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Olympic Gymnast
ALY RAISMAN Champions A Safe Place
Massachusetts Treasurer
DEBORAH GOLDBERG Supermodel & Cult Survivor
HOYT RICHARDS The Future of
SEA LEVEL RISE Nantucket’s
INNER SANCTUMS
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THE ART OF LIVING
BRANT POINT | $19,875,000 8 Bedrooms, 5 Bathrooms
SURFSIDE | $7,800,000
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QUIDNET · QUIDNET ROAD · $5,800,000 Timeless and classic island style home with manicured outdoor living space.
TOWN · ORANGE STREET · $12,800,000 Stately federal style mansion with panoramic views of Nantucket Harbor.
TOWN · FAIR STREET · $3,950,000
Historic home in an ideal location with recent renovations.
QUIDNET · QUIDNET PATH · $4,495,000 Contemporary newly built beach house just moments to Sesachacha Pond.
TOWN · ORANGE STREET · $5,495,000
BRANT POINT · HARBOR VIEW WAY · $3,995,000
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Four levels of living just moments from Main Street, with a yard and pool.
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Classic Nantucket house and cottage overlooking Nantucket Harbor.
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Enhancing life through thoughtful design and quality construction.
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CHARMING IN TOWN | $1,800,000 FISHER’S LANDING | $1,249,000 3 Bedrooms, Private Yard
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PENTHOUSE FULL SERVICE 4 BEDROOMS 4.5 BATHROOMS 6,829 SF ONE FLOOR 2,500 SF OF TERRACES 4 GARAGE SPACES VALET OR SELF PARK
Offered At: $28,000,000 Brigitte LaBonte Petrocelli
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THIS IS MY NEW HOSPITAL
Dr. Rocco Monto, Dr. Tim Lepore, and Dr. Frank O’Connor in our new, state-of-the-art operating room
Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s new, state-of-the-art facility features an expanded interventional services area, including two operating rooms, as well as a procedure room. Our team of board-certified surgeons, nurses and anesthesia personnel perform over 700 surgical procedures every year right here on-island, and our operating rooms are staffed 24/7. From routine procedures like colonoscopies and endoscopies, to hernia repair, or shoulder and knee arthroscopies, our surgeons are trained and certified in both general surgery and minimally-invasive laparoscopic techniques. Dr. Frank O’Connor, the island’s newest addition to the surgery team, complements NCH’s longtime surgeons Dr. Tim Lepore and orthopedic surgeon Dr. Rocco Monto, allowing more patients to stay on-island and take
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advantage of our brand new facility. Ask your primary care provider for a referral for elective procedures.
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530 South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach Stunning oceanfront newly built estate with 14,000 +/- total sq. ft., 6BR/9.4BA, 2BR/2BA staff quarters, guest studio, and multi-car garage. Beautiful architectural balance, paired with both modern and traditional interior design aspects, create an inviting and welcoming atmosphere. With gorgeous stone and wood flooring, intricate moldings, and exceptional finishes, the home exemplifies the highest standard in craftsmanship and attention to detail. Exclusive - $43,000,000 | www.530SouthOceanBlvd.com
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Hand-made nautical jewelry crafted on island, custom diamond rings, Nantucket themed watches and more.
6 Straight Wharf
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104B CLIFF ROAD CLIFF
$4,900,000
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SURFSIDE
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HUMMOCK POND 73 HAWTHORNE PARK
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TOWN · PLEASANT STREET · $7,500,000 Iconic William Crosby house fully renovated with four levels of living.
WAUWINET · MEDOUIE CREEK ROAD · $15,250,000 Grand estate on 12 acres with two lots and a private dock.
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SHIMMO · PIPPENS WAY · $5,385,000 Newly built home designed with entertaining and privacy in mind.
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BRANT POINT · HARBOR VIEW WAY · $6,575,000 Ideal Nantucket home for entertaining or simply taking in the view.
SHIMMO · SOUTH VALLEY ROAD · $9,875,000 Luxury compound with sweeping views of the Harbor and out to Town.
SURFSIDE · GRAY AVENUE · $1,995,000 Brand new modernly designed coastal chic home.
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Discover Nantucket’s
Unwavering Human Spirit
Immerse yourself in the island’s dramatic lifesaving history through tales of grit and determination to a time of service and sacrifice that embodies the heroic people of Nantucket.
NANTUCKET SHIPWRECK & LIFESAVING MUSEUM
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158 Polpis Road | Memorial Day through Columbus Day | Monday - Saturday, 10am to 5pm; Sunday, noon to 5pm.
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“This was hands down the best tour I went on while in Nantucket! Been to Nantucket twice, and definitely plan to revisit this next year. The docent told great stories!“ - Lizzy B., October 2018 Stop by Visitor’s Services on Federal Street to learn more about the free shuttle and bus passes to the Museum.
To learn more and plan your trip, visit
www.eganmaritime.org
333 NE SPANISH TRAIL - BOCA RATON, FL 10,231 SF APPROX. | 5-BR, 7.2-BA | 96' APPROX. WATER-FRONTAGE WITH PRIVATE DOCK
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NEWLY PRICED! | 1030 BASIN DRIVE - DELRAY BEACH, FL 7,707 SF APPROX. | 5-BR, 5.2-BA | 85' APPROX. WATER-FRONTAGE WITH DOCK & LIFT
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4 TURTLE GROVE LANE, VILLAGE OF GOLF, FL 5,659 SF APPROX. | 4-BR, 4.1 BA | 1 ACRE ESTATE HOME IN EXCLUSIVE GOLF COMMUNITY
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MARY WINDLE
Director of Luxury Sales M: 561.271.5900 O: 561.278.5570 mary.windle@elliman.com
CARON DOCKERTY
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1111 LINCOLN RD. MIAMI BEACH, FL 33139. 305.606.6300 © 2019 DOUGLAS ELLIMAN REAL ESTATE. ALL MATERIAL PRESENTED HEREIN IS INTENDED FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. WHILE, THIS INFORMATION IS BELIEVED TO BE CORRECT, IT IS REPRESENTED SUBJECT TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS, CHANGES OR WITHDRAWAL WITHOUT NOTICE. ALL PROPERTY INFORMATION, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO SQUARE FOOTAGE, ROOM COUNT, NUMBER OF BEDROOMS AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN PROPERTY LISTINGS SHOULD BE VERIFIED BY YOUR OWN ATTORNEY, ARCHITECT OR ZONING EXPERT. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY.
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CONSOLE, TABLETOP GLASSWARE, JEWELRY: CENTRE POINTE ON HER — TOP, SHOES: MILLY & GRACE SKIRT: COMMONWEALTH HAT: PERCH ON HIM — SHIRT, SHORTS: FAHERTY SUNGLASSES: ACK EYE SHOES: VINEYARD VINES
CONTRIBUTORS N 46
Meet some of the talented writers and photographers who made this issue possible.
NUMBERS N 48
A numerical snapshot of Nantucket in July.
N NEAT STUFF 52
When it comes to finding a furry friend, NiSHA is truly pawesome.
N TOPTEN 56
A rundown of the events headlining Nantucket’s social scene this July.
N TRENDING 60
What’s breaking the internet on #Nantucket.
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Just in time for the Nantucket Yoga Festival, founder Joann Burnham gives her top tips for healthy living.
CONSOLE, TABLETOP GLASSWARE, JEWELRY: CENTRE POINTE
ON HER — TOP, SHOES: MILLY & GRACE SKIRT: COMMONWEALTH HAT: PERCH
ON HIM — SHIRT, SHORTS: FAHERTY SUNGLASSES: ACK EYE SHOES: VINEYARD VINES
THE NANTUCKET SUMMER ANTIQUES SHOW The Nantucket Boys and Girls Club, 61 Sparks Avenue
August 2-5, 2019
Friday & Saturday 10-6, Sunday 10-5, Monday 10-3
PREVIEW PARTY, AUGUST 1 TO BENEFIT
We Thank Our Sponsors:
INTERIOR DESIGN
Visit www.nantucketsummerantiquesshow.com To Purchase Advance Tickets To The Show and Events.
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PAMELA & MAX BERRY
J. Austin, Jeweler, Amherst, MA Jeff R. Bridgman American Antiques, York County, PA David Brooker Fine Art, Southport, CT James Butterworth, Nashua, NH Callaghans of Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury, UK Carlson & Stevenson, Manchester Center, VT Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc., New York, NY Connecticut River Books, Deep River, CT William Cook, Hungerford, Berkshire, UK The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT D.M. DeLaurentis Fine Antique Prints, Philadelphia, PA Jesse Davis Antiques, London, UK Dinan & Chighine, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK Finnegan Gallery, Chicago, IL Funston Antiques, Sudbury, MA Roberto Freitas American Antiques, Stonington, CT Jeffrey Henkel, Pennington, NJ Lawrence Jeffrey, Litchfield, CT Lotus Gallery, Austin, TX Paul Madden Antiques, Sandwich, MA Lillian Nassau LLC, New York, NY Loana Marina Purrazzo, Chicago, San Francisco Rehs Galleries, Inc., New York, NY G. Sergeant Antiques, LLC, Woodbury, CT Shaia Oriental Rugs of Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA S. J. Shrubsole, New York, NY The Spare Room, Baltimore, MD L. Parker Stephenson Photography, New York, NY Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge, Inc., Westchester, NY Victor Weinblatt, South Hadley, MA Roger D. Winter, Ltd., Solebury, PA Yew Tree House Antiques, New York, NY
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The Nature Conservancy’s
Olympic Gymnast
ALY RAISMAN Champions A Safe Place
MARK TERCEK
Supermodel & Cult Survivor
NVESTIGATE
NDEPTH
103 GETTING TRASHED
130 RIDER IN THE STORM
HOYT RICHARDS
Massachusetts Treasurer
DEBORAH GOLDBERG Nantucket’s
INNER
Back by popular demand, Cisco Brewers’ Trashion Show is making recycling sexy again.
Massachusetts Treasurer The Local Magazine Read Worldwide
DEBORAH GOLDBERG Supermodel & Cult Survivor
HOYT RICHARDS The Future of
SEA LEVEL RISE Nantucket’s
INNER SANCTUMS
110 CAPTAIN PLANET How former financier Mark Tercek became an unlikely hero for the environment.
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As a preview to her appearance at A Safe Place this month, Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman appears on the cover of the July issue.
NTERIORS 68
Take a look inside (and outside) one of the most extraordinary properties on the market.
N BUZZ 72
All the news, tidbits and scuttlebutt that’s fit to print.
NEED TO READ N 76
Our resident bookworm spells out your summer reading list for July.
NOSH NEWS 80
The freshest fish served on Nantucket this summer might just be from a food truck. Take a bite of Nantucket Poke.
NSPIRE 84 WOMEN’S CHAMPION
Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman appears on Nantucket this month as a featured speaker for A Safe Place.
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90 DREAM BOAT
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How Mike Allen and his team at Tidal Creeks Boatworks are redefining the meaning of shipshape.
96 THE COMPOSER
Master painter Sergio Roffo captures the essence of Nantucket one stroke at a time.
The harshest waves local professional surfer Ryan Webb has encountered haven’t come by way of the ocean.
138 MODEL BEHAVIOR The remarkable life story of supermodel and cult survivor Hoyt Richards.
121 INNER SANCTUM
Step inside some of the most exclusive clubs on Nantucket, where no amount of money can buy you entry.
A scrumptious poke bowl by Nantucket’s newest (and freshest) food truck, Nantucket Poke. Get the scoop on this grab-and-go option in this issue’s Nosh News on page 70.
Exclusively Listed by Michele Kelsey 508-228-4449 ext. 120 508-246-9290 michele@jordanre.com
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121 EEL POINT ROAD $35,000,000 SPECTACULAR WATERFRONT ESTATE OFFERING EXPANSIVE 7 BEDROOM MAIN HOUSE, 4 BEDROOM COTTAGE, POOL, SPA, CABANA, TENNIS COURT, GYM, THEATRE, TWO-CAR GARAGE AND PRIVATE STAIRS TO MILES OF WHITE SANDY BEACH.
