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Now is the time for everyone who loves Nantucket to help build the community’s new hospital. This historic initiative is being funded solely through private donations, with no taxpayer dollars, so it will only be possible with the support of the entire Nantucket community. These are a few of the faces of the many Nantucketers who have already generously contributed to this effort. Join them today by donating a gift of any size at nantuckethospital.org/newbuilding,
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Kathy Gallaher, Broker
37 Main Street, Nantucket Island, MA 02554
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This highly sought after location provides easy access to one of New England’s prettiest white sand beaches. The main house features two spacious living rooms with wood burning fireplaces and four en suite bedrooms. The combined kitchen, living room and dining room have gorgeous views of the Atlantic Ocean. A two bedroom cottage and single car garage. Abutting 300 acres of conservation land and easy access to the beach across the street. List price $5,395,000
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This three bedroom, 2 bath, home features cathedral ceilings, wood burning fireplace and a single car garage. The open floor plan makes this the perfect summer retreat. List price $1,975,000
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The views of the Atlantic Ocean unfold in front of you at this perfect summer retreat, near deeded beach access. Five bedrooms, 3.5 half baths, single car garage, partial basement. List price $3,195,000
Sales and Rentals Office: 508-228-1881 ext. 109 Cell: 508-560-0078 kathy@maurypeople.com
This beautifully crafted home is located less than one mile to Main Street. The private estate-like setting is surrounded by beautiful gardens, a lap pool, pool house with a private bath and a large living room with fireplace. The main house features gracious rooms that are perfect for summer entertaining. The gourmet kitchen features high-end appliances and extraordinary cabinetry. List price $3,995,000
This summer home is located on a knoll, with some of the best views on the island including Sankaty and Great Point lighthouses. First floor water views and deeded access to the harbor. List price $1,599,000
Located on a quiet cul-de-sac, this Naushop home abuts 36 acres of Land Bank property. Three floors of living space with four bedrooms, two full baths, two half baths and a full basement. Naushop amenities include a community pool and tennis court. List price $1,075,000
Kathy Gallaher, Broker
Sales and Rentals Office: 508-228-1881 ext. 109 Cell: 508-560-0078 kathy@maurypeople.com
37 Main Street, Nantucket Island, MA 02554
POCOMO HARBOR WATERFRONT This private elevated waterfront estate features over 1000 feet of private beach and over four acres of land with commanding views in every direction. Enjoy the sunrise over Pocomo and the sunsets over Coatue and Tuckernuck. This extraordinary home was built using the highest standards of quality construction and craftsmanship. It features expansive rooms with harbor views, perfect for entertaining. A private staircase leads to a white sandy beach with access to boating, sailing, kayaking, windsurfing and clamming. List Price$12,500,000
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Contemporary home featuring four bedrooms, 5.5 baths, family room, separate dining room, large eat-in kitchen, laundry room, finished living space with gym in the lower level. List Price $1,749,000
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Gorgeous views from this beautifully designed home with four bedrooms, 4.5 half baths, three floors of living space. Plus a studio with full bath and garage. List price $2,995,000
Located on a private cul-de-sac, this lovely three bedroom, 2.5 bath home features a large living room with soaring ceilings and fireplace. Expansive deck with first floor water views. List price $1,525,000
Presently under construction on this beautiful oversized lot and ready for fall occupancy. This five bedroom home features five full baths, two half baths, a pool and pool cabana. List price $3,995,000
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Three Dunes ~ Your PrivaTe oasis
The fusion of amenities, design recognitions and “vine to bottle” wine making offered by the Three Dunes Estate is unprecedented on Nantucket. Relish the serenity of the surrounding 500 acres of conservation land, Smithsonian documented French parterre gardens, home designs of renowned architect Edward B. Knowles, croquet court, Koi pond, sauna and salt water pool. This generous, almost seven acre parcel provides a dramatic backdrop for the pavilion-style guest house and four bedroom main home. Two plots of organic grapes with self-regulating irrigation, micro-winery and FAA approvals to land a helicopter enhance the unique Three Dunes experience.
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THE SKINNY DIP: A SUMMER COLLECTIVE H O U S E S A W E L L - C U R AT E D M I X O F M E N ’ S AND WOMEN’S BRANDS WITH A FOCUS ON INTRODUCING THE ISLAND TO BOTH E S TA B L I S H E D A N D E M E R G I N G D E S I G N E R S . AN ONGOING EVENTS CALENDAR MAKES THE SKINNY DIP NOT JUST AN INSPIRING P L A C E T O S H O P B U T A L S O A D E S T I N AT I O N
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WHY FERRY WHEN YOU CAN FLY? Avoid the crowds and commercial airports.
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Matt Payne
Prestigious Lincoln Circle $13,500,000 This quintessential 1920’s summer home currently offers ground level water views, great light through the oversized farmhouse windows, high ceilings, wood burning fireplace and fir floors. Expansive harbor views from second floor. Separate garage. The large property spans from Lincoln Street to Capaum Road. One of the last remaining oversized lots in the neighborhood, this property allows several options for the buyer. They could consider a complete renovation or expansion of current home or the possibility of subdividing this site to create an estate setting. This property is one of a kind. Over 30 years experience
Joyce Montalbano, GRI,SFR
Broker • Sales & Rentals
Direct: 508.325.5015 Cell: 508.325.1666 Email: joycem@congdonandcoleman.com
North Pasture Lane $3,495,000 An original Lyman Perry design, this light and bright post and beam estate is thoughtfully situated high on the hill of North Pasture Lane. Enjoy vistas to town, the harbor or overlook the natural beauty of the moors from the main house, cottage or garage apartment. Seclusion, privacy and views are relished from the many decks and porches this compound has to offer.
Direct: 508.325.5023 Cell: 508.221.4554 Email: matt@congdonandcoleman.com
57 Main Street • Nantucket, MA • congdonandcoleman.com
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Ocean Reef is more than a club, it’s family; a family that holds tradition, privacy and belonging at its core. A place where kids are free to play and explore in a safe secure environment. A place to relax and truly unplug from the world.
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BEAUTIFUL POCOMO ESTATE $9,450,000
Gary Winn, Broker gary@maurypeople.com 508.330.3069
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Over three acres of lush lawn with private pool sitting on one of the high elevations in the area. Water views from both the front and back of the property. The large lot size allows for the construction of a secondary dwelling if desired. There is deeded access to the harbor. The home consists of three living levels.
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Maury People Sotheby’s International Realty | 37 Main Street, Nantucket, MA 02554 | maurypeople.com Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated. Equal Housing Opportunity.
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222 Eel Point Road $16.95 Million
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BRANDED CONTENT
THE FOUNDERS MIKE AND ALEX FAHERTY In 2013, Mike (left), who was working in design at Ralph Lauren, and Alex, who was working in private equity, quit their longtime gigs to launch their namesake brand Faherty. Growing up as surfers in a small coastal town, the twin brothers dreamed of creating a company that crafted highquality clothing reflecting their own casual style and passion for beach culture.
MOBILE BEACH HOUSE AT BARTLETT’S FARM, 6/29-8/7 Faherty’s mobile store that travels from city to city was custom designed using recycled barnwood and is complete with its own stereo system, sky light, and pop-up fitting rooms. For the third summer in a row, Faherty is partnering with fellow family-run business Bartlett’s. Swing by the Farm to browse a great selection of clothing and swimwear while buying your heirloom vegetables and fresh flowers.
FAHERTY NANTUCKET: A LIFELONG DREAM “We are excited to announce the opening of our Nantucket store. As young kids, we took our first family trip to Nantucket and it’s been one of our favorite places to visit ever since. Opening our own shop here is a dream come true.” - Mike & Alex Faherty
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Faherty creates the highest quality clothing for life’s great moments, the ones spent by the water, catching waves and watching sunsets. The brand’s timeless style captures a sense of adventure making it right at home on Nantucket. Faherty brings its laidback, casual collection for men
and women to the island with the opening of its third retail store, with other locations in New York City and Malibu. The store showcases the brand’s readyto-wear collections and signature swimwear which is carried in some of the finest clothing stores in the world, including Barney’s, Nordstrom, Fred Segal, and Mitchells’ Family of Stores. One of the brand’s most sought after products is its swimwear. Faherty differentiates itself with men’s and women’s custom-printed swimwear with patterns designed in-house using an innovative sustainable fabric blend made primarily of polyester from recycled plastic bottles (about 10 bottles per suit).
Visit Faherty at 0 Candle Street, Nantucket, MA. 38For more about Faherty’s story and products, visit www.fahertybrand.com.
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NEAT STUFF 52 HAVING A BALL
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N Mag’s list of where to go, who to see, and what to do on island this month.
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Here’s what you need to know about the water fight downtown this Fourth of July.
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After surviving a near fatal car accident, local basketball star Josh Butler is fighting his way back onto the court.
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Ndepth 80 WALter’S WORLD
Despite dramatically influencing the shape of Nantucket, few people today know the story of Walter Beinecke, Jr.
90 MODERN DAY MILLIE
Harbor Master Sheila Lucey keeps the tradition of women on the water afloat on Nantucket.
96 SHIP SHAPE
Local interior designer and artist Audrey Sterk takes her eye for beauty out on the high seas.
103 WATER PROOF
Examining the building boom’s potential impact on Nantucket’s drinking water supply.
NQUIRY 108 CHARLIE BAKER
In preparation for his visit to Nantucket this July, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker spoke to N Magazine.
Ndepth 116 THE GRAND CANYONS Plunging into one of the world’s most diverse marine habitats off the shores of Nantucket.
134 COLD CASE
Reopening one of Nantucket’s greatest unsolved mysteries: the disappearance of Dr. Margaret Kilcoyne.
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Ndesign 158 BARN RAISING
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The beautiful Brooke Lyons discusses her love affair with Nantucket, her life as an actress, and the unexpected path that led her to stardom.
NHA 176 THREE’S COMPANY
The NHA’s fifth annual Design Luncheon features John Ike, Thomas A. Kligerman, and Joel Barkley of Ike Kligerman Barkley at Great Harbor Yacht Club.
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THE NANTUCKET SUMMER ANTIQUES SHOW at The Boys and Girls Club of Nantucket 61 Sparks Avenue, Nantucket
August 12 - 15, 2016 The Antiques Council, a not for profit organization, will provide a contribution to The Nantucket Preservation Trust, through the Mary Helen and Michael Fabacher Scholarship and to the Community Foundation’s Nantucket Fund.TM
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America The Beautiful
If Norman Rockwell were alive today, he would spend the Fourth of July on Main Street on Nantucket. This is a time when families enjoy everything Nantucket has to offer, while celebrating being American. Apropos of the American spirit, our cover features Charlie Baker, who has emerged as the most popular governor in the country in a very short period of time. Baker’s folksy style and business-like efficiency is being felt across the Commonwealth. N Magazine had the opportunity to interview the governor on a wide range of subjects before his visit to the island this month. N Magazine also focuses on another figure who has had a profound effect on Nantucket, though he passed away over a decade ago. Walter Beinecke, Jr. came to the island in 1923 and had a vision that would set Nantucket on a new course. Admired by many and loathed by some, Beinecke’s influence on Nantucket is undeniable. His is a name that every person coming to the island should become familiar with. An important part of life on Nantucket is actually off Nantucket. The Canyons, a stretch of water located a little more than seventy miles south of the island is an area well known by fishermen as one of the world’s most diverse marine habitats. N Magazine is pleased to showcase some spectacular photographs by island residents Eric Savetsky and Ben Phillips that reveal the awe inspiring sea life that surrounds this island. Closer to shore, harbormaster Sheila Lucey keeps the tradition of women on the water afloat on Nantucket. Lucey oversees boating and harbor activity yearround, but has her hands particularly full during July and August when hundreds of boats dot the harbor. In a story that is both ongoing and unresolved, writer Jason Graziadei writes a gripping account of the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Margaret Kilcoyne, who inexplicably vanished from the island in 1980. The story of Kilcoyne’s disappearance and the efforts to find her are what novels are made of, and the mystery remains a frustrating piece of Nantucket lore. There are few examples of the American spirit that are more inspiring than that of local basketball star Josh Butler, who was featured in N Magazine two years ago. Butler was a force, playing professional basketball in Spain until he was injured in a devastating car accident. Butler’s remarkable inner strength and determination have defied medical prognostications, and the very fact that he is working out again is nothing short of miraculous. As we celebrate the Fourth of July, we realize there are people like Josh Butler and others whose sheer will and determination have put us where we are today. Enjoy the Fourth and what we hope will be a spectacular summer. Sincerely,
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$100 New fee charged by the Historic District Commission to install solar panels on your property.
