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CONTENTS / F A L L 2 0 2 6 20 CONTRIBUTORS Meet the talented group of writers and photographers who helped make this issue possible. 22 N TOP TEN All the places you need to be and see. 24 NECESSITIES Put these items on your fall wish list. 26 BY THE NUMBERS A numerical snapshot of Nantucket this season.
124 High Fashion on Polpis Harbor
28 NEAT STUFF The Nantucket Performing Arts Center builds on the island's long performing arts tradition with year-round performances. 30 NEAT STUFF Experience travels well: Sentient Jet has always been about more than reaching a destination faster. 32 KID’N AROUND How to keep your kiddos entertained this fall. 34 NBUZZ All the news, tidbits and scuttlebutt that’s fit to print, courtesy of the Nantucket Current. 36 NEED TO READ Tim Ehrenberg of Tim Talks Books gives his autumn reading list.
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NGREDIENTS 40 In Good Company The Company of the Cauldron’s Joseph Keller dishes out lobster thermidor.
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54 A Lifetime In Politics Nantucket’s Ben Barnes’ new book, Get It Done.
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62 Andrea Doria 70 Years On Chad and Jock Gifford reflect on the night the Andrea Doria went down.
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82 Hitting the Tick Issue Head On Nantucket Cottage Hospital launches the Nantucket Tick Center. 88 Gilding the Lily The Land Bank restores Lily Pond.
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76 Making a Splash Nantucket’s Jack Forsyth launches a surfboard business.
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70 Influenced Summer resident Jill Kargman on her new film, Influenced.
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95 A Healthy Harbor The Great Harbor Yacht Club Foundation helps preserve the harbor.
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100 The Last of the Scrimshanders Nantucket's remaining scrimshaw artists keep the tradition alive.
116 History in Plain Sight Restoring a 1794 house the old-fashioned way.
106 The Show Must Go On Theatre Workshop of Nantucket celebrates 70 years.
124 High Fashion on Polpis Harbor
112 One Man’s Trash The Clean Team, Nantucket's roadside trash haulers.
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FOGGY SHEET 142 A recap of the island’s hottest events.
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f all the substantive issues on Nantucket this summer, from drought to food insecurity to lone star ticks, the matter of influencers somehow generated the most national attention. For those of a certain age, we barely know what an influencer is, never mind what they do. However, Nantucket has, over the centuries, had its share of real influencers. Individuals like women’s rights advocate Lucretia Mott, astronomer Maria Mitchell, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and more recently Tim Russert, Jack Welch, David Halberstam, Nathaniel Philbrick and Elin Hilderbrand are people who have had a material influence on this island. The fact is, Nantucket itself has influence. Some of the most important people in finance, technology, politics and medicine, as well as recognized artists, award-winning chefs and talented craftsmen, are an important part of the community. The notion that a young person stepping onto the island for the first time has legitimate influence here is a fanciful notion at best. There are some who may argue that N Magazine itself has served as an influencer with its glossy depiction of Nantucket. However, our mission has always been to celebrate people of substance, which is the essence of Nantucket. Additionally, this magazine has used its influence to support numerous island charities and nonprofits over the past 25 years, while shedding light on matters of serious concern, including hunger, erosion, the wind farm, water quality, affordable housing and, most recently, the growing tick problem. While some people have lactose intolerance for the likes of Dairy Boy, there is nothing inherently wrong with having an influence, as long as that influence is used for a higher purpose, and not simply selfenrichment or at the expense of others.
A social media influencer’s role in promoting a product or business is not innately wrong, and in fact, many businesses and nonprofits on the island have come to rely on social media as a means of marketing. For many who have grown up with the internet, posting BRUCE A. PERCELAY Publisher pithy videos—which may seem off-putting to some—simply represents a logical next step in the evolution of advertising and selfexpression in the digital age. The problem with social media influencers comes when there are issues of invasion of privacy, the lack of self-awareness when documenting people without their consent, or an obsession with wealth and materiality, which is not the spirit of Nantucket. When Four Winds Craft Guild hung its “No Influencers” quarterboard, the objective was not to prohibit anyone from entering the store, but merely to discourage behavior that does not respect the island or its guests. Nantucket is indeed a special place with a sensibility that transcends many other tourist destinations in the country. The fact is, influencers come to Nantucket because Nantucket is influential and does not need to be influenced. Sincerely,
Bruce A. Percelay Publisher
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Contributors
Jen LASKEY
Jason GRAZIADEI Jason Graziadei has lived and worked on Nantucket for over 20 years, writing about the island’s people, politics, economy and crime. He is the editor in chief of the Nantucket Current, previously wrote for The Inquirer and Mirror, and served as communications officer at Nantucket Cottage Hospital. Graziadei has volunteered extensively on the island with Big Brothers, Big Sisters, and has served on the boards of the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce, A Safe Place and Nantucket Community Television.
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Jen Laskey is an awardwinning writer, editor and content strategist, specializing in food, wine and spirits, travel, health and the arts. She began writing for N Magazine in 2012. Her work has also appeared in Saveur, EatingWell and Snow magazines, as well as NBC’s The Today Show, Everyday Health and Fodor’s Travel. Laskey studied writing at Bennington College and received her master’s in fine arts at Columbia University. She also is a Level 4 Diploma candidate with the Wine & Spirit Education Trust, and has traveled extensively throughout Europe and the U.S., interviewing winemakers, distillers and bartenders.
Jonathan SOROFF Jonathan Soroff is a Boston native and a graduate of Duke University. He began his career in journalism at The Boston Herald, before becoming lead columnist for The Improper Bostonian, a job he held for 28 years. Soroff’s writing has appeared in publications from People to The South China Morning Post. He is currently a columnist for Boston Magazine, and writes travel stories for Boston Magazine and Travel & Leisure. He is a regular visitor to Nantucket.
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Taking place at Tom Nevers Field, the annual two-day harvest festival highlights traditional county fair events such as a three-legged race, a livestock tent, artisans tables, local food, live music and even a watermelon-eating contest. nantucketislandfair.com
Running the last week of September, this culinary tradition brings dozens of the island’s top eateries—from the high-end restaurants to casual dining establishments—together to offer special menus that highlight local flavors and ingredients. nantucketchamber.org
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NANTUCKET ISLAND FAIR
NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL SANKATY SWING Sankaty Head Golf Club
One of the premier athletic fundraisers of the shoulder season, the Sankaty Swing offers golfers an opportunity to experience one of the most scenic world-class courses on the East Coast. nantuckethospital.org
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CROSS-ISLAND HIKE
Join the Nantucket Land Bank for the annual cross-island hike through the island’s sprawling conservation lands from Tom Nevers through the Middle Moors and out to Settler’s Landing in Madaket. The event is an incredible way to explore the island’s unique autumn ecology, far from downtown. nantucketlandbank.org
RESTAURANT WEEK
SCALLOPERS BALL Nantucket Yacht Club
Hosted by the Nantucket Shellfish Association, this beloved local gathering celebrates the start of the island’s recreational scalloping season. The festive party features live music, cold drinks and endless spreads of fresh, locally harvested seafood. nantucketshellfish.org
10/10
NANTUCKET FASHION SHOW
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An unforgettable night of style, the Nantucket Fashion Show brings the runway to the island. With designers and local businesses participating, the show is a great opportunity to see the latest fall trends. nantucketchamber.org
10/11
NANTUCKET HALF MARATHON
On your mark, get set, go! Runners will get to take in 13.1 miles of scenic Nantucket countryside, and if you’re not racing, cheer on the runners as they push toward the finish line. nantucketathleticassociation.com
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NANTUCKET SHORT FILM FESTIVAL The Dreamland
Celebrating local filmmakers for 14 years, the Short Film Festival showcases artsy, musical, comedic and educational shorts of all varieties for a night at the Dreamland, with films made on or inspired by Nantucket. nantucketshorts.com
10/25
FALL FESTIVAL & BATACULAR BIKE RACE
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The Nantucket Conservation Foundation’s free fall festival combines family-friendly autumn classics with a trail bike race through the Middle Moors. If you’re not racing, check out the hayrides, live music, games and live performances. nantucketconservation.org
10/31
MAIN STREET HALLOWEEN PARADE
The Main Street Halloween Parade is a must-see the evening of Halloween, when the historic cobblestone streets close to vehicles as hundreds of adults, children and pets parade through town to show off their costumes. Awards will be given out for best in show followed by trick-or-treating at local storefronts.
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rivate aviation gives you something increasingly difficult to find: time. And perhaps the greatest luxury today isn’t simply flying private—it’s having more time to spend well. In an increasingly crowded private aviation landscape, experience and stability matter. For more than 25 years, Sentient Jet has helped define the Jet Card category, backed by Directional Aviation, a global leader in private aviation. That foundation—and the trust it’s earned—has made referrals from existing Card Owners one of Sentient’s strongest sources of new business. “Private aviation is ultimately about giving people more time,” said Alan Walsh, President of Sentient Jet. “We’re always looking for ways to help our Card Owners make the most of it, whether that’s simplifying their journey to Nantucket or supporting the community they return to each summer. We’ve been part of Nantucket for more than a decade, and we’re proud to continue investing in the relationships that make this island so special.” A Sentient Jet Card offers a simple, predictable way to fly privately, allowing travelers to purchase private flight hours in advance with guaranteed availability, fixed hourly rates and access to a carefully vetted network of aircraft. It’s a model built around structure and flexibility. Plan ahead with certainty, then fly on your own timeline.
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“We’ve been part of Nantucket for more than a decade, and we’re proud to continue investing in the relationships that make this island so special.” — Sentient Jet President Alan Walsh
But the Sentient experience extends well beyond the flight itself. Whether connecting to Nantucket through preferred access to helicopter transfers, planning a golf itinerary to iconic courses around the world, or enjoying benefits at premier resorts, every detail is designed to remove friction from the journey. Technology makes travel more convenient, from digital booking to real-time trip management through the Sentient Jet Mobile App. But Technology makes travel Sentient’s true differentiator more convenient, from digital booking to real-time trip is the human expertise behind management through the Sentient Jet Mobile App. every journey. Personal service, thoughtful partnerships and decades of operational experience work together to make a complex process feel simple. Sentient’s connection to Nantucket is rooted in longstanding relationships with Card Owners, local partners and the broader island community. For more than a decade, Sentient Jet has partnered with the Nantucket Boys & Girls Club, supporting the annual Tim Russert Summer Groove and the club’s Sam Sylvia Golf Tournament through sponsorship of its hole-in-one competition. Through relationships like Sentient’s role as the Official Private Aviation Partner of the Kentucky Derby and Churchill Downs, alongside premier hospitality partners, Sentient Jet has donated memorable travel packages that have included VIP Kentucky Derby experiences, Aspen ski getaways and complimentary flight hours to help maximize fundraising efforts. Private aviation has always been about more than reaching a destination faster. It’s about creating more time for the people, places and experiences that matter most. That’s the experience Sentient Jet continues to design and deliver.