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155 STAYING ABOVE WATER
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A conversation with Massachusetts Treasurer Deborah Goldberg. Rolling Stone contributing editor Jeff Goodell shares the frightening truth about sea-level rise.
163 KING OF EAST COAST CHIC
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N’s fashion squad team up with 28 Centre Pointe for a stylish shoot.
In time for Fourth of July, take a look at island parades of yesteryear courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association image archives.
Schwanfelder tied the knot on Nantucket.
NOT SO FAST 200 A quick chat with the new Small Friends executive director, Nichole Olson.
As a preview to his panel at the Nantucket Historical Association’s annual Nantucket by Design event, famed designer Anthony Baratta brings us inside one of his island interiors.
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Barstool Sports founder and Nantucket summer resident Dave Portnoy walking the runway in last year’s Trashion Show.
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Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Bruce A. Percelay Editor Robert Cocuzzo Art Director Paulette Chevalier Managing Editor Emme Duncan Chief Photographers Kit Noble Brian Sager Digital Editor Leise Trueblood Contributors Tim Ehrenberg Emily Denny of Emily Nantucket Greta Feeney Kelly Fennessy Sarah Fraunfelder Deborah Halber Maggie McManus Ross Mix Hannah Ross Photographers Katie Kaizer Matt Kisiday Jonathan Nimerfroh Leise Trueblood Director of Advertising & Partnerships Emme Duncan
TWO EVENING PERFORMANCES TICKETS ON SALE
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FRIDAY, JULY 26 6 P.M. SATURDAY, JULY 27 6 P.M.
NANTUCKET HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM • TICKETS $45–85
—FREE COMMUNITY EVENTS ALL WEEK— FOR INFORMATION & TICKETS, CALL (508) 228–1110, ext. 107, or visit nantucketatheneum.org The Dance Festival is the Atheneum’s primary fundraising event of the year. We thank you for your support. Photo by Kris Kinsley Hancock
John’s Island
A Hint of Nantucket Nestled In Florida
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Everyone loves a champion, and our July cover—threetime Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman— fills that role in more ways than one. Beyond her Olympic feats, Raisman has stood up to a culture of silence at USA Gymnastics, an act that will ultimately help reform an organization that turned a blind eye to abuses of its athletes. She’s also become a champion of organizations like A Safe Place, an organization providing services for survivors of sexual violence on Nantucket, which she will be speaking on behalf of this July. In another story of courage and bravery, Nantucket surfer turned firefighter and paramedic Ryan Webb has weathered a number of storms in his life. In an intimate profile by Greta Feeney, we learn how this Nantucket native has navigated his way through the tumult and found an inspiring calling away from the water. Speaking of water, we interview Rolling Stone contributing editor and environmentalist author Jeff Goodell about the threat that sea level rise poses to Nantucket. While conventional wisdom would suggest that Nantucket could be underwater
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three hundred years from now, Goodell says that it could be happening much sooner than that due to climate change. Serving as a steward for the economic health and welfare of Massachusetts is State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, whose family have been longtime summer residents of the Cape and the Islands. Goldberg’s family founded Stop & Shop in 1914 and was the subject of a hostile takeover. She takes a dim view of corporations that do not respect the importance of the middle class and has emerged as an important watchdog of the economic needs of Massachusetts’ working class. In this issue, N Magazine interviews Goldberg on a wide range of issues facing Nantucket and the
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Commonwealth as a whole. On the Fourth of July, we celebrate the bravery of those individuals who are willing to stand up for what they believe. In this issue, N Magazine highlights the type of people on this island and beyond who exemplify the best of the American spirit and why the Fourth of July is such an important reminder of who we are. On behalf of all of us at N Magazine, we wish you a wonderful Fourth of July and the start of the summer season on Nantucket. Sincerely,
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CONTRIBUTORS GRETA FEENEY Greta Feeney studied creative writing at Bennington College and voice at the Juilliard School. After performing at the San Francisco Opera for 15 years, she returned to the east coast to complete a doctoral degree in music, and now teaches and performs in the greater Boston area. A dual resident of Nantucket and Concord, MA, she draws inspiration from Concord’s history in the transcendentalist movement, and is writing her first novel, a work of historical fiction about a male soprano Castrato set in 18th century Venice. For this issue, she profiled surfer Ryan Webb and boatbuilder Mike Allen and his team at Tidal Creeks Boatworks. JONATHAN NIMERFROH Jonathan Nimerfroh is a surf and lifestyle photographer based in Nantucket and Southern California. Known internationally for his series of “Slurpee Wave” photographs, Jonathan seeks out the most extreme and beautiful locales around the world, no matter the season. His award-winning photographs have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Stay Wild, and many other publications. He operates JDN PHOTOGRAPHY, Runaway Bride Nantucket, Nantucket Salt, and the Wampanoag Riders, all providing distinct services to the Nantucket community. Jonathan is represented by the Samuel Owen Gallery here on Nantucket and in Greenwich, CT. HANNAH ROSS Hannah Ross was born on Nantucket, spent her school years in Stuart, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University with a degree in editing, writing and media. She wrote and led editorial content for FSU’s 70-page fashion magazine, Clutch, covering topics ranging from post-runway careers of top models to fashion trends in menswear. Her background includes writing and managing social media for clients at a boutique PR firm plus two Nantucket seasons in luxury retail management, where her eye for fashion and interest in business N magazine
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Scholarship funds raised for children on Nantucket by The Nantucket Golf Club Foundation since 2004.
Animals were cared for by NiSHA last year.
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Ferries were cancelled by the Steamship Authority last year due to mechanical issues.
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Streets and destinations on Nantucket have Native American names.
1977 The year Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard threatened to secede from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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The year the first motion picture premiered on Nantucket.
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Shape up and head out to the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket for a summer night with the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. This show is sure to be a Sandra Dee-light. For more information and to buy tickets, visit www.theatrenantucket.org.
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Put on your dancing shoes and head out to The Box to see this Ohioan band perform their top-charted Spotify music in their staple denim jackets. Camp outside The Box at 9:00 pm when doors open. For tickets and more information, visit www.thechickenbox.com.
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TRASHION SHOW TUESDAY, JULY 9 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM CISCO BREWERS
Come enjoy the trashiest, most eco-friendly fashion show on Nantucket. Professional models will walk the Cisco Brewers Catwalk in fully recycled clothing, all in support of a cleaner, safer environment. Complete with live musical performances, the event will be fun and educational for the whole family. To learn more and purchase tickets, visit eventbrite. com/e/cisco-brewers-trashion-show-tickets-62286288967.
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NANTUCKET YOGA FESTIVAL JULY 12-14 VARIOUS LOCATIONS
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SMALL FRIENDS ART & ARTISAN SHOW
THURSDAY, JULY 18 - SUNDAY, JULY 21 BARTLETT’S FARM
Celebrate the mind, soul and body with the best wellness experts and healthy living guides at the Nantucket Yoga Festival. Events include an opening night celebration, workshops and classes held at Bartlett’s Ocean View Farm, and a vendor area for participants on Saturday and Sunday. To find more information and purchase tickets, go to www.nantucketyogafestival.com.
Have an eye for art? Join your fellow art enthusiasts at the 28th annual Nantucket Art and Artisan Show. Not only does the show feature a collection of furniture, jewelry, pottery and more from local artists, but it also benefits Small Friends. For more information, visit www.nantucketartandartisanshow.org.
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Show your support for Nantucket’s nonprofit film and cultural center by coming to DreamBelievers. Featuring performances, award presentations, food, drinks and even a silent disco, this is sure to be a night you do not want to miss. For more information on ticket packages, visit www.nantucketdreamland.org.
ARI FLEISCHER DREAMLAND CONVERSATION TUESDAY, JULY 23 THE DREAMLAND
Ari Fleischer, the former press secretary for President George W. Bush, will be on-island this month for an in-depth conversation about his time in Washington and the Bush White House, and his thoughts on the media and national politics today under the Trump presidency. He’ll appear in conversation with CNN political analyst and former host of Meet the Press, David Gregory. For more information, visit www.nantucketdreamland.org.
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Show off your green thumb at Nantucket’s 11th annual Garden Festival. This fundraiser for Nantucket Lighthouse School includes workshops, beautiful garden tours and other exciting family activities. For more information, visit www.ackgardenfestival.org.
OFF THE PAGE: PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW THURSDAY, JULY 25 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Join N Magazine’s chief photographers Kit Noble and Brian Sager and private aviation company BLADE for an evening of cocktails, conversation and fine art photography. New works from both photographers will be presented, and pieces will be immediately available for purchase. For more information, visit www.n-magazine.com.
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THE WEIR: OPENING NIGHT THURSDAY, JULY 25 — 7:30 PM WHITE HERON THEATRE COMPANY
Say “top o’ the morning” and enter an Irish pub with friends at the White Heron Theatre. If you’re in the mood for a play like Outside Mullingar, this production will surely be a favorite. For tickets and more information, visit www.whiteherontheatre.org.
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A new Instagram account has recently gained traction for its hilarious recreation of island scenes with the use of dolls and green screens. Using the handle @wicked.little.chad, the page goes above and beyond with its detail, such as making miniature sweaters, miniature ferry carts, and even miniature ladder ball at the beach!
Suzy Welch shared a photo of herself proudly looking at the cover of the June edition of N Magazine, of which she was the cover star, to her 3,800+ Instagram followers. The post generated over 330 likes and many congratulatory comments, including one from past cover star, Linda Holliday.
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Just in time for the Nantucket Yoga Festival, founder Joann Burnham shares her top tips for living your best life.
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1 SLOW DOWN. Moving slower brings us into a greater state of awareness. Don’t worry. It will all get done anyway.
2 BREATHE. Take a deep full breath. Deep breathing has many benefits. It alleviates stress and tension, lowers blood pressure and releases endorphins. Bonus: Breathing is free.
3 LET GO. Let go of the need to have a situation, person or experience be a certain way. Surrender the thoughts of your mind and enjoy what is being offered.
4 TRUST YOUR INTUITION. Intuition is the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. You just know. The only challenge is to listen.
5 BE RECEPTIVE. Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to our personal growth. Remain open to other points of view, suggestions and ideas.
6 MAKE HUMAN CONNECTIONS. Spend time with friends and family without electronics. Have a conversation. Listen well.
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ENGAGE IN COMPASSIONATE INTERACTION. Extend a hand, share a smile, offer a hug. A warm hug when it is needed can change everything.
8 CONTINUE TO LEARN. The Nantucket Yoga Festival was initially created from a desire to learn more. It is a joy to bring together a wide variety of instructors from across the country with this very special community.
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Joann Burnham is the founder and director of Dharma Yoga Nantucket and the founder of the Nantucket Yoga Festival. The Nantucket Yoga Festival brings together the very best wellness experts, yoga instructors and healthy living guides for one inspiring weekend on July 12-14. Visit nantucketyogafestival.com for more information.
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Each home opens into a grand foyer with direct views of the harbor. Jatoba hardwood floors, commonly known as Brazilian Cherry, abound throughout the home, contributing both warmth and durability. From the foyer, the bright living room, with custom hurricane impact Marvin French Doors, opens onto an expansive harbor front deck with outdoor dining and a rare dock. This exceptional property affords stunning water views from virtually every main room and bedroom in the house. Philadelphia Harbor Marine Scene by James Hamilton in a Gold Leaf Frame circa 18191878. This beautiful oil on canvas painting is surrounded by raised paneling and hangs above a custom colonial fireplace with meticulously crafted dentilated molding. Historic details like these punctuate both residences, and remain expertly juxtaposed against contemporary living spaces, including an open style family room and gourmet kitchen with harbor views. Stunningly vivid Cantonese – Chinese Export porcelain from the early trade routes between China and the Americas adorns the floor-to-cieling custom cabinetry, designed with raised panel inset doors on a beaded frame. Nathaniel Currier's 1852 hand colored lithograph of Cutter Yacht “Maria” by Frances Flora Bond Palmer after J.E. Butterworth’s original painting. Beautiful works like these harken back to Nantucket’s famous whaling era. Seamlessly controlled and built-in Sonos speakers are located throughout both residences, further contributing to the overall comfort and convenience. The speakers seen here are recessed in between custom handmade plaster beams and crown molding.