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People projected to walk through Town Pool’s new retail spaces on Easy Street and Straight Wharf this summer, according to owner Luke Gutelius.
Price per ticket for a recital held at the ‘Sconset Union Chapel in July of 1883 to raise money for a new sanctuary organ.
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The latest activity to hit Nantucket will have you bouncing off the walls. No, this is not a prop off the set of John Travolta’s Boy in the Plastic Bubble. These giant bubbles are called Zorbs, and they’re designed for people to climb inside and roll, bounce, and float without fear of injury. Originally from New Zealand, Zorbs were used by extreme thrill-seekers who rolled down mountainsides and crossed waterways. Now, Zorbing has hit Nantucket, and it’s making a splash. Zorbs come in a variety of sizes. The classic models are designed for a passenger to ride inside, while the smaller models allow people to run and bounce around. Popular Zorbing activities include bumper ball (think full-contact soccer), sumo wrestling, and walking on water. Depending on the model, Zorbs retail for anywhere between $50 to $2,000.
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N TOP TEN 1 Celtics Basketball Clinic Friday, July 8th The Nantucket Boys and Girls Club will host a Boston Celtics basketball clinic, featuring a hall of fame player and Lucky the Leprechaun’s Dunk Show. While kids must be ages seven to fourteen to participate in the clinic, all members of the public are welcome to attend. Pre-register by calling 508-228-0158.
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Small Friends Art & Artisan Show July 14th–17th Celebrating its twenty-fifth year, Small Friends of Nantucket will host the The Nantucket Art and Artisan show, featuring over sixty-five local and nationally recognized artisans. The event showcases handmade pottery, jewelry, folk art, textiles, furniture and more. Held at the Nantucket Boys and Girls Club this year, the event will kick off with an opening party on Thursday, July 14th.
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Saturday, July 23rd Celebrate Nantucket’s next generation of leaders at the Museum After Dark party, benefitting the Nantucket Historical Association. VIP admission gets you into a cocktail party on the Whaling Museum’s rooftop deck, while general admission invites you to the Great Hall for cocktails, snacks and dancing. Learn more and buy tickets at www.nha. org/specialevents.
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Thursday, July 21st The second annual Nantucket Garden Harvest to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will take place at the Nantucket Dreamland Theatre this year. Enjoy farm-fresh food prepared by local chefs from seven of Nantucket’s favorite restaurants and others from around the country. Tickets can be purchased at www.stjude.org.
July 8th–10th Inhale, exhale and prepare for a weekend of yoga at the Nantucket Yoga Festival. Come together with world-class yoga instructors, wellness specialists and yogis galore for a creative, healthy and stress-free weekend. Visit nantucketyogafestival.com to start your journey.
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Nantucket Red Tie Soirée Sunday, July 10th Put on your finest Nantucket red attire and join the Maria Mitchell Association for an evening of fun at Sankaty Head Golf Club. Enjoy Spanky’s Raw Bar, the chance to bid on unique experiences and items at a silent auction, and see demonstrations by the MMA, Nantucket’s Science Center. For more information and tickets, visit www.mariamitchell.org.
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Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival July 18th–23rd Leap into summer with the Nantucket Atheneum’s 9th Annual Dance Festival. After a week of free ballet-related events, the Dance Festival’s finale is two ballet performances by some of the best dancers and choreographers in the world. Proceeds from the performances support the library. For registration, tickets, and more information, visit www.nantucketatheneum.org.
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TWN’s Meryl Streep event Saturday, July 30th Celebrating sixty years of performing on island, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket will hold a night of cabaret, featuring Meryl Streep, John Shea and TWN’s artistic director emeritus and anchor/ director Joe Grifasi. For more information, visit theatreworkshop.com
9 Nantucket Summer Series: Paula Poundstone Saturday, July 2nd Start July off on a high note with a night of comedy featuring stand up comedian Paula Poundstone from NPR’s #1 show, “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.” For more information, visit nantucketsummerseries.com.
Take a trip back in time to the American Revolution. Nathaniel Philbrick will share the Revolutionary War tale from his book, Valiant Ambition, featuring George Washington and Benedict Arnold. Visit nantucketdreamland.org for more information.
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GRONK
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BELICHICK
Social media was set ablaze this Memorial Day weekend when record-setting tight end and Patriots fan favorite Rob Gronkowski hit the island for Figawi. From bopping around Cisco Brewers to dancing downtown, Gronk was in full-form sipping and shimmying the weekend away.
Much like on the field, Gronkowski was joined by Patriots receiver Julian Edelman in tackling the Figawi festivities. Wearing a boot on his injured foot, there was at least one tense moment caught on camera when Edelman was accidently knocked from the back of a golf cart during the reverie. Thankfully, Jules stayed on his feet—as he usually does.
Jules and Gronk weren’t the only Patriots having a good time on Nantucket earlier this summer. Head coach Bill Belichick was spotted showing his softer side at Nautilus restaurant this June.
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NBUZZ DIAMONDS AREN’T FOREVER Nantucket’s favorite family jewelers are moving off-
island after thirty years in operation. Gary and Kelli
MIGHTY
MICE
Trainor sold Jewel of the Isle jewelry store and have moved to West Hollywood to be with their Grammy Award-winning daughter Meghan. Now called Jewel in the Sea, the space on Straight Wharf will be owned and operated by Megan Pearson and Kate Denny, sisters who worked with the Trainors for over thirteen years.
Nantucket has one of the high-
Pearson pursued a career in jewelry design and earned
est rates of Lyme disease in the
diplomas in gemology and jewelry arts before moving
country. According to one re-
to New York City where she was a production manager
cent study, 50 percent of Nan-
in the jewelry district. In addition to sourcing locally,
tucket residents contract Lyme
Jewel in the Sea will also bring in new pieces from their
in their lifetime. Solutions to
connections in the city. Clearly, the Trainors have left
this epidemic have been elu-
their old shop in good hands.
sive, but now MIT scientists think they have come up with a way to combat this problem at the source. This June, Kevin
Lyme disease begins in rodents:
community will be strutting their stuff on the
A tick bites a mouse and then
catwalk in support of the Nantucket Cottage
transmits the Lyme bacteria to
Hospital. But instead of wearing the hottest new
humans. If scientists can figure
looks, these models will be decked out in out-
out a way to genetically prevent
fits pulled from the depths of their closets. The
the mouse from transmitting the
Vintage Fashion Show features the models’ own
bacteria to ticks, they can break
favorite threads, which will then be made avail-
the chain of infection. Esvelt
able for purchase at the Cottage Hospital Thrift
said that cracking this genetic
Store. The show will be hosted by Maureen
code would require releasing
Hackett and emceed by Lulu Powers. Since
up to 100,000 genetically engi-
1929, the Hospital Thrift Shop has raised over
neered mice, twenty thousand
$4 million for the Cottage Hospital, proving
to forty thousand every two
that charitable giving will never go out of style.
tens of thousands of genetically
to three months. The project would take place in 2023 and N magazine
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engineered mice on Nantucket.
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FASHIONABLY
THRIFTY REVIVAL
Esvelt of MIT presented a plan
could revolutionize health on the island.
On July 13th, the who’s who of the Nantucket
While Nantucket’s restaurant lineup didn’t see too many new faces this summer, the retail scene has experienced a full-on revival. Perhaps nowhere illustrates this better than Old South Wharf. Directly across from the newly opened Skinny Dip, the brand new Beautycounter boasts an elegant space where you can learn about healthy ways to treat your skin. A few steps further down the wharf, Styleliner opened up shop, offering hip new looks by Joey Wölffer. And if all this shopping makes you hungry, Slip 14 has opened Shanty, a small oyster shack dedicated entirely to a raw bar menu.
A MOVING
EXPERIENCE
PROJECTING THE
FUTURE
Tom Scott, Kate Brosnan and their team recently wrapped up the Satellite Series of The Nantucket Project in which they took their thought-provoking show on the road. Hitting intimate venues in San Francisco, Washington D.C., Boston, Greenwich, Seattle, and Los Angeles, TNP gave audiences a taste of the exciting things to come in September through films and presentations from interesting speakers. The
The well-kept secret that Secretary of State John Kerry and his
theme of this year’s
areselling sellingtheir theirHulbert HulbertAvenue Avenuehome homeisis no no longer longer a secret, wife Theresa Teresa are
annual
The Boston Globe. The Heinz/Kerry according to a front page story in The Boston
of the minds is
home has become a well-known icon on Nantucket, having hosted world
“walls,” specifi-
leaders and numerous events for the Democratic Senate Campaign Com-
cally how walls
mittee, where scores of senators and donors flocked to enjoy spectacular
can both sepa-
views of the mouth of the harbor and the hospitality of the power couple.
rate us and bring
Even for those not close to the Secretary of State, his love for the
us together. TNP is
island is well known as are his aquatic activities including: wind surfing, kite boarding, power boating and sailing. The news of the marketing of Heinz/Kerry’s home for sale caught even his closest friends by surprise, general reaction from thewill island onemoving of loss.elsewhere Far more on thanthea and the many wonder whether they justisbe summer has been a well-known face around island or visitor, leavingKerry for good. Far more than a summer visitor, Nantucket Kerry has and has been as low face key as one can be with an Secret Service been a well-known around Nantucket andarmored has been as low key vehicle and be fullwith detail. for Theresa gainedand enormous reas one can an As armored Secret Heinz, Serviceshe vehicle full detail. spect her thoughtful guidingrespect her family’s chariAs forfor Teresa Heinz, shephilanthropy, gained enormous for herlarge thoughtful table foundation. philanthropy, guiding her family’s large charitable foundation. Kerry’s ascension to Secretary of State on top his other life achieveone of of the the island’s islands most admired residents. Given ments have made him one the deep Heinz/Kerry connection to Nantucket, a departure by the highprofile family would mark the end of an era on the island, and one that will no doubt be greeted by sadness among the many friends the family has earned over the past decade. According to one friend who expressed his deep feelings about Kerry’s departure: “You can take the Secretary of State out of Nantucket but you can’t take the Nantucket out of the or just changing their Nantucket address is yet to be seen, but there’s no question that the legacy they’ve brought to the island over the years isn’t going anywhere soon.
known for bringing cutting-edge
technol-
ogy to the island. Two years 2016 TNP ago, Julian Assange appeared on stage speaker by way of a hologram, while last year Seth Godin. the Project set the Guinness Book re-
cord for the most people experiencing virtual reality at one time. This year, the Project is exploring augmented reality in a way never experienced before. While the list of presenters was still being firmed up at press time, celebrated writer, speaker and entrepreneur Seth Godin had been confirmed as a headliner. As with years past, the Nantucket Project will undoubtedly give the island a lot to think about. For more information, visit Nantucketproject.com.
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Secretary of State.” Whether the Kerrys are leaving the island for good
meeting
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Gastronomy Station Written BY Josh Gray
Photography BY Kit Noble
ENJOY KITCHEN joins the food truck phenomenon rolling slowly onto the island. Despite being a world-class dining destination, Nantucket is often slow to embrace the culinary trends that are taking off on the mainland. Only in the last few years have food trucks shown up on the scene, even though they’re a seemingly perfect complement to island eating. What day on the beach wouldn’t be made better by a lobster roll? Or how about a catering company that could cook for your summer soirée without taking over your kitchen? These were the questions that Ben Goldberg N magazine
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they conceived Enjoy Kitchen, a full-service mobile catering company that has just hit the island.
