Given our local history, it's not hard to imagine one of the old whaling ships driving hard through the South Pacific. Since we tend to think of sailing as a summertime thing, maybe it would be a good ...

The islands of Nantucket and Maui have a related history that spans decades and thousands of miles. Early residents of the sandy outpost of Nantucket, which is located 30 miles south of Cape Cod, Mass ...

Whoever said, “Behind every great man, there’s a great woman,” understood Nantucket, Massachusetts. While men spent years pursuing whales whose oil lubricated the nascent industrial revolution, women ...