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POLPIS | $26,500,000

8 Bedrooms, 5.5 Bathrooms

MONOMOY | $3,995,000 Land - Over 1/2 Acre

MADAKET | $3,995,000 3 Bedrooms, 2.5 Bathrooms

EXCLUSIVELY SHOWCASED BY GARY WINN, BROKER gary@maurypeople.com 508.330.3069

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“I’ve always collected beach stones on my travels, something about them connects me to the earth and to my memories. I wanted to harness the magical energy of Nantucket and share it with the many people who find this place so special.”

– Caroline Mullen, artist

Local artist and co-owner of Icarus + Co., Caroline Mullen, transforms Nantucket beach stones into wearable art, casting the stones into unique designs in silver and gold. Each piece is totally unique, made by hand here on Nantucket. Down on Old South Wharf, inside the Icarus + Co. shop, you might just catch the artist at work behind her workbench. You will also find an incredible selection of handmade jewelry, pottery, and art. What better way to savor this enchanting island than by wearing your own little piece of it?

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LAUREN MARTTILA BRI NGS BEAU TY TO WALLS N EAR AN D FAR HOW DID YOU GET STARTED? I’ve always loved photography, and when I started dating my husband, I began spending countless hours on the beach photographing him surfing. We enjoy checking the surf together, and have stumbled across some great island moments.

WHY DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO COLLECT YOUR ART? For that deep breath feeling, and to celebrate the unexpected moments of beauty. I seek out simplicity and negative space in my photography so viewers can see themselves in my work. Also, I have a love of interior design, so I shoot with those aesthetics in mind so you can seamlessly bring the artwork into your home.

THE BEST THING ABOUT LIVING ON NANTUCKET? The community; it is the most supportive place I have lived. And because every season is different. I wouldn’t be able to keep up with the frenetic pace of the summer year-round, nor would I want the stillness of the winter for any longer than it already lasts.

GREAT GIFT ITEM? Shelfies™. They make the perfect hostess gift, are priced at $98, and they pack well in a suitcase so they are easy to bring home. Pick one up at Milly & Grace.

“For that deep breath feeling, and to celebrate the unexpected moments of beauty”

WHERE CAN WE SEE YOUR ART IN PERSON? Milly & Grace, Nantucket Looms, and Serena & Lily! I’m filled with gratitude for my retail partners.

WHAT LOCATIONS ARE REPRESENTED IN YOUR PRINT SHOP ?

Nantucket, Costa Rica, the Caribbean, the Bahamas, and the Hamptons.

DREAM DAY ON ACK? Wake up to the sunshine, walk on the beach with the pup (and stay for the waves), sandwiches on the beach, some afternoon R&R, and then dinner downtown.

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From $2M to $75M, Coastal Collective Connects you to South Florida’s Luxury Living.

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LE T CO M PAS S G U I D E YO U TOWA R D S T H E FI N EST R E A L ESTAT E I N N E W E N G L A N D.

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Benjamin Lincoln

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781.733.1140

Alex Biega & Rob Kilgore bkteam@compass.com 617.504.7814

Amanda Armstrong amanda.armstrong@compass.com 978.879.6322

Compass is a licensed real estate broker and abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. All material presented herein is intended for informational purposes only. Information is compiled from sources deemed reliable but is subject to errors, omissions, changes in price, condition, sale, or withdrawal without notice. No statement is made as to the accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footages are approximate. This is not intended to solicit property already listed. Nothing herein shall be construed as legal, accounting or other professional advice outside the realm of real estate brokerage.

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By pairing knowledgeable agents with intuitive technology, Compass delivers a modern real estate experience for every client, from the seasoned suburban seller to the first-time city buyer.

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Kate Johnson kate.johnson@compass.com

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Philip Vita phil.vita@compass.com

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Miller & Co.

millercompany@compass.com

617.276.4460

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Our agents think in color. Not black and white.

At William Raveis, creative real estate is our art.

Inspired by our entrepreneurial culture, they are empowered to thrive as themselves. Becoming the real estate entrepreneur they want to be. We provide a framework in which they can flourish.

Equipping our team with state-of-the-art tools to make selling effortless. Acting as an accelerator of talent through our coaching and mentorship programs.

Getting creative is better for everyone.

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Live Life Luxuriously....

SUMMERS IN NANTUCKET AND WINTERS IN THE PALM BEACHES

Mary Windle

Senior Director of Luxury Sales 561.271.5900 Mary.Windle@elliman.com

Caron Dockerty

DE Ellie Pinnacle Award 'Top 4% of Agents Company Wide' 2021 DE Ellie President's Circle Award 'Top 12% of Agents Company Wide' 2020 DE Ellie Gold Award "Top 8% of Agents Company Wide" 2018 & 2019

Summer resident since 2004 Senior Director of Luxury Sales 561.573.0562 Caron.Dockerty@elliman.com

1111 LINCOLN RD. MIAMI BEACH, FL 33139. 305.606.6300 © 2019 DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE. ALL MATERIAL PRESENTED HEREIN IS INTENDED FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. WHILE, THIS INFORMATION IS BELIEVED TO BE CORRECT, IT IS REPRESENTED SUBJECT TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS, CHANGES OR2WITHDRAWAL INFORMATION, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO SQUARE FOOTAGE, ROOM COUNT, NUMBER OF BEDROOMS AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN PROPERTY LISTINGS SHOULD BE VERIFIED BY YOUR OWN ATTORNEY, ARCHITECT OR ZONING EXPERT. EQUAL 8 N WITHOUT M A GNOTICE. A Z ALL I NPROPERTY E HOUSING OPPORTUNITY.

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We are excited to announce that we are now certified providers of CooperVision's Brilliant Futures Myopia Management Program, and look forward, with you and your children, to reduce pediatric myopia progression and its subsequent risks.

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New COASTAL-INSPIRED ESTATE 210 Palmo Way, Palm Beach, Florida $17.9 Million | Pre-Construction | 7 Bed | 8.1 Bath | 6,909 Total Sq. Ft. | .32 Acres Info: www.PB211669.com

SOLD - 2022

SOLD - 2022 7 OCEAN LANE, PALM BEACH, FLORIDA

365 N COUNTY RD, PALM BEACH, FLORIDA

$39 Million

$24.9 Million

Represented The Transaction For Seller Last Asking Price

Represented The Transaction For Seller Last Asking Price

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SOLD - 2022 219 BRAZILIAN AVENUE, PALM BEACH, FLORIDA

200 REGENTS PARK ROAD, PALM BEACH, FLORIDA

$19.5 Million Furnished

$14.85 Million

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Represented The Transaction For Buyer

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Margit Brandt Luxury Estate Advisor

561.545.7386

margit@premierestateproperties.com margitbrandt.info

125 Worth Avenue, Suite 221, Palm Beach, Florida Over the course of my career listing and selling real estate in Palm Beach, I have been affiliated with different firms, most recently as an Associate with Premier Estate Properties/Christie’s Palm Beach.

Some of these sold properties represent my efforts while with previous firms.

DISCLAIMER: The written information provided has been obtained and conveyed from third parties such as the applicable Multiple Listing Service, public records as well as other sources. All written and verbal information including that produced by the Sellers or Premier Estate Properties are subject to errors, omissions or changes without notice and purchaser shall perform their own due diligence. Copyright 2022 Premier Estate Properties Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Town 2 Silver Street | 5 BR 4.5 BA $4,949,000 | Wallis Mautner

14 Tripp Drive | 6 BR 5 BA $3,995,000 | Lee Gaw

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7 Easy Street | 2 BR 1.5 BA $3,950,000 | Deb Killen & Josh Lothian

Featured William Raveis Luxury Properties

Visit Raveis.com to view luxury properties throughout the Northeast and Florida

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Winnetu Oceanside Resort Martha's Vineyard, MA

VISIT THE NANTUCKET HOTEL'S NEWEST SISTER RESORT

Celebrating 10 years at The Nantucket Hotel and now introducing Little Gem's newest resort, Lovango Resort + Beach Club in the U.S. Virgin Islands A captivating, private island paradise -just 10 minutes by boat from St. Thomas and St. John.

The Nantucket Hotel Nantucket, MA

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Sailor’s Valentine Pendant Each pendant is hand crafted and will vary.

14K yellow gold pendant, diamonds, pearls, local whelk shells, other shells, and a sapphire crystal cover. Not shown actual size.

Collector’s Box Pendant 14K yellow gold pendant • Assorted shells, diamonds, and gemstones with a sapphire crystal cover Not shown actual size

Sailor’s Valentine Miniature Pendant 14K yellow gold pendant • Assorted shells, diamonds, and gemstones with a sapphire crystal cover Not shown actual size

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CASUAL ELEGANCE | 75 SQUAM ROAD | SQUAM | $6,075,000 Enjoy the casual elegance of this beautifully maintained beach house with quality workmanship and thoughtful detailing throughout.

“Penny Patch” a four-bedroom home and separate studio, “Ha’ Penny”, are sited on 26,000+ square feet of land that includes a generous yard, seaside gardens, stone walls and native landscape. Private stairs to one of the most pristine beaches on the island. Located on the eastern side of the island offering easy access to beautiful uncrowded beaches, bike path, Sankaty Head Golf Course, the charming village of Sconset and the convenience to a post office, market, gourmet restaurants including world class dining at The Wauwinet. Over 250 acres of Conservation Foundation land on the western side of Squam Road showcases amazing sunsets and insures open space for generations to come. This property is being offered mostly furnished and includes deeded beach access with private stairs to the shore.

37 Main Street | Nantucket MA 02554

kaThy Gallaher, Broker kathy@maurypeople.com c 508.560.0078

Mary Taaffe, Broker

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THE VAULT

NANTUCKET, MA

Located in Hotel Pippa 33 Centre Street Nantucket, MA 02554 Mon-Sun 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

(508)-825-6736

CHESTNUT HILL, MA

The Street at Chestnut Hill 33 Boylston Street Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Mon-Sat 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

(508)-825-6122

Scan to Shop!

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NANTUCKET

LET THE LIGHT IN QUINNTESSENTIALLY DIFFERENT

Sun-filled homes, seamless services, and dazzling amenities that surprise and delight.

Extraordinary condominiums in Boston’s South End.

PRICED FROM $800K | MOVE-IN READY 617.861.6221 | thequinn.com | 380 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02118

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E L E V AT E YOUR TRAVEL EXPERIENCE

Private Charter and Commuter Shared Charter Flights to Nantucket Direct Air Carrier | Private Terminal Convenience and Safety | Block Time and Ticket Book Discounts

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InterContinental Insurance Brokers “Relationships Built on Trust”

Our Private Client Group and Commercial Real Estate Division has a wealth of experience meeting the unique needs of high-net-worth individuals and protecting hard-earned client assets across the country.

Protecting Your Assets. Protecting Your Future.

Our experts provide a proprietary comprehensive, in-depth policy review, and risk analysis process relative to your insurance needs and potential exposures. We are dedicated to the highest level of personal service including: • • • • • •

On island presence in Nantucket for in-person consultations Expertise in coastal exposures and properties across the US Access to 50+ highly rated financially sound insurance carriers Creative coverage and pricing solutions for hard-to-place risks Claims handling and advocacy Consultative, high-touch approach

To protect your future, contact Tom Sleeper.

Ask for a complimentary and personalized risk analysis.

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InterContinental Insurance Brokers, LLC MA License 1952007 © 2022 All rights reserved. InterContinental Brokers LLC is a Venbrook Company. Licensed in all 50 states.

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Gaze. Drift. Luxuriate. Located in the Seaport, Boston’s most vibrant neighborhood, this exclusive waterfront property will change your view of breathtaking. Opening Fall 2022. Learn more at srresidencesboston.com or by calling +1 617 375 8000.

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CONTENTS /

JULY 2022

54 NUMBERS A numerical snapshot of Nantucket this summer.

56 NEAT STUFF Centre Pointe is always on pointe with your must-have home goods.

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58 NTOPTEN The ultimate rundown of where you need to be this July.

60 NGREDIENTS Legacy Club chef Timothy Partridge whips up a delicious treat for your summer table.

62 NECESSITIES Pencil these items onto your summer wish list.

66 KID’N AROUND School’s out! Here’s where your kiddos can play.

68 NDULGE SeaGrille bartender Mark Smith shakes up his favorite cocktail, a Paper Plane.

70 HEALTHNWELLNESS Considering having a homebirth on Nantucket?

72 NBUZZ All the news, tidbits and scuttlebutt that’s fit to print courtesy of Nantucket Current.

74 NEED TO READ Tim Ehrenberg dishes on the hottest books of summer.

76 NOSH NEWS Holy guacamole!

Make way for NanTaco.

Nell Diamond (Photo by Emma Craft)

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NSPIRE 80 TREE HUGGER Meet the superhero saving Nantucket’s trees, Dale Gary.

86 STROKE OF LUCK Julija Mostykanova Feeney’s unlikely journey to the top of the island’s art scene.

92 BANDING TOGETHER Joe and Marcus Welch invented their own social network for musicians and other creatives.

NVESTIGATE 98 A STICH IN TIME How a Madaket summer resident made a career of living in the past.

105 SHRINKING MENU Closures, limited housing and dwindling staff could be a recipe for disaster for restaurants.

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113 20 YEARS OF N MAGAZINE A brief history told in numbers.

121 FAST TRACK John Esposito went from record store clerk to music industry rock star.

128 DRESS WITH SUCCESS How Nell Diamond and her company Hill House Home threaded the needle during the pandemic.

NQUIRY 136 PRESSING MATTERS A conversation with CNN Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins.

144 AMERICAN HERO Lessons from the real Army Ranger who inspired the film Black Hawk Down.

157 GOOD CARMA Talking shop with world-famous car vlogger Doug DeMuro.

World-famous car vlogger Doug DeMuro (photo by Kit Noble)

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168 HAUTE SUMMER N Mag’s fashion squad hits the streets and beaches with this summer’s top trends.

144 American Hero

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181 A look back at the island’s military history courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association image archives.

NUPTIALS 194 Lauren LaRocco & Jack Reilly tied the knot on Nantucket.

NOT SO FAST 196 A quick chat with the Conservation Foundation’s Neil Foley.

July 2022

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20th ANNIVERSARY

The Local Magazine Read Worldwide Nantucket Magazine

THE GOOD LIFE

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ght Wharf | 508-325-9600

JULY 2022

5/20/22 9:20 AM

ON THE COVER This July issue commemorative cover celebrates N Magazine’s Platinum Anniversary

Retired Army Ranger Matt Eversmann (photo by Nick Mele)

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A S CONSET V ILLAGE H AVEN

5 COFFIN STREET | MAIN HOUSE & COTTAGE 5 BEDS 3 FULL BATHS / 2 HALF BATHS | $4,695,000 Lovely grounds in Sconset. Charming main house and cottage on a large lot nestled in a prime village location. With a welcoming covered porch, mature hedges, and white shell driveway, this property embodies summer living. Open and bright living room, dining room, and a custom kitchen with den and powder room on the first floor. Adjacent two-story cottage is great for entertaining guests.

This property is complete with central air, wood burning fireplace, covered porches, and a private outdoor entertaining area.

Exclusively Listed by

CHANDRA MILLER

chandra@maurypeople.com C 508-360-7777 | @livnantucket.com

MAURY PEOPLE SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY

Nantucket Island’s TOP Real Estate Broker for 2021 • In Sales Volume • In Transactions • In Dollar Value

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Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated. Equal Housing Opportunity.

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From the C I T Y to the S U B U R B S

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Nantucket

MODERN NEW CONSTRUCTION HOMES

LUXURY CONDO WITH PANORAMIC VIEWS

5 NOLAN CIRCLE | SUDBURY

100 SHAWMUT AVENUE, PENTHOUSE C | BOSTON

5 BED | 5.5 BATH | 8,900 SF

3 BED + DEN | 2.5 BATH | 2,726 SF

$3,898,000

$5,249,900

DIANA LANNON

JANICE DUMONT

NEW LUXURY TOWNHOMES

ON THE NOSE OF BURROUGHS WHARF

21 CROWNINSHIELD ROAD #19 | BROOKLINE

50 BATTERY WHARF #309-310 | BOSTON

4 BED | 3.5 BATH | 1,988 SF

3 BED | 2.5 BATH | 2,879 SF

$2,399,000

$6,900,000

DAVE COSTELLO & SCOTT ACCORSINI

CARMELA LAURELLA & TRAVIS SACHS

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TWENTY YEARS AND COUNTING

The past twenty years in the publishing world has

interview and podcast with

for many seemed like an eternity. Since N Mag-

former President George

azine first appeared two decades ago, the inter-

W. Bush’s Chief of Staff

net has swallowed up newspapers and magazines

Andy Card was gripping,

around the globe. Curiously, N Magazine has not

as his first-hand account

only thrived during this period but has grown in

of the events of 9/11 shed

each consecutive year. Why have we succeeded

new light on the tragedy.

when so many others have not?

