Shouldered Oar Films

Sorry for the delay. Both films should be up on the site before Thanksgiving. John

After last week’s screening of Beyond Quixote a woman told me that the very idea of windmills is at odds with what she knows as the soul-restoring beauty of this island. She is from California and argued that nobody would do anything like this to Big Sur. Fair enough. When I mentioned the household budget-restoring [...]

Friends, After our summer hiatus we will return to the Atheneum with two new short films on Wed., Sept. 30. at 7pm. The first is called Personal History: Louise McGarvey and is a look at the early days of island aviation through the eyes of this wonderful 96 year-old woman. The second film is called [...]

The Nantucket Oral History Project was begun as a way to both collect those personal histories that make up our collected story, an as a place to kick around the idea of what our future on this island might look like. If you have gotten this far, please take the next step. Watch the films. [...]

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