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2020 CONTRIBUTORS N 16
Meet two writers who helped make this issue possible.
NUMBERS N 18
A numerical snapshot of Nantucket in the winter.
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Behold the perfect stocking stuffer for the Nantucket-lover in your life.
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Winter 2020 The Local Magazine Read Worldwide
President-Elect
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HEALTHNWELLNESS N NEED TO READ N Local yogi Meg Rohrer gives her top tips for leading a well-balanced life.
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A list of the best ways to help local businesses this holiday season.
“Sushi Sean” Durnin rolls out a new ramen shop on Surfside Road.
President-elect Joe Biden appears on the cover of this Holiday issue. Biden and his family have been celebrating Thanksgiving on Nantucket since for decades. This official portrait of Joe Biden in his West Wing Office at the White House was taken by David Lienemann in 2013.
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58 BIDEN’S ODE TO NANTUCKET
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86 THE MUSIC MAN
A new database makes tracks the impact of the coronavirus on Nantucket in real time.
NSPIRE 38 JINGLE BELL ROCK
Local rock’n’roller Jordin Graves debuts his first Christmas album.
42 FRIST PLACE
Nantucket summer resident Tracy Frist’s mission to save historic spaces.
47 AGAINST ALL ODDS
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Joe Biden reminisces on his family’s longtime Thanksgiving tradition on Nantucket.
A Nantucket resident travels to the Arctic Circle to swim with apex predators.
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Allen Reinhard celebrates thirty years as the Middle Moors ranger for the Nantucket Conservation Foundation.
Longtime philanthropist Christy Lee Brown shares her thoughts on the state of the country. The life and tunes of music executive and summer resident Charles Goldstuck
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Dazzling looks to heat up your off-season wardrobe.
NHA 106 SNOW DAYS
Trudge through winters past courtesy of the NHA archives.
NUPTIALS 110 Erin-Marie Holmes & Troy
Huyser tied the knot on Nantucket.
NOT SO FAST A quick conversation with Joe Hale as he leaves his post as the executive director of the Dreamland.
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Myopia, commonly referred to as “near-sightedness”, typically first occurs in school-age children and progresses until young adulthood. With increasing myopia, there are increased risks of more severe vision conditions later in life, including retinal detachment, glaucoma, and maculopathy. Pediatric myopia has been increasing in prevalence and severity over the past few years. While we don't understand all the factors involved, we do know it is due in part to changes in lifestyle, with children spending less time outdoors and more time focusing on close objects such as digital devices. Until now, eyeglasses and contact lenses have corrected the blurred vision caused by myopia but have not been able to slow progression. After more than seven years of research and clinical trials, the FDA has approved CooperVision's MiSight® 1 day Myopia Management contact lens. With this remarkable technology, we finally have a solution designed specifically to slow the progression of myopia in children as young as eight years old. The clinical data demonstrating its effectiveness is beyond incredible, with 59% less myopia progression! We are excited to announce that we are now certified providers of CooperVision's Brilliant Futures Myopia Management Program, and look forward, with you and your children, to reduce pediatric myopia progression and its subsequent risks.
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LEADERS AMONG US Over the last two decades, the “other island” has served as the summer retreat of Democratic Presidents. After Bill Clinton made Martha’s Vineyard a frequent vacation destination during his two terms in office, Barack Obama followed suit and ultimately purchased a home in Edgartown after leaving the White House. However, with the election of Joe Biden as the forty-sixth President of the United States, Nantucket now has its own distinction in the annals of presidential history. N Magazine is proud to be the very first publication in America to have President-elect Biden grace its cover. President-elect Biden and his family have spent Thanksgiving on the island for nearly fifty years. Whether window shopping on Main Street, diving into the waters around Children’s Beach for the annual Turkey Plunge or simply taking selfies with people around town, Biden revels in his family’s long-held holiday traditions on Nantucket. And most islanders seem to love him right back, as they voted for him by an overwhelming margin in this year’s historic election. We’re honored to have President-elect Joe Biden appear on the cover of this winter issue. In coordination with his literary team, we secured the rights to publish an excerpt from his 2017 memoir Promise Me, Dad in which he reflects on his love of Nantucket. Biden’s appearance on our cover continues a tradition of nonpartisanship at N Magazine, which has featured political leaders from both sides of the aisle for nearly twenty years. We have gone out of our way to feature both prominent Republicans and Democrats, all of whom have had a connection to Nantucket. Our cover is not a celebration of a Democrat, but a celebration of Democracy. Along with Biden’s story, this holiday issue profiles a number of remarkable individuals, some who have overcome enormous challenges. Nantucket residents like Higor Souza, who has persevered through staggering physical handicaps to excel beyond all expectations, exemplifies the resilient spirit of our island community and is a living testimony to the power of will over circumstance. From the depths of the human spirit to the depths of the Arctic Ocean, we followed Eric Savetsky to the remote reaches of Norway where he dives with killer whales. The executive director of the Nantucket Land Bank, Savetsky is an avid underwater photographer whose stunning photos give gravity to the delicate balance of nature. The exclusive photographs he shares from his adventures in the Arctic Circle are some of most spectacular we have ever published. When it comes to the sound of success on Nantucket, few are more striking than music executive Charles Goldstuck. Born and raised on a farm in rural South Africa with little access to music, Goldstuck pioneered his way to the pinnacles of the music industry in the United States. In a business known for its cutthroat tactics and mercurial clients, Goldstuck has broken the mold of music exec through a disciplined and measured management style that has propelled his business to the top of the charts. Finally, Nantucket is an island filled with people who think beyond themselves. One such example profiled in this issue is Christy Brown, a longtime summer resident who has dedicated her life to helping others. As a prominent leader in Louisville, Kentucky, Brown offers a form of philanthropy designed to help those in greatest need and is working to establish a cultural understanding of the importance of our environment on our physical well-being. In the wake of this challenging year, we could all use a little more well-being. We hope you enjoy the simple pleasures of the holiday season on Nantucket.
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CONTRIBUTORS CATHRYN HAIGHT Cathryn Haight is a writer and editor based in Boston. On the mainland, she writes about food for James Beard Award-winning media company Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street, and on the island, you’ll likely find her admiring the selection at Current Vintage or perusing the shelves at Mitchell’s and Nantucket Bookworks. She previously penned pieces on all things lifestyle as an assistant editor at the Improper Bostonian magazine, and her work has since appeared in publications such as Culture Trip, WBUR (Boston’s NPR affiliate), Edible Boston and Boston.com. Most passionate about covering food, travel, literature and art, her work as a writer has led her everywhere from a stately stone castle in Ireland to the audience of the Boston Ballet. For her N Magazine debut, she spoke with summer resident Tracy Frist about her work as a conservationist and preservationist.
JASON GRAZIADEI Jason Graziadei is the public information officer at Nantucket Cottage Hospital and has been a year-round island resident since 2004. Jason previously wrote for The Inquirer and Mirror as a reporter and has also contributed to N Magazine and WCAI public radio. He serves on the board of directors at the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce and A Safe Place. For this winter issue, Graziadei profiled Allen Reinhard as he celebrated thirty years serving
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Short-term rentals on Nantucket
Projected revenue loss on Nantucket this year according to the Nantucket Data Platform
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Scalloping licenses were issued to yearround residents this year, down from 647 licenses last year
1,389 Nantucket residents are bilingual
122.5 39%
Nantucket adult residents have bachelor’s degrees
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Total length of fish caught by this year’s Inshore Classic Tournament winner Chris Connolly in the All-Tackle category
Real estate agents live on the island
397 3,000 feet The proposed expansion of the South Beach Preservation Fund’s geotextile tubes to fight erosion on Sconset bluff
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143% Reported increase of Lyme disease compared to last year
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Dr. Diane Pearl and Gary Shaw
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he past year has been incredibly challenging but has also shown us the remarkable spirit and sense of community that make our island such a special place to live and work. At Nantucket Cottage Hospital, the coronavirus pandemic has posed enormous difficulties or our staff members and the organization as a whole, but at the same time, it has brought us together in a shared sense of purpose to serve our community and help navigate these uncharted waters.
As we come to the end of 2020, your support is critical. The pandemic has demonstrated the importance of a hospital that is able to nimbly respond to the needs of its community while keeping compassionate care for patients as the compass for every decision. Throughout this journey, Nantucket Cottage Hospital has been there for you and your family. Thank you for being there for us.
Since March, your hospital has completely changed the way it operates to continue providing excellent care while keeping our patients and colleagues safe within our walls. With the support of our community and the tireless dedication of our committed staff, we have met these challenges and helped Nantucket stay open and healthy through a summer unlike any we have experienced before.
Gary Shaw, FACHE President and CEO
Diane Pearl, MD Chief Medical Officer
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Santa. Since 2007, Judi Vaillancourt has been hand-designing this island-inspired chalkware series to debut at Stroll. Over the last decade, they have become prized possessions among collectors on the island, across the country and as far away as Australia and Japan. “My mom and dad started the business back in 1984,” says Luke M. Vaillancourt, “and today we’re one of the last companies that still produces Christmas products in America.” After her first Nantucket Santa sold out, Judi continued layering island items—lightship baskets,
sea shells, and other Nantucket iconography—into each Santa in the series. In honor of 2020—a year that no one will soon forget—Judi set out to break the mold—quite literally. Collaborating with long-time sculptor and Vaillancourt mold-maker Eduardo Rodriguez, Judi created an entirely new Nantucket Santa design. Riding a blue whale, this year’s dazzling Nantucket Santa is adorned with enchanting details such as the Brant Point lighthouse, a festive wreath, and a Lightship basket. So when making your list for the island-lovers in your life, Vaillancourt’s Nantucket Santa is sure to deliver the Stroll spirit wherever they may be.
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TEN WAYS TO HELP LOCAL BUSINESSES THIS HOLIDAY SEASON Whether you’re on-island or off, there are plenty of ways to help Nantucket businesses stay strong through this unprecedented winter season.
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USE NANTUCKET STRONG TO SHOP LOCALLY ONLINE Shop directly from local stores or donate to on-island nonprofits through Nantucket Strong. Looking for a specific item but not sure where to find it? Use Nantucket Strong’s unique search engine, which connects you directly to island businesses that have the item you’re looking for. For more information, visit nantucketstrong.com.
2 CHECK NANTUCKET CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR UPDATES The Chamber of Commerce is your one-stop shop for all updates regarding Nantucket shopping events this holiday season. Despite the pandemic, the Red Ticket program benefiting the greater Nantucket community will run November 1–December 24. In addition, many of your favorite holiday events will take place virtually, including the Christmas Tree Lighting and storefront voting contest. Visit nantucketchamber.org/nantucket-noel for more information.
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BUY GIFT CARDS They’re the gift that keeps on giving! With some stores and restaurants closing for the season a little early this year, gift cards can help them get through the shuttered months. It’s also a great way to help if you normally come to the island for Stroll and are staying home this year. Call or visit your favorite store’s website for information on how to purchase a digital gift card.