As the first magazine in

BRUCE A. PERCELAY Publisher

The answer lies in the uniquely captivating

the world to feature President-elect Joe Biden on the

place in which we operate: Nantucket. People fall

cover, we were able to scoop the biggest magazines

in love with this island and develop an unquench-

on the planet. And even twenty years later, people

able thirst to learn about the fascinating people

still come up to me and comment on our very first

who live and visit here each and every year. Our

issue showing a scantily clad Mia Matthews covered

readers revel in what is new on Nantucket and what

in daffodils, an issue that rocked the island. Our tag-

is old. To outsiders, it is impossible to describe how

line, “the local magazine read worldwide,” started out

Nantucket gets in one’s blood and how tight the

as wishful thinking but has turned into a surprising

community is. Indeed, Nantucket is a publisher’s

reality as we have been quoted by media sources in

dream and running a magazine for the past twenty

Europe and beyond.

years has been a gift for me and our team.

The world around us has changed in many ways

During our twenty years of publishing, I am

over the past twenty years and not always for the

proud to say we have donated more than $1 million

good. Most importantly, the essence of Nantucket

of free advertising to local nonprofits and charities.

remains intact and we look forward to our next twenty

Our readership has now reached over 45,000 per

years of covering what attracts people to this special

issue, and we have been a frequent news source for

place thirty miles out to sea. Thank you for your

media outlets around the country and beyond. We

enormous support over the past two decades, and

have become the dominant media on Nantucket in

we look forward to continuing to deliver the type of

terms of readership, and the retention value of this

content that keeps people reading N Magazine.

magazine is often measured in years.

There have been many highlights we have experienced in publishing N Magazine but sev-

Sincerely, Bruce A. Percelay

eral experiences stand out. Our cover featuring Bill Belichick and Linda Holliday generated millions of hits nationally and gave our readers a different perspective on a fascinating couple. Our

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Emma CRAFT Emma Craft is a fashion photographer based in New York City. Originally from Savannah, Georgia, she began her career shooting for magazines while studying at Savannah College of Art and Design. She now works with some of the top brands in the country, and her whimsical images have been featured everywhere from Vogue Italia to Playboy. Emma photographed Nell Diamond on Nantucket along with her summer collection of bathing suits.

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Nick MELE Nick Mele is a lifestyle, fashion and interior design photographer known for his whimsical take on American luxury and elegance. Nick’s passion lies in his love for fabulous interiors and the people who inhabit those spaces.

His images have been said to evoke feelings of both old-world glamour and modern irreverence. Nick’s photos have been featured in a myriad of online and print publications including Town & Country, The New York Times, Avenue, Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, Vogue and Vanity Fair. His commercial clients include brands such as Ralph Lauren, Sam Edelman, J.McLaughlin and Lilly Pulitzer, as well as several high-end hotels and interior designers.Nick’s first book, A Newport Summer, was published May 2022

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Charity GRACE MOFSEN Charity Grace Mofsen captures the island of Nantucket in all its glory. With a particular affinity for astrophotography, she believes there is always light, if you have eyes to see it.

From fine art landscapes to fun portrait sessions and creative product photography, she finds joy sharing her love of Nantucket with the hope that others will also cherish the island’s natural beauty. Recently featured in Framebridge’s “Black Artist Spotlight,” her work speaks to [wo]man’s connection to the cosmos.

Describing her style as meditative, Mofsen highlights the beauty of the island’s contrasts—the solitude of the off-season and the joy of summer, the colors of the light and the wisdom of the night.

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Welcome to John’s Island. A sunny, cherished haven enjoyed by generations who have discovered the undeniable allure of life by the sea. With 1,650 pristine acres, miles of private beaches and a thriving community, this is ocean to river living at its finest. From sunrise to sunset, enjoy the legendary lifestyle and world-class amenities including three championship golf courses, 17 Har-tru tennis courts, pickleball, squash, croquet, an abundance of water activities, a health & wellness center, and the savory dishes served at any of our three Clubhouses. Indulge in gorgeous architectural details, tranquil living areas and lush grounds - all a stone’s throw from ocean, river or golf. Every home takes advantage of prime location with access to an array of amenities at our legendary Club. We invite you to indulge in a life of bliss in John’s Island.

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Months that ACK Natural Cannabis Dispensary was closed by the Cannabis Control Commission before reopening in May.

Years that Fifty-Six Union operated before the Jannelle family sold the property to the neighboring Great Harbor Yacht Club over the winter.

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Amount of money the Atheneum invested in acquiring library employee housing.

Years of the Boston Pops on Nantucket this summer, with musical guest Marc Martel to perform at Jetties Beach.

Number of passengers that the Steamship Authority overbooked on its fast ferry from Hyannis to Nantucket on May 15, resulting in a 34-minute delay before enough passengers volunteered to disembark.

$1.695 Million Price for which the Lightship Basket Museum property was sold to Nantucket South Beach LLC.

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Batters that Nantucket High School pitcher Riley Williams struck out in his no-hitter against Martha’s Vineyard in the Whalers’ final game this spring season.

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Centre Pointe is your one-stop-shop for curated home décor and so much more ou might think that buying a house on Nantucket is the tricky part—but then it comes time to furnish and decorate it. Getting curated items to the island can be daunting, especially during the high season.

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Perusing the Centre Pointe collections is like walking along an inspiration board. At every turn is another vignette transporting you to a different place and time, with its own mood and aura. And that experience is not limited to items for your home. You can adorn yourself with their whimsical aesthetic by way of Centre Pointe’s Peyton cover-up, part of the new signature clothing partner, Cartolina Nantucket collection Cartolina Nantucket—of which 10 percent of the sales are donated to women’s health and education programs on the island like Fairwinds Nantucket.

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THEATRE WORKSHOP’S WE WILL ROCK YOU JULY 8 – AUGUST 13

Bennett Hall, 62 Centre Street Nothing gets your heart pumping and your feet stomping quite like a soundtrack of Queen classics. Ben Elton’s musical celebrates rock ‘n’ roll with a modern twist that offers the perfect summer entertainment. For more information on the two-hour show, visit theatrenantucket.org.

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Milestone Cranberry Bog, 301 Polpis Road This annual run/walk supports the Nantucket Conservation Foundation and its mission to protect the island’s precious land. Participate in the 2-mile, 5K or 10K trails, either for a competitive prize or just for fun! All ages, furry friends and strollers welcomed. For more information and to sign up or become a sponsor, visit nantucketconservation.org.

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NANTUCKET GARDEN FESTIVAL

NANTUCKET ART & ARTISAN SHOW

Are you passionate about sustainability, nature and preserving Nantucket for generations to come? Do you want to master your own vegetable garden or flower bed? Then the Garden Festival is for you! Come listen to lectures and tour the island’s best gardens, with kids’ activities too. To register or for more information on this year’s presentations, visit ackgardenfestival.org.

The thirty-first annual celebration of the island’s arts and crafts showcases creations of every medium from pottery to furniture to jewelry and more. With a virtual marketplace and a silent auction, all proceeds will support Small Friends on Nantucket, an educational care center for children of the island’s working parents. Note that this event will be held virtually this summer. For more information, visit nantucketartandartisanshow.org.

JULY 12-14

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This annual three-day event will be sure to leave you in tears—of laughter. Each night embraces a different theme of comedy and offers something for everyone to enjoy. The festival supports Stand Up & Learn, a nonprofit organization that works to build confidence, creativity and public speaking skills in Nantucket’s children.

For the festival schedule or to make a donation, visit nantucketcomedy.com.

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JULY 9 AT 6:30 PM

The Dreamland, 17 South Water Street It’s the tenth anniversary of The Dreamland, Nantucket’s beloved nonprofit film, performing arts and cultural center. Show up in your Nantucket reds for cocktails, food, live entertainment and a night of dancing to celebrate and support the island’s home for the silver screen. For registration and more information, visit nantucketdreamland.org.

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Nantucket High School Auditorium This weeklong celebration of dance offers educational and interactive programs for adults and children alike, as well as live performances showcasing talented artists both new to the island and returning from festivals past. Lace up your dancing shoes and come support the beloved Atheneum, Nantucket’s public library. For more information and for tickets, visit nantucketdancefest.org.

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The Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street Come celebrate the twentieth anniversary of N Magazine at the party of the summer! With specialty cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and music to help you let loose on the dance floor, the night will be one to remember. Celebrating with glamour and sparkle is the only way to commemorate PLATINUM such a milestone. VIP Hour begins at 6 p.m. with the main event following at 7 pm. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit n-magazine.com/platinumparty.

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Jetties Beach Whether you are a competitive swimmer or a simple doggy paddler, the annual open water swim is for everyone. Open to all ages and skill levels, this event offers various distance options as well as relays.

Proceeds help support Nantucket Cottage Hospital and Palliative & Supportive Care for Nantucket in their cancer treatment efforts. Start your morning bright and early to swim for a cause at Jetties Beach and feel an empowering sense of community. For more information and to register or donate, visit swimacrossamerica.org.

Come join the fight for mental health at this fundraiser that supports the National Alliance for Mental Illness on Cape Cod & The Islands as well as Fairwinds, Nantucket’s Counseling Center. The event offers various auction items from a photography session to boat outings to chartered flights, with proceeds providing free mental health resources to those in need. To purchase tickets, make a donation or preview the auction, visit https://cbo.io/bidapp/index.php?slug=mentalhealth. *All events are subject to change.

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IN COD WE TRUST Legacy Club executive chef Timothy Partridge shares his recipe for whipped cod and potatoes with summer tomato vinaigrette and oregano SUMMER TOMATO VINAIGRETTE WHIPPED COD AND POTATOES • 1lb fresh cod cut into 2” chunks • 1lb peeled Yukon Gold potatoes, Cut into 1” pieces • 1½ cups milk • 1 cup water • Preheat oven to 400 • Place potatoes, garlic, shallots, water and milk in a large saucepan and season with salt and pepper. Cover and cook over medium heat until potatoes are fork tender. Remove saucepan from heat and place cod chunks on top of potatoes. Place back on heat, cover and continue to cook for approximately 10 minutes and potatoes are fully cooked.

• salt and pepper to taste • 6 cloves garlic • 2 shallots, minced • ¼ cup olive oil

• Strain liquid and reserve. Place cod and potato mixture in a large bowl, add half of the butter, olive oil and hot sauce. Using small amounts of cooking liquid at a time mash mixture lightly until fully incorporated but not smooth. Some fish left flaky adds a great texture so don’t mash too vigorously. Allow mixture to come to room temperature.

• Hot sauce • 2T butter • ½ cup seasoned breadcrumbs

• Butter oven proof casserole with remaining butter and add cod/ potato mixture, drizzle with olive oil and breadcrumbs. Cook at 400 for approximately 15 minutes or until cod is browned and bubbling.

Summer Tomato Vinaigrette on top and serve with toasted olive bread or pumpernickel or whatever your favorite hearty loaf of bread is.

• 1 ½T shallots, julienned • 1 tsp chopped garlic • Thinly sliced serrano chilies to taste • 1T red wine vinegar • 3T extra-virgin olive oil • 1 cup diced freshest tomatoes possible • Salt and pepper to taste • Chopped fresh oregano • Combine all ingredients except for tomatoes and oregano. Whisk vigorously then add tomatoes, oregano and re-season to taste.

• Toss greens with half of the vinaigrette and spoon the other half over the whipped cod and potatoes. Place greens on top of frittata and shave additional parmesan over the greens.

This summer, Tim Partridge, executive chef at the Legacy Club of Boston, will be bringing his extraordinary talents to Nantucket for private parties. After honing his skills in Los Angeles and Kansas City, Tim returned to Boston to work with several culinary greats. He has served as executive chef at many restaurants including the Museum of Fine Arts. As executive chef at the Legacy Club of Boston, Tim has developed, from the ground up, one of the finest private dining experiences in the city. For those interested in hiring Chef Timothy Partridge for their private party this summer on Nantucket, contact Memberservices@legacyclub.Boston or call 617.482.3518

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GOOD WOOD MINI GOLF GAME

As part of an exclusive collaboration with Over The Moon and Peter Beaton, Nantucket artist Meredith Hanson hand-painted hydrangeas that sprout up around the crown of this beautiful hat. It will add a sunny disposition to garden parties, beach days and beyond!

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For all the golf-loving youngsters who can’t yet hit the links at Sankaty or Miacomet, this mini golf set comes with three holes and flags, two wooden balls, a five-piece rainbow tunnel and more, making it perfect for some summer backyard fun!

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Master the art of beach lounging with Serena & Lily’s super comfortable and effortlessly chic backpack-style chairs crafted from solid teak with an all-weather canvas sling. The matching umbrella decked out in stylish fringe has a convenient tilt function that allows for adjustment with the sun. A head pillow and five angles of recline make for a relaxing day in the sand, while the zippered pocket is the ideal size for a towel and a great read!

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COUNTER TOP SPICE RACK Equally elegant on your countertop or mounted on your wall, the Evermill Counter Top Rack keeps your spices organized and close at hand. The ideal set for every kitchen, it comes with 100% organic spices, two shaker lids and mounting hardware if displaying on the wall is desired.

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It’s time to celebrate 20 years of N Magazine.

Get your tickets while you still can and join us at The Whaling Museum for what promises to be the party of the season!

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Top-of-the-line, quiet and commercial-grade, the Theragun PRO helps reduce muscle soreness, improve mobility and increase relaxation. So whether you’re coming off a day surfing Cisco, running the trails of the Moors, or just need a little extra summer stress relief, this will be your ultimate wellness partner.

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SUMMER WITH THE DREAMLAND STAGE COMPANY Register now for the Dreamland Stage Company’s summer theater camps and productions! The Dreamland offers theater and dance for kids of all ages through its Dreamland Kids, Dreamland Youth and Dream Teens programs. This summer, your child will be performing the popular musicals of Into the Woods Jr. and Madagascar Jr. For more information and to register, visit nantucketdreamland.org and follow @dreamlandstagecompany.

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AROUND BARNABY’S TOY & ART SHACK Barnaby’s has kicked off the season with more than 100 art classes for children ages 2 to 13, and kids can drop in and create every day, all day! All Barnaby’s classes are taught by professional artists and educators who will guide your child’s technique and processes in an inspirational space in downtown Nantucket.

Barnaby’s also has a wide variety of toys and art kits to go that have been hand-selected and designed for all ages. For the program calendar or more information, please visit barnabysnantucket.com, call 508-680-1553 or email barnabyack@gmail.com. Be sure to follow @barnabystoyartshack!

LINDA LORING FOUNDATION Have an adventure-seeker on your hands?

Head to the Linda Loring Nature Foundation this summer to check out their trailside Story Walk or join one of their free family programs.

Guided walks are also offered weekly for an opportunity to explore Nantucket’s birds, insects and plants with a naturalist. Their family-friendly trails are open daily at 110 Eel Point Road. Visit llnf.org/events for a full list of their programs and follow @loringnatureack.

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TIME TRAVELERS AT THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION This summer, the NHA is excited to announce its new Time Travelers adventure for families! Each family will receive a Time Traveler’s Kit, which includes a printed passport, coloring book and journal. Kids can get their passport stamped at the island’s historical sites, including the Oldest House, Old Mill, Greater Light, Quaker Meeting House and many more. Your child can have fun coloring as well as filling their journal with tidbits of history that they’ve learned about each historical property along the way. Start your family adventure at the Whaling Museum at 13 Broad Street. To learn more, visit nha.org and be sure to follow them @ackhistory.

SUMMER AT PEACHTREE KIDS Peachtree Kids, located at 19 Main Street, carries timeless, classic clothing, accessories and shoes for both everyday wear and special occasions for newborns up to 12 years old. The store is filled to the brim with lines like Rylee + Cru, Quincy Mae, Mayoral, Hatley, Busy Bees, Sperry, See Kai Run and many more. Peachtree Kids is open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. or visit them online at peachtreekidsnantucket.com. You can also follow them on Facebook and Instagram @peachtreekidsnantucket.

MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION Visiting the Maria Mitchell Association is one of Nantucket’s special must-do activities. The Aquarium, Natural Science Museum and Mitchell House are ready to welcome you and connect you to the nature of the island. At Loines Observatory, enjoy a magical tour of the night sky with the MMA’s professional astronomers, offered every Monday and Wednesday evening throughout the summer. See the moon, planets, star clusters and even other galaxies as you’ve never observed them before. On Saturday, July 16th, work with artist-in-residence Danny O. and make a collage with the association’s collection of National Geographic magazines (from 1911 to 2005).

Maria’s brother, Henry, was one of National Geographic Society’s founders. Collage kits and classes are offered all month long. For more information, visit mariamitchell. org and follow @maria_mitchell_association.

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SeaGrille bartender Mark Smith shares his recipe for a Paper Plane

The Paper Plane is a take on a retro-style cocktail with a modern

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Special Delivery INTERVIEW BY ROBERT COCUZZO

Nantucket Doula Sunny Daily explains the benefits of having a homebirth During the pandemic, the number of home births in the United States increased by 20 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With many mothers seeking alternatives to the hospital setting where COVID protocols were particularly stringent, home births suddenly became an attractive option for delivering a child. Long before the pandemic, though, Sunny Daily has helped a number of families deliver babies at home here on Nantucket. A doula and student midwife, she has attended more than two hundred births on and off the island and can speak to the potential benefits of birthing from home.

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Sunny Daily has helped deliver hundreds of babies on and off the island

Historically, what are some of the reasons your clients have elected to have a home birth?

My clients tend to choose home birth because they are seeking a natural, unmedicated, low intervention, intimate experience, with one provider.

