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BOHEMIAN FASHION WHO IS A WATERMAN? CYCLING, PADDLING, & BODYBUILDING NANTUCKET MAD MAN

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WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH WE CALL IN MARINE

When Nantucket Hotel developers Mark and Gwenn Snider decided to fast-track the completion of this landmark hotel, they turned to Marine Home Center for help.

From lumber to hardware to tools, Marine was able to provide immediate turnaround from their extensive inventory without delay. According to Mark Snider, “We set a very ambitious deadline for ourselves to complete this project by July 1st, giving us no margin of error. Marine Home Center was with us every step of the way.”

Whether it’s a total rehab of a 60,000 square foot hotel or a home kitchen renovation, when the job gets tough call in Marine.

marinehomecenter.com - 134 Orange Street, Nantucket - (508) 228-0900

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Nantucket Hotel Developers, Mark & Gwenn Snider

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HOT TIMES on Nantucket

Editor & Publisher Bruce A. Percelay

Things have been heating up on Nantucket this summer, and not just with the weather. Inns, restaurants, retailers, and the ferry are all reporting higher traffic, and the pace of real estate transactions continues to warm up.

Managing Editor Robert S. Cocuzzo Art Director Paulette Chevalier

One interesting aspect of our hot weather is the rising temperature of the waters surrounding the island, which tends to draw a larger population of exotic sharks. Statistically, Nantucket beaches have never been a dangerous place to swim.

However, sharks are a fascinating reality on this island that few people discuss. N Magazine’s managing editor, Robert Cocuzzo, and photographer, Kit Noble, took their journalistic assignment to new depths as they entered a shark cage offshore to cover these large predators up close and personal.

Head Photographers Nathan Coe Kit Noble Operations Consultant Adrian Wilkins Contributors Alexandra Cody Kate Coe Vanessa Emery Emily Johnson Juliet Kennelly Andrea Pomerantz Lustig Brian Mohr Louise Morrissey Brandy Rand Marie-Claire Rochat P.J. Rubin

Beyond sharks, the August issue dives head first into the many sports and outdoor activities taking place here on the island. From early morning road racing, to outrigger canoe paddling, to backwoods mountain biking, to female bodybuilding, there are endless options for living actively on Nantucket. Keeping in shape also means taking care of your heart. Accordingly, we speak with cardiologist Dr. Joseph Garasic of Mass General Hospital and the Nantucket Cottage Hospital about staying healthy through the ages.

Photographers Kris Kinsley Hancock Emily Johnson Katie Kaizer Kim Lucian Brian Mohr Joshua Simpson

In the realm of fashion, we take a look at bohemian style in a photo shoot by Nathan and Kate Coe. The issue also profiles some interesting islanders, such as skier-turned-builder-turned-vodka-distiller, Greg Nichols, as well as “Nantucket Mad Man,” former advertising top executive, Kenneth Roman.

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36 ONE LUCKY DOG

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66 POWER OF THE PACK

Pro-skier-turned-endurance-athlete-turnedNantucket-builder, Greg Nichols, has recently added “vodka distiller” to his resume.

Grab a paddle and join the Nantucket Community Sailing’s outrigger club for an evening trip around the harbor.

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Learn about a recent campaign to clean up Nantucket’s beaches of test missiles fired on the island during World War II.

A small percentage of American women participate in bodybuilding. Amazingly, the island is home to three of the sport’s champions.

Despite only so many roads to go around, Nantucket has produced a group of elite cyclists. Join them on an early morning ride, and learn what really grinds their gears.

75 BEAUTY OF THE BEAST Climb aboard the Tracker with Captain Bryce Rohrer of Nantucket Shark Divers, and enter the cage with the ocean’s most feared predators.

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Everything you need to be active on Nantucket and look cool doing it!

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THE HEART OF THE MATTER

Cardiovascular doctor, Joe Garasic of Nantucket Cottage Hospital and MGH talks about protecting a healthy heart.

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Check out some of the island’s summer fashion beachwear

GOURMET MEALS ON WHEELS

Nantucket’s newest dining hotspot is in a parking lot: Blue Bellies food truck is serving up short-order delights beachside at Nobadeer.

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MEN AND WOMEN OF WATER

Surfing, fishing, diving, and sailing, watermen possess a unique relationship with Earth’s most ubiquitous substance.

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Nantucket summer resident, Ken Roman served as Chairman/CEO of the advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather.

Now an acclaimed writer, Ken Roman shares an excerpt from his book, King of Madison Avenue.

128 A SINGLE-TRACK MIND

Adventure photographers and writers, Brian Mohr and Emily Johnson, venture off the beaten path and capture the mountain biking scene on Nantucket.

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Take a big bite of the island’s sandwich scape.

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Hosting a summer barbeque and looking for a fun and easy way to serve cocktails? Pour it into a pitcher!

147 THE HISTORIC HEALING POWER OF NANTUCKET

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Long before spas and health retreats came into popularity, Nantucket was regarded as a place of great rejuvenating powers.

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GUESTCONTRIBUTORS BRIAN MOHR & EMILY JOHNSON Brian Mohr and Emily Johnson are adventure journalists whose work has appeared on the covers of the Patagonia catalog, Vermont Life and The New York Times travel section, as well as within many outdoor publications such as Outside Magazine, Men’s Journal, Skiing, and Powder. For this August issue of N Magazine, Brian and Emily capture the dirt tracks of Nantucket’s mountain biking scene in “Single-Track Mind” (page 128).

ANDREA POMERANTZ LUSTIG Beauty editor for Glamour, Andrea Pomerantz Lustig releases her long awaited book, How To Look Expensive, this month, providing women an insider’s guide to “getting gorgeous without breaking the bank.” Andrea, who summers on Nantucket, lends some of her wisdom to this August issue in “Nantucket Beauty Essentials” (page 119), giving a breakdown of local products that will keep you beautiful on and off the beach.

P.J. RUBIN Lawyer, local business owner, and lifelong Nantucketer, P.J. Rubin makes his N Magazine debut with “Men & Women of Water” (page 96), taking us into the tightknit circle of the island’s top ocean enthusiasts. As a fisherman, kite boarder, and surfer himself, P.J. has a deep respect for the watermen tradition, and enjoys bringing up

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THE NEW GUISE OF JUICE It is hard to swallow the fact that today’s sugar

amount of sugar, calories and sodium Gatorade

Jay adds, “I am never going to do a full on Iron

laden soft drinks and sports beverages are

has in it.” So John went out looking for a

Man. We didn’t design Novo for those two

staples in our children’s diets, causing cata-

better sports drink. When he came up dry, he

percent of people that do. We designed it for

strophic obesity countrywide. Enter Novo, a

and island buddy Jay Hanley decided to make

people who care about their health and

low-sugar, potassium-enhanced sports drink

one themselves.

wellness and keep reasonably fit.” Further

created by island residents, Jay Hanley and

setting Novo apart from other sports drinks

John Ferm, that may someday take the fizz out

Novo has six times the potassium, three times

of America’s addiction to unhealthy drinks.

the magnesium, and one third less sodium, than a Gatorade. It is made of all organic ingre-

is its flavor, or lack thereof. With only eight grams of sugar, the beverage boasts supremely subtle notes of raspberry

The idea for Novo came as John

dients, including thirty percent

lemon or mango mandarin. And that

watched his son’s little league

coconut water. The drink’s

was Jay and John’s intent: “There are a

team take a water break. “All these kids

electrolytes are found in its

lot of choices out there for people that

reached into their bags and pulled out these

high potassium—about the

want sugary drinks, but not many for those

twenty-ounce, neon-colored drinks,” he says.

amount found in a whole banana. Novo

“My son has severe food allergies, so my wife

is not designed for elite endurance athletes,

hydration. There is truly nothing out there

and I have always been label readers. I grabbed

but for moms, dads and children looking to

like us.” While Novo is still in its test phases,

one of these Gatorades to see what is in them.”

stay hydrated whether on a run or on

John and Jay already took honors at the New

What he discovered were two curious ingredients: brominated vegetable oil and glycerol ester of wood rosin. “These are ingredients in most Gatorades right now,” he says, “and it’s

that don’t. Novo is about health and

the run. “It’s for the sustainer,

Beverage Showdown held in New York City

the maintainer, the

this past June. While they’re not yet ready to

person running a

drink to their success, improving the

5K or doing a

diets of children and adults will

two-mile swim,”

be a sweet victory for

says John.

Jay and John.

bunk. It’s garbage.

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WONOMA’SWORLD Fourth generation farmer and writer, Debra

pre-colonial Nantucket. From this came the

Debra’s Wonoma’s Nantucket, which she also

McManis, didn’t set out to write a children’s

idea of recreating the life of a young island

illustrated, tells of the adventures of a ten-year-old,

book—the idea grew organically. While

girl in a children’s book. “I wanted to further

Wonoma as she learns to grow her first

researching her 2010 book, Town Farms

explore the ‘Legend of Wauwinet,’ a poem

Indian garden and to raise her first crops.

written by Charlotte P. Baxter in 1896,” Debra

Ultimately, Wonoma discovers the power of her

says. “The poem tells how Chief Wauwinet’s

namesake: the ability to heal people with the food

Harvard and

brave daughter, Wonoma, cures the enemy

she grows and the medicinal herbs she gathers.

RISD grad

villages of West Nantucket of a terrible

Debra adds a third dimension to Wonoma’s

explored the

disease through her extraordinary healing

story by offering a handmade doll of the character

agricultural

powers, thus bringing peace to native

along with her trusty sidekick, Run Wild.

history of

Nantucket.” Interestingly, the notion of food

and Country Commons, the

as healer, promoted by the Wampanoags,

When she’s not writing, Debra can be found

has now moved to the forefront of

tending to the newly created Ponderosa Farm

medical dialogue.

near Hummock Pond or at the Farmers Market at the Ponderosa Farm truck. Wonoma’s Nantucket as well as the collectible dolls can be purchased at the truck or at Ireland Galleries on Old South Wharf.

PULP fiction As artist, Melanie Cooper, put it when quoted in a New York Times article, her

unique paper-based artwork is “a visual pun.” Using paper pulp that she pours into custom-carved molds, Cooper creates quilts, shirts, pocketbooks and other objects that defy their paper

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item, they become highly collectible pieces of art.

Janis Aldridge’s gallery on Washington Street can attest to the cult following of Cooper’s work, as each of her showings tend to sell out quickly.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF GREG NICHOLS

GREG NICHOLS HAS THE LOOK OF A MAN WHO’S LIVED A GOOD LIFE— NOT CHARMED PER SE, BUT HEALTHY. TRIM WITH SUN-KISSED BLOND HAIR AND A BRIGHT SMILE THAT SHOWS THROUGH A CROOKED GRIN, HE SITS STIRRING A MARTINI LAZILY. “BY THE END OF THE WHOLE THING I WAS WRAPPED IN SO MUCH SPORTS TAPE I LOOKED LIKE BORIS KARLOFF IN THE MUMMY,” HE SAYS WITH A LAUGH. Greg is remembering his former days as a

probably has more epic tales than he cares to

professional skier, an impressive career that

share, and it takes a little prodding (and some

included stints on the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team

more vodka) to free up some gems. So you were

and the Saab Men’s Mogul Tour as well as

a marathon runner, right? How many did you

tenure as a freestyle ski coach in Zermatt,

run? One or two? “Oh probably fifteen or

Switzerland. “I thought, man I’m going to get

sixteen,” he responds casually. “When I turned

paralyzed or killed if I keep this up, so I

forty, my times sort of plummeted. And I hung it

basically hung the boards up for a while,

up until last year, when I ran the New York

finished my degree at the University of

Marathon, and that went well.” Really well,

Vermont and moved to Nantucket.” Greg hardly

actually: Greg ran a 3:24 marathon—a respectable

lives in the glory days of his past. In fact, he

effort for any runner, let alone a 53-year-old.