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COOK AT HOME WITH LOCAL INGREDIENTS If you’re cooking at home this holiday season, buy groceries, cooking tools and ingredients from independent grocery stores like Annye’s and Glidden’s. For recipe ideas, CRU Nantucket has a great cookbook for whipping up some of your favorite Nantucket eats at home. Need a cooking tool you can’t find at a grocery store? Check out Marine Home Center before going online to the big box retail websites.
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SHOP SANTA’S VILLAGE NANTUCKET NOVEMBER 28 – DECEMBER 13 In collaboration with Massachusetts’ My Local campaign, the Nantucket Chamber of Commerce will present Shop Santa’s Village Nantucket, a business-to-business initiative partnering nonprofits and businesses with shops that have physical locations to help all businesses have a successful year-end. For more information, visit nantucketchamber.org/nantucket-noel for more information.
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FUEL UP FOR SHOPPING WITH LOCAL COFFEE AND BREAKFAST Before you head out to shop ’til you drop, grab a caffeine boost from on-island coffee houses like Roastd and Handlebar. The Beet also has a great breakfast menu to give you all the protein you need to carry those heavy shopping bags! For more information on restaurants open during the offseason, head to nantucket-ma.gov for a weekly list of open eateries.
STAY UP TO DATE ON SOCIAL MEDIA Find your favorite businesses on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, and make sure to follow them for updates. Want to go the extra mile? Like their posts, send them to your friends and share on your own page to help expand their reach! And when you use businesses’ dedicated or unique hashtags, they can repost what you’ve shared.
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TAKE ONLINE FITNESS CLASSES FROM ON-ISLAND TRAINERS There’s never been a more important time to stay healthy, and Nantucket trainers are ready to help you feel your best. Whether you’re a dedicated yogi or spin class junkie, we recommend checking out Studio Nantucket, Core, The Yoga Room, Nantucket Cycling & Fitness, EZIA Athletic Club, Forme Barre, Lorna Dollery Boxing + Fitness, Supta Yoga, Nantucket Health Club or the Nantucket Club & Spa at the Nantucket Hotel for virtual classes.
LEAVE A POSITIVE REVIEW ON YELP OR GOOGLE Island-based businesses depend on reviews to help promote them to tourists and new visitors. Every time you have a great experience with a local restaurant or service, make it a habit to give that business a positive review online. When possible, don’t forget to take photos to post too!
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If you’re in a position to do so, donate hand sanitizer and cleaning products to local businesses to keep them safe and healthy. Volunteering with Nantucket nonprofits is also a great way to make a difference in this particularly difficult holiday season. We’re all in this together!
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HOLI DAYS
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NHA’S FESTIVAL OF TREES
The Nantucket Historical Association’s Festival of Trees will take place this year. I think we can all agree that it wouldn’t feel like the holidays without this island tradition. This festive winter wonderland will be open to the public from November 27th through December 31st. Generously sponsored by Marine Home Center, Festival of Trees will be free for the community this year. For more information, please visit nha.org.
ENTERTAINING YOUR KIDDOS WITH LIZZA OBREMSKI
The Nantucket Atheneum is keeping your kids entertained through December with Lizza Obremski. Get your kiddos singing and dancing every Tuesday morning at 9:45 a.m. via Zoom. Then join Lizza and the fun-loving Nanpuppets every Thursday morning at 9:45 a.m. for her famous puppet show. These classes are free! Visit nantucketatheneum.org for more information.
BARNABY’S TOY & ART SHACK
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I’m so excited to announce my new toy store and art studio for kids. Opening in April, we’ll be a year-round place for kids of all ages located at 12 Oak Street. We’re offering Holiday Art Kits to Go during Nantucket Noel starting November 27th through December 21st. Please stop by and receive a free treat. For more information, please call 508-901-1793 or email barnabybearnantucket @gmail.com.
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YULETIDE FAIR
Each year, the Nantucket Lighthouse School hosts its annual Yuletide Fair with their handcrafted creations that showcase the talent and creativity of the children and community. Of course, things will be a bit different this year, but the Lighthouse School will be hosting pop-up events with great gifts and activities for families. Be on the lookout for more information or call 508-228-0427 or visit nantucketlighthouseschool.org. All the proceeds benefit the Nantucket Lighthouse School.
LEMON PRESS AT HOME
Lemon Press has shared one of its yummy quick-andeasy recipes for this holiday season with their Vegan Candy Cane Cookie Dough Bites. Your kids are sure to love this healthy, delicious snack. Here’s what you’ll need! • • • • •
¼ cup coconut oil • 1 cup of almond flour coconut sugar • ½ cup of mini 1 teaspoon vanilla extract chocolate chips and ¼ teaspoon salt candy cane pieces 1 tablespoon of almond milk or dairy-free milk of your choice
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Earlier this fall, Elliot Sudal— widely known as the “Nantucket Shark Wrestler”(@acksharks)— spotted not one but two humpback whales by the jetties in Nantucket Harbor. His post generated nearly 8,000 likes and left his 142,000 followers wondering if he jumped in for an upclose-and-personal experience with these gentle giants. After @townpool reposted the video, the clip garnered an additional 12,000 views and 2,200 likes.
Peloton VP and head instructor Robin Arzón (@robinnyc) and her husband Drew Butler (@iamdrewbutler) announced the newest member of their tribe with a Nantucket beach photoshoot taken by N Magazine’s own @briansagerphotography. One of her most-liked posts to date, the shots generated over 173,000 likes and combined “their city style with the laid back, natural beauty of the island.” Congratulations to the whole @onepeloton family!
Nantucket Cottage Hospital (@ackhospital) recently shared that they have been chosen as one of the few “Stop the Spread” sites in Massachusetts, where asymptomatic individuals can be tested for COVID-19. The program attempts to slow the spread of the virus by “providing low-barrier, free and easy-to-access testing” to everyone. NCH has been reporting the number of tests performed on their Instagram story every day since the beginning of the pandemic. At press time, @ackhospital had conducted 10,641 tests for potential COVID-19 cases on Nantucket.
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s the director of Supta Yoga Nantucket, Meg Rohrer is familiar with guiding her students through various positions designed to achieve peace and calm during their yoga practices. However, Meg believes that the principles she teaches in class are designed to transfer to life off the yoga mat. Here are some of Meg Rohrer’s top tips for leading a centered, well-balanced life.
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“SUSHI SEAN” DURNIN ROLLS INTO WINTER WITH A NEW NOODLE SHOP ON SURFSIDE
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n the face of one of the most challenging times in the restaurant industry, Chef Sean Durnin has taken a big bold step into the fray. At the end of October, when most eateries were closing their doors for the winter, Chef Durnin opened a new curbside dining option the likes of which Nantucket has never seen. Take a big bite, or shall we say a slurp, of Sushi Sean’s Ramen Shop.
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Sushi Sean’s Ramen Shop opened this October in the location of Yummy on Surfside Road
“I’m totally going against the grain here, but I’ve always wanted to offer ramen on Nantucket, so when the space became available, I decided to jump on it,” said Chef Durnin, who will operate Sushi Sean’s Ramen Shop in the former space of Yummy on Surfside Road. “It’s going to be takeout and delivery, offering four types of ramen as well as some warm bowls and bento boxes.”
Sushi Sean’s Ramen Shop is located on 63 Surfside Road. Learn more about Chef Sean Durnin’s catering at sushisean1111.com
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Sushi Sean’s Ramen Shop isn’t going to be a run-of-the-mill noodle joint. Chef Durnin is striving to deliver an authentic style of ramen that he learned at the hands of a master sensei in Japan. “Real ramen is more than just stock and noodles,” he explains. “There’s actually four components melding into one that gives a real good experience, hitting three senses.” Chef Durnin will be offering tonkotsu (pork), spicy miso, shoyu (soy) and shiitake dashi ramen, each cooked to order. “It’s all about the broth—you need to boil the broth until it’s milky,” he says. “You can feel it on your lips.” Chef Durnin first came to Nantucket in 2011 and worked for four years rolling sushi at Lola 41. In 2015 he fulfilled his lifelong dream of moving to Japan to learn from the masters at the Tokyo Sushi Academy. During the weekends, the academy offered a ramen class, which he took with gusto.
When he wasn’t in class, he haunted the many local noodle stalls, sitting alongside old men and slurping away at authentic ramen. Fast-forward five years and Chef Durnin has a thriving catering company that specializes in sushi. He hopes that his winter ramen shop will be a precursor to eventually opening his own restaurant featuring his full repertoire of Japanese specialties. In the meantime, he will continue building off of the strength of his catering company and enriching the island’s culinary landscape with his worldly talents.
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Nantucket’s inshore waters had some seriously unusual visitors this season. After an onslaught of Portuguese menof-war swarmed the South Shore late this summer, great white sharks and humpback whales were spotted within eyeshot of the island. Video footage of a great white tearing apart a grey seal off of Madaket’s Smith Point in September was followed by another video of a humpback breaching beside the
jetties. This curious marine life was matched by an equally impressive array of yachting activity in and around the
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Nantucket’s favorite Grammy Awardwinner Meghan Trainor is debuting her first Christmas album this holiday season. A Very Trainor Christmas will include a selection of old classics like “Silent Night” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” as well as original songs that the island native penned herself. The album includes cameos from Family Guy creator and friend Seth MacFarlane, Meghan’s three cousins, as well as her dear old dad, Gary.
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Boat Basin. With many international ports closed to American boaters, new fleets of mega yachts made port in and around Nantucket harbor. One such visitor was Madsummer, a 311-foot custom yacht that sleeps twelve guests and requires a crew of twenty-eight. For those interested in swimming in her twelve-meter pool or lounging on her luxurious sea terrace, Madsummer charters at around $1.6 million a week.
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Mirroring the rest of the country, Nantucket set new records for voting this election cycle. About 15 percent of registered voters on the island cast their ballots early, while around 2,500 residents cast their votes by mail. Added to election day voting, 2020 saw the greatest turnout in years. The Inquirer & Mirror reported that Nantucketers voted for Joe Biden over Donald Trump by an overwhelming margin.
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While Nantucket can lay claim to a number of New York Times bestsellers, the island now also has a New York Times crossword puzzle creator in its midst. Nantucket native Luci Bresette earned the unique distinction of having a crossword puzzle she helped create appear in the other Grey Lady on Tuesday, October 27. A junior at Stanford University, Bresette teamed up with Stanford alum David Steinberg, a frequent puzzle contributor to the Times.
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As throngs of people fled the cities and remote working became the norm amid the pandemic, Nantucket’s real estate market has soared to unprecedented heights. At press time, sales had already surpassed the billion-dollar mark and were on track to hit $1.6 billion or more by the end of the year. “We went into 2020 trying to determine if we would be able to keep the lights on in our office, but we are going to end the year with record numbers,” said Greg McKechnie, the principal broker at Great Point Properties. The previous real estate record on Nantucket was set in 2005 with $1.2 billion in sales. In September alone, $340 million in transactions were completed. “It seems that fickle equity markets, a decade of economic growth, historically low interest rates and the COVID pandemic have driven buyers from the sidelines,” McKechnie said. “They have determined that life is short and meant to be enjoyed. It sounds trite, but it’s a message I’ve heard over and over again recently.”
