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BIANCA BOSKER’S Secrets of the Wine World
Defeating Lyme Disease
With Mighty Mice
SARA UNDERWOOD & MICHAEL FELGER A Media Marriage
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Quidnet $15,995,000
Cliff $10,975,000
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Town $7,850,000
Town $3,495,000
Town $2,895,000
Brant Point $1,845,000
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~Joe Donelan, Nantucket resident and founding owner, Donelan Family Wines, on crafting their multiple 100 point wines.*
Join Donelan Family Wines at the Nantucket Wine Festival THURSDAY May 18th: 1:30-3 pm | Donelan Wine Tasting at the Donelan Residence THURSDAY May 18th: 5-9 pm | Harbor Gala at the White Elephant Resort SATURDAY May 20th: 2-3:30 pm | Music & Wine at the Nantucket Music Center SATURDAY May 20th: 12-2 pm & 3-5:30 pm | SUNDAY May 21st: 12-2:30 pm Grand Tastings at the White Elephant Resort
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Botticelli & Pohl Architects and O’Connor Custom Building have teamed up to create “Brookmoor,” an estate property that offers details and quality craftsmanship that are rarely available. The thoughtfully designed four-bedroom main house overlooks the pool, expansive lawn and gardens. The original farm house was extensively renovated and converted into a beautifully appointed guest house. The site enjoys open vistas over conservation lands out to Polpis Harbor.
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The recently renovated Nantucket four bay historic home was originally built in 1844 . This beautiful restoration is designer decorated to create a modern warm and comfortable living space while preserving the historical nature and integrity. The renovation includes three floors of beautifully designed rooms with high quality furnishings throughout. The tranquil outdoor patio provides a great place to entertain friends and family.
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$4,150,000
Located in the heart of Siasconset Village and beautifully designed by Botticelli & Pohl, this home is located on a quiet white-shelled lane. It is sited on an over-sized lot and features four-plus bedrooms, five full baths, one half bath, a heated pool and a recently built single-car garage. This stunning property is a classic reproduction of a rambling Sconset summer home but with all of the modern amenities. The high-quality construction, custom built-ins and the European hand scraped white oak flooring are just a few of the many fine details that highlight the quality of the construction. The spacious great room with hand hewn rustic antique beams combines a kitchen and living room that opens into a three-season room with an antique barn board ceiling and a stone fireplace. The luxurious first floor master suite with full bath and walk-in closet overlooks the pool. This property must be seen to be appreciated.
Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated. Equal Housing Opportunity.
Kathy Gallaher, Broker
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Sales and Rentals Office: 508-228-1881 ext. 109 Cell: 508-560-0078 kathy@maurypeople.com
MADEQUECHAM
$2,595,000
DIONIS
$6,995,000
Beautifully constructed custom-built four-bedroom, four and one half bath home ideally located halfway between Town and Sconset in a private enclave surrounded by hundreds of acres of conservation land. Among the many great attributes is the convenience to one the most beautiful beaches on Nantucket. The property features three floors of finished living space with spacious rooms and cathedral ceilings in the kitchen, living room and dining room. There are North and South facing decks and covered porches, plus a terraced garden and patio. The south-facing decks include built-in bench seating and is connected by a spiral staircase to the covered porch below. The added bonus is the studio with shower bath and the single car garage.
Exquisite estate property featuring a fully furnished four bedroom, four and one-half bath main house and a three bedroom, two and one-half bath guest cottage with an oversized two-car garage, salt-water pool, spa and pool cabana. The high-end craftsmanship combines style with efficiency that include built-ins, vaulted ceilings and high-end appliances. The extensive stonework and professional landscaping add to the high quality of this special home.
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WATERFRONT DIONIS ESTATE Four Acres | $21,500,000
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TWO WATERFRONT HOMES - This property has two waterfront homes each on its own two acres creating together one incredible north shore estate. The main house, studio and cottage overlook four acres of ocean-front real estate on the north shore of Nantucket Island. From the deck surrounding the pool, the second floor balcony, and the manicured path that circumnavigates the property, you are always reminded that you are thirty miles out to sea on an oasis of warm sand, grass, and cool breezes.
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$3,195,000
Enjoy the charm and delight of Old Madaket in this recently updated and beautifully maintained four bedroom, three full-bath, two half-bath home, offering gorgeous views and sunsets over Hither Creek and easy access to the boat landing and dock that is located directly across the street. This prime piece of real estate abuts Land Bank property and has exceptional outdoor living space that include large decks, patios, covered porches and a beautifully landscaped spacious yard. The studio features an entertaining area with a half bath and adjoining outdoor shower. There are three outbuildings that are conveniently located for additional storage. This special property is located within a very short distance to the beach, bike paths, marina, convenience store, public transportation and restaurant.
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SQUAM
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$5,395,000
Located on the eastern side of the island in the peaceful and undeveloped area of Squam, this highly sought after location provides easy beach access to some of the prettiest white sand beaches in the world. The main house features a wonderful floor plan with lots of living space and beautiful water views. There are two spacious living rooms with wood burning fireplaces and four en suite bedrooms each with easy access to a large wrap around deck. The combined kitchen, living room and dining room have gorgeous water views of the Atlantic Ocean. The master suite has a private deck with French doors that look towards the water, and a large bath with views to the harbor. A recently finished lower level includes a theater and a finished living room. Private blue-stone deck off of the rear of the house abutts nearly 300 acres of conservation land. A private two-bedroom cottage and single-car garage with ocean views!
Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated. Equal Housing Opportunity.
Kathy Gallaher, Broker
Extraordinary Homes For Extraordinary People
Sales and Rentals Office: 508-228-1881 ext. 109 Cell: 508-560-0078 kathy@maurypeople.com
SQUAM
$4,195,000
SCONSET
$2,595,000
Located on the Eastern side of the island in a highly sought after and unspoiled location, this rare offering exudes peace and tranquility. The property features unobstructed first and second floor water views with easy beach access directly across the street. The entire parcel consists of two conforming lots which total 1.94 acres of pristine land that offers endless possibilities. Enjoy beautiful sunrises from the rear deck and stunning sunsets from the front deck from this three-bedroom, two-bath beach house.
This property is tucked in on a private lot abutting nearly 12 acres of walking trails owned by the Sconset Trust and features three bedrooms, two baths, a custom kitchen, a single-car garage and several wonderful and private outdoor living areas. There is additional ground cover available for a second dwelling, expansion to the main house and a pool.
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42 HISTORIc HEROINES
A numerical snapshot of Nantucket in the spring.
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What’s going viral on #Nantucket?
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What to read, watch and listen to this spring on the island.
NTOPTEN 40
Daffodil Festival kicks off the spring social season. Here’s where you need to be.
NEAT STUFF 32
The Solo Skiff reinvents the personal flotation device.
NBuzz 34
Breaking news, scuttlebutt and things to know.
Nosh news 36
Marco Coelho and his team have taken their Lola 41 concept to Boston with Lola 42.
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Interior designer Cynthia Hayes breaks down how to design your kitchen.
When four hundred people gathered at the Atheneum for the nationwide women’s march, they were connecting with a long, rich history on Nantucket.
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Summer resident Navyn Salem proves that it costs peanuts to cure malnutrition in the developing world.
