Hooked by Nantucket

The island's beauty, sometimes austere, sometimes glorious, is sublime. But it's the history that casts a spell.

The village of 'Sconset, at the far eastern end of Nantucket Island, is known for its rose-covered cottages. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

NANTUCKET, Mass.—In summer, the senses feed hungrily on Nantucket, and Nantucket gives generously, with the scent of honeysuckle in the air; white-trimmed, gray-shingled houses as demure backdrops against joyous puffs of blue hydrangeas; and the lapping of the waves, a soothing song at sunset.

Many come to Nantucket to live in the present, to shed the cares of work and home. Its summer population swells from the normal 12,000 to 50,000. Don your prettiest Lilly Pulitzer dress or a pair of those famous Nantucket Reds shorts, and pick your picture-perfect spot from among 80 miles of gorgeous beaches.

Summer is hydrangea season in Nantucket, Mass.. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times