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158 YEARS IN THE MAKING: In 1865, Nashville brothers George and Joe O’Bryan had an idea - repurpose surplus army tent material to make work pants. Supplies were scarce throughout the South. Their product couldn’t fail. Enduring quality wasn’t a principle, it was a necessity. The brothers were avid outdoorsmen, so the heavy canvas material, also known as “Duck,” felt right as their company moniker. After failed attempts to register “Duck” with the U.S. Trademark Office, they added “Head,” and the legendary brand, complete with a mallard logo, was born.
THE ORIGINAL KHAKI CHINO: In 1978, Duck Head again took a chance on surplus fabric
“I worked on Nantucket for a summer during college. A bunch of kids from the South were working there too… And they had a uniform. A big part of the uni was Duck Head khakis. It wasn’t long before they started trending in the Northeast too. That’s when I got my first pair of many. ” -B. Wingard, UNH c/o 1990
buying 10,000 yards of 100% cotton fabric from a local mill. Polyester was king, so no one wanted the cotton twill known as “chino”. The brand developed its first chino trousers adding a large gold patch above the back pocket which would soon become a cultural icon. The first Duck Head chinos landed in Oxford, Mississippi, where they were quickly adopted as a must-have for students at Ole Miss. The pants spread rapidly to colleges across the East Coast and became so synonymous with the college experience that they graced the cover of Washington & Lee University’s 1983 Calyx yearbook.
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CONTENTS / J U N E 2 0 2 3 24 CONTRIBUTORS Meet the talented folks who made this issue possible. 26 NUMBERS A numerical snapshot of Nantucket this spring. 28 NTOPTEN Where you need to be this June. 30 NGREDIENTS Chef George Nelson dishes one of Fusaro’s top pasta recipes. 32 NECESSITIES Toss these items on your summer wishlist.
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34 KID’N AROUND A rundown on the best ways to keep your kiddos entertained this spring. 36 HEALTH N WELLNESS Ana Romero describes the powerful effects of cacao ceremonies. 39 NEAT STUFF Looking to move? How about you take your home with you? 40 NBUZZ All the news, tidbits and scuttlebutt courtesy of Nantucket Current. 42 NEED TO READ Just in time for Book Fest, Tim Ehrenberg gives us his ultimate summer reading list.
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NOSH NEWS 44 Step inside the new and improved Pearl and Boarding House.
NSPIRE 48 HEART OF THE STORY Holly Ruth Finigan’s new book tracks her journey from influencer to author. 54 LADIES OF THE LAW Meet the women of the Nantucket Police Department.
NDEPTH 60 THE NEXT CHAPTER The story behind Elin Hilderbrand’s new Netflix deal. 68 WATERSHED MOMENT How the Clean Water Coalition is giving our harbor a fighting chance. 76 TAKING THE BAIT A new documentary dives into the debate around the growing number of sharks in our waters.
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Nantucket summer resident Luke Russert appears on the June cover, coinciding with the recent release of his bestselling memoir. Photo by Tom Lee Williams.
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ON HIS OWN TERMS Nantucket summer resident Luke Russert discusses his bestselling memoir.
NVESTIGATE 92 BLOWN AWAY Offshore wind regulators ignore danger to fishing industry. 100 QUIET KILLER The country’s fentanyl crisis hits Nantucket.
NVOGUE 106 Fashionable outerwear to hit the water this summer.
NHA 125 A look back at Nantucket weddings of yesteryear.
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GREAT ESCAPE Nantucket is often seen as an escape from the realities of life on the mainland. The truth is that the island faces many of the same challenges that vacationers are trying to put behind them when they come to Nantucket during the summer months. Yet despite the complexities that Nantucket faces—some of which we highlight in this issue— there are countless ways to enjoy stress-free activities on the island. This month, few opportunities are better to help us decompress than the Nantucket Book Festival and the Nantucket Film Festival. With that in mind, our cover story features Book Festival headliner Luke Russert whose overnight bestselling memoir, Look for Me There, takes us on his journey to find meaning after the loss of his father, the beloved Tim Russert. In penning his first book, Luke has channeled the talents of his mother, Maureen Orth, whose work has graced the pages of Vanity Fair for years. The Nantucket Film Festival also provides an opportunity to get absorbed into worlds near and far. One film that is likely to generate a lot of local attention is After the Bite, a jaw-dropping documentary that explores the sharp rise in the shark population off of Cape Cod and the islands. The burgeoning seal population continues to draw more predators to our waters and may give sunbathers pause before they take a dive into the deep. While Nantucket is indeed a wonderful escape, we cover two stories that provide some hard realities about life on the island. First is the growing fentanyl epidemic, which has claimed a number lives recently and seems to be a growing concern among the island’s year-round population. The indispensable Dr. Tim Lepore is at the
forefront of the fentanyl problem and shares his diagnosis with us. Another story that is sure to generate turbulence on Nantucket is the offshore wind projects that call for the construction of BRUCE A. PERCELAY Publisher a thousand Eiffel Towersize windmills off our coast. While we initially covered this topic in our previous issue, we were taken by an investigative piece produced by the online newspaper, The New Bedford Light, which sheds light on a disturbing behind-the-scenes picture enabling the wind farm project. In the May issue, we profiled a number of women who have taken the helm of many of the island’s nonprofits. This month, we meet a cadre of women in the ranks of the Nantucket Police Department. Indeed, the face of law enforcement on Nantucket is evolving, reflecting changes seen elsewhere on the island. We hope you are able to begin the summer by digging into a gripping novel or captivating film this month as well as taking advantage of everything Nantucket has to offer. Sincerely,
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Mary BERGMAN Mary Bergman is a writer and historian living on Nantucket. Her work has appeared in Literary Hub, The Common and Provincetown Arts. She is a regular contributor to WCAI’s A Cape Cod Notebook, a place-based radio essay program. Originally from Provincetown, Massachusetts, Mary is dedicated to documenting the unique people and places of the Cape and Islands in her work. She is working on an essay collection and novel informed by her growing up at the tip of Cape Cod. Currently, she serves as the executive director of the Nantucket Preservation Trust.
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Larry LINDNER Larry Lindner is a New York Times bestselling writer who also penned a nationally syndicated column for The Washington Post for several years. His work has appeared in publications ranging from The Los Angeles Times to The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler and O, the Oprah Magazine. Currently, he serves as executive editor of Your Dog and Catnip, monthlies put out by Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.
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Jonathan SOROFF After growing up in Newton and graduating from Duke University, Jonathan Soroff began his journalism career at The Boston Herald. For twenty-eight years, he was the lead columnist for The Improper Bostonian Magazine, writing the social column and a celebrity interview in every issue and contributing numerous features. He is currently a contributing editor at Boston Magazine, writing the Person of Interest interview, a quarterly column and travel content, and he produces travel stories for numerous national and international publications. For several years, he co-hosted a weekly radio program, Status Report, on Boston Herald Radio. In 2013, he published his first novel, Crimes of Fashion.
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NUMBERS NANTUCKET BY THE
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Years Susan Handy and Jeff Worster owned Black-Eyed Susan’s before selling to The Proprietor’s owners this spring.
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Years Margaretta Andrews served as executive director of the Community Foundation before retiring this year.
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Nantucket residents voted against Article 60 at Town Meeting, rejecting proposed regulations on short-term rentals.
$4 Million Average home sale price on Nantucket in 2022.
$27 Million Cost to retrofit two used freight boats purchased last year to replace the Steamship Authority’s aging fleet.
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Island restaurants were granted curbside dining permits by the Select Board for this summer season.
Teams participated in the fourth annual Nantucket Litter Derby this spring.
$1.5 Million Price paid by Millie’s ownership to house staff for their new restaurant downtown called Surfside.
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THE FIGAWI RACE KICKS OFF THE SEASON WITH THRILLING COMPETITION AND ISLAND FESTIVITIES
THE 28TH ANNUAL NANTUCKET FILM FESTIVAL
MAY 26-29
The iconic Figawi sailing race is a weekend of intense competition and teamwork on the water. Sailors from all over the East Coast gather to race from Hyannis to Nantucket, marking the unofficial start of the summer season. Enjoy the thrill of the race and join the festivities as the island welcomes the sailors ashore. For more information, visit figawi.com.
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EXPLORE THE MAGIC OF THE NANTUCKET BOOK FESTIVAL JUNE 15-18
A call to all book lovers and literary enthusiasts! There is no better way to celebrate literature than by attending the Nantucket Book Festival, which fosters dialogue between authors and readers. The festival features author talks, panel discussions and book signings, allowing you to meet your favorite writers and discover new ones. For more information, visit nantucketbookfestival.org.
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Lights, camera, action! The Nantucket Film Festival showcases the best in independent cinema while fostering an appreciation for the art of screenwriting. The event includes film screenings, panel discussions and workshops with industry insiders. Don’t miss the chance to discover your next favorite movie. For more information and to purchase a pass, visit nantucketfilmfestival.org.
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Sankaty Head Light Embark on a journey through Nantucket’s maritime history by attending opening day of one of the island’s iconic lighthouses. This annual event provides a rare opportunity to explore the lighthouse and learn about its unique role in guiding ships throughout the years. For more information, visit sconsettrust.org/event/ summer-lighthouse-open-day/.
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ANDY FRASCO AND THE U.N. BRING THE HEAT TO THE CHICKEN BOX
NANTUCKET PRESERVATION MONTH CELEBRATES THE ISLAND’S RICH ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE
The Chicken Box Get ready to dance the night away with Andy Frasco and his high-energy band, The U.N. This dynamic live performance at The Chicken Box promises a night of unforgettable music and entertainment. Frasco’s electrifying stage presence and soulful tunes will have you grooving all night long. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit thechickenbox.com/andy-frasco-the-u-n/.
Nantucket Preservation Month offers an array of events, tours and workshops throughout June that showcase the island’s unique architecture and historic preservation efforts. From exploring centuries-old homes to learning about the skilled artisans who have preserved these structures, this month-long celebration provides an engaging experience for history fanatics and architecture enthusiasts. For more information, visit www.nantucketpreservation.org/ may-is-preservation-month-950/.
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Bartlett’s Farm Garden Center Support Nantucket’s Fairwinds Counseling Center by participating in its annual Blooming Bids event. This unique fundraiser features a silent auction with great items to bid on, like art, experiences and gift certificates. Don’t miss this delightful evening that will benefit a vital community resource. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit cbo.io/bidapp/index.php?slug=fairwinds.
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SAM SYLVIA GOLF TOURNAMENT SUPPORTS NANTUCKET'S YOUTH
Bennett Hall Experience the magic of live theater with a production of the classic play Boeing Boeing. This hilarious play takes you on a whirlwind adventure full of mistaken identities, romance and non-stop laughter. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit nantucketculturaldistrict.org/ event/boeing-boeing/.
Sankaty Head Golf Club The Sam Sylvia Golf Tournament is a thrilling two-day competition. Hosted at the picturesque Nantucket Golf Club, the tournament raises much-needed funds for the Nantucket Boys and Girls Club, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing programs and services for the island’s youth.For more information and to donate, visit nantucketboysandgirlsclub.org.
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butter and sauté 3 Add pureed vegetables 8-10 minutes.
ground pork and 4 Add cook until any released liquid evaporates.
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crushed tomatoes 6 Add and reduce, 15 minutes. on low heat for 2 7 Simmer hours, adding beef broth as needed as the liquid evaporates.