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This 6-bedroom antique in-town home has been beautifully renovated maintaining its historic qualities while combining the comforts and needs today’s owner desires. The open first floor plan flows easily to the oversized rear yard for outdoor dining and enjoyment. A charming library with warm paneling provides a relaxing getaway. The lower level is finished to perfection offering recreation areas for children as well as adults. A free standing studio with bath and kitchenette complements this special property. No need to worry about parking in town!
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How a policeman on Nantucket chased his dreams of becoming a drag racer.
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Summer residents and media power couple Sara Underwood and Michael Felger give us the inside scoop on their Daffodil Festival plans.
Nvestigate 61 Smoke Signals
Will the legalization of marijuana turn Nantucket into a new stop on the weed tourism circuit?
Pumpkin Pond Farm opens its gates for a look at the hottest styles this spring.
Nquiry 88 UNCORKING WINE SECRETS
Author and summer resident Bianca Bosker dishes on her top wine tips from her latest book Cork Dork.
92 Eye Witness
Local photographer Bill Hoenk shares his memories from the Boston Marathon bombing and his commitment to return to the race.
The latest exhibit at the Whaling Museum will have you thinking outside the box.
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Tim & Liz Higgins tied the knot on Nantucket last fall.
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A quick chat with Nantucket Wine and Food Festival executive director Nancy Bean
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Spring Spring is in the air—quite literally. If you scratch
and sniff the daffodils on the cover of this issue, you will be reminded of what you have missed during this interminably long winter. While the scratch and sniff might not be the scent of chardonnay, we would also like to raise a glass and toast the Nantucket Wine Festival, as well the 15th anniversary of N Magazine, which we’re celebrating this season. There is no more appropriate way for us to mark our anniversary than to provide a feature on Navyn Salem, a remarkable woman who exemplifies why Nantucket is such a fascinating place to live. Navyn, who, along with her husband, Paul, and their family, is a summer resident on the island, has created a globally distributed, high-protein, high-caloric peanut paste that has saved the lives of millions of starving children. Few people can lay claim to having impacted so many lives, but Navyn is one of them. On a more locally focused health issue, N Magazine reports on Dr. Kevin Esvelt, an MIT scientist who believes he can eradicate Lyme disease by releasing genetically modified mice on Nantucket. While messing with Mother Nature often has unintended consequences, the prospect of eliminating this serious health problem is intriguing. Nantucket has always drawn people in the media, and Fox 25 News anchor Sara Underwood and her husband, 98.5 Sports Hub radio host Michael Felger, are notable members of this influential group. Not only is Sara a bright light on television, but her roots run deep on Nantucket as she is a distant descendant of Tristrin Coffin. In a fast-moving story, N Magazine profiles local policeman Tyler Ray, who when not patrolling the streets, pursues his hobby as a drag racer. With his thousand horsepower Corvette Z60 replete with rear parachute, Ray adds new meaning to the word police chase. Now that marijuana has been legalized and is no longer on the radar of police on Nantucket, the question becomes whether the island will evolve into a new stop on the weed tourism circuit. There is a growing number of applications submitted for retail locations, which is raising high concerns that the sale of marijuana could negatively impact island life. Finally, we cover a story about heroic feminists on Nantucket, who have a long and rich history of championing women’s rights activism that continues to this day. We look forward to a wonderful 2017 season on the island. We have much to celebrate. Sincerely,
Bruce A. Percelay
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Species of plants grow on the island according the Nantucket Conservation Foundation.
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Round trips from Nantucket to Hyannis were completed by Rectrix Aviation during its first three months of operation.
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Pounds of venison was donated to the Nantucket Food Pantry by hunters this winter.
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Homes located on Smith’s Point beyond Millie’s Bridge in Madaket.
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Donors to the Nantucket Cottage Hospital capital campaign.
Rate of decline in mortality rates over the last 25 years on Nantucket, one of the lowest in the country.
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FLIP PHONE
WINE & APPS
WOMAN WRITES
When a snow storm hit Nantucket this winter, former professional freestyle skier Peter Engen literally flipped out. He and friends built a jump on Third Hole Beach and had a car tow him into it. Throwing a giant backflip, Engen was captured by Chris Sleeper in a photo that quickly went viral.
With so much wine but so little time, the Nantucket Wine Festival launched an app that can help you navigate the ebb and flow of the Wine Fest weekend. Free to download on iTunes, the app provides a rundown of events, wineries, restaurants, luminaries and everything you need to sip and savor this spring soirée.
In celebration of International Women’s Day this March, N Magazine posted a compilation of our female covers over the years. The photo caught the eye of July 2014 cover star Katie Couric who kindly commented, “Thanks for making me a cover girl but giving me credit for being a smart woman!” The honor is all ours Katie!
Behavioral Health Services at NCH Introducing Hannah Severns, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Nantucket Cottage Hospital and the Nantucket Cottage Medical Group are committed to supporting the behavioral health needs of the island community. Full-time, year-round psychiatric nurse practitioner Hannah Severns has an extensive background in the assessment and treatment of mental health issues and substance use disorders, and is embedded in the primary care physician offices to assess, diagnose and treat patients with a wide range of behavioral health issues. In collaboration with the island’s primary care physicians and therapists, Severns sees patients of all ages, from pediatrics to geriatrics. In this role, Severns offers psychiatric evaluations, level of care assessments, medication management, and provides recommendations and treatment to island patients. In addition to caring for individuals with substance use disorders and/or psychiatric conditions, Severns can also assist with the care and maintenance of patients undergoing suboxone treatment, working in collaboration with the primary care providers as part of an outpatient team. Please contact your physician for a referral to schedule an appointment with Hannah Severns.
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The Grey Lady World Theatrical Premier @ The Dreamland Theater
Fiction: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Compiled by Tim Ehrenberg
On the evening of April 28th, locally be-
A generational saga that follows one
loved actor and director John Shea cel-
Korean family through the 1900s, with
ebrates the world theatrical premier of
the popular Japanese game of Pachinko
his film The Grey Lady, which was shot
used throughout as a metaphor for the
on Nantucket in the spring of 2015. Star-
uncertainty of life. Available at Nan-
ring Eric Dane and Natalie Zea, The Grey
tucket Book Partners.
Lady also features a cast of local characters. For those unable to attend the premier, the film will show at the Dreamland for the rest of the following week. Tickets available at NantucketDreamland.org.
Nonfiction: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann Truth is stranger than fiction in this haunting true-life murder mystery that
Barefoot in the Park @ Theatre Workshop of Nantucket
documents one of America’s most hor-
Kicking off their 2017 program, the Theatre Workshop pres-
rific crimes. Available at Nantucket
ents Barefoot in the Park, starring Kaitlyn Jane Kurowski and
Book Partners.
Jeff Barry. These two actors, who made their Nantucket debut together last year in TWN’s Venus in Fur, play a couple of new-
Beach Read: Into The Water by Paula Hawkins
lyweds struggling to find common ground between their polar-
From the author of 2015’s bestseller
ized personalities. Barefoot in the Park will run from May 10th
The Girl on the Train comes a new
to June 17th. Tickets available at Theatreworkshop.com.
nothing-is-as-it-seems
psychological
suspense mystery. Available at Nantucket Book Partners on May 2nd.
Nantucket: Secrets In SummeR by Nancy Thayer It is no secret that Nancy Thayer is one of Nantucket’s most beloved authors. This summer’s novel is a special ode to the island, the love of libraries, and family drama. Available at Nantucket
WHAT TO HEAR…Can You Hear Your Wine?@ Nantucket Music Center
Book Partners on May 16th.