Goldberg says he is looking for-
ward to catering a lot of parties with “foodtruck food,” offering truffle fries, sliders, mac and cheese, mini ice cream cones and more. But if that doesn’t hit the spot, you can order anything from omelets for breakfast, a clambake for lunch, finger apps for a cocktail party, a barbecue for the beach or an elegant meal for dinner—all served from the truck. The duo has also struck a partnership with Cisco Brewers’ bar catering service, Cisco To Go, making Enjoy Kitchen a full service affair. “There’s been an amazing response so far, and that is the way we are growing our business—one client and one connection at a time,” says Goldberg. “There’s not enough fun, casual food on the island these days.”
Nantucket Kitchen will stay on is-
land through the early fall, before heading down south to Palm Beach, Florida for the winter, which might just be the best part of the business model. When the crowds leave the island, Nantucket Kitchen can take their show on the road. For more information, visit EnjoyKitchenCatering.com.
Ben Goldberg is the founder of Enjoy Nantuck-
et, a high-end concierge service, and Patrick Ridge is best known as the owner and executive chef of Island Kitchen. After collaborating on more than eighty events a couple of summers ago, Goldberg and Ridge partnered up on this unique food truck concept. “Ben knows how to run the front of the house really well and create special moments for people,” Ridge says, “and I come in with the food perspective.”
After some long delays customizing their food
truck, Enjoy Kitchen is now firing on all cylinders and ready to cook up a storm. Equipped with nearly all the appliances of a commercial kitchen, Enjoy’s menu will range from hot dogs and hamburgers to full dinner menus made to order. “The menu will always be changing. Some days we’ll want to stop by the beach, other days we’ll be catering weddings and parties,” Ridge says. For instance, he says, “We did an event this morning, then had a dropafter-party at Westmoor Farm.”
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f all the many festivals and holidays celebrated on Nantucket throughout the year, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more action-packed day than the Fourth of July. The major change to the celebration this year is that the fireworks will be taking place on the evening of July 3rd. As for the annual water fight, the action will on July 4th.
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Nspire hen Josh Butler strolled into my office two years ago, he radiated undeniable
swagger.
Six-foot-
seven with an electrifying smile, Butler was bound for the big time. The twenty-two-year-old Nantucket native had just inked a contract to play pro basketball in Spain, a feat made all the more dazzling by the fact that he was one of the only islanders to ever make it to the pros. “I invented the slam dunk on Nantucket,” he joked with me, reminiscing about his days playing center for the Whalers. Cool and confident, Butler left my office with a firm handshake, and there was no doubt in my mind that he was destined to be a star. But a little over a year later, instead of fighting for a spot on the starting lineup in Spain, Josh Butler was fighting for his life in a hospital bed. On a frigid night in January 2015, Butler was driving through South Dakota en route to Florida where he was going to train with another team. He lost control of his car due to icy conditions and collided with two other vehicles, one of which was a semi-truck. Butler suffered traumatic brain injury, as well as a broken ankle and broken sternum. When news of the accident reached the island, the Nantucket community held its collective breath as Butler underwent extensive surgeries. There were candlelit vigils and a flood of support around the Butler family.
Thankfully,
Butler
pulled through, but the road to recovery was going to be long and painful. He was lucky to be alive. “Please keep the prayers going,” Butler’s mother wrote to the Nantucket community. “We are witnessing
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Joshua Butler in the summer of 2014, a year prior to the accident.
Written by Robert Cocuzzo
Photography by Kit Noble
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After surviving a near fatal car accident, local basketball star Josh BuTLer is fighting his way back to the court.
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ast-forward a year and a half
Making his way around the gym with
and Josh Butler is doing
one hand on Rodriguez’s shoulder for bal-
crunches on the floor of the
ance, Butler makes small talk with others
Lying on his back and bringing his knees
gym in the Nantucket Hotel.
lifting weights and stretching. “Working
up to his chest, Butler follows Rodriguez’s
His trainer Jonathan Rodriguez
hard?” he asks one, before bursting out
directions for the next exercise. “We’re re-
counts out the reps slowly. “Breathe
in booming laughter that’s too infectious
ally focusing on Josh’s hips and his core,” the
Josh, breathe…8…9…10. Okay,
not to join with your own. Every now
trainer explains. “This will help with his walk-
relax.” Butler flops back on the mat.
and again, he stops abruptly in his tracks.
ing and his balance.” The damage to Butler’s
“What are you tired?” Rodriguez teases.
“Wait, wait, wait…quiet for a second,”
brain has impacted the use of his right arm as
“Hey! Don’t you forget,” Butler fires
he says dramatically. We all hush, think-
well as his ability to walk. “We’re just trying
back, “I can still dunk on you!” The two
ing maybe something is wrong, but then
to get him back on his feet,” says Rodriquez,
men break out in laughter that echoes off
Butler starts singing the chorus to the song
however, Butler has some-
the gym mirrors. “For all I went through,
playing overhead. He laughs out again, “I
thing else in mind: He
I still haven’t forgotten my goofiness,”
love that song!”
wants to get back on
he says, pushing himself up to his knees.
Watching Butler move playfully about
Indeed, Butler’s body and brain may have
the gym reminds me of clips of Ali float-
been put through hell, but his ebullient per-
ing around the ring in between his leg-
sonality seems to have emerged from that
endary training sessions, when he would
car wreck completely unscathed. The star
joke with trainers, reporters and fans. The
quality that beamed in my office two years
prizefighter was the sun, and everyone else
ago is just as blinding today as it was then.
in the room were just planets drawn by his
gravity. So it is with Butler—he’s a star unto himself.
the court.
Before his accident, Butler had just wrapped up a season playing in Spain and was exploring playing for another professional team. Today, he’s eager to regain his strength and get back on the court in some capacity, and he’s been making great strides toward doing so. When Butler was wheeled into Nantucket High School’s gym for a benefit game last May, he was a shadow of his former self. Today he’s getting back in form, and standing tall, strong and muscular. More importantly, that unfailing confidence that impressed me back when we first met continues to radiate. Perhaps therein lies the truth behind a champion: physicality and talent are nothing without the power of the human spirt.
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Trainer Jonathan Rodriguez puts Butler through a routine to strengthen his core and improve his balance.
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Walter’s
WORLD Written by Robert Cocuzzo
Photography courtesy of the NHA
Meet The Man Who Made Nantucket What It Is Today. He was driven by both passion and profits. He was met with both praise and ire. He was arguably the most important Nantucket resident in the last fifty years, maybe even the last century, and yet the majority of the people who come to the island today have absolutely no idea who Walter Beinecke was.
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Walter “Bud” Beinecke, Jr. stepped foot on Nantucket for the very first time nearly a
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hundred years ago. The circumstances of his arrival weren’t exactly pleasant. He had been living in muggy New York City and was afflicted with a painful ear infection at a time when there were no antibiotics to provide him relief. His family’s doctor suggested that some fresh air might make all the difference, so the Beineckes borrowed a friend’s cottage in ‘Sconset. So began a lifelong love affair with Nantucket that would change the island forever.
ot much of a beachgoer, Beinecke
of Nantucket that landed him in the pages
enjoyed walking around down-
of Time and Life, earned him lunch with
town, admiring the vestiges of Nantucket’s
President Lyndon Johnson and made him
bygone era when there were more million-
a household name on the island—for better
aires on Orange Street than Wall Street.
and for worse.
Beinecke himself was a millionaire, the
Strolling the streets of downtown Nan-
heir to the S&H Green Stamp fortune that
tucket today, one can easily be seduced into
his father and uncles took control over in
thinking that this is how it’s always looked,
the early 1920s. “Although known as a
an island pristinely preserved in time. But
rich young kid, he never acted the part, and
that’s not the case. After the collapse of the
was always very generous,” wrote Barbara
whaling industry, Nantucket spiraled into a
Bennett, a childhood friend who later be-
depression. The docks were splintered and
came his personal assistant.
many stores were shuttered, so the Gray
Despite his pedigree, Beinecke grew
Lady chased tourism as its new white whale.
up to be a self-motivated entrepreneur, not
Fearing that Nantucket would lose its
only working for his family business, but
charm to the onslaught of penny-pinching
also sailing as a Merchant Marine, running a
day-trippers, Beinecke took it upon him-
said in Time magazine in July 1968, “In-
ranch in Florida, and starting a bank services
self to shape the island toward becoming
stead of selling six postcards and two hot
company among other businesses. But of all
a world-class resort destination that would
dogs, you have to sell a hotel room and a
his ventures, it was Beinecke’s development
attract wealthy visitors. As he famously
couple of sports coats.”
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White Elephant, Zero Main Street and what is today the Nantucket Boat Basin. He restored historic homes, landmarks and churches, many in dramatic fashion. When the Congregational church needed a new steeple, Beinecke had a replica built off-island and helicoptered over—all on his own dime. His efforts did not go unnoticed. Capping a slew of accolades, Ronald Reagan awarded him the President’s Historic Preservation Award. “The Nantucket we see today is largely the vision of Walter Beinecke, Jr.,” says Michael May, the executive director of the Nantucket Preservation Foundation. “He was one of the first businessmen in the country to understand that historic preservation was an asset to a community that if embraced would strengthen the local economy.”
einecke had real estate development in his blood. His grandfather was a German immigrant who landed in New York City at the age of nineteen in 1865. In fifteen short years, Bernhard Beinecke went from driving a meat wagon to becoming one of the most powerful names in the meat packing industry. Eventually, he owned the largest stockyard in New York City. While shipping his meats to the city’s many hotels, Bernhard Beinecke spotted another opportunity. Much like his grandson would do on Nantucket decades later, Bernhard began buying up hotels, turning them into iconic landmarks that came to define the cityscape. The Park Plaza, once described as the “most elegant hotel in America,” became the crown jewel of his empire. By the time Walter Beniecke, Jr. stepped foot on Nantucket in 1923, his family’s impact on New York City could be seen from the Hudson River to Park Avenue. Unlike his grandfather’s approach, preservation became N magazine
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founded the Nantucket Historical Trust, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the historical integrity of the island’s architecture. After purchasing an 1832 mansion at 72 Main Street, Beinecke’s Historical Trust went on to acquire and preserve such architectural landmarks as the Jared Coffin House, The
Hand-in-hand with his preservation efforts was Beinecke’s vision of turning Nantucket into an enclave for the wealthy, rather than a cheap retreat for day-trippers. To execute this vision, he bought up 80 percent of the commercial space in town and squeezed out mom-and-pop shops by jacking up rents and replacing them with quaint storefronts. He rebuilt the docks to be more appealing to yachters and pressured ferries to raise their rates while also decreasing their passengers. By July of 1968, Beinecke controlled two of the three gas stations, five inns, the majority of downtown stores and a sprawling landmass that he put into conservation. Nantucket quickly became more expensive and more exclusive.
Not surprisingly, Beinecke earned himself detractors. Many native Nantucketers argued that his growing monopoly over island real estate was pricing them out of town and shuttering locally owned shops that couldn’t afford to pay his exorbitant rents. In the summer of tensions around his endeavors ran high: “I have wondered what would have happened to me or Nantucket…if I had a full-time career here. I would have driven everybody in town crazy if I had been able to last it out myself.” Still others argued that even if Beinecke was making the cost of living more expensive, he was preventing the island from falling to the fates of other garish tourist traps like Coney Island.