Home birth clients tend to be, or want to be, well informed of their choices prenatally, during birth and postpartum. Often, they want their partners and other children to be involved in their prenatal care and birth experience.

How did you see the interest in home births change during the pandemic?

with monitoring during labor. This is both noticing how the birthing person and their support people are handling the stress of labor, monitoring the baby’s heart rate to assure they are handling labor well, and knowing when things are straying away from normal and how we can help. During a home birth, basic things become very important like rest, hydration and fueling the body. As a midwife, I am trained to deal with complications at birth and in the immediate postpartum.

I saw a huge influx of people interested in home birth.

The initial realization I had, after the shock of this influx of interest, was that many families were coming to midwifery care as a choice made out of fear—fear of COVID, fear of hospitals not allowing partners in, fear they would get COVID in the hospital, fear of the unknown. Fear is a hard way to come to any choice but an especially less than ide“My clients tend to choose home al way to come to the debirth because they are seeking a natural, unmedicated, low intervention, cision of birthing at home.

intimate experience, with one provider.”

What’s your approach to home birth?

— Sunny Daily

People have been giving birth literally since the beginning of time. My approach to birth is based on our innate ability to give birth. However, birthing people have their own unique histories and experiences that influence the choices they make when thinking about where, how and with whom to give birth. You will birth best where you feel safest.

This looks different for different people. I strive to meet people where they are. That is why I am not only a midwife but also a doula and educator.

What are some of the precautionary measures you take in making sure the home birth is safe?

The biggest precaution we take is to assure the birthing person is in the best health they can be with good nutrition, good prenatal care, good support, and that they keep their prenatal visits to assure this continues throughout the pregnancy. The second part has to do

Why has giving birth become considered a medical procedure as opposed to a natural process?

We tend to forget that we have great resources for those people and situations where they are needed. For people who are healthy, whose pregnancy is healthy and whose developing baby is healthy, and who may want a different experience, all of those resources may not be needed for a safe and healthy birth experience and great outcome.

For those reasons, some people turn to midwifery care and home birth. Midwifery care in general, and how that fits into the larger picture of birth in industrial or developed countries versus those with perhaps limited resources, Sunny Daily is that ultimately pregnancy and birth are part of wellness and for many people a natural part of our reproductive health.

For more information on Daily's doula and midwifery services, visit SunnyDailyACK.com

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WHY NANTUCKET’S FERRIES WON’T GO ELECTRIC ANYTIME SOON

The Steamship Authority is exploring the feasibility of operating electric ferries, but the possibility of implementing such technology on the Nantucket route—at least at this point—seems to be a distant dream. All-electric ferries would require significant capital investment both for new vessels and the infrastructure to support them, and would be far

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more feasible on the Steamship’s Martha’s Vineyard route than on the Nantucket route due to the greater distance involved. Those are among the conclusions of the Hybrid Propulsion Study commissioned by the Steamship Authority and recently presented by its consultant, the Elliott Bay Design Group, a naval architecture and marine engineering firm.

SHANTAW BLOISE NAMED DIRECTOR OF CULTURE AND TOURISM Shantaw Bloise has been named the Town of Nantucket’s new director of culture and tourism. Bloise, a 2009 graduate of Nantucket High School who is originally from Montego Bay, Jamaica, most recently served as business manager for the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce. She started in her new position on June 6th. Bloise is also the co-owner of Supple Sirens, a popular line of skin care products handmade on the island.

MAN FOUND RESPONSIBLE FOR AFRICAN MEETING HOUSE HATE CRIME

A Nantucket Superior Court judge entered a decision in early June against island resident Dylan Ponce in the civil rights lawsuit stemming from the African Meeting House hate crime in 2018. Judge Mark Gildea ruled that Ponce was responsible for the racist graffiti discovered on the historic building four years ago, and that he violated the civil rights of the two plaintiffs in the case—Nantucket residents Jim Barros and Rose Marie Samuels. Gildea issued a permanent injunction against Ponce that orders him to stay away from the African Meeting House, have no contact with Barros or Samuels and stay at least 25 yards away from them in public, as well as requiring that Ponce not violate their civil rights in the future. According to Gildea’s decision, the “undisputed facts” of the civil case show that “Mr. Ponce spray-painted the phrase ‘N****r Leave!’ in large black letters on the doors of the African Meeting House on Nantucket. The next day [March 11 or 12], Mr. Ponce told his employer, Jeffrey Sayle, what he had done.”

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BRIAN GLOWACKI’S HEADLINING THE WILBUR “I was blown away,” Nantucket native Brian Glowacki said, reflecting on the new pinnacle of his career as a stand-up comedian. After eleven years on the stand-up comedy circuit, Glowacki headlined his own show the night of June 4 at The Wilbur Theater in Boston. He sold more than seven hundred tickets, and many of those in attendance had made the trip from Nantucket to see him.

“I’m overwhelmed by how many people showed up to it, and how many Nantucket people came,” Glowacki said. “When the host announced me, he announced me as ‘Brian Glowacki from Nantucket, Massachusetts.’ When he said that the theater got so loud.”

LOST BUOY RETRIEVED FROM ISLAND BEACH

The Great Round Shoal buoy that washed ashore along Nantucket’s eastern shoreline, just south of Great Point, on May 15 was removed from the beach on June 1 by an Army National Guard helicopter. It marked the second time in three years the wayward buoy broke free from its position offshore and had to be rescued from Nantucket.

The 11,800-pound buoy was then lifted by a Chinook helicopter from the Connecticut Army National Guard. It was flown to the waiting U.S. Coast Guard cutter Oak, which was positioned in the Chord of the Bay, north of Coatue. The massive buoy previously washed ashore on Nantucket near Quidnet beach in March 2018 following a powerful nor’easter.

DO NANTUCKET’S LIGHTHOUSES NEED AN INTERVENTION?

Do two of the island’s iconic lighthouses need an intervention? The Nantucket Historical Commission seems to think so. The state of the Brant Point Lighthouse and the Great Point Lighthouse has the commission so concerned that it is exploring how it could convince the U.S. Coast Guard to transfer ownership of the two landmarks to the town or a private group. That is just one of several potential strategies the commission discussed at a recent meeting to better preserve and care for the lighthouses, both of which have issues regarding maintenance and upkeep that are not easily solved.

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The end of May became Shark Week on Nantucket. Just days after a great white shark was filmed hunting and killing a seal off Great Point on May 28, at least three more of the apex predators were spotted off the west end of the island on June 2 feasting on the carcass of a dead humpback whale.

Brooks Robbie recorded incredible video of one of the great whites biting into the whale carcass just southwest of Muskeget. The whale had been spotted drifting in Madaket Harbor earlier in the week.

The great white shark sightings were the first of the season in the Northeast. While white sharks have become more common in the waters around Nantucket in recent years as they target the growing seal population, there have been no incidents of sharks attacking humans around the island.

ISLAND STUDENTS WALKOUT TO PROTEST GUN VIOLENCE

“When, just when, will the pile of our bodies be enough for them to make a change?” Nantucket High School senior Maryann Vasquez-Cruz asked her fellow classmates, teachers and administrators on May 26 during a student-led walkout in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. More than one hundred students gathered in the Hall of the Whale for the walkout in protest of gun violence and inaction on gun control policy by Congress. The walkout was one of thousands happening across the country as part of a nationwide day of protest and rallies by high school students from coast to coast.

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Tim Ehrenberg from “Tim Talks Books” dishes on the hottest reads for summer.

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Available July 5th, this comingof-age story will be one of my top books of the year! It is about two friends who meet as children and grow up to become successful and famous video game creators. Note: You do not have to like video games to enjoy this novel. I was absolutely obsessed while reading this. The book flows as if it’s playing out before you, like a video game. I loved these characters; I cried twice. The commentary on creative art, friendship, cultural appropriation and the sexism of the ’80s and ’90s resonated throughout my Xennial mind. This book is just so rich in its plot, characters and delivery. Read it and then come find me and let’s talk about it. Don’t wait till tomorrow. Join me and author Gabrielle Zevin on Instagram Live @timtalksbooks on Tuesday, July 5, 6 p.m. EDT.

SCAN HERE to connect with @TimTalksBooks

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SCAN HERE to purchase Tim's Need to Reads from Nantucket Book Partners

For more information about this year’s Nantucket Book Festival and the complete schedule of events, visit nantucketbookfestival.org.

FELLOWSHIP POINT

BY ALICE ELLIOTT DARK

One of my “book whisperers” is Manda Riggs of Elm Street Books in Connecticut and she has been raving about Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark, proclaiming this as her favorite book so far this year. It’s one of those big books that you just get lost in no matter what is happening during a busy summer. When you turn the last page, you are sorry to leave its characters and story, and you contemplate starting over on page one to read and experience it again. Make a point to pick this one up July 5th.

ASYLUM

BY EDAFE OKPORO

This is a memoir and manifesto by a Nigerian asylee and global gay rights and immigration activist. Edafe Okporo, who was attacked by a violent mob in Abuja, Nigeria, for being gay, fled to America and spent the next six months in an immigration detention center. This moving and eye-opening story is about refugees, gay rights, immigration reform and the resilience of one man to rise above it all and be a voice for refugees everywhere.

Join me in talking with Edafe Okporo about his moving and harrowing story on Thursday, July 28, at 6 p.m. at the Nantucket Atheneum. This event is free to the public and seating is first come, first served.

THE HOTEL NANTUCKET

BY ELIN HILDERBRAND

New York Times bestselling author and my “work wife,” Elin Hilderbrand is no stranger to N Magazine, and this, her twenty-eighth novel, just might be her best yet. Welcome to The Hotel Nantucket! There is a reason Elin is hailed as the “Queen of the Beach Reads.” There are enough diverse people and personalities, Nantucket nostalgia, drama, seafood, beachy vibes and island style to fill her Hotel Nantucket for several summer seasons. There is even a ghost, a chambermaid from 1922 haunting the hotel with her own story to tell. Don’t miss the Blue Book in the back, Elin’s Nantucket recommendation guide.

You can meet Elin every Wednesday this summer at Mitchell’s Book Corner from 11 a.m. to -12 p.m. Elin and I will also be talking on Thursday, August 4, for “An Evening with Elin” at the Nantucket Hotel, featuring a fashion show, summer cocktails and details from the book all benefiting the Nantucket Book Foundation. Get tickets at nantucketbookfestival.org.

WITH PREJUDICE

BY ROBIN PEGUERO AND THE LOCAL

BY JOEY HARTSTONE

Guilty as charged! My favorite type of summer beach read is a legal thriller. I love suspenseful courtroom scenes, legal jargon and the thrill of a case. With Prejudice

by Robin Peguero and The Local

by Joey Hartstone deliver all the action and legal thrills I crave.

These books reminded me of John Grisham’s early novels, and while entertaining for the beach or by the pool, they both offer profound commentary on justice, courtroom semantics, humanity and prejudice.

LAPVONA

BY OTTESSA MOSHFEGH

If you’ve ever read a book by Ottessa Moshfegh, you know her books are a bit, for lack of a better word, odd, and this one abandons her usual contemporary setting for a village in a medieval fiefdom.

Lapvona is a dark fairy tale that I read in a trancelike state as I followed little Marek, an abused son of the village shepherd, all the way to the castle of the governor and depraved lord Villiam.

ROGUES: TRUE STORIES OF GRIFTERS, KILLERS, REBELS AND CROOKS

BY PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE One of the most decorated journalists of our time and the author of two amazing nonfiction books, Empire of Pain and Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe is back this summer with Rogues, a collection of twelve of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. As Keefe says in his preface, “These articles reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial.” My favorite of the collection is a story of a death penalty attorney who represents the “worst of the worst.”

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Holy Guacamole A hot new taco shop opens on Nantucket

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE

NanTaco’s food and cocktail truck is perfect for private events

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elicious, nutritious and affordable, tacos seem to be one of the few things Americans can agree about these days. After all, it’s not every food that gets designated its own day of the week. But can our gustatory obsession with the folded and stuffed tortilla be channeled into an actual lifestyle? Island entrepreneur Lee Milazzo thinks so, and after eight years of envisioning such a business, his dream of a uniquely Nantucket-style taqueria has finally come to fruition.

“NanTaco is a lifestyle brand,” he says. “It’s all about seriously crushable tacos.” Milazzo and his wife, Cindy, who together own the Samuel Owen Gallery of contemporary art on Centre Street, will now bring their considerable brand pizzazz to the restaurant business.

Precipitated by a guerrilla marketing campaign featuring a hipster surf-style logo emblazoned on red-and-white ball caps, NanTaco was famous even before any plans for a brick-and-mortar business had materialized. “I actually had a guy contact me last summer and tell me that he

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The NanTaco crew helmed by owner Lee Milazzo (front)

needed my taco truck in his backyard in Palm Beach,” Milazzo says.

Along with the ultra-catchy name, NanTaco—located next door to Nantucket Surf Club in the heart of downtown at 21 South Water Street—boasts a breezy, hang ten vibe with hand-painted graphic murals and sunbaked driftwood décor that evoke simpler times. NanTaco’s all-star business cast includes creative designer Jonathan Nimerfroh,

the surf and lifestyle photographer known for capturing the image of the “Slurpee Wave”; executive chef Chad Norman, formerly of Afterhouse; and general manager Biju Joshi.

With six Nantucket restaurants closed this summer, including Lola

‘How many breakfast burritos and how many coffees? Next, please.’ It’s set up so you can have fifteen to twenty people in line step up to the counter and then step out. It’s as streamlined as possible. Let’s get you to the beach!”

With an emphasis on fresh, locally sourced and organic ingredients, the cilantro-centric lunch and dinner menu will feature at least seven types of traditional tacos, including carne asada, shrimp, potato and tacos al pastor— shepherd’s style pork and pineapple shawarma tacos inspired by the nineteenth-century Lebanese migration to Mexico. “At Nantaco, the protein is the star.

We are not really into “NanTaco is a naming tacos, per se, lifestyle brand.

It’s all about seriously except for the El Chado,” says Milazzo, crushable tacos.” who promises that — Nantaco owner Lee Milazzo Nantaco will offer an Nantaco’s reserved spot at Cisco Beach especially plain ground beef taco with cheddar cheese and tomaBurger, Fifty-Six Union, The Boarding toes (no cilantro) in a crispy corn shell.

House and The Pearl, Milazzo’s timing El Chados aside, NanTaco will not is fortuitous. NanTaco promises speed be a “party scene.” Primarily a grab-andand efficiency, with an almost fanatical go style restaurant, NanTaco will feature emphasis on simplicity—a business model high-top tables on the sidewalk and will similar to a food truck. “Breakfast burritos be open year-round until 2 a.m., serving will be one flavor and one size, and there Mexican beers, wine and scratch-made will only be one size coffee—no lattes and sangria until 8 p.m. “Our neighbors do no questions,” he notes. “It will be like,

a fine job of providing drinks to people at night,” says Milazzo. “We don’t need to compete with them. I want NanTaco to be a place for people who work in town to go, for people who work in the restaurant industry to get food to go home with. And we will be affordable.”

For Milazzo, part of being a lifestyle brand is about providing meaningful employment to his staff. He describes an open kitchen layout where the cooks are free to interact with the front of the house. Everyone will be provided with “cool uniforms” and upbeat music will be playing throughout.

“We realize we are only as good as the people who are working at our restaurant,” he says. “At The Juice Bar and the Brewery everyone is working hard but still has a huge smile on their face.

It seems to be a very Nantucket thing— it’s just really positive.”

NanTaco’s business plan also includes retro-style taco trailers drawn by vintage cars at Cisco Beach, and even a surf competition hosted by NanTaco and Nantucket Surf Club. “Nick Johnson and I are friends,” Milazzo says. “We are talking about doing something like a ‘Nantucket Nacho Classic’—a surf competition with categories like Best Costume and Worst Dismount. We are not taking ourselves too seriously about any of this. It’s all very light-hearted and fun.”

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TREE HUGGER WRITTEN BY JASON GRAZIADEI

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE

How Dale Gary has saved some of Nantucket’s most historic trees “Have you ever heard a tree speak?” Dale Gary asked me on a recent spring morning.

“No,” I replied.

“I’m the voice,” he said. “You’re the voice.

We have to have a voice to protect these trees.”

For Gary, who has served as the town of Nantucket’s arborist for the past twenty-six years, that mission has become his life’s work. There’s no bigger champion of the island’s trees—especially its population of 170-year-old American elms—than Gary. With his assistant Scott Williams, Gary meticulously cares for more than 1,800 trees around the island, both young and old.

In his eyes, the work is not necessarily measured in hours, days or weeks. He takes the long view when it comes to Nantucket’s trees. “I’m doing what you call the ‘pebble in the pond’ effect,” Gary said. “I’m throwing the pebble, and the ripple of what I’m doing is hopefully going to catch up with your grandkids. I’m the pebble.”

That Gary ended up on Nantucket at all, let alone as the town arborist for nearly three decades, is an improbable tale that began in the Deep South. Born and raised in Rosedale, Mississippi, Gary had never heard of Nantucket.

The small town of roughly two thousand people—known as “The Delta City of Brotherly Love”—is located on the banks of the Mississippi River. Rosedale was immortalized in the lyrics of blues legend Robert Johnson’s song “Traveling

Riverside Blues,” the lyrics of which later made it into Cream’s “Crossroads” and Led Zeppelin’s “The Lemon Song.”