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WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU MIX ONE PART EXTREME ATHLETE, ONE PART CONTRACTOR AND ONE PART VODKA DISTILLER? YOU GET GREG NICHOLS, STRAIGHT UP.

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“I used to run Boston every year in the 2:40s, but then I got old,” he says. And the conversation continues along those lines. Triathlon?

“Yes, several.” Nantucket Iron Man Team race? “Yes, did it solo…won it twice.” Mountain bike? “Yes.” Surf? “Yup.” What about tennis? “All the time.” Answer after answer, Greg reveals an impressive athletic past (and present) modestly and without fanfare.

Around our second martini, we get into his life on the island. A ‘Sconset resident, Greg came to Nantucket twenty-six years ago to work off some money he owed his brother. “Even though I was young, and broke, and in debt, I just thought, this place is so cool, and I knew then that I wanted to stay here,” he remembers. Greg was quickly swept up by the Nantucket building boom, and before long, he found himself building a Shimmo harbor front home designed by famed postmodern architect, Robert Venturi. “He had just been awarded the Pritzker Prize for doing the National Gallery in London. The house was only approved because the HDC was so star-struck by the guy,” Greg says.

“I just lucked out. We met, and because I had no paper, I wrote my name and phone number on a shingle and the guy basically called me back.

I had no idea who Robert Venturi was at that time.” And so it was that Greg transitioned from full-time skier to successful Nantucket builder, running his own companies: first Nichols Design & Construction and now Sankaty Builders.

Greg’s most recent pursuit is vodka. No, he has not fallen into the grips of alcoholism— he’s a vodka purveyor. Lucky Dog Vodka, which sits chilled in our glasses at present, began as a doodle on a cocktail napkin, a wily pooch Greg sketched over and over while sipping martinis at Dune. When the economy crashed in 2008 and the housing market on the island began to teeter, Greg turned to the one industry bound to survive these tough financial times: the spirits business.

Greg Nichols at Dune Restaurant with his Lucky Dog Vodka poured into a “shot-ski” custom-made by Cody Henke.

by my age cohort,” he says. “I am hoping it cuts a wide swath demo-

philanthropic pursuits: for every follower they gain on Facebook, Greg

the country, and ended up connecting with these great guys in Idaho,”

graphically.” One might assume that an Idaho distiller would produce

donates $1 to the African Services Committee, a U.S. nonprofit treating

Greg says. “Initially they weren’t interested in the whole farm to bottle

potato vodka—a rising trend on the spirits scene—but as Greg informs

malnutrition, tuberculosis and AIDS in Ethiopia. A percentage of proceeds

approach, but when they ‘got’ the Lucky Dog concept and the packaging,

me, “Wheat vodka is actually smoother than potato vodka, which can

from bottle sales will also be given to the cause.

they were on board.” Greg’s Lucky Dog concept linked his passion for

be a little bit oily.” So it is that Lucky Dog is a winter wheat vodka

the mountains with that of the island, and thus his product’s tagline:

made with good old Rocky Mountain meltwater from the Snake River

“When I was looking for a distilling partner, I did a major walkabout

“Born on Nantucket and raised in the Rocky Mountains.” For the many

aquifer.

the summer and ski towns out west in the winter, Lucky Dog Vodka

Although just hitting the shelves, Lucky Dog has already won the Gold

and letting his vodka speak for itself. Which perhaps is the way he does most

could be their unofficial liquor. Of course, Greg is quick to insist that

Medal at the 2011 New York World Wine & Spirits Competition, and

things—less talk, more action. Nevertheless, if Lucky Dog did need a

his vodka is not just for young skiers, surfers and beachgoers, but

has been enthusiastically received by restaurants and package stores

spokesman somewhere down the line, the pro-skier-turned-marathoner-turned-

aficionados of the older sort as well. “It has been really well received

all over the island. Also distinguishing the product is Lucky Dog’s

builder-turned-distiller, Greg Nichols, would have a pretty good shot.

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“Most Interesting Man,” Captain Morgan has, well, Captain Morgan, and so on. Greg Nichols, by contrast, is directing his ad dollars towards charity

seasonal (of-age) workers who split their time between Nantucket in

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In the adult beverage business, image is everything: Dos Equis has its

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OLYNESIAto POCOMO WRITTEN BY VANESSA EMERY

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KATIE KAIZER

As far back as 2,500 years ago, outrigger canoes took to the Pacific waters of Polynesia on open ocean journeys lasting thousands of miles. Built for speed and durability, these timeless watercrafts remain in

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and people as well as for fishing. Here on Nantucket, a group of about fifteen members has embraced the outrigger tradition, paddling recreationally and competitively under the auspices of Nantucket Community Sailing.

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ince 2001, the

On this particular Wednesday, minutes before

responds “HOO!” The group then switches

outrigger club has evolved

6:00 P.M., people begin arriving by car or

sides without skipping a beat. The steersperson

from competitive race

bicycle, making their way from the Jetties

sits at the stern in seat six, calling out

training to now allowing

parking lot across the dune to Nantucket

commands to liven or slacken the pace.

for more mellow paddles that

Community Sailing. Four women and two men

can include clamming field trips and exploring

wearing wet suits, swim trunks, and running

The paddlers must work as a team to get the

estuaries. “Our club has become more broad

clothes hoist the four-hundred-pound fiberglass

canoe moving forward. Appropriately, the

and welcoming thanks to the mix of people,”

canoe, and roll it to the water’s edge. A light

Hawaiian word lokahi, meaning “unity,” is the

says Brook Meerbergen, a hardcore outrig-

but steady wind blows out of the east and the

name of the boat. Jim Olney, a newcomer this

ger enthusiast and member since the club was

slack tide begins to ease. There is good

spring who is calling “Hut-Hoo!” from seat

founded. “We all have our reasons for being

visibility: no fog, but no sunsets to paddle

three, points out that, “Paddling is a lot

here and this creates our collective culture.”

off into either.

like biking in a pack because you have to

Outrigger practices are held six days a week

maintain the pace.” Efficiency is everything.

The shivering paddlers take their seats with

If the paddlers aren’t synchronized, it feels

the shoulder seasons.

instructions handed down by the steersperson,

choppy, like they’re working against each

who decides seating according to skill and

other. Each paddle stroke delivers the burn of

experience. Each seat has its assignment.

an abdominal crunch. If a paddler tires, he or

Seat one sets the tempo. Seat three controls

she just has to breathe and keep going, finding

how many paddle strokes everyone takes on

that slow, meditative breath to send to all the

each side of the canoe. After about fifteen to

places that are tense and aching. This is where

eighteen strokes, seat three calls out “HUT!”

the sport becomes just as much as a mental

and everyone takes a paddle stroke and then

challenge as a physical one.

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he crew takes a tour of the harbor, dipping into Children’s Beach, passing the Steamship and Hy-Line ferry landings, and

navigating around yachts in Straight Wharf. They glide behind the

Dreamland Theater where the ocean air is heavy with the smell of

french fries from Sea Dog’s Brew Pub. Without fail, all pedestrians and yachtsmen stop what they are doing and behold the outrigger like a rare bird.

No legendary outrigger stories result from this evening. No full moons, phosphorescence, ferry wake surfing, capsizes, storms, or close encounters in the fog. Nevertheless the crew seems more than satisfied with this ordinary paddle in mildly bad weather. Back at Jetties, people chat about “ah-ha” moments with their paddling techniques or what’s cooking for dinner. They leave a little bit stronger, and perhaps a little more connected to each other and the natural

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BOMBS AWAY WRITTEN BY ROBERT S. COCUZZO

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE & KATIE KAIZER

MOST ARE UNAWARE THAT NANTUCKET WAS BOMBED DURING WORLD WAR II. By whom you might ask? By us—the big U.S. that is.

From September 1943 to September 1945, American fighter planes lit up what is today Tom Nevers.

Soaring low over the south coast, the pilots honed in on three plywood pyramids, dropping practice rockets on their targets and then returning to Quonset Naval Air Station in Rhode Island.

When training ceased on September 1, 1945, just around the time

as in years past, but was equipped with geophysical instrumentation

General Douglas MacArthur formally accepted the Japanese

that scanned the beaches and lowlands like a giant metal detector.

surrender, the south shore of Nantucket was left a minefield of

Pilot, Doug Christie, had the hair-raising job of hovering his craft

duds. And though sixty-seven years

three to nine feet above crashing

have elapsed since the last bomb

waves and overgrown vegetation, all

was dropped on those sandy shores,

the while the island’s unpredictable

this summer the U.S. Army Corps

climate throwing fog, wind, and rain

of Engineers began what’s called a

through his chopping blades.

Remedial Investigation/Feasibility

Accompanying Christie was system

Study to determine the footprint of

operator, Mark Watson, who sat co-

where these test rockets may still

pilot and ensured that the craft stayed

be present and to confirm that those

on its predetermined course. If they

left behind do not pose a safety

strayed from the assigned grid, the

hazard.

data reading would be muddled and

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During the month of March, traffic signs on Milestone

in the air retracing their steps. In total, the crew of nine had

Road blinked the message: “CAUTION LOW FLYING

approximately 2,500 acres to cover what the Army Corps of

CHOPPER.” No, the helicopter wasn’t in search of forbidden crops

Engineers defines as a Formerly Used Defense Site, or FUDS.

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ased on the results of the aerial flyover, ten potential cluster areas were identified and called for

“focused, ground-based geophysical surveys.”

In addition to land and beach teams surveying by foot, a

dive team operating out of a trailer equipped with special equipment was set up at beaches just south of New South Road. A single diver entered the water, swam offshore two hundred to three hundred feet, and scanned the ocean floor for metallic objects. Linked to an umbilical cord providing air and tech support, the diver communicated with his support team back on shore while also transmitting video to their computers. If the diver detected a metallic item, he began an immediate retrieval, vacuuming away the sand with an air jet and determining if the item was “cultural debris” or a piece of munition.

Despite how cool it may be to see a helicopter buzz low over the beach or a scuba SWAT team dive through the breakers, the inevitable question arises: Why now? Why after over a halfcentury, with no stories of stray rockets being dropped on doorsteps by golden retrievers, is this project being funded and undertaken?

Well, for one, the FUDS program only came into existence in 1986.

The United States is littered with around two thousand Munitions Response Sites (MRS), with risk scores ranging in importance from one (the highest risk) to five (the lowest risk). The “Nantucket Beach” sites, which consist of a burial pit and aerial rocket range, were both given a score of three, serious enough to warrant this exhaustive effort.

“In the ordnance profession, no one will tell you that a piece of ordnance, no matter how old it is, is actually safe,” project manager, Carol Charette, says with the brevity of a typewriter.

