Jammy Buffet

10 p.m. The Chicken Box, 6 Dave St. Gulf and Western jam band Jammy Buffet, inspired by Jimmy Buffett, will perform. 21 and over. Second show Wednesday.

Live Music: Telescreens

10:30 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. New York City-based guitar-rock band Telescreens will perform. 21 and over. Second show Wednesday.

Wednesday, July 8

Birding Field Trip

7:45 a.m. Linda Loring Nature Foundation, 110 Eel Point Road. Explore Nantucket’s birding hot spots and observe birds in their natural habitat. Binoculars, a spotting scope and field guides available to borrow. Free, but registration required on calendar page of www.llnf.org

Middle Moors Walk

8:30 a.m. Location provided upon registration. Join the Nantucket Conservation Foundation in exploring the Middle Moors from the base of Altar Rock to the hills and trails of Norwood Farm. Register on events page of www.nantucketconservation.org

Wellness Wednesday

9:30 a.m. Children’s Beach bandstand, Harborview Way. Free children’s yoga with Phoebe Strobino that encourages movement and mindfulness in a relaxed outdoor setting.

Crafts in the Courtyard

10 a.m. Atheneum courtyard, 1 India St. Children are invited to make egg-carton geodes. Younger children might need adult assistance.

Hands-on History at Greater Light

11 a.m.-4 p.m. Greater Light, 8 Howard St. Learn about the Monaghan sisters and their artists’ retreat, and color in a painting by Gertrude Monaghan with watercolor. Free.

Reader Advice

11 a.m. Nantucket Atheneum, 1 India St. Annye Camara of the Atheneum’s Readers’ Advisory Group will help you find books tailored to your interests.

Wonderful Women Wednesdays: Ellie Gottwald

11 a.m. Susan Lister Locke Gallery, 28 Easy St. Island artist Ellie Gottwald leads a watercolor painting workshop inspired by Nantucket’s gardens and island life. Space is limited. Call (508) 228-2132 to reserve a space.

ACK vs. MV Kids Comedy Smackdown

3:15 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. The Nantucket Comedy Festival hosts the first Kids Comedy Smackdown, in which student comedians from Martha’s Vineyard join Nantucket’s young comics for a friendly island-to-island showcase of talent, creativity and humor. Free, but tickets required at www.nantucketdreamland.org

Live Music: Mesha Steele and the Riddim All Stars

4 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Reggae, soul and Caribbean fusion artist Mesha Steele and the Riddim All Stars will perform. Second show Thursday at 4 p.m.

Game Night

5:30 p.m. Atheneum Great Hall, 1 India St. Tabletop board and card games, including Mag-ACK The Gathering and drop-in Dungeons and Dragons. Intended for adults and teens. Free.

Knitting Group

6:30 p.m. Atheneum first floor, 1 India St. Curious about learning how to knit? The Atheneum’s veteran knitters can get you started. Stymied by a challenge in your project? The group can help with that. Free. Drop-ins welcome.

Film for Thought: “Canoe Dig It”

7 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. The Inquirer and Mirror and the Dreamland present “Canoe Dig It,” a glimpse into the world of freestyle canoeing following some of the country’s top canoeists as they complete in the regional finals on Moosehead Lake in Maine, as part of their Film for Thought” weekly film series. Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org

Trivia Night

8 p.m. The Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Test your general trivial knowledge. First place wins a $50 gift card.

Live Music: Gen 3

9 p.m. The Muse, 44 Surfside Road. Boulder, Colo.-based rock, funk, jam, souls and pop band Gen 3 will perform. 21 and over. Free, but tickets required at www.musenantucket.com/shows

Thursday, July 9

All Levels Yoga Flow

9 a.m. Location provided upon registration. The Nantucket Conservation Foundation hosts this hour-long class aimed at lengthening and preserving more than strengthening and exhausting through fluid breathing, smooth transitions and cultivating focus. Register on events page of www. nantucketconservation.org

Ecologist in Training

9 a.m. Linda Loring Nature Foundation, 110 Eel Point Road. Explore the techniques for monitoring water quality, learn about the history of sampling on the North Head of Long Pond, and examine how baseline data informs us about changes or threats to the environment. Register on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Dance Party in the Garden

Crafting at the Beach

10 a.m. Children’s Beach bandstand, Harborview Way. Create a Fourth of July craft. Hosted by Nantucket Culture & Tourism.