On May 20th at 2 pm, savor a delightful cultural experience the direction of WSET advanced wine educator Jerry Siegel,
Young Readers: Ben’s Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
violinist Jordan Delphos, flutist Suzanne Buerkle and pianist
Based on an episode in Bunker Hill, by
Jennifer Maxwell will be joining forces with Donelan Family
Nantucket’s very own National Book
Wines and Tom Eddy Winery Artisan Cheeses to dazzle your
Award–winning author Nathaniel Phil-
senses. Tickets available at Nantucketwinefestival.com
brick, this engrossing story allows read-
with a harmonious pairing of wine and classical music. Under
ers to experience history from a child’s
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DAFFY CAR PARADE & PICNIC
April 29, 9:30am and 1pm Spring into the season with Nantucket’s brightest weekend, the 43rd annual Daffodil Festival. The Chamber of Commerce will rev up the weekend with an antique car parade through downtown, ending in ‘Sconset with a tailgate picnic. For more information, visit www.daffodilfestival.com
2 DAFFODIL FLOWER SHOW
April 29 – 30 Stop and smell the flowers at the 43rd annual Daffodil Flower Show. Highlighting some of Nantucket’s most iconic structures, such as Brant Point Lighthouse and the Old Mill, this year’s theme by the Nantucket Garden Club is sure to be a flowery favorite. For more information, visit www. nantucketgardenclub.org.
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NANTUCKET S.T.A.R. GALA 2017
May 6, 2017, 7pm Hold your horses! Mint juleps at the Chicken Box? The Nantucket S.T.A.R. is hosting its 2017 benefit gala Kentucky Derby-style, with live music by the Savage Brothers, a silent auction, and some new surprises. You can bet on an unforgettable night! For tickets and more information, visit www.nantucketstar.com
5 DOWNTOWN CELEBRITY CONCERT SERIES
May 14, 4 pm Celebrate Mother’s Day with the North Star Jazz Ensemble, performing from the “Great American Songbook” at the Dreamland Theater. For tickets and more information, visit www.nantucketdreamland.org
DAFFODIL 5K RACE
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May 17 – 21 Raise your glass and make a toast to the 21st Annual Nantucket Wine Festival. With over fifty events, this weekend is popping off with wine tastings, seminars, and brunches accompanied by industry experts. Even better, the NWF benefits Nantucket Island youth with a focus on culinary arts. Cheers to that! For tickets and more information, visit www. nantucketwinefestival.com
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NWF JUNIOR TOP CHEF COMPETITION
May 21, 10am Food, fundraising, and a little friendly competition – what’s not to love about Nantucket Wine Festival’s Junior Top Chef Competition? Stop by the White Elephant to watch four cooking teams compete for the Nantucket High School Culinary Arts Scholarship. For more information, visit www.nantucketwinefestival.com
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ARTISTS OPEN CELLOGRAPHY EXHIBITION RECEPTION
May 26, 6-8 pm Picture this: the photos on your cellphone featured and sold among the work of Nantucket’s best artists. The Artists Association of Nantucket welcomes and encourages photographs from the entire community in this two-part exhibition held at Artists Association in town. For more information, visit www. nantucketarts.org
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april 30, 9am Put your best foot forward this spring and participate in this year’s Daffodil 5K Race. The race will start and end at ‘Sconset’s quaint Codfish Park. To register, visit www.runreg.com/nantucket-daffodil-5k
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LUNAFEST May 27, 6pm
RAFAEL OSONA MEMORIAL WEEKEND AUCTION
May 27, 9:30am Nantucket is full of hidden gems and you’re guaranteed to find a handful of them at the Rafael Osona Memorial Weekend Auction. Held at the American Legion Hall at 21 Washington Street, this auction offers the best of Nantucket – fine art, antiques, jewelry, and our very own Nantucket baskets. For more information, visit www.nantucketauctions.com.
Raise a glass to raising awareness at the Theatre Workshop’s 8th annual LUNAFEST. Held at the ‘Sconset Casino, LUNAFEST is a night of celebrating and supporting women through a series of highly acclaimed short films. Proceeds from this event will benefit the Breast Cancer Fund and Theatre Workshop. For more information, visit www.theatreworkshop.com
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NBUZZ After a few turbulent years, Nantucket Memorial Airport has been fly-
Times reported that New Bedford-based fixed-wing operator
ing high. Equipped with a new, cutting-edge air traffic control tower
Noreast Aviation had applied for a Federal Aviation Administration
that was completed last year, the airport is continuing to expand its
license to launch Island Shuttle, a new airline that would fly the Hy-
high-season service through large carriers such as Jet Blue, American, Delta, and United. “They seem to be increasingly in tune with festival weekends and targeting service for high de-
annis–Nantucket route that was abandoned by Island Airlines when it went bankrupt two years ago. “We have not heard anything from Noreast Aviation where we expect an imminent service announcement,” indicates
mand,” says Nantucket Memorial’s Noah J. Kar-
Karberg. “However, we know they continue to work towards this goal.” Island
berg. “Jet Blue especially,
Shuttle would be joining Cape Air and Rectrix Aviation, which began flying appears
to the route—with tremendous success—this past fall. And in the ever-growing
see the value in maintaining service private charter sector, Priester Aviation is expanding its radar to include Nanwell into October, targeting weekends.” Ad- tucket. The seventy-year-old aviation company announced in March that its ditionally, this past February, the Cape Cod fleet would be landing in Boston and could offer flights to the island.
There’s been some major shakeups After getting caught up in the Best Picture debacle at this year’s Oscars, Hollywood mega star Warren Beatty is escaping to Nantucket this summer for the Screenwriters Colony 5th Annual Summer Soiree. The critically acclaimed actor, director, and writer will be this year’s honoree at the Almanack Arts Colony in Polpis on Saturday, July 22nd. Known for such smash-hit films as Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Shampoo, Dick Tracy, Bulworth, and Rules Don’t Apply, Beatty has won a slew of Golden Globes and an Academy Award for Best Director in 1981. At the Screenwriter’s Summer Soiree, Beatty is being honored for his artistic excellence N magazine
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are limited and can be purchased by contacting callie@ almanackartscolony.org.
in the restaurant scene this off-season. Ownership changed hands at Ventuno (now owned by Andrea Solimeo and Taylor Oliver), The Club Car (now owned by Tanya McDonough, Mayumi Hattori and Ty Costa), and Company of the Cauldron (now owned by Joseph Keller). The former space of Nix’s on South Water Street has been taken over by the BACKyard BBQ team of Denise Corson and Fred Bisaillon and will be called Charlie Nobles. Up the street, the former space of Meursault on Broad Street has been purchased by The Galley and will reopen as After House Wine and Raw Bar. And speaking of the Galley, its neighbor down the beach, Jetties, has been taken over by Nick Nass and George Kelly and will be called The Sandbar at Jetties. Wrapping up the tour downtown, Nantucket’s newest lifestyle brand 02554 will be co-operating The Lobby Bar + Market with culinary director Elle Jarvis of Sideboard Small Batch Events in the former space of Arno’s on 41 Main Street. Moving toward mid-island, the long-vacant former space of Cinco’s has been taken over by Sabrina Dawson and Gaven Norton and will be reopened as Keeper’s Restaurant. Moving back towards town, Island Kitchen’s Patrick Ridge gobbled up the former Grey Lady space and drastically expanded his establishment on 2 Chins Way. So get your napkins firmly fastened, this is going to be one tasty summer.