“Even though we are expecting these to be all practice bombs that were used on Nantucket Beach, practice bombs contain what we call a ‘spotting charge.’ If the spotting charge did not detonate as it was intended to detonate on impact, then it can still be intact and could cause someone harm.” Charette advises anyone who stumbles across a possible practice bomb to follow the three R’s: “Recognize the item as potentially dangerous, Retreat from the area without touching the item and Report the item and its location to the local police by calling 911.”

Over the summer, the results of the remedial investigation will be documented in a report outlining the types of munitions found as well as the size of the area holding them. “Human

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humans and the environment associated with munitions found on site,” explains Charette.

“A feasibility study will then be conducted to identify and evaluate various technical alternatives to address the munitions on site.” Depending on what comes back in the report, the Army Corps of Engineers could conduct a full-blown removal, thus digging up pieces of a Nantucket past that have long since been forgotten.

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Health and Ecological Risk Assessments will also be conducted to determine the risk to

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TOP, SAM & LAVI @ EYE OF THE NEEDLE HEADBAND, MISSONI @ GYPSY LEATHER SHORTS, A.L.C. @ GYPSY

STYLED BY KATE COE

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BEACHBODIES WRITTEN BY MARIE-CLAIRE ROCHAT

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE

WHEN DOCUMENTARIANS, GEORGE BUTLER AND ROBERT FIORE,

RELEASED THEIR 1977 FILM PUMPING IRON, starring a herculean Austrian named

Arnold Schwarzenegger, audiences around the world marveled at a bizarre subculture called bodybuilding. Also emerging from that time was a lesser-known female version of the sport. Through the 1980s and 1990s, female bodybuilding became more popular, eventually splitting into two divisions: bodybuilding, which emphasizes sculpted, symmetrically balanced physiques, and fitness, which incorporates flexibility, agility and gymnastics into the competition. In the last decade, the sport has evolved further, no longer favoring hulking, muscle-bound bodybuilders, but lean, sculpted “figure models.” Amazingly, while only a miniscule percentage of American women are engaged in this sport,

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Nantucket is home to at least three champion female bodybuilders.

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While the workouts were grueling, Scotty found the process of stripping her body of fat even more challenging. In the weeks leading up to the competition, restrictions to her diet intensified dramatically starting with a systematic elimination of entire food groups. Refined sugar and white flour were easy first targets, followed by phasing out healthful oils, fruit, fish, and eventually most vegetables. Still, she didn’t feel she was lean enough. Two weeks before the competition, Scotty consulted with a fellow bodybuilder in the Boston area who recommended an even more drastic program of consuming boiled chicken and steamed asparagus every four hours, around the clock. “I had to get up throughout the night to eat,” she says. “It was that controlled.” She washed the diet down every day Fourteen years ago, Scotty Thompson had no intention of becoming a

with two gallons of water.

champion bodybuilder. In fact, she didn’t even consider herself much of an athlete. She joined the Nantucket Health Club to sidestep the

Scotty’s diet alone illustrates the early state of

extra pounds she gained every winter when her catering job wound

bodybuilding from which she was emerging.

down and she became less physically active. Just over a year

Her victories came through sheer discipline and

later, at the age of forty-four, Scotty was a Massachusetts State

focus, as well as a bit of trial and error. Now a

Champion, winning the bodybuilding division in the thirty-five and under age category in all

personal trainer on the island, well versed in

three weight classes. “There was no one in my age group, so I had to compete in the thirty-

proper nutrition and training, she looks

five and under class,” says Scotty now fifty-seven and still in spectacular shape. “I won in my

back on her competition days with a

lightweight class, then went on to win the middle and heavyweight classes, too.”

laugh, “I just did the whole thing on a wing and a prayer.”

“Genetically, I have the propensity to put on a lot of lean body mass pretty quickly,” she says while performing rapid curls to pump up for the photo shoot. “At first, I couldn’t picture my-

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around the idea I decided to go for it.” Scotty adopted a rigorous routine of muscle-specific weight training each day, followed by an hour of cardio. On alternate days, she rehearsed her poses with trainer, Dave Shultz, and her routine with dance instructor, Giovanna La Paglia.

SCOTTY THOMPSON

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self standing up in front of a thousand people, posing on a stage, but once I wrapped my mind

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O

ver a decade since Scotty earned her first title,

master in secondary education in biology, anatomy and

the very definition of female bodybuilding has

physiology. For the last three years, Joy has competed

completely changed, with islanders, Joy Marks and Erin

in both the figure and bikini divisions. “Figure is more

Ranney, competing in what’s now known as bikini and

my zone,” she says, explaining that the “difference

figure contests. The two have won national titles while

between the two is size and quality of muscularity.”

balancing being mothers, wives, trainers as well as their

Most recently, she placed fourth in her division at the

own fundraisers. The science behind bodybuilding has

Fitness Universe in Miami—her biggest win to date in

also become safer, and the two women attest to diets and

an international competition.

routines that not only yield magnificent physiques, but also have added benefits of healthy skin and stronger immune

Similarly, Erin Ranney had long been a fitness buff

systems. “I never get sick,” says Joy. “I am constantly

and was interested in “taking it to the next level” by

consuming the right foods and lots of water; you can put

competing. Looking to get back into shape after the

me in a room of sick people, and I will be fine.”

birth of her first child, she joined Cathy Savage Fitness, a company based in Norwood, Massachusetts.

In a sport that once encouraged extreme dieting, Erin says that her food program when training is healthy and nourishing, without

Four months later, she participated in her first show, competing in the bikini division, which promotes a “softer look” than bodybuild-

being overly restrictive. “I eat a

ing. She went on to compete in shows

balanced meal every three hours,

in Boston and Las Vegas last year,

every day,” she says. “I have seen

placing first in the Bikini Classic in

what some women do as far as

Boston. Presently nine months pregnant,

nutrition goes and it isn’t pretty.

They cut out so many things, and it isn’t necessary at all.” Joy

she has put her

“THERE IS NO SEPARATION BETWEEN FITNESS AND DIET. IF YOU ARE MOVING, YOU NEED FUEL, AND IT HAD BETTER BE THE BEST FUEL YOU CAN PUT IN YOUR BODY”

training on hold, but is already looking ahead to competing again in 2013.

echoes these sentiments, explaining that, “There is no separation

While Erin Ranney and Joy Marks compete in an

between fitness and diet. If you are moving, you need

entirely different era of bodybuilding than Scotty

fuel, and it had better be the best fuel you can put in

Thompson, the stigmas and obstacles they face are the

your body if you expect it to perform at top speed.”

same. Scotty and Joy both point to the day they told

Joy eats a nourishing combination of protein, vegetables,

their parents about wanting to become a bodybuilder

fruit, whole grain starches and healthy oils every two to

as a watershed moment in their lives. “They just didn’t

three hours, which flies in the face of the anti-snacking

understand it,” remembers Scotty. “But now they both

diets of Scotty’s day.

lift weights and they’re in they’re eighties!” The same can perhaps be said about society at large, as many

“I started reading Shape Magazine at age twelve and

might look at female bodybuilding as taboo. Here on

have always been fascinated by muscular anatomy,”

Nantucket, however, all three women have had the

says Joy of her early inklings of the sport. She went on

support of family and friends. And when all else fails,

to study exercise physiology as an undergrad at the

these women draw strength from each other.

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University of New Hampshire, and later attained a

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POWER OF

THE PACK WRITTEN BY ROBERT S. COCUZZO

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE

ON ANY GIVEN SUMMER MORNING, the rotary at the beginning of Milestone Road becomes the starting line for a large group bike ride on Nantucket. Spandex-clad cyclists straddle road bikes in the dew-covered dawn,

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estate brokers, and vacationers, young and old, men and women. Yet at 6:00 A.M. on this narrow piece of pavement, they are all cyclists, defined only by how fast they can turn their pedals.

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waking up, waiting, and wondering, What do I have in the tank today? They are gardeners, contractors, bankers, waiters, real

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BEFORE LONG, THE NANTUCKET VELO TEAM ARRIVES, ROLLING IN LIKE A PACK OF TIGER SHARKS. Outfitted in steel blue and silver uniforms, black helmets, and white-rimmed sunglasses, they glide on space-age bicycles—sleek carbon fiber frames with seamless welds, weightless components, running ten grand and up. The leader of the Velo team, who the French might call the maillot jaune, the “yellow jersey,” is Todd Burns. Burns has a presence on a bike. He seems to sit higher, pedal faster, and breath easier. His teammates are similarly imposing. Jim Congdon is a workhorse, often galloping past the group into the wind

Todd Burns & Jake Allegrini

to “get in his workout.” Six-foot-four-inch

piece of pavement from the rotary to Siasconset

Mike Allen is a giant on a bike, mechanically

and back. Depending on wind direction, riders

grinding his pedals over the biggest gears.

set out down Milestone Road, branching off

When he hits his stride, the bike sounds like

northeast onto the smooth blacktop of Polpis

a handsaw cutting through supple birch. All

Road. From there, they pick away at cul-de-

the way down the roster— Rich Brooks, Dave

sacs and back roads: up and back Wauwinet,

Troast, the Toole brothers, Angus Macavair,

up and back Pocomo, up and back Quidnet.

Sean Monaco, Bob Prohaska, Mark Burns,

Returning to Polpis, the route swings by the

Mark Horan, Tom Hanlon, Chip Drapeau and

Sankaty Lighthouse, then takes a fast, straight

Paul Flanigan—the Velo team is Nantucket’s

shot to ‘Sconset Village, into the labyrinth of

U.S. Postal Tour de Lance powerhouse circa

Tom Nevers, and finishes along the straighta-

the early 2000s (before the doping scandal).

way down Milestone. Make no mistake about it, this is not a leisurely sightseeing tour around the island, but a gutsy hour-long

out rhetorically. “This first loop, no one gets

gauntlet that often erupts into all out dogfights,

dropped. The second loop…the gloves are off.

cyclists breaking away and challenging the

Every man for himself.” The “loop” is a thirty-

pack to catch them if they can.

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“Alright, everyone ready?” Jim Congdon calls

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THE OPENING THREE MILES

pass amicably. Each of the twenty

or so riders takes a thirty-second turn at the front breaking the wind for the rest of the group. In cycling, the power lies in the pack, what’s called the peloton. Riding in formation, the group conserves energy by circulating to the front and sharing the burden of cutting through the air. In large pelotons, cyclists in the middle can pedal half as hard as those in the front. However, once one falls out of the pack, they are as good as done, lost to fight through Nantucket’s coastal breeze alone. With local traffic prohibiting the glorified pelotons of races, the group rides in a train, maybe two or three rows wide. Amidst the patchwork of jerseys, a common thread is the blue and silver of the Nantucket Triathlon Club, lead by Jason Bridges, Jake Allegrini, and Heather Williams.