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Rising pop star Brynn Cartelli will perform the national anthem at the Boston Pops on Nantucket concert being held on Jetties Beach on August 10. Appropriately enough, Cartelli—who was the youngest singer to win NBC’s The Voice—was actually discovered on Jetties Beach four years ago. She’s since gone on to tour alongside Kelly Clarkson and record chart-climbing hits. To benefit the Nantucket Cottage Hospital, Cartelli will warm up the crowd for the legendary, Grammy Award-winning R&B group the Spinners whose many hits include “Then Came You,” “Working My Way Back to You” and “The Rubberband Man.” Chaired by Bob and Laura Reynolds, the concert is expected to sell out well before the gates open and attendees are advised to purchase tickets well in advance. Visit givenantuckethospital.partners.org/popsga to purchase tickets.
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Disgraced Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey made a surprise appearance at Nantucket District Court earlier this summer amidst his ongoing legal woes. Spacey is accused of sexually assaulting an eighteen-year-old busboy at the Club Car restaurant in 2016. Spacey’s attorney argued that the accuser and his mother had deleted text messages that would exonerate Spacey. The attorney also requested the trial date be set for this summer because Spacey is “suffering every day that this goes on,” but the judge said that expediting the case wouldn’t be possible. Stay tuned to see how this Hollywood courtroom drama continues to unfold.
TEEN SPIRIT
A new teen center opened on Main Street last month. Located on the second floor of 41 Main Street, Grid21 has a lounge, provides free Wi-Fi and turns into a dance club every other Friday night for kids under twenty-one. Opened by Mickaela Grace, Grid21 takes a unique approach to a teen center. Don’t expect to find board games and bumper pool there. Grace, who also runs a yoga and meditation center there, has designed Grid21 to help teens relieve stress in ways normally reserved for a meditation retreat. During the week, she says teens can “enjoy interactive art installations, meditation stations, sound machines, magnesium chambers, saunas and emotional intelligence tools to detox bad days and increase creativity and connectivity with community.” Grid21 will also offer music, meditation, martial arts and mentorship.
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Nantucket’s renowned seaside inn underwent a major renovation before opening this past spring. The Wauwinet redesigned every room with new woodwork, furniture and beach-y color palettes, as well as upgraded marble bathrooms. The project included the main building, cottages and the restaurant Topper’s for an all-around magnificent makeover.
SUMMER ANNIVERSARIES
A number of significant anniversaries are being celebrated on Nantucket this summer. One of the island’s favorite sandwich shops, Something Natural, is marking fifty years in business this season. Something Natural has come a long way since first opening its doors, with a second shop in Greenwich, Connecticut and its Portuguese bread available in markets across the island. Meanwhile, in town, Freedman’s of Nantucket is celebrating forty years in operation. Known for his iconic clocks, Don Freedman has cultivated timeless items for the last four decades. Finally, longtime summer denizen Tom Kershaw is toasting fifty years of owning Boston’s legendary Hampshire House, whose bar inspired the set of Cheers. To all the thriving businesses on Nantucket, we raise our glasses to your success.
PAINTING THE PAST This spring, the Whaling Museum opened a new exhibition from the Smithsonian on the island. Modern American Realism: Highlights from the Sara Roby Foundation Collection is in the McCausland Gallery and features revered artists from the 1950s such as Edward Hopper, Robert Vickrey, Isabel Bishop and Phillip Evergood. Sara Roby lived on Orange Street and Liberty
Street before her death in 1986 and was an avid patron of on-island artists. Roby’s collection centers around figurative art that she believed emphasized important principles of form and design. Running until October 14th, the exhibit is one of the many exciting, new offerings that the Whaling Museum has unveiled this year, proving once again that history doesn’t always have to be a thing of the past.
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Fashion photographer and Nantucket’s unofficial paparazzi Chad Pierre spotted a famous face in line on Nantucket last month. Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci was kind enough to smile for a selfie with Pierre before buying a newspaper at The Hub. In the revolving doors of the White House, the Mooch still holds the record for shortest stay at just six days. At press time, it was undetermined if he had stayed longer on Nantucket than at the White House.
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N’s resident bookworm Tim Ehrenberg shares six of his favorite reads
AMERICAN POP BY SNOWDEN WRIGHT Pop down to your favorite independent bookstore and pick up a copy of American Pop. I was saving this recommendation for the month of July because it is so quintessentially American. Britain has tea. France has champagne. America has pop! Moving from Mississippi to Paris to New York and back again, this fictional saga of family, ambition, passion and tragedy brings to life one unforgettable Southern dynasty—the Forsters, founders of the world’s first major soft-drink company—against the backdrop of more than a century of American cultural history.
ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS BY OCEAN VUONG Sometimes a book comes along that is so beautifully written that it doesn’t really matter what the plot is about. Even the title and the author’s name are poetic perfection, which makes sense because Ocean Vuong is an awardwinning poet. This debut novel takes the form of a letter from a Vietnamese son to his mother who cannot read. What follows is some of the most special prose I have ever read between the covers of a book.
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Available July 16th Colson Whitehead follows up his multiple award-winning novel The Underground Railroad with this story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. The Nickel Boys is based on actual events and of a very real reform school that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped the lives of thousands of children. The fictional characters created here vividly come to life as they take us through this devastating time in American history. Whitehead writes, “Who spoke for the black boys? It was time someone did.”
MRS. EVERYTHING BY JENNIFER WEINER I am never one to pass up a generational novel, and this one reminds me of one of my favorites—The Heart’s Invisible Furies. Both of these books follow their main characters throughout their whole lives, and even beyond. Jennifer Weiner writes, “One of my favorite quotes is by the poet Muriel Rukeyser: ‘What would happen if one woman would tell the truth about her life? The world would split open.’” In Mrs. Everything, Weiner, inspired by Little Women and her mother, covers a big canvas as she explores the lives of two sisters and how a woman should be in the world. Pack this one in your beach bag.
THE BRITISH ARE COMING: THE WAR FOR AMERICA, LEXINGTON TO PRINCETON, 1775-1777 BY RICK ATKINSON History buffs rejoice because Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Atkinson is back with the first in a brand-new trilogy recounting the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. Atkinson creates a detailed account that is as definitively informative as it is enjoyably entertaining. If you have finished local Nantucket author Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Hurricane’s Eye and are craving more revolutionary reads, ride like Revere and tell everyone you know that The British are Coming!
ASK AGAIN, YES BY MARY BETH KEANE
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I’m constantly asked again and again for recommendations similar to “Big Little Lies” and Little Fires Everywhere, and I say a hundred times yes to Ask Again, Yes. It’s a profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, and it encompasses all of the messy and amazing parts of living in contemporary times. We see parenthood, marriage, friendship, work life, growing up, adulthood, tragedy, the fragility of happiness, and the power of love. While it has some parallels to the previous family dramas mentioned above this one has something special all on its own.
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AN ANCIENT HAWAIIAN DELICACY PARKS PERFECTLY ON NANTUCKET
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antucket Poke is the newest and freshest addition to the food truck phenomenon that has been rolling onto the island in recent years. Driven by lifelong Nantucket denizen Devon Wright and his cofounder, Chef Alla Rockwell, this two-wheeled wonder is serving up an ancient Hawaiian fish delicacy that pairs perfectly with summer. For the uninitiated, poke is a raw fish salad that combines sushi-grade tuna, salmon, shrimp, octopus or tofu with fresh veggies, fruits, rice, sauces and other garnishes. When enjoyed at Cisco Beach, the brewery or even in your backyard for a private party, Nantucket Poke instantly makes you realize what the island was missing for far too long. Those trying poke for the first time on Nantucket have Wright to thank. The son of Spyder Wright, the legendary surfboard designer, Wright has always dreamed of starting a business on the island but took a circuitous route to get there. For seventeen years,
he produced high-end commercials in New York City and Los Angeles, working with the likes of Will Smith, Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell, Jay-Z and dozens of professional athletes and car companies. During those years, Wright became good friends with Rockwell, who runs a catering company and catered his sets. Between shoots, Wright told Rockwell about his beloved Nantucket and his vision of someday launching a unique food truck concept there. Last fall, they joined forces and got the wheels turning on Wright’s vision, which puts Rockwell’s cuisine front and center. Raised in Malibu, Rockwell got her culinary start at critically acclaimed restaurants in Los Angeles such as Nobu, Ink and the Michelin-starred Piccolo, before launching her own catering company. Between gigs, she and her husband, who, like Wright, produces commercials, would fly off to Hawaii for quick vaca-
sional kitchen for daily food prep. Spend just a couple of minutes chatting with Wright and Rockwell and their passion for serving the Nantucket community comes through—not just with their poke, but with their proceeds. “‘Foodie philanthropists’ is what we call ourselves,” Wright says. “We are proud to say we donate a portion of our profits to local organizations on Nantucket that focus on land and ocean conservation. Making a difference one bowl at a time.” So log on to nantucketpoke.com and click the “Truck Locator” tab to see where Wright and Rockwell are parked today. One bowl from their fresh food truck and you’ll agree that this ancient Hawaiian fish delicacy is here to stay.
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tions. During those trips, Rockwell pieced together her own approach to poke. “My secret recipe for rice is a hundred years old,” she says. “It takes six hours to produce each day.” Every morning, Rockwell sources veggies from Bartlett’s Farm and fresh, sushi-grade fish from Sayle’s Seafood. Her toppings come from Sid Wainer & Son, a hundred-year-old curator and distributor of the finest specialty produce. “We’re making our bowls and dishes in the true Hawaiian tradition,” Rockwell says. “It’s not so much about how it looks on the plate—messy, all thrown together—it’s all about how it tastes.” And man, oh man, does it taste good! Ordering through the window, you begin by selecting a base of spring mix green salad, seaweed salad or Rockwell’s secret signature rice. Next, you pick a protein—tuna, salmon, shrimp, octopus or tofu—followed by toppings. Last comes the sauce: yuzu citrus, spicy mayo, wasabi soy or the house sauce. For those who might not be in the mood for poke, Rockwell recently added ramen to their offerings, nicely rounding out their menu with this Japanese staple. Every aspect of Nantucket Poke is prepared inhouse, which is to say inside their custom-designed mobile kitchen that Wright parks daily at either Cisco Brewers, Nobadeer Beach or Cisco Beach. The team also has an agreement with the Nantucket Boys & Girls Club, enabling them to use the club’s profes-
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Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman speaks on behalf of A Safe Place
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hen Aly Raisman stepped onto the podium at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro to receive the third gold medal of her gymnastics career, it was hard to imagine reaching a higher moment in her life. On the heels of winning gold in both the team and floor events in the London Games, Raisman was once again on the podium receiving her sixth medal, making her the second most decorated female Olympic gymnast. Yes, there would be many other accomplishments to come—endorsement deals, clothing lines, her face on a Wheaties box—but what could possibly compare to the grand achievement
as Raisman powerfully detailed how he abused his position as a doctor to sexually assault her since she was sixteen years old. She spoke forcefully, not only to Nassar and those gathered in the courtroom, but to the world beyond, which at that very moment was undergoing a cataclysmic shift brought on by the #MeToo Movement. “Let this sentence strike fear in anyone who thinks it is OK to hurt another person,” Raisman said. “Abusers, your time is up. The survivors are here, standing tall, and we are not going anywhere.” On July 10th and 11th, Raisman will be bringing this message to Nantucket in support of A Safe
“My mission today is to be the best version of myself and encourage others to do the same by speaking their truth.”
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of winning gold on the world’s most competitive stage? Yet three years later, this Needham, Massachusetts, native has transcended sport to become a powerful force against the abuse of women and children. “My mission today is to be the best version of myself and encourage others to do the same by speaking their truth,” Raisman told N Magazine, a few weeks before coming to Nantucket to speak on behalf of A Safe Place. A little over a year ago, in January 2018, Raisman was in a courtroom in Lansing, Michigan, speaking her own painful truth to a man who had serially molested her and her teammates for more than a decade. Larry Nassar, the disgraced U.S. gymnastics team doctor, looked like a hollow shell of a human being
Place, a vital organization that has been dedicated to protecting women and children from domestic violence and sexual assault on the island for more than thirty years. She will be speaking at Nantucket High School on the evening of Wednesday the 10th and will be appearing at a luncheon the next day. “Aly—like the survivors that we are working with—is a true hero to have survived such horrific events and to be able to move forward with one foot in front of the other,” says Jennifer Frazee, who has been with A Safe Place for the last thirteen years and serves as executive director. “Aly’s story is one of strength and courage, and I hope that her sharing it will empower other survivors to have a voice, to know that they deserve better, that life can move forward, and that there is hope.”