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EFFORT Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Community Foundation for Nantucket has served as one of the island’s most critical safety nets and support systems. On March 17, the Community Foundation established the Nantucket Fund for Emergency Relief and began awarding funds shortly thereafter.
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The Nantucket Fund is the permanent endowment for our Island. It awards annual grants to vital organizations providing critical services as they address community needs today and in the future.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Nantucket generous donor has offered to match up Atheneum’s annualATurkey Plunge on Children’s to $250,000 in donations. Beach has gone virtual this November. But don’t worry, there’s still plenty of ways to Give now and double get “freezing for a reason.” Participants can now dunk, dive oryour even donation! take an outdoor shower to raise money for the Weezie Library for children. Apart from it needing to take place outside during the month of November, the rules for this year’s virtual plunge are free-wheeling. As the guidelines read: “Grab your dog and jump in the icy waters at the beach of your choosing! Let your kiddos run through the icy sprinkler! Ice bucket challenge style? The choice is yours!” Participants are encouraged to post photos with #ackturkeyplunge #plungedayyourway! or send videos to events@nantucketatheneum.org before November 15.
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The grants have run the gamut from supporting food and rental assistance programs to bolstering other nonprofits as they meet the needs of the community. In total, the Community Foundation has awarded $1 million in grants in the last seven months. “Awarding $1 million to the island community in just seven months is a major milestone for us as an organization,” said Geoff Verney, CFN board president. “As this crisis continues to impact Nantucket, it has become clear just how important the Nantucket Fund for Emergency Relief is. Our grant making has become a vital resource to our human service organizations and the year-round community.”
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While quarantine gave most families an opportunity to dust off their favorite board games, Jonny Schoen Jr. and his sister Tara Schoen Moss decided to make a game of their own. Hunkered down in their home on Fair Street, the brother and sister designed a Nantucket-inspired backgammon board that they aptly named ACKgammon. More than simply a way to pass the pandemic, ACKgammon also paid tribute to their late father whom they laid to rest on Nantucket three years ago after a hard-fought battle with cancer. “His dream was to create a family business here on the island,” Jonny Schoen said. “It only took months of quarantining during a global pandemic, but we finally landed on something!” Preorders of ACKgammon, which is now available at ACK4170, were nearly sold out at press time, so order yours now.
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NEED TO READ PORTRAIT BY BRIAN SAGER
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N Magazine's resident bookworm Tim Ehrenberg gives his ultimate winter reading list
HAMNET BY MAGGIE O’FARRELL This novel might just end up being my favorite book of the year. Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Hamnet is a fictional account of William Shakespeare’s family, an intimate portrait of his marriage to Agnes and the grief of losing their son, Hamnet, to the plague in 1596. It’s a stunning story for the senses, one in which you can see the characters, feel their grief and hear the wind and rain. It’s so expertly written, I would sometimes read pages twice just for the beauty of the prose. I will never forget Hamnet.
MAGIC LESSONS BY ALICE HOFFMAN Alice Hoffman casts another magic spell with Magic Lessons, a standalone prequel to her bestselling Practical Magic. Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she’s abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby, falls in love and follows a man to Salem, Massachusetts, where she is accused of witchcraft and learns the lessons of magic and love.
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There are no “two ways” about it. I love Jodi Picoult books! She always manages to come out with issue-based stories that deal with something I am intimately experiencing in my own life. The Book of Two Ways is a riveting novel about the choices that alter the course of our lives and dives deeply into Egyptian history. It’s also about death, which I feel we don't discuss enough as a society. No stranger to losing loved ones, I found this book healing and therapeutic as well as entertaining and educational.
ANXIOUS PEOPLE BY FREDRIK BACKMAN Who is feeling anxious these days? From the No. #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beartown and Us Against You comes a charming, poignant novel about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air and eight extremely anxious strangers. Backman’s books always manage to make me laugh out loud, tear up toward the end and give me hope that people will someday realize we are much more alike then we are different.
LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND BY RUMAAN ALAM A quick read with a lasting impression, Leave the World Behind is a novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend. Amanda and Clay and their children rent a beautiful home in Long Island for a vacation. Ruth and GH ring the doorbell, claiming to be the owners of the home, who need shelter from a sudden blackout in New York City. This is a novel for our times, a thriller, but also a sensitive look at trust, parenthood, race and class.
THE SEARCHER BY TANA FRENCH
Support your Island Indies. All books are available at Mitchell’s Book Corner & Nantucket Bookworks!
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Crime novel aficionados, your search is over! I have always been an avid fan of Tana French’s Dublin murder novels, and this stand-alone book delivers the same great writing, rich characterization and thrilling crime solving as that detective series. Cal Hooper retires to an Irish village after a bad divorce and twenty-five years on the Chicago police force. Almost immediately, a local kid asks him to investigate what happened to his missing brother and all of the secrets of his new community come out in the search.
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Local rock ’n’ roller Jordin Graves releases his first Christmas album this December
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ordin Graves knows how to rock. A ended up featuring only originals. “After I began promising musical talent, Graves has writing, I realized I could fill the record with my earned local fans at open mic nights as well own music. I love the vibe of ‘This Christmas,’ as at the Dreamland’s annual competition, and all the songs on the record really have that, Nantucket’s Got Talent. Yet what many of combined with some Khalid and Mac DeMarthis rock guitarist and drummer’s fans might co,” he said. not know is he has a deep love of Christmas Graves will self-release this first fullmusic. “I probably listen to it for two months length effort on the major streaming services straight every year,” the eighteen-year-old such as Apple Music and Spotify. Most if not Graves said. “It’s just so all of the songs will include “Christmas music is much more positive and lyrics and vocals by the just so much more joyful than most things young artist. “Nothing else positive and joyful than you hear.” Over the past most things you hear.” makes me happy the way year, Graves has chanmusic does; it has really — Jordin Graves neled this love into rehelped me,” he said. “I had cording his own Christmas album, which will bad anxiety in middle school and early in high be released this month. school, but music has been a way for me to At first slated to feature a handful of get through things and continues to do that as originals combined with some well-known I train my voice. I’ve modeled my voice on seasonal standards—including his favorite the music I listen to. I’ve never taken formal holiday tune, “This Christmas” as performed lessons but am enjoying the process and tryby Donny Hathaway—the record’s final cut ing not to force anything.”
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“I had bad anxiety in middle school and early in high school, but music has been a way for me to get through things and continues to do that as I train my voice.” — Jordin Graves
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he son of Mary Graves and William “Winnie” Graves, a long-time bartender at the island’s famous dive bar and music venue, The Chicken Box, Graves first got his taste for music when his dad would bring him to pre-concert sound checks. From a young age, he studied the Box’s audio engineer Joel Finn as he fine-tuned the sounds for dozens of rock bands. Graves became a fan of rock and jam bands like the Grateful Dead, Twiddle, and Ripe, the last of which having played The Box
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several times over the years. Having spent most of the final months of his high school career learning from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Graves channeled his energies and extra time into teaching music to other young students virtually over Zoom. “I love it,” he said. “I have eight students right now, mostly guitar, but one for drums. One of my guitar students is really getting into the bass, which is really what I love to play.” Thinking back to those preteen years when he was first exposed to live, professional music and musicians, Graves said that drums were the instrument that immediately stood out, but he soon
discovered a new one that sparked a passion. “I was fortunate to start taking band in middle school with Erik Wendelken, and while learning the drums, that is when I discovered the bass guitar,” he said. “I remember it was at a talent show I first saw how the bass can convey the feeling of a song, and how that low, heavy tone can really carry the whole sound of a band.” He’s continued to work hard learning his instruments over the years, and while he spends little time reading music, he’s very much a student of music theory. With that solid understanding of instrumentation under his belt and a keen ear, he has revived his
early fascination of the mixing/recording process, most of which he’s done at home and on his own. “I think sound engineering is a path I’d like to follow, and I’m in the process of applying for an internship at a studio in New York, and I’m considering going to music school as well,” he said, adding that he currently makes extra money by recording bass lines for other musicians
on the popular session platform Fiverr. While he has no plans to offer a physical release of his Christmas record, Graves said he hopes that people will take a listen online when they have a chance. “My main goal is to have it be a relaxed, positivity-only kind of thing,” he said. “Something that makes people smile and releases them from their worries for a bit in this crazy world.”
“My main goal is to have the Christmas album be a relaxed, positivity-only kind of thing...Something that makes people smile and releases them from their worries for a bit in this crazy world.” — Jordin Graves
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Tracy Frist, with her husband, former Senate Majority Leader, Dr. Bill Frist on the front steps of the historic Thomas Brown House in Old Town built circa 1846 where they reside as steward residents.
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Summer resident Tracy Frist is on a mission to protect and preserve historic spaces
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or Nantucket summer resident Tracy Frist, the importance of preservation extends far beyond saving historic buildings. The wife of former Senate Majority Leader Dr. Bill Frist, she has spent much of her life maintaining and celebrating the places where nature, history and culture intersect. She serves on the board of the Tennessee Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, the Franklin Grove Estate & Gardens and the Heritage Foundation of Williamson County, Tennessee—where an eponymous preservation award is granted on her behalf at the organization’s annual ball. While Frist’s impact is deeply felt in her home state of Tennessee and beyond, her inspiration goes back to her roots in Virginia.
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NSPIRE Part of a military family, Frist moved around regularly as a child. When Frist was six years old, her mother purchased a farm tucked between coal mining towns in rural Virginia and insisted her children spend summers there. The house had no electricity but was situated on a sprawling two hundred acres of natural beauty. “I think those are my most impressionable years as a child—on that farm, on a pony,
learning culture, history, how history finds its way into the ground,” she reflected. During her childhood explorations of the surrounding land, Frist came across a federal-style home built in the 1820s. Called Bellevue, the modest, two-bedroom brick house belonged to the county librarian. Yet in Frist’s six-year-old eyes, the structure was nothing short of a castle that she dreamed of one day owning.
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rist went on to earn two master’s degrees in writing from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, as well as a doctorate from Purdue University in human and animal behaviorism, before pursuing a career teaching K–12 across the country. She taught everywhere from Oregon to Texas, further learning the intricacies of small, rural communities and what matters in the relationship between humans and their environment. Eventually, Frist was drawn back to Virginia and purchased a plot of land where she would pen award-winning short stories and continue her research on human-animal bonding. As fate would have it, the five-thousand-acre parcel she bought was also home to the Bellevue “castle” from her childhood, which had since fallen into disrepair. “I’d like to say I had it all planned out, but I think I’m just blessed it all happened the way it did,” said Frist of acquiring Bellevue, which launched her passion for preservation. “I think this was my first foray into what buildings mean to culture and multi generations...It really filled me up how important it was to preserve that house. Everyone in that county loved that house—and then to see it crumble and the roof start to fall in and to see the land be sold—even the younger generations started to lose their belief system.” Restoring Bellevue brick by handmade-brick was the catalyst for Frist to become deeply involved in preservation and conservation, along with cultivating a love of agriculture. She went on to develop Sinking Creek Land and Cattle, a farm in southwest Virginia where an all-female team humanely raises grass-fed beef. On her farm’s 880 acres, Frist has implemented sixteen federal conservation programs dedicated to everything from saving the endangered spiny mussel to
“I think this was my first foray into what buildings mean to culture, what buildings mean to multi generations.”