Bridges has literally made cycling his business; he owns and operates Nantucket’s first and only bike tours. When the pace gets out of hand, he helps reign in the group and reestablish the thirty-second intervals at the front. Many of the tri-guys and –gals will wash down the morning ride with a 5K run and half-mile swim. They ride tri-specific bikes designed to promote the most aerodynamic stance

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the bike, their backs

Around the ten-mile mark, the group splits

Congdon is the first to break out, lower-

Crossing a crack in the road just before

running parallel to the

into three: slow, medium, and fast. Up front,

ing himself into the drops of his handlebars

reaching the entrance to ‘Sconset, the riders

ground, they glide over

the Velo team and some tri-guys cruise along

and tucking in his knees to form a compact

sit back and coast, breathing heavily with

the road and under the

with a mysterious, unaffiliated rider. Wearing

locomotive. Allegrini is quick to grab his back

their heads hung. There is no photo finish.

wind. When performed

a teardrop-shaped helmet and a retro Can-

wheel, followed by Mike Allen and Steve

No winner crowned. No yellow jersey, no

correctly, as by Danielle

nondale jersey, Steve Warren rides on an old,

Warren. Just to their left is Todd Burns, strok-

flowers, and certainly no beautiful women

Odell or Jake Allegrini,

Italian frame—one of the forty or so he has

ing his pedals with perfect, relaxed cadence.

giving out kisses on a podium. No, this is for

the form can be as grace-

restored himself. A man of few words, Steve

Whipping along the Sankaty Golf Course, the

the love of the road, the enjoyment of pain,

ful as a thoroughbred in

seems to relish cycling of yore, claiming that

pavement purrs as each rider cranks the big-

the delight of endorphins, the best way to

full stride.

classic steel frames will endure long after

gest gear on his bike. Suddenly Steve pulls out

start the day. The morning ride is not about

today’s pricey carbon fiber bikes are broken

front, standing up on his pedals and rocking

glory or victory, or even competition. It’s

and defunct.

his frame from side to side This provokes an

about a small community bound by gears

all out assault, the pack spreading five across

and chains and only so much road to ride.

Cruising around twenty-five miles per hour

the road, each going pedal for pedal. Burns

on the flats, this elite group finds its pace,

takes it up a notch, pushing through to the

passing traffic with the moxie of Hells

front. ‘Sconset comes into sight: It’s now or

Angels. Hitting the straightaway between

never. Kicking with everything they got, suck-

Sankaty Light and ‘Sconset, each begins

ing air through pursed lips, eyes trained on

shifting into bigger and bigger gears as if

the road, the most elite cyclists on the island

clicking back the hammer of a starting gun.

careen towards an unmarked finish.

Without a word, everyone in the pack senses that the race is on.

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BEAUTY

BEAST of the

WRITTEN BY ROBERT S. COCUZZO

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE

“IF A SHARK GETS TOO CLOSE, WIND UP AND PUNCH IT IN THE NOSE.” This is the first piece of advice I receive from Captain Bryce Rohrer of Nantucket Shark Divers—I hope it’s not the last. We’re ten miles south of Nantucket, 240 degrees southwest of Smith Point to be precise, in a location known as “The Owl.” The boat consists of the captain, a photographer, two boxes of chum, fifteen dead bluefish, and a four hundred

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Tracker, a thirty-one-foot, ton-and-a- half diesel whose character far exceeds its beauty. The old trawler once fished the waters around Montauk. Now it chugs off the coast of Nantucket in search of big sharks—not to catch, but to swim alongside.

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pound shark cage. We are aboard the

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e are drifting in a spin off of the Gulf Stream, in

Greg Skomal is the top shark scientist in the Northeast, heading

about 130 feet of water. There is a whisper of

up the Massachusetts Shark Research Program for the Division

wind coming out of the west, and the sea is flat

of Marine Fisheries. When the Discovery Channel came to the

calm, its temperature rising from sixty-two degrees to a tropical

Cape and the islands to film Jaws Comes Home for Shark Week

seventy-five. Captain Bryce is busy readying the shark cage to

two years ago, they called up Skomal. He’s without question the

be dumped overboard. The cage appears more like a Plexiglas

authority on sharks in New England. “Going out and encounter-

phone booth than the steel grid made famous by Jaws. Custom-

ing these animals in their natural environment, you will notice

built by legendary stuntman and inventor, Eddie Paul, the four-

their beauty and their grace and their inquisitive nature,” Dr.

foot by eight-foot cage is equipped with bulletproof glass and

Skomal said to me over the phone. “You’ll see that they’re not

functions like a reverse aquarium. One element, however, sets

going to try to bite you.” He went on to explain that attacks are

the cage apart on this particular day. For the sake of getting the

typically due to mistaken identity: the shark making an explora-

best underwater photography, a three-foot by two-foot window

tory bite into what it senses to be prey. “We’re talking about ani-

has been left open to the sharks. Normally, a diver would be

mals whose sensory perception is exquisite, but we can’t think

completely enclosed and pro-

of them as being actually intellectual

tected in the cage, but we opted

creatures,” he explained. “Envi-

for the window.

ronmental conditions don’t always allow them to make out the differ-

The cage splashes into the water

ence between a surfer on a surfboard

gracelessly and is tied off at

and a seal on the surface.” When I

the stern. Captain Bryce starts

informed Dr. Skomal that I was going

chumming. He pours a three

to be diving with sharks off the coast

count of fish oil into the water,

of Nantucket, he responded just as

then hangs a chum bucket from

everyone else I told: “Are you going

the boat’s gunnel and starts fileting

with Bryce?”

up bluefish. “Blues are the best for baiting sharks,” he says. “They’re

Twenty-seven-year-old Bryce Rohrer

oily, and they make up the

is the only shark diving guide on the

majority of their diet out here.”

island. His outfit, Nantucket Shark

The goal is to attract blue sharks, and if we’re lucky, a mako,

Divers, just launched this summer, offering clients of all ages

what Captain Bryce describes as “pound for pound, the meanest,

the chance to experience sharks up close and personal. Bryce’s

fastest, most aggressive fish in the water.” These are oceanic

reputation for swimming with large sharks, however, started

sharks, rarely if ever seen near land. Nantucket’s inshore shark

much earlier. Somewhere in the old Rohrer family album is a

population consists mostly of the sand tiger, sandbar shark, smooth

photo of an eight-year-old Bryce lifting a dead three-foot brown

dogfish, spiny dogfish and basking shark—all of which pose

shark over his head. He has been obsessed ever since. At sixteen,

little to no threat to bathers. Here, some seventy miles from the

Bryce entered the water with them, diving on hammerheads

Continental Shelf, all kinds of sharks are possible, from

off the Galapagos Islands. After college, he spent months in

hammerheads to tigers to threshers to great whites.

South Africa, arguably the great white capital of the world, first

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Captain Bryce hangs two bluefish heads into the water, then

diving guide. “I would take out ten to thirty people, and we’d be

stows the rest for later. “Chum is like alcohol for sharks,” he says

diving on fifty sharks…mostly tiger sharks and bulls,” he says.

while plucking meat off a filet and tossing it into the water. “You

It was here in South Africa that Bryce observed shark behavior

give them a little bit, and they’ll come to the party. You turn the

up close, learning to hand-feed them and read their movements.

water red, and they’ll go crazy.” He pauses and looks off.

Swimming with packs of giant bull sharks all day, everyday, he

“Hopefully we can get them to swarm the boat.” As he is saying

also vanquished his fear of them. When first meeting Bryce, his

this, I am trying not to think about the wet suit I’m wearing or

appearance doesn’t strike you in that Captain Quint kind of way.

my intent to swim with these sharks. I am trying not to think

He’s wearing a t-shirt, baggie shorts, and no hat or sunglasses.

about the eighteen-foot great white reported off Chatham

However, it doesn’t take long to realize that he is as salty as they

yesterday, or the 990-pound mako caught off Block Island last

get. “I want to go after the biggest, baddest things in the ocean,”

week. I am trying not to think about the helicopter ride that

he says without a hint of bravado, “and those are sharks.”

would be my only chance of survival in the unlikely event of a serious attack. Instead, I am trying to think about my interview with Dr. Gregory Skomal a week before.

“I WANT TO GO AFTER THE BIGGEST, BADDEST THINGS IN THE OCEAN...

AND THOSE ARE SHARKS.” — CAPTAIN BRYCE ROHRER

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serving as a great white research assistant and then as a shark

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he water glistens with chum, and gulls and terns dive-bomb the surface for bluefish scraps. It’s time to get in. I spit into my goggles, drag them over my scalp, put the snorkel into my mouth, and swing my legs over the

gunnel. Here we go. Just get in. Just get in. JUST GET IN. I plunge over the side, and swim spiritedly to the cage and in through the open photography window. Steadying myself into a corner, the cage raps against the transom in the lapping

Even in the seventy-five degree water, a chill takes

current. Before long, the captain calls out: “Alright, we have a shark just off the stern to the left.”

hold of me and I exit the cage. It’s now my photographer Kit Noble’s turn to enter and hopefully capture

I dip below the surface and walk my hands down the cage, my breath panting in my ears through the snorkel. This is the

some underwater images. Just before he dives in,

moment I feared most, searching the green abyss, waiting for the first sign of the shark, completely unsure how I would

Captain Bryce stops him. “Where did you get those?”

respond when it swam into sight. And then there it is, moving through the water like a length of silk in a light breeze.

he asks, nodding to the Kit’s yellow-rimmed goggles.

“They’re mine. I brought them with me.” “Sharks love yellow,” the captain says. “We call it ‘yummy yellow.’

Keep that camera in front of your face.” Kit drops into the water, apparently satisfied with this solution.

Before long, a bigger blue shark glides onto the scene.

It’s eight feet long, and far more energetic and bold than the one before. “We got a player,” Captain Bryce mutters. The photographer bounces from wall to wall, snapping away for the money shot with his underwater camera. When the shark swims off, we call out its location and Kit comes to the surface to check out his shots.

“We need to bring it closer to the window,” he says, scrolling through the last series of images. “The water is too murky. We need to get the shark closer.”

Kit takes a big breath, slips back into the water, and then proceeds to stick his head and shoulders outside the cage’s photography window. He’s really going for it now. Captain Bryce lobs out a mangled filet and we wait—the carcass seeping blood and oil feet from the cage. The shark emerges from the deep blue, thrusting through the murk and onto the bait. Kit freezes, his upper body suspended in the open water.

As the shark approaches the bait, I can just make out Kit’s trigger finger slamming down on the camera. The shark seizes the bluefish, its forward momentum carrying its eight-foot body onto Kit.

Writer Robert Cocuzzo with a blue shark

The distance between the two closes down to

Entering into a beam of sun, the shark explodes in magnificent blue—a blue shark, about six feet long, with an old fishing

inches. Kit backs away, but the shark keeps com-

leader trailing from its mouth. I notice something splash in the water and see that it is a bluefish carcass tied to a line—

ing. Just as the two meet face to face, a fist swings

Captain Bryce is teasing the shark to the cage. The shark glides lazily to the bait, Bryce luring him closer and closer to the

though the water and Kit knocks the shark back.

cage. Six inches from the glass, the bait stops. The shark opens its mouth, revealing its teeth, and white caps roll over its

And it’s gone. He rushes to the surface—not

black eyes. It snips the hunk of bluefish in half like scissors through construction paper.

cursing or yelling, but laughing…hysterically.

“I think that was close enough!” he yells up.

For twenty minutes, the shark circles the cage, lingering by the open window and peering at me with dancing eyes. My fear

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composite of beveled lines, hewn by evolution and culminating in sheer hydrodynamic power. For most people, sharks occupy a part of the brain connected to fear. Yet, it’s a fear rooted in Hollywood fictions, imagination, and dead, toothy sharks hung up on the dock. Seeing the shark in real life, how it slips through the water curiously, dispels the malicious, man- eating image I long held.