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Aly Raisman partnered with Aerie—a subdivision of American Eagle Outfitters—in creating the “survivor” swimsuit as part of its #AerieRealRoleModel campaign. Fifteen percent of the sales from the swimsuit went to benefit Darkness to Light, a nonprofit committed to empowering adults to prevent child 85 sexual abuse. Photo from Aerie.
“Let this sentence strike fear in anyone who thinks it is OK to hurt another person. Abusers, your time is up. The survivors are here, standing tall, and we are not going anywhere.” — Aly Raisman
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Safe Place began as a telephone hotline in 1987 that provided a lifeline to women suffering from abuse on Nantucket. Their services have since multiplied to include five direct programs that include court advocacy, case management, supervised visitations, supportive counseling, trauma therapy and accompanying victims at the police department or emergency room in the wake of an attack. These services are especially critical on Nantucket, where A Safe Place serves between three hundred and five hundred women and children each year. “First of all, there’s really no place to hide,” explains Jane Carlin, president of A Safe Place, when asked how combating domestic violence poses unique challenges on Nantucket. “You’re in Stop & Shop, you’re over at the pharmacy, you’re going about your daily life and there could be the person that hit you last night. Or your rapist is out on bail. It’s really hard for people in that situation to feel 100 percent safe at all times … you can be more anonymous elsewhere.” A Safe Place serves as a protective cloak for those in desperate need of help by extricating them from dangerous situations and getting them to the care they need, whether that be in a courtroom, a hospital, a
police station or a shelter off island. The organization also has a number of educational programs to teach Nantucket youth proper behavior. Despite how vital these services are to the community, fundraising for A Safe Place has been a continual struggle since its inception. “There’s not a lot of
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‘warm fuzzies’ to play on,” says Linda Hoey, A Safe Place’s second vice president who has been in the trenches fundraising for a decade. “It’s not something that everybody gravitates towards. People don’t understand that this problem happens on Nantucket. So our first challenge is raising awareness around the fact that this is a problem on the island across all socioeconomic ranges.” In the past, A Safe Place has used events like “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” to raise awareness, but Hoey says that the walk has run its course. Instead, the organization is now turning to powerful advocates like Aly Raisman to help champion their cause and draw new supporters into their fold.
Few could be more qualified to help deliver the change A Safe Place is fighting for on Nantucket. After joining her teammates in bringing Larry Nassar to justice, which set in motion a reckoning for USA Gymnastics as a whole, Raisman launched her own initiative called Flip the Switch dedicated to protecting athletes from sexual violence. Whether through her advocacy campaigns, clothing lines, or speaking engagements, Raisman exemplifies heroism and bravery far beyond the gym mat, committing herself to a cause far bigger than winning Olympic gold. “I’m looking forward to sharing my message on Nantucket,” Raisman said. “I hope that it will help others make self-care a priority and know that they deserve to be heard.” For tickets to Aly Raisman’s appearance or to contribute to A Safe Place, visit asafeplace.org.
“Aly’s story is one of strength and courage, and I hope that her sharing it will empower other survivors to have a voice, to know that they deserve better, that life can move forward, and that there is hope.” — Jennifer Frazee, the executive director of A Safe Place
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Mike Allen and his team are redefining the meaning of shipshape
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ike Allen designs dream boats. Whatever you can think up, he and his team at Tidal Creeks Boatworks will find a way to make it float. Painstakingly designing and handcrafting every square inch, they create what Allen describes as “gentlemen’s fishing boats” that are unmistakable on the water. On an island steeped in maritime history, Allen and his team are literally carving out the next generation of Nantucket-born boats one hull at a time. From their state-of-the-art boat building facility located on Square Rigger Road, Tidal Creeks Boatworks takes only one or two commissions per year, with each boat sporting a distinctive look and feel that comes from working closely with clients, who remain involved from start to finish. “At this point I have built thirty-six boats, and it all starts with a conversation,” says Allen, who explains that this personal approach can at times allow the owner to alter aspects of the design mid-stream, an unusual level of flexibility that can occasionally make his and his team’s work more challenging, but one that also keeps his clients involved in an “organic process.” This presents an advantage that has resulted in a high level of customer satisfaction, with clients often commissioning multiple boats with his firm.
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hen asked about the special types of boats Tidal Creeks builds, Allen explains that boats are often identified by region. “Maine boats look a certain way, Carolina and Florida boats have a certain look, and then
Tidal Creeks’ practicality and durability. Crafted through a process called “cold molding,” the boats start out upside-down on a special wooden rack that is designed to hold them throughout the building process. The rack eventually gets covered in
the authentic Nantucket connection customers experience when doing business with Allen. Both Allen and his father are true Nantucket natives, being born in the Cottage Hospital, and Allen’s grandfather, “an innovative, entrepreneurial guy,” once
Mike Allen designs dream boats. Whatever you can think up, he and his team at Tidal Creeks Boatworks will find a way to make it float.
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Palm Beach boats also have their own style. Then there are West Coast boats. They look much more commercial and industrial. I build in the Palm Beach style, which originated after World War II when sport fishing boats became popular in Florida. Rybovich, Merritt and Whiticar are my biggest influences. I build on their coattails, but with a special New England flair.” Like most expert design firms, the team at Tidal Creeks strives to create a perfect intersection of form and functionality. Tidal Creeks’ “gentlemen’s fishing boats” are aesthetically distinctive with sleek lines and a streamlined silhouette also inspired by Hinckley boats, but with
a fiberglass overlay so it becomes part of the boat’s structure and is meticulously painted to resemble wood. In this sense, Tidal Creeks’ boats present a distinct advantage, because they require much less maintenance than a traditional wooden boat. Part of Tidal Creeks’ appeal is
owned Don Allen Ford and several gas stations onisland and was an expert automobile and airplane mechanic who served as director of the Civil Aeronautics Administration (now the Federal Aeronautics Administration). Business and engineering are in Allen’s blood, as is the kind of discipline that seems to come naturally to him. His background ranges from competitive athletics to service in the
U.S. Air Force. “I had aspirations to go to the Air Force Academy, but I wound up enlisting instead,” he says. “I’d always been involved in the boating world, though, and I’ve always had a passion for the water here on Nantucket. When I was in the Air
come through here, but not all of them can necessarily make it work year-round.” Some of Allen’s clients think of him as an artist, but he considers himself more of a craftsman. “I love the creative process, but there are
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Force, I’d plan my leaves around the times when it can really drag, and we scallop season on Nantucket.” are all exhausted by the end, but we For Allen, building a solid team always learn something, and we are is as important as crafting the peralways striving to do better.” When fect boat. He’s emphatic on this asked to describe his own aesthetic, point: “It’s teamwork that makes it Allen says, “All of my boats look as possible for me to pursue my pasif they are from the same family. I sion.” He claims that, while he want it to be visual. I want people to could theoretically tackle building a say, ‘Oh, that’s a Tidal Creeks boat.’ custom boat on his own, it would be My boats are timeless, elegant, clean so time-consuming that the already and fast.” slim profit margins of the business would make it all but impossible. James Vincent, Parker Graham, Will Smith, J.C. Johnson, Mike Ricker and Crystal Ray round out the Tidal Creeks operation, which also includes full-service boat storage and maintenance. Providing excellent opportu“All of my boats look nities for year-round as if they are from the same employment on-isfamily...My boats are timeless, land is also something elegant, clean and fast.” Allen takes pride in. — Mike Allen “We have had plenty of talented people
“It’s teamwork that makes it possible for me to pursue my passion.”
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Sergio Roffo channels his love of sailing and the ocean into his vivid paintings.
How Sergio Roffo captures the island’s essence one stroke at a time.
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hen Sergio Roffo was growing up in an Italian-American neighborhood west of Boston, the thought of becoming a professional fine art painter was outlandish—if not downright discouraged. After all, his parents were bootstrapping, blue-collar immigrants who believed in working hard with their hands—not so much with paintbrushes, but picks and shovels. Roffo immigrated to the United States at the age of seven with his mother and five siblings from a tiny village in southeastern Italy called San Donato Val di Comino. The family spent two weeks aboard the SS Augustus to reach the United States. Though he didn’t know it at the time, Roffo’s transatlantic voyage would be the beginning of a lifelong relationship with the ocean that continues to inspire his distinguished career today. N magazine
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offo is widely regarded as one of the preeminent fine art painters in the country. His acclaim has come by way of moodinspiring renderings of beaches, sailboats and maritime landscapes, many of them set on Nantucket. Roffo makes multiple painting pilgrimages to the island each year from his home in Scituate, working en plein air to complete each canvas in a single sitting. “I’ve been coming out here for more than thirty years,” he says. “All you have to do is go to the coast, unfold your easel and find a composition.”
“His warm palette and lush greens make us long to put our toes in the sand and feel the sun on our faces.”
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But carving out a career as a painter was hardly a day at the beach. Roffo took a circuitous route to find his feet in the sand and brush in his hand. As Roffo was growing up in Boston, his father tried to convince him to work in the trades. “I was a bulldozer operator, a backhoe operator, truck driver, laborer—you name it, I did it,” he says. “But I kept coming back to my dream of attending art school and just couldn’t see my life as a construction worker.” Roffo’s par-
ents eventually struck a compromise with their youngest son: He could go to art school, but he’d have to study commercial art, which they reasoned might prevent him from becoming a starving artist. After graduating with a degree in commercial art, Roffo landed a cushy gig in the downtown offices of Fidelity Investments, where he worked as a designer in the audio/visual department. But he still felt a restlessness within him. Roffo wanted to pursue fine arts. During his lunch breaks at Fidelity, he would head to Boston Harbor and break out his watercolors to paint maritime scenes. “I knew this was what I wanted to do, to be a real painter,” Roffo recalls. “So I took the leap and quit my job at Fidelity to pursue my dream.” Fast-forward forty years and Roffo is one of the most collected artists showing on Nantucket and beyond. “Whether capturing a resting catboat with mist rising or a windswept beach dune or the Moors, Sergio has a unique ability to transport the viewer to their favorite spot on the island,” says Chris Quidley, who
Roffo’s paintings are available at Quidley & Company on Main Street
fellow of the American Society of Marine Arts. “His dedication to the heart of a place also shows in his works from Italy, South Carolina, California and beyond. In short, Sergio truly does represent the very best in marine art.” Beyond his painterly techniques, Roffo also credits the Old World work ethic that his parents instilled in him early on as the source of his success. “I knew that someday I would make a living at this, but it wasn’t easy,” he says. “I consider myself a very competitive guy—whether it’s on the tennis courts or back in the days of the hockey rink— and that competitiveness is the same in this business.” In addition to continuing his painting trips to Nantucket, Roffo also returns most years to his native village in Italy to paint. Very few of those Italian landscapes, however, ever find their way into the galleries where his iconic coastal paintings hang. Perhaps they’re too personal. Instead, Roffo
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has been showing Roffo’s work in his Main Street gallery since opening in 2006. “His warm palette and lush greens make us long to put our toes in the sand and feel the sun on our faces.” Indeed, Roffo’s color palette and precise brush strokes yield “Sergio Roffo’s paintings have a quiet beauty that airy landscape paintings where the sea perfectly captures the feeling of New England’s breeze seems to waft right off the canvas. timeless waters…In short, Sergio truly “Every established artist has his own signadoes represent the very best in marine art.” ture, if you will,” Roffo says. “My materi— Lisa Egeli, the president and fellow of the American Society of Marine Arts als, technique, subject matter and the way I apply my colors is what distinguishes me hangs them in his home, reminding him from the rest.” of the long journey that got him where “Sergio Roffo’s paintings have a quiet beauty that perfectly captures the he is today. feeling of New England’s timeless waters,” says Lisa Egeli, the president and
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TURNING GARBAGE INTO GUCCI, CISCO BREWERS HAS MADE RECYCLING TRENDY AGAIN
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othing about picking up trash is particularly sexy, but one summer event on the island has achieved exactly that. On July 9th, Cisco Brewers will roll out the runway once again for the fourth annual Trashion Show, a visual extravaganza that combines stunning models, creative clothing designers and heaps of garbage collected from the surrounding beaches to raise awareness around sustainability and waste reduction. The brainchild of Cisco Brewers partner Jay Harman, all proceeds of the event go to supporting ACK Clean Team, a volunteer organization dedicated to keeping Nantucket litter free. “Our goal is not to raise environmental awareness for a single day,” says Tracy Wilde Long, the manager of Cisco Brewers, which has achieved its goal of drastically reducing plastic waste in recent years. “We want people to take our message home and
make it a part of their everyday lives whether that is on Nantucket or not.” Hosted by Holly Finigan of Nantucket blACKbook and “Uncle Ricky,” the Trashion Show inspires people to take a fresh look at their everyday waste and its impact on the island. The festivities kick off with an island-wide beach cleanup, where Trashion Show designers scout for materials to create their runway wardrobe. During the first Trashion Show, some designers ordered materials like plastic utensils and straws online to create their outfits—completely defeating the point of the show. Since then, stricter guidelines have been put in place, emphasizing that the materials actually need to be gathered during the beach cleanup. “You start to view the trash in a different light,” says veteran Trashion Show designer Fraser Long. Lindsay Feller modeling at last year’s Trashion Show
“A washed-up fishing net becomes a gown that looks like real runway clothing, not just someone dressing up in a costume.” Long is teaming up again this year with model Katie Turnage to create an ensemble that highlights the environmental consequences of keeping a perfectly groomed garden. “Many people don’t think about how something natural like a garden actually generates a lot of waste,” Turnage says. “Even if just one person takes our message to heart, it will be worth it.” Support for the Trashion Show has grown significantly over the last four years, literally elevating the event from a junky runway of flattened cardboard boxes to a three-foothigh catwalk that rivals that of the glitziest fashion shows. Past shows have grabbed front-page headlines with surprise runway appearances by the likes of Barstool Sports media titan Dave Portnoy, pop star Brynn Cartelli and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover model Camille Kostek. With hair and makeup services donated by RJ Miller Salon & Spa and Darya Salon & Spa and lodging for celebrity guests provided by Harborview Nantucket, the Trashion Show is made possible through a community effort, including the help of dozens of volunteers.