TOAST OF FOOD
cruise safely through town. Costing
&WINE
around $3 million, the path follows
“The Country’s Best Wine Festivals Across America” by
Nantucket’s historic railroad, built
Food & Wine magazine earlier this spring. Joining other
back in the 1880s, and will connect
hot spots in the wine world such as Sonoma and Napa,
downtown with the Milestone Ro-
the Nantucket Wine Festival was lauded for its Harbor
tary. The project is currently in its
Gala “with wines from forty exceptional wineries paired
first phase, which focuses on linking
with bites from forty chefs,” as well as its signature sip-
Washington Street Extension ulti-
ping series “Great Wines in Grand Houses.” Thankfully,
mately with Spruce Street. At press
you don’t have to just read about the festival. Doors open
time, completion of the first phase was slated for Memorial Day.
for the opening reception on Wednesday, May 17th.
A decade after its proposal, a bike path is paving a way for cyclists to
The Nantucket Food & Wine Festival was named one of
BLUSH BASH!
The 17th annual Nantucket Film Festival has selected
If you don’t get your rosé fill at this month’s Wine Festival, not to worry:
Spotlight filmmaker Tom Mc-
The Blush Bash is on the horizon. On June 25th, Bartlett’s Farm
Carthy to honor at this year’s
will host a plethora of pink drinks in partnership
Screenwriter Tribute. McCar-
with Château d’Esclans, the masterminds be-
thy is the Oscar-winning writer
hind Whispering Angel rosé and others. Benefiting
and director of the hard-hitting
the Brant Point Shellfish Hatchery, the Bash will also
blockbuster about The Boston
boast a raw bar prepared by 167 Raw, scrumptious nibbles,
Globe’s investigation of the
and sprawling tasting tables curated by Brix wine shop. Organized by Elle Jarvis of Side Board Small Batch Events and Tanya McDonough, the Blush Bash is sure to sweeten up your spring.
Catholic Church sex scandal. Tickets went on sale this April for the tribute event, which will take place on Friday June 23rd.
Of all the thought-provoking presentations at The Nantucket Project last fall, few were more compelling than The Illumination, a documentary about island summer resident Gordon Gund. Created in partnership with The Nantucket Project and the Foundation Fighting Blindness, the nineteen-minute film explores Gund’s life as a successful businessman, philanthropist, and artist who lost his sight more than thirty years ago. Today, Gund and This spring, The Illumination made the rounds at a number of film festivals, including San Francisco International Film Festival and the Cleveland International Film Festival. For those who missed it, The Nantucket Project will be showing it again this September.
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his wife Lulie are on a mission to cure blindness, which the film captures beautifully.
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Nosh news
Sushi Written by Robert Cocuzzo
Meets Beantown Photography by Rachel Gianatasio
Lola 42 brings a taste of the island to the mainland ou’d be hard-pressed to find a hungrier entrepreneur on Nantucket than Marco Coelho. Since buying Lola 41 back in 2009, this dishwasher-turnedserial-restaurateur has opened several smashhit restaurants. Now, in little over a year since launching Station 21 on Water Street, Coelho and his crew are extending their reach to Boston by opening the doors on a new venture on the waterfront called Lola 42. “I had been looking to get something in Boston for the last three years,” Coelho says. “Then one of my investors met the developer of the whole Seaport and told him a little bit about Lola 41.” Associates of the Fallon Company, which has spearheaded
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over the last ten years, visited Nantucket exception. Add to the mix that a number of and ate at Coelho’s flagship restaurant on the Patriots—including owner Bob Kraft— 15 South Beach Street. “At the end of the live in the multi-million-dollar apartments meal they came up to the podium and said, above the restaurant, and Lola 42 is sure to ‘We want you in Boston.’” Although five times the size as its Nan-
be a hot scene come this summer. As for the cuisine, Chef Robert Boslow
tucket namesake and offering double the says, “The menu will be as close to Lola 41 as seating, Lola 42 is being designed with the possible [and there will be] a common thread same seductive feel. Located on the ground with what you experience here on Nantucket floor of Twenty Two Liberty in the Seaport, to what we will be offering in Boston.” Lola’s double doors will open to a glass
In addition to staples such as the Lola
foyer that gives way to a sprawling space burger and tuna burger, Chef Boslow will complete with a yakitori grill and sushi bar, be using a wok to execute authentic Asian oak banquettes, high tops, and a private din- dishes such as crispy tangerine beef, wok ing area. Tall windows look out to Boston’s fried garlic and chili lobster, and Sichuan waterfront where there will be a patio with eggplant. Meanwhile, the yakitori grill will forty seats offering outdoor dining.
offer skewered meats, fish, and veggies, in-
“We took specific and identifiable el- cluding traditional offerings such as chickements such as finishes, color and tone of en hearts, beef tongue, trumpet mushrooms, Lola 41 and applied them to the new space and pork belly. Chef Boslow adds, “With while adding some slight updates,” says the fact that we are working our way around Matt MacEachern of Emeritus, who de- the 42nd parallel, it will give us an opportusigned Lola 42 with Coelho. “Marco is very nity to include chicken souvlaki, lamb kofclear about what he wants and has specific tas with traditional Tzatziki, to octopus with language for what he’s looking for.” Sexy is a word you might use to de-
lemon and caponata.” At press time, Lola 42 was set to open
scribe the dining experiences Marco has sometime in May. So the next time you’re created over the years. With a wait staff stuck in the city and looking for a taste of the as elegant as its sushi, Lola 42 will be no island, head to the waterfront.
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Food Photography by Terry Pommett Interior Renderings by Matt MacEachern of Emeritus
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ESSENTIALS Kitchen An nsider’s Design Guide Cynthia Hayes Interior Design
Wall mounted hood
The introduction of the clean and sleek metal of the hood between the white cabinets creates a nice contrast and visual interest. The Zephyr hood is stainless steel, professional grade, efficient and quiet.
ZEPHYR backsplash
We installed 1” by 4” Ann Sacks tile in a stacked pattern, rather than an offset or staggered pattern, to achieve a contemporary look. The light grout contrasts with the light gray tile, which makes the tile pop more and also picks up the veins of gray in the stone of the island.
ANN SACKS, BOSTON SHOWROOM Island
Made of Mont Blanc quartzite, the island is mitered and fabricated to be 2” thick, giving it visual gravitas. This polished Brazilian stone has the same hardness and durability of granite and the look of marble.
RICCIARDI MARBLE & GRANITE, HYANNIS island sides
Eight-inch shiplap surrounds the island on three sides, giving it a beachy yet sophisticated and updated feel that contrasts beautifully with the sleek white cabinets. The wood boards add texture and interest to the island.
COUNTERTOPS
The perimeter countertops are White Zeus Quartz, a man made material that contrasts with the gray backsplash and the natural stone island.
Ricciardi Marble and Granite, Hyannis island pendants
We introduced lighting made in glass with a nickel finish to complement the ceramic tile, white-painted wood, stainless steel appliances, natural stone, and chrome cabinet hardware. They’re unobtrusive, clean, and simple, and they provide a lot of light.