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AROUND LINDA LORING FOUNDATION Looking for an adventure? Head out to the Linda Loring Nature Foundation! This month, explore Nantucket’s rare habitats on a guided Family Walk on June 5 from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. You’ll hike along gently rolling trails and stop to discover insects, birds and plants along the way. This guided walk will meet at 110 Eel Point Road and is free and open to all. Be sure to stop by anytime to enjoy Story Walk as well. A new children’s book is posted each month along the trails so children can enjoy reading as they hike. For a full lineup of this season’s programs or to register for the Family Walk, visit llnf.org and follow @loringnatureack. PEACHTREE KIDS Introducing the all-new Peachtree Kids! Open year-round on the sunny side of the historic cobblestoned Main Street, Peachtree Kids has been a favorite one-stop shop for Nantucket locals and vacationers since 2004. Peachtree Kids carries timeless classics and on-trend clothing, shoes and accessories for infants and children through size 12. New brands in store include Sammy + Nat, Nantucket, Petit Peony and Joy Street Kids, and the shop continues to carry favorites such as Piping Prints, Barnaby
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SUMMER WITH THE DREAMLAND The Dreamland is the perfect place to have fun, learn and grow this summer! The theater has options for children of all ages, with six sessions of its educational performance camps (ages four to eight) and the Dreamland Stage Company’s musical productions of Legally Blonde in July and SpongeBob in August. Students work together to design their own sets, costumes and props, culminating in a final performance for their families. During this year’s SpongeBob-themed camp, Bikini Bottom in Real Life, students will learn about real sea habitats with the Maria Mitchell Association, while creating the characters’ habitats in group projects. For more information about the performance camps and Dreamland Stage Company, please visit dsc.nantucketdreamland.org. For ticket sales and other information, visit nantucketdreamland.org. Also, be sure to follow @dreamlandstagecompany. See you at the Dreamland! SPEND THE SUMMER AT BARNABY’S TOY & ART SHACK Barnaby’s offers more than 100 art classes for children ages two to thirteen. Kids can also drop in and create all day, every day. All Barnaby’s classes are taught by professional artists and educators who will guide each child’s technique and processes in an inspirational space in downtown Nantucket. Barnaby’s also has a variety of toys and art kits to go that have been hand-selected
and designed for all ages. For \the program calendar and more information, please visit barnabysnantucket.com, call 508680-1553 or email barnabyack@ gmail.com. Barnaby’s is also excited to announce the opening of its new store, Barnaby’s Beacon Hill, coming this September! Be sure to follow @barnabystoyartshack. DISCOVER THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION THIS SUMMER The NHA’s Discovery Center at the Whaling Museum has a fresh look this summer. There’s a photo booth, an interactive information monitor, a new mural in the reading corner, a student art display space and a new Captain’s Quarters play station. Kids can also explore the rest of the Whaling Museum, with new displays and exhibitions for all ages to enjoy! The NHA’s daily programs, offered by its expert museum guides, will explore Life Aboard a Whaleship and the infamous Essex Gam. These presentations are engaging, educational and fun for the whole family. For more information and to reserve your visit, please visit nha.org. Island families enjoy free admission year-round. Follow all the NHA’s properties @ackhistory. SUMMER FUN WITH MARIA MITCHELL One of the island’s must-do activities is visiting the Maria Mitchell Association’s Loines Observatory to enjoy a magical tour of the night sky with the association’s professional astronomers! Starting Monday, June 12, come participate in the popular Stargazing Open Nights on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays each week. View the moon, planets, stars, nebulae and even distant galaxies through the observatory’s telescopes, an activity fun for all ages! The Aquarium, the Hinchman House Natural Science Museum and the Historic Mitchell House also will open for the season June 12. To view the calendar of events and admission information, please visit mariamitchell.org and @maria_mitchell_association.
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Ana Romero describes the powerful effects of cacao ceremonies What is a cacao ceremony? It is a sacred traditional ritual where you drink cacao in its purest form and meditate. Cacao is a sacred plant medicine, and the purpose of this ceremony is to connect to its spirit. Cacao invites you to go deep into your meditation and open your heart to those around you, and ultimately it is an experience that cannot be fully translated into words.
is called. Cacao can be an ally for anyone who is interested in exploring their deeper self, becoming more loving, compassionate and aware. Cacao is a beautiful, powerful, ancient medicine that reminds us how to ground into and live from our heart space. On a more
What is a cacao ceremony like? I hold cacao ceremonies as intentional gatherings where we sit together in a quiet space, drink cacao, set an intention and begin the meditative process that will allow you to open your heart and mind to the possibilities cacao has to offer you. There is often sound in the form of Ana Romero performing a cacao ceremony music, chants or sacred medicine songs; some journaling of the physiological level, there is messages received; and some shara unique compound found ing if one is called to. You can create in cacao called theobroyour own personal ceremonies and do mine, which translates to them on your own or share with your “food of the gods,” that spiritualloved ones from that space of heart ly and physically opens your heart. resonance. There are many ancient It is both uplifting and grounding. Indigenous traditions that have been Cacao has forty times the antioxiworking with this sacred medicine for dants of blueberries, and it is rich thousands of years, so ceremonies vary in iron, magnesium and zinc. It is in design according to the facilitator a plant-based source of calcium and tradition they follow. (more than cow’s milk). If anyone is working with more acute mental What are the health benefits? or physical health issues, they can It has been my experience that cacao consult with their health provider will meet and offer herself to whoever prior to attending a ceremony.
How have these ceremonies impacted you on a personal level? As a caregiver working with a lovely lady named Grace here on island, I have found that presence, compassion and patience are paramount for this type of job. Through this relationship I have learned immensely about what it is to hold space from the heart. This is its own ceremony. Working with cacao and serving it to other caregivers has taught me how to show up for myself and others from a nourished space instead of a depleted one. And this is what I hope to offer through my ceremonies: that we can each create sacred space for ourselves and from that space we can show up to serve life and to serve love in a more sustainable, grounded way. What else do you offer in your space? I offer cacao gatherings and private sessions at my shop Land of Lulo here on island. Located at 2 Union Street upstairs, it is a space where you can procure ceremonial cacao and other sacred tools that support the creation of your own personal rituals. You will find artisanal incense, smudges, altar pieces, candles, crystals, handcrafted jewelry designed by me, as well as unique Indigenous treasures from my native Colombia.
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For the third straight year, Nantucket voters rejected an effort to restrict short-term vacation rentals on the island. And once again, it wasn’t particularly close. Emmy Kilvert’s citizen petition, Article 60, was defeated during the annual Town Meeting by a wide margin, as 558 people voted against her warrant article, with just 378 voters in favor. The zoning bylaw amendment was backed by ACK Now, the controversial political action nonprofit group that has unsuccessfully
pushed to restrict short-term rentals on Nantucket over the past three years, while also mounting legal challenges in the courts that remain pending. In 2021, ACK Now’s initial proposal to restrict short-term rentals—Article 90—was defeated by a 2 to 1 margin (625 to 297), so these most recent results perhaps show some incremental gains for ACK Now, but not nearly enough to approach the two-thirds majority threshold necessary to pass a zoning bylaw amendment.
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The Nantucket Golf Club Foundation announced its 2023 Nantucket Scholars: Nantucket High School seniors Ellie Kinsella and Wes Thornewill, who will receive full four-year college scholarships for all tuition and fees from the club. Kinsella will be attending Northeastern University, and Thornewill will be attending Boston University. “It was sort of unbelievable,” Thornewill said of hearing his name called. “It was so surreal,” Kinsella added. “It felt like everything paused for a second. It was really rewarding and I’m so happy about the results and proud of all the finalists.” This year for the first time, the foundation is also awarding the remaining nine finalists a renewable $5,000 four-year scholarship to the school of their choice. Those finalists include Diogo De Lima Dias, Aidan Sullivan, Eliza Brown, Karson Wellington, Kipper Buccino, Mihail Minevski, Quinn Keating, Ryan Whelden and Sarah Swenson.
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the restaurant for the 2023 season. The LaScolas have partnered with Michael and Kerri Crowe, summer residents from Winchester, Massachusetts, to acquire BlackEyed Susan’s, and the deal includes all of the assets of the restaurant as well as the real estate at 10 India Street. The purchase
price was not disclosed. “We are all beyond excited for this new venture,” the LaScolas and Crowes said in a statement. “We look forward to Black-Eyed’s having a new lease on life and offering something new and exciting to the concept, while retaining her exceptional Nantucket quality.”
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How does having continual three-day weekends sound to you? Dylan Fernandes, Nantucket’s state representative, has co-sponsored a bill that seeks to introduce a four-day workweek pilot program in Massachusetts. Fernandes and Rep. Josh Cutler of Duxbury want to establish a voluntary program for Massachusetts businesses to shift workers to a four-day workweek over a two-year period. Under the pilot, those employers would agree to reduce their workers’ hours without reducing their overall pay, while also pledging to share data and report their findings on the experiment in exchange for tax credits. The program would be known as “Massachusetts Smart Work Week Pilot” and if passed, could accept applications from employers across the state in a wide variety of fields and industries.
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The Brant Point Lighthouse received a long-awaited paint job in late April, along with other maintenance work, and the landmark is now looking better than it has in years. The Coast Guard’s Aids to Navigation team based in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, visited the island to complete the work, which island residents and town officials had been requesting for years as the iconic lighthouse had fallen into a state of decay. The team from Woods Hole added white paint to the shingles that adorn the 26-foot lighthouse, along with black paint to the top and light-green paint on the trim, and repaired the roof over the entrance.
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AND THE AWARD GOES TO… At the New England Newspaper and Press Association (NENPA) awards ceremony held earlier this spring, N Magazine and Nantucket Current claimed eleven awards, including four first places given to publisher Bruce A. Percelay, editor Robert Cocuzzo and Nantucket Current editor-in-chief Jason Graziadei. According to its mission statement, “NENPA recognizes the extraordinary achievements of newspapers and newspaper personnel in the six-state New England region by presenting a wide variety of prestigious awards each year.”
$6.5 MILLION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING The island’s affordable housing crisis was once again the undercurrent for many of the conversations at the May 6 annual Town Meeting, and when it came time for Nantucket voters to pony up, they did so. In a big way. Town Meeting approved a $6.5 million tax override to fund affordable housing initiatives on the island. And the final vote was emphatic: 607 people approved the permanent tax increase, while 226 voted in opposition. More than 72 percent of those in attendance offered their endorsement of Article 18 after an emotional debate in which a handful of island residents expressed reservations about the spending, while others shared personal experiences of how they had benefited from affordable housing initiatives, or hoped to in the future.
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THE FISHERMEN AND THE DRAGON BY KIRK WALLACE JOHNSON
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Kirk Wallace Johnson stole our bookish hearts with The Feather Thief at the Nantucket Book Festival in 2019, and he is back this year with a brand-new story, The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast. Every page in this twisting narrative is ablaze with hatred, xenophobia and ecological disaster—“a story that weaves together corporate malfeasance, a battle over shrinking natural resources, a turning point in the modern white supremacist movement, and one woman’s relentless battle for environmental justice.”
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TAKE MY HAND BY DOLEN PERKINSVALDEZ
Winner of the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Fiction, Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is a story inspired by true events. Civil Townsend, a Black nurse in postsegregation Alabama, blows the whistle on a terrible injustice done to her patients, setting off a chain of events that echo through the years. I turned the pages with compassion for each character and in awe at the beauty of the writing and timeliness of the story.
MAD HONEY BY JODI PICOULT AND JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN
Jodi Picoult always says that ideas for her novels start with the issues that are keeping her up at night, and I know I’ve lost some shuteye over several of her books. This time around she has teamed up with an equally gifted writer, Jennifer Finney Boylan, to tell the story of Lily Campanello and Olivia McAfee. It tackles enough subjects for a library of books, from transgender rights to beekeeping, from domestic abuse to gender identity. With suspenseful courtroom scenes that put you on the edge of your jury seat and characters that keep your eyes stuck like honey to the pages, this moving novel is seamless storytelling about authenticity, identity and belonging. It has the power to change opinions, create empathy and connect us, all aspects found in the transformative power of literature we strive to amplify at the Nantucket Book Festival each June. I will be in conversation with Jodi and Jenny about Mad Honey on Saturday, June 17, at 12 p.m. at the Methodist Church. Don’t bee late!
THIS TIME TOMORROW BY EMMA STRAUB
I consider myself a “Straub-erry”! (That is what I am calling Emma Straub fans.) Whatever you want to call them, consider me head of the fan club. Her writing is zippy, humorous and insightful, and I have loved every single one of her novels. This Time Tomorrow, her latest, tops the stack for me. It’s a time travel story, one of my favorite literary tropes. Alice, whose father is sick with cancer, wakes up on her fortieth birthday to find herself back in 1996. Her sixteen-year-old self is now armed with a new perspective on her life and her father’s, and some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything that she would change if she could? Emma is the daughter of the late writer Peter Straub, so this book and the message are especially personal and poignant. I adored the setup and the many nostalgic ’90s throwbacks to my own childhood. Calling all Straub-erries! I will be in conversation with Emma Straub on Friday, June 16, at 9 a.m. at the Methodist Church.
TRUST BY HERNAN DIAZ
For those that are finding fiction on the shelves to be too formulaic, here is a novel that is truly unique in its form and telling. It’s a layered story described as an “onion of a novel” where each turn of the page peels back another layer to discover something new and exciting. Divided into four parts, Trust is four books for the price of one. You get a novel, an unfinished manuscript, a memoir and a diary, and through these sections, you experience a world of wealth, privilege and truth. It’s a literary gem, trust me!