Growing up in Rosedale, Gary had eight siblings—all sisters. “So I had a lot of mothers as I was coming up,” he recalled.

“We didn’t have anything, but I never went hungry. We had everything we needed and hoped to get some of the things we wanted.”

But after high school, Gary found it difficult to find work, at least something he wanted to do. That’s when he got the call from his friend Johnny Beans telling him about some island off Massachusetts called Nantucket where he had a job waiting for him. At first, Gary turned it down, but eventually his friend convinced him.

The year was 1988, and Gary soon found himself on the island working at E.J. Harvey’s restaurant on Pleasant Street.

“Honestly, it was different,” Gary said of his first impressions of Nantucket. “I didn’t have many white friends in Mississippi. To come here, you’re reluctant to build friendships at first because you thought that’s the way things were. You know how they say ‘when you know better, you do better’? I didn’t know any better. But the best move I ever made in my life was moving to Nantucket. It gave me my opportunity.”

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fter a few years at the restaurant, Gary took a position as a mechanic with the Department of Public Works.

While he quickly realized the job wasn’t really what he wanted, it did lead him to cross paths with the man who would ultimately change the trajectory of his life: former Nantucket arborist Roger Geiger.

“I saw him prune one tree, and I knew this was what I wanted to do; I knew this was it,” Gary said. “His specialty was American elms. That is what Nantucket is about—the history of American elms. But when I saw him pruning that maple tree, I knew it was for me. There was no question. It clicked, instantly.” The problem was, at first, that Gary had no experience as an arborist. And his working relationship with Geiger got off to a rocky start. They were in Sconset together pruning trees one morning in the early 1990s when Gary noticed that Geiger was close to hitting the power lines. He started yelling to Geiger to warn him.

“Then he started yelling at me because I was yelling at him,” he recalled. “He was so short-tempered and I was short-tempered at the time. But the next day he came up to me and said, ‘Dude, I like your passion. I want to work with you.’ That’s how it really got started.”

From that point, Gary set out to learn as much as he could about trees and arboriculture. It was, as he described it, “hardcore

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self-studying,” which allowed him to take over the full-time town arborist position from Geiger in the fall of 1995.

“My passion for the job was so strong, I was determined to learn everything I could,” he said. “And I’m still studying. I think it’s worked out well for me and the town. I’ve got a job I like, and the town trees are protected as long as I’m on Nantucket.”

Over the past twenty-six years, Gary said he has waded into numerous “fights” over town trees when a homeowner or business has tried to remove them. One of his very first occurred in 2006 over a

dawn redwood tree located in front of the former Mad Hatter restaurant that was pegged to be cut down following the building’s demolition. Gary, along with tree warden Dave Champoux and numerous community members, said, “No, you’re not going to take it down.”

The resolution was to have the Toscana Corporation mobilize to move the tree with steel girders—in a manner similar to how it moves houses—to its current site along South Beach Street where it still stands today, healthy and thriving.

When he’s not tending to the island’s trees as the town arborist or through his private business, Tree Man Tree Service, Gary is most likely either

fishing for stripers along the beach, gardening or working on his collection of more than thirty chainsaws. He’s been an anchor in the Nantucket-Martha’s Vineyard fishing tournament and has cultivated what he calls a “community garden” at his home on Bartlett Road where he grows and gives away cucumbers, tomatoes, squash and hot peppers so spicy “the devil won’t eat them.”

But his pride and joy is undoubtedly his daughter and only child, Tasheira, who recently graduated from Salem State University with a master’s degree in education. “She’s my world,” Gary said.

“She’s what keeps me going.”

Of all the trees Gary cares for around the island, I was curious to know if he had a favorite. He quickly “The town trees rattled off three American elms that are near and dear to are protected as long him: the large one on Quince Street, another in the back as I’m on Nantucket.” corner of the Academy Hill parking lot and, of course, — Dale Gary the massive elm at Four Corners near Nantucket High School. All of them date back to 1848, he said.

According to Gary, back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Dutch elm disease was a serious problem on the island that resulted in the loss of twenty to twenty-five elms each year. Gary said he has worked hard to suppress the spread of the disease, tending to the island’s elms only between late November through March during the most advantageous time with the least amount of risk to the trees.

“We have to be very careful how we deal with town trees,” Gary said. “If I take a tree down, it’s only because it needs to come down. We’re not going to take it down because someone wants a view or something else.”

(Left) Dale Gary chainsawing a tree that fell in a storm last year; (Above) Gary with his daughter Tasheira who recently graduated from Salem State University with a master’s degree in education

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JULIJA MOSTYKANOVA FEENEY’S UNLIKELY JOURNEY TO THE TOP OF THE ART SCENE

Julija Mostykanova Feeney first came to Nantucket from a tiny village in Lithuania. Now she's one of the island's most sought-after artists.

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hen Julija Mostykanova Feeney first came to Nantucket from her tiny village in Lithuania with nothing but a backpack in the summer of 2001, her plan was to stay just for the high season, then return home and continue studying chemistry at her university. To make ends meet, the twentyyear-old not only shared a room with two other young women in Madaket, but a bed. Then September came, but not her departure. The island had cast its spell. A couple of winters later, Julija (pronounced YOOL-ya) took a painting course at the Artists Association of Nantucket

to meet new people and improve her English. But fate had something different in mind than just a way to fill in the cold, gray months.

“I immediately saw her talent,” says Julija’s first painting teacher at AAN, Katie Trinkle Legge. “She was so modest about her abilities, but it was impossible to hide.” Fast forward to the present. “She’s probably one of our top three bestsellers annually,” says AAN Artistic Director Bobby Frazier. “That’s out of about 120 active artists. She’s a big deal.” Laurie Champion, a keeneyed collector and AAN patron, agrees.

“Ten years from now,” she says, “I would think Julija’s going to be in some major galleries in New York…she’s really astonishing.”

Julija is already represented at both Robert Foster Fine Art on India Street and Nantucket Looms on Main, as well as at Ampersand Interiors in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. And her stock is about to rise further. On July 16th, Julija will be the honoree at AAN’s annual gala at the Great Harbor Yacht Club, “a huge night for avid collectors,” says the organization’s executive director, Courtney Bridges. “Folks plan their trip specifically” to be able to attend the event. It’s an opportunity to speak with the feted artist, raise funds for emerging artists and help sponsor classes, and bid at a live auction on works both by the featured honoree and other high-quality artists—“the island’s best talent all in one place,” as Bridges puts it.

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be bestowed on her. She also is grateful to AAN for supporting her through her career and moving it forward not only through professional workshopping and persistent encouragement but also by dint of the enduring, nurturing friendships and sense of community the organization has afforded her over the years.

“We meet for art critiques, we do birthdays together—it’s just amazing,” she says. Still, she is nervous about the distinction of being this year’s AAN honoree.

“I just don’t like to be the center of attention,” she comments. “It doesn’t feel comfortable when all the looks are at you.”

She is much more comfortable talking about the work itself, how she started out doing very realistic paintings, “very representational,” and how that began to evolve into something more abstracted, looser. “Now I paint just kind of from my memory,” she says, “from my mind. It feels more freeing. You come to the canvas every day, and you don’t know what’s going to happen. You don’t have an apple and a vase in front of you. That, I think, keeps it interesting.

I just love to attack the canvas.” She adds, “I start tons of paintings at the same time. It makes me feel good. My energy for painting is kind of frenetic.”

Robert Foster, principal of Robert Foster Fine Art, remembers well Julija’s apple-and-vase period. When she first started, he says, “she did very traditional kinds of Flemish/Dutch still lifes. Now, twenty years later, she’s mostly known for her abstracts. Abstract work on Nantucket had always been hit or miss, but when Julija jumped in there and did it—very successfully—she paved the way for a lot of other local artists.” Her first AAN painting teacher, Trinkle Legge, agrees, saying “there are developing painters on the island who are now emulating her work.”

In addition to abstracts, much of what Julija turns out these

days are abstracted landscapes. “You can see that there’s a road,” she says, “maybe a suggestion of the beach, the sky.

There’s a horizon line somewhere. I also sometimes paint paintings of my childhood home.” (That home stands about 50 miles from the Baltic Sea; Trinkle Legge recalls that Julija “had a photo of her little brother standing under a tree, and there may have been a house in the background.”)

What connoisseurs see in her works is a feeling of calm, indicates AAN’s director of adult programming, Elizabeth Congdon. “It feels in sync with Nantucket, with wanting peace and tranquility in your life,” she says. “Her

paintings are very healing.” Foster likens looking at her paintings to “sitting and looking at the water at that certain time of day when the blue is just kind of magical.” Frazier, too, says that what resonates is “the sense of peace.”

Julija appreciates the positive reception of her art, but what she prizes at least as much is the knowledge that “when I wake up every day, I can’t wait to go to work. So many people don’t have that.” She credits the island for her good fortune. “Nantucket is such a supportive community both in terms of fellow artists and collectors,” she says. “It would be very hard to be a full-time artist elsewhere.”

To see Julija’s work and that of many other talented island artists, attend the Artists Association of Nantucket annual gala at the Great Harbor Yacht Club on July 16.

Tickets are available at nantucketarts.org.

Seen here in her home studio, Julija Mostykanova Feeney will be this year’s Artists Association of Nantucket honoree at the organization’s annual gala held on July 16th at the Great Harbor Yacht Club.

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JOE AND MARCUS WELCH INVENTED THEIR OWN SOCIAL NETWORK FOR MUSICIANS AND OTHER CREATIVES

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n the summer of 2017, Joe Welch was on Nantucket lamenting to his grandfather, the late Jack Welch, and his wife, Suzy, about a problem he encountered at college. A budding music producer, Joe had arrived at Williams College eager to start collaborating with other musicians, but he found it almost impossible to connect with them on cam-

Then 25 years old, Marcus Welch— who is technically Joe’s step-uncle— had the perfect background to run with Joe’s idea. He had been entrenched in the music industry from an early age.

Throughout high school and college, Marcus hosted his own radio show where he played songs that most listeners would not hear over the airwaves.

pus. There was no readily available network for musicians, songwriters, artists and other creatives to find one another.

So at that dinner on Nantucket, Joe told Jack and Suzy that he was thinking of creating a network of his own, a sort of Facebook or Tinder designed specifically for creators. Loving the idea, Suzy said, “You should really talk to my son Marcus.” So began Quadio, a family business launched by the progeny of one of the most revered names in all of business.

After graduating, he worked in the music division of Twitter, brokering partnerships with big-name musicians such as Erykah Badu and Alicia Keys to get them on the social media platform. With this combination of musical passion and technical know-how, Marcus jumped at Joe’s idea. After many long phone calls and hashing out a business plan, Joe and Marcus quit their jobs and moved into an apartment together in Brooklyn where they launched Quadio.

BANDING TOGETHER WRITTEN BY ROBERT COCUZZO

“The original idea was to create a streaming platform specific for college listeners. It would be a way for artists to create earlier and build their careers earlier.”

— Joe Welch

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he original idea was to create a streaming platform specific for college listeners,” described Joe. “It would be a way for artists to create earlier and build their careers earlier.” Reminiscent of Spotify or Pandora, Quadio would allow unknown college musicians to upload their music to a database where their peers could discover and follow them.

“It would be like SoundCloud for college campuses,” Marcus said. “It was localized to your own area, so you could start your own feed and build a chart.” Joe and Marcus designed the platform so that the more a musician’s song was played, the higher it ranked on the localized chart. Once the song racked up enough plays, it would then graduate to a national chart where it could reach more listeners. Almost as an afterthought, Quadio also included a con-

nect feature, where artists could message one another.

On January 14, 2020, the beta version of Quadio launched. Joe was in Ohio as part of a national college road trip he embarked on with Suzy to start spreading the word about Quadio as well as to learn more about the challenges faced by up-andcoming musicians. Within those first two days, a massive amount of music was uploaded onto the platform. Yet what became most revealing in the ensuing weeks and months was the amount of traffic Quadio’s messaging functionality received. “The feature wasn’t what the app was designed for, but it was getting all the traffic,” Joe said.

In true entrepreneurial fashion, the Welch men pivoted, going back to the drawing board and rebuilding Quadio to be more of a social media app than a streaming service.

As they were rebuilding the app,

the pandemic hit, throwing a host of challenges their way, while also creating new opportunities. “How do we maintain a community amidst a pandemic?” Joe pondered. Their answer was launching virtual songwriting clubs. “That was the silver lining for us,” Joe said. “We realized how much people loved these clubs; now it’s part of what we do.” Along with relaunching the app last October—with a renewed emphasis on its social functionality over streaming— Quadio also formalized its songwriting and production clubs. These clubs served as the seeds of inspiration for Quadio’s latest project called The Quad, what’s essentially a master class in the music and production

singer Dasha. “It feels good to have a team that truly believes in you,” said Dasha, who currently has a million streams online. “Quadio saw this in me and my potential and were there and ready, for lack of better terms, to blow my music up.”

Throughout their company’s evolution, Jack and Suzy were in their corner. “None of this would have come close to happening without them,” said Joe. “The motivation they instilled in us and the belief they had

“[Jack would] be so proud that the boys made the hard decisions to keep it going during the pandemic, that they kept pivoting.”

— Suzy Welch

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industry. And as if that wasn’t ambitious enough, they’ve also launched a record label for which they’re developing and producing talents found on their app like twenty-two-year-old

vast business acumen. “Anytime we had a presentation with our progress, Jack was an amazing resource in pressure testing it,” Marcus said. “He’d ask things like ‘At what time are you turning a profit?’ And tell us to have a super clear mission, making sure that everyone in the company knows that mission and pushes it forward.”

Sadly, Jack Welch passed away before he could see Quadio’s current skyward trajectory. “He’d be blown away,” said Suzy Welch, who

in us really helped keep us going.”

During the pandemic rebuild, the Welch men often spent time headquartered on Nantucket where Jack and Suzy would share their expertise and

also sits on the company’s board of directors. “He’d be so proud that the boys made the hard decisions to keep it going during the pandemic, that they kept pivoting.” She added, “It actually breaks my heart a little to think about this, because I can just imagine Jack hooting and hollering about it all.

That’s the way he was.”

Welch also praised the duo’s decision to bring in a new CEO to Quadio Records, Miranda Martell, who, prior to joining Quadio nearly three years ago, worked for The New York Times and The Foundry. While their staff once numbered in the double digits, they’ve since streamlined their operation to an agile team of five. One significant change has happened recently among the founders: Marcus decided to take a step back from Quadio to help his wife open a boutique home goods store in Brooklyn. He remains on the company’s board and an invaluable resource for Joe as he continues to forge ahead with the vision that started around a dinner table on Nantucket.

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How a Madaket summer resident has made a career of living in the past

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iving in the past is hard work. Just ask Adam Hodges-LeClaire, a Madaket summer resident who has dedicated his life to what’s known as living history. Dressed in authentic eighteenth-century garments that he painstakingly hand-sewed himself, Adam reenacts historical events, teaches the use of Colonial-era tools and guides tours of historical locations all while staying completely in character. While many who participate in living history stow their outfits until the next big event, Adam has made it a full-time career, sailing nearly nine thousand nautical miles aboard a tall ship replica, receiving period-accurate tattoos and now launching his own clothing line specializing in Colonial fashion. This July, Adam will be working in partnership with the Nantucket Historical Association to present the lives of Nantucketers during the Revolutionary War.

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rowing up in Lincoln, Massachusetts, Adam first became hooked on Colonial history at the age of five after he witnessed a battle reenactment at a nearby national park. Firing pretend muskets made of whiffle ball bats in his backyard, Adam eventually convinced his entire family to participate in weekend reenactments.

Local events turned to bigger regional gatherings while Adam learned more skills for bringing the past to life. Soon he was playing in a fife and drum corps ensemble, performing Colonial-era military field music at everything from the first Krispy Kreme franchise in Massachusetts to President George W. Bush’s second inauguration.

For college, Adam shipped off to Scotland, studying history at the University of St Andrews where he says his preconceived notions of history were “blown out of the water” by the European perspective. During the summers, he worked at Fort Ticonderoga, a living history museum in the Adirondacks where he trained in how to make period garments by hand. Today, Adam works for various museums and historical sites around the country as a freelance public historian while also operating his own boutique clothing line—AHL Tailor and Naval Clothier—that specializes in creating handmade period garments for living history museums as well as private clients.

“When you want to depict history to an audience, or whether you want to do it completely alone in the woods without an audience, ideally the clothing needs to be authentic because it needs to function,” Adam explains. “You have to make clothes that function rather than a costume that just depicts the vibe, because if you’re going to put someone next to a cannon who is firing it with black powder, you don’t want to put them in polyester because they are going to light on fire.

Or they would pass out from the heat in a garment that doesn’t breathe.”

Adam’s handmade garments often take weeks to create and fetch anywhere between $400 for a shirt to $800 for a jacket. In true eighteenth-century fashion, Adam is open to trading for his wares. Most recently, he created a shirt and a pair of trousers for a farmer in western New York who paid for the garments with half of a slaughtered pig.

“You can’t really shop off the rack because nobody is making this commercially today as it would have during the period,” Adam explains. “Everything from the fibers we use to make our clothes, to where they’re made, to the fashion that they’re cut in are completely and remarkably different.”