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The Frists standing in front of the historic theater in Old Town
maintaining water quality in the property’s creek through implementing a riparian buffer—a natural barrier that repels pollutants and creates a rich habitat for wildlife. Once Frist met and married her husband, she relocated to Bill’s home state of Tennessee where the couple created a second farm known as Old Town. Working in lockstep with Sinking Creek, Old Town is a 43-acre prop-
chapter,” said Frist, who has been coming to her home on the edge of Squam Farm for six years. “Nantucket has done such a wonderful job of maintaining its integrity, but what’s even more important is saving the abstract, the idea of the widow’s walks and captains...it shows you not just these static buildings, but the energy and the life that went on there.”
“I think right now is a very important time to see what should survive and what should be brought forward and made modern.” — Tracy Frist
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erty that encompasses thousands of years of history. The farm is laden with evidence of ancient Mississippian culture, including prehistoric temple mounds and limestone box graves, as well as ancient artifacts that are being repatriated to museums such as the Smithsonian. The Harpeth River and Natchez Trace wilderness trail run through the rolling pastures, while the Old Town Bridge, an instrumental location during the Civil War, is proudly preserved on the property. The crown jewel of the farm is the 175-year-old Georgian home, which echoes Bellevue in its stately design and storied past. An educator at heart, Frist uses the farm to collaborate with a local university, contributing to scholarly research through sharing the land’s rich narrative and knowledge of new findings. One locale that Frist feels is inIn addition to Tennessee, “I’ve had three major dicative of the island’s heart is Great Point Bill Frist also introduced his chapters in my life. Light, as it endures amid any storm, conwife to Nantucket. Being landNantucket I think is going necting humans, history and nature. The locked her whole life, she never to be the last chapter.” lighthouse itself is a fitting metaphor for thought she would end up on an — Tracy Frist her widespread work—how her experience island, but Nantucket’s palpable in one area translates to another, noting the history and boundless nature ways in which they all intertwine and how they contribmade her feel right at home. “I feel like I’ve had three major ute to the greater issue of what should be saved. chapters in my life—I think Nantucket is going to be the last
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How a Nantucket High School student continues to overcome staggering obstacles
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igor Souza was not born to succeed—he was driven to succeed. A native of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Souza was born without arms and with legs without femurs, causing his growth to be extremely stunted. When this rare condition was discovered while she was carrying Higor, his mother, Patrícia Souza, was advised by friends and medical professionals to terminate the pregnancy, but she refused. After Souza was born, doctors said again and again that he would never be able to walk. Some teachers said that without hands for writing, he would never be formally educated. Despite being marginalized and discounted by so many at such a young age, today Souza stands—and walks—as a remarkable example of perseverance.
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ing himself to walk. Next, he mastered using his feet to hold things, write, type and operate an iPhone. Four years ago, Souza and his mother moved to Nantucket to join his grandmother. He began classes at Nantucket High School without speaking a single word of English. Some four years later, he is fluent in English and plans to begin computer science classes at Cape Cod Community College next fall. “After what I’ve been through in my life, coming to Nantucket and starting high school here wasn’t that scary,” Souza said. “It was so small in comparison to everything else. The twenty kids with Souza has mastered the use of his feet to accomplish many tasks, including playing video games as a semi-professional gamer. me in my class seemed more scared than I was.” atrícia Souza brought her son into Another of Souza’s major accomthe world knowing that he would plishments is in the world of online encounter a myriad of challenging and gaming. He spends between five and sometimes cruel obstacles. Amid the ten hours a day as a semiprofessional chorus of negativity video game player, and defeatism, Patríspecializing in the “After what I’ve been cia taught her son worldwide phethrough in my life, that to accomplish nomenon known coming to Nantucket and his goals, he would as Counter-Strike. starting high school here wasn’t that scary.” have to work much A series of “first — Higor Souza harder than most person shooter people. He needed to games” with a rely on his own interlarge, twenty-yearnal drive and strength. The first of many strong online following, this gaming accomplishments as a child was teachcommunity of all ages is one of the most highly respected in the world. Counter-Strike’s annual tournament draws thousands of players, competing for major cash prizes. Through the online platform Twitch, fellow gamers watch Souza play throughout the day, some of them even paying to do so. Without a lot of professional avenues available to him, gaming became a legitimate means of making money. N magazine
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However, Souza’s ability to play came to an abrupt halt on September 27, 2019, when a precautionary shutdown and evacuation of Nantucket High School led to him breaking his legs. When false reports of an active shooter began circulating around the school and the Nantucket community, students rushed to hiding places or out of the building completely. Souza said that while he was attempting to do the same, he became trapped in an area several feet off the ground. Fearing that he would be an easy target for a shooter, Souza decided to jump, badly breaking both legs as a result. He was rushed to surgery where he received a metal plate as well as twelve metal screws to repair the damage. “It was a very dark time for me because I could not do anything,” he said. “I went into physical therapy and started to walk again after about four months. My mom helped me a lot and it was really hard, but I knew it was going to pass. It was just another challenge.” Souza is now fully recovered and back to school and gaming, but the one thing he hasn’t been able to achieve under the strength of his own willpower is raising the funds for prosthetic arms. The state-of-the-art appendages that he has dreamt about for years were always something that seemed unattainable, until a friend recommended that he ask the Nantucket community to help him through GoFundMe.
“It was a very dark time for me because I could not do anything. I went into physical therapy and started to walk again after about four months. My mom helped me a lot and it was really hard, but I knew it was going to pass. It was just another challenge.” — Higor Souza
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word out both online and in the media. As of press time, almost five hundred donors had raised just under $55,000, with a current goal of $95,000, though after a recent fitting, Souza expects the end cost to come in just under $125,000. For Souza this is simply one “You must decide more challenge he must conquer, if you’re going to this time with the help of many wake up and smile, hands, those of his friends, famor if you’re going to wake up sad ily, church and community. His is and be discouraged. a story of perseverance and resilNever give up.” ience, of fortitude and faith in God, — Higor Souza and an example of what the love of a mother can do for her son. “In life, there’s a lot of different perspectives and experiences,” he said. “You must decide if you’re going to wake up and smile, or if you’re going to wake up sad and be discouraged. Never give up.”
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A new online database tracks the impact of the coronavirus on Nantucket
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rapping your mind around the enormity of damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic can be daunting. The total number of lives claimed, people infected, jobs lost and businesses closed defies the imagination. Yet, here on Nantucket, Community Data Platforms is trying to provide the clearest statistical analysis of the pandemic’s impact
on the island in real time. “There is no playbook for COVID anywhere in the world,” said Alan Worden, the founder and CEO of Community Data Platforms. “So leaders need to have foundational data upon which policies can be enacted.” Through a project sponsored by ReMain Nantucket and the Community Foundation, Community Data Platforms has developed a free online
“Data-driven tools like this [COVID-19 Nantucket Dashboard] are not going to tell you what to do, but they’re at least going to ground you in what’s true.” — Ben Maskell, Community Data Platforms technical project manager
there isn’t a single source of truth to base decisions off of,” explained Ben Maskell, the technical project manager for Community Data Platforms. “Data-driven tools like this [COVID-19 Nantucket Dashboard] are not going to tell you what to do, but they’re at least going to ground you in what’s true. If everyone uses the same facts, more substantive decisions can be made.”
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dashboard designed for users to not only understand what has happened and what is happening with the pandemic—but perhaps what will happen. “In the early stages of this project, we were talking to various stakeholders on Nantucket like the Chamber of Commerce, the Health Department, the hospital, and the one thing that came up was the paralysis that occurs when
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ggregating, cleaning and organizing real-time data from a variety of sources, the dashboard maps the ongoing impact of the coronavirus across three categories: community health, financial health and economic health. The community health tab compares the island’s percentage of positive cases of COVID-19 with the whole of Massachusetts, as well as the number of Nantucket’s confirmed cases with the island’s primary feeder communities, namely Boston Metro; Barnstable; Lower Fairfield, Connecticut; Providence, Rhode Island; and New “There is no playbook York Metro. Graphfor COVID anywhere in ing these numbers, the the world. So leaders need to have foundational dashboard tracks how Nantucket kept its condata upon which policies can be enacted.” firmed cases relatively flat from March until — Alan Worden, the founder and CEO early September, when of Community Data Platforms a significant spike began to take shape. “You see these two humps, one in midSeptember and then a higher one in mid-October,” Maskell described. “One thing we noticed was that the feeder communities all turned red [indicating an increase of more than one case per a thousand since the previous week] before the spike in positive tests on Nantucket.” With this in mind, the dashboard might be used as an early warning system in which users can log on and quickly get a grasp of the situation on the island. If the feeder communities are all blaring red,
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chances are good that there might be an ensuing spike in cases on Nantucket. However, that’s not to say that the feeder communities are directly responsible for the spike in cases. “There was reasonable fear that visitors from ‘hot spots’ would spread COVID,” Worden explained. “But the virus didn’t spread as a result of visitation. It has been mostly community or local spread.” The dashboard’s analysis also extends to the island’s financial well-being, which is presented under the financial health tab. The stark reality of the island’s finances is detailed in the first graphic, which projects the revenue loss due to the pandemic at $6 million this year. Transportation data shows a 10.3 percent decrease in ferry passengers as well as a nearly 10 percent drop in vehicles transported to the island by the Steamship Authority. The dashboard “If everyone uses is also aggregatthe same facts, ing the number of more substantive meals and occudecisions can pancy tax rates as be made.” another measure — Ben Maskell, Community Data of the island’s Platforms technical project manager economic health. The silver lining of the financial health tab is seen in the real estate market, which had an extraordinarily strong year. At press time, Community Data Platforms was in the process of building out the economic health tab, which will detail the number of jobs
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“Nantucket's COVID dashboard should function as a single source of truth for the Nantucket community.” — Alan Worden, Founder & CEO of Community Data Platforms
lost and gained from month to month in specific industries. This will also help determine the unemployment rate on the island. With these three tabs in place, along with exquisitely detailed demographic and tourism information, the dashboard will help draw more conclusions by cross-referencing the data and identifying trends. The realworld applications, however, are in the hands of the town leadership, local business owners, nonprofit directors and island residents who can plan based on this data. “Nantucket's COVID dashboard should function as a single source of truth for the Nantucket community,” said Worden. “I hope that Nantucket's leaders will coalesce around it and other data resources as decision-making support tools. What does this look like in practice? First, agreement on the facts on the ground and knowing what policy options are on the table is the groundwork for a productive discussion. Our intention with this dashboard is not to make or
suggest policy; our goal is to provide a tool that fosters meaningful dialogue.” In the meantime, Community Data Platforms will remain busy as all indications point to an increasing number of cases. However, with this data in place, Worden, Maskell and their team hope that Nantucketers will be able to stay better informed and equipped to manage the ebb and flow of the pandemic.
