NANTUCKET TOP TEN

1.  COLOR:    Blue and white striped

2.  FOOD:  Blueberry Pie

From Susan Simon’s THE NANTUCKET TABLE

3.  DRINK:   Whale’s Tale Pale Ale

4.  FLOWER:  New Dawn Rose

 

5. BOOK:  The Nantucket Reader

You’ll find tasty excerpts here from Melville, Hilderbrand, Philbrick, and Thayer!

6.  MOVIE: Into the Heart of the Sea

(It’s a great book, too.)

7. Vehicle:

Land: Jeep

Sea:

Kayak, yacht, ferry, Sunfish, powerboat, paddleboard

8.  SONG:   John Denver’s Calypso, in tribute to Jean Jacques Cousteau’s research vessel

9.  ANIMAL:  Lab, yellow or black

 

                  10. LIMERICK: 

 There once was a man from Nantucket

Who kept all his cash in a bucket

But his daughter,named Nan,

Ran away with a man,

And as for the bucket, Nantucket

 

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