Wearing these garments in public prompts a range of reactions. Depending on whom he’s depicting, Adam has been confused for everything from a pirate to an “altright” Trump supporter. On rare occasions,

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“When you want to depict history to an audience, or whether you want to do it completely alone in the woods without an audience, ideally the clothing needs to be authentic because it needs to function.”

— Adam Hodges-LeClaire

the outfits provoke ridicule and sometimes violence. While attending university in Scotland, Adam went out for drinks with a friend after finishing finals dressed as a revolutionary from France, circa 1789. “I was nearly beaten up by a gang of Belgian teenagers because they thought I was playing a fascist icon of the far right of France,” Adam recounts with a laugh. “It’s funny in retrospect, but again, it shows the power of symbols, the power of toxic political nostalgia as it relates to history. That’s the biggest thing that I need to watch out for professionally.”

Adam’s passion for the past doesn’t end when he hangs up his cocked hat for the day; instead, it bleeds into how he lives his everyday life. Instead of a gym membership, for instance, Adam works up a

sweat by chopping firewood to heat his home. He might have used Tinder to find his wife, Esther, but he made it clear from his profile that his ideal partner would have to be comfortable with weekends spent in 18th century settings. His passion is more about substance than style.

He is committed to educating others about our history, in a way that has more texture than the pages of a textbook.

“Living history is very valuable because it makes the past real for an audience,” Adam says. “You’re expected to touch, to smell, to hear as opposed to just look, as you would in a conventional museum.

And it’s not just for kids; it’s for all humans. Living history allows for a degree of empathy for the topic in a way that’s still critical.”

(Above and below) Adam Hodges-LeClaire aboard the tall ship Hermoine upon which he sailed 8,426 nautical miles as part of a volunteer crew.

This summer, Adam will be working with the Nantucket Historical Association in a living history program exploring how Nantucketers navigated the radicalism and paradoxes presented by the American Revolution. To learn more about Adam and his clothing company, find him on Facebook at AHL Tailor and Naval Clothier.

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Nantucket’s Broken Restaurant Scene

Closures, limited housing and dwindling staff could be a recipe for disaster for restaurants

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he menu of restaurant options on Nantucket this summer continues to dwindle at an alarming rate. To date, six restaurants will not open their doors this season with several others in the balance.

The closures boil down to hundreds of fewer seats per night available to those both living on and visiting the island, a statistic that will certainly leave a bad taste in the mouths of many.

The reasons behind the rash of restaurant closures are varied. Clearly, the labor shortage tops the list of factors behind owners throwing in their chef’s hat, which

has been exacerbated by the workforce housing shortage on the island. The second factor is related to the inexplicable national trend of people leaving the workforce, which has affected service industries most profoundly.

Third is the visa problems that continue to plague the service industry across the country, particularly on islands like Nantucket. Last, there is a phenomenon of restaurant owners simply aging out, who after decades of running a high-stress, low-margin business are simply fried.

Together, this is clearly a recipe for disaster for an island whose economy so deeply depends on the tourist trade.

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Luke Tedeschi has been in the restaurant business on Nantucket for thirty years. The owner of the Gazebo/Tavern, he would never complain about his restaurant being busy but fears that the demand the island will face this summer could exceed the resources Nantucket can provide. “It is going to be a problem and I think people are going to talk about it,” Tedeschi said. “It’s going to be on social media because we don’t have enough infrastructure and service. We don’t have it in our restaurants. We don’t have it in the service industry for how many people visit us. I will definitely say I feel a little bit for the tourists. The visitors are going to have less choices and less places to choose from. There will be longer wait times. They are not going to get the service they deserve for what it is going to cost to come visit here.”

“The visitors are going to have less choices and less places to choose from. There will be longer wait times. They are not going to get the service they deserve for what it is going to cost to come visit here.”

— Luke Tedeschi

Luke Tedeschi

Tedeschi said staff housing has become his bigger concern. He has gone from having forty-five beds in 2019 to eighteen beds this year. A majority of his beds were lost after one of the buildings was sold this past year during the island’s most hectic real estate year to date, eclipsing $2.3 billion in sales. Tedeschi said he has considered shipping staff to and from the island to combat this loss of housing. “What you can pay to rent a place here you can probably pay to buy something on the other side,” Tedeschi said. “I have already coined it the fireman shift.

You come on-island, work all night and all the next morning, and then the next crew comes on opposite of you. I could keep a rotating crew. They stay in the housing that I have here and the other half are over there. It would be a constant flow of people. It isn’t out of the question.”

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Recently purchased by the Blue Flag Partners,The Pearl and The Boarding House will not be open this summer for the first time in 31 years.

To make matters worse, there will be fewer dining options after some notable restaurants announced they will not reopen this summer.

Lola Burger was sold for $2.9 million in April. Fifty-Six Union closed after twenty-two years serving the island. The Pearl and The Boarding House will not reopen this summer, although the expectation is that they will reopen in the summer of 2023. Keepers Restaurant abruptly closed its doors in May. Faregrounds, for now, will be open this summer, but the business has been put up for sale with longtime owners Bill and Kim Puder eyeing retirement.

Kari Harvey’s family owns the Nantucket SeaGrille, which is entering its thirty-first year. The restaurant opened when Harvey was five.

She has been working there since she was thirteen. Harvey, who is now the SeaGrille’s manager, called the state of the island’s restaurant scene “wild” and believes the closures of The Boarding House and The Pearl are a huge loss for the island. “It is going to be insane, and while it may sound silly to say losing those two restaurants will be a huge loss, it forces more people to scramble to find a place to go,” Harvey said. “People can get pretty aggressive and upset too simply because they can’t get into places because there is a lack of these restaurants these days.”

Harvey said the island fever has become so hot that they have even begun receiving the occasional phone calls in April and May from parties looking to book reservations for Christmas Stroll. “I have to stop and ask them to be sure that they aren’t talking about Memori-

al Day weekend,” she said. “The demand is crazy. Even in the shoulder seasons we will have groups of people waiting to get seats at the bar. There just isn’t as much of an offseason anymore. September and October of last year were wild. Staffing at restaurants across the island continues to become a bigger and bigger problem as we get more and more busy.”

Debba Pitcock, the general manager of The Rose & Crown since 1990, can speak to the demand for reservations on the island. Even though they do not take reservations, they still deal with requests. “Every day we get people calling. Every single day,” she said. “We get people calling for a party of six, party of eight. The amount of time I would waste on tables being empty waiting on people to come, it doesn’t make sense to me.”

Slip 14 takes reservations thirty days out. Brennen Connor and Timmy Farley, Slip 14’s general managers,

said that they can peak at 180-200 reservations per night in July and August with wait lists that run as long as 130-140 reservations deep. “You have to prepare for battle every day whether it is Tuesday or Saturday. It doesn’t matter because every day is Saturday here,” Connor said. “It’s fun but not easy.”

Farley said another issue is tourists who book more than one reservation per night. “We get a lot of people who may book multiple reservations on the same night at different restaurants because of the demand, which can be frustrating because it isn’t very fair to the restaurants who are preserving that table,” he said. “If people cancel, we can fill it right

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back up with last-minute parties, but it can be an inconvenience.”

Michael Getter began working as a chef on Nantucket for 21 Federal in 1990.

He went on to open Dune in 2009, where he is the owner and head chef. Getter has his own concerns for the summer, but for different reasons. “I am in good shape for staff housing. The issue for me is there are no people looking for work who are qualified or skilled,” he said. “The labor pool for cooks in particular is pretty much nonexistent. It has been a trend in the culinary world over the past five years. There are no kids from the culinary schools looking to do

externships on Nantucket anymore. The resumes we are getting are just really low-end, fast-food resumes.”

Getter said he has more than thirty Craigslist ads running throughout the country and five online ads on culinary recruiting websites. He said the listings make it clear he provides housing with signing bonuses and additional bonuses throughout the year. “The work is too hard and pay is too low,” he said. “Today’s generation, kids aren’t into it.” Getter said this chef shortage may force him to close once per week to provide relief to his staff. “You only have a short period of

time to make your money for the winter so if myself or anyone else has to close for a day, that is a big problem,” he said. “I am definitely concerned about that.”

When they are open, Getter isn’t worried about being overwhelmed.

“Restaurants can only do what restaurants can do,” he said. “Last year was the busiest year we had. You can only do so

“I do think getting reservations on the island will become a problem, but we can only do what we can do.”

— Chef Michael Getter

The popular mid-island eatery Keepers closed unexpectedly earlier this summer.

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many dinners in July or August. You only have so many seats. When it comes to losing places like Pearl and the Boarding House, yeah, there are going to be more people looking for places to go, but maybe they will take the 5:30 or 10 o’clock reservation because there is nowhere else to go. I do think getting reservations on the island will become a problem, but we can only do what we can do.”

Farley and Connor said Slip 14 has had similar challenges to Getter when it comes to chefs. They said they have a full staff up front of waiters and servers, and while they entered the summer with two

open beds reserved for chefs and/or kitchen staff they hope will walk through the door, they are hopeful they can still open all seven nights and six days of the week after being forced to close for two nights and two days last summer. “A lot of our resumes are older chefs who have been doing it for a long time,” Farley said. “If we had kids coming out of culinary school, we could bring them in on a three- or four-

about that as well as he is.”

“Food costs are going way up and I had to choke when I wrote my menu this year,” Tedeschi said. “But I did it on percentages and so they always say numbers don’t lie.

Lola Burger closed its doors this spring after selling the property Keepers owners Gaven and Sabrina Norton closed their popular mid-island restaurant Keepers

year plan and they could grow with us. We want to bring in younger people who will be around for a long time and can build with us.”

Farley said another potential obstacle for restaurants to overcome is the return of large parties. “We have had a lot of large party requests,” he said. “Last year it had to be a party of six or split up. They were also less common because maybe with some lingering COVID concerns, people were traveling in smaller groups. This year we are getting calls about coming in with thirty people for lunch. We don’t take reservations for lunch but try to figure it out.”

Pitcock and Tedeschi both expressed concerns about food costs as well. They both said that they had no choice but to raise their costs in order to operate and warned people to be prepared for changes. “I am concerned that the pricing could scare people away but we aren’t being greedy,” Pitcock said. “We are being operators who have to operate their business in a certain manner. Luke and I are kind of in the same price point and clientele base so I am concerned

If you don’t adjust your menu to rising food costs, you’re going to be running in the red. There are going to be some shocking menu prices out there.”

The signs were already there that people were preparing to flock to the island in high quantities. Harvey spoke to the fact that their phone was ringing off the hook with summer regulars and other tourists calling ahead to book out tables for each of their scheduled summer trips to the island. The Steamship Authority is booked through August and has so little room available that UPS is shipping trucks over on a barge after failing to lock up their reservations in a timely manner this winter. All six of these restaurant managers and/ or owners agree that last year was the busiest summer they have experienced and don’t see an end in sight, so could this summer be busier? “I don’t know how much busier it could possibly get than it was last year,” Harvey said. “But I have also been saying that since 2019 so who knows. We will have to wait and see, but I’d buckle up. It is going to be a wild few months.”

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For the last twenty years, N Magazine has counted on Nantucket to provide an endless number of captivating stories to fill our pages. More than 120 issues later, the depth of content sourced from this magical island continues to keep this publication inspired. Whether profiling year-round residents or those seasonal folks drawn to the island during the summer months, there has been no shortage of dynamic thinkers, star athletes, devoted public servants and a colorful cast of characters. To commemorate N Magazine’s Platinum Anniversary, we’ve distilled down our archives into a statistical summary.

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SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS From Julian Edelman to Rob Gronkowski to Malcolm Mitchell to Matt Light, N Magazine has covered some of the biggest breakout stars of the New England Patriots’ Super Bowl dynasty. But no story drew the kind of national attention that longtime Sconset resident Bill Belichick and his partner, Linda Holliday, received when they appeared on the cover of the July 2017 issue. Three years in the making, the Belichick-Holliday cover story gave readers a rare glimpse into the private life of one of the most legendary figures in all of sports. Contrary to what most might think of the notoriously no-nonsense coach, Belichick showed his lighter side during the interview when asked whether his generous salary was substantial enough to afford food at the Sconset Market, which prompted a belly laugh. Holliday and Belichick discussed their life outside of football, particularly the mission of the Belichick Foundation, which has helped a number of students on Nantucket. The resulting cover story went viral, appearing in magazines and newspapers, on television, and over the radio waves as sports talk fodder. A few years later, Belichick’s son and Patriots defensive coordinator Steve and his wife Jennifer kept the family tradition alive by appearing on the August cover.

U.S. PRESIDENT Minutes after Joe Biden was confirmed as president of the United States, N Magazine revealed its November cover featuring him as the president-elect, quite possibly the first publication to do so in the country. The perfect timing was the result of several years of communicating with Biden’s team during which time N Magazine ultimately negotiated the rights to reprint an excerpt of Biden’s memoir, Promise Me, Dad, in which he writes about his family’s longtime love for the island where they’ve been spending Thanksgiving for more than forty years.

PHILANTHROPISTS From Gordon Gund’s quest to cure blindness to John Johnson’s supporting the island’s performing arts, N Magazine’s cover stories have featured some of the country’s most inspiring philanthropists. Yet few have made the kind of impact on the island as ReMain founder Wendy Schmidt and her husband, Eric, who appeared on the cover of our July 2021 issue—making it the first time the couple had ever appeared on a magazine cover together.

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ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS Movie stars are nothing new to Nantucket, but occasionally some real blockbusters show up. Such was the case when Ron Howard came to the island to promote his film adaptation of Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Heart of the Sea. The Academy Award-winning director granted N Magazine an in-person interview discussing how he brought Philbrick’s words to the big screen. Howard was the second Oscar-winner featured in N’s pages after actress Olympia Dukakis.

GRAMMY AWARD WINNERS Nantucket has proven to be surprisingly fertile ground for launching music careers. Look no further than Brynn Cartelli, who appeared on our cover after winning NBC’s The Voice at the age of fifteen after she was discovered on Nantucket while performing at Jetties Beach.

But when it comes to breakout Nantucket musical talent, Meghan Trainor takes the cake. Born and raised on Nantucket, Trainor shot to stardom with her single “All About That Bass,” which earned her Grammy nominations for best song and best record and a Grammy win for best new artist. Though she now lives in California with her family—including her father Gary whom N Magazine profiled in 2018—Meghan remains connected to her island home, appearing on the cover of our truly sweet May 2015 issue.

U.S. AMBASSADORS Nantucket might just be a small island off the coast of Massachusetts, but it has a global voice by way of several U.S. Ambassadors who have made it their summer retreat. N Magazine has profiled virtually all of these ambassadors on Nantucket, from the steward of “the special relationship” Louis Susman to the sitting chief of protocol, Rufus Gifford. Other notable ambassadors with Nantucket ties profiled in our pages include Matt Barzun, Elizabeth Bagley, James Nicholson, Nancy Soderberg, Timothy Broas and most recently, Vicki Kennedy who is serving as Ambassador to Austria in the Biden administration.

HOLLYWOOD STARS N Magazine made its official debut twenty years ago featuring two of its most beloved actors, the late Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. Since then, we’ve featured a half dozen Hollywood actors on our covers, from Michael Douglas to Robert DeNiro to Eric Dane to Nantucket’s own Skyler Wright—not once, but twice! In 2015, in a fitting full-circle moment, Ben Stiller, the son of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, graced the cover of N Magazine to mark the 20th anniversary of the Nantucket Film Festival. When asked why he’d remained so devoted to the festival since its founding in 1995, Stiller claimed in our interview: “They have some very damaging photos of me making out with my cousin behind the Chicken Box back in 1980.”

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U.S. SENATORS From Ed Markey to Scott Brown to Bill Frist to Chris Dodd to the late Harris Wofford and Ted Kennedy, N Magazine has interviewed U.S. senators on both sides of the aisle. Yet perhaps the most notable of those interviews was with then-Senator John Kerry who had just announced his 2004 presidential bid when he spoke to N Magazine, making it some of his first public comments and the first cover he appeared on as a presidential candidate in the country.

U.S. REPRESENTATIVES From Joe Kennedy III, to Bill Keating, to Dylan Fernandes, to Ben Barnes, N Magazine has gotten an exclusive look inside the House Chambers on a number of occasions over the last twenty years. With each of these interviews, N Magazine has tried to ask the hard questions that impact our readers and the country as a whole.

OLYMPIANS A surprising number of Olympians call Nantucket their summer retreat and N Magazine has profiled most of them over the last twenty years. From fencer Jed Dupree and figure skating champions Dorothy Hamill and John Misha Petkevich to hockey gold medalist A.J. Mleczko and rower Lyman Perry, Nantucket has been well represented on the world stage. Most recently, gymnastics gold medalist Aly Raisman graced our July 2019 cover in honor of her appearance speaking for A Safe Place.

GOVERNOR While enjoying the highest approval rating in the country, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker appeared on the cover of the July 2016 issue. The press must have earned some favor from the governor’s office because the following year Governor Baker officially made July 21, 2017, N Magazine Day in Massachusetts. Lt. Governor Karyn Polito, who was also profiled in the magazine that same year, made the declaration at N Magazine’s fifteenth anniversary party.

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NEWSCASTERS Nantucket has never been far from the anchor desk as media personalities flock to the island in droves come mid-summer.