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DISCOVER THE NHA Make the Nantucket Historical Association part of your family’s fall adventures. The Whaling Museum’s family-friendly Discovery Center is designed for imaginative play and hands-on learning for children of all ages. Families can also enjoy a Family Connections Tour, exploring museum galleries and its 2026 exhibition, The Wider World and Scrimshaw. Through interactive experiences, visitors will discover the deep connections between Nantucket and the Pacific, learn about the art of scrimshaw and explore the diverse cultures encountered along historic whaling routes. The NHA also holds its annual Fall Festival on September 26, with hands-on activities, demonstrations and family fun. Family memberships are available, and island families receive free admission. nha.org NANTUCKET STAGE COMPANY The curtain may have fallen on another incredible summer season, but the Nantucket Stage Company is already preparing for an exciting fall and winter of unforgettable performances. Registration is now open for this season’s productions of Annie Jr. and How to Train Your Dragon Jr., along with the popular Cabaret: Acting the Song program. Join this October for a special celebration of its award-winning inaugural year. Enjoy live performances, prizes and plenty of surprises while discovering what make the NSC one of the island’s most exciting arts organizations. Through professionalquality productions, inspiring classes and exceptional theatre training, students build confidence, develop lifelong friendships and discover their creative voice. nantucketstagecompany.org MAKE & CREATE AT BARNABY'S TOY & ART Barnaby’s Toy & Art Studio is celebrating its sixth season of inspiring creativity with more than 100 imaginative, hands-on art classes for children of all ages. Led by professional artists and educators, each class encourages exploration, confidence and self-expression in a warm, welcoming studio at 12 Oak Street. Barnaby’s offers Drop-In & Create every day this fall, as well as a thoughtfully curated collection of art kits, toys and creative gifts to enjoy
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at home or on the go. Barnaby’s proudly introduces Barnaby’s Cares, a charitable foundation dedicated to bringing the healing power of creativity to children facing life-altering diagnoses, through complimentary art kits designed to spark imagination and create moments of joy. barnabysworld.com, barnabys.giving CELEBRATE CHILDHOOD AT PEACHTREE KIDS & MONOGRAM Peachtree Kids & Monogram is a favorite destination for children’s clothing, shoes, accessories, jewelry, toys and personalized gifts. Thoughtfully curated for infants through size 14, their collections blend timeless classics with today’s favorite styles. Peachtree features women-owned and sustainable brands, including Joy Street Kids, Nantucket Kids, Timo & Violet, Minnow, The Beaufort Bonnet Company, Oso & Me, ChappyWrap, Bits & Bows, Piping Prints and Barnaby Bear. Whether you’re outfitting little ones for beach days, back-to-school or special occasions, you’ll find everything from Native water shoes and sneakers to sandals, rain boots, dress shoes, cozy sweaters, everyday essentials, backpacks and Peachtree’s signature “Nantucket” roll neck sweaters and exclusive Nantucket-print pajamas, with coordinating styles for mom. Open 9 a.m.-6 p.m., at 19 Main Street. peachtreekidsnantucket.com
EXPLORE AND DISCOVER WITH THE MMA Step back in time with a visit to the Historic Mitchell House on Vestal Street. Explore the childhood home of Maria Mitchell, America’s first professional female astronomer, and discover the remarkable story of this Nantucket native whose groundbreaking achievements inspired generations of scientists. This beautifully preserved 19thcentury home features fascinating artifacts from the Mitchell family’s daily life, along with many of Maria’s personal belongings, including her Dollond telescope. The MMA offers even more opportunities for discovery across its campus. Families can explore the Hinchman House Natural Science Museum, Aquarium, Loines Observatory and Vestal Street Observatory—with hands-on experiences that bring Nantucket’s sky, land and sea to life. mariamitchell.org LET CREATIVITY SHINE AT THE AAN Inspire imagination, build confidence and encourage artistic discovery at the Artists Association of Nantucket’s Visual Arts Center on Amelia Drive. Designed for young artists of all ages, the AAN’s engaging youth programs provide a welcoming studio environment where children and teens can explore new techniques and develop their creative skills. Young artists ages 4–5 can discover the joy of making art through hands-on mixed-media classes that encourage curiosity and creativity. Students ages 6–9 can choose between imaginative mixed media and clay sculpture projects. Artists ages 9–12 will expand their skills through drawing, painting, seasonal crafts and creative construction projects, while students ages 10–14 can learn the art of ceramics. Teens ages 15+ are eligible for teen wheel throwing. Thanks to the support of the Nantucket Golf Club Foundation, youth program tuition is discounted by 25%. Additional tuition assistance is available. Fall classes begin on October 13. nantucketarts.org
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SUPERIOR COURT RULES
ON SCONSET BLUFF
COUNSELORS SAVE THE DAY
On the evening of July 18, Susan Hostetler heard a bang from above: a lightning strike ignited her roof. After dismissing the smoke alarm as a power surge, Hostetler continued making ice cream in her kitchen. But before she knew it, four camp counselors—Libby Stockton, Lilla Sharman, Jakobe Stevens and Tabitha Myers—jumped into action. After banging on Hostetler’s door and calling 911, the counselors escorted Hostetler and her cats out of the burning building. The Nantucket Fire Department arrived shortly after to quench the flame, which damaged the house significantly. But despite water damage from the hoses and the intensity of the blaze, the artwork of Hostetler’s late husband David survived with minimal harm.
The Sconset Beach Preservation Fund’s erosion-control project at the base of Sconset Bluff remains at the center of a heated legal debate and a yearslong controversy over the future of Sconset Beach and the Baxter Road homes perched on the edge of the eroding bluff. Over a year after Nantucket residents opposed to the project filed to supersede the town Conservation Commission’s approval of massive geotube expansions, a Superior Court Judge in July rejected the appeal. For the Sconset Beach Preservation Fund, the private non-profit spearheading and funding the project, the ruling represented a big win, although the proposed expansion of the project has a long way to go. At the state level, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection still needs to give the green light. Town Meeting voters will also have to revisit the proposal, which was struck down in May with the closest vote of the night. In the meantime, the geotubes will remain in partial ruin following alleged vandalism.
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CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Nantucket’s first Black-owned summer property, Windsor Cottage, commemorated 100 years this summer. Carter Stewart, who spent his childhood summers at the cottage, honored its legacy in August. After a spellbound visit to the island in 1925, Stewart’s great-grandmother and her husband spent $2,500 on a Nantucket property ($47,000 in 2026 dollars). Since its construction, Windsor Cottage welcomed Black visitors who faced discrimination on the mainland, and in other parts of the island. Celebrating this rich history, Stewart invited every guest in his family’s guest book to a dinner with the Nantucket Historical Association and a ceremony at the Historical Coloured Cemetery.
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TOWN SECURITY CAMERAS SPARK DEBATE There is a strong likelihood that you have been at the intersection of Easy Street and Broad Street recently and if you have, you may have noticed a pair of cameras attached to a pole adjacent to 27 Steamboat Wharf. Those are known as Flock cameras, automated license plate readers made by a public safety technology company called Flock Safety. The cameras use artificial intelligence to gather and process images and data on motor vehicles. But the cameras have also drawn national and local scrutiny, over concerns over an alleged invasion of privacy. “As these systems continue to evolve, they are capable of extracting increasingly detailed information about the vehicles, and by extension the people, passing before them,” said town Chief Technology Officer Michael Alvarez, speaking as a private citizen. “I believe that collecting this amount of
information on residents and visitors without individualized suspicion or a warrant poses a real threat to our civil liberties and has no place in our community.” In a statement, the Nantucket Police Department said it has received a small number of requests from municipal agencies for footage from the cameras, but that the Nantucket Police Department has not allowed access “at [any] time over the past five years” to “any outside agency.”
DESPITE RECENT RAINFALL,
NANTUCKET REMAINS IN DROUGHT
Despite significant rainfall on Nantucket in recent weeks, the Massachusetts Drought Task Force decided in August to keep the island under a Level 2 “significant” drought designation, leaving its status unchanged. Nearly eight inches of rain fell on Nantucket from mid-July to mid-August, more than the island had received in the previous six months combined. So, when Nantucket Water Department director Mark Willett saw that the state’s task force had left the island’s drought designation unchanged, he was incredulous. “I have lost what little faith and trust I had in the Massachusetts Drought Task Force,” Willett told the Current.
The water in Nantucket’s aquifer is technically owned by the state, so Willett is charged with managing the resource under a water withdrawal permit from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. Under the Level 2 “significant” drought status, he must enforce a series of water use restrictions required by the state for those connected to municipal water. Those restrictions include limits to non-essential outdoor watering, no automatic irrigation and no watering with a hose after 5 p.m. or before 9 a.m.Willett had hoped to see the state downgrade Nantucket’s drought status to a Level 1 designation, which would have lessened the water use restrictions.
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Tim Ehrenberg, creator of “Tim Talks Books” and president of the Nantucket Book Foundation, gives you his Top Picks for Fall W R I T T E N
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HOLLOW BONES JODI PICOULT (September 15)
I remember exactly where I was when 9/11 happened and I remember exactly where I was when I first read a Jodi Picoult novel. I have been known to say reading is my therapy and if that is true, then I owe Jodi backpay for being my therapist. She has walked me through coming out, religion, marriage, racism and gun violence in America, the Holocaust, trans rights, and COVID-19. She has made me fall in love with elephants and wolves and honeybees and whales. She has made me uncomfortable and ultimately a better, more compassionate human. Hollow Bones is her 30th book and it might be a perfect novel. It’s like five novels in one and I am amazed how she was able to weave all its threads together. Jodi is known for her twists, and this novel has seven signature Jodi twists. This is a 9/11 story and such a moving tribute to all those we lost that day 25 years ago. It’s about mental health and trauma and family and love. It makes you stop and think about something in a different way, which has always been why I revere Jodi as one of my favorite writers. I will be in conversation with Jodi Picoult on September 30 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, at the Stadium Theater with An Unlikely Story.
Please consider ordering (or pre-ordering) from your year-round local island bookstores, Nantucket Book Partners. Stop into Mitchell’s Book Corner or Nantucket Bookworks or visit us online at nantucketbookpartners.com
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THE THOROUGHBREDS ELIN HILDERBRAND AND SHELBY CUNNINGHAM (September 15)
Class is back in session at Tiffin Academy with Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham’s The Thoroughbreds, a sequel to The Academy. We’ve all been on the edge of our classroom seats waiting to see what was in Cinnamon’s email, what will happen with Tiffin’s “It couple,” Charley and East, and what will become of the underground speakeasy Priorities? All of your questions will be answered in this dramatic conclusion. This sequel is even more rewarding than its predecessor because we’re invested in the teachers and students, their daily lives and personalities. The book has all the excitement and thrill of your own senior year and has all the ingredients you love about an Elin Hilderbrand novel. Elin Hilderbrand will be signing copies of The Thoroughbreds on September 13. Check nantucketbookpartners.com for place and time.
PLOT TWIST HARLAN COBEN (September 8) UNSAYABLE MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
I am forever spellbound with the mind of a writer. I built a career on examining their craft and how they create the magic of words on a page. Conversations with writers on stage or on our podcast are some of my favorite moments. Two incredible authors, Harlan Coben and Michael Cunningham, are giving us a magnifying glass into their writing lives with the memoirs, Plot Twist and Unsayable. Harlan Coben has been an auto-buy author for me since 1997. His books never disappoint and his wit, humor and tenacity are on full display with this new autobiography. Michael Cunningham (Pulitzer Prize winner of The Hours) is one of the greats, and his memoir is an ode to literature and a tribute to a life “trying to describe the indescribable.” Listen to mine and Hilderbrand’s conversation with Harlan Coben on our podcast Books, Beach, & Beyond at booksbeachandbeyond.com. I will be in conversation with Michael Cunningham at the Aspen Literary Festival on September 25.
THE WITCHES OF CAMBRIDGE ALICE HOFFMAN (September 8)
Alice Hoffman’s Practical Magic series should be required reading for the fall season. Nothing makes you want to sip some apple cider, sit in a pile of leaves with a chunky sweater on and read a book more than spending time with an Alice Hoffman character. The Witches of Cambridge is a brand-new witchy novel and it is pure magic from the very first sentence. “In every story, there is a beginning, and this was hers, the one she had been waiting for all her life.” Ava and Lauren attend Radcliffe College in the 1950s, where they become immersed in a mysterious group of witches known as the Lilith society. When girls begin to go missing, the witch trials of the past come back to haunt them.
AMERICAN HAGWON MIN JIN LEE (September 29)
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee is on a “best book of all-time” list for me. I waited almost a decade for a new novel and here it is: American Hagwon. It’s a moving epic family saga. It’s a novel of contradictions: intimate, yet larger than life; simple, yet complex. The book has sentences that bounce off the page with such profound beauty and insight into the human condition that I found myself underlining passages and rereading them over and over. I am positive this will be on everyone’s bedside table this fall for good reason. It’s an ambitious novel by one of our most talented wordsmiths.
THE RUSH: CALIFORNIA GOLD, THE CIVIL WAR, AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD NATHANIEL PHILBRICK (October 6)
Beloved Nantucket historian Nathaniel Philbrick, author of the island’s number-one bestseller In the Heart of the Sea, returns with a book you will be rushing to discover. The Rush is truly the story of the making of the modern world as we know it. In 1848, a carpenter spotted flecks of gold in a shallow stream at Sutter’s Mill in California and ignited the greatest voluntary migration in U.S. history as well as sparking the seed of the Civil War. I think Nat Philbrick is one of the best historians we have. He makes history accessible, entertaining and thrilling, and helps us to see how our past got us where we are today. A new book by Nat Philbrick is cause for celebration. I will be in conversation with Nathaniel Philbrick on Tuesday, October 6 at the Unitarian Church for the book’s launch. Register at nantucketbookpartners.com.
EVERY STORY IS A LOVE STORY IMBOLO MBUE (October 6) DÈY EDWIDGE DANTICAT
Every Story is a Love Story opens with a letter written to a man from the woman who killed his wife in a tragic car accident. What follows is a breathtaking meditation on grief, love lost and forgiveness. It’s one of those books that you start, and all time and responsibilities go out the door. Dèy by Edwidge Danticat provides a similar reading experience. They are both novels that you don’t just read, you feel. In Dèy, a woman faces existential questions about self and family when she is caught in a random act of violence. Grief is an interesting subject, a profound feeling. It is something we all face, but rarely discuss. Both of these novels exquisitely unpack grief in affecting and moving ways. I will be in conversation with Imbolo and Edwidge at the Boston Book Festival for the Fiction Keynote on Saturday, October 17.
This might be the greatest year of books ever. I must mention these other upcoming titles in October you don’t want to miss. Partita by Barbara Kingsolver, Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus, and Miss Wolcott’s Ghost by Louise Penny, her best in years. All titles are available to purchase or pre-order in store at Mitchell’s Book Corner, Nantucket Bookworks or online at nantucketbookpartners.com. Follow @timtalksbooks for even more book recommendations and author events.
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ew restaurants on Nantucket have remained as steadfastly true to themselves as Company of the Cauldron. For Chef Joseph Keller, that enduring sense of history is exactly what made the restaurant worth preserving. Every accomplished chef has a starting point. For Keller, it wasn’t culinary school but Petite Marmite in Palm Beach, where, as a teenager, his mother first introduced him to the restaurant business and recognized his talent in the kitchen. That early foundation led him to France, where he trained in the kitchens of world-renowned restaurants including Moulin de Mougins, Le Taillevent and Tour D’Argent. He later collaborated with his brother, Thomas Keller, on the celebrated French Laundry in Napa Valley, where the restaurant earned three Michelin stars of its own and further cemented the brothers’ place among the country’s leading chefs. “I didn’t need another restaurant,” he admitted. “But I remember when I was at the Woodbox that [The Company of the Cauldron] is where we came to eat every once in a while. Back then I fell in love with it.” ________________________________
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LOBSTER THERMIDOR LOBSTER Boil a lobster (1.5-2 pounds) for approximately 3 minutes. Take the meat out of the shell and cut into bite-size pieces. Set aside. CLASSIC SMOOTH AND SILKY BÉCHAMEL Béchamel is the key to lasagnas, soufflés, and much more—and it's simple to make at home INGREDIENTS • 1 cup whole milk
• 1 ½ tablespoons unsalted butter • 1 ½ tablespoons all-purpose flour
1. In a small saucepan, melt butter over
medium-high heat (do not allow it to brown). Add flour and whisk to form a paste. Continue to cook, stirring, until raw flour scent is gone, about 1 minute. Whisking constantly, add milk in a thin, steady stream, or in increments of a couple of tablespoons at a time, whisking thoroughly and getting into all corners of the pan to maintain a homogeneous texture.
• Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste INSTRUCTIONS
2. Continue stirring until the sauce comes to a simmer and begins to thicken slightly. (The sauce will initially appear very thick, then become thin once all the milk is added.) Reduce heat to low and stir continuously until the sauce is thick enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon, about 3 minutes.
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• 2 ½ cups water
• Saute ½ cup mushrooms
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt, plus more as desired • ½ cup yellow or white corn grits, preferably stone-ground
• Blanch asparagus (cool in ice water to stop cooking) cut into one-inch pieces (Set aside to use later)
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
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1. In a two-quart saucepan, combine water and salt and bring to a boil. While whisking, sprinkle in grits, then return to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover and cook, whisking and scraping the bottom well every 2 to 3 minutes, until you reach your desired consistency. (For runny with some remaining gritty texture, cook for about 30 minutes; for thick and creamy but flowing grits, cook for about 45 minutes; or for stiff grits that hold its shape, cook for 1 hour.) 2. Whisk in extra water, a tablespoon or two at a time, at any point if your grits become thicker than you would like. (If your grits are fully cooked but too thin, you can speed up the thickening by cooking them uncovered, which will allow steam to escape more quickly.) Whisk in butter until fully melted and incorporated, then remove from heat. Season with additional salt, if needed, and serve.
• Freshly grated nutmeg, to taste (optional)
3. Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg, if using. If any lumps form, simply whisk thoroughly to remove them and smooth out sauce, or use a hand blender or countertop blender if lumps are particularly large or tough. Use the sauce right away, or press a piece of plastic wrap on top to prevent a skin from forming and keep warm until ready to use. Sauce can be cooled and stored in a sealed container in the refrigerator for several days. Reheat very gently on the stovetop or in a microwave to use.
INSTRUCTIONS • Take your cup of chilled Béchamel and add ½ cup whipped cream. (Whip it yourself using heavy cream till soft peaks.) • Add 1 egg yolk to your chilled Béchamel and process for 20 seconds in a food processor. Fold in whipped cream mix till smooth and creamy. ASSEMBLE • In a Pyrex vessel, lay down grits spread on the bottom of the vessel, about 1 inch in thickness. Top with mushrooms, asparagus tips and lobster. • With a large spoon, coat the dish with your Glaçage, top with parmesan cheese and bake in a 350-degree oven until the top of the Glaçage starts to brown. • Remove from oven and serve
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Three sips for September
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eptember isn’t the end of summer on Nantucket—it’s the island’s encore, and sometimes the best part. Savor those bonus beach days, the chill in the air at sunset and the bar stool that’s finally yours. It’s not even too late to discover your favorite drink of the season. This shoulder season, our esteemed local drink pros are excited about Italian “Champagne,” buzzy espresso cocktails and a new hard seltzer from the founder of Dairy Boy. Drink it all in, then bask in the afterglow. Winter will be here before we know it.
CA’ DEL BOSCO FRANCIACORTA CUVÉE PRESTIGE EDIZIONE 48
($150/bottle, $30 glass at Breeze Restaurant) Recommended by REGGIE GREEN, food and beverage manager, The Nantucket Hotel
Champagne usually gets the spotlight, but Italian Franciacorta sparkling wines have been winning over wine lovers for years. The Nantucket Hotel’s new food and beverage manager, Reggie Green, says his go-to sip for September is the Ca’ del Bosco Franciacorta Cuvée Prestige Edizione 48. It’s a blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Nero and Pinot Bianco from one of Italy’s benchmark producers of traditional-method sparkling wine (this is the same method that’s used to make Champagne, which is more time- and labor-intensive than the one for prosecco). “Many people think of sparkling wine as a summer indulgence, but I believe some of the best sparkling wines truly shine in the fall,” he said. “The Ca’ del Bosco has vibrant acidity, elegant bubbles and just the right amount of richness, making it incredibly versatile at the table.” Green pairs his Ca’ del Bosco with locally harvested oysters and heartier autumnal fare, like Breeze’s Roasted Statler Chicken,“It’s the perfect accompaniment to our daily Après Sea oyster special,” he said, adding that the wine’s crisp minerality beautifully complements the briny freshness of each oyster variety. “I’m always looking for wines that not only stand on their own but also elevate the dining experience, and this Franciacorta does exactly that.”
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CIGGY’S, VODKA SELTZER
($12/4-pack of 12-ounce cans at Fresh) Recommended by CHARLIE MERRITT, owner, Fresh Nantucket If your perfect Nantucket day includes swinging by Fresh for sandwiches, good vibes and cold drinks, you may have already discovered Ciggy’s. The new vodka seltzer by washashore lifestyle influencer and Dairy Boy founder Paige Paul made its debut earlier this summer at Fresh, the sole carrier of Ciggy’s on the island. “It’s new, it’s fun and the can has a vintage look that I love,” said Fresh owner Charlie Merritt. “It doesn’t taste artificial like a lot of seltzers these days.” Ciggy’s comes in four flavor combos: Standard (grape with a ginger kick), Easy (salty cucumber and lime), Heater (spicy pineapple) and Blast (berry lemonade). “Heater has been the most popular so far,” said Merritt, who pairs the spicy pineapple seltzer with the Island Mambo, a prosciutto, burrata, arugula and black truffle honey sandwich. “My personal favorite is the Blast,” he said. The brightness of the berry lemonade is an ideal match for the richness of the Chipwhich, Fresh’s potato chipstuffed turkey BLT with Parmesan aioli on sourdough.
ESPRESSO ’TINI ($20 at Bloom Bar)
Recommended by ROCCO FIORE, beverage director, Bloom Bar
Espresso Martini at Bloom Bar
If you ask Bloom Bar’s beverage director, Rocco Fiore, there is never a bad time for an espresso martini. “Whether you need a little help getting over that morning grogginess, a little jolt before heading over to the live show at The Gaslight or you want a cozy, heartwarming dessert cocktail after your Fettucine Pomodoro from our kitchen, there is always room for an espresso martini,” Fiore said. In Bloom Bar’s version of the modern-classic coffee cocktail, quality is non-negotiable. The Espresso ’Tini starts with fresh espresso from Speedwell Coffee espresso beans, which are roasted in Plymouth. “You can literally watch us pull each double shot,” said Fiore. The espresso is then shaken with Triple Eight’s certified organic vodka, Kahlúa and a housemade vanilla bean syrup, which gives the ’Tini a “deliciously complex and deep flavor,” but doesn’t make the drink overly sweet, he said. “Just a half-ounce goes a long way.” The finishing touch is a dusting of cocoa powder atop the fluffy foam. This cocktail is “not only delicious, but beautifully textured,” said Fiore. “It pairs especially well with our Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Skillet and our fresh-made daily pastry selection.”
Makes 1 serving • Glassware: Coupe INGREDIENTS
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• 1½ ounce Triple Eight certified organic vodka
• Combine the vodka, Kahlúa and half-ounce of vanilla bean syrup in a shaker with ice.
• 1 ounce Kahlúa • ½ ounce homemade vanilla bean syrup* • 1 freshly pulled double shot of Speedwell Coffee espresso
• Pull a double shot of espresso and add it to the shaker. • Shake the cocktail hard, strain into a coupe and sprinkle with cocoa powder.
FOR THE VANILLA BEAN SYRUP: Make a basic simple syrup by heating 1 cup of water in a saucepan on medium-low heat until hot (not boiling). Add 1 cup of sugar and stir until dissolved. Mix 4 ounces of vanilla bean paste with 8 ounces of the simple syrup. Add 12 ounces of boiling water to the vanilla bean paste-simple syrup mixture. Stir, then let cool to room temperature. Store leftover syrup in the fridge. N - M A G A Z I N E . C O M
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really wanted to have a space that felt hat began as a weekend popinclusive at all times of the day.” up quickly became a local Flowers and growth are baked into cult favorite. In the summer of 2025, the name and into the design of Bloom Dylan Cavaliere launched Bloom Bar Bar’s menu and signage. But Cavaliere as a limited-run restaurant within the actually chose the name for its double Boarding House, serving small-batch meaning. “Bloom” is also a culinary specialty coffee, freshly made pastries, term. “It means to heat or warm spices to simple dishes and craft cocktails. reveal their fullest aromas and flavors,” He reopened Bloom Bar in its own he said. “We bloom coffee, cocoa, spices independent space on South Water Street and [other ingredients] very often.” this summer. “I always planned on Bloom Bar’s Espresso Martini with freshly poured espresso Bloom Bar’s new dining room is filled having a full concept,” Cavaliere said. with natural light during the day and glows His vision was simple: a café with candlelight in the evening. Warm wood tones are and cocktail/wine bar where there’s always a little paired with sage and olive green, mocha and ivory hues. something for everyone. “When traveling, I love those places near your Airbnb or hotel where you can get your The tables and bar are dotted with bud vases bright with seasonal blossoms. It’s earthy, warm and intimate, and coffee and a pastry in the morning, and then go back invites you to settle in. “Someone recently told me that later for a spritz or glass of wine before your dinner it feels new, but it also feels like it’s been here for a long reservation, and it becomes your ‘regular,’” he said. time, and that’s really complimentary,” Cavaliere said. “That’s how the concept of Bloom Bar was born—I
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Left: Bloom Bar’s Tuna Sando, an Italian cured tuna salad with tomato on house-made focaccia. Below: A late summer salad of tomato and peach, house-made doughnuts, Grilled Chicken Paillard, and Bloom Bar’s Pea and Clam Toast on focaccia.
The food menu is driven by Cavaliere’s love of baking and sweets, with pastries made in house by Eve Philus. Bloom Bar’s daytime food menu moves from morning pastries to more substantial “brunchy bites,” including a breakfast sandwich, quiches, paninis and salads. The housemade bread is also a feature of the dinner menu, playing a supporting role in dishes with burrata and spring peas and clams. Cavaliere’s food menu focuses on local, seasonal ingredients and bright, approachable flavors. He keeps dishes deliberately simple with housemade pastas and small plates like shrimp and scallops in lemon white wine-butter sauce, grilled chicken with salad and coffee-rubbed hanger steak with chimichurri. “There aren’t more than four or five ingredients per dish,” he said. His instinct to share his passion for food, drink, travel and hospitality—and to leave no one out—is at the core of everything Cavaliere has built at Bloom Bar. “I just love seeing people here having a good time, especially friends and family,” he said. “But obviously, it’s a completely different feeling when people I’ve never met before are here and the bar is full and buzzing—it’s those moments when I realize it’s all worth it.”
Left: Bloom Bar is open for breakfast, brunch and dinner on South Water Street.
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Writing The First Draft Of History INTERVIEW BY BRUCE A. PERCELAY
PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF FOX NEWS
Fox News’ Senior White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich
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ot many people can say they’re about to call President Donald Trump’s personal cell phone. But sitting in the White House basement, Jacqui Heinrich is one of those people. Heinrich, a Boston native and frequent Nantucket visitor, was promoted last year to co-host Fox News’ The Sunday Briefing. She also serves as Fox’s senior White House correspondent and is the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. In August, she gave a behind-the-scenes talk on the Trump White House at the Dreamland, and she made time to speak with N Magazine on the 30th anniversary of Fox News about her career, the state of the country and journalism today.
What is your experience on Nantucket? HEINRICH: I’m from Massachusetts originally. I was born in Boston. I’ve lived in Lincoln, Sudbury and Gloucester, and I have a lot of family still in and around Boston. It’s home for me in so many ways. [Nantucket] was always a place where my family would go to try to get away for a little bit. It feels far away enough that you feel like you’re breaking from the pace of the rest of the world, but it’s still New England, and you feel that.
Do you feel that Fox News as a network has an inherent leaning toward the right, or is that simply public perception? HEINRICH: If you watch our reporting, it’s apparent we cover every story from all sides fairly. The show that I anchor, we book Democrats every show. Just as we reach out to a Republican lawmaker, we reach out to a Democrat lawmaker. That’s almost every Sunday show that I host. I would push back on the presumption that there’s a leaning. Every network has its editorial, opinion side, and that’s the nature of cable news. But the reporting we do on this channel is straight up and down.
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The Trump era is a very new experience for the media. We have not had a president with as much influence over the media, and some of it is punitive. Does that put a chill on the media’s coverage of the president? HEINRICH: I don’t think so. I think that as we saw at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, he shook the hands of the journalists that were honored for their work that night, and all of those stories were critical of him, including the Wall Street Journal reporters who broke the story [of an alleged letter from Trump to Jeffrey Epstein]. He was very annoyed with that storyline and made no secret about that. I don’t think that it has had any impact on our pursuit of the facts and telling people what’s going on here at the White House. I think people lose sight of the fact that this is not unprecedented. The Obama administration similarly exercised a lot of litigation against reporters, and I think that the difference with Trump is that he’s just a lot more loud about it. As [Louisiana] Sen. John Kennedy rightly put it, [Trump] grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought. So we do tend to hear the president’s feelings about things more often, certainly, than other presidents. But I think what is happening in the courts is not without precedent. From my perspective as a journalist, there’s no act of intimidation that should stifle our quest for information and pursuit of the facts.
Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich.
But does his willingness to go after the media in the courts for reporting stories he does not appreciate have any impact? HEINRICH: You’re talking to the person in the chair, asking the president or the press secretary a question in the briefing room or a question in the Oval Office. I have not—and my colleagues have not—been told by their managers to stop asking questions. I think that’s apparent every single time the president is on camera. The threat of litigation is something that we’re not privy to, but it’s not something that has, in practice, stopped our line of questioning, and I think that history speaks for itself on that.
The war in Iran has not panned out smoothly for the Trump administration. Have you noticed a change in Trump’s patience at the White House? HEINRICH: As a reporter, my job is to talk about what’s happening on any given day, and we’ve seen things evolve into a predictable cycle in ways where they want a deal, they’re negotiating, the negotiations fall apart, we’re poised and ready to resume kinetic action, and then they come back to the table. We hear different iterations of that over and over.
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There is a long history of the media protecting information about the president’s health, dating back to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Biden was clearly impacted cognitively, but we also hear about Trump’s bruised hands and swollen ankles. Why do you think it’s hard to get real clarity on the president’s health? HEINRICH: During the Biden administration, whenever the press would raise concerns about the president’s health—whether he was stumbling over a word, having a lapse in memory or was looking out of it—we were often I think that had the attacked by the administration for our “Every network has administration done more line of questioning as being a partisan its editorial, opinion side, Oval Office addresses hit. That was something that I think was and that’s the nature of cable to really get people to shameful. news. But the reporting understand where things That’s not happening under this we do on this channel were and what might administration. They let us in to talk to is straight up and down.” become necessary might the president on a daily basis. We see have benefited them down – Jacqui Heinrich with our eyes and hear with our ears the line when we’re nearing how [Trump] is doing, and I don’t think the midterms. there’s a valid comparison to the Biden administration. I think there are considerations of how long will the American public tolerate the cost to them of this operation in terms of the cost of living, higher gas and oil prices. I think that’s something they’re wrestling with. But I have not seen it change the administration. They all sing from the same page of music, and that’s whatever the president is saying that day. And we have great access to him, so we get to hear it in his own words.
How concerned is Trump about the midterms? HEINRICH: I don’t know that the White House is as concerned as Congress. You hear from members, and when they go on shows and they talk about what they’re hearing in their districts, I think that you hear the president return to a few facts every time he talks about this, which is that we can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon—and a lot has been achieved in terms of setting them back from that goal with the operation that’s happened so far—the strait has to be opened and international shipping has to return to a place where it’s not under threat. I think that’s what’s steering their decisions. The midterms are a couple months away, and I think that’s more visibly on the minds of people who are looking closely at the polling.
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The president seems to enjoy interaction with the press. How accessible is he? HEINRICH: I could call him right now, and he’d pick up the phone. I’ve gotten calls from him before. He engages routinely with reporters, including some of the reporters he has the most contentious relationships with. I think that’s something that is unique to him, and I’d be surprised if we saw it again. I’m sure the Secret Service isn’t too thrilled at how many people have his cell phone number. It’s something that I’ll remember forever being able to phone the president and ask what’s going on at any given time.
With the president, things seem to change very quickly. Does that unpredictability make reporting difficult? HEINRICH: You just have to know everything about everything at all times. No big deal. You have to have a strong handle on all of the day’s issues and be ready to ask the president questions on any given topic at any given time. They can call us into the Oval Office right now, and you might be in front of him for three hours. I always have a running list of what I would bring up if an availability opened, and that was different than under Biden.
Journalists have a job to do, but they’re also Americans. Sometimes, there are national security issues that put journalists in a difficult position where they might say something that could have an impact on the country as a whole. How would you manage a situation like that? HEINRICH: There have been examples of that in the past. There was a prisoner swap story under Biden, where a small number of reporters were told about a transfer that was going to be happening, and if the information about it got out, it would jeopardize the lives of those people. Luckily, agreeing to those terms and receiving the information is something that I can bring in my managers on. I’m not alone and in a silo at that moment. But I think that there are countless examples of times when the press has been entrusted with secret information, and that’s a discussion between the outlets, editorial managers and the administration.
The division in this country is arguably as serious as it’s been since the Civil War. What is your take on where the country is going? Does the media’s attention on political extremes worsen the problem? HEINRICH: I think that we’ve seen the country move farther apart, but I would push back on the idea that it’s because of the legacy media. I think there are a lot of structural reasons for that—people are getting their information in silos that are dictated by algorithms that give them biasconfirming information. More and more people are consuming their news in 20-second clips on YouTube Shorts, Instagram and TikTok than by reading a paper. I think that’s a piece of it.
What about this job is most appealing, and what is the most difficult? HEINRICH: It’s a privilege to watch history unfold from the front row. That is an experience that [only] a handful of people get in life, and that is a responsibility that you take on. It includes a lot of work, so I think it’s the most fulfilling and the most difficult at the same time. But it is something that I’ve always wanted in terms of having that access, being right there and getting to write the first draft of history. That’s something that is huge. I’m grateful to be able to go on these trips and to be up close to all these officials who are making decisions every day that affect Americans’ lives. I’m privileged to work for this network where we are supported in that, and where our audience appreciates that. Our viewing numbers show that we do that well, and that the public trusts us to bring them the news. My show on Sundays has 400,000 independents who watch. These are people who determine the outcome of elections. They turn to Fox when they want to get the best reporting, and I appreciate the privilege that I have in doing that.
Heinrich also serves as president of the White House Correspondents’Association.
I think that primary elections are a piece of it, where you have more money than ever before that is being injected into these races. If you look at the polling on who casts ballots in these primary elections, it’s usually the farthest left and the farthest right faction of the party. Those are the engaged primary voters. If you’ve got to clear a primary to get to the general, it guarantees that you’re going to end up with two candidates who have gotten the buy-in of both extremes.
This year is Fox News’ 30th anniversary. Social media is having a profound effect on the conventional news business, print media is under pressure and broadcast news viewership is declining. Where do you see Fox 30 years from now? HEINRICH: You can follow the lines in the graph and look at the trajectory and presume that we’re going to be in an even more dominant spot. Our show on Sundays has one of the youngest demographics across cable and growth year over year. I think part of that is making sure that you’re present on social media to share your reporting and to have the audience connect with you, but then bringing them into the channel to watch the fullness of your report.
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A POLITICAL LEGACY INTERVIEW BY BRUCE A. PERCELAY
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE
Texas Democrat and Nantucket summer resident Ben Barnes
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ew people have witnessed history quite like Ben Barnes. At 25 years old, the up-and-coming Texas Democrat was put on the planning committee of President John F. Kennedy’s November 1963 fundraising tour through Dallas. More than 60 years later, Barnes still asks what happened that day in Dallas and whether the country would be any different had Kennedy not been assassinated. Barnes, now 88, has lived a full life in politics. The youngest elected Speaker of the House in Texas state history who became a political journeyman, Barnes has been involved with every president from Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson to Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Barnes, who maintains his thick Texas drawl, has served as a consultant, lobbyist and power broker, and recently released an autobiography titled Get It Done. The longtime Nantucket summer resident sat down with N Magazine for an insightful conversation on the Kennedys, as well as Lyndon B. Johnson’s mixed reputation and the current state of democracy in America.
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At age 26, you became the youngest Speaker of the House in Texas state history. In hindsight, how did you develop the maturity to lead and be respected in state politics?
What do you remember from that day?
BARNES: Jack Kennedy said to me on that Sunday, “Let me tell you, Ben, if someone wants to shoot the president of the United States, there’s no way to keep him from shooting the president BARNES: That’s a question that I have tried to answer to of the United States. If the president gets out and fulfills his myself all these years. Getting elected to the House when I duties and goes and does things, he’s a sitting duck.” Later, I was 21, my first day in the Legislature, I was so young-looking saw Reagan shot. If the gun hadn’t misfired, Gerald Ford would that one of the older members walked have [also] been dead. She was about six up to me and thought I was a page. He feet from him, and Reagan was shot at “Jack Kennedy said to me asked me to go get him a cup of coffee. close range. I saw those two people shot, on that Sunday, ‘Let me tell Well, I didn’t want to embarrass this and then George Wallace got shot when you, Ben, if someone wants guy, a senior member of the Legislature, I was in office. Jack Kennedy, Bobby to shoot the president of so I went and got him a cup of coffee. Kennedy and Martin Luther King were the United States, there’s Two days later, he came over, introduced all killed when I was in office, and that’s no way to keep him from himself. He said, “I didn’t know you a sad record of being in office when the shooting the president of the were a state representative. I thought you three major assassinations in the political United States.’” were a page.” That instantly kind of hung history of this country all took place in – Ben Barnes with me the rest of my political career. the ’60s. I really formed a network of people that I went by to see and ask their advice and counsel, and that served me very The question that’s been asked over and over since that well. Number one, I needed their advice and counsel because I day is exactly what happened. didn’t know what the hell I was doing, but I also needed them BARNES: I talked to Ted Kennedy about it a few weeks before to know that I relied on them and I respected them, and that he died [in 2009]. He never reached a conclusion, and I never helped me overcome the age of running for speaker and asking reached a conclusion. Here’s what I do know for sure. I know, them to vote for me for speaker because they thought they number one, that Lee Harvey Oswald went to work in the were having an impact on my life. I was taking their advice. school book depository [where he fired at Kennedy] 30 days A lot of times I would thank them when we did something I before we had published a parade route. thought was correct. We were not even going that route [initially]. Kennedy was I learned very early that the most important thing you having a great trip and the crowds loved him, but everybody can do to become a friend of a legislator or an elected public wanted him to speak. He spoke to a group of business people at official is to ask them for their advice and ask it often. When a breakfast in Fort Worth, and then he went out in the parking you take their advice, be sure and go back and give them credit lot adjacent to the hotel and spoke. Well, we just ran out of time, and thank them for giving you the right advice. and Nellie Connally—the first lady who was married to [Texas Gov. John Connally]—came to me and said, “Ben, this is not You were asked to help plan John F. Kennedy’s going to work. Y’all are going to have to change some of this fundraising tour in Texas, and you were quite because here’s what’s going to happen. Jacqueline Kennedy strong in your advice for him not to tour Dallas. is going to land in Austin at four o’clock. She may get to the Was that an instinct? What was your trepidation? Driskill Hotel where they’re staying at 4:15 or 4:30, and she’s BARNES: It was the atmosphere in Dallas. The Dallas News got to change, after having traveled all day, into a formal gown let H.L. Hunt of the [conservative] Hunt family run a full page and be at the receptions. Y’all got to change this.” ad, “Kennedy Go Home,” the day that Kennedy got there. It [Texas Sen.] Ralph Yarborough kept saying we’ve got to was very, very embarrassing for Texas for that ad to be in The have the public [parade]. They decided to have the parade, and Dallas News. Adlai Stevenson had come to Dallas and had the we were trying to come up with the shortest distance to get same experience. to the luncheon. I was involved in the logistics. The shortest We’re going to have the president of the United States for route for us was to go down Main Street, and then circle back, the first time in Texas as an experienced president, running have a luncheon, get him on the plane, and get down to Austin for reelection, and we’re going to have some embarrassment. quicker. We didn’t want to publish the parade route until the last I didn’t know what was going to happen, but it never entered minute because [Kennedy’s campaign manager] Jerry Bruno my mind [that he would be shot].
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worried—not that somebody might shoot the president—but he said the president might be embarrassed because the more likely it was that someone could come and have a demonstration.
Do you believe the information that came out of the Warren Commission? BARNES: Well, John Connally was a hunter and had fought in World War II, and so he was very experienced with guns. John Connally talked to the Warren Commission, and here’s a question that is very much unanswered for me. John Connally told the Warren Commission there were four shots, and the Warren Commission published that there were just three shots. The Warren Commission said the shot that hit Kennedy in the back of the head then ricocheted and went through Connally’s lungs. Connally said that’s impossible. He said that didn’t happen, and when the president’s head got blown off, he was turning in the car to look, and he said he saw the bullet explode in Kennedy’s head before he felt it hit him, but they never published that.
Do you believe there was a second shooter?
Had Kennedy lived, how different would the country have been?
BARNES: Question number two is the smoke behind the grassy knoll, and that’s something everybody’s talked about. They’ve got some film; people were taking film. But there’s nothing decisive for the smoke and the grassy knoll. Ted Kennedy and I both felt like that didn’t prove anything.
BARNES: I believe—despite what a lot of the Kennedy fans say, and I’m a fan of Jack Kennedy myself—that he and Johnson would have basically made the same decision on Vietnam. I don’t believe that Kennedy was getting out of Vietnam, and I believe that Kennedy got screwed by the Bay of Pigs and the CIA backing up. But I think that the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts would have ultimately been passed, but they wouldn’t have been passed in ’64 and ’65 because I don’t think Kennedy could have gotten the Southern senators to sit down as Johnson got them to sit down. I don’t think Jack Kennedy could have passed those acts, and that’s something else that Ted [Kennedy] and I agreed on.