THE PUZZLE MASTER BY DANIELLE TRUSSONI release date June 13
This new novel by Danielle Trussoni is being marketed as The Da Vinci Code meets Stephen King, but it’s truly something all its own, offering a unique and intriguing puzzle of a book to kick off your summer reading. I enjoy playing detective as a reader, and this addictive tome has enough puzzles in it to rival a series of sudoku books. Mike Brink, a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor, has a rare medical condition, acquired savant syndrome, which leaves him with a mental superpower to decode puzzles. His expertise will be tested like never before in this thinking person’s thriller on good and evil, religion and the origin of humankind.
MASTER SLAVE HUSBAND WIFE BY ILYON WOO
Ilyon Woo’s Master Slave Husband Wife is the remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy disabled white man and William posing as “his” slave. The premise of this book intrigued all of us on the Nantucket Book Festival literary committee so we knew we had to get the author here for the Festival weekend. Ilyon draws such a detailed sketch of the time, place and people and shows the resilience and courage of Ellen and William throughout their epic journey. It’s unlike any story you have heard before.
THE WITCHES BY STACY SCHIFF
I am entranced by all books on the Salem witch trials, and Stacy Schiff’s The Witches may just be the best one written. With the quick and suspenseful pace and prose of your favorite novel, The Witches expertly unpacks the suspicion, betrayal and hysteria of Salem in 1692. There is much we don’t know about this time and what exactly occurred, but Stacy’s exhaustive research and vivid descriptions put us directly in the village of Salem during the infamous persecution. During the Festival weekend, Stacy will also discuss her most recent historical exposé, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams, with our very own Nantucket historian Nathaniel Philbrick.
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Three years since closing, The Pearl and Boarding House reopen their doors The Pearl/Boarding House team
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or decades, The Pearl and the Boarding House have been mainstays of the island’s oft-touted restaurant scene. That was until longtime owners and proprietors Angela and Seth Raynor announced in 2021 that they would be selling their beloved businesses and moving on to new endeavors. Now, after more than a year of being shut down for major renovations and retooling, these island icons are about to reopen under the leadership of Blue Flag Partners.
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The Pearl reopened in late April in time for the island’s unofficial start to the summer season: the annual Daffodil Festival, featuring sold-out soft open seatings throughout the weekend. It was followed by the reopening of the Boarding House in mid-May just prior to the Nantucket Wine and Food Festival. “It’s important for us to keep the Raynors’ legacy alive and honor Seth and Angela in doing all of this,” said Ricki Millington, a senior associate with Blue Flag who manages the company’s food and beverage programs at their various properties on island and beyond. “In that vein, we’ve kept seven or eight dishes that were favorites at The Pearl.” Many a memorable meal has been had in these eateries over the decades thanks to Seth’s Asian-inspired cuisine combined with an oftentimes decidedly French presentation. Several of the dishes that the Blue Flag team will continue to serve will be the sixty-second steak and eggs and the wok-fried lobster along with a variety of new additions including lemongrass and cilantro prime beef as well as the seven-spice chicken, a specialty of the restaurants’ new executive chef John Tubolino (formerly chef de cuisine at Row 34 in Boston and Fort Oak in San Diego). Tubolino spent significant time speaking and working with Seth to get the legacy dishes just right. The restaurants’ now fully renovated interiors were designed by the well-known Home Studios firm out of Brooklyn, New York, and while updated, these spaces still make strong references to the original layout and design. “In some ways, it’s everything you remember
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about The Pearl and Boarding House with just an updated look and feel,” said Millington. “Angela was famous for her hospitality, and we hope to continue that welcoming energy in a refreshed, elegant and fun environment.” This includes a now wide-open first floor dining room accented by a large hearth and fine art adorning the walls, along with the wellknown bar space just inside the front entrance.
The chef’s table on the covered side deck of the building still offers an exclusive outdoor dining experience only accessed through The Pearl’s busy kitchen. (These reservations can be hard to come by!) On the second floor, the iconic “Pink Room” has retained its identity, with another adjacent dining room and cocktail lounge, perfect for private events. Next door at the Boarding House, some modifications have been made to the traditional layout with an almost exact replica of
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“It’s important for us to keep the Raynors’ legacy alive and honor Seth and Angela in doing all of this.” — Ricki Millington, a senior associate with Blue Flag
the previous bar and dining room tucked inside more than thirty covered terrace seats. Those who’ve spent time in the Boarding House’s former incarnation will remember a lower-level dining room, which has been repurposed as a private dining and event space replete with high-end features throughout. The Boarding House’s menu is highlighted by spicy tuna tostadas, peel and eat shrimp and Vietnamese chicken salad as starters and prime beef bavette, line-caught swordfish and Hainanese chicken on the dinner menu. Dessert will feature another beloved holdover from the Raynors’ tenure: the chocolate chunk cookies with sea salt and malted almond milk. While The Pearl requires reservations for all seatings (except the bar), the Boarding House will be seated on a walk-in/first-come
basis. Both restaurants feature an extensive cocktail and wine list, with Pearl libations listed at $20 a glass. Highlights include the “Not a Cosmo but Looks Like a Cosmo” with vodka, Campari, pineapple, maple and lime salt. The “Verdita Green Goddess” features mezcal, verdita juice and agave, while the “Five Spice Old Fashioned” features whiskey, five-spice corn liquor bitters and orange. The wine list, while mostly European, represents a wide variety of origins. Sake and beer offerings round out the list. Reservations at The Pearl are available online via their website at pearlnantucket.com or on the OpenTable app. Millington said both restaurants plan to be open between Daffodil Festival weekend and the Indigenous Peoples holiday in October each year. N - M A G A Z I N E . C O M
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Exciting & fresh dining experience Located on the Nantucket waterfront at the historic Old South Wharf, bar Yoshi offers innovative Japanese and Asian-inspired cuisine including sushi, noodles and dumplings, as well as raw bar offerings, poke, ceviche and larger plates. The beverage program features a curated beer, sake and wine list, in addition to creative cocktails.
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oon, other island media outlets wanted their audience to hear Finigan’s fresh voice. “So many people in media gave me opportunities to test out my writing and show that I was a writer. I’m grateful for the community that believed in me,” she says. The next few years, Finigan’s byline was everywhere. First, she had a stint at Nantucket’s weekly newspaper, the Inquirer and Mirror, in a column called “Finigan’s Findings” where she chronicled a winter of discoveries on the island. Brides-to-be read her coverage of Nantucket nuptials for Deb Anderson’s Only Nantucket/Nantucket Weddings, and her recommendations on where to see and be seen graced the pages of this very glossy in “The N Scene.” The late Gene Mahon hired Finigan to write dispatches for his newsletter, sending out the “HollyWould” blog to his readership. “He told me that people loved it or hated it,” Finigan says. Love it or hate it, Gene Mahon’s subscriber list numbered more than 10,000 at its height. There were others who lit a fire under Finigan to stop thinking of herself as a blogger and start stepping into her role as a writer.
“In 2012, I spent a winter in ’Sconset saying I was going to write my first book. But after my heart surgery in 2018, I started writing for myself,” Finigan says. She had toyed with the idea of writing a book about healing her relationship to social media and started seriously thinking about this project in 2017. “It was way too early; people weren’t ready to hear that,” she says. A trip to Bali in the spring of 2018 helped Finigan figure out the framework for Wholeheartedly. “I met my teacher, Punnu Wasu, and he asked me the question that changed my life: What is your relationship to your parents? That’s when everything began again. I realized how much I needed to heal the relationship with my mom.” Finigan’s mother, Ruth, died in April 2014 after a battle with cancer. Much of Wholeheartedly delves into Finigan’s maternal relationship. “Writing about my mother, who has passed on, is something that was somewhat easy and pretty cathartic,” Finigan says. Holly Finigan with her mother “The hard part about writing a memoir for your family is the people who are still here and are going to read it. For anyone who is thinking about writing—or righting—a story about your family, my biggest takeaway is to heal that story internally before putting it out externally.” Giving her family time to work through the stories Finigan unpacks in Wholeheartedly added an extra five years from the time she wanted to publish the book until it could stand proudly on the shelves. Wholeheartedly is a unique book. Broken Holly Finigan with her teacher, Punnu Wasu in Bali
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into four parts, it takes readers on a journey that explores Finigan’s relationship to family, to the internet and to herself. For someone who once worried about sharing uncurat-
“The hard part about writing a memoir for your family is the people who are still here, and are going to read it.” — Holly Ruth Finigan
ed snippets of her life online, the unflinching honesty of Wholeheartedly comes as a welcome surprise. Reading Wholeheartedly is like having a conversation with a favorite big sister. Finigan’s anecdotes are raw and authentic, and some are outright hilarious. Wholeheartedly is a love letter to life and survival—and all the messiness that comes with it. Finigan’s business acumen came in handy when self-publishing Wholeheartedly. “I am my agent, I am my PR, I am my publisher,” she says. Lots of people Finigan met on Nantucket were involved in the production of the book, including editor Tracy Leddy, a former English teacher at Nantucket Public Schools; island photographer Georgie Morley; designers Michael Molloy and Jasmine Takanikos; and Sarah Feather
relationship to spirits. She cites the culture of drinking on Nantucket as one of the reasons why blACKbook had to come to an end. “So much of it was not the spirit I wanted to be sharing with people. I was overly spirited but malnourished with my spirits.” These days, Finigan is interested in having a more conscious relationship to alcohol, and to look at new ways of being social that aren’t centered around drinking. In a full-circle moment, Finigan recounts her first experience with the Nantucket Book Holly Finigan with her family Festival, where Wholeheartedly will be featured this June. Eleven years ago, Nantucket blACKbook was helping to market the festival, organizing
Farley, who laid out the book. Finigan says of her team, “There is so much creativity, so much brilliance that lives on Nantucket. You don’t have to leave Nantucket to find experts.” Her years running the Nantucket blACKbook Instagram account helped hone Finigan’s writing style, and each chapter is filled with dozens of snappy sections that could easily fit within the social media platform’s 2,200-character limit. These reflections are interspersed with longer, heartfelt letters to Finigan’s late mother, Ruth, driving home the
message that it is never too late to tell your truth. Finigan’s internet fame has translated into real-life readers excitedly snatching up copies. A thirteen-stop book tour this spring took Wholeheartedly up and down the East Coast and beyond. Finigan launched the book on Nantucket at Dharma Yoga, then traveled to Boston, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Newport’s Coastal Creative Conference. Finally, she boarded a 30-hour flight to Bali to reunite with the teacher who started her on this journey. From nights as a bartender to days in Bali studying yoga and breathwork, Finigan has come to redefine her
“There is so much creativity, so much brilliance that lives on Nantucket. You don’t have to leave Nantucket to find experts.” — Holly Ruth Finigan
an event called “Authors Behind Bars” where the star-tender bartender formerly known as Miss blACKbook mixed drinks for the literati. “What I really wanted to do is have a book in the festival,” she writes in Wholeheartedly. At long last, Holly Finigan has done just that.
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hen Suzanne Gale joined the Nantucket Police Department as a full-time officer in 2003, she was one of only three female cops on the force. The South Water Street police station didn’t even have a female locker room at the time, and Gale said she had to work twice as hard to get the opportunity compared to some of her male counterparts.
Twenty years later, Gale is still with the department, but now she is one of eight female officers with the NPD—a group that now makes up a full quarter of the island’s police force. The number of women working as full-time officers with the NPD has grown significantly over the past two decades, and today, they serve as sergeants, detectives, school resource officers, motorcycle officers and as members of the department’s SWAT team. “I remember there was a time when there were no females in the department,” said Gale, who worked as a dispatcher and special officer before attending the police academy and getting her shot to become a full-time officer. “Having females on every shift helps. Some people just like talking to females better than males. Sometimes we just think outside the box, and we have different ideas on how to get things done.” For Gale and Sgt. Janine Mauldin, who has been with the NPD as a full-time officer since 2005, witnessing the growing number of female colleagues joining the ranks of the department over the years has been gratifying—and a little surprising to them. As the department’s two longest-serving women, they have a unique perspective. “Honestly, it’s almost a shock to have eight females on the department,” Mauldin said. “I thought
four was a lot at one time, but it’s nice to have such a diverse group of females. Each of us brings our own personality and niche to the profession, which shows in all the different positions we hold in the department. We are all doing our own thing at
And those differences can be both positive and negative. “Most times we are generally treated the same way when responding to calls or amongst the public,” said Detective Amanda Schwenk. “However, sometimes
times and don’t have an opportunity for all of us to see each other on a consistent basis, but there is a silent bond. I don’t want to get into specifics, but there have been times if one of us needed something, we would look out for our sister.” For the women of the NPD, working as females in the traditionally male-dominated field of law enforcement generally hasn’t been an issue within the department. They are treated as equals by their male colleagues, they said. But in some cases, it is interactions with the public where they notice a difference between the responses to a male officer versus a female officer.
