Nantucket Antique Car Parade

The island was hopping with many activities and events throughout the entire weekend. The festival began in the 1970s which included an antique car parade and a tailgate picnic in Sconset.

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Nantucket antique car parade. This annual event includes an antique car parade down Main St. Kristie Ferrantella interim director of the Nantucket Chamber of Commerce is hoping to stage some kind of antique-car parade in the fall. Created on April 25 2009 using FlipShare.

The last weekend of April the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce holds their annual Daffodil Festival a weekend of events to celebrate springtime awakening on Nantucket Island. That later proceeds to Siasconset aka. Powered by Giguere Interactive.

The first occasion a very simple affair in the 1970s included an antique car parade in which islanders showed off their classic cars followed by a community. The Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce has grown the weekend from a simple affair in the 1970s focusing on an antique car parade followed by a community tailgate picnic in Sconset to an elaborate weekend filled with events. A Vintage Picnic for the Vintage Car Parade.

View Video Sconset Picnic. The festival has become Nantuckets rite of spring greatly anticipated by islanders and visitors alike. Nantucket enjoyed the last weekend of April with wonderful spring weather as we celebrated the start of the season with the 42 nd annual Nantucket Daffodil Festival.

Learn about the events how to support enter to win a storefront decorating contest antique car parade and more. Staging for the antique car parade begins at 930 am walk among these classic cars and enjoy the daffodil decorations. A car parade around the island followed.

It is marked by parades and celebrations. Nantucket saw its heyday in the mid-19th century and the buildings along its streets are almost all veterans of the towns glory years. April 23 2021 900 am April 25 2021 300 pm.

April 20 2018 Mary Bergman. With no parade or picnic this year the Chamber invites you to decorate your antique cars for Daffy. Nantucket Antique Car Parade and Daffy Dog Parade.

The Single Stem Daffodil Show. Celebrate the kickoff to Spring on Nantucket Island. The Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror.

Nantucket Preservation Trust 11 Centre Street PO Box 158 Nantucket MA 02554. The parade begins at 12 when the cars will drive through downtown and then proceed out to Sconset for a tailgate picnic. By 1981 more than 35 antique vehicles were showcased in the parade and just two years later 80 cars were registered and 40 more crashed the party.

Visitors flock to the island to view the renowned Antique Car Parade April 29 showcasing 100. Decades later the Daffodil Festival on Nantucket includes art shows tours parades including the antique car parade and tailgate picnic exhibitions contests. Nantucket Daffodil Festival Weekend put on by the Nantucket Chamber of Commerce.

A record 130 cars had registered for this years event before it was canceled. Shades of yellow and beiges is aways perfect in Nantucket. The Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce organizes a Daffy Hat Contest a Childrens Parade featuring decorated bikes strollers wagons and other self-propelled vehicles the Antique Car Parade a window decorating contest the famous Sconset Tailgate Picnic a Family Picnic at Childrens Beach and more.

Nantuckets Jeff Turner captured this video as the parade made its way up Sparks Avenue toward the school. The Daffodil Photography Show. The Daffodil Arrangement Show.

Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on YouTube. Events are planned all over town but the primary event is the antique car parade when more than 100 antique and vintage vehicles appropriately bedecked with daffodils drive through the streets. In 1978 just 19 cars participated in the First Annual Nantucket Garden Club Vintage Motor Car Outing By 1981 more than 35 antique vehicles were showcased and just 2 years later 80 cars were registered and 40 more crashed the party.

The show-stopper was the Antique Car Parade. MA Nantucket Annual Daffodil Festival Weekend Antique Car Parade Tailgate Picnic Calendar. Activities for children include a parade Daffy hat contest concert and family.

Add to Calendar Add to Timely Calendar Add to Google Add to Outlook Add to Apple Calendar Add to other calendar Export to XML When. Nantucket High Schools Class of 2021 graduated Saturday June 12 outdoors. The first year 19 cars participated in the First Annual Nantucket Garden Club Vintage Motor Car Outing on April 22 1978.

Sconset Village for a tailgate picnic. The weekend is characterized by the colors yellow and green so look for these colors in deciding what to wear to Nantucket this weekend.

The Central Event Of This Delightful Weekend Is The Antique Car Parade Showcasing Over 100 Vintage Cars Bedecked With Sun Daffodils Yellow Daffodils Nantucket