“[Kennedy] and Johnson would have basically made the same decision on Vietnam. I don’t believe that Kennedy was getting out of Vietnam.” – Ben Barnes
Gerald Ford, who I played golf with six or seven years later in Colorado, was the last living member of the Warren Commission. I was playing golf with Gerald Ford, and I asked him, “Mr. President, what do you really feel about the Warren Commission?” He said, “I think we published the absolute truth.” He said, “I went to every meeting, I listened to every word that was said, and I believe there was only one shooter.” So I have a member of the Warren Commission telling me that, and I got John Connally telling me the Warren Commission John Connally (left) and Ben Barnes (right) was incorrect. displaying the Texas State Flag.
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What was it about Johnson that enabled him to lean so progressive at the time? The positions he took were not typical of a Southerner. BARNES: Johnson learned that there was great abuse based on race, really about his experience in South Texas, more so than his experience with Black Texans. Fredericksburg and Johnson City are a little bit like Comanche County, where I was born. There was not a Black person in my high school or grade school class, and there were very few Hispanics. I mean, it was a white part of Texas, and Johnson grew up there. Johnson had those feelings. People that knew him said he didn’t talk about it a lot, but he decided that the one place that he could accelerate was equal rights in America. He had a chance to do it. The day he signed the Voting Rights bill, I was in Washington because I was
president of the Southern Legislative Conference. He put his arm around two or three of the guys and we huddled there, and he said, “Ben, I want y’all to know, and all your friends [to] know that by passing this Voting Rights bill today, the South is going to turn Republican.” He said, “I will probably get beat, and y’all may all get beat. But I tell you, us passing the Civil Rights and Voting Rights bill is more important than all of our political careers put together. And so I want y’all to remember that, and you’re going to have to live with it.”
“We become a third-world country if our presidents are going to go get wealthy when they get elected.”
Ben Barnes (on right) with House Speaker Gus F. Mutscher, Governor Preston Smith and former president Lyndon B. Johnson in Brenham, August 17, 1970.
– Ben Barnes
If you eliminated Vietnam from Johnson’s record, would he be considered one of the great presidents? Then he took about three or four steps away, and he twirled back, and he said, “And something else,” as he punched me in the chest with a finger. He said, “Ben, some day a Black man will be nominated president of the United States.” This is 1965. He said, “And by God, you better be for him because a Black president will not only change this country, but it’ll change the world.” Well, fast forward then. I’ve been for Bill Clinton and I’d been to Nantucket with him. When Obama ran for president [in 2008], we endorsed Obama, and it made the Clintons very angry at me.
BARNES: There’s no doubt about it, if they’re not going to Vietnam. Medicaid, Medicare, public television and public radio. He added more areas to the national parks than any president except Teddy Roosevelt. He’s got a long record of things that he did. There are 2,000 bills he passed, and he used the image and memory of the tragedy of John Kennedy to his advantage. I think about half the legislation he passed [was from] when he would say he was going to do this in memory of Jack Kennedy. I think the unfortunate tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being killed and the tragedy of Martin Luther King being killed added a sympathy that ran through Johnson’s legislative program. A lot of people, even those opposed to those things, didn’t get out and fight him like they would have maybe normally because they didn’t want to fight the images and the ghosts of Jack Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy and Dr. King.
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Fast forward to today. The bipartisanship divide seems to be getting wider, with socialist candidates on the left and far-right candidates on the other side. Where are we headed with this great divide?
We’ve got a group of Democrats now that are not afraid to call themselves socialists and not afraid to even use the word communist again, and that’s very unhealthy. I am still an optimist, and I think we can find a person and a political movement that can save America and move BARNES: The birth of the real right wing that took place us back to at least a much stronger degree of cooperation in the early 2000s and the people who got elected to and less hatred and bigotry. It’s going to take a very Congress that were really right wing permeated our talented person, and it’s going to take a lot of changes. political society enough that they grew in numbers. I’ve never been for term limits, but I’m for term Then along came Donald Trump, and he seized on limits now. I think some congressmen ought to serve this opportunity. A lot of people don’t think Trump’s six terms and senators ought to intelligent. I think he’s a smart serve two terms. I’m for a 75-yearguy, and I think he seized on this old retirement age now. I think divide that he saw developing in “I have a member of the everybody can still, under the this country. Warren Commission telling me [there were three shots], Supreme Court decision, give all the He brought out a type of and I got John Connally money they want to. But I want to person that was not used to telling me the Warren see it reported in 72 hours. I want being in American politics who Commission was incorrect.” you to have to file with the secretary felt like they were left out of the of state the contributions you get. system, and they were mad as – Ben Barnes I want redistricting done by impartial hell. They got an opportunity to boards. This gerrymandering to save go support Trump, and they got seats or to regain the control of the House or keep control an opportunity to have some power. It was not enough to of the House is a lousy way to run a democracy. be against someone politically. Trump permeated this into the system that you’ve got to dislike them or hate them. Do you think Trump’s conduct has redefined the I consider the division in America to be more than a presidency, or will it snap back to what we have political division. I consider it to be a personal division. come to expect? People have family fights and arguments at Christmas BARNES: The thing that I understand the least today and Thanksgiving. Members of the family don’t speak. about what’s happening in this country is the fact that It’s a very difficult time in America, and I think it’s the the public has seemingly taken for granted that people most dangerous time. I really think that there’s a lot of can make money in office. I never thought I would live wood, a lot of grass, and there’s a lot of people running in a country where the people would accept a president around that have buckets of gasoline and a box of and his family personally benefiting from being in office matches in their pocket. A lot of bad things can happen and making business deals and having a sales machine to very quickly. sell the things that that family has been able to do. I think Is there a resolution to this situation? Could the it’s very, very unhealthy. We become a third-world country right president pull the country together? if our presidents are going to go get wealthy when they get elected. BARNES: When you’re assigning blame, obviously I think We are all going about our lives, and now we’ve grown that Trump and far-right-wing Republicans are more to accustomed to Trump and his family making money, and blame. But the Democrats are not behaving themselves that is in clear violation of the United States Constitution. as respected, freedom-loving proponents of democracy.
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Thomas Jefferson famously said that if given the choice of a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, he would choose the latter. Is the media complicit in the divide between left and right? BARNES: In 1963, there were 78 representatives of the press in the state Capitol: daily newspapers and some radio and television. Most cities in Texas had two papers. If The Dallas News didn’t get you in the morning edition, the Dallas Times Herald got it in the afternoon edition. There was fierce competition, and as a result, newspapers had the money and they spent the money to report the news. Well, because of the internet, newspapers got in financial trouble because people weren’t reading newspapers anymore. As a result, these online sources that don’t have a system of checks and balances will have people read it and believe it. Today, in this last session, there were eight press people, not 78 that had offices when I was in office. That’s a sad situation because people don’t know what to believe, and there’s a world of people who believe the internet. I don’t think people are nearly as informed about their state government and their federal government as they were when everybody got their source from the daily newspapers.
Are you optimistic about the future of the country?
What are you most proud of from your career?
BARNES: If I had to describe America in 2026, I’d say we’re confused. We have so many sources directing us to do so many different things that we don’t have a definition of purpose like our parents drilled into our heads. Maybe we’re too smart, I don’t know. The jury’s out on what we’re going to leave our
BARNES: I’m more proud of the role I played in public and higher education. Specifically, some of my friends met and had dinner 20 years ago and created the Ben Barnes Fellows. Now there are over 50 kids that have gotten a full run to get an undergraduate and graduate degree. They’ve gotten $50,000 a year out of that fund that my friends created. Meeting them, seeing the job that they’re doing and seeing the responsibility that they feel in their soul—I think that’s probably the proudest accomplishment. I’m prouder of that than I am the brick and mortar, and I certainly passed a lot of tax bills and created brick-andmortar facilities. We created probably 20 new colleges, universities and medical schools. When you can go by and point to something that I helped do, I get a great deal of pride. But I don’t think I’m as proud of the brick and mortar as I am of the human beings in my life. I think I’m the proudest that in some small way I touched a few lives that might play a significant role in the future.
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kids and what’s going to happen in this society, but I don’t think we’re going to get near as high grades as what Tom Brokaw called the Greatest Generation. I don’t know which words in the King’s English that we’re going to use to describe what our generation is or how much we’ve contributed to the future of this country.
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AT SEA WRITTEN BY BRUCE A. PERCELAY AND BRIAN BUSHARD PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE
The Giffords reflect on the sinking of the Andrea Doria
The Andrea Doria on its side after the collision with the Stockholm
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an the lifeboats, women and children first.” It is the last line you want to hear when you are on a cruise ship 45 miles from shore. So began the story of the Gifford family’s last day of the European trip their parents designed to expose their children to the world. After traveling around Germany, France and Italy in their Volkswagen bus during the summer of 1956, the family was making the final leg of their journey from Naples, Italy, to New York City on what was billed as the newest, safest and most luxurious ocean liner to sail the high seas.
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with hallways painted with murals and lined with sculptures. Spending the trip in first class, the Giffords enjoyed the luxuries of swimming pools, reading and gaming rooms, gymnasiums, salons and a ballroom. The ship’s owners spared no expense making it one of the most lavish vessels the world has ever seen. The ship cost $40 million to build and another $30 million to decorate. Chad and Jock, who have been summer residents on Nantucket since childhood, had vivid memories of the spectacular ship, on which they spent nine days with their siblings and parents, Clarence “Bud” and Priscilla “Wink” Gifford. As they approached the shipping lanes Jock and Chad Gifford
The Andrea Doria was the pride of Italy, built with the latest radar and 11 watertight compartments beneath its decks designed to make it unsinkable. The ship redefined luxury travel, with an art collection that rivaled many museums. The glitz and glamour surrounding the Andrea Doria attracted celebrities like Cary Grant, Orson Welles and Joan Crawford, as well as affluent travelers from around the world. Touted as a self-propelled city and the world’s most lavish cruise experience, the Andrea Doria set the high-water mark for bespoke luxury travel and ironically presented itself much in the same way as the ill-fated Titanic 44 years prior. The Gifford family could not have been more excited to cap off their Europe trip with an experience that saw young Chad Gifford and his brothers, Jock and Dun, along with their sister, Bambi, wearing black-tie attire at dinner, sleeping in luxury state rooms and living in a world that few people would ever see. The rooms were replete with nods to Italian Renaissance icons,
The 697-foot, 29,100-ton Andrea Doria represented the future of ocean liners.
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Doria, cutting a 40-foot gash in the “unsinkable” ship and causing it to list. But in the thick fog, the boys still had no idea what had happened. Looking out the window, they couldn’t even see the water below them. Fearing a boiler had exploded, Chad and Jock raced to their parents’ room, where Bambi was staying. “We knew something was wrong, and it really was wrong,” Jock said. As quickly as possible, Bud, Wink and the kids scrambled up two flights of stairs to the promenade deck—a difficult task with the ship starting to list
The Giffords dressed for dinner
south of Nantucket, the end of the trip was in sight, and passengers were instructed by an intercom to pack their luggage in the hallways for the crew to collect. At 11 o’clock on July 25, a calm but deeply foggy night, Jock and Chad were finishing packing their suitcases when all of a sudden, they heard it. A thunderous crunch that echoed through the ship. “I was sitting on the bunk when it happened, and I ended up on the floor,” Jock recalled. Smoke and an acrid electrical smell of short-circuiting wires permeated through the hallways. The elegant light fixtures that dotted the ship immediately went dark, and the blinding emergency lights came on. “We went from a luxury liner to a disaster area in a heartbeat,” Jock said. The crunch they heard was the steel bow of the Stockholm—designed to penetrate North Sea ice— ramming directly into the starboard side of the Andrea Promotional material depicting the glamour to be found aboard the Andrea Doria
“We knew something was wrong, and it really was wrong.” – Jock Gifford A first-class cabin in the Andrea Doria
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drastically to its side. In a rush to higher ground, Wink dropped her Nantucket lightship basket down a flight of stairs but instructed her children not to retrieve it. Bambi did anyway, hightailing down a staircase that had become topsy-turvy. On the promenade deck, Italian passengers exclaimed, “Mamma Mia!” while the American passengers cried, “Oh my God!” “I didn’t key off [our] mom’s anxiety until somebody came over and gave us last rites,” Chad said. “This was an hour and a half after the collision and in Italian, and I didn’t know what last rites were. I saw Mom get really shaken then. She said, ‘OK, children, when
children were whisked away. “We pushed off from the Andrea Doria, and it was as pea soupy as you’ve ever seen on Nantucket,” Chad said. Coming from the listed ship, he saw “the search lights from the Andrea Doria tipping over a little bit on you, but it was also a glassy sea.” The lifeboat navigated away from the ship and the fog. Had the seas been choppy, the lifeboats would have been swamped. “We came out of the fog bank to the crystal clear night, and look over there, and there was this big ship and broadway lights, Ile de France.” As their lifeboat approached the Ile de France, a large door opened allowing them to board the ship. With Wink and
The 739-foot Ile de France came to the Andrea Doria’s aid
we’re going to have to jump into the sea, we’re going to have to be in a circle and hold hands.’ That got to me.” But they never had to jump. Roughly two hours later, they received instruction for women and children to head to the lifeboats. Bud stayed behind with the other men, while the children stumbled to the gunwale to careen down the ship on a wobbly ladder to the lifeboats. With a heavy list to its starboard side, half of the lifeboats had been rendered inoperable. Bud later said in a 1988 interview with NBC that at that moment, he “didn’t want to hold up” his family, saying to them, “Good luck, and God be with you” as his wife and
the children safe on board the Ile de France, the only question left was when they would reunite with their dad. “I said to mom, ‘I’m going to go find dad,’” Chad remembered. “I didn’t know what I was doing, but I knew the elevator we got out of. I went over there, damn sure I was going to get him, and out walked dad.” It was 3 a.m. Nobody slept that night. Before leaving for New York on the Ile de France later that morning, Chad and Jock took a final look at the Andrea Doria. “The miracle of the ship is that it floated for 12 hours,” Jock said. “The Titanic went down in half an hour. If this boat had gone down within an hour, we wouldn’t be here right now.”