“Our goal is not to raise environmental awareness for a single day… We want people to take our message home and make it a part of their everyday lives whether that is on Nantucket or not.” — Tracy Wilde Long, the manager of Cisco Brewers
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“You start to view the trash in a different light. A washedup fishing net becomes a gown that looks like real runway clothing, not just someone dressing up in a costume.” — Trashion Show designer, Fraser Long
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Model Katie Turnage strutting the catwalk in last year’s Trashion Show.
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Most of all, the Trashion Show puts a fashionable face on the unsung work being done by the many volunteers who spend their Saturdays picking up trash around the island. Since the early 2000s, ACK Clean Team has collected hundreds of tons of trash from every corner of Nantucket. Every week year-round, a new location is posted for volunteers to converge on wearing rubber gloves and bearing trash bags. Picking wrappers out of poison ivy and balloons off the beaches, the ACK Clean Team is trying to ensure that of all the models strutting the catwalk at Cisco Brewers, the Grey Lady remains the most beautiful of all. To join the ACK Clean Team, contact wconnell@connellandersen.com.
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How financier Mark Tercek became an unlikely environmental leader
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“I believe business can be— and usually is—a force for good…it makes very compelling business sense for almost all companies to be as smart and as opportunistic as they can in addressing environmental challenges.” — Mark Tercek
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believe business can be— and usually is—a force for good,” Tercek says. “Generally speaking, it makes very compelling business sense for almost all companies to be as smart and as opportunistic as they can in addressing environmental challenges.” Tercek is uniquely qualified to deliver this message. At the age of twenty-nine, he made partner at Goldman Sachs right as the company went public, but was looking for a career change. Environmentalism had only recently interested him, mainly through taking eco-tours with his family to places like Costa Rica and Belize. “I was not a lifelong nature guy,” says Tercek, who grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and spent most of his life in urban settings. “But I think there’s an inner envi-
ronmentalist in almost anyone and I’m an example of a latein-life convert.” In 2005, Tercek expressed his interest in pursuing a career in the environment to Henry Paulson, the then-CEO of Goldman Sachs who later became the Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush. But Paulson convinced Tercek to
stay on with the firm, suggesting that he build out a new environmental arm of Goldman Sachs. “Today, that’s a very conventional idea,” Tercek says. “But in 2005 that was a radical concept.” For the next two and a half years, he developed a strategy of harnessing businesses as a force for good in combating environmental crises.
Then, in 2008, a headhunter approached him seeking a recommendation for a candidate to lead The Nature Conservancy, one of the world’s most powerful environmental organizations with a million members spread out over all fifty states and seventy-two countries. Tercek nominated himself for the position. “Just about everyone said they’re never going to hire a Wall Street banker,” he recalls. “But I really hustled and lo and behold I got the job. So on a Friday in July of 2008 I left Goldman Sachs and on Monday, I started at The Nature Conservancy.”
He was hardly a natural fit for The Nature Conservancy. A fast-talking dealmaker from Wall Street, Tercek was still pretty green when it came to the ins and outs of the environmental movement. “Culturally, I don’t think I played my cards very well at the beginning,” he admits. “Right after I joined in 2008, the financial crisis reached its zenith.” As a capital intensive organization requiring upwards of $600 million of fundraising each year, The Nature Conservancy quaked as Lehman Brothers and AIG went bust the month after Tercek started.
“I think there’s an inner environmentalist in almost anyone and I’m an example of a late-in-life convert.” — Mark Tercek
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“The world is a huge place, if we try to save the world one project at a time, it’s not bad, but it’s insufficient.” — Mark Tercek
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eeting the crisis head on, Tercek unleashed his twenty-six years of Wall Street bullishness in leading the nonprofit through the crisis, but he ruffled some feathers in the process. “I think I made pretty good decisions, but on the interpersonal front, things weren’t optimal,” he reflects. “People didn’t enjoy working with me.” Recognizing this, he hired a CEO coach who helped him reshape his approach. He also started learning more from the tenured organization members, who were benefiting from Tercek’s financial savvy. Gradually, they formed a constructive team that is now unleashing a revolutionary approach to saving the planet. Instead of focusing exclusively on land conservation—The Nature Conservancy has put 119 million acres of land and thousands of miles of rivers and shoreline around the world in conservation since its founding in 1951—Tercek pushed to partner with more and more private companies that could maximize the organization’s efforts. To start, he explains, companies benefit from reducing waste, increasing efficiency and creating more goodwill among their employees, shareholders and clients. “We’ve encouraged companies to go beyond that and think about environmental challenges that they could address through their skillset that might not have the immediate benefit of increasing efficiency, but would benefit them nonetheless,” he explains. He points to companies like FEMSA, the dominant Coca-Cola bottling company in Latin America, which The Nature Conservancy teamed up with to restore watersheds and water quality in the many areas where the company set up
“It would be hard to find an opportunity where $40 million could unlock $1.5 billion.” — Mark Tercek
and injecting philanthropic giving from European nations that are interested in supporting marine conservation in the developing world. All of these savings are then held in an offshore trust fund, which the organization will release to the country as it meets the various agreed on conservation benchmarks.
“We think it all adds up to a really robust strategy,” Tercek says. At press time, The Nature Conservancy was trying to raise $40 million, which would pay for the manpower to do twenty of these projects in the next five years. “Through the debt restructuring we think we could mobilize about a billion and a half dollars for marine conservation,” Tercek claims. “It would be hard to find an opportunity where $40 million could unlock $1.5 billion.” Though he’s optimistic about the potential impact that The Nature Conservancy’s projects offer, Tercek says that real, meaningful
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manufacturing plants. This not only addressed a risk that the company might face down the line, namely access to clean water, but it also nurtured goodwill within the community. “We’re better when we team up with a business like that,” Tercek says. “Businesses know how to get results.” The companies also bring vital financial support to The Nature Conservancy while also elevating the profile of the project, which could encourage competitors to take a similar tack. “The world is a huge place, if we try to save the world one project at a time, it’s not bad, but it’s insufficient,” Tercek explains. “We think when we partner with other businesses like this, other businesses will imitate, and we might have a better chance to accelerate success.” The approach has caught flack from some hardline environmentalists who point to some projects or companies that the organization has become involved with that appear counterintuitive to the goals of the environmental movement. Indeed, under Tercek, The Nature Conservancy has partnered on dam projects and with the Dow chemical company. Yet for Tercek, achieving the ultimate objectives for the environment requires pragmatism over idealism. Tercek’s latest campaign—known as Blue Bonds for Conservation— switches the focus to incentivizing countries, specifically island and coastal nations, to protect their surrounding waters and marine habitats. Through the Blue Bonds program, The Nature Conservancy will refinance a country’s national debt in return for the government’s commitment to protect 30 percent of its near-shore ocean areas. The Nature Conservancy will create a pool of capital by buying up the country’s national debt at a discount, issuing new debt with better interest rates
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“We are so far behind where we need to be on climate change, it kind of breaks my heart.”
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change to the future of the environaffiliations in descending on Capitol wife, Amy, and their four children ment hinges on governmental policy. Hill. “We bombard[ed] everybody in spend their down time on Nantucket. He believes that the United States is the Senate and the House with our Amy Tercek’s parents lived in Sconamong the global leaders that have pragmatic, nonpartisan recommenset for most of their lives, prompting taken a crushing step backward in dations for environmental policy,” the couple to eventually buy their own addressing climate change, home there. Though The Naand he hopes business leadture Conservancy spans the “My hat is off to the Nantucket ers can force the hand of globe, Tercek is not involved conservation organizations… policymakers to get it back directly with the conservation Everybody who enjoys Nantucket on track. “We are so far beorganizations on Nantucket, should support these great hind where we need to be on beyond cheering for them from organizations because that’s why climate change, it kind of the sidelines. “My hat is off Nantucket is so nice.” breaks my heart,” he says. to the Nantucket conservation “Now, when we work with organizations,” he says. “Ev— Mark Tercek businesses, my first ask is erybody who enjoys Nantucket for them to commit to work hard he says. “We, the royal we, all of us, should support these great organizawith us to get the policy that we need to do as much of that as we postions because that’s why Nantucket is need—because this is in their best sibly can because the stakes are just so nice.” Tercek sees Nantucket on the interest as business persons, too.” In so damn high.” frontlines of the global fight to save mid-June, Tercek led four hundred When he’s not knocking on the planet. And though the challenges Nature Conservancy chapter leadcongressional doors or launching loom large, Tercek says it’s never too ers from every state and all political projects in the field, Tercek and his late to invest in our future.
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Step inside some of the most exclusive clubs on the island
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n an island where yacht clubs and golf clubs can fetch six figure initiation fees, there are a handful of organizations where no amount of money can buy a membership. Secret societies like the Union Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons, the Maddequet Admiralty Association and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows fly far below the radar. Historically, these highly private organizations were a means for like-minded men to gather and socialize. But that’s now changing, as these enclaves are becoming more inclusive, with members speaking passionately about awarding scholarships and other kinds of financial aid to diverse recipients on the island. Despite the contributions of these organizations to the community, very few from outside their ranks have been allowed entry into their halls. Until now. With a little bit of digging and a promise not to spill any secrets, N Magazine gained access to some of the island’s most tight-lipped clubs.