BARBARA COSGROVE LAMPS Faucet
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With straight lines and a Starlight chrome finish, we chose the Grohe Concetto, single-hole faucet for its geometric, contemporary feel.
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THE WATER CLOSET, NANTUCKET
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Paint
Benjamin Moore’s Classic OC-23 in an eggshell finish is a nice light gray that gives the room a warm feel, while also contrasting nicely with all the white features. The color is used in the entire first floor kitchen, dining room, and living spaces to unify the entire area.
Wall clock
The 10” Asterisk clock was designed by George Nelson Associates. Made of black steel—which introduces another material and texture—it makes a bold, graphic statement.
Design Within Reach floors
We wanted to do something that was natural, light, and beachy, but also incorporated a tiny bit of gray. These white oak floors are 8” planks, custom-finished, and European fumed with a Danish whitewash.
EASTWOOD FLOORING, Chris Yates, Nantucket Stools
These Acacia Espresso counter stools are backless so as not to interfere with the rest of the kitchen. We chose the dark finish for its strength and to contrast with the light floor and white painted cabinets.
ONE KINGS LANE Cabinet hardware
We chose contemporary, chrome cabinet pulls that are all the same size to keep the look of the cabinets simple and clean.
EMTEK TEAM
Contractor/ Builder: Ed Toole, Altest Ventures Interior Designers: Cynthia Hayes & Pamela Manchester, Cynthia Hayes Interior Design Painter: A&O Painting Inc. Architect: BPC Architecture
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Nspire hen more than four
hundred
people gathered in the courtyard of the Atheneum this past January as part of the nationwide women’s march, they were continuing a long and rich legacy of feminist activism on Nantucket. Throughout the 1800s, the island was home to more history-making feminists than perhaps anywhere else in the country. At the time, American women could not vote, own property, access higher education, or even claim legal rights and protections. Puritanical beliefs across New England held that
women existed as a moral counterbalance for men and that their “nature and destiny” was to be confined in the home. Yet on Nantucket, revolutionary women led by Lucretia
The women of Petticoat Row
Written by Vanessa Emery Photos courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association
How the seeds of feminism in America first took root on Nantucket.
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Mott had a very different vision.
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The Nantucket community during the nationwide women’s march this past January.
“I long for the time when my sisters will rise, and
From
occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high
the
1840s
nature and destiny,” Mott declared to a gathering in Boston
onward,
in 1848. “What a change would then appear in the character
Nantucket
of woman! We should no longer find her the mere plaything
was a hub
of man, and a frivolous appendage of society.”
for the in-
During her childhood, Mott’s father spent years at
tertwining
sea, and her mother kept a shop on Petticoat Row, the street
social move-
named for the successful string of female-owned businesses
ments of ab-
on Nantucket. With as many as a third of island men work-
olition
and
ing offshore as whalers, women tended to business and domestic affairs that would have otherwise been off-limits. “During the absence of their husbands, Nantucket women have been compelled to transact business, often going to Boston to procure supplies of goods,” Mott wrote to fellow feminist Elisabeth Cady Stanton. “They have kept their own accounts, & indeed acted the part of men.” Mott’s mother hosted visiting Quaker ministers in her parlor, exposing her daughter to the
women’s
outspoken “Quaker-Lady Preacher” Elizabeth Coggeshall.
rights. Sev-
Quakerism helped champion the relative independence and
enth
autonomy enjoyed by Nantucket women during the whaling
eration
period. As Quakers, Mott and her contemporaries learned to
lander Anna
follow an “inner light” that allowed for direct communica-
Gardner
tion with God. This was in stark contrast with Puritans on
personified
the mainland who believed God’s messages could only be
this
received by male ministers. Not only could Quaker wom-
As the sec-
en communicate directly with God, but they could also be
retary of the
ministers themselves. Moreover, Quakerism insisted that
Nantucket
boys and girls received the same education, and Mott and
Anti-Slavery Society, she helped organize three anti-slav-
other island girls grew up learning the story of Mary Star-
ery conventions at the Atheneum between 1841 and 1843,
buck, an influential woman credited with converting most
twenty years before Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
white islanders to Quakerism in the early 1700s.
declared an end to slavery.
genis-
union.
Frederick Douglass spoke at all three of these
lifetime of activism. In 1821, she became a minister and de-
conventions, sharing his own experience as a former slave
livered anti-slavery speeches around the country. She even-
with a captivated audience in the Great Hall of the Athene-
tually co-founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery
um, which became a kind of Mecca for this early activism.
Society, sheltered fugitive slaves in her home and attended
Douglass extended his message of justice and equality to
all the major anti-slavery conferences of the day. Despite
women. In 1848, he attended the first sizeable women’s
being a married Quaker minister, Mott was slandered and
rights meeting known as the Seneca Falls Convention, or-
called “promiscuous” for speaking in public. Later in her
ganized by Mott, Stanton and other women’s rights lead-
life, she would take many trips back to the island and con-
ers. There he signed their official declaration of equality
tinue her famous speeches at the Atheneum.
with men.
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Mott’s upbringing on Nantucket propelled her into a
(Clockwise from the top) Lucretia Mott, Seneca Falls Convention, Maria Mitchell.
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hree years after Douglass’s appear-
excluded certain members, causing rifts and in-fighting
ance at the Atheneum, a famous
in both movements. To gloss over or oversimplify these
women’s rights activist and abolitionist
unpleasant parts of our history would be dangerous, as
named Lucy Stone gave a speech on those
they help explain present day social inequalities.
same steps. As the first woman to earn a col-
Nevertheless, Nantucket women and the island
lege degree in Massachusetts, her speech had
itself played a pivotal role in demanding that women
gravitas that reinforced the radical notion of women’s intelligence and capabilities. One young Nantucketer knew this struggle all too well. For years, Eunice Ross, a young African American woman, petitioned for entry into Nantucket High School, and, in 1847, she succeeded, some ninety-eight years before Brown v. Board of Education made school segregation nationally illegal. That same year, Maria Mitchell discovered a comet and leveraged her instant celebrity to advocate for women in the men’s clubs of science and academia to which she now belonged. She fought pay discrimination at Vassar College and taught the first generation of female PhD science students.
passage of the 19th Amendment. In 1926, Anne Ring was not only the first woman to be elected to the Board of Selectmen on Nantucket, but the first to be elected in all of Massachusetts. Feminism is making slow but steady progress toward a society where women are paid equally and hold equal represen-
tory, there are some uncomfortable truths
tation in public office and corporate lead-
about power and oppression on Nantuck-
ership. From the pulpit of the Atheneum
et during this period. Quakers held racially
steps, the women’s march of 2017 raised
tive Wampanoag people. Women were excluded
(Top insert) Phoebe Hanaford. (Bottom left to right) Maria Mitchell, Frederick Douglass, and an Equal Suffrage booth in the shape of the Old Mill, possibly at the Fairgrounds (1910s).
awareness about women’s rights, safety and health, especially for groups that have been historically marginalized, even within the feminist
from some abolitionist activities,
movement. While much has changed about Nantucket
including participation in the
since the mid-1800s, the Atheneum and the island at
first World Anti-Slavery Con-
large continues to attract and gather those who believe
vention. Both feminism and abo-
in equal rights. Only time will tell what will come from
lition espoused justice and equal-
the women of this era.
ity, but selectively favored and
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ciety.” In 1920, women gained the right to vote with the
Yet as with most studies in his-
segregated meetings and exploited the na-
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were no longer considered a “frivolous appendage of so-
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HOPE NUTSHELL in a
Written by Robert Cocuzzo
Portraits by Kit Noble
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Salem is one of the few who can. Since 2010, this Nantucket summer
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resident has helped feed more than five million acutely malnourished children in forty-eight countries, often rescuing them from the brink of death. “I had absolutely no experience to take on this initiative,” she says, “but I knew if I didn’t do something, then children would die for no good reason.”
alem leads us through her factory in North Kingstown, Rhode Island where she and her team of seventy work twenty-four hours a day, six days a week manufacturing Plumpy’Nut, a nutrient rich peanut butter paste that’s been compared to penicillin in its efficacy to save lives in the developing world. Plumpy’Nut is known as a ready-to-use therapeutic food, and if you ask experts at Doctors Without Borders or UNICEF, this specially designed peanut butter is as powerful as antibiotics in the fight to save human lives. .
