Highlight Event

ONE BOOK ONE ISLAND

One Book One Island is a collaborative Nantucket project of community partners and sponsors, which seek to promote reading, literacy and community by encouraging islanders to read, discuss and reflect on the same book.

For more information on One Book One Island, click here

 

 

 

January 28 - February 20
Featuring Coal Black Horse,
By Robert Olmstead

When Robey Child's mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the unthinkable: She instructs her only child to retrieve his father from the battlefield and bring him home. A coal black horse becomes Robey's only companion, guide, and protector. Slowly the horrors of war, the truth of human nature, and the inextricable connection between the boy and his horse, turn Robey into a brave and mighty warrior, just like the coal black horse.

Books Available at: Annye's Whole Foods, Nantucket Atheneum, Nantucket Cottage Hospital, Nantucket Historical Association, Saltmarsh Center

 

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

THURSDAY, Jan. 28, 7 pm
Program Launch - With Prof. Robert Olmstead. Nantucket Atheneum, Great Hall, 1 India Street. Followed by a book signing and light refreshments.

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 3, 7 pm
Film Presentation:Glory (1989, runtime: 122 minutes). The Coffin School, 4 Winter Street. Light refreshments.

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 10, 7 pm
Film Presentation: Cold Mountain (2003, runtime: 154 minutes). The Coffin School, 4 Winter Street. Light refreshments.

THURSDAY, Feb. 11, 1:30 pm
Book Discussion facilitated by Fifi Greenberg. Saltmarh Center, 81 Washington Street Extension.

SUNDAY, Feb. 14, 1 pm
Honoring Nantucket's Civil War Veterns, weather permitting, at the Civil War Monument, Main & Gardner streets. Followed by light refreshments indoors at the Thomas Macy House, 99 Main Street.

TUESDAY, Feb. 16, 5:30 pm
Book Discussion facilitated by Molly Anderson. Nantucket Athenuem, 1 India Street.

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 17, 7 pm
Film Presentation: Outlaw Josey Wales (1976, runtime: 135 minutes). The Coffin School, 4 Winter Street. Light refreshments.

SATURDAY, Feb. 20, 2 pm
Program Finale: Nantucket and the American Civil War: readings, music, images, and objects that together describe the significant sacrafices Nantucket made during the Civil War. Hosted by Bill Tramposch and Len Germinara. NHA's Whaling Museum, Gosnell Hall, 13 Broad Street.

 

ALL EVENTS ARE OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY WITHOUT CHARGE.
2010 Underwriter, The Tupancy-Harris Foundation
Additional support from the Community Foundation of Nantucket