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1967, some locals took to wearing buttons that read “NO MAN IS AN ISLAND” and “BAN THE B.” Beinecke himself admitted that
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n 1987, Beinecke sold off his Nantucket properties to the First Winthrop Corporation for $55 million. He passed away seventeen
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Millie Written by Marie-Claire Rochat
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Harbormaster Sheila Lucey keeps the tradition of women on the water afloat on Nantucket. Nantucket’s Harbormaster has a million-dollar view from her office. To the east and west lies the dinghy-strewn stretch of beach along Washington Street, while straight out her window, Town Pier reaches out into the harbor. There could be no better place for Sheila Lucey to hang her pink baseball cap every day. “I have always been connected to the water,” she says. “It’s all I know…it’s all I’ve ever done.” Lucey’s words echo those of the legendary Coast Guardswoman “Madaket” Millie Jewett, who patrolled the west end of the island for more than seventy years. The parallels between the two abound, from a love of animals to a fierce loyalty to the people of the island. What was said of Millie—that she could “fish with the best of them and handle any sort of craft in almost any type of blow”—can be said of Lucey, whose cumulative thirty-three years of service on the water have made her legs more worthy of the sea than of the land. Lucey came to know Nantucket as a young Coast Guardswoman while stationed in Chatham. “I would come over to paint the lighthouses and work on the buoys,” she says. When the position of senior chief at Station Brant Point opened up in 2002, Lucey applied for the job. “It was a dream come true when I got it because I had always loved coming out to Nantucket,” she says. “I knew it would be a really exciting and busy job, because everything and everybody has to come by or over the water to get here. The water is the lifeline. It’s a N magazine
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s head of the station, Lucey came to appreciate the bond between Nantucketers and her Coasties. “It is like nothing I had ever seen before in my career,” she says. “It was and still is a privilege to serve the people of this island.” When Lucey was faced with the prospect of being re-assigned in 2007, she opted to retire from the Coast Guard after twenty-four years of service to stay on Nantucket. She then became the assistant harbormaster, and five years later, the harbormaster. “The job was perfect for me. It was very similar to what I had been doing, but on a smaller scale,” she says.
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Maintenance and administrative duties consume the bulk of Lucey’s time in the winter, but she runs pretty much non-stop from April through October. Her staff swells from one to sixty, and her routine becomes as regimented as it was when she was in command of the station. Yet, at any moment, she is ready to drop everything when a distress call comes in. N magazine
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rescued a young man who was clinging for his life to a buoy in Polpis Harbor after his waders filled with water. Other calls, however, are more humorous.
“Last year, we received a report of a boat that had run aground in Warrens Landing,” Lucey remembers. “We went out to check, and the boater started speaking to us in French. His boat was registered in the US, so I asked him if he spoke English. He said he did. I asked him what happened, and he told me that he had left New York two days earlier and was headed to Belgium. He thought that he had landed on some ‘land mass’ off the coast of Belgium. I told him he was on Nantucket. He was surprised and didn’t really believe me until I showed him on his GPS. We talked him into returning to New York and advised that he gain a little more experience before attempting a transatlantic passage.” Once Lucey received a call from an inexperienced boater who was lost in the Head of the Harbor. When she asked him to identify some landmarks so that she could pinpoint his location, the man responded that he was under the moon. With a smile and a shrug, it’s all in a day’s work for Sheila Lucey. Nantucket’s waters have been under her vigilant watch for so many years that it is hard to imagine Lucey ever leaving her post, but she is contemplating retirement. While she says she will never leave the island for good, she likes the idea of spending the winter in a place where the fish bite in January. Of course, much like Madaket Millie, Sheila Lucey will never truly relinquish her sense of duty to the people of Nantucket.
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Local Designer Audrey Sterk takes her eye for beauty to the high seas
Hinckleys are often called the Rolls Royces of the yachting world. But this winter, for islander Audrey Sterk, one of these luxury pleasure cruisers became a blank canvas for her unique designs. When Tim Barton and Doug Gray, the men behind Barton & Gray Mariners Club, decided to redesign the interiors of their Hinckley fleet, Sterk added her name to a short list of elite designers vying for the job. “I lived on a boat for four years in the Nantucket Harbor, so I have a little boating under my belt,� she says.
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fter graduating college, Sterk dropped anchor on Nantucket, living aboard a thirty-foot 1950’s era Richardson moored off Town Pier. With a handful of brushes and paints, Sterk started her interior design career by going door to door offering her services. “One small job led to another,” she says. Twenty-one years later, Sterk has designed some of the most spectacular spaces on Nantucket. From her studio on 18 Broad Street alone, she can point to her work at Mitchell’s Book Store, Station 21, and the much-anticipated Greydon House.
Landing the Barton & Gray gig offered a unique opportunity to take her designs to the high seas. “I really wanted to use primary colors, because I feel like this boat brings you back to the basics,” she says. “It’s classic.” Fusing a vibrant mix of blues, reds and yellows with custom fabrics and prints, Sterk has created a space alive with movement and feeling, all the while still maintaining the integrity of the Hinckley brand. “I wanted to do something a little different,” Sterk explains as she enters the ship’s head, where she designed a dramatic mural stretching over all four walls of the tiny yet luxurious bathroom. The scene depicts a whaling hunt reminiscent of the moment the white whale infamously stove the Essex. No doubt, Melville would have felt right at home on this throne. Sterk’s mural was painted in conjunction with local artist David Lazarus, and the scene is repeated on throw pillows on the deck and in the master bedroom.
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gave it a better feel.” Doug Gray agrees, “If we had to choose a décor for all our boats, this would be it—and that’s not just a line. That’s for real.” Now at the ready for its next excursion, this Hinckley is docked by the White Elephant, joining the fleets that crowd the harbor come summertime. But if you look a little closer the next time you stroll by, you’ll see why there’s nothing else like it on the water. And that’s exactly what Audrey Sterk was fishing for.
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Examining the Building Boom’s Potential Impact on Nantucket’s Drinking Water Supply.
Until recently, it’s been easy for the average American to take clean drinking water for granted. However, incidents like the drought in California and the Flint, Michigan water crisis have put our country on high alert, prompting the White House and other organizations to pledge over $5 billion this past spring toward protecting the nation’s water supply.
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Along with thousands of pri- three times. “Most of June, July and August, the vately drilled wells, Nan- pumps don’t stop,” says Wannacomet’s engineer, tucket’s drinking water is Mark Willett. “They run twenty-four hours a day, pumped primarily from seven days a week.” two plentiful aquifers,
Fifteen years ago, pumping more than three
the deepest of which is million gallons per day was unthinkable, but this located 150 feet below July and August, Willett believes that Wannacomet the surface. The aquifers will pump well over four million gallons per day. were created over 50,000 Will the well ever run dry? “The amount of water years ago during the last gla- we have is amazing,” he says. “There is a surplus ciation period, what’s known as every year.” Look no further than Monomoy to the Wisconsin Glaciation. witness just how much water we have below our Many people mistakenly feet. At low tide, water pours onto the beach, and believe that the aquifers are somehow connected terns, ducks and gulls flock to drink it. “Birds don’t to an underground river that runs fresh water from drink salt water,” Willett explains. “Our bowl is the White Mountains of New Hampshire. In real- full; that’s fresh water going out on the beach.” ity, the aquifers are replenished by rain water that’s purified by the island’s sandy soil.
Despite this seeming overabundance, the longterm sustainability of the island’s drinking water
Since the early 1900s, the Wannacomet Water should not be taken for granted. The building boom Company has tapped into these aquifers, and now in the last three years has put unprecedented prespumps upwards of 4.2 million gallons of water sure on the aquifers. “It’s not a matter of if we have per day in the summer. That’s enough water to fill enough water,” Willett says. “It’s matter of how do
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up and no end to new construction in sight, Wil-
the years to come. “We’re getting to a point where
lett and his team have been forced to engineer new
we really need to start paying attention,” Willett
pump systems to meet this growing demand.
says. “In five or ten years, maybe the Planning
This spring, the United States Geological Survey
Board and HDC aren’t the first places you go when
was on the island using geophysics to create new
you’re talking about subdivisions. Maybe the first
models that simulate the increased pump rates in
place you should go is the water department.”
tamination. “The growth is a little scary
Water-related diseases are a global killer,
because with that comes the fertilizers
claiming millions of lives every year.
and the different uses on the property,”
Meanwhile, companies like Nestlé have
Willett explains. Extreme nitrogen load-
targeted this precious natural resource as
ing in the harbors and ponds due largely
a valuable commodity, aggressively bot-
to fertilizers might be harbingers of fu-
tling it up from our nation’s aquifers to
Beyond the increased pressure on the
ture threats to the aquifer if Nantucket is
sell later. Surrounded by water and with
pumps, Nantucket’s construction boom
not watchful. “As more and more people
a seemingly endless source literally surg-
could also have repercussions for the pris-
are here, the threat increases for any type
ing from the ground, Nantucket can seem
tine quality of the aquifer’s water. “People
of contamination,” says Willett. “A fuel
a world away from the global water cri-
don’t realize that the quality of our water is
truck could roll over on Milestone near
sis. But when considering the unknown
actually better than bottled water,” Willett
our wells, for instance.”
growth in the island’s population to
says. “Some of the scientists we’ve been
Two billion people don’t have access
working with think we’re tapped into what
to clean drinking water around the world.
come, one must wonder is our glass half full or half empty?
might be Wisconsin Glacial wash, which is 10,000-year-old pure water.” The island serves as a giant sand filter, cleaning and treating the rain water that seeps through the ground. Once this purified rain reaches the aquifer, it is then protected from the up-coning of salt water by layers of clay. These unique conditions yield water with ideal PH levels—between 7.5 and 7.6— nated at all. However, the increase in construction also increases the chances of con-
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According to recent polls, Charlie Baker has emerged as the most popular governor in the country, winning praise from both sides of the aisle. Cast in the mold of former governors William Weld and Francis Sargent, Baker is seen as a true “Massachusetts Republican.” Before his visit to Nantucket this July, Governor Baker spoke to N Magazine about his policies, his history of bipartisanship and his thoughts on the presidency.
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N Magazine: What were your impressions of the island when you first visited Nantucket?
Gov. Baker: The main impression I came away with was the beauty of the shoreline and the incredible job people have done preserving a lot of green space all over the island. My wife and I took our kids there when they were little. We spent the week doing the stuff that families do: we went to the beach, out to dinner, to the movies. We just really enjoyed the island.
N Magazine: Despite how idyllic Nantucket appears, the island suffers from a lot of the same problems as the rest of Massachusetts. One of the direst problems is a shortage of middle-market housing. What would you recommend to address the island’s housing crisis?
Gov. Baker: One of the things that drives the price of housing is supply. If a big part of the island is undevelopable, then almost by definition you’re going to start with constraints around supply. We struggle with the same issue in big chunks of Eastern Massachusetts. One of the things we’re in the process of doing here in Greater Boston is working with local communities to see if we can take state-owned property and make that available for developThe lucky charm Gov. Baker has carried with him nearly every day in office.
ment purposes at deeply discounted rates. There are three big things that drive the price of housing: land, time and construction costs. Our goal is to make state property available to then be used for development purposes and to get a commitment from locals that they’ll do something to speed up the permitting processes. I haven’t done the homework N magazine
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erty—whether it’s ours or Nantucket’s—we’d be perfectly happy to talk to people about putting that to work.
N Magazine: You’ve been deeply involved in addressing the opi-
Going forward they are going to make training around the use
ate epidemic. It’s a significant problem on Nantucket as well.
of pain medication and addiction the core competency to gradu-
What’s the primary thrust of your efforts?
ate from medical school and dental school. That was never true
Gov. Baker: This is an issue everywhere. I would say to folks on
before. We’re going to mandate that people who are prescribers
Nantucket that you are not alone if you are dealing with this.
have to take in-service and continuing education in this area,
We brought a task force in
which has never happened before. And we got a
shortly after we took of-
law passed earlier this year that limits first time
fice and put together four
prescriptions to seven days. There’s just been
big categories of recom-
way too many thirty, sixty, ninety-day prescrip-
mendations:
prevention
tions written for stuff where it just doesn’t even
and education, interven-
come close to making the case for it. On each of
tion, treatment and recov-
these initiatives the goal here is to do what we
ery. Administratively and
can to prevent [addiction] from happening in the
legislatively, we’ve been
first place.
seeing solutions in all of those categories since I took office. On the prevention education piece, the healthcare community has been way too casual about this stuff. We’ve been very aggressive about both medical schools and the dental schools in Massachusetts.