Book-signing

10:30 a.m. Mitchell’s Book Corner, 54 Main St. Connor Martin will sign copies of his book, “The Silver Fish.”

Tech Tips for iPhone Users

10:30 a.m. Saltmarsh Senior Center, 81 Washington St. Janie Hobson-Dupont teaches seniors how to use their iPhones, offering tips and tricks to make your phone experience easier and smoother. Call (508) 228-4490 to register.

Hands-on History at the Old Jail

11 a.m.-4 p.m. Old Gaol (Jail), 15R Vestal St. Learn about the Nantucket Historical Association’s Old Jail and some of its inhabitants, and make a beaded keychain. Free.

Mini Movers

Kids Metal Detecting 101

Art Reception: AAN

5 p.m. Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery, 8 Federal St. The Artists Association of Nantucket will host a public reception for its Brilliant Days, Luminous Nights exhibition, on display through July 21.

Centennial Celebration: Hostetler Gallery

5 p.m. Hostetler Gallery, 42 Centre St. A celebration of the late island artist David Hostetler’s 100th birthday and a wine-tasting from two historic vineyards.

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Evening Art

Swing Dance Night

5 p.m. Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts, 23 Wauwinet Road. NISDA kicks off its summer Thursday Night Fete series with a swing dance social co-hosted by the Nantucket Dance Festival. Tickets at www.nisda.org

Night at the Museum: The Andrea Doria

5:30 p.m. Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum, 158 Polpis Road. The Egan Maritime Institute marks the 70th anniversary of the sinking of the Andrea Doria in the waters off Nantucket. Dress to impress while enjoying cocktails, engaging conversation and curated museum experiences that highlight the ship’s legacy. Tickets at www.eganmaritime.org

Stocking Wine Cellars for 28 Years

“Escape to Margaritaville”

7 p.m. Bennett Hall, 62 Centre St. Theatre Workshop of Nantucket presents the musical review “Escape to Margaritaville,” an homage to the original Parrothead himself, Jimmy Buffett. Visit www.theatrenantucket.org for additional dates, times and tickets.

Women’s Night of Comedy

7 p.m. Nantucket Performing Arts Center, 5 North Water St. The Nantucket Comedy Festival presents Women’s Night of Comedy, featuring headliners Judy Gold, Katie Hannigan and Teresa DeGaetano. Tickets at www.nantucketperformingarts.org/Events

Owl Prowl

Nighttime Marine Ecology Field Trip

Live Music: Stephan Jenkins

9 p.m. The Muse, 44 Surfside Road. Stephan Jenkins, lead singer of Third Eye Blind, will perform. Tickets at www. musenantucket.com/shows

Live Music: Local Notes

10 p.m. Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Nantucket’s homegrown rock band Local Notes will perform. 21 and over.

Live Music: Kind Hearted Strangers

10:30 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. Nashville-based rock and roll band Kind Hearted Strangers will perform. 21 and over.

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Cellar: The evolution of rosé from blush to blockbuster to the real deal

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the winemaking or the intention behind the bottle had anything to do with what made Provence rosé worth drinking in the first place.

Celebrity rosés proliferated. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had Château Miraval. Jon Bon Jovi had Hampton Water. Every Hollywood name with a Provence connection, real or aspirational, seemed to have a rosé label.

The wines ranged from genuinely good – Miraval, it should be said, is made by the Perrin family of Château Beaucastel and is actually excellent – to perfectly acceptable to cynically produced and absurdly priced.

Isabelle, who approaches marketing-driven wine categories with the measured skepticism her diploma training instills, has a term for this phenomenon: the Instagram Premium.

It is the extra cost you pay for a wine that photographs beautifully and carries a name that reads well in a caption, regardless of what is actually in the glass. The Instagram Premium on rosé at the peak of the category’s trendiness was substantial.