Invented by a French pediatrician who was inspired
by the spreadable chocolate paste Nutella, Plumpy’Nut is a simple fortified peanut butter recipe that can last for up to two years without refrigeration and doesn’t require water to be consumed. Doctors can provide mothers with a two-week supply to be administered to their children
In 2009, Salem moved her operation back to the
at home, thus freeing up valuable hospital beds. Because
United States by opening up a nonprofit factory in
peanut allergies are nearly nonexistent in the develop-
Providence and renaming her company after the Ro-
ing world, there’s little risk of a deadly allergic reaction.
man goddess of food, Edesia. The move was prompted
Within days of receiving the 92-gram, 500-kilocalorie
by a USAID grant that could help champion her ef-
packet, the children begin rapidly gaining weight and
forts. “We have been a recipient of this grant funding
come back to life.
since the day we started manufacturing in 2010,” Sa-
Salem first encountered Plumpy’Nut during a trip
lem says.
to Tanzania, where her father, grandparents and great-
Prior to starting Edesia, Salem graduated from
grandparents were born. When she returned home to the
Boston College and then worked as a marketing execu-
States, she happened to watch a 60 Minutes segment by
tive for what became Monster.com. Her learning curve
Anderson Cooper about the way Plumpy’Nut was dra-
in designing and operating an industrial factory was
matically saving children’s lives in Niger and how there was
steep. She relied on her partner, Nutriset, the French
a need for more of this peanut butter to be manufactured.
company that owns the patent to Plumpy’Nut, to help design her first factory in Tanzania and her second in Providence. However,
the
$18.5
million factory in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, which just opened “What if we could make Plumpy’Nut in Tanza-
a year ago this July, was designed entirely in-house. “These are my kids,” she says, walking us past a
als, local resources, and you’re handing out paychecks
series of giant photos that line the walls of her factory.
while making something that saves lives.” And so with
“I can’t get their stories out of my head.” The photos
four children of her own and no experience whatsoever
were taken during her many service trips to places like
making peanut butter—let alone manufacturing tons of
Liberia, Sierra Leone, Niger, Ethiopia, Guatemala, In-
it— Salem opened her first Plumpy’Nut factory in Tan-
dia, Papua New Guinea, Cambodia and Haiti. “These
zania called Power Foods. For three years, the factory
are just some of the places where I have seen first hand
produced 3,000 metric tons of Plumpy’Nut that was dis-
what malnutrition looks like. These children began life
tributed within Tanzania as well as in eight bordering
at an extreme disadvantage simply as a result of where
countries.
they were born.”
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nia?” she thought. “Then you’re using local raw materi-
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“To see a child, lifelessly laying in her mother’s lap, open her first packet of Plumpy’Nut, take a small taste, and start to perk up almost immediately…It’s like witnessing a miracle.”
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alem directs our attention to two
take a small taste, and start to perk up al-
smaller photos mounted side-by-
most immediately…It’s like witnessing a
side on a clipboard. On the left
miracle.”
is a painfully malnourished child lying
Salem guides us through a smartly
helplessly on her back, her ribs pressed
appointed cafeteria, the type you might
up against her skin, her face gaunt, legs
expect at Google’s headquarters, and
and arms boney, and eyes sunken. And
into a sprawling warehouse where
on the right is a perfectly healthy young
towering steel shelves loom like city
girl, sitting upright with a beaming smile.
blocks. They’re stocked high, first with
“That’s just after seven weeks of her eat-
2,000-pound super sacks of raw materi-
ing Plumpy’Nut,” Salem says. “To see
als—peanuts, powder milk, sugar—and
a child, lifelessly laying in her mother’s
then with pallets of Plumpy’Nut, each
lap, open her first packet of Plumpy’Nut,
destined for specific countries. Edesia’s
orders come from the World Food Pro-
efforts towards feeding hungry people
gramme, UNICEF and USAID, each of
living within the United States. She be-
which determines Plumpy’Nut’s recipi-
lieves there is potential for products
ents. “That truck is headed to the Sudan,”
like Plumpy’Nut to help meet the needs
Salem says, nodding to one of the three
of food pantries and food banks around
loading docks at the backend of the ware-
the country, but insists that hunger in
house. “Yesterday it was to Ethiopia. To-
the United States is different than what
morrow it will be Guatemala.”
she’s seen in the developing world. “We
Hanging above the loading dock are
are working hard in our new innovation
flags from all over the world, each repre-
center to create new products that will be
senting the homeland of one of her em-
designed specifically for the nutritional
ployees. “They have so many stories,”
needs of vulnerable Americans,” she
she says. A bookseller from Baghdad. A
says. “The needs are very different, so we
of the great privileges in her life. “I am the
Syrian who had to flee Aleppo for safety.
need to be mindful of these differences
luckiest person on the planet to be blessed
A Sierra Leonean torn from his family
while creating new formulations.”
with four healthy daughters, among so
during the war. A Tanzanian who spent
Come this June, Salem will be re-
many other blessings,” she says. “And
seventeen years in a refugee camp. “Some
turning to Nantucket where she runs Ede-
yet, the greatest gift I have been given is
employees are dedicated to our mission
sia’s operations remotely from her home
to have the opportunity to take action, to
because they are alive today because of
on Eel Point during the summer. She and
do something tangible that literally saves
aid they received,” Salem says. “Some
her husband, Paul, first met on the island
the lives of so many.”
work for Edesia because they want to be
in 1996—the same year Plumpy’Nut was
a part of our mission, part of the action
invented—and were married there three
that results in saving lives.”
years later. Pivoting between the bounty
One of the biggest questions Sa-
of Nantucket and the desperation of the
lem fields is why she isn’t directing her
developing world, Salem is acutely aware
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DRAGNET Written by Rebecca Nimerfroh
Photography by Kit Noble
How one Nantucket police officer chased his dreams of becoming a drag racer.