Photographer Kit Noble after a close encounter

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is gone, replaced by excitement and a genuine appreciation for this animal’s perfect, prehistoric design. Its sleek body is a

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eyond the sheer rush of the experience,

With the cage plucked from the water and

diving with sharks aboard Captain Bryce

brought on board, Captain Bryce fires up his

Rohrer’s Tracker illustrates some important points.

diesel engine and we embark on the two-hour

For one, sharks are not interested in, or in search of

steam back to Nantucket. The photographer

humans as prey. It took two buckets of chum,

and I sit in the sun, reeling from adrenalin

fifteen bluefish carcasses, a bottle of fish oil, a

hangovers, smiling and speechless. The

highly knowledgeable captain, and motoring two

images of the day play over my mind, and

hours offshore to raise five sharks that would dart

I can sense that a fundamental shift has

away with a tap on the nose. This is not to say jump

occurred. Like lions and tigers and bears,

in the water whenever you see a dorsal fin. These

sharks encapsulate the dichotomy of man and

are powerful, instinctive animals that can literally

beast. They are source of fear and fascination,

sense fear.

patrollers of a watery world we both embrace and repel. Yet in the water, a shark is just

Today, the stigmas surrounding sharks are

another animal searching for food and trying

being reconsidered. “There was a time, maybe

to survive. In all likelihood, man’s fear of

fifty years ago, that the only good sharks were

sharks will never be quelled. But hopefully,

dead sharks,” Dr. Skomal said to me during

in time, that fear will also breed better

our interview. “In the last ten to fifteen years,

understanding and respect for these

there has been a changing attitude, a lot of

magnificent creatures.

people have tremendous respect for them and believe them to be important components of our ecosystem.” Nevertheless, Captain Bryce says that sharks continue to be fished aggressively: “The scary thing is that in fifteen years, we might not be able to do this.”

THE GREAT WHITE

QUESTION

With Nantucket’s growing abundance of seals, many are concerned that the waters around the island could soon become a haven for great white sharks, as seen recently off Chatham and Monomoy. For more insight on this concern, we turned to leading shark expert Dr. Gregory Skomal. “We know the white shark occurs around Nantucket and all of New England, really,” Dr. Skomal explained. “It’s highly plausible that Nantucket— specifically those areas of Nantucket that have high seal abundance— may be suitable for white sharks.” Dr. Skomal indicated that in addition to Great Point last year, which witnessed a large white shark in the area, Muskeget Island (located just west of Nantucket) is another plausible location for a white shark population. “It’s an area that is remote and there’s lots of seals on it. If everything plays out as it should, then there should be lots of white sharks around that island,” he said. “But one thing about Muskeget is that it’s very shallow. And there are lots of shoals and sandbars and it’s not easy access for animals that don’t want to be in shallow, shallow water. So Muskeget may never become a white shark hotspot…but that’s a question we are trying to answer.” Skomal said swimmers should take comfort in the fact that seal populations are less dense in highly trafficked and populated shorelines, thus also deterring

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HEART of the MATTER PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIM LUCIAN

INTERVIEW BY LOUISE MORRISSEY

Although nearly every minute of his day is booked, Dr. Joseph Garasic neither rushes nor checks his watch during our appointment. This composure comes with his fifteen years as a cardiologist. Moreover, Dr. Garasic follows his own medical advice when it comes to stress. “Stress is dangerous, particularly when it keeps us from the pursuit of a healthy lifestyle,” he says. “My profession, like many others, comes with a considerable amount of stress. I find that aerobic exercise, light-weight training, sailing and generous doses of time at our home in Nantucket combat stress nicely.”

In addition to serving as an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of Peripheral Vascular Intervention in the Cardiology Division at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Garasic also sees office patients at the Nantucket Cottage Hospital on Mondays year round. Most recently, Dr. Garasic showed us around his catheterization lab at Mass General and fielded some questions on keeping

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N: STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT LONG PERIODS OF SITTING, AS IN MANY AMERICAN JOBS, HAVE DRAMATIC DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS ON CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH, AND THAT ONE HOUR OF ACTIVITY IS NOT ENOUGH TO NEGATE THESE EFFECTS. WHAT RECOMMENDATIONS DO YOU HAVE FOR PEOPLE WHO SIT BEHIND A DESK ALL DAY?

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DR. GARASIC: Inactivity is definitely the enemy. We all know

Diabetes is a complicated condition and strong cardiovascular risk

the surface. Fat, cholesterol, potassium, magne-

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people who disappear suddenly when you get into the elevator,

factor that is partly genetic and partly modifiable (i.e. the rate of

sium, sodium, caffeine, caloric intake and daily

DR. GARASIC: Routine aerobic exercise is

and re-appear from the stairwell five minutes later and six floors

adult onset diabetes is on the rise with increasing rates of obesity).

fluid intake, among others, are all potentially

the cornerstone of healthy living and is among

higher looking rosy and a bit out of breath. Be that person. Find

Hypertension is another significant risk factor that, again, is partly

important and must be tailored to the individual.

the most important steps an individual can

moments of exercise anywhere you can. Walk during lunch with

genetic and partly modifiable. So, if someone has hypertension,

take in avoiding cardiovascular disease.

N: WHAT CHANGES HAVE YOU SEEN PEOPLE EMBRACE IN IMPROVING THEIR CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH, AND WHICH DO YOU THINK ARE MOST EFFECTIVE?

N: HISTORICALLY, A LOW-FAT DIET HAS BEEN RECOMMENDED FOR CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH, IS IT STILL STRONGLY RECOMMENDED?

DR. GARASIC: Everything that people need

DR. GARASIC: Diet is still a large part of

to know about cardiovascular health is out

becoming and staying heart healthy. However,

there for the taking. The real question is,

the simple idea of eating low fat only scratches

amidst the deluge of data, what should we embrace and what is of less clear benefit?

For example, when I talk to my patients, most of them have a sincere interest in getting and

DR. GARASIC: Some cardiovascular risk factors are unavoidable: age, gender, family history. However, smoking is perhaps the number one modifiable cardiac risk factor, and the benefits of smoking cessation begin the moment you quit.

a friend. Walk briskly whenever there is a chance to walk. Don’t

making the diagnosis early and working with medicine and

staying well. That said, I find some of them

Being overweight or obese is clearly linked

Recommended exercise includes thirty to sixty

surf the Internet with your free time, but instead reward yourself

lifestyle changes to control it is very important in mitigating risk.

are particularly focused on the use of vitamins

to high blood

minutes, five times per week in any form that

with even five or ten minutes of time outdoors.

and supplements. They come to an office visit

and reduced

pressure, diabetes longevity, and

gets your heart rate up and makes you sweat.

with a list of “nutraceuticals” a page long. Yet, they are less interested in taking a good long

There is a segment of the population that finds

walk around the block at a brisk pace, reducing

fulfillment in marathon running and the like.

their cholesterol with dietary discretion, or going

It seems clear that workouts of this magnitude are not necessary to reap the

to the gym.

Everyone wants to be healthy, but sometimes cardiovascular health can

Everyone wants to be healthy, but sometimes cardiovascular health can take some work.

physical health benefits of exercise.

At the present time, it is not known whether extreme exercise could be deleterious to one’s health,

take some work. At the

though this is an active area of

Massachusetts General

investigation. It is also prudent

Hospital, we try to encourage a comprehensive

weight is one of our most modifiable risk

to remind endurance athletes that high-end

approach to improving cardiovascular health,

factors for the development of cardiovascu-

training is not fully protective against heart

emphasizing therapies with proven benefit,

lar disease. In general terms, the formula for

disease. In practice, this means that they must

such as the statin drugs to lower cholesterol,

weight loss is pretty simple: if energy in is

listen to their bodies during training and not

while encouraging good, common sense

greater than energy out, you gain weight. So,

minimize signs of a heart problem like

approaches to self-care, such as exercise,

you can cut back on what you eat and make

difficulty breathing, chest pain, or sudden

smoking cessation and maintaining an

smarter choices, or you can ramp up on your

spells of fatigue. Any of these should prompt

exemplary diet. I know the primary care

exercise and expend more of that energy.

a timely evaluation by a cardiologist who

physicians at the Cottage Hospital feel

Best, of course, is to do both simultaneously.

understands both heart disease and the

similarly, and share our goals.

You’ll be thinner and stronger at the

specific challenges of endurance sports.

same time, all the while benefiting your cardiovascular health. For the dietary portion of the regimen, I recommend one of the various American Heart Association cookbooks. Both Mitchell’s Book Corner

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N: WE KNOW THAT GENES DETERMINE A LOT ABOUT OUR HEALTH, BUT ARE WE ABLE TO OUTWIT OUR GENES BY EMBRACING POSITIVE LIFESTYLE HABITS? DR. GARASIC: The mystery of the human genetic predisposition to cardiovascular disease is only now being unraveled.

While we wait for some of the more detailed answers, there is much we know today. We understand the relationship between familial or inherited high cholesterol, and premature vascular disease. While many people are averse to taking medicine, it is important to remember that today’s cholesterol-lowering drugs are amazingly effective at reducing the risk of heart attack, stroke, or death from heart disease. Know your cholesterol. Know your blood pressure. Make lifestyle changes to affect improvement in these values. And for whatever you cannot achieve with lifestyle alone, accept modern medicines as a part of your overall plan to combat your genetics.

N: WHAT NEW TECHNOLOGIES HAVE YOU AND YOUR DEPARTMENT INTRODUCED TO MASS GENERAL AND NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL IN TREATING CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH IN YOUR PATIENTS? N: IS IT NEVER TOO LATE TO UNDUE THE DAMAGES YOU MAY HAVE DONE IN PREVIOUS YEARS?

DR. GARASIC: Massachusetts General Hospital is a large,

DR. GARASIC: Improved cardiovascular health is open

general, we offer most every cutting-edge cardiovascular

to anyone with the drive to achieve it. I believe one of the

technology. Despite its small size, Nantucket Cottage

largest obstacles is that years of immobility and obesity can

Hospital has done an exemplary job of caring for the heart

result in orthopedic issues (bad back, bad knees, bad hips)

and vascular needs of an island population that fluctuates

that ultimately limit one’s ability to get the old body

widely in number depending on the season. For the outpa-

moving and back on track. That said, there is exercise for

tient care of those with chronic cardiovascular needs, heart

almost everyone and the advice of a physical therapist and

ultrasound will now be performed at NCH, and read remotely

your local physician can help tailor a regimen to your needs.

by the Echocardiographers at MGH.

Harvard associated, tertiary care academic hospital. In

The MGH radiology group in residence at NCH also now offers vascular ultrasound. MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and CT (Computerized Tomography) scans are often part of cardiovascular evaluation, and are both available at NCH, interpreted by MGH radiology. Cardiac stress testing and cardiac rehabilitation, a supervised exercise and education program used by patients with a history of recent cardiac event, are both available at NCH under the direction of Dr. Diane Pearl and Katie Dehertogh, RN. Dr. Pearl and Ms. Dehertogh also offer a wellness program for continued recovery of post cardiac rehabilitation patients, and patients referred by their physicians for help with managing cardiac risk factors, and to institute a supervised exercise program. They do an amazing job, and the patients are uniformly pleased with the experience.

N: WHAT ELSE CAN PEOPLE DO TO STAY HEALTHY ON NANTUCKET? DR. GARASIC: Support Nantucket Cottage Hospital and the programs that you believe in. Even a three or four month Nantucket resident could very likely need these services one day.