I have experienced not always being shown the same respect as my male co-workers. I have been referred to as ‘honey’ or ‘sweetheart’ instead of ‘officer.’ There have also been times where people simply just don’t respect you as a female and only want to talk to the male officer on scene. I have had sexually derogatory comments made by either people passing by while patrolling or individuals we are dealing with more times than I can count. I have been asked why I am a police officer and usually followed up with ‘Aren’t you scared?’ or “How do you handle the calls?’
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he negativity is easily outweighed by the positive interactions and being able to simply brush off the negative comments or ignore them,” she continued. “The positives have been that sometimes there is a different reaction with a female officer on scene depending on the calls. Having a woman there during a call with female victims or females in need of assistance can help bring some ease and maybe they are more comfortable to open up and talk.” While they may not always get to work together on the same shift or even get to see each other as a group within the department on a day-to-day basis, the camaraderie among the NPD’s eight female officers was clearly evident when they came together for the photo on the previous page. The banter, nicknames and inside jokes revealed a tight-knit group of women that bring different talents and perspectives to the job, along with a universal respect for the profession, the island community, their department and each other. “We as a whole [women] can always count on each other to lift each other up and be our biggest cheerleaders,” said Cassie Thompson, who serves as the department’s school resource officer. “There are already so many people/factors that want to tear down women—not only in policing but in general—and we, as women, should be lifting each other up. I think the women of NPD do that. Our banter during the photo
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shoot gave you a glimpse into our little ‘club,’ and having the ability to surround yourself with like-minded, career-driven, confident women is a privilege.” The first full-time female police officer hired by the NPD was Donna Mayo, who earned that distinction in 1981 at the age of 21. Mayo had worked her way up from being a meter maid to a dispatcher and then a special police officer.
“Honestly, it’s almost a shock to have eight females on the department. I thought four was a lot at one time, but it’s nice to have such a diverse group of females.” — Sgt. Janine Mauldin
Before Gale and Mauldin joined the force, there were other women who served with the NPD, including Christine Ladner, who became a full-time officer in 1995 and was promoted to the rank of sergeant in 2003. There was also Kathy Fougere Gallant, whose nephew Nicholas Gallant now works for the NPD as a patrol officer. But up until the last few years, the number of female officers on the island police force at any given time could usually be counted on one hand. For NPD Lt. Angus MacVicar, who has had a hand in hiring almost all of the women currently on the force, the goal was never to hire more female officers.
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“Most times we are generally treated the same way when responding to calls or amongst the public. However, sometimes I have experienced not always being shown the same respect as my male co-workers.” — NPD Detective Amanda Schwenk
It was always, he said, simply to hire the best police officers. Even so, seeing the eight female officers assembled together for a photo was striking, MacVicar said, and a point of pride for the department. “You don’t really view them as female or male; you see them as being a police officer,” MacVicar said. “We have really good police officers here. Some have more experience or a different skill set. But I don’t ever think of whether they’re a female or a male. We truly hire the most qualified candidate through the application process.”
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Elin Hilderbrand’s long road to Hollywood
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t cocktail parties on Cliff Road or lunches in ’Sconset, someone invariably drops Elin Hilderbrand’s name, either as a fan or a friend. For over twenty years, Hilderbrand’s novels have helped set the pace of summers here, each new book as regular a part of the seasonal rhythm as the waves on the beach or traffic jams at the rotary. A frisson of excitement ripples through the crowd when she appears in person—beautiful, blonde and looking like one of her heroines: effortlessly chic and sun-kissed. The media has crowned her “queen of the beach read,” and her 2019 novel Summer of ’69 debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Yet for all her popularity, none of Hilderbrand’s 28 books, set almost exclusively on Nantucket, have been adapted for film…until now.
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t’s classic Hollywood,” she says, describing the roller-coaster of a process by which her page-turner The Perfect Couple became her first book to be made into a miniseries by Netflix. She’s speaking from her winter hideaway in the U.S. Virgin Islands. “After so many disappointments, it’s incredibly gratifying to have one of my novels make it to TV, and especially at this elevated level.” In a world of series backed by bibliophile Reese Witherspoon and the Hallmark Channel churning out rom-coms, it’s somewhat surprising that Hilderbrand’s prolific output over the past two decades hasn’t attracted more interest, although her first novel, The Beach Club, was optioned by Aaron Spelling.
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“That never went anywhere, and then, of course, he died. After that? Nothing, until 2018, when someone optioned The Identicals. And that went nowhere,” she laughs. Lightning finally struck in 2019, when uber-producer Gail Berman (whose credits include Buffy the Vampire Slayer and last year’s Oscar-nominated Elvis) attached her considerable clout to the project. Still, there were false starts. “Gail had a deal with Fox, and they passed, and then in March 2020, COVID started,” she says. “I think someone thought our project was too similar to something Lee Daniels was doing for Fox, set on Martha’s Vineyard.” Hilderbrand’s weary bemusement is palpable. “I heard nothing for a year, from March 2020 to 2021. Then Gail calls and says she showed it to her friend Marcy at Viu, which is the biggest streaming service in Southeast Asia. They green-lighted it, except that they wanted to film it in Bali, using Asian actors, speaking English.”
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So central is Nantucket to Hilderbrand’s stories that the idea seems ludicrous. “Up to that point, the director attached was Anne Fletcher, who had done Hocus Pocus 2, 27 Dresses and The Proposal, so she seemed like a perfect fit, but at
“The talent is just so deep...it’s one of the best casts I’ve ever seen for anything.” — Elin Hilderbrand
some point in the fall, she dropped out.” It felt like another dead end, until scriptwriter Jenna Lamia said someone great was interested. “She wouldn’t say who, but if she took it, it was going to be golden,” Hilderbrand says. That someone turned out to be Susanne Bier, the award-winning Danish director, who finally moved the ball into the end zone. Hilderbrand got the phone call that the project was a go as she was boarding a flight to
South Carolina, and on December 18—the last day anyone does business in Hollywood before the holidays—the deal was inked. “In January, I got a call from Gail, saying we’d put an offer out to Nicole Kidman as the lead,” Hilderbrand recounts in disbelief. “Once she was cast, Dakota Fanning signed on, then Liev Schreiber, then Meghann Fahy,” fresh off her star turn in the second season of The White Lotus. Rounding out the all-star lineup are Omar Epps, Eve Hewson (aka Bono’s daughter) and Frances Conroy. “The talent is just so deep, but I think the breakout star is going to be Ishaan Khattar, who’s a big star in India. Overall, it’s one of the best casts I’ve ever seen for anything,” Hilderbrand says. By April, a sign saying “Nantucket Police” was being affixed to a vacant storefront in Chatham, which no doubt caused some head-scratching, and filming began in and around Cape Cod on April 3. For obvious logistical and financial reasons, filming on Nantucket was impossible. Hilderbrand serves as an executive producer and consulted with Lamia on the finer points, like whale pants. Lamia noticed Hilderbrand’s son wearing a pair in a photograph. “That makes me really happy,” she says. “They want it to look authentic. The story is about a wedding, and whale pants are just so Nantucket.”
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s for Hilderbrand’s much lamented retirement, which she announced this year, she says, “I’m coming to the end of my plan. I’ve written a book per year since 2000. I’ve done it all, exhausted every scenario that could go in a beach read. I’m out of material. Five Star Weekend comes out June 13, and that’s the next to last.” In June 2024, the appropriately titled Swan Song will be released, ending Hilderbrand’s two-and-a-half-decade winning streak of Nantucket novels. Fans who find that concept too disheartening to contemplate can buck up, though. Hilderbrand uses the term “retirement” loosely. “I’ll still write novels,” she says. “I’m writing two books with my daughter about boarding school. She goes to St.
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George’s. And I have four other projects in development for an ongoing film series.” She is also launching a podcast in partnership with her dear friend and Hilderbrand and Tim Ehrenberg launch a new literary influencer podcast in partnership with N Magazine this month. Tim Ehrenberg. In the meantime, you might catch a glimpse of her stretched out on the beach near Ram Pasture, engrossed in somebody else’s bestseller. And keep an eye out for film crews around the island this summer. “They’re sending the ‘beauty crew’ over in July, to film a few scenes and make sure they get the hydrangeas and roses. After all, it’s a story set on Nantucket. You need to see Murray’s and the front of the Lemon Press.”
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How the Clean Water Coalition is giving our harbor a fighting chance
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s recently as the early 1980s, Nantucket’s annual commercial scallop yield consistently reached 50,000 bushels, at one point climbing to about 120,000. Today, the annual scallop yield always falls below 10,000 bushels, and sometimes well below 5,000. It’s not because scallops have been over-fished. It’s because the waters off Nantucket have become too polluted to support the marine habitat in which they thrive. Scallop harvesting is only one casualty of the island’s ever-murkier waters. Pollutants also threaten Nantucket’s drinking water and compromise the safety of ponds and streams that sometimes teem with poisonous algal blooms. With the health of Nantucket’s water nearing a tipping point, the Maria Mitchell Association, the Nantucket Land Council and the Nantucket Shellfish Association have joined forces to form the Nantucket Clean Water Coalition. The new group wants to help people on island understand that much about the cleanliness of the water is under their direct, daily control.
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Joanna Roche, Emily Molden and Samantha Denette helm the Clean Water Coalition in partnership with more than a dozen other local organizations (see last page for full list of partners).
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o matter where you live on Nantucket,” says Emily Molden, executive director of the Nantucket Land Council, “you are in a watershed, meaning water is always flowing downhill from your property—into ponds, harbors, the ocean. So if any kind of pollutant on your land runs over the surface or leaches down into the groundwater, it gets transported and breaks out into one of those water bodies.” That includes the soap and wax you use to clean your car in your driveway or the paint thinner you might pour down a storm drain—one of those little sewer grates off the curb.
It’s a particularly fraught issue on Nantucket, Molden says, because of the island’s sandy soils. Pollutants run through the ground at a faster rate than in most of New England, with the soil providing less filtration. That’s part of the reason that “the way in which we manage our land has huge implications for the health of our waters,” she says. The Clean Water Coalition, which is collaborating with town departments including the Health Department and the Natural Resources Department, has identified three main actions people can take in their daily lives that would have a huge impact on restoring the cleanliness of Nantucket’s waters. Fertilizer management. “We’re experiencing an
“No matter where you live on Nantucket, you are in a watershed, meaning water is always flowing downhill from your property—into ponds, harbors, the ocean.” — Emily Molden, executive director of the Nantucket Land Council
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over-application of fertilizer,” says Samantha Denette, executive director of the Nantucket Shellfish Association. “If grass uses what it needs, the rest is going to run off.” That runoff contains the fertilizing nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus. Excess phosphorus ends up in fresh water like ponds and paves the way for toxic algae. Nitrogen leads to algae growth in the harbor. The algae end up clouding the water column, making it difficult for the growth of eelgrass—the habitat in which scallops thrive. “If you go snorkeling off Tuckernuck or Muskeget,” Denette says, “you will get this throwback experience to what eelgrass used to look like—beautiful green blades. Off Nantucket, it now looks fuzzy. In some areas it’s completely wiped out. In others, it’s either dying or a lot smaller and weaker than it used to be.” How to have a nice green, fertilized lawn without overdoing it? Nantucket has its own fertilizer regulations through the Board of Health. Landscapers have to have a license to apply it, and that license has to be renewed every year to ensure that they are familiar with the rules. For instance, they’re not supposed to fertilize right
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before a heavy rainfall because the fertilizer will run off the grass and down into the water. Fertilizer is also not supposed to be applied between October 15 and April 15. Sometimes people put on fertilizer in the fall because they think it will protect their grass over the winter, Molden says, but plants can’t really use fertilizer if the soil is too cold. “It’s a complete waste of money,” and it will run into the water when it rains or when snow melts. It can also make its way to the underground aquifers that supply the island’s drinking water. “People should ask their landscapers if they have a license to apply fertilizer,” Molden says. “Another thing to ask: Could you use less?”