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hile Nantucket might be a good en-
“On the quarter-mile track this car is quicker
vironment to become a mechanic, it
than any current supercar on the market,” Ray
poses obvious challenges to becoming
says. “That includes the new [$2.8 million]
a drag racer. “I’m basically bringing an un-
Bugatti and Koenigsegg.”
tested car out on the drag strip,” he says. “You
This past fall, Ray returned to Drag Week
can only do the Polpis–Sconset loop so many
hoping to change Sleeping Beauty’s track re-
times.”
cord. “For me it was something I had to fin-
But Ray has a secret weapon on his side:
ish,” he explains. “I’ve always finished this
Sleeping Beauty, his 2001 Chevrolet Corvette
event in tears, whether it’s tears of joy or tears
Z06, a rarity in the street car racing scene. “I
of utter failure.”
would consider the car ‘mild’ compared to the
Joined by his father, Richard, Ray beat out
real heavy hitters at Drag Week,” he says. “But
more than three hundred other cars and nev-
based on speed, comfort and drivability the car
er broke down. By the end of the week, he’d
is almost in a class of its own… it does every-
earned the title as the 51st fastest overall. And
thing well, both on the track and on the street.”
while he might not have taken the checkered
Sleeping Beauty’s rather unremarkable
flag, the real victory was sentimental. “To have
sports car exterior belies the raw muscle hid-
my dad there was a pretty cool father-son mo-
ing beneath its hood. It packs one thousand
ment,” Ray says. “He had really pushed me to
horses and can go zero to sixty in two seconds.
keep going.”
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(Left images) Scenes from Drag Week. (Right image) Travis and Richard Ray leaning over Richard’s Shelby Cobra.
This April, the Rays will be making a special kind of victory lap at the Daffodil Festival with Travis in his police motorcade and his dad proudly parading the Shelby Cobra they built together. As for Sleeping Beauty, Ray has officially put her up for sale. “With car guys, your life is like a novel, and cars come and go as “Just when you think you’ve got everything you want, you say, ‘That car looks pretty cool, maybe I’ll go that route next.’”
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Newsmakers Written by Robert Cocuzzo Photography by Kit Noble
Fox 25 Morning News Anchor Sara Underwood and 98.5 Sports Hub radio host Michael Felger share their life off the air on the island. This Daffodil Weekend, keep an eye out for a cherry red 1975 Volkswagen “Thing” rolling around ‘Sconset as one of the newest additions to the annual antique car parade. Riding inside will be none other than media power couple and Nantucket summer residents Sara Underwood and Michael Felger along with their daughters Emma and Tessa. “Rain or shine, we do not miss the Daffodil Festival,” says Underwood. “It’s one of those events where you can’t wipe the smile off your face. Between the car decorations, the costumes and the doggie tutus...everything is just so yel-
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explains. “There must be a better translation, but I’ve always loved that little family tidbit.” “I started coming to Nantucket after college in the nineties,” says Felger, who originally hales from Milwaukee. “When the economy tanked and all the prices dropped, I could afford something…a
s morning anchor of Fox 25 News in Boston, Underwood rises at 2 am every weekday to report to her post alongside co-anchor Gene Lavanchy. Meanwhile, Felger is out the door at 2 pm to cohost his number-one rated sports radio show, Felger and Massarotti on 98.5 the Sports Hub. Like two ships passing in the night, Underwood and Felger have made Nantucket their homeport every summer for nearly ten years. The couple met on a television set in 2000 and were married two years later. “I had never been to Nantucket,” Underwood says. “Soon after I met Michael, he brought me there for my first weekend ever on Straight Wharf.” Interestingly enough, despite having never visited the island, Underwood discovered that she was a distant relative of Tristin Coffin, one of the earliest Nantucket settlers. “According to our family tree, Tristin was in my Grandpa Underwood’s mother’s side of the family,” she
little piece of the rock.” Now their daughters spend the entire summer on Nantucket, attending Strong Wings, Murray Camp, and Nantucket Community Sailing School, while their mom and dad commute back and forth from Boston. “Once we get off the boat on Nantucket, we can just breathe and we feel so relaxed,” says Underwood. “We really pinch ourselves everyday when we’re there.” Originally from Palo Alto and formerly the anchor on CBS 4 in Boston, Underwood landed in her morning anchor seat at Fox 25 four years N magazine
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“I was just freelancing for Fox 25 when the Boston Marathon Bombing happened,” she says. “Our main anchor at the time was on vacation, so I was put in a position where I was on the air ten hours a
day covering every single detail.” She’s commanded the morning news ever since, most recently guiding viewers in Massachusetts through the opioid crisis, marijuana legalization and the tumultuous presidential election. “And, of course, weather is always a huge story,” she adds. This off-season was equally busy for Felger who covered the Patriots’ historic Super Bowl run on his hit drive-time radio show “Felger and Mazz” and as the host of Comcast SportsNet’s “Sports Night” and “Sports Sunday.” Formerly a longtime columnist for the Boston Herald, what makes Felger such an outlier in Boston’s sports media scene is his commitment to calling it like he sees it and not fawning over the teams. “People think we’re too negative,” he says. “We want to be critical when it’s time to be critical. And we want to challenge the teams when it’s time to challenge the teams.” Most notably, Felger caught flack for chal-
point to the future sustainability of local businesses as one of their
lenging the Patriots over Deflategate, which earned
main concerns for the island. “At the end of the day, what makes
him an earful from the Pats faithful over that past
Nantucket the best is the local families and the local businesses,” Felger says. “I’m still sort of an outsider. I’ve been going there a longtime and have a house there, but I come in and I come out. It’s the people there year-round who are the island. Those businesses getting phased out, those people getting bought out, those people not being able to afford to live there—that’s a huge issue.” Come summertime, Underwood and Felger and their daughters can most readily be found on Lady’s Beach, enjoying lunch from Bartlett’s Farm and the quiet reprieve from their busy lives back in Boston. “When I think of Nantucket, I think of that scene,” says Underwood. “We feel so incredibly lucky. Nantucket is truly our happy place.”
year and a half. That being said, when it comes to Nantucket, Felger is not shy about voicing where his allegiances lie. Half kiddingly, he considers New Yorkers, you have your own places,” he says. “I like it best when it’s a Boston island.” On a more serious note, Felger and Underwood
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SIGNALS Written by Marie-Claire Rochat
Will Nantucket become the next hot spot in marijuana tourism?
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ince legalizing recreational marijuana in 2012, Colorado resort towns like Boulder have become hot spots for weed tourism. Vacationers stay in smoking-friendly hotels, sign-up for cannabis cooking classes and take tour busses to grow houses, smoke shops and pot cafes. In what The New York Times has called the “Green Rush,” legalization has sparked a tourism explosion in Colorado that’s broken records year after year. However, many critics argue that legalization has also led to increased crime, traffic accidents, and drug and alcohol abuse among minors. Now that Massachusetts has become the first state to legalize recreational marijuana on the East Coast, is Nantucket bound to become the next stop for weed tourists? “I do not think that Nantucket will become a hotspot for marijuana tourism, but I cannot predict the future,” says Roberto Santamaria, Nantucket’s director of health. “We can regulate out marijuana tourism,
local regulations for recreational use and
studies. Santamaria says that the island’s
but we have to do it together.” Santamaria
sales of marijuana on the island.
regulation on public use will resemble that
is responsible for writing the requirements
Nantucket residents backed Ques-
for licensing the retail sale of recreational
tion Four 61 percent to 39 percent—a wider
marijuana, which includes drafting regu-
margin than the statewide approval—mak-
When it comes to regulating the mari-
lations that will be presented to voters at
ing it legal for anyone twenty-one and older
juana itself, Santamaria is particularly con-
Town Meeting in 2018.
to cultivate six plants and possess up to an
cerned about edibles—pastries and candies
This is not new turf for Santama-
ounce of marijuana. Pot shops are set to
baked with marijuana—as the new trend is
ria, who as the deputy director of health
open in 2018, and cafes will open shortly
in producing goods with a high concentra-
in Framingham, Massachusetts, wrote the
thereafter.
tion of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the
of states like Colorado, where smoking is restricted to private property.
medical marijuana regulations in 2014. He
One issue Santamaria needs to address
psychoactive alkaloid that makes people
will rely on that document and the input and
is smoking regulations. At present, there is
high. “Are there limits to the amount of
expertise of the Board of Selectmen, the
no statute that prevents smoking marijuana
THC in a brownie or a lollipop?” he asks.