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“There was somebody who was shining pretty darn strongly on the Gifford family that night.” – Chad Gifford
COLLISION COURSE
Some 51 passengers and crew members died in the collision—46 of the 1,706 people on board the Andrea Doria and five from the Stockholm. Years after the sinking, Chad couldn’t stop thinking what would have happened if the Stockholm had rammed into his family’s rooms. What if the Andrea Doria left Naples just three seconds earlier or later— would his family have made it out alive? Neither captain of the two ships was ever assigned fault for the collision. The Andrea Doria’s captain, Piero Calamai, was an experienced navigator who had captained the ocean
The Stockholm turned to its right, believing the ships would pass on portside. By the time the captains were close enough to make out the other ship through the fog, it was too late. Two years later, the insurance companies for the two shipping lines agreed to an out-of-court settlement. The owners of the Stockholm received $1 million for repairs to the bow of the ship, and the owners of the Andrea Doria were awarded $16 million for the loss of the vessel. According to Chad: “It was an incredible cacophony of errors. When you have radar, [the fault] falls on both sides. It’s inexcusable with the radar they had.” The Andrea Doria sank on its side into 250 feet of water, bringing with it nearly all of the Giffords’ luggage, as well as the family Volkswagen, which still sits on the seafloor 46 miles offshore. During a clean-up effort weeks later, the U.S. Coast Guard happened upon a floating carry-on bag with a Delft pitcher in the water above the wreck. Its luggage tag read “Clarence Gifford.” Besides the lightship basket and a life preserver, it is the only souvenir from their trip.
The Giffords safely aboard the Ile de France after leaving the Andrea Doria in lifeboats
liner dozens of times over. He was familiar with the busy shipping lanes south of Nantucket. Before the collision, he had been tracking the 524-foot Stockholm on the radar from nearly 20 miles away. The Stockholm had been traveling due east toward the Andrea Doria on its journey back to Sweden. Calamai, believing the two ships would pass parallel to each other on their starboard sides, testified that he steered to the left to avoid a collision in near-zero visibility.
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Andrea Doria survivors arriving in New York by way of the Coast Guard
The mutilated bow of the 524-foot Stockholm after colliding with the Andrea Doria
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70 YEARS LATER
In the aftermath, the Andrea Doria has come to be regarded as the Mount Everest of Northeast shipwreck diving, an incredibly dangerous dive even for experienced professionals. More than a dozen divers have died while exploring the wreck. Artifacts have been retrieved, with some on display at the Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum, ranging from plates and cups to a life preserver. For some, the disaster might discourage them from taking to the ocean ever again. That was not the case for the Giffords. Dun went on to join the Navy and was a competitive sailor, navigating the Constellation in its successful title defense in the America’s Cup. For Chad and Jock, they boarded another ocean liner two years later and kept sailing as if nothing had happened. “It didn’t lay a glove on us,” Jock said. “When you’re 15, the word immortal is what comes to my mind. I didn’t see myself dying anywhere.” Bambi Gifford Mleczko passed away earlier this year after a life split between Connecticut and Nantucket, where she owned and operated the Together clothing store. Dun Gifford died in 2010, after working in the nonprofit space serving as an aide to the Kennedy family. Over the years, the entire Gifford family would
commemorate the anniversary of Jock Gifford the sinking on July 25. Sometimes, they would meet at Straight Wharf Restaurant, which Jock opened in 1976. Other years, the family held a dinner at Bambi’s house, where she kept a six-foot barrel the Coast Guard had attached to the Andrea Doria to track it before it sank. That barrel had been retrieved and brought to Bambi’s house. These days, however, Chad and Jock don’t think back to the ship very often. “I would say that I have no fear of the ocean or being on a boat, but I do have a respect for the ocean,” Chad said. “Any time the kids want to use a boat, I make sure they know where the rocks are and where the tide is. “But if there’s something that I’ve got that has affected me and is part of me is a respect for something called fate,” Chad added. “There is a destiny. Having said that, that doesn’t mean you don’t have to take precautions or you don’t have to be thankful. But there was somebody who was shining pretty darn strongly on the Gifford family that night.” The Andrea Doria sits in 250 feet of water off Nantucket. Courtesy of Atlantic Wreck Salvage
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Jill Kargman’s latest movie, Influenced, hits the big screen.
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ifelong Nantucket summer resident Jill Kargman is known for skewering the rich and entitled in books and on television. Now, her debut feature film, Influenced, is enjoying a limited theatrical release and will be available for streaming on Amazon and AppleTV this September. Based on a character she developed on social media, the comedy features cameos by the likes of Drew Barrymore, Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow, as well as figures from New York’s fashion, media and social scene. Kargman is a bundle of contradictions: The quintessential Upper East Sider, she’s deeply into heavy metal, and her taste might best be described as Edward Gorey chic. As the daughter of the late Chanel chief operating officer Arie Kopelman and his philanthropist wife, Coco, she was extremely well brought up, attending Spence, Taft and Yale, and yet she swears like a longshoreman and doesn’t hesitate to flip off cab drivers.
Influenced, by Nantucket summer resident Jill Kargman, hit theaters in May, and will be available to stream in September.
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s for Nantucket? She dislikes the sun, the beach and bright colors (other than a good red lipstick). What she loves about the Grey Lady is its greyness: moody weather, fog, board games and time to read. She also met her husband, Harry, on the island, and (thanks to her father) has a burial plot here. “I was so psyched when I found out I’d be a worm buffet on Nantucket,” she said. Sardonic and surgical in her wit, she’s made a career out of highly intelligent snark. Twenty years ago, she started writing a series of popular novels that poke fun at elite Manhattan types: The Right Address, Wolves in Chic Clothing, Jet Set, The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund and Momzillas. She also penned a children’s book, Pirates and Princesses, with her daughter, Sadie,
Influenced features A-Listers from Matt Damon to Drew Barrymore and Gwyneth Paltrow.
and the hilarious fangirl protagonist of The Rock Star in Seat 3A is a thinly fictionalized version of herself. But it was Momzillas that she eventually adapted into a TV series. Odd Mom Out, which aired for three seasons on Bravo, catapulted her into the popcultural stratosphere. The show made
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“It’s sort of holding a funhouse mirror up to influencer culture.” – Jill Kargman
unsparing fun of status- and label-conscious, social-climbing, self-absorbed Manhattanites. The characters may have been caricatures, but they landed with a scorching accuracy familiar to anyone who’s ever gone shopping on Madison Avenue. Today, Odd Mom Out is a cult classic (and well worth binging on Netflix), but her most popular character to date was inspired by the pandemic lockdown. “Dzanielle” is a spoiled, oblivious “momfluencer” with a thick Long Island accent, navigating the depredations of COVID from inside her highly rarefied bubble. “There was nothing going on, and I was hunkered down in New York, just being silly, doing some goofy shtick for a friend to make her laugh,” Kargman said. “She told me to post them, and then one went crazy viral. It had a million views or something, which I never get. So, I was sort of surprised, but I guess people were starved for entertainment after watching Tiger King for the third time. Then Vogue did an article on Dzanielle, and here we are.” In Kargman’s Instagram posts, Dzanielle conducts an online kaffeeklatsch where she obsesses over her twins, “Dzakota and Jjjared,” and takes the proverbial piss out of the Upper East Side women who were sneaking into speakeasy salons to get their hair colored or complaining bitterly about the difficulty of getting their favorite Peking duck. “When we meet her in the movie, six years later, she’s become a sensation with 999,000 followers, and she’s trying desperately to get to a million,” Kargman said. “It’s sort of holding a funhouse mirror up to influencer culture.”
I grew up together, so we’re old friends,” Kargman said. “And then Matt Kargman acknowledges the irony Damon and I have a mutual friend. I feel like the trailer is a little misleading. that she’s the one to do it, since she It makes it look like all these Hollywood juggernauts have major roles. attended the Met Gala three years They’re in it as five-second cameos. If you bend down for your popcorn, in a row and pops up in pictures in you’ll miss them.” The New York Times at the opening “We also have a lot of real New Yorkers, too, because the movie is this night of the New York City Ballet and very hyperbolized, glossy, candy version of New York. In fact, Dylan’s Candy similar swanky events. Bar is the bar/bat mitzvah theme in the story, and there are all these real New “But I don’t monetize it,” she said. Yorkers peppered throughout, as Easter eggs that not everyone’s going to get, “I don’t get paid. I did two paid posts but the New Yorkers will.” in the very early dawn of all that, and What everyone will get is the main character, who’s wet-your-pants I felt like a prostitute. I said, ‘This is funny and played with a deadpan sincerity by Kargman. In fact, it’s not unlikely gross. I’m never doing it again.’ I’m that within months, the name Dzanielle will become to overindulged Manhattan talking about the people who make Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Moms what Karen is to white women who ask to speak to the manager. money and support themselves that way. A lot of them are [kissing up to billionaires] because they want a ride to Nantucket on the [private jet]. I would rather be on JetBlue with 200 strangers than have to kiss your ass and send you a case of wine. I don’t want to sing for my supper. I just want anonymity and my headphones, thank you very much.” Always quick to call out hypocrisy and phoniness, Kargman said, “My friendships aren’t transactional. I’m fascinated when I see people air kiss and claim to be friends but not really know each other. It’s all about projecting perfection. I don’t do fake friendships, and I don’t traffic in small talk. I’m incapable of it. In fact, I probably have a version of Tourette’s. Truth serum is just baked into my DNA.” As for the celebrities who signed on for Influenced, Barrymore was married to Kargman’s brother, Will Kopelman, and they’ve remained close, calling each Kargman at the family other “sister-out-laws.” And house on Nantucket Paltrow? “Gwyneth and
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Jack Forsyth, a Nantucket native and first-year student at Southern Methodist University, launched his custom surfboard business after shaping boards in his backyard.
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rom the shore, he looks like just another young surfer in a black wetsuit floating over the sandbar off Nobadeer Beach. Perched up on his board as one particularly intense summer storm rolls offshore, Jack Forsyth has the patience of a sage boarder who can spend minutes on end waiting for the right wave to catch. But at just 18 years old, Forsyth can make a claim no one else on the water can make. Unlike the dozens of surfers at Nobadeer Beach and the hundreds of other surfers on the island, Forsyth did not ride the wave of buying manufactured surfboards. Instead, he took matters into his own hands, becoming the only custom surfboard maker on Nantucket. “Surfing makes you really respect the ocean because of the sheer power those swells have,” he said. “Once you explore that, you can really fine-tune your surfing and your boards to match the waves that we have here.” A lifelong surfer and an instructor himself, Forsyth has a laid-back look of a Southern California surfer, fitting the mold with his wavy dirty-blond hair and face full of sunscreen. He can more often than not be found on the water, learning the rhythms of the swells and practicing his timing like a fly fisherman. When he’s not on the water, he’s at the shipping container he’s converted into his studio, sanding through a foam surfboard blank to shape a custom board that’s designed for the types of waves Nantucket sees in the summers and winters—two very different styles of surfing, he assures me. “If you go to a shop and buy a board for a significant amount of money and you take that board out, it might be a great board that you love and want to ride all the time, but when you’re riding your own board, you can feel how the board rides in the water, how it turns, how it cuts back and handles big or small waves,” said Forsyth, who entered his freshman year at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, this fall. “Then you can go back and fine-tune the next one to what you want. You get to control your own surfing and advance your skill level.”
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“It made me really appreciate the craft that goes into making boards, especially boards of highperformance caliber.” – Jack Forsyth
Forsyth shapes boards in one half of a shipping container off Old South Road.
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waiting for the right wave once you’re on the water. Over school dorm basement at Deerfield Academy. Now, he’s the course of the year, surfers like Forsyth study the waves secured space in one-half of a shipping container off Old and the shifting sandbars to know the precise location where South Road, where he hand-planes and sands the foam they should paddle for the best waves. In surfer lingo, the blanks barefoot in his T-shirt and shorts. summer waves on Nantucket are referred to as “mushy,” or This year, Forsyth turned what he initially launched as slow-moving. They don’t have the steep drops you might a backyard hobby into a full-time business, pumping out see in surfing competitions in Oahu or dozens of surfboards. He named the Nazaré, in Portugal. company Syth Surfboards, partly “During the summer, I like a from his last name and partly from “Having a local shaper in board that has a lot of drive and the shape of a gardening scythe, your area is key because generates its own speed,” Forsyth which has a blade resembling the you know your local breaks said. “The waves here can be quite fin of a board. “When I first started and how they work and slow over the summer because they shaping boards and especially this how people like to surf.” don’t have a strong hurricane-force year when I turned it into a full– Jack Forsyth power behind them.” As a result, his time business, it made me really Forsyth sands and hand-planes boards out of a shipping container.
appreciate the craft that goes into making boards, especially boards of high-performance caliber,” he said. While he’s only starting his first semester of college, he speaks like a seasoned veteran in the field. “Having 100% handcrafted, handmade boards is really important for the industry as more and more of the older shapers have either passed away or passed on their craft to their children,” he said. “A lot of the brands have also gone corporate, and unfortunately the quality has also fallen off.” Surfing, like fishing or hunting, is a waiting game in more ways than one: waiting for the weather to cooperate,
summer boards, called small-wave grovelers, are flatter, with a shorter curve, called a board’s “rocker.” Fall and winter waves, by contrast, require boards that can manage larger drops. “Having a local shaper in your area is key because if you know your local breaks and how they work and how people like to surf, then I can help people get what they want out of a board,” Forsyth said. “With a brand that’s based on the West Coast, those boards aren’t designed for East Coast waves. They’re designed for California or Hawaii, which is completely different.”
