NANTUCKET MA: The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA), as part of the 2011 One Book One Island collaborative program, will be hosting an Island Gam: “Recollections on the Home Front during WWII,” followed by a light dinner buffet featuring WWII-era food and dancing to the recorded music of Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller. Please join us on Saturday, February 12, 4:45 to 8 P.M. in the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street. Free admission.
Led by well-known around-the-pointer Libby Oldham, the Gam will feature recollections of World War II veterans, their family members, and others who remained on the home front. The Gam will begin at 4:45 P.M. and end at 5:30 P.M., when a 1940s-style buffet will be served, followed by dancing to recordings of the great Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller Big Bands.
The One Book One Island program is a collaborative island project of community partners and sponsors that seeks to promote reading, literacy, and community by encouraging the entire population of Nantucket to read, discuss, and reflect on the same book.
Sponsoring/collaborating organizations include the African Meeting House, Egan Maritime Institute, Maria Mitchell Association, Nantucket Atheneum, Nantucket Conservation Foundation, Nantucket Council on Aging/Nantucket Center for Elder Affairs, Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket Preservation Trust, Sherburne Commons, Spoken Word Nantucket, Theater Workshop of Nantucket, and WCAI-FM.
For more information about this special OBOI program, please call 508-228-1894, ext. 0