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n a bright, sunny day in late May, Carl Sjolund was out in his twentythree-foot scalloping boat, digging littlenecks in Madaket harbor. He was throwing an Admiralty dinner, and he planned to serve stuffed clams and Alaskan cod caught by his son Jim, a mate on a longliner in the Bering Sea. “It’s the only building in Madaket with a cannon in the front yard,” Sjolund says of the clubhouse on Tennessee Avenue that is almost within casting distance of Hither Creek. The World War I-era cannon is fired to mark events such as the dinners Sjolund and others host for 130 or so men and family members. Of those, a few dozen, like Sjolund, are life members who have attended meetings, fishing tournaments and social events with the Admiralty for more than twenty years. “This is the last stronghold on Nantucket,” says Commodore Woody Lindley, who stands behind a bar with a working compass embedded in its lacquered top. “Most of the people here have been on Nantucket a long time.” In the 1930s, the founders of the Admiralty Club’s goal was to promote the social well-being of the handful of families inhabiting Madaket, Lindley says. That meant ensuring that roads and electricity extended to the far end of the island. Today, the Admiralty raises tens of thousands of dollars for scholarships for Nantucket high school students. Lindley calls the club low-key and family-oriented. Prospective members are sponsored by an existing member and attend up to a year’s worth of meetings before they’re “spoken on and voted on,” Lindley says. But he acknowledges that the membership is aging—“We keep a defibrillator in the kitchen,” he quips— and he sees fewer young families at fishing tournaments. Lloyd Arnold, another lifetime member, describes the rough wooden clubhouse his grandfather helped build as a glorified fishing stage, the hastily throwntogether waterside shacks for salting and drying cod. The wood-beamed Admiralty clubhouse, with its winches, lines and enormous ship’s wheel chandelier, feels like it’s about to set sail in one of the regattas the club used to host. Today, it’s one of the last bastions of old Nantucket, kept alive by a group of hardy islanders who have no problem keeping secrets.
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Norris enjoys sharing a history with the bearded men whose faded images are framed in gold in the hall’s antechamber. “We strive to do good,” he says. “We give away a ton of money every year, and we’re not looking for accolades. We’re a brotherhood of men who want to be around other men who are doing good.”
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eville Richen walks a visitor through a raftered Bartlett Road clubhouse that he says reminds him of an upside-down ship. Outside, a flag—with three chain links representing friendship, love and truth—flutters in the breeze. Like the Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows is a worldwide fraternal organization with Bible-inspired rituals, symbols and lofty-sounding goals such as “elevating the character of mankind.” They, too, boast a storied past on Nantucket with whaling-captain members dating back to 1845. Their “oddness,” says unofficial Odd Fellows historian and local entrepreneur Sean Dew, stemmed from a willingness to help strangers. The first lodge of the Odd Fellows was formed in the United States the day after Christmas in 1806. The founding members were three boat builders, a singer and a comedian—a group well in keeping with the name Odd Fellows. Meetings were held in taverns where members enjoyed “mirth and merrymaking.” New lodges sprouted up slowly leading up to the Civil War, including the one on Nantucket. After the war, the Odd Fellows’ popularity exploded and, since that time, the organization has amassed hundreds of thousands of members around the world. One of those members is Neville Richen.
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A New York-born actor, Richen came to Nantucket in the 1970s to work with the now-defunct Actors Theatre. He joined the Odd Fellows in 1994 and has served as Grand Master of the local chapter. If no one else steps up, he might serve a second term. Richen, who is seventy-five, says, “There’s some old timers like me and then there’s a whole bunch of young guys.” Like Norris, Richen is wary of giving too much information away. He refers to members by initials to protect those who want to keep their affiliation hush-hush. After all, what’s an inner sanctum, if you can’t keep its secrets?
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owever, the surfing community ultimately people,” he says. So in 2011 he became a volunteer didn’t fulfill Webb’s desire to connect in the firefighter on Nantucket, enrolled in paramedic school most meaningful way. “I don’t know that I rein Cambridge, and then served at the Falmouth Fire ally like people who are just surfDepartment for three years. When ers all that much,” he says. “The Nantucket started hiring paramed“I was possessed by the idea ones I admired always had someics for the first time, Webb decided of becoming a professional thing else going on, like the ones to move back home. “Nantucket surfer from a really young age. who were ER physicians, or the was only at the EMT (emergency It’s the persona that I adopted. guys who were also in the military. medical technician) level for a It’s who I thought other My older brother was in the spelong time,” he explains. “Parapeople wanted me to be.” cial forces and he was an impormedics are licensed under a doctant influence.” tor to push multiple medications. — Ryan Webb After graduating from NanAs a paramedic, I can also do intucket High School, Webb traded his wetsuit for firevasive procedures, advanced airway treatments and fighting gear. “I knew I needed to start helping other use specialized equipment.”
“It struck a really deep chord in me. The thing about substance abuse is that it’s not a villain you can see.” — Ryan Webb
As fate would have it, Webb would soon use those skills to try and save a life. Two years ago while surfing in Mexico, he learned that a man had a heart attack on top of a building that was under heavy construction. Without hesitation, Webb climbed up the scaffolding to come to the man’s rescue. “It was a nasty extrication from the top of the building, because I had to do CPR the whole way down,” he said. “It was a five-story building, and I had
to climb the scaffolding barefoot. I wound up going back to the hospital with the patient in the ambulance, trying to revive him. The family showed up, and it was tragic, but at the same time it gave me a sense of purpose. I wasn’t just surfing. I was a part of what is actually going on in the world.” Soon after the events in Mexico, in what seems like a bitter irony, while serving as a paramedic on the front lines of Nantucket’s opi-
oid crisis, Webb lost two family members to complications involving addiction. “It struck a really deep chord in me,” he reflects. “The thing about substance abuse is that it’s not a villain you can see.” Even in the face of such deep loss, he felt compelled to further strengthen his path and purpose. “The empathy I now have towards a patient who is having a hard time, on multiple different levels, really helps me as a health-care provider.”
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“The more squared away I am with my own mental and physical fitness, the more ready to go I am when there’s a big swell.” — Ryan Webb
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In this sense, the mental and physical discipline of surfing, of embracing the immense and unpredictable power of the ocean, has prepared Webb for life as a paramedic. “Every morning when I get up, I read to center myself. The more sourced I am on a platform that has a doctrine of order, the more effective I am in a chaotic situation. The more squared away I am with my own mental and physical fitness, the more ready to go I am when there’s a big swell.” And as Ryan Webb has learned all too well over the years, the biggest swells can come when you least expect them.
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From supermodel to cult survivor, the remarkable journey of Hoyt Richards
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n the late 1980s, Hoyt Richards apeventually buying a home in Shimmo where peared to be living a picture-perfect his children enjoyed idyllic summers growexistence. Dubbed the “first male suing up. “Under those circumstances,” Richpermodel,” Richards rose to international fame ards remembers, “the one adjective I’d use posing alongside the likes of Cindy Crawford, to describe Nantucket would be ‘safe.’” Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell for top Then one summer, when Richards was sixfashion photographers around the world. He apteen, he was approached by a stranger on Nopeared on the covers of countless magazines, badeer Beach. Older, attractive and charismatone of which ran a ic, the man set up splashy fifty-eighthis beach blanket page photo spread right next to Richdedicated entirely ards’ and struck to him. And there up a conversation, were brains behind introducing himRichards’ beauty. self as Frederick Before he was jetvon Mierers. “I setting between realized that I had exotic shoot locaheard about him tions, he attended through my friend Princeton where he group on the isHoyt Richards (far left) with his family on Nantucket. played football. Yet land,” Richards behind his easy athleticism, Ivy League educasays. “They told me about this guy who was tion and impossible good looks, Richards was this flashback to the sixties and was one of the living a shocking secret life—one that began early adopters of health food, new age thinkyears earlier on Nantucket. ing, gems and crystals, meditation and yoga.” Long before he became the face of Ford Drawing a yin and yang symbol in the sand, Models, Hoyt Richards went by John Richvon Mierers waxed whimsically to Richards ards Hoyt. He was one of six children born to about Eastern philosophy, astrology, and ala family from the Main Line, Pennsylvania, ternative thinking. At the time, Richards was who spent their summers on Nantucket. His pondering the many existential questions of father proposed to his mother on the island life and von Mierers appeared to have some of during just their third date. Her conditions the answers. Richards had no reason to have for their marriage were simple: She wanted his guard up, especially on Nantucket. He had to have a big family, and she wanted to spend no way of knowing that von Mierers would ulevery summer on Nantucket. Richards’ fatimately lure him into a cult that would claim ther agreed and made good on that promise, more than twenty years of his life.
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“Part of the indoctrination process is learning not to question the leader. The peer pressure element of the group psyche is designed to suppress your critical thinking. If no one else is saying anything, why would you?”
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fter that first encounter on Nobadeer Beach, Richards attended parties at von Mierers’ house on India Street where only the most beautiful people were invited to attend. Von Mierers rented the same house every summer and filled it with friends from Manhattan. He ran his house like a ship. After nightly parties, von Mierers would wake up everyone early to clean up from the previous night’s festivities and make them prepare for the party to come. Then he’d set his roommates out onto the beaches bearing white cards with his address on them to recruit a new flock of beautiful people to party with them that night. “It all seemed innocuous to me,” Richards remem(Above) Richards on the beach on Nanbers. “At the time, I was tucket in his teens. oblivious that he already (Below) Richards with his siblings had a group of friends he flying to the island. (Photos courtesy was controlling. I was reof Robert T. Hoyt’s ally just going to his parfamily archives) ties for the free beer. At sixteen, believe me, that was enough.” At the end of the summer in 1981, after a year of studying abroad in London, Richards “The pathology of a cult leader headed to Princeton for is very similar to a serial killer. college. Von Mierers inLike a serial killer, they get sisted that he come and better as they do it, and continue to visit him in New York refine how they hunt their prey.” City that fall, where he said he could get the — Hoyt Richards eighteen-year-old into the legendary club, Studio 54. “He knew the doorman,” Richards remembers. “The first time I walked in there, I was addressed by a woman wearing nothing but scotch tape. I ended up hanging out with Andy Warhol, Truman Capote and Liza Minnelli. As an eighteen-year-old, I thought this is it—I have arrived.” So began frequent trips back and forth from Princeton to New York City to stay with von Mierers and the entourage of friends that he always seemed to have around. They party-hopped every night, with von Mierers constantly hunting for more beautiful people to draw into his fold. Charming and always immaculately dressed, von Mierers could talk a perfect stranger into a cab headed off to another party. For his part, Richards was just happy to be along for the ride. “I thought I was working him,” he says. “I had this guy in New York taking me to all the best parties, meeting famous people.” Little did he know, he was actually the one getting played.
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During his sophomore year at Princeton, Richards suffered a shoulder injury that sidelined him on the football field. He went to see a surgeon in New York City who Richards with his father on the Princeton footabll sidelines. told him (Photo courtesy of Robert T. Hoyt family archives.) that they might be able to repair his shoulder, but there was no way of knowing if he’d be able to get back on the field before graduation. Dejected, Richards left the doctor’s office and linked up with one of von Mierers’ friends, a commercial actor who just so happened to be meeting with his agent that afternoon. Waiting for his friend in the agent’s office, Richards caught the eye of one of the talent scouts who asked him if he’d ever considered becoming an actor. “All of a sudden, on the same day when I found out I couldn’t play football, I have someone telling me that I could be an actor,” he remembers. Acting led to modeling, and before he knew it, Richards was heading off to fashion shoots and commercial auditions in New York between his classes at Princeton. He relocated to New York City full-time after graduating college and moved into von Mierers’ apartment where he slept on the floor while he pur-
In 1990, Vanity Fair published a scathing story on Freddy von Mierers. (Image from Vanity Fair archives.)