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HITTING THE TICK ISSUE
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THE NANTUCKET TICK CENTER
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ll of a sudden, the tick issue seems to have become the new COVID. From the Midwest to the Hamptons to the alarming increase on Martha’s Vineyard, stories about the proliferation of ticks, particularly the lone star tick, have seemed to appear everywhere. The spread of alpha-gal syndrome has also been making headlines with increasing frequency, including in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe and The Atlantic, among other publications. In many places, it has become the topic du jour. For Nantucket, tick-borne illnesses are not a new concern. Nantucket Cottage Hospital has been managing Lyme disease, babesiosis and other tick-borne illnesses for over 40 years. But of all the current tick-borne illnesses, no tick has captured the attention of the island’s population more than the lone star tick, identifiable by a single white dot on its back, as well as the alpha-gal syndrome it can trigger—an allergy to mammalian meat and other products that can cause serious allergic reactions. With an estimated 420,000 cases across the country, alpha-gal syndrome is becoming a broad-based healthcare issue that currently has no treatment or cure.
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our community will need. The Nantucket Tick Center is While Nantucket has only registered a fraction about putting Nantucket at the forefront of that work.” of the 1,200 positive tests documented on Martha’s The Nantucket Tick Center will build on the hospital’s Vineyard, Nantucket Cottage Hospital has determined clinical experience while connecting that expertise that it could be only a matter of time before alpha with research, prevention and community education. gal syndrome becomes widespread on Nantucket. In The hospital plans to strengthen awareness, prevention, response to the looming threat and the desire to get out diagnosis and treatment while convening experts in ahead of it, Nantucket Cottage Hospital President Amy medicine, life sciences and biotechnology to explore new Lee and Board Chairman Bruce A. Percelay have made treatments and vaccines. the commitment to create a formalized tick treatment According to Percelay, “The hospital plans to mobilize capability, which will be called the Nantucket Tick a wide range of resources, including the Morse Clinic at Center. The facility will have a permanent home in Mass General, which focuses on tick-borne illnesses, as the physical therapy center that the hospital will begin well as numerous experts in the field, to create a nationally construction on beside its new employee focused facility designed to manage the housing apartments. risk of tick-borne illness.” “Nantucket has decades of “We have an opportunity It is widely known that the whiteexperience caring for patients to act now, before tailed deer is the primary blood source with tick-borne illnesses, but the that threat grows.” for adult ticks and that the estimated landscape is changing,” Lee said. – Amy Lee deer population of 10,000 on Nantucket “The emergence of lone star ticks plays a pivotal role in and alpha-gal the breadth of the tick syndrome presents a problem. Prevention new and potentially will be an important part significant health of the center’s work. threat to our While it will not directly island. We have an manage deer reduction opportunity to act efforts, the hospital can now, before that serve as a healthcare threat grows, by and scientific partner, building the clinical helping to convene expertise, research organizations involved capacity, prevention in land management and programs and public health. treatment resources Nantucket Cottage Hospital Board Chairman Bruce A. Percelay and NCH President Amy Lee. Photo by Kit Noble
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he Nantucket Conservation Foundation and the Nantucket Land Bank, which account for more than 12,000 acres of conservation land, house thousands of deer and will also be important participants in that effort, according to hospital executives. “Establishing a coordinated effort to reduce the deer population on Nantucket is a welcome step,” Land Bank Executive Director Rachael Freeman said. “Providing a safe environment for people to use our trails and open spaces for recreation goes to the heart of our mission.” A central part of the vision is dedicated clinical space for the Nantucket Tick Center within the new clinical building planned off Vesper Lane. The space would support evaluation and treatment of patients with tick-borne illnesses such as alpha-gal syndrome, along with research, education, specialty consultation and follow-up care. Clinical capabilities could include dedicated exam rooms, infusion services, diagnostic resources and telemedicine consultation through Mass General Brigham.
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The areas that will be addressed will start with education of the island’s population as to the nature of the threat, disseminating strategies for prevention, and broadening capabilities for diagnosis and treatment. The Nantucket Tick Center will also coordinate with Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, the Morse Clinic and other organizations on translational research on tick exposure, treatment and patient outcomes to study matters of co-infection, diagnostics and recovery. In addition, the center is planning to convene a largescale biotech conference to better understand vaccines and treatments that may be underway or help in stimulating interest in their development.
The center is also exploring putting together an advisory board of clinical, scientific and community leaders. According to Percelay, “Nantucket’s summer population includes a significant number of biotech experts and executives, some of whom have expressed interest in working with the new center to help explore new pharmaceutical treatments.” “Our goal is to establish the Nantucket Tick Center and steward the philanthropic support needed to bring it to life,” Lee said. “This investment will help create dedicated clinical space and the infrastructure necessary to advance research, prevention, diagnosis and treatment here on Nantucket. The center will also be supported through our broader capital campaign for the
“The hospital plans to mobilize a wide range of resources, including ... numerous experts in the field, to create a nationally focused facility designed to manage the risk of tick-borne illness.” – Bruce A. Percelay
new clinical building and housing, both of which are essential to expanding care and helping us retain and recruit the clinical workforce needed to advance this work.” For NCH, the center represents a natural next step, Lee said. Nantucket already has deep clinical experience, an engaged community, important public health and conservation partners
and access to the expertise of Mass General Brigham. By bringing those strengths together, the Nantucket Tick Center can strengthen prevention, expand treatment, advance Nantucketbased research and help protect the island community while contributing to solutions that may reach far beyond Nantucket. Both Percelay and Lee, while understanding the primary role of the hospital in serving patients on a daily basis, recognize that time is not on the island’s side. Given the rapid rise in the overall tick problem on Nantucket and particularly the aggressive growth of the lone star tick population, the hospital views a dedicated facility as playing an important role among the services it provides on the island.
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GILDING THE LILY WRITTEN BY BRIAN BUSHARD
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE
THE LAND BANK RESTORES LILY POND.
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liver damage and intestinal illnesses, and can be deadly to pets. Meanwhile, nitrogen that leaches from fertilizer into the harbor has been blamed for a decline in vegetation, including eelgrass, the primary habitat for Nantucket Bay scallops. According to the Land Bank, the restoration would improve water quality on more than 1.4 million gallons of stormwater and filter 47 pounds of nitrogen in that stormwater runoff annually. It would also remove invasive phragmites and Japanese knotweed that have spread across the property.
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The restoration would enhance public access through the park through a series of boardwalks and trails.
“Even though when you walk through there, it certainly looks like a wetland, we all understood it wasn’t what we would consider to be a healthy wetland.” – Brian Kuchar, Horsley Witten Group
“Even though when you walk through there, it certainly looks like a wetland, we all understood it wasn’t what we would consider to be a healthy wetland,” said Brian Kuchar, the principal landscape architect at the Horsley Witten Group, which developed the Lily Pond project. “There was monoculture and not a lot of [plant] diversity. Over time, this area has filled in with invasive plants.” There have also been discussions about transforming the property into a true pond, which it once was when the English settlers built a dam for a fulling mill roughly where the restaurant American Seasons is located. According to local legend, the pond remained for half a century, until one night in the 1720s, when an 11-year-old girl named Love Paddock dug a small trench along the dam to watch the water
trickle out. When she returned the next morning, the trickle had grown into a torrent of water cascading out of the pond, flooding properties and damaging boats out to the harbor. She only confessed to emptying the pond on her death bed. Today, however, the tide has turned on the idea to recreate the pond. “We looked at whether we could create more open water,” Kuchar said. “[By creating a pond], you would change the aesthetic, but you would also change the ecology of this area. From a permitting standpoint, that becomes a much greater challenge because you would be losing wetland. Wetlands are one of our most valuable natural resources, and from a state perspective, the state is trying to increase wetlands.” Freeman agreed. “One of the things we recognize is that this is a property people like the way it is. We have Land Bank properties we’re focusing on improving in subtle ways environmentally and for the public because people love them just the way they are,” she said. “The biggest change you’ll see visually is that it will be completely accessible. There will be a trail that goes through the whole park. That’s a big shift and it’s very beneficial because all users can use the space. Part of our goal is to not change it, interestingly enough, not changing the core but maintaining what people love about it.”
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MAINTAINING A HEALTHY HARBOR WRITTEN BY BRIAN BUSHARD
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE
THE GREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION IS INVESTING IN NANTUCKET HARBOR.
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The funding comes at a critical time. By 2100, moderate sea-level rise projections show that 89% of Coatue’s beaches and 70% of its dunes will be submerged. As a barrier beach, Coatue and Coskata form a natural shield for the entire harbor from pounding waves in tropical storms and Nor’Easters. But those very waves now chip away at those protective dunes on Coatue, which stand just six feet above sea level at their highest point. Just last winter, the Galls—the narrow stretch up to Great Point—experienced two washover events, when waves carried all the way over the beach. “Barrier beach systems have always been dynamic,” Trustees President and CEO Katie Theoharides said. “What’s changing now is that erosion is accelerating so much. Coupled with sea-level rise and storm surge, that natural process is being accelerated so much that the systems can't keep accreting at the pace they need to keep pace with.”
Since the yacht club on Washington Street Extension launched its charitable foundation in 2018, it has dedicated over $1.5 million on more than 60 projects to protect the harbor.
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“Without a thriving, healthy, beautiful harbor, there’s no Great Harbor Yacht Club.” – Christine Bell
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oastal resilience has increasingly become a top priority for not just homeowners along the harbor and the Great Harbor Yacht Club, but the town of Nantucket, the Steamship Authority and Hy-Line Cruises. Earlier this year, town officials heard proposals to lift the harbor bulkhead and raise Easy Street, which saw water rise to the road level 84 times last year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. According to the town’s Coastal Resilience Plan, by 2050, Nantucket could lose nearly 569 acres of high salt marsh, an area 11 times bigger than Boston Common. Projections show a 10-year storm would flood as many as 1,436 structures and 69 miles of roadway on the island. A 100-year storm would flood up to 1,932 structures and 95 miles of roadway. At the Haulover and Coskata Pond, the Trustees and the Nantucket Conservation Foundation—working
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New moorings were installed in an effort between the Great Harbor Yacht Club Foundation and the NantucketLand & Water Council to prevent scouring of eelgrass on the harbor floor.
with a grant from the Great Harbor Yacht Club Foundation—are proposing a solution called a living shoreline to keep erosion at bay on the barrier beach. With a living shoreline, installations like oyster reefs would both protect the beach from erosion and improve water quality by naturally filtering nutrients. The organizations have also contracted with GZA Geo Environmental Inc. for a LiDAR topographical survey of low-lying areas that will reveal other risk areas along Coatue. A so-called smart buoy was installed to take measurements of water quality, forming a baseline for future initiatives to improve the health of the harbor.
Along with funding for work to preserve the barrier beach, the foundation has also pledged a matching grant to the town’s Natural Resources Department and Harbormaster for two new vessels, and has supported the Nantucket Boys & Girls Club and Nantucket Community Sailing in creating educational initiatives designed to instill in young islanders a drive to protect the harbor. The foundation has also supported an ocean acidification buoy monitoring system with the Maria Mitchell Association, an eelgrass management plan with the University of Massachusetts Boston, the town of Nantucket and the Nantucket Land & Water Council, and has helped fund the Land & Water Council’s pilot program to replace traditional moorings with an alternative designed not to scour eelgrass on the harborfloor. All of those projects, when put together, might not protect the harbor forever but can at least start to turn the tide. It’s a simple equation. “Without a thriving, healthy, beautiful harbor, there’s no Great Harbor Yacht Club,” said Christine Bell, executive director of the Great Harbor Yacht Club Foundation. “The goal is to make the harbor more accessible to the broader community and to preserve it,” she added. “[The goal is] preserving that for generations to come. The board and the members of the club appreciate how lucky they are to have this resource that’s not accessible for most of the [United States] population, so how do we share that and help preserve it?”
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SCRIMSHANDERS WRITTEN BY JACK BRADNER
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The scrimshaw artists of Nantucket
Etched sperm whale teeth on display at The Scrimshander Gallery.
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own a bluestone path that winds through her Miacomet garden, scrimshaw artist Lee Ann Papale etches and inks her signature floral designs on all sorts of ivory. Scattered across Papale’s studio are walrus-tooth belt buckles, elephant-ivory tops for lightship baskets and the fist-sized teeth of sperm whales. But despite steady demand and no plans to retire, Papale says scrimshaw is a dying art— even on Nantucket.