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N Magazine: Switching to politics, your popularity in the state on both sides of the aisle is exceedingly high. What messages would you send to Washington to help narrow the divide between the factions that appear in this country?
Gov. Baker: As an administration we said we were going to be bipartisan, and if you look at our cabinet, our cabinet is about half Democrats, half Republicans and some independents. I believe they’re the right people for the job in terms of their skills and their experience. We didn’t spend letter at the end of their name.
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The second thing is you have to be
mode. It’s all about the six o’clock news and
career technical schools. We actually just an-
willing to work on your relationships. It’s no
who wins the next day’s headlines. They re-
nounced last week a collaborative commit-
different here than it is in friendships or mar-
ally think about this as winning and losing
ment with the state’s community colleges,
riage. [Lieutenant Governor] Karyn Polito
every day. If you think about it that way, it’s
state universities and UMass that will reduce
and I work on our relationships with our col-
going to completely screw up your ability
the cost of attending. I am very focused on
leagues in the legislature and our colleagues
to play the long game and think about what
creating opportunities for the next genera-
in local government a lot. We don’t spend a
you’re really trying to accomplish.
tion of young people. This isn’t just about the next generation of scientists and doctors; this
lot of time worrying about party affiliation
N Magazine: Were you
is about creating opportunities for people to
predisposed to bipar-
get the skills that they need to be successful
tisanship?
in an increasingly technologically sophisti-
Gov. Baker: My mom
cated economy.
is a Democrat; my dad is a Republican.
N Magazine: You’ve made your position known
They’ve been unbe-
on the presidential field relative to your dis-
lievably happily mar-
comfort for both candidates. No matter who
ried for over sixty
wins at this point, it doesn’t seem like Mas-
years. I grew up lis-
sachusetts, or at least the governor’s office
tening to them argue
is going to be terribly well-positioned. Any
about politics across
thoughts on the impact of who ends up in the
the dinner table. One
White House relative to you?
of the big things I
Gov. Baker: Who’s in the White House matters
learned is you can
a lot to me, but what ultimately matters most
disagree without be-
is who ends up in some of those key cabinet
ing
positions. Those are the people you typically
disagreeable. nobody’s
end up dealing with most on the state level.
got the corner on all
If you were to ask me how much face time
the answers. The fi-
or phone time I’ve had with President Obama
nal thing I would say
or Vice President Biden, the answer would be
is that you have to be
“not much.” But if you were to ask me how
soft on the people and
much time I’ve spent with various members of
tough on the issues.
their cabinet working on transportation, human
Secondly,
services and community development, the an-
N Magazine: Massachu-
swer would be “quite a bit.”
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front of the robotic
N Magazine: Massachusetts has a long history
revolution. A lot of
of governors getting Potomac fever very ear-
people are concerned
ly in their terms. Are you at least curious as
about the social con-
to what life is like politically beyond being
sequences of an en-
governor of Massachusetts?
tire working class of
Gov. Baker: No, I’m very much a Massachu-
when we’re trying to solve problems and
people who could actually be displaced by
setts person. I’m very focused on what goes
come up with good ideas. Campaigns are
robots. Have you given any thought this?
on here. I don’t have interest in, or aspirations
about contests, but governing is about the
Gov. Baker: Not so much specifically robotics,
for, higher office. This is the job, and I think I
work.
but I have thought a lot about the whole is-
would be a better governor if I just focus on
sue of job displacement. That’s one of the
what matters here. The minute you start look-
N Magazine: Why doesn’t Washington adopt
reasons why we have been hugely focused
ing over your shoulder about how a decision
this thinking?
on skill-building. I think we’re the first ad-
might affect your success nationally, you start
Gov. Baker: One of the big problems Washing-
ministration that’s ever proposed to make a
not making the best decision for the Common-
ton has is they are in permanent campaign
major investment in the Commonwealth’s
wealth. I’m never going to go there.
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Diving deep into one of the world’s most diverse marine habitats off the shores of Nantucket.
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eventy-five miles due south of Nantucket lies Atlantis, the nearest point of the fabled fishing grounds known collectively as the Canyons. Here the Atlantic plummets abruptly off the continental shelf from six hundred to six thousand feet, and fishermen can encounter more species of marine life than almost anywhere else on the planet. Hammerheads hunt in the tropical water. Schools of yellow fin tuna flee the attacks of blue marlin. Dolphin, mola mola, mahi mahi, manta ray, sperm whales and the largest fish in existence, the 41,000-pound whale shark, slip in and out of the depths. The Canyons are a magical underwater vortex, at once on Nantucket’s radar, and yet also completely off the charts. “It’s one of the last great adventures,” says Eric Savetsky, who’s been seduced by the Canyons for more than fifteen years. “You take off from the dock and you don’t think about anything until you’re back rounding Brant Point.” As much as his schedule as the executive director of the Nantucket Land Bank will allow during the summer, Savetsky launches his thirty-six-foot lobster boat Endurance at dusk and motors through the night to reach the Canyons by daybreak. But unlike the fleets of commercial fishermen he may find there, Eric Savetsky burns thousands of dollars of diesel not to catch fish, but to swim with them.
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moved out to Nantucket because it had great access to the ocean, but I had no idea how good it was,” Savetsky says, dragging a finger across a chart. “If you look at the geography, we’re the absolute closest point to all the canyons here off Georges Banks.” During the last ice age, the edge of the continental shelf represented the shoreline. When the ice melted and receded, the continental shelf became a hard depth line, the deepest points of which are the canyons. “The canyons vary in size, shape and morphological complexity,” write Professor Steve Ross and Dr. Sandra Brooke in a study published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “Some were scoured by the flow of rivers during past low sea level periods, but most formed via other erosional processes, such as mudslides, debris flows, and turbidity currents.” Of all the canyons running along the Eastern Seaboard from Florida to Maine, the thirteen off Cape Cod are the least known. And Eric Savetsky is one of the only people out there diving in them. “It’s all new exploration,” says island native and professional diver Ben Phillips, one of the few people with enough diving experience and sheer moxie to enter the canyons with Savetsky. “There are very few places that are untouched, that people haven’t really explored,” Phillips says. “And this is definitely one of those spots. Eric is probably the first person to ever document this stuff.” Phillips has spent most of his adult life traveling around the world in search of the most diverse diving, only to find that it was in his backyard this whole time. Now
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teaming from Nantucket in the middle of the night, Savetsky and Phillips target both physical structure and thermal structure in the canyons to determine their dive locations. Within a stone’s throw, the water goes from murky green to gin-clear, from a cool fifty degrees to a tropical eighty. The Gulf Stream runs about a hundred miles from the continental shelf, creating warm eddies in the canyons, which churn up nutrients for bait fish to feed on. And where there’s bait fish, there tends to be bigger fish. “You never know what you’re going to see,” Savetsky says. “From something as rare as a whale shark to a thousand common dolphin as far as the eye can see. Or you could see nothing at all. Fishermen have characterized trolling out there as endless hours of boredom broken up by brief periods of pandemonium.”
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f course, the more immediate dangers that come to mind are large predators. The canyons are home to a variety of sharks—makos, tigers, hammerheads. Once, Savetsky was diving with twenty hammerhead sharks along with another dive partner named Tom Burns. The sharks were swarming around the two men, forcing them to swivel continuously in the water to prevent the predators from sneaking up from behind. Suddenly, Savetsky turned again in the water to find a four-hundred-pound tiger shark swimming right at them out of nowhere. “He came six or eight feet away, then turned and left,” Savetsky remembers. “Tiger sharks have a reputation. Great whites, bull sharks, and tigers are the top three man-eaters, if you want to call them that.”
For the average landlubber, appreciating the different motivations of these men might be a challenge. It may seem
that they’re spending thousands of dollars, motoring away their vacation days and risking their lives for nothing more than a handful of photos. But Savetsky and Phillips are driven by the bigger picture. “From what I’ve seen internationally, it’s a pretty dire situation,” says Phillips. “The ocean does not have a very good future, but this is an area where change can still happen. The last thing I want to see is our waters fall to the same fate as I’ve seen around the world. So it’s very important to document this stuff and get people on board to help preserve it and protect it.” N magazine
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COLD
CASE Written by Jason Graziadei
Reopening one of Nantucket’s greatest unsolved mysteries: The disappearance of Dr. Margaret Kilcoyne
Few people on Nantucket remember her name all these years later, but for those that do, Margaret Kilcoyne is an enigma. She was a brilliant doctor with horn-rimmed glasses. A loner who built her summer home in a secluded corner of the island. A devout Catholic who believed she was facing a spiritual test. A fiercely competitive researcher of hypertension with delusions of grandeur. A fiftyyear-old physician with, perhaps, her own undiagnosed psychiatric disorder. But then she was simply the woman who vanished. The disappearance of Dr. Margaret Mary Kilcoyne on a frigid Nantucket night in January 1980 remains one of the island’s great unsolved mysteries. It is a cold case with no definitive answers or explanations, and it still haunts the Nantucketers who were responsible for finding her. To this day, they don’t agree on what exactly happened to Kilcoyne that night. And the curious circumstances both before and after her disappearance have never fully been explained. “The whole thing, right from the beginning, was strange,” says retired Nantucket Police Department captain George Rezendes, one of the lead investigators of the case. “You’d have to say it was just bizarre from the beginning.” When Dr. Kilcoyne made her fateful final trip to Nantucket thirty-six years ago, she was telling her friends and family that she had made a significant medical discovery that would win her a Nobel Prize. An assistant professor of medicine at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kilcoyne left her laboratory in New York City flying high and planned to unwind and celebrate with a brief getaway to the island. She was met on Nantucket by her brother Leo, an executive with IBM in Canada. On the evening of January 25, 1980, she dined at her home in Tom Nevers with Leo and two friends,
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Nantucket residents Richard and Grace Coffin. They were the last people to ever see Dr. Kilcoyne.
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he next morning Leo Kilcoyne called the Nantucket Police Department at 7:15 a.m. to report that his sister was missing. Her winter coat, boots, wristwatch and purse had been left behind in the home, but Dr. Kilcoyne was nowhere to be found. An extensive search began almost immediately, as police officers scoured the acres of dense scrub oak that surrounded Kilcoyne’s home, as well as Tom Nevers
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island. But nothing turned up. There were
to assist the search team on the ground, which had grown to include State Police troopers and
no footprints or anything to indicate where
island firefighters. For two days they searched Nantucket with forty-five public safety person-
she might have gone.
nel who covered the entire east end of the island on foot, checking unoccupied houses and even
The island authorities checked in at
sending divers into Tom Nevers Pond before the effort was called off on January 28th. Rezendes
the airport and the Steamship Authority to
continued to check the beach for Kilcoyne every morning over the next few days, but he and
see if she had left on a departing flight or
other investigators found no signs of foul play and concluded that the doctor must have commit-
ferry. They stopped by Nantucket Cottage
ted suicide by walking into the Atlantic Ocean.