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sued his modeling career. “That’s really when the hooks went in,” he says. “I saw that Freddy was start“Freddy would espouse that when the end times ing a movement.” Between partying at Studio 54 and come, these space people were going to come down summering on Nantucket, by the mid-eighties, von in their ships and pick us up... As ludicrous as that Mierers had groomed an entourage of nearly a hunsounds, at that point I was so brainwashed dred followers. Much like he did with Richards on the beach, von Mierers revealed his teachings to his “stuI would’ve believed almost anything.” dents” gradually, using astrological charts, gem stones — Hoyt Richards and an amalgamation of religions to seduce them. “Freddy presented the idea that spiritual life didn’t have to be heavy ing anything, why refine how they hunt their prey.” As the and serious,” Richards explains. “Evwould you? And cult grew, von Mierers began running an erything was acceptable; you just had you certainly did illegal gem racket, selling stones that he to be sincere and devoted. You didn’t not want to conclaimed possessed healing powers to his have to be a monk or give up anything. front or challenge followers for tens of thousands of dollars. You just needed to be unattached to the Freddy directly Huddled in his studio apartment, von material world. He would constantly and possibly inMierers prophesied about the coming say that with the proper mindset you voke his wrath. apocalypse and eventually started sharcould experience the world as God’s We were dealing ing his visions with the outside world higher cocktail party on earth.” with a volatile, on a radio program as well as his own Richards describes his indoctriunstable personcable access television show. “Freddy nation into what became known as ality. He had quite would espouse that when the end times Eternal Values as a slow burn, begina temper.” come, these space people were going to ning as an innocent pursuit for selfThe inner circle come down in their ships and pick us improvement that gradually grew of Eternal Valup,” Richards remembers. “He said that more extreme and more bizarre. “The ues operated out while the majority of the world’s popubest way to describe it is like boiling of von Mierers’ lation gets wiped out, we would have a frog,” Richards reflects. “If you put apartment buildaccess to the rejuvenation chambers a frog in hot water, it jumps right out. ing where Richand be trained by our benevolent space But if you put a frog in lukewarm waEternal Values cult leader, Fredrick von brothers and sisters. Then they would Mierers (images courtesy of Hoyt Richards) ards and a dozen ter and incrementally turn up the heat, others lived, bring us back to Earth in the aftermath it will stay in there until it boils.” Von Mierers revealed partied and stayed up into the early where we would become great leaders to Richards and his fellow followers that, in his previmorning hours listening to von Mierto the next eon of prosperity on Earth. As ous life, he lived in a “light body” on the distant star ers preach. “The pathology of a cult ludicrous as that sounds, at that point I Arcturus. He claimed that he had been sent down to leader is very similar to a serial killer,” was so brainwashed I would’ve believed Earth to warn the masses of the impending apocaRichards says. “Like a serial killer, they almost anything. And as a Star Trek fan, I lypse. He told his students that it was his job to find get better as they do it, and continue to thought that it all sounded great.” the “sincere souls” that were destined to lead the future of mankind after the world came crashing down in the year 2000. For the uninitiated, his claims might have sounded crazy, but to Richards and the rest of the inner circle, the prophesies became normalized. The young, altruistic followers had been simmering too long to sense that the water was beginning to boil. “Now I can laugh about what I came to believe after just a few years in Eternal Values,” Richards reflects. “Freddy had a very convincing way of presenting these far-fetched, extreme ideas in a very casual and matter-of-fact manner. It was like you would feel stupid not to believe it. Part of the indoctrination process is learning not to question the leader. The peer pressure element of the group psyche is designed to suppress your critical thinking. If no one else is say-
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(Above) Photo by Claus Wickrath. (Top right) Richards with his brother and father after escaping the cult. (Bottom right) Richards with his mother immediately after escaping the cult.
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Meanwhile, Richards’ modeling career continued to skyrocket, earning him millions of dollars—nearly every cent of which he handed over to the cult. He wasn’t just the golden boy; von Mierers also manipulated him into becoming the golden goose for the group. Richards was the one financing Eternal Values to grow beyond von Mierers’ apartment. Eternal Values formed an office and sold books and audio tapes, held seminars and developed a mailing list of over 40,000 people. After wrapping photo shoots in Milan and Paris, when all of the models went off to celebrate, Richards would pop right back on the plane and return to Eternal Values. All his worldly possessions fit in a three-by-three-foot space in the closet of von Mierers’ studio apartment. “The truth is everyone is a “Cult life was cult survivor...we’ve all fairly mundane experienced relationships and regimentwhere the person whom we’re ed,” he rememseeking love and approval from bers. “You got is controlling and abusing you. up early, you did I’ve just gone through the chores. Freddy extreme version of that.” would have new — Hoyt Richards people coming
in all the time. We were not aware that we were actually actively recruiting. After a night of dancing at the clubs followed by long spiritual conversations over herbal tea until the morning hours, we would all roll out mats and crash on the floor. It was kind of like an ashram in that way. That’s how I lived for the next five years.” Then in 1990, von Mierers died of AIDS. Days after his death, Vanity Fair published a scathing exposé on him and the cult he had created. A media frenzy ensued, and with the leader now gone, the press went after the most famous face of the cult: Hoyt Richards. Still steadfast in his belief that Eternal Values was not a cult, Richards dodged and denied interview requests. Eternal Values became embroiled in a power struggle that eventually split the cult into two factions. Richards stayed with the side that had retained von Mierers’ assets, namely a compound in North Carolina where he said they’d be safe during the end-time. Once down south and under new leadership, the group became more extreme and abusive. “We went underground,” Richards says. Funded primarily by his modeling career, Eternal Values amassed an arsenal of guns, gold and four years’ worth of stored food in North Carolina. “Those next ten years were much more difficult than the five years I spent with Freddy in New York,” Richards says. “Freddy always propped me up pretty high because I was the cash cow. When he was out of the picture and there was a new leader, there was a lot of built-up resentment because I had been given that preferential treatment.” The resentment boiled over, so that when Richards started questioning some of the Eternal Values prophecies, particularly that the apocalypse might not be coming in the year 2000, the cult made his life a living hell. They shaved his head weekly so that he couldn’t model anymore. He was forced into months of menial labor while also being subjected to various forms of mental torture such as sleep deprivation, isolation and being screamed at for hours on end. “The group crushed my self-esteem and made me feel totally worthless,” Richards reflects. Reaching his breaking point, he contemplated suicide. Instead, he decided he needed to escape. On July 3, 1999—after two other failed attempts—Hoyt Richards finally escaped Eternal Values in the middle of the night. He fled to the one place that still felt safe: Nantucket. Appropriately enough, he arrived on the island on the Fourth of July, celebrating his own independence day. Wearing a ball cap to hide his shaven head, Richards reunited with his parents whom he’d not seen in more than a decade. After staying for nearly a week on Nantucket, Richards reached out to his friend and fellow supermodel, Fabio. “Fabio was one of the first models I met in New York and we had been close since
way back when,” Richards says. “He always had this open-door policy in Los Angeles, so I ended up living with him for a year rent free.” During that year, Richards weathered tremors of post-traumatic stress disorder and tried to come to grips with what he’d just emerged from. It took him nearly two years before he could admit to himself that the group was in fact a cult. Now, exactly two decades since escaping Eternal Values, Hoyt Richards openly shares his story in hopes of not only explaining how people end up in cults, but also helping many others identify the toxic relationships controlling their lives. “The truth is everyone is a cult survivor,” Richards says. “What I mean by that is that we’ve all experienced
their difficult past without shame and become empowered by their journey. Believing in the power of storytelling, Richards is committing his experiences to a forthcoming memoir that he’s writing with a fellow Eternal Values survivor, as well as producing a podcast. “I’m grateful for this experiPhoto by Thom Gilbert for Jeffrey Banks ence,” Richards says. “This is not a burden I’m carrying around any longer. It’s been hard work and a long road. I had to educate myself about cults, how they work and how we’re all vulnerable to unhealthy, cultic relationships. I’ve had plenty of counseling, therapy and self-reflection, but now I wear my cult chapter as a badge of courage. I can say I got myself into a situation that I never dreamed would happen to me, and found my way out of it—and actually, I’m a better person because of it.”
(Top) photo by Ken Zane. (Below) Richards with his brother and father on Nantucket.
Richards with Cindy Crawford by Richard Avedon for Gianni Versace
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relationships where the person whom we’re seeking love and approval from is controlling and abusing you. I’ve just gone through the extreme version of that.” Richards has rebuilt his life, pursuing a career in acting, writing and filmmaking. He says his work has given him an artistic outlet to process the traumas of his past and reclaim his self-esteem. More important, he has connected with a network of fellow cult survivors, some from Eternal Values, and encourages them by example that one can face
“Now I wear my cult chapter as a badge of courage. I can say I got myself into a situation that I never dreamed would happen to me, and found my way out of it—and actually, I’m a better person because of it.”
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A conversation with Massachusetts State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg
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eborah Goldberg is the State Treasurer and Receiver General of Massachusetts, overseeing a wide-range of government agencies, ranging from the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission to the Massachusetts School Building Authority to the Lottery, which is the only source of unrestricted local aid in the state. Goldberg was elected as a Democrat in 2014 and has gained a sterling reputation as a thoughtful steward of the Massachusetts Treasury who has advocated policies designed to support those at the lower end of the state’s economic ladder. Goldberg’s family founded Stop & Shop in 1914 and ran the company as a paternalistic, employee-centric organization until it was a victim of a hostile takeover in 1988. Goldberg’s family have been Cape Codders since the 1930s and were constantly making the trip over to Nantucket. She and her husband Michael Winter could not resist the island’s draw, leaving the Cape behind when they became residents shortly after their children were born. They consider Nantucket an important part of their lives. N Magazine sat down with the Treasurer who shared her views on a wide range of topics relating to her job and the island.
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discover you? GOLDBERG: My grandmother started going to Nantucket in the early fifties and bought [lighthouse] baskets from Mr. Ramos. So when I was a little girl, I already had a connection to Nantucket because my grandparents who lived on the Cape were already going there and brought home multiple Nantucket baskets for everyone in the family. By the time I was seventeen, I started traveling over to Nantucket with friends and staying and bike riding around the whole island, and I fell in love with everything about Nantucket that we all value.
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as the founders of Stop & Shop, what are your thoughts about the recent strike, which obviously had a major impact on Nantucket? GOLDBERG: From the very beginning, Stop & Shop meant not only jobs for our family, but for generations of families throughout Massachusetts. I was brought up to someday run Stop & Shop and sustain what we meant to the state, the economy and public life. But we went through a hostile takeover in 1988, and when my parents refused to fire their employees,
businesses where the working class is not able to make what is considered a living wage. What can be done to protect those workers? Or should the free market be left to its own devices? GOLDBERG: The approach that I’ve taken in the Treasurer’s Office is a combination of nurturing and supporting businesses while also ensuring that everyone gets an opportunity to have good-paying jobs. If you look at our financial literacy programs, our seeded college savings accounts that help people avoid debt,
ing resurrected. How do we preserve the success of Massachusetts without the knee-jerk reaction that success among some people comes at the expense of others? GOLDBERG: It’s a pretty complicated question if you’re looking for a simple answer. In Massachusetts, part of the challenge is because of Proposition 2½ that was instituted in the 1970s. It negatively impacts local communities because even if their expenses continue to rise, they can only raise their taxes 2.5 percent plus new growth. Although our economy is doing well, when we saw greatly lowered gasoline prices two and a half years ago, we did not see increased spending in the state. The reason is people are in debt. There is still an enormously high debt load here in Massachusetts. That’s why I’ve provided a program that has reached over
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we were all thrown out. Had that not occurred, I would be there today and a strong middle class would be sustained in Nantucket, in Martha’s Vineyard and in every single corner of Massachusetts, contributing to the economic vitality of our state. That is not what is occurring with the present owners of Stop & Shop. They have no understanding and no relationship to what the overall needs are of everyone here in Massachusetts and the critical role that Stop & Shop used to play and should continue to play in making sure that Massachusetts is a great place to live and is an economically secure state.
Treasurer Deborah Goldberg speaking to lawmakers about the state lottery. [Photo: Sam Doran/SHNS]
our wage equality work—it’s not legislative; it’s not a stick that hits businesses. I come to it with a business person’s point of view. Treasurer Deborah Goldberg was sworn in to a second term by her parents, I know that we can Carol and Avram Goldberg (left). [Photo: Sam Doran/SHNS] institute programs that actually grow and create a situation forty thousand high school students in where people have a living wage. So we three years, with experiential learnblend good public policy with support ing around what the cost of their lives of growing businesses, which is a very will be. That is why I’m trying to teach different approach than typically what people the financial skills they need to you see government do. That is what I’d know in order to do well, and that inlike to see taken nationally. cludes the issues around debt.