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BIDEN’S Ode to Nantucket President-elect Joe Biden has had a love affair with Nantucket for nearly half a century. He and his family began spending their Thanksgivings on the island in 1975 and have since become familiar faces strolling Main Street, attending the Christmas tree lighting and even diving into the frigid waters on Children’s Beach for the annual Turkey Plunge. During this historic election, Biden’s connection with the island only grew stronger as he enlisted summer resident Rufus Gifford as his Deputy Campaign Manager helping lead him to the White House. In honor of Joe Biden’s historic victory, N Magazine has excerpted a chapter of the President-elect’s 2017 memoir, Promise Me, Dad, in which he celebrates his longtime love of Nantucket. Here in his own words, President-elect Joe Biden pays tribute to the island.
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he Biden tradition of Thanksgiving on Nantucket started as an act of diplomacy, back in 1975. I was a first-term senator and a single father of two boys—Beau was six years old and Hunter just five—and Jill Jacobs and I had started to talk seriously about a future together. Thanksgiving was the first holiday for Jill and me together, and we had too many invitations. My parents wanted us to spend the day with them in Wilmington. Jill’s parents wanted us in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. The parents of my first wife, who had died along with my baby daughter in a car accident a few years earlier, wanted us to bring their grandsons to upstate New York and spend the long weekend with them. No matter which family we chose, we were going to hurt somebody’s feelings, which was the last thing either Jill or I wanted to do. I was in my Senate office one day that fall, explaining this predicament to my chief of staff, and he said, “What you need is a nuclear Thanksgiving.” Meaning the nuclear family alone. Only Wes Barthelmes was a Boston guy, so what he actually said was “nucle-aah Thanksgiving.” I wasn’t sure what exactly he was trying to say, until he explained it might be easiest on everybody if the four of us—me and Jill, Beau and Hunt—went away alone. He suggested the island of Nantucket, which was an hour by ferry south of Cape Cod. Neither Jill nor I had ever been there, but we decided to go ahead and make an adventure of it.
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The Biden tradition of Thanksgiving on Nantucket started as an act of diplomacy, back in 1975.
the Jared Coffin House, a 130-year-old inn built back when Nantucket was a commercial center of the whaling industry, and then we stayed around afterward to sit by the fireplace and play checkers. The next day we had lunch at a restaurant called the Brotherhood of Thieves, went to the little movie house in town, tossed a football on the beach, and drove back into town to watch the annual lighting of the Christmas tree. We took scouting drives around the island, and whenever we passed a radio transmission tower with a big red light on top I’d warn the boys to get down in the backseat so the Red-Eyed Monster couldn’t see them. We had such a good
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e filled my Jeep Wagoneer with fifty-seven-centsa-gallon gas and piled the boys and the dog into the backseat for what was likely to be a six-hour ride to the ferry in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Now, six hours is a long time for two young boys to be trapped in the backseat of a moving car, but Jill was already proving herself a resourceful caregiver. She had picked up every toy catalog and clothing catalog she could find, and when Beau and Hunt started to get restless she tossed the catalogs into the backseat. The three of them spent hours leafing through the pages, and the boys started making and refining their wish lists for Christmas gifts so they would have something to send to Santa Claus, up at the North Pole. Jill told them to take their time and make sure to get it right; there was no rush. Nantucket turned out to be worth it once we finally got there, eight hours after we left our house in Wilmington. It was chilly on the little island at the end of November, but you could smell the tangy salt air of the Atlantic. The island had emptied for the season, so we had much of the place to ourselves. Most of the restaurants and many of the shops were shuttered. The downtown was tiny, maybe five square blocks, but we spent hours there casing the storefronts and going inside the ones that were open to look around. I told the boys I would buy each of them a single gift on that trip—whatever they wanted, within reason. They took their time to look around. Beau especially liked Murray’s Toggery Shop, home of the famous Nantucket Reds; the cotton pants were designed to fade to a soft dusty rose. Hunt fell for the Nobby Clothes Shop, where the owner made a fuss over him. We had Thanksgiving dinner at
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time that we even went to check out a little saltbox house that stood above the dunes at ’Sconset Beach. The asking price was too rich for a senator’s salary in 1975, but the four of us had our picture taken on the porch of the house, beneath a carved wooden sign that read forever wild. On the drive back to Delaware, I was already thinking about a return trip the next year.
Jill and I got married a year and a half later and our daughter, Ashley, was born four years after that. And time seemed to move faster. Beau and Hunt graduated high school, then college, then law school. Hunt married Kathleen in 1993, and they had three daughters.
among the fleet at rest stops. Then there was the final mad dash to catch the ferry, and hot chocolate or clam chowder for the ride across the water. We had some great
Biden and his family participating in the annual Turkey Plunge on Children's Beach (photos by Kris Kinsley Hancock)
Beau married Hallie in 2002, and they had a daughter, then a son. Jill and I were no longer just Mom and Dad; we were “Nana” and “Pop.” Ashley finished graduate school and married Howard. And every year, even as the family grew, we spent Thanksgiving on Nantucket—or “Nana-tucket,” as our grandchildren took to calling it, even when they were old enough to know better. The little trip in the Wagoneer grew into a caravan of two or three cars, with grandchildren shifting loyalties
years in that span, and we had some lousy years, but whatever was happen-
Nantucket turned out to be worth it once we finally got there, eight hours after we left our house in Wilmington.
ing, whatever bumps and bruises we were suffering, we put it all aside and celebrated Thanksgiving in Nantucket.
The holiday trip was a constant in our grandchildren’s lives from the time they were aware, and they made it clear how much it meant to them. Little notes started appearing at our house as early as September, even before the leaves started to change color, all written out in the grandkids’ hands: Two months to Nanatucket. Five weeks to Nana-tucket. Some had drawings of the houses we had stayed at, or the beach. Two weeks to Nanatucket. Only five days to Nana-tucket. The frolics and habits of our earliest visits grew into immutable N magazine
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The frolics and habits of our earliest visits grew into immutable family traditions: shopping downtown, lunch at the Brotherhood, the trips to the beach with football in hand.
Joe Biden with Nantucket resident Katrina (photo by Kris Kinsley Hancock.)
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family traditions: shopping downtown, lunch at the Brotherhood, the trips to the beach with football in hand. We went back to that little saltbox every year to get the family photo under the carved forever wild sign. Those pictures became a marker of our family’s progress, like the lines parents pencil in on the doorframe as a record of growth—first just the four of us, then five, eight, eleven, and after Beau’s son, Hunter, was born in 2006 and Ashley’s husband, Howard, joined the family a few
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years later, we were thirteen strong. The great work product of the Thanksgiving trip, year after year, continued to be the Christmas lists; it was painstaking, deliberate, and serious business. Nobody shirked, and nobody would be hurried in the enterprise. The catalogs usually came out midway through the drive north, somewhere between the Tappan Zee Bridge and Mystic, Connecticut. But that was only the beginning. There were long sessions after dinners, at
Joe Biden meeting volunteers at The Dreamland's book event in November 2017 (photo by Zofia Crosby).
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on the flight back, after the vacation was over and that whatever inn or house we were in. And it might be the year’s Christmas lists were safely in Jill’s hands, my night after Thanksgiving before Jill finally closed down grandchildren filed into my private cabin on Air Force the bidding, and everybody—children and grown-ups Two en masse, from fifteen-year-old Naomi to threealike—had to present to her their Christmas list, maxiyear-old Hunter. They had all talked it over and the mum ten items, minimum ten items. I was invariably finding was unanimous: this new in trouble with my grandchildren mode of travel just wasn’t going at the close of business. Pop only We went back to town the to work for them. “Pop,” Naomi has two! Again! There was one day after Thanksgiving, spoke for the group, “can we little hitch in the great Christmas making sure to be at the right spot around dusk, drive again next year?” I suspectlist endeavor, and that was my to watch the annual ed the head of my Secret Service becoming vice president in 2009. lighting of the Nantucket detail, in weighing this considerThe entire clan flew together to Christmas tree. ation against security concerns, Nantucket that year on Air Force was not likely to be swayed by Two, which struck me as a pretty the power of the Christmas list argument— no matter welcome change after all those hours piloting a car up how heartfelt... Interstate 95 during one of the busiest travel weeks of We got up Thanksgiving morning [in 2014] and the year, and one that I thought would delight the granddid our annual Turkey Trot—a ten-mile run (for anykids especially. But it’s not much more than an hour body who felt up to it) to the other side of the island. in the air from Andrews Air Force Base to Nantucket I rode the route on a bike with some of the grandchilMemorial Airport—which turns out to be an interval dren. We spent part of the day tossing a football around of time wholly insufficient for catalog browsing. So
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set up a foundation or a center for foreign policy. I could even do a few things I had never done before—like make some money. “But have you made up your mind [about running]?” the president asked me, point blank, across the table in a little private space just off the Oval Office. “No, I haven’t,” was all I could say. At some point on the streets of Nantucket that day, I brought up the question of 2016 with my two sons. I had a feeling that they didn’t want me to make the run, and I said as much. Beau just looked at me. “We’ve got to talk, Dad,” he said. So when we got back to the house that
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the beach. I showed young Hunter the bluffs where his father and his uncle used to jump off and catch passes when they were about his age. Beau and Hallie and their kids made sure to get some nice pictures of the four of them together on the beach. And we went over to the little saltbox house for our annual photo, but the lot was ringed with yellow police tape. The house was gone, a victim of rising ocean tides that had been washing away three or four feet of the ’Sconset Bluff every year for the past twenty. Bad storm years might take out ten times that in certain places. “Forever Wild” had finally run out of safe ground, and run out of time; it had been swept out into the Atlantic. The only thing left behind was a piece of the foundation. We went back to town the day after Thanksgiving, making sure to be at the right spot around dusk, to watch the annual lighting of the Nantucket Christmas tree. Beau had proposed to Hallie at the tree lighting in 2001 and they were married at St. Mary’s church, in the heart of downtown Nantucket, the next year. Hallie always suspected it was Beau’s way of locking them into Biden Family Thanksgivings for all time. And it worked. They were celebrating their twelfth anniversary at the end of the week, and Hallie had never missed a Thanksgiving. Even the year Beau was stationed in Iraq, she insisted we all keep the tradition and go to Nantucket. While we did our family stroll, I found myself mulling an issue that was beginning to weigh on me. I was getting a lot of questions, from a lot of different quarters, about running for president in 2016. Even President Obama had surprised me by asking directly about my plans at one of our regular lunches a few weeks earlier. He wanted to know if I had thought about all the things I could do if I didn’t run. I could still have an effect, he assured me. I could
Joe and Jill Biden with his late son Beau and his grandson
evening the three of us sat down in the kitchen and we talked. I knew there were plenty of good reasons not to run, and uncertainty about Beau’s health was at the top. And I really suspected that my sons, whose judgments I had come to value and rely on, did not want me to put the family through
Jill, Ashley and Joe Biden at the Culinary Center on Nantucket.
From Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden. Copyright © 2017 by the author and reprinted by permission of Flatiron Books.