Cardiovascular disease is still the number one killer in the United States.

So do your part to make sure this safety net is there if you or your loved ones

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GOURMET MEALS ON

WHEELS WRITTEN BY MARIE-CLAIRE ROCHAT

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KATIE KAIZER

EVERY CITY SQUARE IN AMERICA SEEMS TO BE LINED WITH FOOD TRUCKS THESE DAYS, tempting the urban dweller’s palate with a diverse array of tantalizing offerings from spicy drunken noodles, Indian dosas, and down-home Texas barbeque, to vegan cupcakes, organic smoothies, and Belgian chocolate fudgesicles.

Whether a result of the shaky economic times, or the national obsession with culinary

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ight on schedule, Nantucket’s first food truck, Blue Bellies, rolled out on to its designated spot at Nobadeer Beach this June and opened for the summer, peddling the best in New England lunch

food with a twist. The brainchild of seasonal resident Alison Kirby, the island’s most mobile eatery will be doling out delicacies to beachgoers seven days a week,

weather permitting. “People are really into food trucks these days,” said Alison as she shuffled me through the truck’s compact kitchenette. “Instead of reinventing the wheel, I jumped behind it, slapped a kitchen in it, and started cooking up my interpretation of the perfect summer meal!”

Alison devised the menu with some input from her boyfriend, Chef Tom Berry of the Great Harbor Yacht Club. She settled on the clam shack concept early on, but some experimentation and informal “tastings” over the winter helped to finalize the menu. Top billing goes to the Whole Belly Ipswich Clam Roll served with a zesty kimchee sauce, followed by a Nantucket lobster roll paired with either Japanese mayo and chives or the traditional clarified butter and sea salt. Of course, Alison offers standard beach chow: hot dogs, “truck-made” potato chips, crinkle-cut fries and chicken fingers, along with sodas and an ice-cream truck all time classic—the Chipwich. Prices will range from $2.00 to $18.00.

Getting a food truck up and running on the island is no easy task, as Alison quickly discovered. Right at the starting line, Nantucket’s strict zoning laws dashed her original plan for a hot dog cart in town—a seemingly easier feat. With town not an option, she set her sights on the beach, and, when casual inquiries among friends led her to a 1984 parcel truck for sale, she knew she was on the right track. Even the truck’s color, marine blue, was serendipitous, lending itself perfectly to her business name, Blue Bellies.

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utfitting the truck to pass the vigorous health department inspections required

may hire someone to help with the lunch rush, although the tight quarters may prohibit having two

installing a commercial grade linoleum floor and the same lineup of appliances

cooks in the kitchen. She is also open-minded about changing or adding to the menu. “If there is a

found in any restaurant kitchen, albeit on a much smaller scale. “A food truck is held

demand for something and I can do it out of a truck, I am open to trying it,” she said. Same goes for catering private events and functions, for which she has created a special menu of mini-rolls.

you have to have so much in such a tiny space!” Food preparation regulations made it necessary for

Ultimately, if it can be cooked in a truck, Alison is onboard. As for advertising, Alison considered

Alison to rent a commercial kitchen, where she mixes batches of lobster salad and preps the clams

driving the truck up Main Street every day after shutting down at Nobadeer, but maneuvering a

every morning before loading her truck. The deep-frying is done to order—on wheels—as is the

parcel truck up the cobblestones with a vat full of oil proved an unwise idea. Instead, Blue

grilling of the buns. At this point, Alison is the sole employee of the Blue Bellies enterprise, serving

Bellies will rely on word of mouth and the savory smells of fried clams and lobster rolls

as order-taker, short-order cook, server, cashier and dishwasher. If business is as good as she hopes, she

wafting from the truck to draw hoards off the beach, lining them up for summers to come!

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FOGGYSHEET nantucket

Melissa & Nat Philbrick

Marjan Shirzad, & Mark Famiglio

Martha Southgate, Wendy Hudson, J. Courtney Sullivan, Tom Perrotta, Elin Hildebrand, Debbie Briggs Bennett & Eevelyn MacEachern

Josephina Angelini & Albert Leon

David Roady & Tina Daniels

Bob & Marianne Felch, Carol & Steve Spinelli

Stacey Edzwald, Andrea Maher & Janet Colby Natalie Bakopoulos & Jeremiah Chamberlin

Kevin Johannesenn & J. Courtney Sullivan

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Zeb & Suzanne Bennett

Meghan Valero, Ingrid Feeney & Gennifer Costanzo

Wyn Cooper & Shawna Parker

Laurie Richards & Vanessa Emery Photos by KRIS KINSLEY HANCOCK

MEN&WOMENof

WATER WRITTEN BY P.J. RUBIN

PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOSHUA SIMPSON

THE TERM “WATERMEN” IS USED TO DESCRIBE RENAISSANCE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE OCEAN, MASTERS OF THE SEA. Today’s watermen can fix an outboard engine, tie a Bimini twist, and navigate in the fog by

compass. They can look at the calendar, and the wind, and the tide and tell you where the fish are swimming or where the best surf break will be come morning. They know where to dig quahogs, find scallops, and can filet a five-hundred-pound tuna singlehandedly. These are men and women within whom water runs so deep that they are not content with having only one relationship with it. By boat, board, snorkel, rod and reel, or body, watermen hone time-earned skills by living their lives within the ebb and flow

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aptain Jim Briard rises to the top of a pretty short list when it comes to revered Nantucket watermen. Born on the island in 1955, Jim comes from a long line of men whose aquatic roots reach as far back as the whaling days. Just as his grandfather, father, and many uncles did before him, Jim enlisted in the Coast Guard at the age of seventeen, serving on an icebreaker that would take him from Antarctica to Alaska. Not long after his tour, he joined his father on a private sport fishing boat, Nazzarena, serving as mate at the age of twenty-two. Jim’s father captained the Nazzarena for thirty years, passing on his knowledge to his son and ultimately handing over the helm. “I tried to follow in his footsteps as much as he told me not to,” Jim remembers of his father. “Starting when I was eight or nine, when my dad had a day off, we would rent a surfboard from Snow’s Surf Shop on Main Street and go surfing at Cisco. I’d be in the water all day.”

These days, when the waves grow to heights that relegate most surfers to the parking lot staring in awe, Jim is one of the few Nantucketers that can be found paddling out in to the swell. Yet, like many watermen, he is not one to talk about his conquests. A deeply humble man, when pressed about his greatest feats on the water, Jim deftly steers the discussion away from himself and onto his two sons. “The first time I ever pushed my kid into a wave and he stood up—that was a moment,” he says. “I actually thought about it the other night, when my son Jamie caught that striper off the beach. I just thought: Here I am. Kid is catching his first fish, and I’m here to be with him.” The two celebrated by going surfing.

“I think about it all the time: What is it that makes me feel so good about the water?” Jim says. “Is it in my blood? Did I get it from my great-grandfather, my grandfather, my dad? My mother’s side came from New Bedford, so they were fishermen. My great-great-great grandfather was in the whaling industry. Is that where it started?” He pauses and continues: “You get hooked on it. Being near the ocean is like medicine: it makes me feel so relaxed and soothed. I don’t even need to be in it. Sitting at my house, looking out the picture window at the rips, I just

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f course, the ocean is not

Guard.” Sound boat handling by captain and

an exclusive realm for

crew delivered them through the storm and

men. Waterwomen

safely back to Nantucket.

like islander, Melanie

Kotalac, also champion the

Melanie also earned her stripes surfing. She’s

tradition of living life on the ocean. At the age

part of a flourishing cadre of women carving

of ten, Melanie and her family moved from the

out their own spots in the typically male-dom-

coast of Rhode Island to Nantucket. A water-

inated lineup. Beyond Nantucket’s waters, the

man in his own right, Melanie’s father brought

hunt for waves has brought her to surf breaks

up his family boating, fishing and clamming

afar, including around the Galapagos Islands,

around the island. However, it wasn’t until

where she experienced her most severe wipe-

Melanie met her future husband, Rick, that

out yet. “It was really big, beautiful, barreling

she graduated from a water enthusiast to water

surf and I just got tangled up with a young local

specialist, devoting her days to catching

kid, and got a few waves on my head,” she

waves, trimming sails, and shucking scallops.

says. “In surfing, you have to pay your dues.”

The couple sailed the world, dotting lines

Just like her father before her, Melanie is passing

down the Eastern Seaboard, to Bermuda,

the watermen ethos to her children, Zack and

around the Bahamas, to Tortola and the British

Mya, and they are taking to it like, well, fish to

Virgin Islands, all about the Caribbean. “I

the sea. Mya is the top surfer in the Northeast

have even sailed around Bali and Lombok,”

for her age, and Zack has returned home to join

she says. And they saw their fair share of

the family business, Brant Point Marine. In the

weather and waves along the way, including

winter, Melanie commercially scallops, and she

a terrifying episode sailing in sixty-five knot

serves as the only woman on the Board of the

winds when transporting a boat from Bermuda.

Nantucket Shellfish Association. In this way,

“That was a pretty scary time,” she remembers.

the water is not only a source of Melanie’s

“We were in the shipping lanes and there was

recreation, but also her livelihood. “I don’t

a tanker coming.

think there is a waterman or a waterwoman,”

The weather was bad.

Even people here who knew we were

on Nantucket, crossing, got

she says. “I believe it gender: We are

transcends people of water.”

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orn on Nantucket in 1989, Parker Matthew Graham is a member of the next generation of watermen emerging on the island. As a kid, he roamed the town pier, sweeping

the docks, putting in channel markers,

and taking up odd jobs just to be by the ocean. Before long, the Marine and Coastal Resources Department took notice of the young man’s talent and enthusiasm, and gave him a two-year job studying shellfish and invasive crab species. Over the last five years, he has worked with his uncle, Billy, at Brant Point Marine, “doing everything that involves boats.” Parker can surf just about any wave Nantucket’s waters can produce, and he has an intimate understanding and respect for its force. “When you’re sitting out there, you can’t control what’s coming at you,” he says. “All you can do is apply your skill to that particular moment. You are in the now…living second by second.” Beyond the board, Parker has garnered knowledge on the water by helping deliver boats to Nantucket from other far-off islands. As with many watermen, he ranks remaining calm as one of the most important skills for surviving the ocean.

“The ocean isn’t trying to kill you,” he says, “it doesn’t even know you are there. If you can keep your heart rate low, you are better able to use your skills to stay out of harm’s way.” When asked about the influences that created his passion for the ocean, Parker doesn’t hesitate to credit the community of Nantucket.

Nantucket has long been a land of these tacticians of the sea, passing down skills and stories that culminate in people like Jim Briard, Melanie Kotalac and Parker Graham.

The watermen tradition is both earned and inherited—the only requirement is to share it

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Ben Stiller

Diane Keaton

Mystelle Brabbee

Tom Cavanagh & Mike O’Malley

Colin & Christina Stanfield

Donna Hamel, Bill & Susan Vareschi Jim Taylor

Nancy Meyers

Brian, Jane, Doug & Allison Williams

Will Conroy, Ricki Stern, Tim Wakefield & Jason Varitek

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Rory Kennedy

Ethel Kennedy

Lucy Alibar

Jim Carrey & Chris Rock

Kathryn Kennedy, Tiffany Malloy & Clare Ann Darragh Photos by KRIS KINSLEY HANCOCK

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With cigarettes, seductive secretaries and two martini lunches, television’s hit series Mad Men has distilled life on Madison Avenue in the 1960s into a colorful package—but one that only tells half the story. Longtime Nantucket summer resident, Ken Roman, former chairman of the legendary ad agency Ogilvy & Mather, describes life as a real mad man working for the greatest ad man of all time and inspiration for the TV series, David Ogilvy.