Along with local stars such as Natalie Jacobson, Heather Unruh and Sara Underwood, we’ve covered many national news personalities, including David Gregory, Brian Williams, Chris Matthews, Katie Couric, John King, Jim Acosta, Leslie Stahl, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough. In this issue, we’ve added to our list by interviewing breakout CNN star Kaitlan Collins, which can be read on page 136 in this issue.

WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, N Magazine featured an exclusive interview with former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card who was by President George W. Bush’s side throughout the day of the attacks and the many long days that followed. The riveting issue featured in last year’s September issue took readers inside the inner sanctum of the White House during a period that redefined American history.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS Thanks in large part to the Nantucket Book Festival, which celebrated its ten-year anniversary last month, Nantucket consistently hosts some of the most gifted literary talents in the world.

We’ve featured a number of these authors on our covers, including off-islanders such as Sebastian Junger and Dennis Lehane.

But many more of our bestselling cover stars have been found in our own backyard, from the late David Halberstam, to Suzy Welch, to Nathaniel Philbrick, to Elin Hilderbrand.

ASTRONAUT N Magazine is constantly on the hunt for out-of-this-world stories. In July 2018 we landed just that when interviewing NASA astronaut Drew Feustel while he was orbiting the earth as part of a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. “We can easily see Nantucket from space,” Feustel said while soaring 250 miles over the globe. “It looks like a great place to visit! A nice little slice of heaven off the eastern coast.” After Feustel returned from space, he shared his adventures with a live audience at the Dreamland in an event sponsored by N Magazine.

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How John Esposito went from record store clerk to music industry rock star

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The year was 1993, and he was sitting in the legendary Twenty-One Club in Manhattan.

Through plumes of smoke, holding court at the head of the table, was none other than Ol’ Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra. “Alright, play it cool,” Esposito told himself, as he approached the music icon. He’d learned long ago that slobbering over stars never got you anywhere.

It was best to talk about their work. “In the Wee Small Hours is my favorite album of all time,” Esposito gushed to Sinatra, after introducing himself. The crooner’s eyes lit up. A genuine smile spread across his face. How the hell did I get here? Esposito thought. It wouldn’t be the last time he would ask himself that question.

Nearly forty years later, John Esposito, or “Espo” as most friends call him, is hanging in his backyard clubhouse on Nantucket, a three-hundred-square-foot prefab shed on his property equipped with a dart board, a wet bar and a sound system. He’s dubbed the hangout the Eat Fire Spring Yacht Club where there’s only one rule: Whoever wins at darts gets to pick the next song for the sound system. At this point in his career, Esposito has a lot of songs to choose from. He’s charted a star-studded career in music that has crossed multiple genres, from rock and roll to rap to his latest fixation, country, as the chair and CEO of Warner Music Nashville.

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had no idea that my passion for music would lead me to becoming head of a record label,” Esposito said. Growing up in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, he sang in the choir at his Catholic church and felt an immediate connection to music. His father introduced him to Sinatra early on, but the real watershed moment came on February 9, 1964, when four shaggy-haired Brits in matching suits appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. “My life changed when I first saw the Beatles,” Esposito said. “From then on, I couldn’t get enough rock and roll.” Led Zeppelin.

Crosby Stills & Nash. The Doors.

He collected albums with abandon. By the sixth grade, he started playing the guitar, mostly, as he says, to sing “silly love songs to woo the gals.” He also learned

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Esposito became a student of music, not so much of music theory, but musicology. He emerged an expert on bands from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s—not just rock and roll, but jazz and other standards.

Yet music was just a passion; he

While making his way for an interview at a PBS station in Washington D.C., he spotted a HELP WANTED sign in the window of a record store. He was growing concerned that if he didn’t get hired for a job in journalism, he would soon be forced to move back home. So Esposi-

“What I realized with my musicianship is that I can speak a language that a lot of people who work in this business do not.”

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never dreamed of entering the industry professionally. Instead, Esposito graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a journalism degree and set off hellbent on breaking into the news industry. Then fate swooped in.

to took the position at the record store to make ends meet. On his second day on the job, he was putting away vinyl albums when the regional manager happened into the store. He studied Esposito’s resume and asked, “What the

hell are you doing here?” Esposito said he was just trying to pay the bills. “Well, follow me,” the manager said, “I’ll train you to run record stores.” And just like that, Espo got his start in the record business.

Charismatic and erudite, Esposito proved to be a natural in business. Soon he was running a number of record stores at once.

Promotions kept coming. Then entering the ’80s, a headhunter called him out of the blue asking if he’d be interested in interviewing at the buyers department at Macy’s. He took the interview and they offered him the position, which effectively doubled his salary. Macy’s finetuned Esposito’s business acumen until another big-name company came knocking. Mitsubishi offered to triple his salary to run their sales operation on the East Coast. He took the gig. “I was being amply compensated, but I was bored out of my gourd,” Esposito recalled.

His first love of music was calling him back.

“My life has been a bunch of forks in the road, and like Yogi Berra said, ‘I took it,’” Esposito said. Seeking to leave his role at Mitsubishi to reenter the music business, he called up his biggest retailer, Nobody Beats the Wiz (also known as The Wiz), and asked if they would introduce him to people in the industry.

They offered him a job as chief operating officer of music and movies instead. Within two years of working at The Wiz, Esposito was pursued by Sony Music, EMI and PolyGram. The senior executive from PolyGram, a Nantucket summer resident named John Madison, ultimately convinced him to join their ranks. So began the pinch-me

journey he’s been on ever since.

“What I realized with my musicianship is that I can speak a language that a lot of people who work in this business do not,” he explained. “I can go backstage

with artists and put in layman’s language how they could be more successful. Musicians have that crazy gene that intrigues the hell out of me. When artists realize that you’re passionate about their work, it becomes inspiring to them.”

Along with becoming a hugely successful music executive, Esposito has lived experiences most people couldn’t dream up. There was that one time, while serving as the founding general manger and executive vice president of The Island Def Jam Music Group, he and rapper Jay-Z took a helicopter to make an unannounced visit to one of their retailers.

He and the rapper burst through the doors of Transworld to hand-deliver a sneak preview of Jay-Z’s next album.

For the last thirteen years, Esposito has been working on the polar opposite end of the music industry.

In September 2009, he was enlisted as the first president of Warner Music Nashville (WMN), a label handling all (Left and above) Espo's Nasville office of Warner’s country acts. When he “Musicians arrived, WMN have that crazy was struggling. gene that One of the first intrigues the artists Esposito hell out of me.” met with was a — John Esposito “cowboy-hat-mul-

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let-wearing” musician named Blake Shelton. Esposito built WMN around Shelton, giving him the clout to pull in other country giants like Kenny Chesney and successfully quadrupling the label’s market share over the course of a decade.

“The other thrill we get in this business, if you have a heartbeat, is finding the unknown talent,” Esposito said, “when your ears and your gut tell you that a person is going to be a household name.” One such example was the signing of Dan + Shay, which would help propel the label’s market share by 20 percent. The following year, he found similar success in signing Gabby Barrett, whose first single went quadruple platinum. Indeed, since taking over WMN, Esposito has helped propel more than sixty-five singles to the top of the charts, garnering a slew of awards.

“Nantucket is my relief,” Esposito said. “We live here for three months every year.” During the pandemic, he and his wife and daughter lived on the island full time. They have since returned to their nine-months-in-Nashville, threemonths-on-Nantucket schedule, but Esposito plans to retire on the island once the music stops. After years of renting in the ’90s, Esposito bought his property in Squam twenty-two years ago, sight unseen. He said it turned out to be one of the best decisions in his life—which says a lot, considering John Esposito has clearly made a lot of good ones.

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In the fashion industry, the trajectory was decidedly downward. With people resorting to wearing sweatpants and T-shirts while working for home, fashion sales cratered by 79 percent. One company to defy this trend was Hill House Home, a home goods turned fashion brand that proved tailor-made for the moment. The success is a credit to its founder, lifelong summer resident Nell Diamond, who is continuing her company’s growth this summer by opening a location on Main Street.

The genesis of Hill House Home was circuitous. Fresh out of Princeton, Nell Diamond followed her father’s footsteps into finance.

Bob Diamond was the CEO of Barclays, but Nell set out to make it on her own. After passing the required regulatory exams, she landed on a trading desk where, along with developing her quantitative skills, she watched brands grow and proliferate in the market. Nell gradually realized that she didn’t feel the same pull her father had for the financial sector and regularly caught herself daydreaming about creating her own brand like the ones she tracked in the market. After three years, she abandoned the trading desk, enrolled in Yale School of Management and began developing Hill House Home, which would later grab headlines for selling $1 million in dresses in just twelve minutes. Today, Hill House Home is one of the hottest direct-to-consumer brands in the country.

Growing up between London and Tokyo where her father was stationed for work, Nell always considered Nantucket her home in the United States.

Her grandfather moved his family of eleven permanently to the island after Bob Diamond went off to college, and became the principal at Nantucket High

School. The Diamonds sewed deep roots on Nantucket, including with restaurants like A.K. Diamonds and Arno’s, both of which were owned and operated by Nell’s uncles. “It’s incredibly emotional,” Nell said of opening her retail location right beside the former space of her uncle’s restaurant on Main Street. “My brother’s first job was as a busboy at Arno’s.

My grandfather’s buried on the island. And I have so many aunts and cousins there. Nantucket is home for me.” Indeed, Nell named her company Hill House Home after her parents’ home on the island.

Opening a location on Nantucket marks a high point of the upward trajectory Hill House Home has been on since its launch in 2016. It’s been an unlikely journey. Nell had no formal background in home goods or fashion when she started hatching a business plan for a female-focused, English garden-inspired home goods company that would specialize in bedding.

“I always joke that I’m kind of an accidental entrepreneur,” Nell said. “Because I am very risk averse, and being an entrepreneur is inherently risky, but I couldn’t get this idea of creating a brand for this next generation out of my mind.”

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She became synonymous with her brand and the engine driving Hill House Home’s marketing.

As her bedding and other home goods began gaining traction, Nell started plotting a pivot into the clothing sector.

“I’ve always been a dress girl,” Nell said. “I wanted a dress that I could do everything in. A dress that I could wake up at 6:30 with the kids, get them off to school, then head to the office and have a Zoom with investors, and then go meet my friends for drinks with a change of shoes and jewelry.” Enter the Nap Dress, an all-purpose garment comfortable enough to sleep in but stylish enough to wear for every occasion. As Hill House Home’s first foray into the fashion space, Nell and her team were unsure how their customers would respond. Within fifteen minutes of launching online in 2021, $1 million worth of Nap dresses were purchased. Two hours later, the entire inventory was gone. Nell has since trademarked the Nap Dress and turned it into the cornerstone of Hill House Home’s offering, with a vast array of different styles that are almost impossible to keep in stock. Other major fashion labels have since tried to make their own versions, but Nell’s Nap Dress continues to reign supreme.

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ill House Home was soaring when the pandemic hit. Like all business owners, Nell had no idea what a potential shutdown would mean for her fledgling company. Making matters all the more precarious was the fact that she had just given birth to twins. While the pandemic prompted a nearly 80 percent drop in clothing sales, Hill House Home seemed custom-made for the pandemic. “We ended up having a tremendous amount of growth during COVID,” Nell said. The Nap Dress became, as Fast Company dubbed it, the “pandemic uniform” for tens of thousands of women. Unlike companies like Peloton, which has experienced a stark post-pandemic downturn, Hill House Home only continues to thrive.

Nell has become the darling of the fashion industry, written up in everything from Vogue to The New York Times. Yet opening her space on Nantucket might just be the greatest sign of her success, at least in her family’s eyes.

“We have some exclusive styles coming to Nantucket,” Nell said excitedly of her space on 33 Main Street. “We have a few dresses that you will only be able to get on Nantucket—we made these amazing sewnin labels that say Nantucket 2022 and are in the shape of a quarter board.”

Much like her home on Nantucket, Nell views Hill House Home as an indelible part of her identity, a company she never envisions selling. “I’m definitely one of those idealistic entrepreneurs,” shesaid.“This is my heart and soul. I can’t imagine doing anything else. I definitely want to be doing this forever.”

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PRESSING MATTERS INTERVIEW BY ROBERT COCUZZO

A conversation with CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins

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t just twenty-eight years old, Kaitlan Collins became the youngest chief White House correspondent in the history of CNN. Her promotion in January 2021 came after four years of covering the Trump White House, during which time she gained a reputation for not only targeting pointed questions at the commander-in-chief, but often becoming a target herself in the process. Though constantly on the move—checking in with sources, reporting the events of the White House, attending press briefings and traveling with the president aboard Air Force One—Collins has found reprieve on Nantucket. While vacationing on the island during this past Memorial Day weekend, Collins spoke to N Magazine about her skyrocketing career at CNN, the future of cable news and what Wolf Blitzer is actually like when the cameras turn off.

While covering the Trump administration, you gained a reputation for consistently asking the president some pretty tough questions. Knowing his base and how fervent it can be, did you ever worry about your own safety?

I’m sure you received a lot of inbound messages on social media. How did you compartmentalize that harassment from just trying to do your job?

Social media was the worst. When you are in the media and you are this prominent figure, people think that they can speak to you however I never worried about my own safety, but there were they want. They think it’s anonymous, or that it times where you realized that other people were wordoesn’t bother you, or that you don’t pay attenried about it. When we went to Trump rallies, we would tion. Of course, everyone sees those comments or have to take security with us because there were those the emails or the tweets or Instagram messages. It moments during the rallies where we were technicalwas something I really had to ly in a cordoned-off area for the learn to deal with. Because I’d press, but the rally goers were never experienced it until I was right there. Always during those in this position. I really just had moments in his speeches when to develop a tough skin, be able he would do the “CNN sucks” to ignore the comments and unchants, or just be critical of the derstand that regardless of what media at large, the crowd would people are tweeting or criticizall turn to us and start yelling ing, it’s all politics. I also do and chanting. You’re at the centhink being a woman, being in ter of all of these people’s attenthe media, being on television, tion. Sometimes they were huge only compounded the issue and rallies with ten thousand, twenCollins with Wolf Blitzer on the made it worse. ty thousand people. So it was a set of The Situation Room little unsettling in that sense.

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One of those interactions with the president resulted in you being “banned” from a White House event. What was it like being thrust into the center of the story like that?

What’s going through your mind when you’re preparing to ask a question to the most powerful person on the planet?

Everyone gets a little nervous. You understand that at that moment you’re asking the president of the United States a question. The best way to go into that is to be just fully prepared and to know what you’re talking about, know your subject area, have a few follow-up questions that you just know off the top of your head. Because sometimes in these moments with Trump, it wasn’t just that you were asking questions and seeking answers; often he would turn it back around on you and cause an argument to prove his claim that the media treated him unfairly.

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It was uncomfortable because it was the first time that had really happened to me. It was also really unexpected. When they banned me, I actually had no idea that my questions from earlier in the day had irritated him so much, so I was caught off guard by it. I remember thinking, How should I handle this? I called our bureau chief and my editor because we were always very hesitant about making ourselves the story. But they pointed out to me, “It’s not just about us. It was about a greater question of press access.” If they don’t like the questions you asked, don’t answer them. But to ban you for asking them, it’s such a really bad precedent. That’s why we felt it was important to say that publicly.

During that episode, you gained the support of the press corps, including those at Fox News. What is it like behind the scenes within the White House press pool?

Is it competitive, divided along network lines, or is there camaraderie?

People have the misconception that it’s crazy competitive in the press corps, that it’s sharp elbows and no one’s friendly. Really, it’s not competitive; it’s camaraderie, because you go through the same things as these people every day. You’re in the briefing room, you’re waiting for the president, you’re covering the same issues. You’re going on the same foreign trips overseas. And it develops this bond between you because you’re all reporters. Yes, you’re naturally competitive because you want to get a scoop or the question that everyone wants to ask, but at the end of the day, it’s more camaraderie than competitiveness.

What’s it like traveling with the president on Air Force One? It’s so overwhelming, but it’s so cool.

You’re just sitting there thinking, I can’t believe this is my job. I’ll never forget the first time I went with President Trump on Air Force One. He was going to New York for a fundraiser.

It was incredible. They had these little placards with your name on them when you sit down in your seat. The staff on Air Force One is amazing. But then we landed and took a helicopter to the Wall Street landing zone with the president of the United States. Then we got into the motorcade and were driving down the streets of New York where there’s no traffic. They blocked the streets off and we’re in the motorcade flying down Fifth Avenue going the wrong direction because there’s no traffic. There were all these crowds lining the streets to see the presidential motorcade. It’s something that no one else will ever experience. No one else is ever going to be in a car with no traffic going the wrong way down Fifth Avenue. And so it’s just really cool.

You had one particularly contentious interaction with Biden, after which he subsequently apologized to you personally. What have you learned about Biden from your interactions with him?

That was a really telling moment. I think that it shows that any president can get irritated with your questioning.

I think it shows that you should have tough questions for any president, not just Trump, not just Biden; both presidents should face tough questions because of their office. But it did stand out that he apologized after that interaction. He didn’t need to apologize; he’s the president of the United States.

I’m just asking questions that he can respond to however he chooses. But I do think it was nice that he apologized.