“Right now we don’t have a stormwater management plan.” — Joanna Roche, executive director of the Maria Mitchell Association
Denette suggests introducing native plants to gardens and yards. They require less fertilizer than lawns. “There’s some really beautiful stuff out there,” she says. Molden adds that when developing or redeveloping a lot, leaving mature native vegetation in place as much as possible would be a huge benefit. “When a lot is being developed,” she says, “one of the worst things that can be done is to scrape the land of its existing native vegetation. Ripping out plants releases additional phosphorus and nitrogen into the groundwater, and establishing new plantings typically requires more fertilizer.” Wastewater management. Ideally, more of Nantucket would be on a sewer system that consistently and adequately filters nitrogen, phosphorus and other contaminants from the
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water we flush and send down tub and sink drains. As it is, we have a range of treatment systems ranging from decades-old cesspools and pits to newer, innovative systems. But even with the best systems, Molden says, “typically at least some forms of nitrogen and phosphorus end up in a leaching field and make it into the ground from there. Regulations talk about how far away a septic system can be from a water body. But rain is always going to slowly carry those things into the groundwater and from there, out to ponds and the harbor.” The best thing people can do, she says, is have their septic system pumped every one to two years. As a system fills up, more nitrogen and phosphorus are going to bypass it and end up in the leaching field. When you pump your system, not only are you leaving room for more waste products, you are also sending effluent into a truck that delivers it to a sewage treatment plant rather than letting it flow underground until it lands in water that would otherwise remain clean.
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Stormwater management. When it rains, some of the water will percolate into the soil, and some will run right over the ground’s surface and end up in storm drains. Either way, as it travels along, it picks up nitrogen, phosphorus and anything else that makes it way to the street. If it hits soil, it potentially contaminates the underground drinking water supply. If it flows into a storm drain, it makes its way into Nantucket’s outfall pipes that discharge directly into the harbor. “Right now, we don’t have a stormwater management plan,” says Joanna Roche, executive director of the Maria Mitchell Association. That makes it all the more important not only to refrain from dumping things into storm drains but also from engaging in activities that could send pollutants into storm drains passively. That would include applying an excess of fertilizer on your lawn, letting oil or gas leak from your lawn mower, or haphazardly applying a cleaner to a rug that you took outside to wash. The Clean Water Coalition has been in discussions with various town departments so that restoring the island’s waters becomes a shared agenda that involves all concerned parties. Natural Resources Director Jeff Carlson is one of those who is happy to participate. “The Clean Water Coalition has helped us broaden the network of people getting connected to information,” he says. “Meeting with
them to talk about all things ‘water quality’ keeps everyone in the loop a little bit better and really helps us to work collaboratively to get the word out.” As an example, Carlson says, “We may put something out about fertilizer management in early April. The seasonal people—three or four times the year-round population—may not see it. But if it goes through a nonprofit, it gets out so many times and in so many different ways. One of those ways is going to connect with the end user.” And each end user makes an impact. “People think, ‘Me doing one thing every day is pointless,’” says the Nantucket Shellfish Association’s Denette. “But with the summer population, we have 80,000 people. If each one did just one change in the positive, think about just how much progress we could make. It doesn’t mean changing everything about your life. Maybe this year it’s a couple of native plantings; next, it’s reducing your green lawn footprint a little bit.” The stakes are exorbitantly high because of Nantucket’s iconic geological status. The island has the last natural bay scallop fishery on the East Coast, for instance. “We may still have time to sustain it,” the Land Council’s Molden says. “Many communities have basically lost it all.” “You don’t choose to go to an island if you don’t like water,” adds Denette. “Our harbors, the waters around us, it’s who we are. I want people to know they can make a difference. We are all stewards of Nantucket’s future.”
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The Clean Water Coalition includes ACKlimate Nantucket, Great Harbor Yacht Club Foundation, Linda Loring Nature Foundation, Maria Mitchell Association, Nantucket Marine Mammal Alliance, Mass Audubon, Nantucket Chamber of Commerce, Nantucket Civic League, Nantucket Conservation Foundation, Nantucket Land Bank, Nantucket Land Council, Nantucket Pond Coalition, Nantucket Shellfish Association, Sustainable Nantucket and UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station.
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“If you go snorkeling off Tuckernuck or Muskeget, you will get this throwback experience to what eelgrass used to look like—beautiful green blades.” — Samantha Denette, executive director of the Nantucket Shellfish Association
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A new documentary coming to the Nantucket Film Festival dives into the debate over the growing number of sharks in our waters
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he stunning surge in shark activity off the Cape and Islands is explored in filmmaker Ivy Meeropol’s masterfully shot and edited film, After the Bite, which will be showing at the Nantucket Film Festival on June 24. The film makes it clear that the biggest threat to bathers is off the Outer Cape, but still, Nantucket Harbormaster Sheila Lucey reports that “we ended up having seventy-two confirmed fin sightings last year. All of them were on the south shore or on the west end toward Madaket.” No surprise. While it can’t be known with certainty that all of those fins belonged to white sharks, Madaket is just seven miles from Muskeget, which has the largest gray seal breeding colony in North America. Eating a seal is “a McDonald’s outing” for a shark, says Wendy Puryear, a researcher at the Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine who appears in the film and whose current work centers on North Atlantic gray seals and the coastal environment. “It’s high in fat, and it’s a treat.” The burgeoning seal population is, in fact, a significant reason for sharks’ increasing presence in our waters. The seals’ numbers had been decimated by the middle of the last century; they were hunted in the belief that they were taking down the commercial fishing industry by competing for many of the same fish that people eat. “There was not much science behind it,” says Greg Skomal of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries and one of the foremost experts on white sharks. But, says Skomal, who is also featured in the film, “you could make five bucks by going out and killing a seal” and perhaps bringing back its nose or an ear.
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Then, in 1972, the Marine Mammal Protection Act was passed, and the seal population started rebounding. That drew the sharks back, especially during the last decade. “It’s our belief that sharks used to be here,” Skomal says. Indeed, the first recorded human fatality caused by a shark reportedly occurred off the coast of Colonial Massachusetts in the 1700s. The predators may not have been noticed much in previous centuries because going to the beach only came into vogue in the United States in the late 1800s. Fast-forward to today and the risk of actually getting killed by a shark remains infinitesimally low, even along the Outer Cape, where research has shown that white sharks typically spend some 50 percent of their time in water less than 15 feet deep. On Nantucket, the threat is presumably lower still. “Sharks do not spend time in Nantucket Sound relative to other areas,” Skomal says. “And they’re transient as they’re moving through the island’s waters on the south side. They’re
Still frames from the film, including Greg Skomal, the foremost expert on white sharks at the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
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not staying there hunting. Great Point is an exception. There have been well-documented attacks on seals off Great Point. But Great Point is not typically accessed by most folks using Nantucket beaches.” Not that you shouldn’t have a healthy vigilance no matter where you swim. But to put some context to the possibility of a fatal shark bite, your chance of drowning is about one in 1,100; your risk of getting killed by lightning, one in 80,000. The odds of being done in by a shark is one in 4.3 million, according to the International Shark Attack File. Improving technology to help understand sharks’ movements should help keep the risk low, as will increased vigilance. On Nantucket, says Harbormaster Lucey, there are protocols in place for lifeguards to warn people away from the water for either one or two hours depending on where a fin sighting has been confirmed. Planes flying overhead also check for sharks. And the instruments to detect them, which Skomal says have reached Nantucket over the last two years,
will no doubt improve. Still, a number of fishermen are worried that the seal repopulation associated with the return of the sharks is cutting into their catch and ruining their livelihoods. Some in the tourism industry are concerned about business as well, because of people’s fears about coming to the seaside. Thus, sharks and the seals that entice them to our waters have become a political issue, one that Meeropol’s film mines by getting the views of those whose livelihoods depend on fish eaters and vacationers alike. Juxtaposed against a subtle homage to Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster Jaws with scenes of
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people frolicking in the water to ominous background music, grizzled fishermen bemoan their dwindling businesses, and townspeople shout at local officials in town halls and school gyms with cinderblock walls. Skomal says, “We’ve developed a massive tourist economy.” That it’s now illegal to cull the seal population, which in turn would make Nantucket’s waters less interesting to sharks, is “a slap in the face to many people.” Meeropol treats all the divergent opinions respectfully in the film, “in a way that does not vilify people I may not agree with,” she says. But in the end, even with her careful attention to the nuanced and not-so-nuanced implications for different
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segments of the population, the message tilts toward letting the seals thrive and the sharks feed in the local ecosystem. “I wanted people to consider their relationship to the natural world,” Meeropol says, “to deepen the conversation about coexistence with other species. Do you see yourself looking to dominate, or more from a position of awe and reverence? In making this film, I realized we know more about outer space than we do about the ocean...I find that amazing, and I think we should tread very lightly on [the sharks’] world. The ocean is their world. They’re 400 million years old. We only started going to the beach 100 years ago, and we act like it’s some birthright. But we are encroaching on their environment.” Meeropol adds that letting the natural world be is a way to help save the planet by respecting the ecosystem. We should “stop being distracted by the minimal possibility that you might get bitten by a shark if you’re swimming and pay attention to the real threat to all of us,” she says.
The scientists in the film agree. Says Tufts’ Puryear in one segment, “It’s easy to get caught up in the Jaws-esque angle to things and take our eye off the bigger picture that really we should be thinking about, which is that the health of one species really does impact all of us.” Adds another voice in After the Bite, “We’re one strand in the web of life…Humankind must learn humility.” Even “if every single seal were to disappear overnight,” Puryear comments in our phone interview, “that wouldn’t flip a switch for sharks not to want to be here. Certainly it sweetens the deal for them, but there are a lot of other fish sources of food.” Puryear points out as well that climate has shifted in a way that also contributes to
what has been going on in the waters off the Massachusetts coast. It’s not all about the seals. “We’re really in this very interesting kind of central zone with things colliding here,” she says. Marine life has come north as waters to the south have warmed, while at the same time animals are coming south with the melting of polar ice caps, seeking out a suitable habitat and prey. “It’s not that they’re replacing their cold environment” when they come to Massachusetts, she says. “It’s a little bit of a panic mode as all of a sudden their habitats are disappearing.” Skomal concurs that nature should be allowed to take its course, and be protected. “As a species all of us know that we’ve impacted our planet globally and locally,” he says. “When I think about the white sharks and the seals, I like to describe it as the restoration of a healthy ecosystem. This is what happened long before people went to the beach.” Some might rather go swimming without any threat of sharks, he says. But, he comments, “I’ve asked people to realize this is a success story, along the lines of witnessing a herring run or ‘Look at that bald eagle. I’ve never seen that.’ I think the return of the seals and the sharks means we’ve done something right. I think people will embrace that.”
(Top) Director Ivy Meeropol and (bottom) an impromptu memorial for a 26-year-old named Arthur Medici after his death by shark bite off the Wellfleet coast in 2018. There have been no fatal shark attacks in Massachusetts waters since then.
There will be a panel discussion following the showing of After the Bite on June 23rd, with participants including filmmaker Ivy Meeropol and Greg Skomal; N Magazine editor Rob Cocuzzo will moderate. For alerts about sharks (often in real time), download the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app at the organization’s website: atlanticwhiteshark.org. The app, which has already been downloaded by more than 750,000 people, tells not only when but how close to shore there has been a shark sighting. The conservancy’s website offers safety tips under its Education tab.
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Nantucket summer resident Luke Russert debuts an overnight bestselling memoir
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INTERVIEW BY ROBERT COCUZZO PHOTO BY TOM LEE WILLIAMS
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n 2015, Luke Russert appeared to be on top of the world. The son of the late Meet the Press host Tim Russert, Luke was not only walking in his father’s footsteps in news media, but blazing his own trail as a congressional reporter. To the outside world, he was living the life, on the guest lists of all the swankiest DC parties, on the social pages and on a first-name basis with the president. But inside himself, there was a hole that hadn’t been filled. Luke never had the chance to fully mourn the loss of his father. So after eight successful years in the news media, Russert walked away from his Emmy-award winning career to travel around the world in search of answers. After three years and sixty-seven countries, Russert released his overnight bestselling memoir Look for Me There, which will be showcased at the Nantucket Book Festival this month. When you first hit the road, did you have any inclination that your travels would serve as fodder for writing a book? When I was traveling, I filled up dozens and dozens of journals. The journaling was a way to center myself. It was a way to have a dedicated responsibility aside from just moving from place to place. What I was trying to do with those journals was capture my thoughts and my mindset in different places and then having different experiences and what those were imparting on me. I didn’t know really what I had in 2019. Ultimately, when I went back through the journals, I noticed that there is a common connective tissue. There was this searching, this looking, this longing for something, which is really what got me traveling to
begin with. When I went through it all, I decided, “You know what? I think there’s a story here and I’m going to try and write something about it.” What role if any did your mother—Vanity Fair journalist Maureen Orth—play in the writing of the book? She’s the best writer in the family, as I always like to say. When I told her I wanted to write a book, she was supportive of it, but she said, “You really have to understand the undertaking that you’re about to endure. You really have to get to that place where you can make the reader feel like they are with you and they’re understanding you.” That’s not the easiest thing. It’s vastly different from television. So, that was the surface-level advice from the writer that she gave.