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TO UNDERSTAND THE MAN,

ith an early taste of media as the editor of Dartmouth College’s newspaper, Roman packed his bags and headed to the world of public relations. At the age of thirty-two, he landed a job at

one has to grasp first that Ogilvy was an actor. There was a theatrical delivery to his cul-

Ogilvy & Mather, initially working on the General Foods

tured English accent. He had a sense of center stage and a sure instinct for the memorable

account. As he rose through the ranks, Roman’s team managed

gesture. When he spotted his octogenarian client Helena Rubinstein getting out of her car

brands that included American Express, Huggies, Dove, Shake ’n

near a puddle, he ran across the street to lay down his jacket for her to walk on. He made

Bake, Maxwell House and Barbie.

his points with dramatic flourish and often dressed for his parts. At black-tie events, he might show up in a kilt. “Perhaps a bit of self-advertisement,” he explained. “If you can’t

According to Roman, working for David Ogilvy was inspirational. Roman recalls

advertise yourself, what hope do you have of being able to advertise anything else?”

how Ogilvy had a gift as a manager by taking simple messages and making them unforgettable. He recounts a meeting where Ogilvy dramatized his desire for his team to hire people better and smarter than they by bringing out a set of Russian Matryoshka dolls. Opening the nesting dolls until the smallest doll quality of the employee continues to shrink. In another meeting, Ogilvy expressed his disdain for committees: “Search your parks in all your cities, you’ll find no statues of committees.”

So impressed was Roman with Ogilvy that he decided to write a book about his management style and colorful past entitled, The King of Madison Avenue.

Listed as a top ten read

by Business Week, Roman’s account explores the genius of David Ogilvy as well as taking the reader into the glory days of advertising.

The following is an excerpt from Roman’s book, which describes the life and times of America’s original mad man.

Reprinted with permission from Kenneth Roman, Roman, Kenneth. The King of Madison Avenue. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pg. 4-5.

appeared, Ogilvy made the point that when managers hire beneath them, the

He had the actor’s gift of entrances and

One characteristic of geniuses, said

He knew a lot about a lot of things, and used

exits. Instead of coming into a conference

Einstein, is they are passionately curious.

his knowledge to establish a common

hall while the chairman of another agency

Ogilvy’s great secret was an inquiring mind.

ground with a wide variety of people. Talking

was speaking, Ogilvy waited until the man

In conversation, he never pontificated; he

with the British Philatelic Bureau, a

had finished and gone, so all eyes would

interrogated. At dinner with a copywriter

client in London, Ogilvy asked, “Tell me,

turn to him. A speech consultant considered

and her husband who worked in the oil

what ever happened to George V’s stamp

his showmanship in so little need of improve-

business, Ogilvy quizzed the man at length

collection?” He loved Mozart, Brahms,

ment that if he came to her for help, she’d

about the oil situation in the Middle East.

and the Baroque composer Henry Purcell,

tell him, go home! He was driven around

He queried the 15-year-old daughter of

and went often to New York Philharmonic

New York in a Rolls-Royce before many

an executive about playing the flute in the

orchestra concerts. Once he corrected a

were around. It was quite a show.

school band. “How many flutes? How

creative group on their use of a line from a

many piccolos? Why are there always so

Gilbert & Sullivan operetta. Another time

Ogilvy was not above embellishing his

many more flutes than piccolos?” A woman

he put a prospective hire at ease with a

picaresque life story. He told the head of

who sat next to him at dinner said that by

discussion of abstract painting and politics

British American Tobacco that his first job

dessert, he knew more about her than her

in Czechoslovakia. But “culture” bored him.

had been with BAT. A few months later, he

mother. At another level, he was an invet-

His comment on an agonizingly long French

told another CEO that his first job had been

erate gossip. He would pump people for

documentary film: “My bum fell asleep.”

with that man’s company. It was all part of

information. “Give me the dirt.” “What do

selling himself. Ogilvy’s trouble, wrote

you think of Blank? Is he up to the job?”

Printer’s Ink, is that “he is overcome by an

Like most snobs, Ogilvy loved to name-drop.

According to him, one of his friends in Chicago

irresistible impulse to say what he thinks

A zealous student of the business, Ogilvy

was a former king of Yugoslavia. He enjoyed

will make good listening or good reading.

claimed he had read every book about

telling colleagues he was going to dine with

The impulse makes him add things, so he

advertising—and disdained others who felt

the king. “If there’s anything David likes,

never tells the same story twice: it’s almost

they didn’t need his knowledge. There

it’s royalty,” says a friend, “ and a king is

the same—but it has been adorned a little.”

were piles of books all over his house, most

best.”… Almost everyone felt that his wit and

Like any actor, he wanted to give himself

about successful leaders in business and

charm outweighed his occasional rudeness.

better lines.

government. He was interested in how they

“He was famous for his eccentricities,”

used their leadership. How they made their

conceded David McCall, one of Ogilvy’s

money. And particularly how rich people

successors as the agency’s copy chief, “but it

used their wealth.

was the orthodoxy of his working mind that made him an irreplaceable pioneer in a

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Nantucket Beauty Essentials WRITTEN BY ANDREA POMERANTZ LUSTIG

As a longtime beauty journalist, I’ve tried more beauty products than I even want to admit. My makeup bags have makeup bags! But when I retreat to Nantucket each summer, I streamline my routine to go with my

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active island lifestyle. These are some of my foolproof summer favorites.

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NEUTROGENA CLEAR FACE LIQUID LOTION SUNBLOCK SPF 55 $9.49

ALBA BOTANICA HAWAIIAN SHAMPOOS AND CONDITIONERS $10.50

DR. BRANDT FLEXITONE BB CREAM SPF 30 $39

I slather my face and neck with this weightless, oil-free sunscreen. It blends right in, won’t cause breakouts, and looks and feels invisible, not like greasy sunblock.

My whole family loves these all-natural 100% vegetarian shampoo and conditioner sets (there are six) that cleanse and detangle with natural and botanical ingredients like plumeria, pineapple, papaya and mango instead of sulfates and silicones. Plus, they smell delish!

Like Spanx for your face, BB creams are all the rage, and this one from a famous skin doc is the ultimate summer underpinning. Essentially moisturizer, foundation and anti-aging cream all in one, it’s all the support your skin needs, with a tint that self-adjusts to your skin tone to invisibly even it out.

Available at: Congdon’s Pharmacy 47 Main St.

ORIBE APRÈS BEACH WAVE AND SHINE SPRAY $35

Available at: Annye’s Whole Foods 14 Amelia Drive

I love the natural wave my hair has after a day at Cisco, but usually head right to the shower to wash out the stiff, sticky, salty feel. This Oribe spray gives me the same stunning natural waves, without the nasty texture. Like a liquid curling iron or blow dryer in a bottle, I spritz it on air-dried or slightly damp hair and it does the styling for me!

OLE HENRIKSEN TRUTH TO GO WIPES $15 (30 WIPES)

Available at: RJ Miller Salon and Spa 6 Amelia Drive

Available at: Beauty By The Sea 29 Centre Street

I live for face wipes and these, from Hollywood esthetician Ole Henriksen, removes the grime from sunscreen, salt and sweat while reinvigorating skin with treatment ingredients like Vitamin C, Micro Algae, CoQ10 and Green Tea.

ESSIE NAIL COLOR IN CLAMBAKE $8

FRESH SUGAR CORAL TINTED LIP TREATMENT SPF 15 $22.50

There are so many fun nail polish shades to choose from, but this classic shade is my go-to bright for summer pedis! It’s a great pop of color that looks fresh and modern, worn with my adored TKees skin tonematching flip-flops. On my nails? I keep it natural with OPI Samoan Sand.

A cross between a lip balm and a lipstick, this new colored take on Fresh’s beloved Sugar Lip Treatment smooth and softens sun-drenched lips, imparting a sheer, universally-flattering coral tint that I wear day and night.

Available at: Beauty By The Sea 29 Centre Street

KITSCH HAIR TIES I’m addicted to these chic little hair ties from Erica Wilson. At $2.50 a pop, they come in bright colors and patterns to match your swimsuit and instantly chic up a basic ponytail.

Available at: Erica Wilson 25-27 Main Street

COCONUT MILK ABOUT $3.99 Open a can, put in the fridge and let it solidify for twentyfour hours. You’re left with coconut moisture cream that smells yummy, softens your skin and won’t irritate a sunburn. It’ll last for months stored in the fridge.

Available at: Stop & Shop 31 Sparks Avenue

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Available at: Beauty by the Sea 29 Centre Street

Available at: Beauty By The Sea 29 Centre Street

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Dorothy Palmer & Leslie Johnson David Barham, Linda Stevenson & Lauri Robertson

Chris Mortenson

Dan Korengold, Martha Dippell, Penelope Donnell & Robin Hammer

Katherine Lodge & Mark Hubbard

Ben Simons, Ralph Henke, Michael May & Georgen Charnes

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Georgia & Julia Raysman & Georgen Charnes

Ray & Betsy Grubbs, Ethan McMorrow

Janet & Sam Bailey

Eric & Jascin Finger

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MI N D LOREM IPSUM A SINGLE-TRACK

WHILE MOST PEOPLE USE CHAIRLIFTS TO START THEIR SKI TRIP,

Brian Mohr and Emily Johnson strap on a helmet and start pedaling. Since meeting in 1998, the two outdoors journalists have documented human-powered adventures from month-long skiing expeditions through the

remote reaches of East Greenland, Iceland, and Arctic Norway, to exploring the heart of Chile’s endangered

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Baker River Valley, to surfing a hurricane swell right here on Nantucket. Their stories have filled the pages

of publications ranging from Outside Magazine to The New York Times to Organic Gardening. When they’re not off on a bike-powered ski trip in the high Alps or foraging for leeks around their organic farm in Vermont, Brian and Emily can usually be found here on the island. Most recently, the pedal-power couple returned to

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the off-road mountain biking paths of Brian’s youth on Nantucket.

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For many, the short trips around town are just a teaser for the longer trail rides encompassing the far reaches of the island, be it Hummock Pond, the Windswept Bog or Eel Point. Although it lacks the bigger climbs and technical challenges of many mountain biking destinations in the Northeast, Nantucket has plenty of sandpits, head winds and overgrown trails to keep you working. To make matters more interesting, very few trails or routes show up on island maps, and trail marking or signage is also limited. The flip side is that you are never too far from a road link back to town, there are no big hills, the trails tend to be smooth, and whether you have just an hour, or all day, the island offers something for everyone. Head for a quiet beach beyond the trails at Sanford Farm. Spend hours wandering the maze of trails through the moors near Altar Rock. Pack a few containers and gather some blackberries, or wild grapes. Get lost somewhere. It will be an adventure, guaranteed. — Words & Photography Brian Mohr & Emily Johnson

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edaling just beyond the cobbled streets of downtown Nantucket, I turned onto a familiar shortcut near Windmill Hill. Relieved from the bustle of the paved island world, I followed a quiet, single-track trail alongside blooming roses and ripening blackberries. My wheels carried me beneath the cool canopy of a pine forest, over a small hill, and within minutes, back to the pavement. The shortcut was merely a convenient warm-up on a nearly two-hour mountain bike ride around Hummock Pond, a hand picked route featuring plenty of gently rolling single and double-track trails, a touch of dirt and paved road, and for good measure, a casual beach walk with the bike around the head of the pond. It’s the kind of ride that characterizes the mountain biking experience on the island.