Stacey, who has better taste and more restraint than I do in these matters, took one look at a $45 celebrity rosé at a restaurant in Nantucket and ordered the Bandol instead. She was, as she so often is, correct.

The parallel to Hollywood holds, again, almost perfectly.

Once proven, the blockbuster formula generates sequels, franchises, spin-offs and eventually a market so crowded with product chasing the same formula that the original quality proposition is entirely diluted.

By 2018, the rosé section of any serious wine shop looked like the summer release calendar at a major studio: wall-to-wall pale-pink bottles with beautiful labels, celebrity endorsements and price points that bore no necessary relationship to what was inside.

Some of it was genuinely good. A great deal of it was the wine equivalent of a franchise sequel: competent, formulaic and designed primarily to capitalize on an established audience rather than to make anything worth remembering.

What pink wine is actually supposed to taste like

Here is the truth beneath all the trend and counter-trend: great rosé is among the most pleasurable and food-friendly wine styles on Earth, and the producers who have been making it seriously for decades – in Bandol, Tavel, Provence’s finest appellations, the Rhône and a handful of dedicated estates around the world – have never stopped, re-

Rosé has been through more than its share of identity crises: from the serious Mediterranean tradition of its origins, through the blush-wine catastrophe of the 1980s, through the Instagram gold rush of the 2010s, and now back to something that, in the best bottles, resembles genuine seriousness and genuine pleasure in equal measure.

gardless of what fashion was doing to their category.

The great rosés are not pale because paleness is fashionable. They are not expensive because a celebrity attached their name to the label.

They are made from specific grapes – Grenache, Mourvèdre, Syrah, Cinsault, Tibouren – grown in specific soils, handled with the same care and intention as the finest red wines and produced in a style, the direct-press method, which extracts almost no color from the skins – that requires genuine skill and restraint to execute well.

Bandol rosé, made primarily from Mourvèdre grown on the limestone terraces above the Mediterranean coast near Toulon, is the most serious and most structured rosé made anywhere in the world.

It is not pale. It has a deep salmon-copper color that tells you immediately that something with substance is happening in the glass.

It smells of crushed strawberry, wild herbs, dried flowers and the faint garrigue of the Provencal hillside.

It has structure, tannin and an aging capacity of five to eight years that no Instagrammable Hamptons rosé can approach.

Tavel, in the southern Rhône, makes a rosé so full-bodied and so vinous that it has been described as a red wine in pink’s clothing. It can handle dishes that most white wines would struggle with.

These are the wines that existed before the trend, that will exist after the trend has moved on and that are worth every penny of their price because every penny is in the glass rather than in the label.

The real stars of rosé

No drink-now versus age-worthy distinction this week. With a handful of notable exceptions, rosé is a wine for the present season.

Instead, two producers per region are making rosé the right way: from serious grapes, with serious intention, at prices that reflect the wine in the bottle rather than the name on the label.

Bandol, Provence

The most serious rosé appellation in the world: Mourvèdre-dominant, structured and built to last.

• Domaine Tempier, Bandol Rosé , $45–$55. The reference point for Bandol rosé and one of the most important wine estates in Provence.

The Peyraud family has been making this wine since the 1940s, and it remains the most honest and complete expression of what Bandol rosé is capable of.

It is deep salmon in color, with wild strawberry, dried herbs, a savory mineral quality and a structure that will carry it comfortably through three to four years in the cellar.

This is the wine that makes people stop using the word “just” before “rosé.”

• Château de Pibarnon, Bandol Rosé, $38–$45. From one of Bandol’s highest and coolest sites, where limestone soils and elevation lend the wines a freshness and mineral precision that distinguish Pibarnon from the richer, warmer-climate expressions of the appellation.

The rosé is elegant rather than powerful: pale copper with red fruit, garrigue and a long, saline finish, making it one of the great aperitif wines of the Mediterranean world. Isabelle considers this the most underrated rosé in France. She is not wrong.

Tavel, Southern Rhône France’s most full-bodied rosé, the wine that red-wine drinkers reach for when they are told to drink pink.

• Prieuré de Montezargues, Tavel, $22–$28. Tavel is the only appellation in France dedicated entirely to rosé, and Prieuré de Montezargues is among its oldest and most reliable producers.