Russert with his father, the late Tim Russert
Your mother also serves as a central character in the book. How did it feel sharing your relationship, which at times was historically contentious? What did you learn about her in the process? As far as our relationship that’s captured in the book, it’s a very interesting one, because [I grew] up as an only child and the father-son relationship, as you know, is such a special thing in any family structure. But in my family, my father and I were incredibly close. I wouldn’t say that we excluded my mother, but there is definitely a bond, the machismo dad and son. It wasn’t until I started traveling with my mom, especially in the beginning, that I realized how much I had missed and didn’t necessarily understand about her or her own story and about her time in the Peace Corps when she was in her early twenties.
Russert with his mother Maureen Orth
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Russert and his mother in Paraguay
My mom wanted to travel and she wanted to see the world, so she joined the Peace Corps to do that. It was incredibly difficult work. Seeing her in her element in Latin America was incredibly eye-opening, because it taught me two things. One, part of the reason why your mom was hard on you was because she had to work so hard to get where she was, because she had to face such rampant sexism, and society’s expectations on her were quite heavy to be in a certain lane. I didn’t see that until I just saw her in Latin America bossing men around saying, “No, I’m going to do this. This is where I want to go.” The other thing though is my mom saw travel as an opportunity to get outside of the world in which you know. To get outside of your hometown, get outside away from your family name, get outside whatever your profession is. It’s these little pockets and moments of being able to reset. To do that, you’ve really got to immerse yourself in other cultures. You can travel in weekend trips here and there, but one of the things my mom always did was, especially with her reporting, she would go to these far-flung places like covering the opium trade right outside of Afghanistan right after 9/11. Was your father similar in that way? My father would never do that. He was so risk averse, but my mom would. The reason why is to get the story but also the value in that experience. She always says, “I’m going to travel as a Peace Corps volunteer for this trip. I’ll ride the bus and I’ll stay in the boarding house because I want to be amongst a different culture and understand it and feel it and it’s a very valuable learning experience.” I took that to heart, and it was really valuable and it’s something I’ll carry with me for life. Traveling tends to come with extreme misadventures. Illness. Robbery. Getting lost. Did you encounter any of those moments? I picked up a terrible stomach bug in Nepal. It was truly, truly awful to the point of where I was hallucinating with night sweats. Every imaginable terrible thing was going on in my body. I had flown to Sri Lanka totally sick. From Malaysia I went to Sri Lanka. I was just so sick. I was in the hotel room. That was one of those times where you get to that very dark place, which is, “Oh, my gosh. I’m going to die in Colombo, Sri Lanka. This is awful…I cannot believe this is how it is.” Thankfully, I was able to get better, but that had a deep impact on me because I realized to some degree that my body was saying, “Hey, this is a lot of wear and tear that you’re putting on us.”
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What would be your commandments of how best to travel and absorb a culture? If you’re willing and able, solo travel is an absolutely incredible experience that is so valuable. It forces you to be alert, to notice things and to measure yourself up against what the world is going to throw at you. Number two I’d say is journaling. What’s important about journaling is it allows you an outlet to comprehend what you’re seeing and what you’re feeling that’s beyond just texting a friend or posting on social media. It’s putting that pen to page. There’s a flow of what you’ve encountered during the day, and it comes out because you’re writing down what you noticed. Then a third I would suggest is the beauty of walking. That was so invaluable because you just stumble into things. That’s the most beautiful part of travel is when you stumble into something and it’s something you take away and you carry with you. You may never have had that opportunity if you didn’t allow yourself the ability to do it. The beauty becomes the walking. Many people travel to escape their former life, but as Jon Kabat-Zinn famously said “Wherever you go, there you are.” What was your experience in leaving your former life in news media for another on the road? I think when you start traveling, it’s blissful. It’s this idea of I’m leaving that old world behind. I’m jumping into the great unknown and I’m part terrified, part excited. But if anything, I’m ready for this
“What I realized with the travel was that I was trying to look for something but I was also probably running away from something” — Luke Russert
new experience. I’m ready for this rush. I just yearn for this freedom. That sustained me for quite a while. There is such personal growth in that period. But one of the things about having endless amounts of freedom is that if that line can become too long, you can hang yourself with it. What I realized with the travel was that I was trying to look for something but I was also probably running away from something. What were you running away from?
Photos from Russert’s many travels, which make up the contents of his memoir
What I was running away from was dealing with the loss of my dad and processing that grief. So, it’s a weird thing to say because it’s twofold. You’re running away from something, but you’re looking for something. To some degree, you’re trying to look for what you’re running away from. It dawned on me, especially when I was doing the writing but also during the trip, that
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there were all these moments where my father was showing himself, whether it’d be rainbows or just anecdotes that came to mind. The travel was my own way of coming to a place where I could process that. And what did you discover about yourself? Because of this gift of getting away from my hometown and my job and the weight of my last name in far-flung places when nobody cared who I was, I reached a point
Where can Nantucket be found between the lines of your book? Nantucket is such a place of peace for me. It is something, where growing up, going there from such a young age and having such wonderful experiences as a family, I always carry with me. But one of the things that I learned in Nantucket with working summer jobs there, whether it was working maintenance at the iconic public golf course or working the back of the truck for Cape Cod Express, was those jobs, forward-facing jobs where I had to deal with a whole bunch of different types of people, really, really
“Because of this gift of getting away from my hometown and my job and the weight of my last name in far-flung places when nobody cared who I was, I reached a point where there was a sense of clarity.” — Luke Russert
where there was a sense of clarity. The clarity came from a variety of factors. Part of it was faith, part of it was maturation, but also just thinking there’s more to life than grief. There’s more to life than your profession. There’s more to life than “What are you inside? How are you going to be whole?” When I honed in on that, things became a lot clearer and not necessarily easier, but more profound. How did it impact you physically?
Russert’s appearances after the book’s release
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After I started traveling, I ate everything and I enjoyed myself. I said, “I don’t have to have these TV jawbones as much, so I’ll allow myself to eat a little bit and enjoy life.” I went to the doctor for a checkup and he goes, “Well, you put on a few pounds, your cholesterol’s higher, but your blood pressure is like twenty points lower…What have you been doing?” Living! It was a really important moment for me, because I think at least it showed me with data that I was really holding on to a lot of stress and not necessarily processing it the best way.
prepared me well for the world. I felt that some of those lessons I learned on the back of the truck from Cape Cod Express about how to deal with people and be a good human being helped me in my travels. There’s going to be some crazy, there’s going to be some bad, there’s going to be some good, but deliver your freight and get on with life. Professionally, what do you see yourself doing after the book? When I was in the process of leaving NBC, I used to have these dreams where I would throw out all sorts of different jobs. Do you want to learn how to be a pilot or do you hate flying? Or do you want to be a park ranger and live amongst the woods? Some of those things sounded appealing, but I think after doing this travel and writing this book, I’ve honed in that I really like storytelling. What medium that will take, whether it’s another book, whether it’s going back into television, long form, podcast, digital—I don’t necessarily know, but I like the storytelling space. It’s where I think I have a combination of a natural talent with a deep desire to do well. When you travel and see a lot, there are a lot of stories out there. I think a lot of them would be beneficial for people to hear. So, that’s where I would like to be.
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BLOWN AWAY Offshore wind regulators ignore danger to fishing industry BY WILL SENNOTT AND ANASTASIA E. LENNON
A construction area for Vineyard Wind in New Bedford. Credit: Tony Luong for ProPublica
Turbines the height of 70-story skyscrapers will soon tower over East Coast fishing grounds. But government regulators with ties to offshore wind developers are downplaying the danger to the marine ecosystem and fishermen’s livelihoods. This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The New Bedford Light.
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ast May, Tommy Beaudreau touted the potential of renewable energy sources like offshore wind to an audience that included some of his government colleagues and former industry clients. “This industry, this group of people in the room today, really are the key to unlocking that clean energy future,” Beaudreau, the deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, proclaimed at a conference hosted by the American Clean Power Association, a lobbying group largely funded by offshore wind developers. Just one year earlier, Beaudreau had been a corporate lawyer, earning part of his $2.4 million income from offshore wind developers. Then he was appointed to regulate the industry he was previously paid to represent. During Beaudreau’s tenure, developers including several of his former clients have gained preliminary or final approvals for an unprecedented expansion of offshore wind, despite repeated warnings from federal scientists about potential harms to marine life and the fishing industry.
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While the Trump administration put roadblocks in the path of offshore wind development, the Biden administration is fast-tracking clean alternatives like wind and solar to expand domestic energy production and slow the pace of climate change. In the next decade, 3,411 turbines and 9,874 miles of cable are slated to be built across 2.4 million acres of federally managed ocean. Beaudreau is part of a revolving door between the government and offshore wind. Much as the Trump administration had a pipeline to and from oil and natural gas companies, in recent years at least 90 people have shuttled between federal, state or local government and the offshore wind industry, a ProPublica/New Bedford Light investigation has found. They range from rank-and-file bureaucrats to top policymakers like Beaudreau. “It’s not uncommon, but it’s not good government,” said Brett Hartl, director of government affairs for the Center for Biological Diversity, a conservation group. “Wind is better than oil and gas, but that doesn’t mean we should cut corners. Giving them an easier path than they deserve means that someone else is going to pay the price.” Apparently left out of this cozy relationship is one keenly affected group: more than 1 million people in the U.S. who work in the seafood industry, including 158,811 commercial fishermen. Fishermen have been shouldering longer hours and more expenses as private equity takes over their industry. Now, they are grappling with the prospect that offshore wind farms will box them out of fishing areas and further imperil their livelihoods. For generations, East Coast fishermen have plied the same waters where turbines the height of 70-story skyscrapers will soon be spinning. The Atlantic’s Outer Continental Shelf
is comparatively shallow, making it easier to anchor turbines deep in the ocean floor. Steady winds blow through the entire year. But it’s also along the shelf’s ridges that currents mix and sunlight penetrates, allowing microorganisms and fish to flourish in a complex ocean ecosystem. Federal scientists, the commercial fishing industry and industry regulators each have sounded the alarm about potential harm to fish spawning habits and about the lack of compensation for losses suffered by fishermen who will be displaced by the offshore wind industry. The Interior Department has ignored or downplayed those warnings. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which is part of the Interior Department, and the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, which is part of the Commerce Department, have conflicting authority over the same stretches of federal waters. BOEM oversees permitting and leasing for offshore wind development, from which the federal government reaped more than $5 billion last year. NMFS is supposed to protect marine habitat and ensure that the fishing industry is both sustainable and economically viable. “We are very concerned about the cumulative impacts of multiple wind energy projects on the fisheries we manage,” directors of three federally established regional councils that advise NMFS wrote last fall to Amanda Lefton, then the head of BOEM. Lefton said last October that she wants to ensure that “not only can the commercial fishing industry and offshore wind coexist but that both industries can thrive.” The American Clean Power Association has run advertisements with a similar message. Yet on paper, BOEM has been less sanguine. A May 2021 decision published by BOEM greenlighting the 800-megawatt Vineyard Wind project
south of Martha’s Vineyard, which will be the first large-scale offshore wind farm approved for construction, conceded that there will be “negative economic impacts to commercial fisheries” and that, while fishermen will be allowed to fish within the boundaries of the wind farm, “it is likely that the entire 75,614 acre area will be
Deputy Secretary of the Interior Tommy Beaudreau. Credit: Department of the Interior
abandoned by commercial fisheries.” The document was signed jointly by BOEM, NOAA and the Army Corps of Engineers. Eight months later, in response to federal lawsuits accusing it of circumventing environmental protection, the agencies walked back their prediction that fishermen would abandon the area. In January, Lefton left BOEM to join Foley Hoag, a law firm that has represented Vineyard Wind. There, she said in a press release, she will “leverage” her “experience in policy and regulation at the state and federal levels with the private sector to help businesses get projects built.” Beaudreau and an Interior Department spokesperson, Tyler Cherry, declined to comment. Mike Moses, a spokesperson for Foley Hoag, said that Lefton complied with all ethics rules as a government official and that she has “an unwavering commitment to continue to do so moving forward.”