We think of the cable news landscape as aligned along the political spectrum, with Fox on the right, MSNBC on the left, and then CNN leaning somewhere to the left. Is there an effort within the ranks of CNN to move closer to the center and cast a bigger net for an audience? Or is it the nature of cable news to play to your base?

I can really only speak from my view, but I think it’s important to appeal to all audiences, not just certain people who vote one color on election day.

During times of crisis, whether it’s COVID or war in Ukraine, ratings on CNN soar. Some have called CNN the “Crisis News Network.” How does a network like that remain viable during “peace times”?

We didn’t just wake up and start covering Ukraine the day that Russia invaded. We’ve had this incredible team of reporters who have covered Ukraine for years, who have been on the ground since 2014. So when people do decide to watch CNN and see what’s going

“When they banned me, I actually had no idea that my questions from earlier in the day had irritated him so much, so I was caught off guard by it. I remember thinking, How should I handle this? ... because we were always very hesitant about making ourselves the story.”

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I’m from the Deep South and I grew up around a lot of Republican voters, now Trump voters and Trump supporters. I still think it’s important for everyone to hear the news. Moments like what happened in Ukraine, moments like the COVID-19 pandemic, are moments where it is not a political story. It became political, obviously, but it’s not a political story because everyone has a vested interest in what’s happening.

They want to be able to turn on the news and know that what they’re getting is from straightforward, credible anchors and reporters. And I think it’s really important to have that credibility with your audience, regardless of whether or not they always love everything you’re saying. That’s what I work for every day. I really want to strive to have that credibility. I think you just have to deliver the news, and regardless of how the audience responds to it, the news is still the news and it doesn’t change because someone likes it or doesn’t like it, or turns the channel.

on, they’re seeing a team who has been working on this for years. Regardless of whether it’s a moment where everyone is tuning in and watching—whether it’s election night, Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic—your job is to do the work every single day.

You said earlier that CNN never wants to become the story, but there have been instances recently, such as the firing of Chris Cuomo or the resignation of CEO Jeff Zucker, where the network has become the story. What have you learned about CNN in going through those controversies?

Those moments exist, but they are so above most of the reporters’ pay grades that it really isn’t something that we focus on. You watch what’s going on when moments like that happen, but meanwhile, I still have to go to the press briefing that day, I still have to go see Biden at the Oval Office, I

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still have to deliver a report on Wolf Blitzer’s show at 6 p.m. about what’s been going on in the White House. I totally understand that there are those moments, but they’re so far above my pay grade that it is just not something that takes up a lot of oxygen.

Every anchor at CNN has a mystique about them. Is there something that our readers would be surprised to learn about someone like Anderson Cooper or Wolf Blitzer or Jake Tapper?

Wolf is the nicest famous person you will ever meet in your entire life. He will take time to stop and talk to every single person he meets. One time a friend of mine was on the train with him and they texted me, “Hey, Wolf Blitzer’s on my train.” And I texted back: “Go say hi and tell him you know me.” Thirty minutes pass and I haven’t

heard anything. Then I get a text from my friend of Wolf Blitzer’s business card with his cell phone number written on it. He’s a really warm, loving, thoughtful person.

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What was the most challenging day you’ve had on the job so far?

There are a lot of challenging days, so it’s hard to narrow it down. There have been really sad moments and awful moments where you’re covering things like what we’re seeing right now in Uvalde, Texas, or the Afghanistan withdrawal when the Marines were killed in the suicide blast attack.

Those are really tough moments to cover because they’re not just straightforward; they’re personal and emotional. Then there have also been moments where you’re just exhausted. Like on election day in “Regardless of how the 2020. We had a audience responds to it, the news Trump rally in Wisis still the news and it doesn’t consin. We wake up change because someone likes it at 4 a.m., fly back or doesn’t like it.” to Washington, go straight to the White — Kaitlan Collins House and you’re on air until 2 a.m.

You have moments like that. You have moments like when Trump got COVID. I’ll never forget that night for my entire life. He tested positive, but he tweeted it right at 1 a.m. We had just gone off the air. Everyone’s racing back to get into place because it’s this huge moment where the president’s health is threatened and no one knew what was going to happen. I got home at 6 a.m. that day. I climbed the stairs in my apartment. I remember I laid down in bed and I wasn’t even tired because I was so wound up from being on and talking to sources and finding out what was going on. So you just have moments like that when you see things that no one else sees.

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AMERICAN HERO

INTERVIEW BY BRUCE A. PERCELAY

PORTRAITS BY NICK MELE

Lessons from the real Army Ranger who inspired Black Hawk Down

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etired First Sergeant Matt Eversmann was a soldier’s soldier. On October 3, 1993, Eversmann was placed in charge of a group of Army Rangers to lead a daytime raid to capture warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid in Mogadishu, Somalia. Eversmann and his men found themselves outgunned and outmanned in a deadly raid that was depicted in the epic film Black Hawk Down. Portrayed by actor Josh Hartnett in the movie, Eversmann received the Bronze Star Medal with Valor for his inspiring act of bravery and survival, which elevated him to hero status in the military and beyond. Eversmann later deployed to Iraq where he spent fifteen months during the Surge of 2007 and remained on active duty until 2008.

Eversmann has taught at Johns Hopkins University and the Army War College and authored the book Walk in My Combat Boots with James Patterson. Eversmann currently works as a motivational speaker and, along with his wife Tori, founded Eversmann Advisory, which helps other veterans adjust to life after service. Matt and Tori are longtime summer residents in Sconset and frequent visitors to the island with their daughter.

Let’s briefly talk about your high school and college experiences. Because when you look at your whole life’s work, you appear to have started on top and stayed on top.

How did failure or disappointment motivate you early on?

How did you gravitate toward the Army?

I was home on my little academic sabbatical. My father and mother had a small lumberyard and hardware store, and so I was schlepping Sheetrock all around I was born on Long Island but moved down south when Rockbridge County. One day, in walked a high school my father got tired of taking the train into the city. I grew classmate of mine. He came in standing a little straightup in rural southwest Virginia. We had a little small farm er, a little taller. Hair’s really put together. He told me, in Natural Bridge, Virginia.

“I joined the Army …

I was the youngest of four: I’m stationed in Berlin.”

“I walked into the recruiting office two engineers and a nurse I mean, that could have and they had all these pictures above me. I went to school been Mars to me. He’s of men and women soldiers in with no idea at all of what telling me these stories action. There was this one picture I wanted to do. Zero. I just of watching these spy exon a wall. It’s this very assumed that I’d do some changes across the bridge. striking pose of an Army Ranger ... kind of business. I did OK Going on missions on the Everything about this guy in high school. Not great, Czechoslovakian border. screamed perfection. I said, but OK. I got into HampTo top it off, he was tell‘That’s what I want to do.’” den-Sydney College and ing me they would go promptly started my imto Yugoslavia on leave — Matt Eversmann plosion academically from [where there were] beauday one. Mercifully, by the end of my junior year, they tiful women and lots to drink. Anyway, that put the asked me to take a break. I mean, it was like five semeshook in. That night, I talked to my parents and said, “I ters of academic probation. As I look back, I think that I think I’d like to go down and talk to the recruiter.” And just wasn’t mature enough. The best thing I probably could they were very supportive and thought it was a very have done was join the Army the day after high school. good idea.

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A U.S. UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter flies over Somalia in September 1993, a month before the battle of Mogadishu. (Alexander Joe/ AFP/Getty Images)

What was your experience at the recruiter’s office?

How long before you were actually in the Army and saw active duty?

I walked into the recruiting office and they had all these pictures of men and women soldiers in action. A tank and helicopters. There was this one picture on the wall. It was this very, very striking pose of an Army Ranger.

It was an African American soldier.

The perfect profile. His chin was like

I wound up getting to my first assignment in 1988, up at Fort Drum, New York, in the 10th Mountain Division. But in 1992, I reenlisted with the opportunity to go to the Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment, in the special operations community. Because I thought, If I’m going to go to war, that’s the group I want to go with. So, in 1992, I get down there, and in August of ’93, we deploy to Mogadishu.

You were twenty-six at this point. Explain the assignment.

A humanitarian effort that winds up as a special mission to go capture or kill this warlord named Mohamed Farrah Aidid. This task force goes over, and I am a

The crew of Super 64 a month before the Battle of Mogadishu. From left: Winn Mahuron, Tommy Field, Bill Cleveland, Ray Frank and Mike Durant

granite and perfectly shaved. At the time, the Rangers were the only ones that wore the black beret. Everything about this guy screamed perfection. I said, “That’s what I want to do.” The recruiters said, “First of all, that can’t be you … I think you should go into the finance core.” I said, “I failed out of school being an economics major.

You don’t want me anywhere near anyone’s money.” I was able to convince him to let me enlist in the infantry. With that, off we went.

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“We had four problems right off the bat ... we were right it in a firefight and this is all in like 20 seconds.”

— Matt Eversmann

member of one of the teams that’s on the helicopter that’s going to provide security for the Delta Force guys as they go in on target.

Did you understand that there was genocide going on? That 300,000 Somalians were killed?

A little bit. Enough to know that this is pure evil. This is not a hard one to figure out. Honestly at the time, it was more the exclamation point of just having the opportunity to go to war … It’s easy to sound brave thirty years later. There’s this great excitement of getting to deploy, which is very real. But what is growing on me too, though, is now we’re literally going to get in-country. We’ve done our wills, and we’ve done our powers of attorney, and there’s a big unknown, but I’m around a lot of guys that seem really brave and that’s kind of rubbing off. This is the real deal. Again, I’d never been deployed before, and there’s a lot of guys that had, but as it turns out, nothing like this.

You are given command. At that moment, was there any self-doubt?

We’re the last helicopter on this assault going in. All the helicopters are breaking their formation to the different points of insertion over this city block. We’re the last one going into all the dust and debris that has been stirred up and blown skyward. The pilot gets into basically a sandstorm and can’t see. So where we are stuck at the end, the clock’s ticking; you can just feel it, and the pilot’s like, “I can’t see anything.” Decision’s made. We’re going to go in here.

You thought it was going to be a grab-and-go—get Aidid out of there— but then what happens?

We have four problems right off the bat.

We get inserted in the wrong spot. A kid falls out of the helicopter; he’s going to die if he doesn’t get evacuated. The communication with our radio, our lifeline, goes down. And then of course, we’re right in a firefight and this is all in like 20 seconds.

Human nature is fight or flight, and adrenaline either makes you want to run away or makes you run into it.

What were you feeling?

I was stuck in some area between fight and flight. I know I had to do something.

But I, myself, just me, I’m not sure what to do; I’ve got all these problems that I feel responsible for. You start to feel panic coming. This is all probably in seconds, but it feels like forever. And then something slaps you back. And for me,

what slapped me back to the reality was watching all the soldiers, all the Rangers that were with me, just getting after it, getting right into the fight.

Let’s fast forward to when the mission is over. You’ve come back; you’ve lost a lot of men. It has not gone even remotely the way everyone had hoped. What’s the feeling?

The situation devolved rapidly.

Did you get overwhelmed?

It is a mixed bag. One of our pilots had been captured by Aidid. So that really There were a couple of moments when I stings, of course. Then we saw the picthought, Man, this can’t get any worse. And tures of the Somalis dragging the bodthen it would. I disies of the Ameritinctly remember cans through the “This was a strategic being in a vehicle streets, which was failure but a tactical thinking, “I’m gobroadcasted all victory. When defining ing to get shot, I’m over the world. mission success, you going to get killed learn that this whole idea You just want to and I can’t even go swing the pipes. of without casualties is fight back … Man, But then the deHollywood fodder.”

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“We’ve done our wills, and we’ve done our powers of attorney, and there’s a big unknown, but I’m around a lot of guys that seem really brave and that’s kind of rubbing off. This is the real deal.”

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This decision came from the White House?

Yes, the president sends Ambassador [Robert] Oakley [as Special Envoy for Somalia] over. Oakley had a relationship with all these warlords and he got the word to Aidid: “Give them back—all the bodies—or were going to make October 3rd look like a picnic.” A couple weeks later, he agreed. That was it. POW Mike Durant was released on October 14th. A couple days later we picked up and left.

differently. Listen, if I’m going to go back to war, I’m going to go with this group.

I really didn’t want to go back to school.

That was the other thing. I think I’m decent at this. I think I’m good enough at this. I really do enjoy it. I like this Ranger business and I think it’s worth sticking around and trying to do it. Of course,

Were you feeling frustrated?

Horrible. Totally deflated. Like so many other guys, I’m going to go home and have to meet a twenty-three-year-old widow and explain to her what happened. She’s already been notified, so it’s not like I’m actually the one breaking the news. But I remember one of the psychologists saying, “Tell her as much as she wants to hear. Unvarnished. You feel like she’s getting enough, let her drive it. Tell her everything that she wants to know.”

You have since become a teacher of sorts. Is your new mission in life to disseminate what you have learned?

Broadly, it is. No one told me what it would be like on the battlefield. Even though there were people with combat experience that were members of that task force, no one ever said, “Hey, listen to me when I tell you, this is how you’re going to feel, this is how you’re going to react.” I’ve had to stumble through and figure a lot of this stuff out on my own. I thought that it sure would be a lot easier if you at least could give someone a little bit of a heads up.

Did you view this as a tactical failure?

No, just the opposite. This was a strategic failure but a tactical victory. When defining mission success, you learn that this whole idea of “without casualties” is Hollywood fodder. “I’m going to bring them all back alive.” That’s what we are trying to do, but that can’t be the criteria because there’s too many variables.

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Did you feel like you performed well?

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been going on in Rwanda. None. Had no idea until we got home. I remember thinking, we’re this far away from them on the map. Why on earth would we not have gone to just stop this horror? The numbers that were broadcast in Rwanda made Mogadishu look like a Girl Scout camp and we did nothing. That’s when I realized I don’t want to be the world’s policeman, but there are just some things that I think morally we have the obligation. We’re the rudder of the moral ship.

We, the United States, we do the heavy lifting. No matter what anybody says, we do. And we didn’t do anything there, and I thought that was beyond tragic. That was horrific.

Do you think heroism can be taught?

Pilot Mike Durant (top), who was taken captive and later released, followed by scenes from the Battle of Mogadishu

you always look back thinking of all the things you did poorly, but there were a lot of things we did very well.

The events in Mogadishu impacted U.S. foreign policy for a long time. The United States has shied away from preventing genocides because of Somalia. What’s your reaction?

There’s a whole lot in that soup. As we got home, we had no idea what had

I don’t think so, but I think you can shape it. I think you can put men and women into situations where they have to do things that they’re very uncomfortable doing. Jumping out of an airplane. For some people, swimming. There are some things you can do to shape that mindset, but ultimately, I think heroism becomes a combination of several things. It’s a little bit of the surroundings, it’s a little bit of the mission, a little bit of that moral compass—and that all on any given day blows up in a moment.

How does the human instinct for survival enable someone to perform seeming superhuman feats, like flipping a car over that has someone trapped inside?

After going to Mogadishu, I totally understand how a mother lifts the car off the baby. Not only why she does it, but how she does it. She doesn’t know that she can. When you watch kids running into the fire and dragging somebody out without any regard at all, they don’t even realize they’re doing it. They just do it—and doing it for people they don’t even know personally. I do know that every single one of us has that fight or flight mechanism and on any given moment it could go the other way.

Can you really teach someone how to lead who’s not a leader?

No. Again, it’s another summation of a lot of theories and a lot of thoughts, but most importantly, you have to practice leadership. You have to physically do it. There’s been a lot of books written, but no one’s been able to write the definitive book about leadership because every person is different. We can generalize some ideas, and there’s some great rules to follow, but you learn by going out and doing it.

Actor Josh Hartnett played Matt Eversmann in the blockbuster film Black Hawk Down.

“We don’t have strong values-based leadership. How do we get out of it? We’ve got to showcase this exceptional talent for what it is.”

You’ve had a taste of the academic world, but your success has been in knowing, understanding and managing people. Is skill with people the ultimate skill in managing anything in life?

— Matt Eversmann

I think it is. It is probably the most important skill. I think that all the problems that we see both in the military and civilian/professional life start and end with leadership.

Today, no one wins, no one loses; you just participate. The victim is the criminal. You achieve too much success, you’re vilified. Everything is upside down. Does this create a disturbing future for leadership in America?

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It does. I think we’re all fearful of that for a variety of reasons, whether we’re looking at political reasons or we’re looking at financial reasons that are going to affect us. We don’t have strong values-based leadership. How do we get out of it? We’ve got to showcase this exceptional talent for what it is. I think at the end of the day capitalism will win. Capitalism has to. Because all these kids can’t afford a lifestyle. Rich, poor, Black, white, Asian, Hispanic, doesn’t matter. You’ve got to get out and you’ve got to work.

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“I think there is a large cadre of Americans on both sides of the aisle, of all shapes and sizes, that just want to get back to this American dream.”

— Matt Eversmann

Let’s talk about a big picture of the United States. We have always been the shining light of democracy. Our political system has always been what everyone has wanted to emulate, but there are cracks now that we have not seen since the Civil War. Where is America in the world’s eyes and where do you think this is going?