Hospital on the chance she had been ad-
The first mention of Kilcoyne’s disappearance in the press came on January 31, 1980 when
mitted. Still, nothing. The search expanded
The Inquirer and Mirror published a brief story about the doctor going missing and the subse-
into the moors, cranberry bogs and out to
quent search. The article appeared on page eleven of that week’s newspaper. “She was a brilliant
Polpis and Sankaty. By noon that day, a
lady, a lady on her own, and she just disappeared,” said former Massachusetts State Police Troop-
Coast Guard helicopter had been called in
er Jack McGrady, who assisted the island police department with the Kilcoyne investigation. “It
was very strange, very unusual.” As the calendar turned to February 1980, Kilcoyne’s disappearance might have faded
ered the story for The Inquirer and Mirror as
island in an effort to get her some
a cub reporter. “It definitely wasn’t your usual
psychiatric help. Kilcoyne’s mental state and what
missing persons case.”
into memory as an unfortunate but relatively
Leads began pouring in as the story spread,
unremarkable missing persons case, but a
and alleged sightings of Kilcoyne were report-
days before her disappearance became a fo-
discovery just a short distance away from
ed on Cape Cod and in Boston. Nantucket po-
cal point of the investigation. She had indeed
her home in Tom Nevers was about to turn
lice officers and the town prosecutor, the late
made comments and behaved in a manner
the investigation on its head and make it a
Bob Mooney, chased down those leads and
that raised eyebrows among some of her col-
national story. On Feb. 3rd, just over a week
followed up on the sightings. They travelled
leagues and friends. Richard and Grace Cof-
after Kilcoyne vanished, Nantucketers David
to New York City to search Kilcoyne’s apart-
fin described her to police as being “hyper”
sandals, along with her wallet containing a
ment and interview her colleagues at the Co-
the day before she disappeared. Investigators
single one hundred dollar bill. The items were
lumbia College of Physicians and Surgeons.
discovered that Kilcoyne had also taken a taxi
found in plain sight in an area about a mile
But they continued to come up empty even as
to the former A&P in downtown Nantucket
northeast of Kilcoyne’s home that had already
they learned more about the woman they were
that day and purchased $645 worth of grocer-
been thoroughly searched a week earlier. The
seeking.
ies and $200 in liquor—huge sums in 1980—
some considered strange behavior in the
Cocker and Lisa Ladd were out running their dog along with two friends visiting from Cape Cod when they spotted something in the Philips Run swamp area east of Tom Nevers Road. Neatly piled at the edge of a clearing they found Kilcoyne’s passport, savings book, and
unsettling discovery prompted another full-
Kilcoyne’s disappearance became the
scale search of the area by law enforcement
talk of the town on Nantucket and the fascina-
officers, firefighters and volunteers. About 150
tion of the press, both on-island and off. “In
Police also learned that while she was
yards away from the neat pile of the doctor’s
the middle of winter, it captured the island’s
on her way to Nantucket, Kilcoyne made a
belongings, search teams found a brown, long
imagination and it became gossip driven and
pit stop in Connecticut where she approached
sleeved blouse in the scrub oak that was later
very salacious in a way that I look back on
a stranger, 26-year-old Andrea Prin-
allegedly for a party she planned to host in order to announce her medical discovery.
cipe, as she was getting off work. Kilcoyne told Principe that she was a “nervous wreck” and asked the woman if she knew of a hotel in the identified as belonging to Kilcoyne. The new
now and think where was the compassion and
area. They proceeded to a
developments forced investigators to recon-
empathy for this woman?” said former island
nearby Marriot together, and
sider their initial conclusions and led many to
resident Rosie Ruley, who was a student at
Kilcoyne was so appreciative
believe that something other than suicide was
Nantucket High School at the time Kilcoyne
that she invited Principe to have
afoot.
went missing. Ruley has since spent years
dinner with her. Kilcoyne purchased an ex-
“We had gone through that swamp,” said
researching Kilcoyne’s disappearance and is
pensive bottle of wine and spoke of her “ma-
former Nantucket fire chief Bruce Watts, who
writing a fictional book based on the case.
jor” medical discovery as they dined. Prin-
took part in the search for Kilcoyne. “To me,
“Maybe she did make her way to the beach
cipe later told police that Kilcoyne started a
it felt like a set up.” On February 7th, the case
and walked into the ocean,” Ruley said. “But
conversation with the waitress, and even of-
made the front page of The Inquirer and Mir-
my biggest problem was how quickly people
fered her a job in her laboratory in New York.
ror with the news of Kilcoyne’s newly found
bought into that theory.”
When they learned that there
belongings and the renewed search effort. The
The theory that Dr. Kilcoyne had com-
story kicked off a period of frenzied media at-
mitted suicide by walking into the ocean in
hotel, Principe invited
tention including coverage by Boston news-
the midst of some type of mental breakdown
Kilcoyne to spend the
papers and television stations, along with The
emerged just a few short hours after she went
night at her home. She
New York Times, the Associated Press and
missing, and was first put forward by her
awoke the next morn-
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brother Leo. He told Nantucket police that
ing at 5:30 a.m. to find
explanation,” said former Nantucket resi-
his sister was “very upset and in a somewhat
that Kilcoyne was already
dent and writer Gary Holmes, who cov-
confused state,” and that he had come to the
gone.
was no vacancy at the
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hen there was the tape recording that
also noted that “Hunter said Dr. Kilcoyne’s
turned up at Kilcoyne’s home the
close friends and relatives found nothing
day she went missing. The tape contained
unusual with her talking about being on
nearly two hours of a telephone conversa-
a higher spiritual plane or receiving mes-
tion between Kilcoyne and her brother in
sages from her dead sister-in-law.”
which only her side of the conversation
As Dr. Rosamond Kane, a former col-
can be heard. In a rambling stream of con-
league of Kilcoyne, told New York Maga-
sciousness, Kilcoyne spoke of her medical
zine in 1980, “That’s why I can’t figure this
research, the “prominence” and “power”
whole thing out. Because it can’t have been
she could wield from her discovery. She
suicide. Tell me someone has committed
spoke, too, of her belief that both she and
suicide and I’ll say, ‘Well, yes, maybe he
Leo were being spiritually tested and said
was depressed. Or worried about some-
that she had received a message from his
thing the rest of us didn’t know about.’ But
late wife, Julie. Many of her comments on
not Margaret.”
the recording were downright bizarre and
Ruley, who has actually had an op-
of Vermont Medical School, where she
difficult to decipher. But then again, some
portunity to listen to the recorded telephone
graduated with an MD in 1964. She prac-
of her closest colleagues said that’s how
conversation, is unconvinced that it indicat-
ticed and excelled in the then male domi-
Kilcoyne always talked.
ed a woman in a manic episode or someone
nated field of medicine and earned a pres-
potentially suicidal. To others, including a
on the verge of suicide. “It didn’t sound to
tigious post at a leading academic medical
few of her friends, it simply sounded like
me like someone unhinged,” she said. “It
center. At fifty years old, she was unmarried
the Dr. Margaret Kilcoyne they knew.
was someone concerned and upset about
and owned apartments in New York and
“They said it was a typical conversation,
something that she cared about.”
Boston, as well as the house on Nantucket.
The tape was found by Leo Kilcoyne in his sister’s Tom Nevers home and delivered to Trooper McGrady. To some, it represented the last words of a woman suffering from a manic episode who was
Kilcoyne’s alleged strange be-
In the years before her disappearance,
havior in the days leading up to her
Dr. Kilcoyne kept a relatively low profile
disappearance, Ruley believes, might
on the island. She had purchased the se-
simply be a case of misinterpretation
cluded property in Tom Nevers in August
on the part of investigators and those
1970. At that time, Tom Nevers was largely
she encountered. The $600 shopping
undeveloped, a wasteland of scrub oak no-
spree? For a woman who had a sum-
table only for the Navy Base that was still
mer house on Nantucket, shopping at
in operation and the Kennedy bunker, a rel-
the A&P in the winter probably meant
ic of the Cold War and Camelot. In October
finding bargains on items she wanted
1972, The Inquirer and Mirror noted that
to stock up on.
Dr. Kilcoyne had been approved to build a 1,456 square-foot home on Parsons Lane.
er through a different lens, it becomes
Four years later, she was named president
a different story,” Ruley said. “It be-
of the newly formed Tom Nevers Head
comes a story about a woman who
Civic Association. The only note of contro-
was misunderstood by the people who
versy in her adopted summer home came
were trying to find her. If you take the
in 1977 when Dr. Kilcoyne joined twelve
whole narrative with a different lens,
other Tom Nevers property owners in filing
she wasn’t crazy, she was different
a class action lawsuit against a developer,
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“When you start putting it togeth-
with rapid fire talking where you couldn’t get a word in edgewise,” then-Nantucket
She was, certainly, a woman ahead of
Police chief Paul Hunter told The Inquir-
the times in which she lived. Kilcoyne was
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er and Mirror in March 1980. The article
the first woman accepted to the University
from the prevailing culture.”
Albert W. Seifert, who had received approval for a four-lot subdivision abutting her home. Jumping into the Kilcoyne case nearly
forty years after the fact was like entering an episode of the Twilight Zone that just happened to have taken place on Nantucket. As I went farther and farther down the rabbit hole of her disappearance, the strange coincidences and twists in the case continued to accrue and grew more baffling. For starters, Kilcoyne never reappeared on the island or elsewhere, and her body was never found. There is no explanation for how her belongings and blouse showed up a week after she went missing in an area of the island that had already been searched. And the deeper you dive, the more implausible coincidences you find. Take, for instance: • In the week after she went • The Nantucket Police De- • Nantucket police eventu-
• And to top it off, I submitted a Freedom of Informa-
missing, a search plane
partment’s lead investiga-
ally brought in a psychic to
piloted by island resident
tor in the case, Paul Hunt-
assist in the case.
Bob Garrabrant crashed
er, started his new job as
tucket Police Department
as it was scanning Tom
police chief on the island
for the case files on the
Nevers for any sign of
the very day Kilcoyne went
Kilcoyne investigation. As
Kilcoyne (luckily, Garra-
missing.
it turns out, the records are
brant survived).
tion Act request to the Nan-
missing, too. The case files, Lt. Jerry Adams said, disappeared several years after the initial investigation.
island, and thanks to a few sources willing to share them, I managed to get a peek at some of the missing documents. Perhaps the most intriguing was a pair of confidential reports dated March 9, 1980 and March 23, 1980, authored by Deputy Sheriff Peter Robbins of the Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office, Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
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But, as I found out, that didn’t mean the records were unobtainable. Copies of the lost case files were still floating around the
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of the testing reagents and the fact that no large
tion, said he still believes Kilcoyne is out there
masses of blood stains were found, it would ap-
somewhere, very much alive. “I feel Dr. Kilcoyne
pear, and it is the opinion of this officer, that each
was depressed but is still alive somewhere today
stain and/or positive reaction could have been
and that the suicide was staged between her and
produced under perfectly normal circumstances,”
her brother Leo,” Smith said. “That is why her
Robbins concluded in his report. The fact that the
things were found at a place that was already
According to his reports, Robbins travelled
dog had detected blood on the wall of Kilcoyne’s
searched…She probably was having some sort of
to Nantucket more than a month after Kilcoyne’s
bedroom, and that it had tested positive for the
mental breakdown and didn’t want to receive the
disappearance with K9 Zeus, a cadaver dog spe-
presence of blood, never made it into the press
prestigious award she was nominated to receive
cially trained to detect human remains. On both
reports about the case, and it is unclear what the
for her work. But I feel she is still alive and living
visits, the police dog was drawn to a wall in
authorities did to follow-up on this information.
in Canada or someplace under false identity.”
Kilcoyne’s bedroom, at one point even scratching
While authorities may not have believed that
McGrady, the state police trooper, offered an
and biting at the wall. Robbins then conducted a
the blood evidence was indicative of something
alternative scenario. “We found that a light air-
series of chemical tests using sodium chloride ir-
sinister, I found that some of the people directly
craft had left the island early that morning, before
rigation solution, as well as luminol solution, in
involved in the original investigation do not be-
the airport opened, and we don’t know where it
an effort to detect the presence of human blood –
lieve the prevailing theory that Kilcoyne, in the
came from, whose it was, or where it was going,”
remember, this was well before the days of DNA
midst of a manic episode, had walked into the
he said. “There was no record of it because the
evidence. But not only did the wall that got K9
ocean and committed suicide.
airport wasn’t open, and the FAA wasn’t working
Zeus’ attention show positive results for the pres-
“My theory for this whole thing, and I still
at the time. Look, I think she was a confused lady,
ence of blood, but so did the baseboard and floor
stick to it, is that she flew out undetected and went
and her brother came down to help her and he
below the wall, as well as the bathtub and bath-
somewhere and just disappeared,” said Watts, the
helped her get away from the island to get some
room sinks.
former fire chief. In fact, Watts once called the
[psychiatric] help.”
Robbins reported his findings to Nantucket police and Bob Mooney, but it appears the new
Kilcoyne case “the biggest scam ever perpetrated on this town.”
