Editing Nantucket (section)

==Arts and culture==
[[File:Robinson Nantucket.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Theodore Robinson]]'s painting ''Nantucket'', 1882]]

Nantucket has several noted museums and galleries, including the [[Maria Mitchell Association]] and the [[Nantucket Whaling Museum]].

Nantucket is home to both visual and performing arts. The island has been an [[art colony]] since the 1920s, whose artists have come to capture the natural beauty of the island's landscapes and seascapes, including its flora and the fauna. Noted artists who have lived on or painted in Nantucket include [[Frank Swift Chase]] and [[Theodore Robinson]]. Illustrator and puppeteer [[Tony Sarg]] moved to the island in 1922, and in 1937 created an inflatable creature which sailed across the harbour as part of the "sea monster" hoax.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nha.org/whats-on/exhibition/digital-exhibitions/the-nantucket-art-colony-1920-45/the-artists/tony-sarg/|title=Tony Sarg|access-date=13 August 2024|work=Nantucket Historical Association}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |publisher=WGBH |url=https://www.wgbh.org/culture/visual-arts/2024-08-02/nantuckets-sea-monster-returns-90-years-after-balloon-hoax |title=Nantucket's sea monster returns 90 years after balloon hoax |author1=Kate Dellis |author2=Edgar B. Herwick III |date=August 2, 2024 }}</ref> Artist Rodney Charman was commissioned to create a series of paintings depicting the marine history of Nantucket, which were collected in the book ''Portrait of Nantucket, 1659–1890: The Paintings of Rodney Charman'' in 1989.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hUPgAAAACAAJ&q=Portrait+of+Nantucket,+1659-1890:+The+Paintings+of+Rodney+Charman|title=Portrait of Nantucket, 1659–1890: The Paintings of Rodney Charman|last=Mooney|first=Robert E.|date=December 12, 1996|publisher=Mill Hill Press|isbn=9780963891037|language=en}}</ref>

The island is the site of a number of festivals, including a book festival, wine and food festival, comedy festival, daffodil festival,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://capecodtoday.com/article/2019/04/22/246031-Nantucket-Celebrates-45th-Annual-Daffodil-Weekend|title=Nantucket Celebrates 45th Annual Daffodil Weekend {{!}} CapeCodToday.com|last=Staff|website=capecodtoday.com|access-date=July 2, 2019}}</ref> and a cranberry festival.<ref>
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 | url = https://nantucket.net/activities/festivals.php
 | title = Nantucket Festivals 
 | date = 2017
 | website = nantucket.net
 | publisher = Yesterday's Island, Inc.
 | access-date = April 5, 2017
}}</ref>

===Popular culture===
Several historical, literary and dramatic works involve people from, or living on, Nantucket. These include:

* [[Herman Melville]]'s classic novel ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' is based on the Nantucket whaling industry, with narrator [[Ishmael (Moby-Dick)|Ishmael]] starting his voyage from Nantucket.
* [[Nathaniel Philbrick]]'s ''Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602–1890''.
* [[Nathaniel Philbrick]]'s ''[[In the Heart of the Sea|In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex]]''.
* [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s ''[[The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket]]''.
* The science-fiction-based [[Nantucket series|''Nantucket'' series]] by [[S. M. Stirling]] has the island being sent back in time from March 17, 1998, to circa 1250 BC in the [[Bronze Age]].
* Most of the [[Joan Aiken]] novel ''[[Nightbirds on Nantucket]]'' is set on the island.
* [[Hilbert Schenck]]'s science fiction short story ''[[The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck]]'', based on real events, is set on Nantucket and in the dangerous waters offshore.
* The 1971 coming-of-age film ''[[Summer of '42]]'' was set in Nantucket.
* The 1986 comedy ''[[One Crazy Summer]]'' was set in Nantucket and filmed on [[Cape Cod]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Film and Television Locations: a State-by-State Guidebook to Moviemaking sites, excluding Los Angeles|first=Doug|last=Gelbert |year=2002 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] |page=111|isbn=9780786412938|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qYRZAAAAMAAJ&q=crazy+summer}}</ref>
* The 1990s sitcom ''[[Wings (1990 TV series)|Wings]]'', which aired eight seasons from 1990 to 1997, was set in Nantucket. The series took place at the fictional "Tom Nevers Field" airport and other locations. It was filmed in LA but all of the establishing shots were filmed at various sites on the island and included fictional versions of real establishments, such as The Club Car restaurant.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Leszczak |first=Bob |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6eMfzgEACAAJ |title=There Once Was a Show from Nantucket: A Complete Guide to the TV Sitcom Wings |date=December 25, 2020 |publisher=BearManor Media |isbn=978-1-62933-666-4 |language=en}}</ref>
* The 2007 comedy ''[[The Nanny Diaries]]'' has the climax of the film take place at Mr X's Mother's Nantucket oversized Cape-Cod-styled home. Filmed in the Hamptons but made to look like Nantucket.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hookedonhouses.net/2011/09/19/nanny-diaries-movie-set-design/|title=The Sets from the Scarlett Johansson Movie "The Nanny Diaries"|date=September 19, 2011}}</ref>
* The island's name is used as a rhyming device in a noted [[Limerick (poetry)|limerick]], beginning "[[There once was a man from Nantucket]]..".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p80aAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA274|title=Life|date=June 1903|publisher=Life|location=New York|pages=274|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Elin Hilderbrand]]'s novels are set on Nantucket.
* Nantucket is the setting for the Merry Folger series of mystery novels by [[Francine Mathews]].<ref name=GWMW>page 161–164, ''Great Women Mystery Writers'', 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press, {{ISBN|0-313-33428-5}}</ref>
* Nantucket is the setting for [[Josephine Angelini]]’s [[Starcrossed (novel)]] series. 
* American journalist [[Pam Belluck]]'s 2012 non-fiction book ''Island Practice'' follows the misadventures of Nantucket doctor Timothy J. Lepore, MD.
* [[Andrew Hussie]]'s 2021 visual novel ''Psycholonials'' takes place in 2020 on Nantucket.{{citation needed|date=November 2015}}
* In the [[Quentin Tarantino]] film, ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'', Colonel Hans Landa of the German Sicherheitsdienst negotiates a deal where he is awarded a property on Nantucket Island.
* A [[Japan]]ese [[manga]] series by [[Hidekaz Himaruya]], ''[[Chibisan Date]]'', is set on Nantucket during the 1960s. In Himaruya's other manga, ''[[Hetalia: Axis Powers]]'', America, the anthropomorphic personification of the United States, has an [[ahoge]] that represents Nantucket.