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the ordeal of a presidential campaign just now. “Dad, you’ve got it all wrong,” Beau said when we settled down in the kitchen in Nantucket. “You’ve got to run. I want you to run.” Hunter agreed: “We want you to run.” The three of us talked for an hour. They wanted to know what I was doing to get ready, and when was the right time to announce. There was a strong argument being made by some of my political experts that if I was going to run at all I should announce right away, at the beginning of 2015. But I think the three of us all wanted a little more time to see what happened with Beau. When I decided was not crucial, my sons told me; they just wanted me to know that they were for it. Hunt kept telling me that of all the potential candidates I was the best prepared and best able to lead the country. But it was the conviction and intensity in Beau’s voice that caught me off guard. At one point he said it was my obligation to run, my duty. Duty was a word Beau Biden did not use lightly.
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very fiber of Eric Savetsky’s being was screaming: Do not get in the water! Do not get in the water! Ice glistened off the gunnels of the Zodiac as he and his fellow divers cut across the frigid Arctic Ocean. The deadly water temperature wasn’t the only threat to Savetsky’s sense of self-preservation. Beneath the ocean’s inky black surface, a pod of hungry apex predators was systematically devouring giant schools of herring. No, these predators weren’t sharks—but killer whales. Savetsky had heard stories of orcas snacking on great white sharks like they were sardines. Immobilizing a great white by flipping it on its back, orcas were known to surgically remove the shark’s liver to source the most nutritious bits of meat from each attack. Savetsky tried to put that fun fact out of his mind as he stuffed a snorkel into his mouth and prepared to plunge into the dark, forbidden depths of the Arctic Ocean.
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or the past four winters, Eric Savetsky has been making this voyage to the far reaches of the Arctic Circle to witness an underwater phenomenon that he can’t find diving off the coast of Nantucket. Even in the face of a global pandemic, Savetsky returned this November to Tromsø, the largest northernmost city in Norway, to dive with orcas and humpbacks who congregate in a series of fjords and bays to feed on seven million tons of Norwe-
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gian spring-spawning herring. The longtime executive director of the Nantucket Land Bank, Savetsky typically motors his converted lobster boat, Endurance, offshore to swim with humpbacks and several species of shark. “I am totally obsessed with what we call pelagic megafauna—basically big creatures in the ocean,” said Savetsky, whose photographs hang in the Nantucket Whaling Museum. “It’s an attraction that’s hard for me to really put a finger on.”
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t the end of October, Savetsky entered the European Union through an exemption allotted for photo journalists to document this annual migration of orcas and humpbacks. He navigated the complex logistics of COVID19 testing and quarantining to reach Tromsø. Surrounded by towering mountains that rise directly up from the Arctic Ocean, Tromsø is a land of natural wonder with fjords, islands and the northern lights overhead. “The sun barely peeks over the mountains,” Savetsky said. “You have sunset and sunrise all day long. The sun never goes overhead, so the light is absolutely crazy.” In Tromsø, he reunited with Jacques de Vos, a South African free diver and awardwinning underwater photographer who has led Arctic diving expeditions for the last decade. Together, they boarded a fifty-foot catamaran and sailed through the fjords and bays in search of whales. With the water bustling with millions of tons of herring, the humpbacks and orcas make the winter migration into these waters as polar bears watch from the snow-covered shores. These two whale species do not normally feed in such close proximity of one another, but the abundance of bait results in them feeding symbiotically. The pod of orcas corrals the herring into concentrated bait balls that they will feed upon systematically. “I’ve seen an orca take a herring, remove all the meat and then spit out a skeleton,” Savetsky said. “It basically fileted the fish in its mouth.” Meanwhile, the humpbacks take advantage of these bait balls by swimming directly through them with their mouths open wide.
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For many people, the idea of jumping into deathly cold water to swim with apex predators in the dark of night is utterly unthinkable. Yet for Savetsky, it’s an experience he simply can’t get enough of. “It’s a combination of things,” he explained. “It’s the orcas and the humpbacks. It’s the dark ocean. The photography is very difficult. It’s all a bit challenging and mysterious.” Beyond the lure of adventure, Savetsky returns to these polar waters each year to capture the environment’s intricate balance on display. His images bear witness to a natural phenomenon that’s beyond our human comprehension. And like the great whalers of Nantucket yesteryear, he returns to his little island home to share the wonders of his exploration.
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“I’m thinking, ‘Wow, they’re going to pay me to live out here?’ I saw the view and it was just spectacular.”
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Allen Reinhard celebrates thirty years as a Middle Moors ranger
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f you happen to find the best gig on Nantucket, you keep it. Maybe even for thirty years. Island resident Allen Reinhard recently completed his third decade as the Middle Moors ranger for the Nantucket Conservation Foundation. It’s a dream job that keeps him on patrol in some of the island’s most stunning and pristine conservation areas, discovering and cutting new trails, and helping others experience Nantucket’s great outdoors. “That’s why I’ve spent thirty years doing it,” Reinhard said with a smile, sitting in the Middle Moors ranger station known as Heath House, where he resides from May through October. The rustic cabin, with its incredible views of the moors, Sankaty Head Lighthouse and the Atlantic Ocean, is just another perk of the job. Reinhard fondly recalled the day he first moved in after taking the position with the Conservation Foundation so many years ago. “I’m thinking, ‘Wow, they’re going to pay me to live out here?’ I saw the view and it was just spectacular. I said, ‘Hey, life is sweet.’ That’s how I got started.”
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einhard was hired in 1991 by former Nantucket Conservation Foundation President Jim Lentowski, who wanted the organization to have a presence on its sprawling properties. The Middle Moors include 3,220 acres of coastal heathland, sandplain grasslands and kettle ponds that make up the largest tract of undeveloped land on Nantucket. After thirty years of exploring every hill, valley, pond and deer trail, Reinhard knows this vast area better than anyone.
“The point is to get people to explore. We had members coming here all their lives since they were kids and had never been into these properties.”
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On spring and summer mornings, Reinhard can be found leading the “Mornings for Members” guided walks through the foundation’s various properties. The program became so popular that reservations are now required, and foundation members can book only one walk per year. “The point is to get people to explore,” Reinhard said. “We had members coming here all their lives since they were kids and had never been into these properties. They say, ‘I had no idea!’ And that’s the exact kind of reaction we want.”
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himself with all of the founBeing the Middle Moors dation’s properties, whether ranger comes with certhey were directly under his tain mundane aspects— supervision in the moors or cleaning up the leftovers not. One of the first places he of the inevitable high school went was Squam Swamp. At the parties or shooing away the octime, the foundation had recently completed casional person camping illegally. But for its acquisition of the property, which was originally anReinhard, the joy of the job is found not only in sharnounced in 1983. When Reinhard began to explore it ing his knowledge of Nantucket’s hidden conservanearly a decade later, the vast wetland was marked only tion areas with the public, but also in discovering and by a few narrow deer trails and small hunting trails. His cutting new paths for people to enjoy. According to initial exploration of the swamp ended the same way it Reinhard, over the years he has cut and laid out more did for many others who decided to venture through its than thirty distinct walking paths through the moors hardwood forests, bogs and vernal pools. and other foundation properties. “I ended up getting totally lost and over on Squam “Living out here, you just want to be out and Road,” he said. “But I thought, ‘My god, what an inwalking the roads,” he said. “Every time I saw a credible property.’ I had been coming to Nantucket for deer trail, I would look to see where all the old roads thirty years and thought it wasn’t like were around it, and I would go in anything I’d seen. I told Jim [Lenand take my loppers and trim it “Living out here, towski] it would be a great place for out. When I finally got a walk-beyou just want to some trails.” Today, Squam Swamp hind mower, that was really what be out and walking is one of the foundation’s most turned me loose so I could groom the roads.” popular destinations and features a these trails.” — Allen Reinhard 1.75-mile trail loop with numbered Originally from Oberlin, Ohio, way-finding posts keyed to an interpretive map. Reinhard first came to Nantucket at the invitation of The Middle Moors ranger job keeps Reinhard his best friend in high school. During the summer of well occupied from May through October. During 1961, the island “was a very different place. We had the offseason, however, he’s managed to stay busy a ball.” He returned the following summer, lining up as something of an island renaissance man. The fajobs at The Sandpiper restaurant and Snow’s Cycle ther and grandfather has also served as a caregiver, Shop on Main Street. Reinhard would work during painted houses and done landscaping, worked in the the day at the busy bike rental shop and cook at nights restaurant business and had a fifteen-year stint workat The Sandpiper. The next year, he took over as maning with Hy-Line Cruises on Straight Wharf. He has ager of Snow’s Cycle Shop, a position he would hold also been heavily involved in the local government, for the next ten years before buying the small busiserving on a host of boards and committees including ness himself in 1972. Over the next decade, Reinhard the Cemetery Commission, the Roads and Right of would open his shop on Nantucket from Memorial Way Committee, the Nantucket Water Commission, Day to Labor Day and return to New York in the offthe Town Government Study Committee and the season where he taught high school English. Nantucket Civic League. In April 2007, Reinhard was When he finally decided to move to Nantucket the top vote-getter in a field of five candidates vying on a year-round basis in November 1990, Reinhard for seats on the Nantucket Board of Selectmen (now was coming to the end of his second marriage, taking known as the Select Board), the island’s lead policya year off and looking for what was next. That’s when making body. He served three years as a Selectman, he got the call from Lentowski about the newly crebut it is his ongoing service on another island comated Middle Moors ranger position. mission that might be even more consequential. Among his initial assignments was familiarizing
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Reinhard staring out at the moors from the Heath House, where he lives from May through October
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have given Reinhard a unique and global perspective on the island’s network of conservation properties and organizations, allowing him to see opportunities
where others may not. but also to see where trails could connect. “I look at the island as being a puzIn my mind, it’s all tied together. That’s zle, like a jigsaw puzzle, with these difbeen one of the wonderful things about ferent pieces of land,” this job.” Reinhard said. “When “I look at the island As he enI first got on the Land as being a puzzle, like a ters his fourth Bank, I asked the new jigsaw puzzle, with these decade with the GIS [Geographic Indifferent pieces of land.” Conservation formation Systems] Foundation, Re— Allen Reinhard inhard has no Department immediate plans to step away from his to print me post as Middle Moors ranger. And why out a map would he? There are only a few job hazof the island ards—he’s come down with Lyme diswith the difease a few times—and most of the heavy ferent conduty trail maintenance is now taken care servation of by his colleagues at the foundation. properties After thirty years, the biggest challenge, on it, with Reinhard has found, is not getting too upthe roads and set when visitors don’t treat the properties public/priwith the same reverence he does. “That’s vate ways on the only downside of the job—I get upset the island. It when I see someone going off-road [and ended up as four great big sheets they potentially damaging the land],” he said. pulled up, and I could look and say, After all this time, these areas feel like ‘Here’s some possibilities,’ both for part of his family. “I have a great sense of properties for the Land Bank to look at, proprietary about these places.”