The wine is a blend of Grenache, Cinsault and Clairette, producing a rosé of genuine substance: deep pink, almost ruby in some vintages, with ripe red fruit, spice and a dry, structured finish that holds up to food that most rosés would struggle with.

This is the wine to order when the table is having lamb chops and someone insists on pink.

• Domaine de la Mordorée, Tavel “La Reine des Bois,” $28-$35. The most serious and complex Tavel produced, from a domaine that applies grand cru Rhône philosophy to an appellation that is frequently underestimated.

“La Reine des Bois” – the queen of the woods – is made from old-vine Grenache and Mourvèdre and aged for several months before release.

It has the structure and depth of a serious red wine in a rosé’s body, and it will age for five or six years, something almost nothing else in the category can do. This is rosé for people who thought they didn’t drink it.

Courtesy of Peter McEachern

Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence and Cassis

Where the genre’s current stars are made, and where quality justifies the price.

• Château Miraval , Rosé, Côtes de Provence, $22–$28. Yes, this is the celebrity rosé, the Pitt-Jolie estate, now managed by the Perrin family of Château Beaucastel.

And yes, it is genuinely good, which is why it merits inclusion alongside the great traditional producers. The Perrins bring the same Rhône discipline to Provence: careful grape selection, direct pressing and early bottling to preserve freshness.

The result is pale, precise and honestly priced for what it is: a very well-made Provence rosé with genuine provenance. Not everything with a famous name is cynical.

• Château d’Esclans “Whispering Angel,” Côtes de Provence, $22–$26. The wine that started the modern rosé gold rush and, in all fairness, deserves its success. Whispering Angel is not the most complex rosé on this list. It is pale, delicate and accessible in a way Bandol and Tavel are not, but it is impeccably made and consistently delivers what it promises: a fresh, clean, beautifully presented Provence rosé that works at any table and any occasion.

Its status as a cultural phenomenon does not diminish the wine. It simply means a genuinely good product found a very large audience. There are worse things.

Drink it with

The great rosés are among the most versatile food wines on Earth, and their range of styles means there is a pink wine for almost any table.

Bandol rosé pairs with grilled fish, bouillabaisse, lamb chops and the herb-driven dishes of Provence. It is genuinely one of the great food-and-wine pairings available anywhere.

Tavel pairs with anything bold enough to need it: roasted duck, spiced lamb, a plate of charcuterie substantial enough to constitute a meal.

The lighter Provence styles – Whispering Angel, Miraval, the beautiful rosés of Cassis – pair with shellfish, fresh vegetables, simple pasta, the kind of lunch you eat outdoors on a warm afternoon without any particular agenda.

Stacey’s preference, and I have come to share it completely, is a bottle of Tempier Bandol rosé with a whole grilled fish and a view of the water. On the Fourth of July weekend, there is no better plan.

A final word

The category is bigger than it has ever been, which means it contains more bad wine than ever, and more great wine than ever.

The trick, as always, is knowing which bottle you are holding. If it photographs beautifully and was designed primarily for photography, put it back.

If it comes from Bandol, Tavel or a Provence producer with 30 years of history, open it immediately. Summer is short. Drink the real thing.

Next Thursday, July 9, Pinot Noir: the heartbreak grape, the variety that humbles the greatest winemakers on Earth and rewards the most patient drinkers with something that cannot be made any other way. Burgundy, Oregon, Sonoma, New Zealand and the story of why this impossibly difficult grape produces some of the most transcendent wine on earth. Don’t miss it.

Peter McEachern is the general manager of the Nantucket Yacht Club. He has been buying wine, creating wine lists and running wine tastings since 1983. He can be reached at peter@nantucketyachtclub.org

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Eat: Colin Coyle, the culinary mad scientist of Bliss on West Creek Road

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almond cookies and banana bread generously frosted with cream cheese (my personal favorite breakfast option), because sometimes feeling good isn’t about restriction.

Even after decades in professional kitchens, Coyle is hesitant to call himself a chef.

“We’re just people who like to cook,” he says.

