FROM THE EDITOR

This edition was such a pleasure to work on. Who doesn’t love jet setting up and down the East Coast, from Nantucket to Wild Dunes in South Carolina to Islamorada in the Florida Keys? We have some of the most beautiful coastline in the world right here on the East Coast. How lucky we are to live, play and explore here.

Writing the story on Nantucket really pulled at my heart strings. I have been going to Nantucket since I was a little girl, when at the age of 4 my parents bought their first vacation home on the island. With so many fond memories I could have gone on and on writing about the island. Such as surf casting with my father off the beach, to four wheeling to remote beach locations for afternoon picnics that lasted well into the evening to many nights spent at the Chicken Box dancing to reggae music. Not to mention a very special person Eddie Stojack, a scallop captain on Nantucket who knew all the best and secret places to scallop, we would jump off the boat then pop them on the grill. We would feast on world class clams casino or muscles right on the beach. Eddie’s scallop boat now resides at the whaling museum on the island. Nantucket is a very memorable place, my most favorite time on the island is in September. There is just something magical about the sunlight that time of year and the way the sun sets.

Allison Parker wrote a beautiful article, Glamour Behind the Cockpit, highlighting an era of when air travel was something you dressed for. Growing up with a father who was a pilot; I can remember not being able to board a plane standby once from Hawaii to L.A. because I was not wearing stockings. I spent the night in the airport until the next morning when the next flight was available, of which I boarded stockings and all. Times have certainly changed.

I loved reading Susan Gray’s article on The Moorings in Islamorada. I have never been, but after reading I cannot wait to go.

We added a mental health section to this edition and look forward to carrying this theme forward in future issues. I believe this is a topic we can all benefit from. The more we talk openly and share mental health topics the more we may all become ok with our emotions and understand them and thus reach out to one another a little more often.

This issue is filled with beautiful homes from the Hampton’s to Jackson Hole and the hottest new restaurants from New York City to Charlotte. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as we all enjoyed creating it.

Colleen Guilfoile Richmond