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Nantucket summer resident Christy Lee Brown brings health and wellness full circle
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hristina Lee Brown exudes the refined elegance that one might associate with an old American family. Her late husband, Owsley Brown, was the scion of the Brown-Forman Corporation, a company which, thanks to its bourbon distilleries, has been a backbone of Louisville, Kentucky, for generations. But any presumption that Brown might be detached from the realities of the world is very quickly dispelled. A woman of deep faith, Brown is acutely aware of the economic and social inequality facing the country and has dedicated herself to a variety of philanthropic enterprises designed not only to support her beloved Louisville but also to raise consciousness around the profound impact of the environment on our well-being. Radiating charm and eternal optimism, Brown has used her platform to respond to the current social unrest seen in Kentucky and epitomizes the meaning of social responsibility. N Magazine sat down with Christy Brown to gain insights as to what drives her and what solutions she sees for today’s social unrest. N magazine
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BROWN: When Owsley and I were first married, in 1968, we moved right away from Washington to Louisville. I really didn’t drink bourbon. My grandmother and parents in Maryland had loved bourbon forever, but I was a gin drinker. So, I decided I had to figure out a way that I could really enjoy bourbon. At that time, my husband’s family company BrownForman partnered with bartenders who made one of these mixes called Pussycat. I discovered that mix and all of a sudden, I loved bourbon.
“If you really care, you get into it, you get your hands dirty. To me, that is the way philanthropy really is at its best.” — Christina Brown
N MAGAZINE: Do you have any involvement with the company today? BROWN: No, I’m a very proud shareholder. I was a very proud wife to Owsley who worked hard to grow the international arm of the company. I was his partner in any way that was appropriate. I was proud that our three children are all proud shareholders and engaged in various ways.
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your life in Kentucky. How did you discover Nantucket? BROWN: We have been here since the early eighties and relatives brought me here. My father had recently died, and my brother and I wanted a summer place that my mother might enjoy going to, a place where the grandchildren could visit her. We bought this little property, this tiny little postage stamp, and had a little shack on this little spit of land. We fixed that up a little bit and then Mummy started coming, and the children and grandchildren started coming and visiting and they all love it.
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N MAGAZINE: Your late husband Owsley helped expand the international reach of whiskeys like Jack Daniel’s and Southern Comfort while serving as president of his family company, Brown-Forman. Are you a bourbon drinker? Owsley Brown
N MAGAZINE: You and Owsley also played an enormous role in revitalizing Louisville. When most people think of philanthropy, they think of people writing checks, but your form of philanthropy is very different. Could you explain your philosophy?
“We had the tragic killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville and it has been the cause of great pain.” — Christina Brown
BROWN: Our foundation is not that old. We started it in the seventies. Because of that, every dollar that we contributed to a cause was very precious and we wanted to do the best we could to be helpful in other ways to the cause. If you really care, you need to do it all. So, we did it all. We licked stamps, we campaigned. If you really care, you get into it, you get your hands dirty. To me, that is the way philanthropy really is at its best.
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N MAGAZINE: Could you explain your work with the Circle of Harmony and Health? BROWN: I believe the work of all notfor-profits is basically for health. The Circle of Harmony and Health is a tool to help guide and empower individuals and communities to live the healthiest, most-balanced life possible, and to understand the interconnection between
N MAGAZINE: If you could distill one answer that you have taken away from these conversations with Black leadership in Louisville, what would it be? BROWN: Listen, listen, listen. Create new kinds of ways to converse about the realities of people’s lives. Start neighborhood by neighborhood. In listening, I’ve found a group of Black leaders who developed a platform called Path Forward in Louisville. I have now become an advocate
“Listen, listen, listen. Create new kinds of ways to converse about the realities of people’s lives.” — Christina Brown
for sharing that document with our corporate, political and philanthropic community. I hand-delivered a copy of it to the mayor’s home with a letter encouraging him to surround himself by the Black leaders of our community to converse about how to make Path Forward our next two-year blueprint for the city.
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all forms of health. It is made up of eight parts with each heart representing an aspect of health: nutritional, economic, environmental, psychological, intellectual, spiritual, cultural and physical. The hearts are directly connected to the others, which together make up an individual’s and a community’s holistic health. At the heart of the circle, you’ll find healthy air, water and soil. Access to those three basic elements is the critical foundation to our communal health. The systems supporting any community—government, philanthropy, corporations—must consider the health of the entire system in order to make healthy decisions.
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the center of national protests. Damage was undoubtedly done to buildings and projects that you and your late husband were responsible for creating. How have you processed all of this? BROWN: We had the tragic killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville and it has been the cause of great pain. It’s still an extraordinarily difficult time in Louisville, but it has given me time to reflect. Clearly, even though I and others like me think we’ve been trying, we clearly have not been trying in
the right ways. We clearly have not been listening adequately. We clearly have not been caring in all of the right ways. So, I started on a listening mission with my Black leader friends and what I’ve found is that we—the political leadership, the current political leadership and frankly the past leadership—haven’t realized adequately the interconnectedness of all of us. We have not adequately understood that there are no simple answers.
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“The Circle of Harmony and Health is a tool to help guide and empower individuals and communities to live the healthiest, most-balanced life possible.” — Christina Brown
health and how imperative it is that we understand the interconnectedness. I consider Prince Charles to be a really lovely friend. He was kind enough to come to Louisville five years ago to visit with us and help reinforce the importance of understanding this interconnectedness. If you all of a sudden begin to think of yourself as nature, it’s a whole different way that you deal with the plants in the garden or the soil or the food that you eat.
N MAGAZINE: How do we start to repair the division in our country?
BROWN: I’m very anxious to figure out our commonalities. This is why our Circle of Harmony
N MAGAZINE: Where is this work taking place? BROWN: We’ve been able to bring this thinking into the University of Louisville, where we are now housed with our Envirome Institute in the medical school. We will begin to use the word “health” in all of its forms, because we need to have a new vision of health in order to really survive. I am very proud that we have brought this concept of dealing with the whole human ecosystem.
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of your mentors in developing this approach to health? BROWN: Prince Charles has probably been my greatest mentor and professor. He has written this extraordinary book called Harmony that taught me about this interconnectedness in all forms of
Christina Brown and her friend and mentor Prince Charles
and Health is so important— because I think the language needs to be changed. If we could agree that what we all care about is health in all of its forms, then decisions can made through that lens. They’re not political decisions; they’re health decisions. That’s how we’re going to find our common ground again.
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THE LIFE AND TUNES OF CHARLES GOLDSTUCK
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orn and brought up on a rural farm in South Africa where he had just a single radio with only a few stations, Charles Goldstuck has followed an improbable path to the top of the music world. Having partnered with music legends Clive Davis and L.A. Reid, Goldstuck has guided the careers of some of the country’s top musicians, most recently through his company Hitco Entertainment. On an island filled with Fortune 500 CEOs, there is little representation from the entertainment world, particularly compared with Martha’s Vineyard, which is known for its affinity toward Hollywood. Yet Goldstuck is not your typical flashy entertainment mogul. He takes a highly disciplined and corporate approach to the music industry, which he attributes to his success and longevity in what is otherwise a highly unpredictable business. N Magazine sat down with Charles Goldstuck to learn more about his path to the pinnacles of the music industry.
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industry would be extraordinary for just about anybody, but you came from some unique circumstances that make your career especially unlikely. GOLDSTUCK: I grew up in the middle part of South Africa in a farming community in the Orange Free State, which was the smallest of the four provinces at that time. It was a very, very conservative community. We were the only English-speaking family in a radius of forty miles. The South African Broadcasting Corporation controlled all of radio. It eventually expanded where the broadcast licenses opened up and we could listen to what I would call top forty radio on only one station. Apartheid was the rule of the land, and so musical coverage and exploration was limited. But people found a way of bringing records into the country. There was a network of people who would trade music so that we could explore different musical influences. Even though there was a limitation to what we were exposed to given the censorship, it only fueled my appetite to want to be more active in music and to have a seat at the table, even though at that time I didn’t know what that was.
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N MAGAZINE: When you came to the United States in the eighties, how did you break into the music industry? GOLDSTUCK: I was lucky, because I qualified as a chartered accountant in South Africa, which was the path you took if you wanted to go into business. So, I was able to get a job for my first three years with Ernst and Young where I worked on a lot of the music industry accounts, especially on the consulting side. That gave me the kick start to get into the music publishing arm of the Warner Music Group, which ultimately merged with Time. At Warner’s music publishing division, I was given the Latin division to run because no one else wanted it. I said, “Give me a chance to see if I can restructure
and ride through the storm,” which I was able to do. That’s what really catapulted me into music: being willing to take on an assignment that no one else wanted, but for me it was a gift beyond any gift. And that’s how it began for me in America.
N MAGAZINE: What is the skill set that you have that enables you to deal with people who may be a little more challenging to manage than in other professions? GOLDSTUCK: My first foray into entertainment was promoting artists on campus while I was at university. What I realized very quickly was the ground rules that I’d established for how I lived my life and how I saw the world were completely different than those of these creators who generally see the world through the lens of their art. Artists are different than business people, but we all have the same passion, which is our love for music. So, I found that I really enjoyed the challenge of connecting the commercial side of the business with the creative side.
“The big reason for the successes that I’ve had is that I’ve always partnered with the best creative minds in the business.”
N MAGAZINE: And you did that exceptionally well. GOLDSTUCK: The big reason for the successes that I’ve
had is that I’ve always partnered with the best creative minds in the business. People like Clive Davis and L.A. Reid are some of the greatest hit makers of the modern era. I don’t go into the studio and make records—my partners generally oversee that—but as the creative comes out of the studio, I have to — Charles Goldstuck make sure that we can help our artists achieve their ambitions and help our businesses achieve the right commercial outcome. So, I’ve been able marry my entrepreneurial and commercial sensibilities very effectively with the creative needs of the business.
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Top to bottom: Goldstuck with Motown record label founder Berry Gordy; Goldstuck with Clive Davis and Maroon 5; Goldstuck with Dave Grohl and Fantasia
the most legendary names in the record business. What made him so effective? GOLDSTUCK: In one regard, Clive and I were very similar. We were both determined to find the very best outcome that we could every single day that we showed up for work. Obviously, he was a generation ahead of me and had achieved enormous success by the time he and I came together in the late 1990s, but what I loved about Clive was that every day he acted like he hadn’t accomplished anything in his career. He felt like he had everything to prove. The bar was always raised very high. His attitude was almost that of somebody who was dying to succeed and who had not had his breakthrough, despite the fact that he’d had many over decades. I loved that enthusiasm and determination, because that played into my personality.
N MAGAZINE: Who were the biggest names in entertainment that you and he helped promote? GOLDSTUCK: Alicia Keys is the artist whom I’m proudest of because of what we were able to accomplish right at the start of our partnership at J Records. She was this young nineteen-year-old virtuoso. She could play instruments, she could write, she could produce—I mean, she was the whole package. But at the time, no one knew who she was. She’d been signed to Columbia Records for a couple of years and they did not know what to do with her. Her career was going nowhere. When she came over to J Records, we were able to develop her. Alicia performed what was to become her first hit, “Fallin’,” on the Oprah Winfrey Show and everything just exploded from there. There were also others like Maroon 5 who came to us in a joint venture. They were known as Kara’s Flowers. We changed the name and worked long and hard on that first single of theirs, “Harder to Breathe,” which after about a year of us working on it finally connected. Twenty years later, Maroon 5 and Adam Levine are still considered one of the biggest artists globally.