Coyle is not the type to boast about his accomplishments or his genius in the kitchen, but I have the pleasure of doing that job for him.

“I really enjoy cooking, and I want to be able to bring that to other people,” he says. “I like teaching people how to think outside the box, instead of just being contained to a recipe.”

Coyle brings an artistic spirit to cooking, building his meals around a key ingredient, not a recipe. You can see the gears turning in his head as he imagines dishes.

If it’s lamb, maybe couscous comes next. Then dried apricots, fresh herbs, blood orange for acid. Before long, a dish has materialized almost entirely from instinct.

“I couldn’t even tell you the last time I looked at a recipe,” he says.

When he was cooking on Martha’s Vineyard, people nicknamed him the “culinary mad scientist.”

I understand why, almost everything he does is an experiment.

Coyle isn’t interested in finding the “right” answer, he’s interested in the interesting ones, the surprising ones, that somehow make an irresistible bite.

He always has his pack of “concoctions” on hand — charred scallion oil, preserved citrus, chili salts, fennel bone marrow butter — ready to pull out whenever a dish needs something extra. He describes his cooking as “very unorthodox” and enjoys pushing himself outside his comfort zone.

That philosophy is woven into every bite at Bliss.

I knew the cappuccino was going to be perfect the second I lifted it from the counter: feather-light from perfectly foamed milk. This is exactly how I wish more cafes would make them.

The Italian in me was smiling. The espresso blended beautifully with the milk. No need for syrups or sugars, this drink stands perfectly on its own.

Next, the breakfast sandwich, built on a lightly floured bulkie roll with thick slices of bacon, peppery arugula from Washashore Farm, sharp aged cheddar, creamy garlic aioli and a perfectly crisp fried egg.

As I was taking pictures outside, the UPS driver dropping off packages stopped and asked me where I’d gotten the sandwich. That’s how good it looked. And it tastes even better.

My favorite dish was the lemon herb chicken served over lemony couscous with

cafe

fresh farm asparagus and a bright green citrus herb sauce.

The chicken was beautifully seasoned and you can actually see flecks of oregano and rosemary sticking to the skin.

The couscous had a surprise in every bite: blistered peppers, fresh scallions, preserved

lemon peel. Small details that add a moment of acidity or a sharp onion flavor to the dish to keep you on your toes and going back for “just one more bite.”

That’s what Coyle does. He takes something familiar and slips in an unexpected idea or flavor note that makes you stop and

pay attention.

“I don’t want to be another generic chef,” he says. “I like to do things that other chefs wouldn’t do.”

That freedom to follow instinct instead of someone else’s menu is ultimately why Coyle left restaurant kitchens to pursue his

Photo by Francesca Giangiulio

Colin Coyle’s grab-and-go

Bliss

the space at 5 West Creek Road with Eat Fire Farm’s Little Farm Store.

A Bliss Orange Blast and an almond cookie. own business.

Like many chefs, he wanted time with his young family, but he also wanted the chance to cook without someone looking over his shoulder or restricting his creative process.

He says that format is especially useful on Nantucket where his cooking relies on the abundance of fresh produce on the island.

“It’s really nice to be able to play around with those things and not be stuck to a menu,” he says. “It’s more guidelines than a curriculum, it’s not set in stone.”

Even though the basic formats will remain the same (plates, salads, etc.), the details of dishes will constantly be changing with what’s in season.

He says he’s currently workshopping a pretzel wrap. Picture this: grilled chicken,

homemade honey mustard, fresh greens, all wrapped in a thin pretzel bread, topped with pretzel salt.

“I think it’s going to be a big hit,” he says.

I agree.

He’s also in the process of opening a second Bliss location on Straight Wharf, which will be open soon. This location will focus on grab and go food, but he will also have some coffee and espresso beverages.

At Bliss, it feels like Coyle has found the freedom to cook the way he always wanted: guided less by recipes than curiosity and by the simple hope that every person who walks through the door leaves feeling just a little better than when they arrived.

Bliss, 5 West Creek Road, www.bliss-nantucket.com, (774) 559-3023.