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he future of wind power and the plight of fishermen are colliding in New Bedford. The components to build turbines for Vineyard Wind, which started offshore construction last November, will be shipped from the Port of New Bedford, which is also the top-earning commercial fishing port in the nation. It supports almost 15,000 jobs and moves between 390 and 544 million pounds of seafood a year from its waterfront to consumers around the world. “The great majority of the people who rely on going out to fish will be squeezed out of the industry,” said Scott Lang, a former mayor of New Bedford and an attorney who for four decades has represented many of the city’s commercial fishermen. “This is going to be the final nail.” The year was 2008, and U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy was sharing a drink with Alan Solomont, then a health care executive and former national finance chair for the Democratic National Committee, at the senator’s vacation retreat on Cape Cod. It was a calm night, barely a breeze, Solomont recalled. As they looked out at the inky blackness of the Nantucket Sound, where developers were seeking permission to build the first wind farm off the East Coast, Kennedy told Solomont disdainfully, “And they want to build a factory out there.” Though Cape Wind was a relatively small project by today’s standards, the Kennedys and other prominent families who didn’t want their scenic vista disturbed succeeded in quashing it. At the time, “the climate was not seen as the crisis we understand it to be today,” Solomont recalled. Since then, the political winds, so to speak, have shifted. Offshore wind has evolved from a novelty opposed by powerful insiders to a political juggernaut that enjoys widespread support. Solomont himself is betting on its future. After serving as U.S. ambassador
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to Spain, he now sits on the board of Avangrid — a subsidiary of a Spanish renewable energy company that owns half of the Vineyard Wind development. He owns about $380,000 worth of Avangrid shares.
Democratic senator from Massachusetts, Ed Markey, emerged as a key proponent of offshore wind as a way to boost the state’s economy and reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. He supported what he regarded
A groundfish vessel docked at New Bedford harbor. Credit: Tony Luong for ProPublica
The U.S. has a “willing public sector that understands the importance” of offshore wind, “both to the environment and also to the economy,” Solomont said. “There is very little downside to this, and huge upside. Massachusetts is positioned to be a hub for the offshore wind industry. That means jobs. It is, in many respects, reminiscent of the early stages of biotech.” BOEM has fostered this transformation. Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, the Obama administration established BOEM to handle energy leasing and development across federally managed oceans. Its first director was Tommy Beaudreau, who oversaw the early framework for offshore wind regulation and leasing. BOEM also redrew development zones to move them farther offshore, which prevented residents from seeing the turbines, but also drove development into a different backyard — that of the commercial fishing industry. In contrast to Kennedy, another
as the Biden administration’s efforts to make up for time lost when the Trump administration stalled permits for offshore wind. He crafted tax incentives for offshore wind manufacturers, which were a priority for the industry’s lobbying group, and which were ultimately adopted in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. Markey was a featured speaker at an American Clean Power conference on offshore wind in 2021. Offshore wind was becoming more popular not just in Washington but also at the state level. Developers in Massachusetts began securing electricity contracts with state utilities in 2018 — locking project commitments into the Massachusetts power grid long before the developments had cleared environmental reviews or permitting. Wind’s supporters in government flocked to join the burgeoning industry. Matt Beaton headed the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs when it approved a power purchase agreement with Vineyard Wind to distribute 800
megawatts of offshore wind energy. Beaton then joined consulting firm TRC Companies in 2019. According to its website, TRC provided “environmental siting and permitting support” for Vineyard Wind. In a 2021 interview, Beaton said there’s an inevitable trade-off between energy production and environmental impact. “At the end of the day, I’m a natural resource guy. I’m a conservationist,” he said. “We don’t want to harm our environment.” At the same time, he added, “there is going to be some need for development.” Beaton’s successor at the state energy office, Katie Theoharides, oversaw agreements with Vineyard Wind and SouthCoast Wind. Last year, she left government to head East Coast offshore development for international energy company RWE. Beaton and Theoharides did not respond to requests for comment.
ings from the National Marine Fisheries Service about damage to the environment and the fishing industry. Environmental laws require BOEM to consult with the fisheries service on projects taking place in “essential fish habitat,” which encompasses all offshore wind projects within 200 miles of the coast. Fisheries regulators have been warning BOEM since 2018 about the impact of offshore wind projects. “The multiple wind energy projects planned along the east coast will have cumulative and compounding effects on our fisheries,” the three regional fishery councils on the East Coast wrote in last summer’s letter to the head of BOEM. They added that the “effects will increase in magnitude as more projects are built.” For Vineyard Wind, fisheries scientists outlined how repeated blasts from pile driving into the ocean floor can cause “fish kills.” The sound wave impact, which can be felt underwater from as far as 50 miles away, can cause a “cumulative stress response” that disrupts the ability of fish to feed or spawn. Suspended sediment on the ocean floor kicked up by construction could also harm fish, and digging long and deep trenches to connect turbines to “It was nothing shore by cable would result in “permanent short of loss of juvenile cod” habitat. life-changing.” But BOEM has the final say. It doesn’t have to heed the service’s recommendations, and it has largely ignored them. Tensions over Vineyard Wind culminated in 2019, when NMFS disagreed with a key step in BOEM’s permitting. NMFS David Araujo, president of a building trades union (seated, left), and then-Vineyard Wind CEO Lars Pedersen (seated, right) sign a labor agreement in New Bedford in July 2021 in front of said BOEM’s environmental review “does officials including New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell, U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, and then-Massachusetts energy secretary Katie Theoharides. Credit: Anastasia Lennon / The New Bedford Light not analyze the stated concerns raised by NMFS and the fishing industry.” In late February, a 393-foot barge chugged around In response, BOEM’s chief environmental officer, Wilthe eastern tip of Martha’s Vineyard. It was laying heavy liam Yancey Brown, wrote that the concerns “do not rise to cables into two 50-mile-long trenches, which will plug the level that would justify the likely extensive project delays Vineyard Wind’s turbines into the state’s power grid. and potential failure of the project.” Those delays, he added, Dug up to 8 feet into the ocean floor, the trench“might prevent Vineyard Wind from qualifying for a federal es mark the first ocean ground broken on a large-scale investment tax credit.” He threatened to issue the environmenoffshore wind farm. Starting this year, 62 turbines will tal permit without NMFS support. be raised, slightly more than a mile apart, each as high as By the time BOEM approved Vineyard Wind for con837 feet, taller than the John Hancock Tower, the tallest struction in July 2021, BOEM had downplayed the urgent building in Boston. Below the surface, each turbine will concerns raised by the fisheries service. Its final environmental be supported by 197- to 312-foot-tall steel piles, each up impact statement said that pile driving would cause “short-term, to 34 feet wide, according to Vineyard Wind’s approved minor impacts,” effects of laying cables would “likely be negliconstruction plans. gible,” and the harm to marine life would be “minor.” Vineyard Wind was the first of two wind farms on Twenty miles west of Vineyard Wind, South Fork Wind the East Coast to gain final approval from BOEM for con- wants to undertake a smaller project, with 12 turbines genstruction. The second is South Fork Wind, located about erating about one-sixth the overall power. But the impact on 35 miles east of Montauk, New York. fisheries habitats there is expected to be far worse, according BOEM approved the projects despite repeated warn- to NMFS scientists.
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South Fork Wind spans Cox Ledge, a spawning ground including 10 companies with offshore wind developments. for Atlantic cod and 25 other species vital to the marine Beaudreau “has very deep conflicts,” said Hartl, of the ecosystem and commercial fishing. Turbine locations for Center for Biological Diversity. The Interior Department, he the project “may result in cascading long term to permanent said, “is under enormous political pressure to accelerate this effects to species that rely on this area for spawning,” a industry. He is driving that.” fisheries administrator cautioned BOEM. He added that the Nevertheless, Beaudreau sailed through. The U.S. Senate habitats “may take years to decades to recover.” confirmed him in June 2021 by an 88-9 vote. In a letter read aloud South Fork developers were more explicit than BOEM by Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who chairs about the risks of turbine construction. “Intense sound pressure the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, former waves” may result in “injury or mortality caused by rupturing Obama administration interior secretary Sally Jewell lauded swim bladders or by internal hemorrhaging,” the developers Beaudreau’s “pragmatic knowledge of how to get things done.” wrote in their approved construction plans. Pile driving has the Beaudreau promised to recuse himself from decisions “potential to interrupt migration patterns” for fish. directly affecting former clients for two years. Still, emails show Nevertheless, BOEM concluded that “considerable unhe and Lefton, who as head of BOEM reported to him, scheduled certainty remains” about the project’s impact. The “available joint meetings with executives of offshore wind companies — evidence to date suggests that including one with the then-head the effects of long-term habit of the American Clean Power AsIn Denmark, where the first alteration from wind developsociation and another with a past offshore wind farm was built in ment on finfish are generally chief executive of Avangrid. 1991, a law mandates that beneficial,” BOEM stated in The Interior Department fishermen be compensated for loss August 2021, writing that the did not respond to questions of income when other ocean construction on Cox Ledge about what was discussed at users take up fishing grounds... “could result in beneficial, the meetings. By contrast, the U.S. hasn’t figured neutral, or potentially negative “There is nothing that out how to compensate fishermen effects.” In January 2022, leaves the Interior Department whose livelihood may be damaged. BOEM approved South Fork that doesn’t have to first cross the Wind to begin construction. desk of the deputy secretary,” said “It’s frustrating that a former high ranking Interior ofthere aren’t clear requirements to avoid an impact to these ficial, who requested anonymity to avoid jeopardizing his career habitats,” said Michelle Bachman, a fishery analyst studying prospects. “It is a position that makes it very difficult to avoid any habitat and offshore wind, who led the research on South conflicts of interest.” Fork Wind for the NMFS regional office. “There isn’t much In Denmark, where the first offshore wind farm was built in we have the ability to do.” 1991, a law mandates that fishermen be compensated for loss of Both Vineyard Wind and South Fork Wind have enincome when other ocean users take up fishing grounds. Accordjoyed a key advocate: Beaudreau. ing to the Danish Energy Agency, an offshore wind project will After leaving government during the Trump administra“necessarily” have an impact on fisheries in the area, and so it is tion, Beaudreau became a partner at the law firm Latham & essential to have a legal framework to address it. Watkins. He represented major offshore wind firms, includBy contrast, the U.S. hasn’t figured out how to compening Vineyard Wind and Ørsted, the developer behind South sate fishermen whose livelihood may be damaged. So far, the Fork Wind. Beaudreau also worked with Avangrid Renewfederal government has left the issue of compensation to deables — one of two partners behind Vineyard Wind — on velopers. Some have offered one-time payments to the fishing “environmental and permitting matters” for another offshore industry. Vineyard Wind has committed about $21 million for wind project, The Washington Post reported. Massachusetts fishermen, and South Fork Wind $2.6 million. Beaudreau’s potential conflicts of interest dwarf those But developers say they are financially squeezed by supply of David Bernhardt, a former fossil fuels lobbyist who chain issues and proposed limits on turbine locations for the served as deputy secretary and secretary of the Interior Deprotection of whales. They don’t want their contracts with the partment in the Trump administration. Bernhardt has said he government to build in additional payments for damages that carried a list of 22 former clients with him so he could avoid may be attributed to their projects: the loss of historic fishing conflicts. In Beaudreau’s financial disclosures, he reported grounds, lost or wrecked gear and increased risk of accidents working for 35 clients during the Trump administration, as vessel radar systems are disrupted.