A millionaires tax emerges when people don’t understand the other elements that come into play that keep people from having real disposable incomes. It is back on the table because we aren’t getting the increased revenues that we need. And then on top of
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that, the tax bill that was instituted federally harmed Massachusetts. The millionaires tax is also a reaction to the federal tax bill. I think if you were to see any reversals in that trend, you’d see people pull back on this. Costs are going up in every area, and spending at the state level is trying to meet those needs. After all, education is one of the key success factors for Massachusetts, and one of the big pushes you’re seeing is the need to fund education at greater levels, particularly for communities that have typically been left behind. Worcester, Springfield, New Bedford and Lowell may be doing better, but better is not necessarily good.
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N MAGAZINE: We’re seeing a chorus of extremely wealthy people like Warren Buffett and Ray Dalio who are starting to suggest that capitalism is showing its flaws, specifically because the wealth gap is so large and that it is planting the seeds of discontent. Clearly, Nantucket in the summer is a study in contrast between extreme wealth and people who struggle on a daily basis. Where do you come out on this topic? GOLDBERG: I’m right in line with Warren Buffett and Ray Dalio. I’ve been saying it for a very, very long time. I started talking about this in 1985 when I wrote a front-page newspaper piece at Harvard Business School called “There Is No Ethics Being Taught in Finance.” My theory was that capitalism is America’s version of socialism—and that that’s a good
preneurs today are building companies and selling them, and so there is no sense of creating an equal society where there’s opportunity for everyone.
“What happened is that many companies today show no loyalty to young people, even young professionals...The culture of being in a position where you spend your entire career is unheard of today.” — Deborah Goldberg
Businesses are cyclical. There has to be room for understanding that too. You still want really good corporate governance, and at the same time you want to make sure that the shareholders and employees are well taken care of. It is a balancing act. I do think that if we could ever turn this around and build what really was the way in which America did so well for so long, it would be far better for our country than having these extremes we see today.
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thing. We support entrepreneurs and businesses. And businesses grow, have lots of employees and provide good-paying jobs, relative job security and benefits. That is a good thing. What happened is that many companies today show no loyalty to young people, even young professionals. And consequently, young professionals are looking at where they can move in three to five years. The culture of being in a position where you spend your entire career is unheard of today. Entre-
tucket’s biggest challenge going forward? GOLDBERG: The biggest issue is sustaining its ecological balance as it continues to be developed. I think an enormous challenge for Nantucket is the affordability for year-rounders to live here as housing and land have become more and more expensive. That is the case in almost every single Massachusetts community. How do you preserve green space and ecology, and how do you create affordable housing? If you’re on the mainland, if you can’t afford to live in one town, you then move a little farther out to try a place to afford. But you don’t have that option in Nantucket. So people have got to work together and think strategically about how they envision life on Nantucket in ten years, twenty years, thirty years, and make some compromises on how to get that done.
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shocking report was released last June by top climate scientists warning that sea level rise could reach seven feet by 2100, more than double what was previously thought. If the seas rise by seven feet, the destruction to coastal communities like Nantucket would be apocalyptic. In an effort to draw up a plan for these rising tides, the Nantucket Preservation Trust recently held its Keeping History Above Water conference. The keynote speaker was author and Rolling Stone contributing editor Jeff Goodell, whose recent bestseller The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World provides a deep dive into what coastal communities will look like in the near future. N Magazine recently spoke to Goodell to find out what Nantucket should be doing to stay above water.
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“Seven feet of sea level rise is very, very serious...All the beaches as you know them would be gone. There would be massive destruction of all coastal regions of the island and the economic implications would be huge.” — Jeff Goodell
start cutting carbon or find some magical technological fix, then we could stop sea level rise. But that’s not true. Cutting carbon is really important because it can change the long-term rate of sea level rise and the ultimate height of it, but we already have a lot of sea level rise baked in.
N MAGAZINE: With this inevitability in mind, what three things would you suggest people do at this point? GOODELL: Be aware of the risks that their home or investments face with sea level rise. Get politically involved and begin to fight hard for cutting carbon and to make climate change a priority. And do what you can to reduce emissions and live in a lower carbon way.
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Jeff Goodell exploring the water slums of Lagos, Nigeria (Photo courtesy of Jeff Goodell)
N MAGAZINE: Is sea level rise inevitable? GOODELL: Yes, it is inevitable. That’s why I called the book The Water Will Come and not The Water Will Come… Unless Everyone Sells Their SUVs and Buys a Tesla. That’s one of the fundamental facts that people don’t really get. They think that if we get our act together and
three to six feet, it would be the difference between survival and extinction for many coastal communities in the developing world. There was just a report predicting that sea level rise could hit seven feet by 2100. What would that devastation look like on an island like Nantucket? GOODELL: First of all, let me be clear that seven feet is not even the high end of projections. Various teams of scientists say it could go even higher than that. What would it mean for Nantucket? It would not be pretty. Seven feet of sea level rise is very, very serious. You already are seeing a lot of problems with erosion on Nantucket—that would be hugely amplified. All the beaches as you know them would be gone. There would be massive destruction of all coastal regions of
Jeff Goodell interviewing President Barack Obama in Kotzebue, Alaska in 2015 (photo courtesy of Rolling Stone)
the island and the economic implications would be huge.
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(Top) The “Stilt House” in Madaket before it was razed (photo by Brian Sager). (Middle and bottom) Scenes of a powerful winter storm surge in town and on the coast of Nantucket (photo by Kit Noble).
Nantucket could be completely underwater in a hundred years? GOODELL: What’s really important to grasp is that it’s not like “Oh, we’re fine until Nantucket becomes Atlantis.” Just the incremental damage to roads, to houses, to real estate, to beaches hugely changes the dynamics and character of a place. So it’s really
important to grasp that it’s not a we’re-fine-until-we’re-underwater problem. The best ice scientist in the world, Richard Alley, says that because of the instability of Antarctica, we can’t rule out fifteen feet of sea level rise by the end of the century. So yes, the risks of massive changes are there. The conventional wisdom right now is to prepare for six or seven feet by the end of the century, which would mean massive changes for Nantucket.
“One of the tricky things about sea level rise is that there’s not a technological fix…The notion of fighting the water is very twentieth century; the idea of living with water is very twenty-first century.” — Jeff Goodell
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to adapt. We need to do everything we can to reduce the risk of truly big, gigantic changes. We need to decarbonize our economy and our lives as quickly as possible. At the same time, we need to adapt and stop pretending
“I’m not optimistic that we’re going to go back to the old world that most of us grew up in with a stable climate. We’re plunging into a different world.” — Jeff Goodell
that Nantucket in fifty years is not going to look like Nantucket fifty years ago. Nantucket is going to suffer dramatic changes, and the things that you’re seeing now with erosion are going to accelerate and only get worse. We’re not going to stop that no matter what we do, so we need to think about how we are going to deal with this and not delude ourselves into thinking that we can go back to the old world.
cause it shifts water to other places and kills ecosystems along the shoreline. You can’t really build a wall around the entire island unless you want to live on a kind of fortress in the sea. I think the most progressive places are thinking about combinations of improving drainage and raising buildings and structures. The most innovative places are figuring out ways to live with water. The notion of fighting the water is very twentieth century; the idea of living with water is very twenty-first century.
N MAGAZINE: How has today’s political leadership affected sea level rise? GOODELL: Trump has been a bit of a double-edged sword. He’s obviously done every-
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thing he can to subvert not only actions to cut carbon emissions, but to subvert climate science itself. On the other hand, because he’s been so awful on this particular issue, he’s inspired a lot of people to take it seriously. The pushback has been pretty profound. I think he’s activated a lot of people. This age of denial that Trump embodies is going to be over soon because the grim reality of what we’re facing is going to be apparent to everyone.
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N MAGAZINE: Are you optimistic that we can make those necessary changes, or do you feel like we should all start building an ark? GOODELL: I’m not optimistic that we’re going to go back to the old world that most of us grew up in with a stable climate. We’re plunging into a different world. We’re not going to stop these dramatic changes that are happening. I think that we need to learn
Jeff Goodell researching the rapid melting of ice in the Arctic (Photo by David Keith)
N MAGAZINE: What can Nantucket teach the rest of the world when it comes to sea level rise? GOODELL: Nantucket is very lucky compared to many places. It’s obviously relatively wealthy and has the means of changing, adapting and doing things differently. If the island has this sort of awareness to do that, I think that Nantucket could be a model for other islands on how to adapt, make changes and deal with this. That is if residents on the island collectively get together and have the will and the interest and motivation to do that.
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nthony Baratta is widely regarded as the “King of East Coast Chic,” a title the interior designer has earned through thirty-eight years of daring use of color, scale and distinctive American style. His iconic designs have graced over seventy magazine covers and the halls of museums, governor’s mansions and homes right here on Nantucket. Beyond the spaces themselves, Baratta has also designed fabrics, furniture, rugs and, most recently, his first fashion collection that was inspired by the island. Beginning July 31st, Baratta will be on-island as a luminary at the Nantucket Historical Association’s fourday Nantucket by Design event. He joins fellow designers Cathy Kincaid and Stewart Manger as well as the editor-in-chief of Veranda magazine, Steele Marcoux, for the distinguished Design Panel. As a preview to his visit, the King of East Coast Chic opened his playbook and shared some design notes with N Magazine on how he created an iconic interior on the island.
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Red, white and blue—the colors of the American summer—are perfect for a coastal home. I like to save a special place in a house and go all out with patriotic and nautical themes.
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Not surprisingly, I like to use blue as the base for my coastal interiors. Here, we created a blue gingham floor from individual ceramic tiles. I like classic color combinations. I’m looking to do timeless interiors, so I’m so not interested in reinventing the color wheel.
When I think of Nantucket, I think of flowers. The pastel colors used here take coastal in a pretty direction, as in the antique Victorian settee all gussied up in stripes and white paint. The best summer house interiors are done with a mix of new furniture and antique and vintage pieces. They’re what make a place personal and distinctive.
Again, a blue checkerboard floor is my jumping off point here. I want to create happy homes for my clients and their families. I decorate with the whole family in mind, so keeping the patterns and colors upbeat and recognizable is the goal. I say embrace the nautical! Â
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To me, the decoration of a summerhouse should be about creating a place that is colorful, comfortable and homey. They can be pretty and charming and themeoriented. Since they are part-time places, why not have fun with the decorating fantasy?
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D. Float from the 1938 July 4th parade in downtown Nantucket. This float features several young women, dressed in silly costumes and playing homemade pretend instruments, in the back of a Chevy pickup. E. A parade of people in costume dressed as sailors and whalers, part of the hospital fete, on Main Street, in front of the Hadwen House. A
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G. Float from the 1938 July 4th parade in downtown Nantucket; cars are parked nearby and a crowd watches. Float features horse drawn wagon with a man, some children and a cow. H. Third Liberty Loan Parade Float: “U.C. USINKEM�. April 13, 1917. I. A Red Cross liberty bond parade of women during World War I, passing the Pacific Bank, heading up Main Street.
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G. Float from the 1938 Fourth of July parade in downtown Nantucket, with cars parked nearby and crowds watching. This float is marked “Killen Bros.” H. Town Crier, Alvin Hull, in uniform, standing in the middle of Main Street, ringing a bell. I. Float from the 1938 Fourth of July parade in town at the corner of South Water and Oak streets; cars are parked nearby and a crowd watches.
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N MAGAZINE: What are you most excited for in your new position? OLSON: It is a big job raising “Small Friends.” It is my distinct privilege to have the opportunity to serve as the executive director of this organization. I am deeply honored and humbled by this designation. It is a pleasure to work with an experienced and passionate staff to deliver high-quality early childhood education program that will instill basic fundamental knowledge and skills for our children to be successful.
N MAGAZINE: What’s one tip you think every parent needs to know? OLSON: I firmly believe that “it takes a village” to raise a child and that every parent needs to be an active part of their child’s educational journey. When your child knows you are interested in what they are learning, it is inspirational to them and they strive to achieve more.
N MAGAZINE: There are many schools of thought out there about kids and devices and screen time. What are your thoughts? OLSON: As seen in most of our lives each day, society relies so much on technology for all kinds of information. As an educator, I believe there has to be a balance in the amount of time a child spends using technology. It is important for parents to understand the content they are accessing, and how that information is shaping their character and influencing their morals and belief system. This is where parents play a critical role in their child’s education.
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