Even Rezendes, who told me right off the bat that Kilcoyne had simply “walked off” later
Former Nantucket Police officer Paul Smith,
revealed that in the decade that followed her
was the victim of foul play. “Due to the sensitivity
who was also involved in the Kilcoyne investiga-
disappearance he had entertained the possibil-
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Image recreated by Kit Noble.
ity that the conspiracy theories might be true.
quite quickly…And he left the island the next
When police tracked down the waitress who
“For years I kept an eye on the town report in
day. He plants a theory and leaves and is never
had served Dr. Kilcoyne in Connecticut as she
Worcester, where one of Kilcoyne’s brothers
really challenged on it. And he’s someone who
travelled to Nantucket before her disappearance,
lived, to see if her death certificate would ever
stood to gain from this.”
they found that Leo had called the woman the day
show up,” Rezendes said. “That [would prove]
Leo Kilcoyne filed a petition in Nantucket
after his sister went missing and was “intent on
her brother scooped her up and put her in an
Probate Court in June 1980, six months after his
convincing her that Margaret was very depressed
institute. I did that for ten years or so but noth-
sister’s disappearance, seeking to be appointed
and suicidal.” The woman, Susan Price, report-
ing ever showed up.”
the receiver of her property. A month later, the
edly told Leo “Mr. Kilcoyne, there is no way she
Earl Zimmerman, a neurologist who worked closely with Kilcoyne at the then-Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, dismisses such conjecture. At the time Kilcoyne went missing, Zimmerman was collaborating with her on a grant from the National Institutes of Health in which they were attempting to determine whether the human brain can regulate blood pressure through a peptide hormone called angiotensin. Their discovery in the weeks before her disappearance—that angiotensin was indeed present in the brain—was Kilcoyne’s crowning achievement in her research on hypertension. It was what led her to believe the Nobel Prize might be within her grasp. Today,
took her own life!”
Zimmerman behav-
Watts was somewhat skeptical too. “I would
ioral neurology in
put it this way: if it was my sister or brother who
Albany, New York.
disappeared, I would have been hysterical. It’s
When I reached
your kin, your blood, and I would have been
him by phone, he
frantic, getting everyone in, hiring private detec-
said that in the
tives. His actions were not the way I would have
years
reacted. Everyone reacts to situations differently
practices
since
colleague
his
but in my opinion, what can I say?”
disap-
peared, he began
Perhaps Leo Kilcoyne’s reaction was merely
to see the case in
his own way of dealing with his sister’s disap-
a different light as his research expanded to Al-
petition was granted and he took control of the
pearance. Or maybe he knew more than he was
zheimer’s and other dementias.
Nantucket home, along with his sister’s bank
letting on. But if he was holding any secrets, he
“In retrospect, I realized what happened to her
accounts, cars and other belongings. On July
took them to the grave. Leo Kilcoyne was killed
was really a medical tragedy,” Zimmerman said.
13, 1989, The Inquirer and Mirror’s front page
on June 20, 1992 when the car he was driving
“Since that time we’ve become aware in the field
headline announced: “Mystery ends, Kilcoyne
slammed into a guardrail on I-495, about a mile
that people can become psychotic at forty-five or
declared dead,” after Leo Kilcoyne’s second peti-
south of the Massachusetts Turnpike. Police told
fifty for the first time, and there’s a suspicion that
tion to have his sister declared legally deceased,
the Milford Daily News that he had fallen asleep
they have dementia. I think I now realize that I
was accepted by the court.
at the wheel. Leo Kilcoyne is gone now, as are many oth-
occasions when his behavior sticks out as un-
ers who once knew or searched for Margaret
Yet for Ruley, it’s not Dr. Kilcoyne’s actions in
usual. Don Smith, a friend and neighbor of Dr.
Kilcoyne on Nantucket. Island prosecutor Bob
the days leading up to her disappearance that de-
Kilcoyne on Nantucket, told police that he went
Mooney, former police chief Paul Hunter, and
serve the most scrutiny, but rather the subsequent
to see Leo after his sister had gone missing. “Leo
one of her few Nantucket friends Richard Coffin
behavior of her brother, Leo Kilcoyne. “Quite
seemed cold and more or less ignored him,” ac-
have all since passed away. The mystery of Dr.
quickly after her disappearance the brother start-
cording to a report written by Rezendes on Febru-
Kilcoyne’s disappearance may never be solved,
ed talking about suicide,” Ruley said. “I found
ary 15, 1980. “He did not ask Don about his visit
but it remains an intriguing chapter of Nantucket
that to be striking. If a loved one disappears, the
with Margaret on Thursday night even though
history that isn’t easily forgotten.
last thing you want it to be is that. But he got there
Don told him he had been over at that time.”
and presented this way.”
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The Almanack Arts Colony held its inaugural Songwriters program earlier this spring. For three weeks, five talented songwriters enjoyed an all-expenses paid opportunity to collaborate in a barn repurposed as a recording studio. “The colony fosters collaborations between
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When local builder Scott O’Connor came across a historic barn on a property he was developing on Polpis Road, he knew it had to be salvaged. “I felt awful tearing it down,” O’Connor says. “It has historical significance and would have been such a shame to demolish.” Built in the 1930s, the barn once held milk cows and was part of a series of other barns on the property. Back then, farmers frequently gathered at a nearby meeting house, what was known as the Polpis Farmers Institute. Instead of leveling this history, O’Connor moved the 18x50-foot barn to his property mid-island and turned it into a 3-bedroom dwelling. “It began as a hobby, working on it piece by piece,” he says, “but then I grew an emotional attachment to it— cool space, that doesn’t sound crazy at all.
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“This barn allows us to do every facet of cold-molded boat building,” says Eric Finger of Finger Boatworks. “From the spurs to the mast to the hulls to the interior joiner work—it’s all done here.” With a Douglas fir floor and sels which can be seen sailing around Nantucket during the summer. Most recently, Finger finished building his own boat, a Haven 12.5 designed by Joel White. Thanks to his barn, the project was smooth sailing.
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Inspired by the Rhode Island School of Design, Nantucket Island School of Design and Arts (NISDA) makes its home at Sea View Farms, a converted dairy farm in Wauwinet. Bursting at the seams with creative juices, NISDA’s barn is equipped with a textile studio, dark rooms, a library, 2D and 3D studios, and an open air workspace. For more information, visit www.nisda.org.
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Brooke Lyons discusses her love affair with Nantucket, her life as an actress, and the unexpected path that led her to stardom. “I like to say that I live in Los Angeles, but my soul lives on Nantucket,” says actress Brooke Lyons, one of the stars of Showtime’s Golden Globewinning drama The Affair. “I was eight years old the first time I visited Nantucket. My aunt and uncle have had a home on island, and for as long as I can remember, we began an annual tradition of visiting.” Today, Lyons’ parents, James and Penny, live on Nantucket, and Lyons and her husband Max retreat to the island for a reprieve from the hustle and bustle of Hollywood. Before The Affair, Lyons could be seen on such hit shows as Desperate Housewives, 2 Broke Girls, and ABC Family’s Jane by Design. But despite how swiftly the thirty-five-year old’s career has progressed, Brooke Lyons says that her life as an actress was anything but rehearsed.
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N MAGAZINE: Did you always dream of becoming an actress? LYONS: No, acting wasn’t even on my radar. Ballet was my first love and my greatest passion. My parents put me in a ballet class when I was two. By the age of thirteen, I was commuting from Connecticut to Manhattan every day after school to train at the Joffrey Ballet. I spent my summers at dance intensives in New York, Boston and France. I was certain that I would become a professional dancer, but life is full of surprises. I was diagnosed with scoliosis and had to have a surgery that immobilized me for a while and greatly decreased my flexibility thereafter. This changed everything. I went to college instead of joining a company.
N MAGAZINE: So you found acting in college? LYONS: I studied English at Yale, where they happened to have a wonderful theater program. After my spine surgery I was open to trying all sorts of new things. On a whim, I signed up to audition for a play. I had no idea what I was doing. I’d been performing my entire life, but ballet is very different from acting. In retro-
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N MAGAZINE: And that’s what led you to Hol- some of that naïveté and that readiness delywood?
spite knowing all that I know.
LYONS: Yes, it was the same with moving to
scene. There are endless edits and frequent recastings. There are deleted scenes, cancelled shows and roles that get written out
N MAGAZINE: Given all that you know now,
in the middle of filming. There are projects
nothing about the entertainment industry. I
what do you think most people don’t know
that take years to get off the ground. There
just thought, I love acting, so this is what
about what’s happening behind the scenes?
are a hundred rejections for a single “yes.”
I’m going to do. I bought a one-way ticket
LYONS: The creative process is messy and
The unpredictability of it all can be mad-
and took a leap of faith. If I’d known any-
lengthy. The results are glittering but do not
dening, but also exhilarating, which is why
thing about how difficult those first few
constitute the majority of the experience—
I think many of us stick with it.
years would be, I might not have ended
not even close. There are multiple shots, an-
up here. The challenge, now, is preserving
gles and setups involved in capturing every
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N MAGAZINE: So how did you finally break in? LYONS: In my case, small steps have amounted to big change. [The film] Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins enabled me to quit my jobs waiting tables and tutoring SAT students so that I could be a full-time actress. Playing Peach on 2 Broke
to have a wonderful career in comedy, which has made it
Girls was my first opportunity to stick with a character for
tricky to convince the powers that be to give me a shot at
a full season. That element of continuity had a huge impact
dramatic roles. The Affair opened up a whole new world.
on me and, to my surprise, on viewers, which was exciting.
Playing Eden allowed me to embody an entirely different
2 Broke Girls opened a lot of doors for me, not the least of
sort of person and to connect with viewers in new ways.
which was a new level of confidence in my own creative
Working with the cast and crew on The Affair changed me
capacity.
as an artist. That was my experience internally. It’s been ex-
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N MAGAZINE: The Affair was a huge hit—how did it impact
to the show. In terms of the trajectory of my career, it has
the trajectory of your career?
opened up opportunities to evolve creatively and to play
LYONS: When you’re known for one thing, it can be chal-
characters I would never have been considered for prior to
lenging to change people’s minds. I’ve been fortunate
my work on the show.
N MAGAZINE: So what’s next? LYONS: Since The Affair I’ve been focused on doing more
early and get an iced coffee from The Bean while running
drama. I’m drawn to characters who play at the top of their
ously) at Something Natural, and then drive out to Smith’s
intelligence and inhabit a moral gray area. I’m excited by
Point. Spend the entire day at the beach. Go swimming, read
female roles that are defined not as “wife” or “girlfriend,”
a book, eat lunch, go for a walk, watch the sunset. Once the
but rather as complex individuals in the world having lay-
sun has set, return home and freshen up before heading to
ered experiences.
‘Sconset for dinner at The Summer House. Arrive early for
pre-beach errands. Pick up sandwiches (and cookies, obvi-
cocktails at the Piano Bar and then request a table outside.
N MAGAZINE: Nantucket has become a thriving theatrical des-
Whatever you do with the rest of your night, be sure to go
tination; would you ever consider a role at the White Heron
outside and look up at the stars.
Theatre or Theatre Workshop?
LYONS: Absolutely. It’s been a long time since I’ve done the-
N MAGAZINE: Now that you’re a star, what advice would you
ater, and I would welcome the opportunity.
give the many young aspiring actresses on Nantucket?
LYONS: “Yes, and.” That’s what they say in improv. You’re N MAGAZINE: What’s your favorite memory of coming to the
confronted with a situation, and you don’t resist the situa-
island as a little girl?
tion. If you resist or negate, the bottom falls out from un-
LYONS: Boogie boarding all day at Cisco Beach as a kid.
der you. So instead, you just say, “Yes, and.” As in when
Spending summer nights on the strip with my cousins, who
life hands you a set of circumstances you say, “Yes! Okay.
were older and cooler. Standing in line for ice cream at The
Great. And I’d like to do XYZ…”
Juice Bar while playing with fortune teller fish from Seven Seas. Wearing a dirty, salty rope bracelet for months afterward to remember my time on the island.
N MAGAZINE: How about today? What’s a quintessential summer day on Nantucket look like for you?