I haven’t been out of the country since 2018 or 2019. All you’ve got to do is spend five seconds in the Middle East to realize this is a great spot regardless of who’s in charge. Where we are now didn’t

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happen overnight. We’re in what I have called the “intellectual Sahara” for some time. And the events over the last 24-36 months have highlighted just how intellectually stagnant we’ve become for a variety of reasons. Whether we look at family, we look at the state of education, we look at the state of politics, we look at all of these things that affect us that have just been going on. Everyone’s been making the donuts for so long and all of a sudden here we are.

And people are not thinking. The fact that we can’t have a polite disagreement about any political issue is absurd. First of all, there’s no civility because we’re too stupid to think about that. No one’s

taught us to mind our Ps and Qs, follow the golden rule with your neighbor and sometimes “the less said, soonest mended.” But we’ve allowed this and it gets amplified through our social media. There’s the echo chamber stuff. You’ve got to shut that off.

You have put your country ahead of yourself.

Do you feel an obligation to run for office?

need. And listen, I’m a pretty conservative guy in general, I just am; I hope my blinders stay open. But I realize we understand there’s not going to be the perfect candidate, but common sense tells me it’s got to be a very moderate person that is willing to get us back on track. Strict constitutionalist. Our spending is out of control so we’ve got to reel it in. And we’ve got to know where we stand globally.

No. I couldn’t imagine in this day and age putting my family through that again, a result of the old hitting yourself in the hand with a “So if we’re going to stop Russia, hammer. What I would like to let’s stop them. Let’s stop them in do and I always keep my eye the Ukraine. We sat on the sidelines open is to maybe help someof genocide before. Are we going to body else out that’s running sit on the sidelines here? ” for office. I think that would be — Matt Eversmann really exciting, to be on someone’s staff or behind the scenes.

Do you think we should be getting more involved in Ukraine?

Old Matt was ready to go to war. The Russians have always been on the bad side of that equation.

Less so it seems over the last decade, but all of a sudden here they are. So that all having been said, my hesitation to jump right in and say, “Hey, we ought to go and just stack skulls over there” is that I Photo of Matt Eversmann from his bestselling book Walk in My Combat Boots think I’ve learned a couple things between Mogadishu and fifteen And if you were to create in your mind a months in Iraq. The first thing is what Colin president that we need to put us back on the Powell said in Mogadishu: “You break it, right path, what type of person would this be? you bought it.” If you go in there and you I think we must have a very moderate, profesbreak it and you think that Jeffersonian desional, fiscally conservative kind of libertarian. mocracy is going to spill out, you’re wrong.

I’m not a libertarian, but someone that thinks, The second thing is that the last time we “OK, let’s literally and physically bring our threw a lot of dough in a proxy fight against country back to the middle.” I think this person the Russians was in Afghanistan as best I has to be exceptionally professional. They’ve can remember. So if we’re going to stop got to be very likable, got to be a model; we Russia, let’s stop them. Let’s stop them in need a poster child of the middle, that’s what we Ukraine. We sat on the sidelines of geno-

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cide before. Are we going to sit on the sidelines here? I think we either go in or leave.

Warren Buffett says no one ever made money by betting against the United States. We’ve always managed to pull ourselves out of any kind of tailspin. Are you an optimist about the United States?

I am. Absolutely. I think there is a large cadre of Americans on both sides of the aisle, of all shapes and sizes, that just want to get back to this American

“When Americans start going overseas, they’ll realize that this is a pretty great place no matter who’s running this show.”

— Matt Eversmann

dream. I really believe that. And I think that where the pendulum shifts, it comes back to the middle. We just need some order so we can just all take a break. I also believe that when Americans start going overseas, they’ll realize that this is a pretty great place no matter who’s running this show. That’s the story and that’s what I’m sticking to.

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hen it comes to car enthusiasts, Doug DeMuro is in a class all his own. After beginning his career in a cubicle at Porsche, the Denver native started penning a car blog that ultimately led to creating his own YouTube channel reviewing cars.

More than four million subscribers later, DeMuro is an authority on all things automotive, including spinning out his own car auction site called Cars and Bids.

Now based primarily in Southern California, DeMuro has been spending his summers in his home in Sconset for nearly a decade.

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Explain how you became one of America’s top car vloggers.

What have been some of the coolest cars that you have reviewed?

Right out of college I got a job working for Porsche for their corporate headquarters in Atlanta. It was a desk job.

It was what I thought I’d be doing the rest of my life. I was sitting in a cubicle and that was that. It was a cool job; I had a Porsche 911 company car. I was twenty-two, so it was the coolest thing in the world. But I always wanted to do a little more, and so on the side, I eventually started writing about cars for Jalopnik, which was a big car blog.

Someone wrote me an email and said, “Hey, I like your writing. You should consider making videos.” It had never crossed my mind until I got this email, and now more than five hundred videos later, it’s been a good ride.

My very favorite car of all time is the V10 Porsche Carrera GT, which was made in the mid-2000s.

I’ve always wanted one of those, but I bought a house on Nantucket instead, so I don’t think I’ll ever have one. They’ve gotten incredibly expensive—over $2 million now. I also like the really quirky and interesting stuff. I reviewed a Vector W8, which was an American supercar from the ’80s that is just the stupidest thing you’ve ever seen. It was so much fun. I reviewed an Aston Martin Lagonda, which was a luxury sedan in the ’70s that had so many stupid quirks, like the odometer was under the hood. It’s the stupidest car in the world—and I love stuff like that. To me, those are my very favorite. Then I also really love the very newest stuff. I love the new electric vehicles, the Rivian and the electric Hummer. The brand-new cars also really get me excited.

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The car market has exploded. The sales volume at the auctions has just absolutely taken off, as have car prices, defying conventional wisdom. Why do you think the car culture is accelerating like this?

There’s a lot of factors. Right now, a lot of people have some money. There’ve been obviously a lot of gains in people’s homes and in the market and all that, and people in situations like this often look to diversify into assets. Or they just have nostalgia.

I think a lot of people are getting older and even ’80s, ’90s cars are starting to go for serious money now, as younger people are starting to get nostalgic for that era. As cars convert to automatic transmissions and plug-ins and electrics, the nostalgic factor is even higher.

“I also like the really quirky and interesting stuff...

To me, those are my very favorite.”

— Doug DeMuro

If nostalgia is indeed a driver, pun intended, then what happens to the values of cars that the sixty-year-olds relate to from the ’60s and early ’70s, when the new generation comes along? Does the value of that class of car decline?

It’s a great question. I think about that a lot actually. Cars from the 1920s and ’30s have declined as those people have sort of aged out of the world. People in their thirties, forties, fifties, sixties don’t necessarily want ’30s cars. It’s not a thing. However, the ’60s were a really special era. The ’60s were an iconic period in a way that has never really returned, and I think that those cars, at least the great ones, will probably always be protected. That’s my guess anyway.

There’s tremendous pressure from an environmental standpoint to go electric.

What happens to these cars twenty, thirty, forty years from now? One would presume there will still be gas stations, but less of them. Do you see this transition becoming problematic?

There will still be gas stations, at least in our lifetimes. I’m not too worried about that, especially for enthusiast cars.

There are companies in California that are converting some of these cars to electric drivetrain. You lose some stuff when that happens; you lose the rumble. That’s part of the fun with these cars. But you gain reliability and the ability to keep it going forever. A lot of those cars, the specialness of them, is in how they look and how they make you feel when you’re cruising with the top down. I think that that might be the future for some of these cars: They swap to electric powertrains, and then they can live on forever and ever. It’s not like the performance of any of those cars is any good anyway, by modern standards. It’s really more about the style and the look and the beauty.

What is your top investment advice when it comes to collecting cars?

My top investment advice is ultimately “buy what you love.” You’ll never really beat the market. You might get close. If you buy what you love, you might be surprised at how many other people love them also. I’ve taken my own advice on this. I’ve bought cars that I’ve loved and they’ve

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“My top investment advice is ultimately ‘buy what you love.’

You’ll never really beat the market. You might get close. If you buy what you love, you might be surprised at how many other people love them also.”

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all gone way up in value. I could’ve bought other cars that would’ve gone up more, but they’re not what I wanted. So not only have my cars gone up in value, but every time I open my garage, I get a thrill because I’m driving what I want, and I think that that’s a special thing.

What do you have in your garage?

I have a 2005 Ford GT, which is my sort of supercar. It’s crazy and terrifying. I have a yellow Defender, like everybody on Nantucket. I have a Mercedes G Wagon convertible, which is just as ugly as it sounds—it basically looks like a G Wagon wearing a toupee. Then I have an old Audi station wagon, an Audi RS 2, which was a weird car that was actually built by Porsche in the ’90s for Audi. They’re very, very rare. I imported that car. That’s my fun car fleet. Then every summer I drive all the way across the country with my dog and my new Land Rover Defender.

For those who do buy cars as an investment, what would be your top five list of cars to buy today?

The early Dodge Viper; I would buy that in a heartbeat. I don’t understand why those are still in the thirties. They should be worth double that, if not more. I would definitely get a Lamborghini Gallardo with a manual transmission.

That car came out 2004. I think those are way undervalued.

Generally speaking, I think that cars from the ’90s and 2000s are still a little undervalued compared to where they will get.

People who are trying to invest and trying to be smart about it should probably park some money in some of those cars, because I think as younger people, Gen X and millennials, get more and more money, those cars will become more and more valuable, just like we saw with the muscle cars as the baby boomers grew up.

Tesla, maybe not by virtue of styling but by virtue of performance, has pretty much owned the electric market globally. Do you think Tesla can hold its lock on the market because of its ability to leapfrog in terms of innovation? Or do you think that ten years from now, it’s just going to be a fractionalized market of many, many high-performing electric cars?

There’s no question that Tesla is going to start to lose its seat at the top of the table. Tesla’s amazing innovations were unbelievable for the last decade. They were way ahead of ev-

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stuff from General Motors that I don’t like to see, which is that some of the cars still aren’t that competitive, a little overpriced, not as high quality. But Ford especially has really taken a lead. They’ve got so many products that so many people are excited about. The new Bronco is really hot, and obviously the electric Mustang has been a huge seller. They have this Raptor pickup truck that everybody wants. They’ve really focused on great products. The American brands are doing so, so, so much better than ten years ago.

The future is reasonably bright.

Could you ever get comfortable with a self-driving car?

I love the self-driving car. I live in Southern California, the traffic capital of the world. I would give anything to be able to sit in traffic and just text and email while the car drove. Now, I will always want cars that are fun, that I can drive on the weekends with “I would give anything no truck traffic in canyons and on for a self-driving car for day-to-day, boring, mountain roads, but I would give sit-in-traffic kind of driving.” anything for a self-driving car for day-to-day, boring, sit-in-traffic — Doug DeMuro kind of driving.

erybody. But I’ve been in all the latest electric cars. Everybody else is catching up, and Tesla’s innovative power seems to be declining. Their biggest innovation last year was this yoke steering wheel. That was what they had. Ten years ago, it was an electric car that did 250 miles and drove itself. That was a real innovation. I think that they’re slowing down. Other automakers are catching up.

Tesla claims that they were going to have a pickup truck out, but all the other automakers—Rivian, General Motors— have beaten them to the market with these pickup trucks. Now, I will say, to put a little caveat on this, people have been saying this stuff about Tesla for the last ten years and they’ve still been tremendously successful and they’ve still done really well. Last year, the Tesla Model Y outsold the Honda Accord, which is an unbelievable statistic, so don’t count them out. But I don’t think they will be number one forever.

What is your prognosis for the domestic car companies? American cars are vastly better than they used to be, and the delta between American cars and European cars has narrowed. But what’s your prognosis for the American car manufacturer, as it relates Europe and Japan?

They’re just doing so much better than they were. The recession and General Motors’ and Chrysler’s bankruptcy—that really kind of pushed them all into gear. I still see some of the

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Who is the market for the hypercar niche of Bugatti and Koenigseggs? I assume you’ve gotten behind the wheel of them; how exhilarating is that experience?

I’ve driven almost all those cars: the Pagani, the Koenigsegg and the Bugatti. I can’t believe these cars exist. When I was a kid, a car that cost a million dollars, nobody could fathom it. Now there’s maybe a dozen cars on the market that cost a million dollars. Obviously, it’s a function of the economy over the last ten years, but I think there’s just a group of people who don’t want to simply be exclusive and own a Ferrari. They want to be hyper-exclusive and own this unbelievably rare and special thing. Is it exhilarating? Yeah, it’s amazing to drive. They’re very cool and all that. Is it worth $3 million? Not to me, but to the kind of person who has had ten Ferraris, I could understand why the next step is something that nobody else has, something you’re never going to see on the road when you’re driving around in Miami or in Newport Beach. That’s what they’re paying for: true exclusivity.

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the project has turned out, along with the results they are already seeing with recruitment and retention.

“We have been fortunate that Jamie has been a driving force in recognizing the need for employee housing,” said Lauren Marttila, the chair of the Club’s Board of Trustees. “Building this housing and investing in our community is a key part of our strategic plan, and you can really see the passion for the project in the leadership of Steve and Jamie. Jamie will tell you about every hire that was made possible because we could provide stable housing. And that translates to the best possible experience for the kids and families.”

More than 350 kids utilize the club on a daily basis, Cheney said, and more than 65 percent of the public school students on the island are now members. Island families rely on the club as a form of childcare for the after-school hours before dinner, but it also has to be a place that the kids want to go to.

The staff housing has meant recruiting and retaining staff that allow the club to be more than simply a gym, they said. It now offers dynamic programming for kids of all ages — including teens — that includes a literacy program, reading workshops, computer classes and more.

The Nantucket Boys & Girls Club is the now the only one in the Boys & Girls Clubs of America system that offers staff housing.

The ability to offer housing as the centerpiece of a generous benefits package for employees has been a game-changer for recruitment and retention, Foster said. It has resulted in the club being able to retain valued staff members in key positions, including five employees who have been with the club for more than four years. It’s also allowed Foster to go out and recruit new employees with specialized backgrounds in child development who may have balked at moving to the island without secure and affordable housing.

“It’s so important for staff retention and having employees who establish relationships with the kids and earn their trust,” Foster said. “It’s been massive for us.”

While the the construction has been completed, the public phase of the $10 million campaign to fund the housing initiative has just begun. The club has already secured about half of its goal through a handful of generous donors and board members including John Loose and the late Chuck Geschke. The Club is hoping to make a final push to complete the fundraising campaign this summer.

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olly Renegar was named program director for the Nantucket Boys & Girls Club in 2018.

She loved the job, the community, and the hundreds of island kids who walked through the doors of the club each afternoon. So why was she still contemplating moving off-island? Renegar was living paycheck-to-paycheck just to afford to live in an illegally converted shed with only a sink and a toilet.

Her story was one of many that spurred the Boys and Girls Club to embark on an ambitious employee housing campaign that is now coming to fruition. Jamie Foster, the club’s executive director, said that he and the organization’s Board of Molly Renegar Trustees recognized that housing was the key to staff retention and critically important to its mission of serving island children.

Not content to wait for the town or other non-profits to figure out the island’s affordable housing challenges for them, Foster and the club’s trustees set out to solve the housing puzzle themselves.

Despite just having finished the $13 million renovation and expansion of the main clubhouse building itself, the board greenlighted a new $10 million housing initiative two years ago that encompassed property acquisition, construction, and a facilities fund for both the housing units and the clubhouse.

“We had tripled the size of the club, and it seemed like more than we needed, but sure enough we filled it up,” Foster said. And so the club’s staffing needs grew as well.

Today, the Nantucket Boys and Girls Club has 22 beds to accommodate its staff members, and they’re all filled.

Of its 19 full-time, year-round employees, 15 of them are currently in staff housing units, along with seven children of those staff members.

Most of those units have been added over the past year with the completion of a four-lot subdivision next to the club’s main property that includes a new duplex and triplex. It also acquired another adjacent property at 75 Sparks Avenue last October with an existing dwelling that will add to its stock.

The project has been spearheaded by Foster and board member Stephen Cheney. They told the Current that the club’s success depended on figuring out the housing equation, and they are thrilled with how

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What are some of the benefits of planting native plants in our gardens?

When choosing native plants over introduced species from another continent or region, you landscape with a sense of place—it’s the genuine Nantucket. Our native plants are adapted to the unique growing conditions on-island and support a healthier ecosystem. Native plants do not need added fertilizer, which helps our harbors, ponds and shellfish. They also need less water, which makes them more resilient to changing weather patterns. Beyond being adapted to the soil and weather conditions, native plants provide the appropriate pollen, fruit and habitat for the beneficial species we have on-island.

Where does the Conservation Foundation stand as it relates to the debate around fertilizers?

NCF definitely supports the best management practices for fertilizer use. Overuse and ill-timed application of fertilizers are negatively impacting the water quality and health of our harbor watershed and ponds. Excess nitrogen and phosphorus in our water increase the risk of harmful algal blooms and further the degradation of harbor health, particularly eelgrass. Excess fertilizer has long-reaching effects on our vulnerable shellfisheries and the safety of recreating in and around freshwater ponds during the summer.

For someone looking to have a beautiful floral garden, what’s one native plant you would recommend and why?

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Sweet pepperbush is always an excellent choice! Also known as Clethra, this beautiful native flowering shrub grows quickly, is easily maintained, and will give your yard columns of sweet-smelling white or pink flowers in June. Plus, the pollinators love it and the deer won’t eat it!

Why are non-native plants a detriment to the island?

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