Photo by Francesca Giangiulio

Walk: Beach day at the field station

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grasses and surveying the area. It watches me as I walk past the marsh and emerge on the rocky shore.

The mixed cobble of this beach is fascinating to me, comprising unsorted rocks and minerals of all shades and origins. Sparkling mica schist embedded with red garnets mixes with craggy bog iron and smooth chunks of red and pink feldspar. Quartzite shimmers in the sunlight and is lapped by waves gently rolling across the harbor.

All these rocks were carried here from

bedrock hundreds of miles away and sorted by physics as the glacier began to melt and decay. It reminds me of the washashores like me, folks who have traveled specifically or casually wended their way to the “Faraway Land” to settle for a period of time, perhaps forever.

Maybe that is why I like cobbled beaches so much more? The fact that I see kindred spirits in the jumbled assembly of minerals and stones finding their place on Nantucket.

Neil Foley is the interpretive education coordinator and ecologist at the Nantucket Conservation Foundation.

MusACK: Parrothead tribute

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But something clicked, and the group evolved into a full-fledged touring act. And as a five-piece band, which sometimes includes guest musicians like members of Buffett’s own Coral Reefer Band, they bring his legacy to a new generation of fans.

Brendan Mayer, the band’s lead guitarist, brings his own Buffett bona fides. He is the son of Peter Mayer, who played with the Coral Reefers for over 30 years. The younger Mayer, now based in Nashville, adds depth and legitimacy to the band’s connection to Buffett’s world.

Underlying it all is the band’s respect for what Buffett represented: not just easy-listening beach escapism, but a fiercely regional artist rooted in place and story.

This regionality is something Barrick says he believes is missing in a lot of contemporary American music.

He points to examples like Buffett’s pioneering Gulf Coast surf-rock sound, and musical subgenres like Southern rock and New York punk, where the music and the geographical location from which it comes are intrinsically linked.

“Jimmy was an incredibly regional artist,” said Barrick. “(In the music), you could hear where he was from, and he spoke about where he was from. All of his songs took place in a very particular region.”

Barrick is also enthusiastic about the connection to the past in much of Buffett’s music, exemplified in songs like “A Pirate Looks at Forty” and “The Captain and the Kid.”

“When he was in his 20s and 30s, he was singing stories about folks who were well on in their years, you know?” Barrick said.

“So, there’s a thread that runs from the folks that he interacted with to him and to us today. That really speaks to me. He’s like the poet laureate of the Gulf Coast.”

Barrick lives in Boulder, Colo. where the majority of the band, which includes bassist Andrew Cooney, drummer Tyler Gwynn and keyboardist Paul Copoulos, is based, and where he’s been a part of the singer-songwriter scene for about eight years.

“Jimmy was an incredibly regional artist. You could hear where he was from, and he spoke about where he was from. All of his songs took place in a very particular region.”

– Bob Barrick

Jammy Buffet

“The guys in the rhythm section are deep in the jam band world,” Barrick said.

“Similarly, there’s a regionality to the kind of jamming that these particular dudes do, the Rocky Mountain, Colorado jam band scene.”

The band is, according to Barrick, bringing that twist to Buffett’s music that opens up the sound to a whole new audience and provides a new sense of what the party can be.

“When I was a kid, it was a total Boomer thing, you know. You go to the Jimmy Buffett shows, people are dressed up ridiculously, highly escapist, whatever. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that,” Barrick said.

“But I think younger folks are just kind of turned off by things that their parents may have done. So, we’re doing it our way. The jam band thing seems to be what my generation is doing in terms of partying around music. It’s taken off everywhere. So it’s the obvious, natural progression.”

And that approach seems to be working. With their mix of reverence and reinvention, Jammy Buffet is drawing in both diehard Buffett devotees and a younger, more jam-inclined audience.

Whether you’re a Parrothead, a jam band junkie or just in it for the vibes, Jammy Buffet’s got your ticket to paradise, no passport required.

Jammy Buffet performs Tuesday, July 7 and Wednesday, July 8 at The Chicken Box, 6 Dave St., with doors open at 9 p.m. Presale tickets are $51.54 online at thechickenbox. com, with general admission tickets available on the day of show. 21 and over.