LYONS: Wake up
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man Barkley at Great Harbor Yacht Club. The luncheon begins with a champagne reception and a multimedia presentation by the designers, followed by a Q & A session. Ike Kligerman Barkley is a renowned architecture and interior design firm that specializes in everything from personalized living environments to high-profile public buildings. With offices in both New York City and San Francisco, they serve clients from coast to coast and beyond, using both traditional handicraft and cutting-edge processes. Ike Kligerman Barkley has received numerous awards including the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter Award, the Decoration & Design Building Stars of Design Award, the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) Julia Morgan Award and the ICAA Stanford White Award, as well as participating in Architectural Digest’s AD 100 since 1995. In 2010, they published their first book Ike Kligerman Barkley: Houses, and
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N Magazine: What designers have inspired you in your career? IKB: One designer who inspires us and is somewhat under the radar is John Calvin Stevens. His simple, crystalline forms are gorgeous, and entirely without pretension. N Magazine: What advice would you give to an inspiring interior designer? IKB: Draw! Keep Drawing!
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N Magazine: What are you most proud of in your career? IKB: The collaboration on our recent book, The New Shingled House. Working as a partner team, with our firm’s associates, photographer William Waldron, and with so many expert consultants, was a joy. We love the projects in the book, but also the chance to write essays about their creation. N Magazine: What do you think are some of the biggest mistakes that people make when designing a home? IKB: Hanging on to very specific ideas during the evolutionary process of conceiving, designing and constructing a house. We advise
our clients that custom houses take on a life of their own at some point, and the team needs to be creatively flexible and be open to setting aside initial very specific ideas if they no longer suit the evolving house design. N Magazine: What is your ideal weekend getaway? IKB: Anywhere near an ocean!
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Jessica Biernacki Jensen
Wendi Murrell, Lisa Frey & Zofia Crosby
A Sushi Lover’s Dream Full sushi services at your own home
Private sushi services
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SushiSean
We provide full sushi preparation and service in your Nantucket home. We offer a delicious and beautifully prepared sushi experience for even the most discriminating sushi connoisseur. Contact Sean Durnin 508- 685-6123 or at sean1111@gmail.com
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It’s Time to act The stage is set for a new level of quality of theater on Nantucket.
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THIS JULY, THE CURTAIN will rise on the new home of The White Heron Theater on North Water St.
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With your help Nantucket can have one of the finest theater groups in America and one of only six Sundance affiliates in the world. Stand up and show your support for live theater on Nantucket by giving to our building campaign. Take a supporting role in the debut of this new island landmark and become a part of the island’s history.
WHITE HERON
Theatre Company
5 N Water St, Nantucket, MA 02554 |
Phone: 508.228.2156 | www.whiteherontheatre.org
“Chic, modern place to stay.” —Wall Street Journal
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Liliana Fortez Andrade
Donald Dallaire
Kelley Badger
Lauren Marttila
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Courtney Bridges
Delroy Lawrence
Erin Bartolome
Jason Bridges
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Jonathan Jensen, Hilary Jensen & Jessica Jensen
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Nuptials Featured Wedding
BRIDE & GROOM: Ashley Charron & Jason Parker Dress: Monique Lhuillier Photographer: Ron Lynch Ceremony: Second Unitarian Church Meeting House Reception: The Galley Beach
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NOT SO FAST
air time
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N MagaziNE: Have you ever thought
lation in 1978. It is interesting to
about becoming a pilot yourself?
note that Nantucket and Martha’s
Corkran: I love to fly, but with
Vineyard are also protected by the
someone else piloting.
EAS program, but because service to these islands has been profit-
N MagaziNE: If you were in charge
able, there is no support from the
of putting together a time capsule
EAS program necessary.
so that people could understand Nantucket a hundred years from
N MagaziNE: Do you think that the
now, what five items would you put
closure of Island Air indicates
into it?
that it is not possible to make the
Corkran: Of course N Magazine!
Hyannis-to-Nantucket route prof-
A copy of the NHA video by Ric
itable?
Burns, an aerial photograph (as I
Corkran: The multiple ferry ser-
am sure the topography will have
vices along with increased operat-
changed in a hundred years), an
ing costs present challenges. We
essay written by a Nantucket stu-
N MagaziNE: When did you first touch down on Nantucket? Corkran: I first arrived on island in the summer of 1974 for
recognize the need for that quick
dent of what Nantucket means to
flight to Hyannis and we are com-
them, and last but not least our
a seasonal job at the Harbor House as front desk clerk. I
mitted to continuing the Nantuck-
book celebrating twenty-five years
moved to the island full-time in 1980 and spent twenty-
et Airlines side of our operation
of Cape Air/Nantucket Airlines.
three wonderful years as a year-round resident. I am cur-
so that we can provide a reliable
rently splitting time between Nantucket and the eastern
and convenient alternative and
N MagaziNE: What’s your fondest
shore of Maryland.
will continually adjust to the chal-
Nantucket memory?
lenges presented.
Corkran: Seeing the island from the
A quick chat with Cape Air’s Kim Corkran.
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altogether after the airline deregu-
N MagaziNE: When did you start working with Cape Air? Corkran: I have worked for Cape Air/Nantucket Airlines
N MagaziNE: The island would be
spit of land holds so much history
for the past twenty-one years and have been very fortunate
thrilled if Cape Air increased
and beauty, yet is a thriving com-
to travel to many of our destinations. It has also provided
its flights to the island, but that
munity that embraces the small
me with the chance to interface with our customers who
doesn’t seem to be happening.
town feel and welcomes our many
come from all over the world. I have a deep appreciation
Why not?
visitors so that they too can feel
for the opportunities I have been given—not to mention
Corkran: Regional airlines are all
the magic. Once on land, I cherish
the travel perks!
suffering from a pilot shortage,
the friendships made and feel so
which can be attributed to many
fortunate to be connected to such
N MagaziNE: Have you taken any particularly memorable
factors. Suffice it to say, we are do-
a wonderful place.
Cape Air trips?
ing our best to maintain quality air
Corkran: I was fortunate enough to sit and chat with Sir
service in all our communities with
N MagaziNE: Imagine you had to get
Richard Branson at his home on Necker Island because
the pilots and equipment we have.
out of Dodge…Where would you
Cape Air was sponsoring an event in the BVIs. I can’t
We are actively engaged with Jet
buy a one-way ticket?
think of another job I might have had that would have
Blue and others in the industry to
Corkran: To my roots…on the east-
given me that opportunity. Talk about feeling worldly.
address these shortages. We are also
ern shore of Maryland. Of course,
reaching out to what we fondly call
I would never feel I needed to get
N MagaziNE: Speaking of feeling worldly, it may surprise
our “Gray Gulls,” pilots who have
out of Dodge, which in this case
people that Cape Air has routes all over the globe. It is our
retired but may want to be on call or
is Nantucket. Who would want a
understanding that these routes are subsidized. It sounds
pick up a leg here and there. Many
one-way ticket out? Not me! The
like a great business model; is Cape Air the only one that
other steps are being taken, but if
sand has gotten between my toes
does that?
you know a pilot who may want to
and I have thrown too many pen-
Corkran: Cape Air is one of many airlines that serve within
fly with us, by all means have them
nies overboard rounding Brant
the Essential Air Service (EAS) program. Routes within
contact us. Linda Markham, our
Point to ever think of leaving.
this program are competitively bid and protect air service
President, and her team are working
to many small communities that may have lost service
tirelessly on this challenge.
air and realizing that this small
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Craig Hawkins
Bernadette Meyer
Broker 508-228-1881, ext. 119 craig@maurypeople.com
37 Main Street, Nantucket Island, MA 02554
Broker 508-228-1881, ext. 203 bernadette@maurypeople.com
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SHAWKEMO $8,350,000 Exceptional quality and finish work in this incredible main dwelling abutting conservation land and studio with pool and pool house. Five wood burning masonry fireplaces, mahogany wet bar and two laundry rooms, and additional amenities too numerous to mention. This is an extraordinary execution of a brilliant design.
MIACOMET $4,975,000 Three and a half miles from town, shops, restaurants and the harbor, one mile to Miacomet Golf Course, and two miles to Bartlett’s Farm and Cisco Brewery is one of the most spectacular and untouched locations on the island. This wonderful family home and guest home with a total of 6 bedrooms is just minutes to the heart of it all.
SCONSET $ 3,495,000 A unique and beautiful acre of privacy in ‘Sconset with views of the Golf Course and Sankaty Lighthouse. Just outside the Village, this four bedroom main house with a 2-bay garage and studio has room for expansion and the possibility to add a pool and guest cottage.
SHAWKEMO $ 7,900,000 An exceptional island compound with 5 bedroom, 5.5 bath main house and 3 bedroom, 2 bath guest house, both with panoramic views of the Nantucket Harbor and Coatue. Multiple living areas, covered porches and spacious decks overlooking the harbor, a private pool and tennis court.
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TOWN $4,850,000 Elegant, in-town home tucked in off Fair St. on a seldom travelled lane just steps to Main St. Dramatic, open floor plan with gourmet kitchen, wall of French doors to an over-sized patio, grand bedrooms, large closets, and four floors of finished living space. In-town living at its best.
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QUIDNET $14,950,000 Estate situated on over 14 acres in a pastoral setting with views of the Atlantic, Sankaty Light House, Sesachacha Pond and the Moors. Excellent floor plan for entertaining both indoors and out. Opportunity to expand or add a guesthouse.
TOWN $4,495,000 Exceptionally well done restoration of a classic in-town antique. All bedrooms en suite, with exception of one shared bath for two children’s bedrooms on third floor. Corner lot, large yard, two off-street parking spaces and new landscaping.
TOWN $2,250,000 Large, totally restored barn. 5 bedrooms, 5 ½ baths, 3 finished floors, custom kitchen with Sub-Zero, granite counters, etc. Large rooms throughout. Two patios, yard, garage and off-street parking.
CLIFF $4,875,000 Beautifully restored 1747 antique home on desirable Cliff Road, a five minute walk into town. Many original features including four fireplaces, wide pine flooring, moldings and raised paneling. Private yard and gardens, and covered dining patio. Views of Sound from roof walk.
HUMMOCK POND $895,000 Largest lot on Aurora Way, abutting conservation. Located on a cul-de-sac street in the Cisco-Hummock Pond area, on the bike path and a mile to town. Cisco Beach, Bartlett Farm, Cisco Brewery and 167 Seafood are a bike ride away. Owner is a licensed real estate broker.
MADEQUECHAM $1,395,000 Beautiful vacant lot with South Shore ocean views bordering hundreds of acres of forever protected conservation land. Easy access to unspoiled Madequecham Beach. Opportunityto build a house, guest house, and pool to your own specifications.
TOWN $3,675,000 Beautifully restored in-town antique on an over-sized, corner lot. Everything has been replaced; foundation, plumbing, electrical, roof, shingles, fireplaces. All original moldings, flooring, mantels saved, stripped and refinished.
TOWN $2,395,000 Renovated five bedroom, five and 1/2 bath home on Fair Street with original historic details throughout the house. Pine floors, chair rails and original doors are still intact.
TOWN $2,975,000 4 bedroom/3.5 bath home in the Old Historic District. Large deck and gardens compliment the interior living spaces. Top-end kitchen appliances, marble counter tops, surround sound system, A/C, central vac., two fireplaces and custom built-ins and molding throughout the home.
WAUWINET $5,975,000 Incredible home on private, wooded and elevated five acre parcel of land overlooking Polpis Harbor and Nantucket Harbor. Five fireplaces, cast iron baseboard heat, A/C, granite counter tops, custom Rutt kitchen, bluestone patios. Elevator to all floors.
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VINEYARD VINES 2 HARBOR SQUARE 508-325-9600 MURRAY'S TOGGERY SHOP 62 MAIN STREET 508-228-0437
VINEYARD VINES 2 HARBOR SQUARE 508-325-9600 MURRAY'S TOGGERY SHOP 62 MAIN STREET 508-228-0437