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“There’s nobody coming behind me, none of my family, and I’m from a family who [did] this,” said Papale, a Nantucket native and master scrimshaw artist who’s been honing her craft for more than 50 years on the island. “It’s my lineage. I come from whaling people, like all the way back. I am living history, and I’m the last Nantucket native to do what I do, and I don’t take that lightly.” “I’m the last Papale learned the craft as an Nantucket native apprentice in her aunt Nancy Chase’s to do what I do, studio. A renowned ivory sculptor and I don’t take whose work was commissioned by that lightly.” former First Lady Nancy Reagan, – Lee Ann Papale Chase first taught her niece to turn ivory on a lathe. When a purse with fading scrimshaw needed repair, Chase encouraged Papale to try her hand at re-etching. Since then, Papale’s scenes of island flora and fauna have distinguished her work from the naval battles and whaling hunts conventionally associated with scrimshaw. But as much as practicing scrimshaw preserves her own family’s history, Papale’s work is also about preserving the histories of her clients. Decades after she took up scrimshaw, some of her original clients’ grandchildren now return for commissions. “A lot of my own work is coming back through new owners, so people come in with a fabulous bag with somebody else’s name in it,” Papale said. “It used to be [that we would] sand off the name and put our name there, but now they’re keeping the other person’s name as provenance.” Since the beginning, scrimshaw has always been about recording and remembering. From whaling in far-flung seas to learning from Indigenous artistic traditions in the Pacific, whalers found themselves in a wider world of unfamiliarity, according to Michael Harrison, chief curator at the Nantucket Historical Association. Inspired by their surroundings, whalers would use scrimshaw to record their lives at sea for those back home. They also carved domestic scenes to remember the people and places they missed while they were on yearslong voyages.
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But this year, something changed: Papale welcomed an apprentice into her studio. After getting engaged last summer, Katie Michels came to Nantucket to plan her wedding and get a lightship basket to honor her lifelong connection to the island. When Michels went to Papale for the basket’s scrimshaw, they bonded right away. “It was kismet,” Michels said, taking a break from polishing a whale tooth. “Lee’s told me now she’s been wanting an apprentice for years and years, and I have been wanting to get back into arts for years and years.” Inheriting the craft from Papale—who learned it from her aunt Nancy, whose ancestors were whaling captains—Michels is continuing a tradition that goes back generations. “When I was nine, I remember doing a scrimshaw class in the basement of the Whaling Museum on PVC,” said Michels. “To now be 30 and get to actually do scrimshaw and learn from the last native scrimshantress is so cool.” “Say that again,” Papale chimed in from behind her desk. “The last native scrimshantress,” Michels repeated.
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THE SHOW MUST GO ON
WRITTEN BY BRIAN BUSHARD
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE
Theatre Workshop of Nantucket artistic director Justin Cerne
Theatre Workshop of Nantucket celebrates 70 years.
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Theatre Workshop started as an off-season lease at Straight Wharf Theatre, where Margaret Fawcett Wilson Barnes and her Fawcett Players had been performing. Dixon put on four shows that first fall and spring: Heaven Can Wait, Dial M for Murder, The White Steed and An Italian Straw Hat. The theater was rented out in the summer, so Theatre Workshop found its spot as an off-season community operation. “The original Theatre Workshop was a place where everyone gathered,” said Elizabeth Gilbert, who was recruited to the theater in 1957 along with her husband, John, after performing in shows in London. Elizabeth was 22 at the time. “It was very personal. Mac [Dixon] trained people to perform like professionals. Like any theater, some plays were much better than others, but his choices were amazing. He wasn’t always able to cast to his standards, but he got blood out of stones.” Some of the actors that Dixon cast had performed on the stage, like Gilbert. Others were recruited despite never having acted before. Actor John Shea only joined the company after a chance encounter with Dixon when he was off from college in 1968. “He said, ‘Shea? Can you do an Irish accent?’” Shea remembered Dixon asking. “I said, ‘I could fake one.’ He said, ‘That’s the right attitude,’ and he handed me a script. He said, ‘Go backstage, you’re about to make your entrance.’” It was a play called Juno and the Paycock. They happened to be one guy short that night, so Shea filled in. While Dixon put on at least three to four shows a year over the first two decades, the theater struggled with a heavy debt. “Theater had never died on Nantucket, but it had become challenging to pay the rent, because it’s a business,” said Shea, who recalled being offered a meager $3,000 annual salary to work for the theater. The biggest setback came on the night of April 19, 1975, just days after the Theatre Workshop wrapped up its 1974–1975 season. Late that night, a fire ripped through the building, burning it to the ground and threatening to destroy the neighboring Cap’n Tobey’s Restaurant. The Inquirer and Mirror called it the “worst fire in years” on the island. The cause of the blaze was never determined. Interestingly, the last photo taken inside the theater—by late photographer Gene Mahon—contained the scriptural “writing on the wall” spray-painted on the brick wall behind the stage, prophesying the destruction of Babylonian King Belshazzar’s palace in the Book of Daniel. Theatre Workshop had been cleaning out the theater—which had been purchased 10 years earlier by Walter Beinecke’s Sherburne Associates—to prepare it for late director John Wulp’s Nantucket Stage Company. In a 2019 tribute to Wulp in The Inquirer and Mirror, Shea wrote: “There are many theories that still swirl. One fact remains. The fire ruined John Wulp.” “Somebody burned it down,” Shea added. “It wasn’t accidental; it’s a mystery. Nobody was arrested, and nobody’s ever owned up to it. As everybody has always asked: Who had the strongest motive to burn it down? That question has never been answered.” The fire left the company as a theatrical nomad, “wandering around from place to place,” Shea said. “The fire changed the flavor of Nantucket theater,” Gilbert added. “It was like starting all over again.”
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“We’ve become part of people’s lives, and the trust they place in us to come see the magic we bring to our stage is something we’re incredibly grateful for.” – Justin Cerne
Theatre Workshop put on a production of Eureka Day this summer.
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Theatre Workshop celebrated its 70th anniversary with a full slate of shows, including Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville. Courtesy of Theatre Workshop of Nantucket.
“It’s really 150 years of the same unquenchable flame for art, and Theatre Workshop is only in the middle of it all.” – John Shea
Performing Arts Center, to ’Sconset and its theater, On the Isle. According to Theatre Workshop Executive Director Bethany Oliver, Theatre Workshop stands out in the crowd as the only theater dedicated entirely to producing professional theater on the island. “We try to provide a variety throughout the season and reach different pockets of Nantucket’s audiences,” Oliver said. “We always want the theater to be full and we want people to come, and of course we can’t always know what is going to resonate and what’s not. But we do our best.” As the crew started to take apart the tropical set for Escape to Margaritaville backstage at Bennett Hall, Cerne reflected on the season.
“One of the things I love about a show like Escape to Margaritaville is that suddenly we’ve got Parrot Heads sitting in the front row. They may never have walked through our doors before. They might not have come for Mamma Mia! or Putting It Together, but hopefully now they’ll come back and discover something else. That’s one of the joys of programming a season—you get to welcome new audiences while continuing to challenge the ones who have been with you for years.”
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The Clean Team, Nantucket’s roadside trash haulers
The Clean Team meets at different parks, roads and beaches around the island every Saturday.
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“The purpose is community enhancement, beautification and preservation.” – Bill Connell
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unmistakable. His voice echoes through the pitch pines of the state forest, as he’s “talking trash” to a crew of volunteers at eight o’clock in the morning. When asked why he does what he does, Connell said it’s because he loves the island, which he described as a “magical, faraway land combining history and natural beauty with a remarkable sense of community.” Still, he worries that the team’s visibility works against itself. When people are seeing the group out and about, they might assume the litter problem is being handled. But the problem persists. The effort hasn’t kept pace with decades of growth on Nantucket. It reminds him of one of his first sources of inspiration. Years before he set foot on Nantucket, a high school teacher assigned him Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! One line stayed with him: “We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it—for a little while.” “Isn’t that wonderful, that you can fall in love with a place and have a proprietary sense that you own it?” said Connell. “And if you own something, what do you do? You take care of it. You love it. You respect it.”
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Restoring a 1794 house the old-fashioned way
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administration—and use traditional craftsmanship methods to do so. Thus began a massive undertaking to bring the house back to life. The house on Gull Island Lane now stands as a testament to authentic restoration within four walls that are liveable in today's world. What started as a COVID project turned out to be a sixand-a-half-year endeavor that wrapped up late last year. “A true preservationist may have done it differently,” said McLane, an investment banker by training. “But I was choosing to build a house that would live for today’s needs, wants and design aesthetic versus being something that’s a museum that may not be as comfortable or as functional for people to live in today.” The property originally sat on the Thomas Gardner Estate, with Gardner’s daughter Hannah Gardner inheriting the house as a wedding present when she married Josiah Sheffield, according to the Nantucket Preservation Trust. The house, a traditional four-bay style with a front parlor, dining room and central fireplace, is one of just over 800 pre-Civil War era structures on the island. “A house like 6 Gull Island presents many challenges and opportunities for homeowners, architects and builders alike,” former NPT Executive Director Mary Bergman wrote about the house. While some historic preservationists would select a specific date in time to bring the property back to, McLane took a more flexible approach, restoring different parts of the house to different points over its 230-plus-year history. The knocker on the front door, for example, is period-appropriate for an 1830s house. The push-button light switches throughout the house were the norm in the 1920s, meaning they’re still considered historic. A new wing was also added to the rear of the house to make space for a modernized kitchen. But the biggest hurdle was the structural integrity of the building. “There was a 17-inch drop from the front door to the rear of the back L in the kitchen,” McLane said. “The main body of the house had a six-inch sag in it because the rear had just sunk into the ground.” Instead of lifting the house from the ground up to restore the foundation, McLane suspended the house on needle jacks, excavating below, while keeping the giant eight-by-eight-foot chimney mass intact.
The house was suspended on needle jacks to preserve the integrity of the central chimney mass, an eight-by-eight-foot structure that heats the four main rooms on each floor of the house.
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“I think a lot of the reasons why we’ve lost that in the historic homes on Nantucket is because it’s far easier for a builder to come in and say to their client, ‘I can eliminate this.’” – Sarah Noelle McLane
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Top: The second-story bedrooms were preserved, including one that was made into a bathroom replete with a tub, shower, fireplace and historic light fixtures. Bottom: McLane spent over six years renovating the house.
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think a lot of the reasons why we’ve lost that in the historic homes on Nantucket is because it’s far easier for a builder to come in and say to their client, ‘I can eliminate this [massive] structure in the center of your house, and you’ll gain all of this extra space,” McLane said. “When you think about that on a squarefoot basis of living space, it’s a lot. That could be your walk-in closet or another bathroom. Now, because we don’t have to heat with wood in every room, there’s less of a reason to keep that. Unless you want it to be aesthetically pleasing, you want to save that history.” Once the foundation was set and heating and cooling installed, McLane hired a team of preservationists and craftspeople in masonry, plaster work and restoration to undertake a complete renovation of the house. Working with them, she leveled the ceilings with new floor joists where they were needed. She replaced the corner posts that had rotted out, restored the transom windows and peeled off the floorboards, which she restored and relaid on their original location, and she replaced the sills in kind with hewn beams and recreated a traditional soft lime plaster mixed with synthetic horse hair to bind them.
Top: The kitchen was attached to the back of the house. Below: The third-floor landing, where McLane added more headroom to function as a living space.
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“I was choosing to build a house that would live for today’s needs, wants and design aesthetic, versus being something that’s a museum.” – Sarah Noelle McLane
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The house mixes original and period-appropriate material, as well as light fixtures and decor found at markets from across New England.
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Birding on Tuckernuck, 1910s
Floating a Model-A Ford to Tuckernuck, 1930s.
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Two men posed by Tuckernuck Yoho, the island’s gargoyle said to have a fearsome call, 1940s.
The Chapel children on the steps to the beach on Tuckernuck, 1930s.
Lizzie Smith Barrett, Clara Thomas, Maimie McCallum, 1883. Several families and a dog, 1940s.
A Tuckernuck boathouse in 1884.
Lizzie Smith Barrett, Clara Thomas, Maimie McCallum, 1883.
A homestead on Tuckernuck’s west end in the early 1900s.
The Isaac Dunham house in the early 1900s.
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Anna and Delia Coffin enjoying an afternoon along the shore, 1910s.
Sitting around the car, 1940s.
The Robinson family summers on Tuckernuck in the early 1900s.
A horse-drawn carriage was the luxury mode of transportation in the 1880s.
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The Barrett and Dunham children, 1900s.
Eighteen-year-old teacher Ethel Dunham and her class at the Tuckernuck Schoolhouse, 1897.
A storm rolls in over the Byron Coffin House, 1965.
Inside the Tuckernuck Schoolhouse, 1929.
Grinding away, 1880s.
The Arthur Dunham house in the 1920s. Inside Dr. Henry Jacob Bigelow’s study, 1880s.
A Tuckernuck family in the 1880s. Eel Pot Season, 1926.
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NANTUCKET MUSIC FOUNDATION The Nantucket Music Foundation hosted over three dozen nationally recognized artists at the Muse for their summer series, from All Time Low to the Marcus King Band, Jimmy Eat World, Natasha Bedingfield, Jojo and The Head and the Heart. The Music Foundation, which works in partnership with Nantucket Crisps, was founded earlier this year to support year-long music programming on the island.
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STARGAZER CIRCUS A night under the stars and under the big top, the Maria Mitchell Association held its annual Stargazer Gala at the circus, bringing in the Venardos Circus to Tom Nevers Field for a night of acrobatics, dancing and clowning around, all in support of the MMA's internship program and year-round science and educational opportunities.
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