N MAGAZINE: You also worked with some legendary established artists as well, correct? GOLDSTUCK: Yes, we were able to help resurrect the careers of artists like Carlos Santana, who was in his fifties. At that time, he was considered to be an aging rock star. No one thought that he had a chance. And yet when his Supernatural album came out around the 1998–99 time period, it ended up winning eight Grammys and soon sold more albums than just about any other in history. So whether it was Carlos Santana, or Rod Stewart’s Great American Songbook Series, which became a massive success story, or revitalizing the career of Luther Vandross, who had pretty much faded from the scene until we brought him back—it wasn’t just about the new artists, it was also about some of the legendary, established artists that had a quiet period in their careers that we were able to revitalize. N MAGAZINE: Talk about your company today, Hitco Entertainment,
“Alicia Keys is the artist whom I’m proudest of because...she was the whole package.” — Charles Goldstuck
some established artists like Jennifer Lopez, who had worked with L.A. Reid at a number of other companies. Now, Jennifer obviously has a very, very successful film and TV career, which is where most of her time is spent, so we see our job is to help her amplify her activities in music.
N MAGAZINE: Have you brought any of these artists to Nantucket? GOLDSTUCK: I have not. I’ve separated my business life from my family life. Our family has an understanding, informal as it is, that come summer when we’re on Nantucket, that’s family time. We have our dinners together every night, exercise together. That is really the only time that I can decompress and not prioritize my business, bluntly put, over my family. Nantucket for me has been a haven from the intensity of a business that doesn’t sleep.
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and probably its most famous artist, Jennifer Lopez. GOLDSTUCK: I partnered with L.A. Reid, whom Clive and I had competed against aggressively. Our career paths did not coincide until three years ago when he asked me if I was interested in partnering with him to launch a new business. L.A. and I launched Hitco with a view that we would operate in this new digital era and build a modern-era music company. We would add music publishing so we could represent songwriters and broaden the base of the business. Most of our signings have been focused on new artists like SAINt JHN, who had a huge breakthrough with one of the biggest songs of the summer. We also signed
(Clockwise from the top) Goldstuck with Carlos Santana, Clive Davis and Kelly Clarkson; Goldstuck with Alicia Keys; Goldstuck with Carrie Underwood and Clive Davis; Goldstuck with Slash from Guns N' Roses
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N MAGAZINE: The entertainment business and the recording industry are very well represented on “the other island,” but not on Nantucket. Why do you think Nantucket attracts a more corporate population while the Vineyard seems to be more entertainment-driven? GOLDSTUCK: I think you have to go back thirty or forty years when people like Carly Simon bought a house on the Vineyard. There were many artists like her who liked the rustic, bohemian nature of what the Vineyard was in those days. Whereas Nantucket was much more about the banking and real estate world, as well as a haven for families that for generations have been coming to Nantucket. The creative set started to go to the Vineyard, and it just created a momentum of its own.
N MAGAZINE: You were one of the early adopters of streaming services in the conventional record industry. How has streaming changed the music industry for musicians? GOLDSTUCK: There’s now an opportunity where anybody who is creative can record an album. They can do videos of their music and upload those onto services with such ease that there’s no barrier to entry other than how artists develop the right kind of audience that creates the consumption levels that ultimately allows them to earn a living.
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give an aspiring musician starting out today? GOLDSTUCK: For any new artist, you’ve got to be prolific in your output. You’ve got to constantly be putting out N MAGAZINE: How did you discover Nantucket? GOLDSTUCK: The early part of my life in America was on content to satisfy your audience. You can’t just put out the West Coast. When I moved to the East Coast in 1998 a song and then hope that it connects. You’ve got to to partner with Clive Davis, I was looking for a summer put out music and visuals, whether it’s videos or imescape. I had just gotten into a serious relationship with ages. Then you’ve got to be very active on social media so that you can build an my wife Karen and we were deaudience. Start local. When ciding on whether to go to the “I’ve separated my business these venues open up again, Hamptons or Nantucket. A lot life from my family life. Our perform in front of audiences of the people that I was getting family has an understanding, and build your local followto know on the East Coast kept informal as it is, that come ing. If you can build a local telling me that I had to try Nansummer when we’re on audience, you can build a natucket. My very first summer, Nantucket, that’s family time.” tional or an international auwe stayed at the Wauwinet and — Charles Goldstuck dience. But it requires comjust loved every bit of the expeplete commitment, because rience—other than the mosquito infestation that hit that summer. I’m a bit of a foodie and there are so many creators now who are active. It’s Nantucket is loaded with great restaurants, always has more competitive than it’s ever been, so it has to be been. So, my love affair with Nantucket started over your priority. You cannot want to be an artist while dotwenty years ago. When my kids were born, Nantucket ing other things. You have to give it everything you’ve just became part of our lives, which was cemented when got because there are many who are doing that and if you don’t, you can’t be competitive. we bought our house.
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JOE BIDEN’S 2017 BOOK TOUR STOP ON NANTUCKET
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President-elect Joe Biden has a long history on Nantucket. In addition to spending Thanksgiving on the island, Biden made Nantucket an important stop on his book tour in 2017. The Dreamland hosted Joe Biden at Nantucket’s Mary P. Walker Auditorium for a discussion of his memoir, PROMISE ME, DAD, an excerpt of which can be read on page 58. After the presentation, Biden met with island residents and other attendees.
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JOE BIDEN WITH BEN MASKELL, AMBASSADOR ELIZABETH BAGLEY, CONOR REYNOLDS BAGLEY & AND VAUGHN BAGLEY
JOE BIDEN & PAT PITTS
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JOE BIDEN WITH LINDA & JOE HALE
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JOE BIDEN & A YOUNG ATTENDEE
JOE BIDEN WITH MARY WALSH & ALLAN LAFRANCE
JOE BIDEN WITH ZOFIA & MARK CROSBY
JOE BIDEN WITH SARA O'RIELLY
JOE BIDEN & ALICIA CARNEY
JOE BIDEN WITH MEGAN & BERT TURNER
JOE BIDEN WITH KATHLEEN & CHRIS MATTHEWS
JOE BIDEN & SUSAN YERKES CARY
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JOE BIDEN WITH DAVID GREGORY & BETH WILKINSON AND THEIR CHILDREN
JOE BIDEN & BEVERLY HALL PHOTOS BY ZOFIA & CO. PHOTOGRAPHY
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While the coronavirus might have put the hogwash on Nantucket’s annual Halloween parade on Main Street downtown, that didn’t prevent islanders from getting dressed up!
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MILLIE & EVAN SCHWANFELDER
LORNA DOLLERY & SETH FINLEY
DAVID HANDY, TIM EHRENBERG, DONALD DALLAIRE & SANTI SCHEURELL
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ASHLEY ROSE & KIMBERLY VILLANDRY
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Scallopers on catboats at the wharf in slushy ice and snow.
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Fay Holdgate Meehan (left) and Martha Holdgate Butler sled Codfish Park.
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NOT SO FAST N MAGAZINE: What are you most excited about with your next position and what do you hope to achieve? HALE: The board of the museum is committed to rethinking the organization from top to bottom. Museums today need to be interactive, experiential, immersive and fun. It’s invigorating to approach this opportunity with carte blanche.
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from your tenure at the Dreamland? HALE: Our talented staff. Our engaged and committed board. The fact that we’ve operated in the black the last four years. And our small but growing endowment.
you give to the Dreamland’s next executive director? HALE: Listen to the community. Lots of times they’ll tell you what’s wrong with your organization, but if you keep listening, they’ll usually also tell you how to fix it. I’ve found that one must be a good listener.
N MAGAZINE: What movie, performance or production did you enjoy most during your time at the Dreamland? HALE: That’s like asking which of my children I like the most! I love sitting in a dark theater watching a movie with a big bag of popcorn on my lap. I love our live broadcasts. I revel in our Dreamland Stage Company’s productions. The ongoing programs we’ve created and produced—Nantucket’s Got Talent!, Dreamland Storytelling, Dreamland Conversations, our Summer Deck DJ Series—they’re all so much fun. Personally, one of the most magical evenings was watching six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald on our stage in a solo cabaret evening. It was stunningly memorable.
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challenge you faced at the Dreamland that you and your team overcame? HALE: Erasing an annual operating deficit and transforming the reputation of the Dreamland from a movie theater to Nantucket’s year-round film and cultural center. Last year we had over 2,500 screenings, programming and events at the Dreamland.
N MAGAZINE: Why was this new opportunity as president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum so appealing? HALE: I wasn’t looking for a new job. Linda and I love Nantucket, and I was having more fun with the Dreamland than I thought possible. But there comes a time when you need to shake it up and respond to a new challenge and opportunity. I’m a big believer that we should be lifelong learners, constantly challenging ourselves with new experiences. This new job provides that challenge.
N MAGAZINE: Are you a car guy? If not, what’s the learning curve look like in getting up to speed at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum? HALE: Please don’t tell anyone at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway that I drive a Toyota Yaris…I took this job because it is an opportunity to learn something new. I knew nothing about the movie business before I took the Dreamland job. I’m excited about the chance to get smarter about automobile racing, its history and the impact it’s had on Indianapolis and the world at large. And to translate those stories into experiences for people who visit the museum. I also look forward to collaborating and partnering with many of Indianapolis’ other cultural organizations.
you leave the Nantucket community? HALE: This may sound cliché, but I doubt there’s a better place to live anywhere. I’ll especially miss the winters, when this island draws together and gives the term “community” real meaning. I hope Nantucket continues to embrace the depth and breath of the diversity we enjoy on the island today. And whatever we do on Nantucket, I hope we continue to push to make it the best it can possibly be. Expect excellence and you’ll get it.
N MAGAZINE: Nantucket has been lucky to come to know you pretty well over the years, but what’s one thing that most people don’t know about you? HALE: That I was a child who benefited from the charity of others, so giving back was instilled in my DNA from a very early age. Also, that I can’t think of a better evening than to have a dozen friends sitting around our dining room table eating a meal I’ve cooked for them.
N MAGAZINE: Any parting words? HALE: We’re not leaving Nantucket—just taking a break. After forty-five years here, there are too many family traditions and celebrations that are anchored on Nantucket for us to ever think of leaving. I hope to stay involved in the Nantucket community and will certainly continue to support the Dreamland. We’re keeping our home here and will be back every chance we get!
“The Club Literally Changed My Life”
The Boys & Girls Club is more than a place to hang out but rather a place to gain a sense of confidence and self-worth. For many kids living on Nantucket, life is not the carefree refuge we all experience and the Boys & Girls Club serves a far deeper purpose.
provides an essential outlet for their children to learn and play in a safe and constructive environment. It also teaches children how to get along with people of all backgrounds and helps build the kind of community that Nantucket strives to be.
For parents who face the challenges of working multiple jobs, the Boys & Girls Club
Supporting the Boys & Girls Club supports Nantucket as a whole and we ask for your help.
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