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In 2020, commercial lobsterman Vincent Damm made two trips to sea to bait his traps and discovered that more than a dozen were missing. Checking a vessel tracking chart, he saw that a survey vessel working with wind developer Ørsted had traveled directly over his gear. He applied to Ørsted for compensation for his loss, which he valued at $3,900 and an independent consultant put at $1,800. Under Ørsted’s procedures, three people review fishermen’s claims: Two are Ørsted employees, and the third is a paid consultant for the company. Ørsted concluded that its survey vessels were not at fault. On one occasion, the panel said, Ørsted’s vessel came no closer than half a mile from Damm’s traps. The other survey vessel followed the same track as Damm’s trawl, but equipment that could have snagged his gear wasn’t deployed. Ørsted also said other fishing vessels traveled near or over Damm’s gear. Damm was never compensated and had to pay for new lobster pots. “I’m not going to lose sleep over it,” he said. “But if they do it now, they’re just going to keep doing it to someone else.” Ørsted spokesperson Meaghan Wims said that the company does not comment on individual claims. It has received “very few claims for lost or damaged gear,” she said. While the federal government has required oil and natural gas companies to compensate fishermen for damages for decades, BOEM lacks regulatory authority to do the same for damages from offshore wind projects. It has
signaled off and on since 2014 that it will consider offering guidelines for compensation, but they have yet to be officially released. A working group convened by BOEM early in 2022 discussed how to quantify economic losses for fishermen from offshore wind development. Notes of early meetings, obtained through a public records request, warned that habitat losses “would have direct impact on fishing.” But after BOEM’s lead biologist recommended toning down the language, the group’s final report said that offshore wind development “could” impact commercial fishermen and their revenue. Last August, the New Bedford Port Authority wrote to BOEM, challenging what it described as “equivocal” language in the draft guidelines: “There is not one single entity, including BOEM, that reasonably thinks that such payments will not be necessary, so why is BOEM still using uncertain language in that instance? “We strongly believe that the ‘burden of proof’ must lie with developers to prove to the fishing community that they are not causing environmental or economic harm.” Markey has announced a plan to use funds from wind lease sales to establish a national compensation fund, though the legislation has not yet been filed. Markey’s office has received technical assistance from BOEM and NOAA in drafting the bill. “The long-term success of the offshore wind industry will depend on its ability to coexist not only with marine life but with the economic life of our commonwealth, including ports,
fisheries, eco-tourism, and more,” Rosemary Boeglin, spokesperson for Markey, said in a statement. Even if a national fund is authorized, it won’t be easy to calculate the cumulative economic loss for commercial fisheries. The task is complicated by inconsistent research methods used by developers, a lack of long-term studies and BOEM’s failure to conduct a comprehensive analysis of offshore wind lease areas off the New England coast. “We’re building this ship as we’re sailing it,” NMFS scientist Andrew Lipsky said last October at a conference on wind power. “When we don’t think through the science, we often get ourselves in trouble.” [In April], a nearly 400-page report released by BOEM, NMFS and a fishing industry group said that the proliferation of wind farms is likely to impede regulators from collecting on-site data on the health of fish stocks. The lack of such information will result in “greater uncertainty” and “lost revenue to commercial and recreational fishermen,” the report said. Fishermen worry that the lack of information on economic impact will favor developers in future negotiations over compensation. They also say the potential losses are a sum they never wanted to calculate in the first place. “Fishing is my way of life. How do you put a price on somebody’s way of life?” Maine lobsterman Matt Gilley told wind developers, state and federal officials during a Zoom meeting in December. “There is no monetary compensation that will ever make it right.”
Correction: This report was amended on April 4, 2023. The original story omitted the names of two agencies that also signed on to a report conceding there would be negative economic impacts to fisheries. The document was produced with the Army Corps of Engineers and NOAA Fisheries, not solely by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
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ew people on Nantucket have a better sense of what’s happening in the island’s drug scene than Dr. Tim Lepore. He treats people who are addicted to opiates in his clinic. He cares for patients who end up in the emergency department at Nantucket Cottage Hospital. And as the island’s medical examiner, he responds when an overdose victim is found dead. And what’s been evolving over the past two years on Nantucket is downright frightening, Lepore said. Since April 2021, at least four people on Nantucket have died from fentanyl overdoses. And numerous others have come precariously close to joining them, having overdosed but survived after being administered Narcan. “With opiates, there’s been a sea change and fentanyl is in everything,” Lepore said. “I’ve seen on Nantucket marijuana contaminated with fentanyl. I’ve seen Xanax pills—counterfeit pills—with fentanyl in there. Just within the last two weeks we’ve had a couple guys who thought they were getting cocaine, and it was laced with fentanyl and they nearly died. On Nantucket. A near-miss overdose.” While Nantucket has fared better than other cities and towns, Lepore said he fears what is on the horizon. “This is the tsunami warning going off,” he said. “We’ve seen the first couple little waves, but there’s more coming. We are flooded with it. People just don’t know what they’re getting. It’s the wild west.”
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hrough his nonprofit Addiction Solutions of Nantucket, Lepore offers medication-assisted treatment and counseling to at least a dozen island residents—sometimes as many as twenty—on a weekly basis. Through his sessions with those patients, along with his work at the hospital and in the community as medical examiner, what Lepore has witnessed is leading him to sound an alarm with anyone who will listen. Yes, he acknowledges, Nantucket has had a drug and alcohol problem for years. But what is happening now, Lepore said, is different. “Years ago, if you saw a Percocet pill, it was a Percocet pill. It wasn’t laced, and that’s the difference,” he said. “The island is full of people that are using, and it is dangerous because you don’t know what you’re getting. Then you throw in the kicker: xylazine. It’s another drug being added to fentanyl and the other drugs to prolong the high. The trouble is it’s an animal tranquilizer, but in humans it has no particular use and it causes gaping wounds and sores. The cases I've seen here person-
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ally, there was someone losing toes. It cuts down the blood supply. They came through the emergency department and then had to go to Boston.” As a common animal tranquilizer, xylazine is often used on horses and cattle, but the powerful sedative has now “The island is full crept into the of people that are using illicit drug and it is dangerous trade. Last because you don’t know month, the what you’re getting.” federal Drug — Dr. Lepore twenty-sixEnforcement year-old Administraman was found dead in a home on tion (DEA) issued an alert in which Fifth Way. Those incidents were folit disclosed that xylazine had been lowed by another suspected overdose detected in nearly a quarter of the condeath in February 2023 at a property fiscated fentanyl samples in 2022. off Old South Road. Since April 2021, when a twentyBut Nantucket Police Departyear-old Nantucket woman died of ment Chief Bill Pittman said he did a fentanyl overdose in an apartment not view the three most recent susoff Old South Road, there have been pected overdoses over the span of three other fatal overdoses, according four months as a cluster or connectto Lepore. Last October, the body of ed in any way. a twenty-four-year-old man was dis“I’m not sure about a cluster,” covered in the state forest off Lovers Pittman said. “Other than proximity Lane, and the following month, a
“Given the amount of fentanyl that is pouring into the country and the significant number of deaths being reported in many East Coast jurisdictions I’m not sure that I would consider these deaths out of the ordinary.” — Chief Bill Pitmann
“This is something people have to realize: you can’t trust your drug dealer and you don’t know what you’re getting. You’re taking a big chance, and you could end up dead.” — Dr. Tim Lepore
in time, there does not seem to be any direct relationship between them. Given the amount of fentanyl that is pouring into the country and the significant number of deaths being reported in many East Coast jurisdictions, I’m not sure that I would consider these deaths out of the ordinary.” Indeed, the country has seen a significant increase in the number of people dying from suspected opioid overdoses, particularly from fentanyl. According to the DEA, fentanyl is involved in more deaths of Americans under age fifty than any other cause of death, including heart disease, cancer, homicide, suicide and other accidents. In figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, of the 107,375
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people in the United States who died of drug overdoses and drug poisonings in the twelvemonth period ending in January 2022, approximately 67 percent of those deaths involved synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Given those numbers and what he’s witnessed already on Nantucket, what is Lepore’s message to the community? “This is something people have to realize: You can’t trust your drug dealer and you don’t know what you’re getting,” Lepore said. “You’re taking a big chance, and you could end up dead.”
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Despite the threat of wet weather, the 47th Nantucket Daffodil Festival was a roaring success. After parading from town, all the classic cars lined up in Sconset for the flower-powered picnic.
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Clever costumes were in full bloom downtown as cars lined up for the 47th Annual Daffodil Festival classic car parade. From leopard prints and mullets to white whales and Ahab, there was no shortage of Daffy cheer that helped drive away rain clouds.
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In what has come to mark the official start of spring on the island, the Nantucket Historical Association's Flower Power Party hit all the right notes this year. Once again the Whaling Museum was transformed into the hottest night club on the island as attendees rocked their favorite flower-inspired attire on the dance floor.
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Bride: Anna D'Amico • Groom: Matthew Chipokas • Venue: White Elephant Wedding Planner & Designer: AJ Events • Photographer: Rebecca Love Photography Florist: Forevermark Flowers • Officiant: Maryjane Mojer • Bridal Hair: Monika Ramizi Bridal Makeup: Rita Sorrentino Makeup • Bride's Dress: Made with Love Groom's Tuxedo: Hart Schaffner Marx • Invitations and Printed Materials: AJ Events Entertainment: Reverie, DJ Chris Roxx • Calligraphy: Letters by Liz
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A QUICK CHAT WITH NANTUCKET BOOK FESTIVAL CO-FOUNDER, MARY HAFT What’s one thing most people don’t know about you? I’m a natural sharpshooter—a trait discovered when my son was training for his mission as a Marine. He asked if I wanted to go with him to the shooting range. Thinking no but saying yes (I was clinging to every moment I could with my son, knowing deployment to Afghanistan was ahead), off we went. He asked if I wanted to shoot. Again, thinking no but saying yes—and having never shot a gun in my life— I was set up with the owner of the range. Protective headphones on, having watched the obligatory video and had instruction, I said ready. Everything in me was determined to make my Marine son proud. From the moment he made this momentous decision to go through Officer Candidates School, I was determined to be every bit as strong and courageous as he was. If he could be a Marine, I could be a Marine Mom. So, I brought all of that energy and determination to this target. When all the rounds were finished, I turned to the instructor/owner. He looked at me and said, “You’re a natural sharpshooter.”
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What’s a book you’ve read more than three times and why? A Wrinkle in Time. I was captivated by this book as a child, caught by its larger themes of fighting against the forces of evil, that the force of love could overpower the largest darkness and light could win. When I had children, I wanted them to feel the power of this book, so I read it to each of them. So, I read it four times. Reminds me of my favorite quote from Leonard Cohen: “There is a crack, there is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
What has been your biggest “pinch me” moment over the years of the Nantucket Book Festival? That our festival has garnered national attention and that we have attracted extraordinary talent across all fields of writing. There are always show-stopping moments in which your heart breaks open to all the possibilities of what it means to be human. From Ishmael Beah, having survived being a child soldier and showing us resilience with his radiant spirit, to Min Jin Lee, holding all of us in tears with the power of her story. Too many moments to count.
Who remains at the top of your wish list as authors you’d like to see attend the festival? Bono. A storyteller and a great humanitarian. Deeply spiritual, profoundly thoughtful, he brings the gift of his music and life through story. Having just seen his singular show in New York City, having Bono on island would be my passionate wish.
What book changed your life? Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. I read this book when I was eighteen, and this powerful exploration of the human experience of the Holocaust, enduring the unendurable, had a profound effect. Having been raised by parents who were both in medical fields, I spent my childhood working in hospitals and laboratories. (I am a thwarted doctor.) Since I was small, I have had an acute understanding of the fragility of life. An acute appreciation for the gift of life. Viktor Frankl reminds us that our human spirit is both resilient and indomitable. It is a gift to be alive.
What does Nantucket mean to you? This island has a hold on me; I always say I am an urban creature. But my soul resides on Nantucket. John Shea and I have had these profound conversations on the ferry together, as both of us are leaning over the rail, throwing our pennies, loving this island. I feel so fortunate to have built a community of islanders over so many years. Wendy Hudson teases me, but there is no more effusive person than me when I run off that ferry and see her, Tim Ehrenberg, Elin Hilderbrand, Tharon Dunn, Suzanne Bennett, John Shea, our NBF executive director Kaley Kokomoor and so many others, including the librarians and teachers I have worked with for years. It’s what I wrote in my book: Beneath the facade of this beautiful resort beats the heart of a small town.
What’s your favorite Nantucket pastime? It’s more my favorite Nantucket moments—which are always when I can have time with my husband and children and their loves, which now includes our littlest heart, our granddaughter. Each lives in a different city so these times are rare. Nantucket is our gathering place and holds my heart.
Mary Haft is the co-founder and president of the Nantucket Book Festival and Foundation and the author of Nantucket: Portrait of an American Town.
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