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Your portal to Nantucket’s Rich History NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

NHA Offices 15 Broad Street

Whaling Museum 13 Broad Street

Museum Shop 11 Broad Street

www.nha.org 508 228 1894

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by Ric Burns

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Shakespear

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M & K Shea

Kwan Buadam, Mary Emery & Mark Avery

Donna Hamel, Bill & Susan Vareschi

Natalie Ciminero

David Billings & Beverly Hall

Bernie & Carol Coffin, Sharon & David Northrup

Cris O’Reilly & Susan Cary

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Peter Nash

Chris Witte, Laurinda & Zoe Lecain

Arlene O’Reilly & Jill Mooradian

Anna Cristillo, Soffhea Gervais & Connor Gifford Photos by KRIS KINSLEY HANCOCK

Can a real estate broker actually create value?

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ROLL SUMMER IS THE SEASON OF THE SANDWICH, and few places offer more tasty handheld options than Nantucket. Whether on the Strip, in ‘Sconset, or just outside of town, there is a slice of sandwich heaven wherever you turn—be it on whole wheat, grain, rye, white or even a wrap. Take a big bite out of some of the island’s top offerings and see how they stack up.

Doug Foregger, Luxury Resort Real Estate Expert

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Doug Foregger provides clients with the rare service of seeing opportunities.

By bringing buyer and seller together to make transactions happen, he has initiated ten deals totaling $30 million in just the past twelve weeks.

For your Nantucket, St. Barths, Stowe, Harbour Island and Lyford Cay real estate needs, call Doug Foregger at 508-221-5527.

CEO, Country Village Real Estate, St. Barth, Stowe, Harbour Island, Lyford Cay J Pepper Frazier Co – Nantucket Pall Spera Company - Stowe

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If a broker understands a market so well that he can uncover opportunities, then he can actually create value.

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WALTER’S THE GODFATHER

STUBBY’S CAPRESE PANINI

GENOA SALAMI, PEPPERONI, HAM, PROVOLONE, LETTUCE, TOMATO, RED PEPPERS, ONIONS, OIL

MOZZARELLA, PESTO, TOMATOS

AND VINEGAR ON A TOASTY HERO

FRESH

PROVISION’S SICILIAN TUNA

(HARPOON LIQUORS)

THE TREE HUGGER

TUNA, DILL, CAPERS, LEMON, EXTRA

HUMMUS, ROASTED PEPPERS,

VIRGIN OLIVE OIL, HOUSE B&B PICKLES,

CUCUMBER, JULIENNE CARROTS,

ARUGULA, HERB BREAD

ARUGULA, TOMATO, MULTI GRAIN BREAD

THE GREEN

SOMETHING NATURAL

ORGANIC PINTO BEANS, ROASTED CORN, JALAPENOS,

AVOCADO, LETTUCE, TOMATO, CUCUMBER, CARROTS, SPROUTS, HERB BREAD

CILANTRO, ZUCCHINI, AVOCADO, PEA SPROUTS, SLICED RED PEPPERS, BROWN RICE, LIME CUMIN VINAGRETTE, WHOLE WHEAT WRAP

CLAUDETTE’S (‘SCONSET)

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOSHUA SIMPSON

CLAUDETTE’S (‘SCONSET)

PB&J ON WHOLE WHEAT BREAD

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ROAST BEEF, TOMATOES, CUCUMBERS, SPROUTS, LETTUCE, RED ONIONS, CHEDDAR CHEESE, HOUSE SAUCE (MAYO,MUSTARD, HORSERADISH) WHOLE WHEAT BREAD

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WRITTEN BY BRANDY RAND

PITCHER PERFECT Entertain guests with ease by batching up sophisticated but simple cocktails – the perfect prelude to dinner on the grill or a night on the town. Pitchers make mixing a breeze and are a fun way to serve, allowing everyone to help themselves while you’re free to enjoy the sunset.

THE SIMPLE PLEASURE “I call it my cocktail crescendo,” says Clinton Terry of Fog Island Grille, “it starts out a little sweet and fruity, but the lemon cuts through to balance it out, then you get that beautiful warming rum finish.”

LTD (LIVING THE DREAM) Serves 6-8 16 oz 888 Hurricane Rum 32 oz Sweet Tea* 16 oz Lemonade Combine the rum, tea, lemonade and bitters together in your pitcher. Add ice, stir and pour in to glasses filled with ice. Garnish each glass with a lemon peel. *Bring 32 oz of water and 2-4 oz of sugar to a simmer. Add 5-6 tea bags Or loose tea of yourchoosing (passion fruit, hibiscus, green, black, etc.) Steep for 2 minutes and remove bags (or strain).

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THE NEW CLASSIC

THE ST-GERMAIN COCKTAIL

THE SOPHISTICATED SIPPER

St-Germain’s presence in a drink makes a statement without being

Serves 6-8

With a neighborly Italian

the center of attention, though it should be. It has the ability to

1 bottle (25.4 oz) Veuve Cliquot Brut Champagne

ambiance and creative

round out any cocktail with an almost elusive quality that comes

(or other dry sparkling wine)

cocktails, Pi Pizzeria is

from the not-too-sweet floral notes. Their signature St-Germain

24 oz sparkling water

a welcome respite from

18 oz St-Germain

town during season.

Cocktail was named one of the most important cocktails of the decade by the New York Times for its ability to bring us all back to a time of elegant imbibing with minimal fuss.

Bartender Jim Agnew Pour all ingredients into a large pitcher and stir well until mixed.

Add ice to individual glasses and fill with cocktail.

Garnish each glass with a lemon twist.

says regulars have made the Blueberry Pi the signature (and awardwinning) drink that has been a staple menu item for the past two years.

Originally created by former bartender Stu Boissonnault, the sweet-tart blend of local favorite 888 Blueberry vodka, citrus and crisp ginger ale make a crowdpleasing summer sipper.

BLUEBERRY PI 24 oz 888 Blueberry Vodka 8 oz Cointreau 48 oz ginger ale 2 lemons 2 limes Cut lemons and limes into wedges and squeeze into large pitcher. Add blueberry vodka, Cointreau and ice and stir well. Fill remainder of pitcher with ginger ale to taste.

Pour in to glasses and garnish with lime wedge. (For a fun twist, add

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Nantucket Dental Society

FOGGYSHEET nantucket

Dr. Luping Ge, Sr. Varallo & Dr. Richard Rossman

Dr. Marshall & Rosemary Sherman

Patty & Riley Trava

Dr. Robert & Linda Burr

Dave & Beth Grimes Sheila Hammon, Justin, Avery, Marcy & Chris Roy

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Dr. Richard & Erica Rossman

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Dr. Krista Manickas, Dr. David Cusanello with Vicotira & Anthony Cusanello

Tyler De Stefano & Lauren Vang

Dr. Robert & Robin Jaffin Photos by LISA FREY

The Historic

HEALING POWERS of Nantucket WRITTEN BY BETSY TYLER

Long before today’s fad of spa vacations and cleansing retreats, Nantucket was touted as a premier destination offering visitors not only beautiful beaches and timeless charm, but improvements to their health and well-being. Perusing old guidebooks and island advertising from the turn of the nineteenth century, reveals a Nantucket that had healing powers, or as one travel writer put it in 1888, “As a sanitarium, Nantucket has no equal. All the

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discomforts of shipboard are found here in pristine vigor and purity.”

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he first Nantucket guidebook,

for his cottage community on Pochick, Evelyn

Underhill’s claims aside, ‘Sconset was the site

published in 1871, R.H. Cook’s

and Lily Streets. “The purity of the air and the

of the first real sanitarium on the island, Rest-

Historical Notes of the Island of Nantucket

character of the soil assure absolute freedom

Haven, advertised in 1891 as accommodation

and Tourist’s Guide, attests to the island’s

from malaria.” Underhill wrote, “Mosquitoes

for “invalids and convalescents.” Operated

healthy living by noting the mythical longev-

are seldom seen. Persons suffering from hay

by homeopathic physicians, Mary F. Mann,

ity of Nantucketers. “A gentleman visiting the

fever find exception from the ailment during

and her daughter, M. Ella Mann, Rest-Haven

island was surprised at finding so many aged

their stay. Asthmatic patients also experience

was first located in the village, but a decade

people there, and remarked to an old sea

great relief, and the climate is excellent for

later, when ‘Sconset was overrun by actors

captain, that he ‘wondered if anybody ever

those who suffer from insomnia or nervous

and actresses, the sanitarium moved to quieter

died on the island,’” the guidebook reads.

prostration.”

Quidnet. In 1906, Rest-Haven was open year-round in Dr. Mary Ella Mann’s home at

“The captain answered ‘Die? Never! They

9 Pine Street.

merely dry up and blow away!’” At a time

Underhill himself was evidence to this claim,

when the life expectancy for the average

having been cured of his own “nervous

American male was in the mid to late forties

prostration” in his first season in ‘Sconset. “I

In subsequent years, advertising of the island’s

and malaria was rife up and down the Eastern

slept twelve hours a day,” he wrote. “The other

health and well-being extended to the local

Seaboard, Nantucket offered a healthful

twelve I was only sleepy. As for my appetite,

sports and activities that promoted good living.

reprieve to mainlanders, and maybe even a

the first day I was able to run the gamut of

While fishing and sailing had been popular

few added years of life!

the bill of fare at the Ocean View House, and

(and necessary) activities on the island for

thenceforward I got around three square meals

centuries, all manner of new outdoor sports

‘Sconset, in particular, was deemed the ulti-

a day.” When Underhill’s recuperation was

emerged as Nantucket gained acclaim as a

Baseball was also a new fad, and

mate spot for good health in the late 1880s and

complete, he was so energized that he wrote

summer resort. The Inquirer and Mirror

games between rival Nantucket and

early 1890s. As seen in advertising brochures

the first history of ‘Sconset, then proceeded

featured a story on Nantucket’s “Bicycle

‘Sconset teams drew big crowds, as

by Edward F. Underhill, who sought visitors

to build a colony of replicated fishermen’s

Boom” in 1894, noting that “several ladies are

did tennis matches between ‘Sconset

cottages that became the hub of the Actors

contemplating purchasing their own use, and

Casino and Nantucket Yacht Club

Colony at the turn of the twentieth century.

the sport will surely become very popular.”

players. Golf came to ‘Sconset in 1900 and never left. But the real attraction has always been swimming, or “surf-bathing,” as it was called in the nineteenth century. Bathhouses were constructed on the north shore at the Jetties, and at Coatue, where there was even a waterslide.

Although Nantucket is no longer a self-proclaimed health resort, opportunities abound for exercise, relaxation, and rejuvenation.

And, rest assured, there is still

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Join us at the Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum for

National Lighthouse Day Family Activities " PM Followed by a presentation at 5pm

by Author Sara Hoagland Hunter & Illustrator Julia Miner

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