ACONS is an educational webinar series designed to celebrate Nantucket Sound’s exceptional environment, robust history, and cultural importance to the Cape and Islands. These webinars provide free, accessible, and fun learning opportunities for individuals and families in the safety of their own homes through Zoom. To date, we have presented over 20 webinars and have welcomed over 4,000 registrants.
Each webinar features a renowned expert in their field, presenting on one of the Sound’s unique values – and answering your questions in a live Q&A session to follow.
See what viewers are saying about our ACONS webinar series below.
Researcher Neil Good, a life-member of the Massachusetts Archeological Society will explore his findings linking Vínland, an area of the Atlantic coast settled for roughly twenty years by 11th century Norsemen, with Cape Cod and Nantucket Sound. Could Waquoit Bay be the potential site of Leifsbuðir (Leif Eriksson’s houses)?
Guest Speaker: Novelist George Michelsen Foy provides some fascinating history on rum-runners on Cape Cod, & the Sound in particular.
Guest Speaker: Paul Niedzwiecki of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce discusses the Blue Economy of Cape Cod and our tourism economy.
Guest Speaker: Celebrated author & historian Don Wilding discusses some of the most famous (and devastating) storms to hit Nantucket Sound and Cape Cod.
Taken from our ACONS Live! event. Panelists Karen Dourdeville, Seth Engelbourg, and Zak Mertz discuss sea turtles, birds, & wildlife of Nantucket Sound.
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