Nantucket Police Department, and the Zon-
in public, nor have the long-term effects of
“If so, how can that be tested? Are there any
ing and Planning departments to draft the
secondhand smoke undergone longevity
laboratories in Massachusetts that can certify a product?” Even if there are labs offisland that can do so, he says, transporting marijuana via a federally regulated operator such as the Steamship Authority, the Hy-
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The number of dispensaries, retailers
of license issuance has been pushed back to
and is applying for a medical permit for 41E
and licenses issued on the island will be set by
April 1, 2018. Per current state guidelines,
Old South Road.
Board of Selectmen policy, Board of Health
only those with medical marijuana dispensary
While Mass Medi-Spa will only sell mari-
regulation, or by Town Meeting vote. San-
experience will be allowed to apply for those
juana to qualifying patients or their personal
tamaria said that there are many
caregivers, there is a provision in the
avenues to limit the number of
state guidelines whereby a medi-
retailers, citing that the depart-
cal dispensary would be permitted
ments of Zoning and Planning
to sell to anyone over the age of
and Land Use are in the process
twenty-one should further delay in
of setting their own regulations.
the approval of state or local regula-
“Nantucket voters support-
tions hold up the opening of a retail
ed the ballot questions by strong
establishment. Mass Medi-Spa ap-
majority [regarding] marijuana,
pears on track to open this summer.
so I don’t think the planning
At least one Nantucket resi-
board would support prohibition
dent, Jenny Bence, is applying for a
through zoning,” says Planning
license to operate a retail establish-
Director Andrew Vorce. “It could be proposed
initial permits. One such dispensary is Mass
ment. Bence, owner of The Green, is in the
to Town Meeting through citizen initiative or
Medi-Spa, a nonprofit, registered marijuana
early stages of what she called a “very long
by another board.”
dispensary (RMD) that has received a non-
process” and was reticent to talk in any detail
opposition letter from the Board of Selectmen
about her plans at this time.
Since the law passed last fall, the date
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o where will retail pot shops be located? While that is still to be determined, it is likely
Sarah Chotkowski, co-
that they will only be permitted in the same zoning districts as RMDs. “There may not be
ordinator of clinical operations
any specific bylaws pertaining to retail sales [locations] beyond these existing…regula-
at Fairwinds, a counseling cen-
tions,” said Marcus Silverstein, Nantucket’s zoning enforcement officer. Santamaria will push for
ter on Nantucket that provides
a thousand-foot minimum distance statute from schools and certain other community sectors in a
addiction recovery services,
board of health regulation.
has concerns about the impact the legalization will have on adolescents. “Generally, when adults have easier access to a substance, so, too, do teenagers in their orbit,” she says. “We know marijuana….is absolutely toxic to a brain that is still developing.”
That said, she is hopeful that the island will benefit from seeing how other communities that have addiction epidemics like Nantucket’s have managed the transition. “Fairwinds…is Of course, state and local taxes will be imposed on retail sales of marijuana and marijuana prod-
deeply committed to reviewing
ucts. The state will tack on a 3.75 percent surcharge to its 6.25 percent sales tax, and local jurisdic-
the available research and in-
tions are allowed to add up to a 2 percent tax. “The state…has the tax earmarked for ‘enforcement’
corporating it into our agency
efforts,” said Santamaria. “The local tax can be earmarked for other uses. I do not know what they
policies and clinical practices,”
will be, as of yet.”
she says.
It is fair to say that the revenue will be a boost to Nantucket’s coffer. To date, tax revenue gen-
For now, there are so many
erated by the sale of marijuana in the two-and-a-half years since legalization in Boulder has topped
unanswered questions, and of-
$6.7 million, according to the Colorado Department of Revenue, with most of the money going into
ficials at both the state and local
the city’s general fund.
levels are tasked with writing,
Meanwhile, law enforcement agencies are charged with a difficult task to be sure. The law
implementing and enforcing
permits those “21 or older to purchase, possess, or manufacture one ounce or less of marijuana, of
regulations that will hopefully
which not more than five grams can be in the form of marijuana concentrate.” But to Santamaria’s
pave the way for recreational
earlier point, how do the police test for that concentration?
marijuana use to quietly meld
Moreover, driving under the influence of marijuana is illegal, but as there is no way to test for
into the fold of day-to-day life.
that either, officers may have to rely on other evidence such as behavior and smell when assessing
So will Nantucket become the
an individual for impairment. Will enforcement officers require a search permit to enter the homes of
Boulder of the East? We’ll just
personal growers to make sure they are cultivating the legal number of plants?
have to wait for the smoke to
Police Chief William Pittman is waiting for guidelines from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security that will address and clarify all issues pertaining to enforcement. “I think that history is going to reflect on this as a huge mistake,” says Chief Pittman. “I was in high school in the seventies. I saw first-hand what marijuana did to some of my classmates, several of whom are now deceased due to suicide or overdose. The only thing I saw that was a common denom-
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Leading up to the vote last fall, there was staunch opposition to the legalization by law enforcement groups and anti-drug organizations, both of which claimed that a yes vote would expose underage users to marijuana and would also give legitimacy to an unhealthful substance.
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By the time Dr. Kevin Esvelt left the Nantucket Board of Health’s special meeting last June, news of his visit was already spreading across the country. The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New Yorker, and many other newspapers and magazines from Martha’s Vineyard to New Mexico quickly ran articles about this MIT scientist’s radical proposal to eradicate Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses on Nantucket. Esvelt’s proposal sounded straight out of a Michael Crichton novel. To break the circle of infection, he proposed releasing fifty thousand genetically modi-
Of Mice & Men Written by Robert Cocuzzo Photography by Kit Noble
Meet the scientist who wants to fight Lyme disease on Nantucket with genetically modified mice.
fied mice on the island that would not only be hyperimmune to tick-borne illnesses, but might actually cure infected ticks that bite them. If all went according to plan, he said, the prevalence of Lyme disease on the island could go down by 90 percent. The model might then be scaled up to tackle the problem on the mainland and beyond. “The world is pretty magical,” Esvelt says, nodding out the window of his office at MIT, now eight months since that meeting on Nantucket. “You just need to learn how it really works in order to change it.” Esvelt is an evolutionary biologist advancing the science that Darwin embarked upon nearly two hundred years ago. Appropriately enough, his obsession with evolution began where it began for N magazine
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“There isn’t such a thing as magic, but science is a pretty good proxy.”
hen he was just eleven years old, Esvelt’s parents took him on a trip to the Galapagos Islands. “That sort of
then a
crystallized it in my mind,” he
fellowship at
says. “There isn’t such a thing
Harvard. Now as an
as magic, but science is a pretty
assistant professor at the MIT
good proxy.” Esvelt went on
Media Lab, Esvelt is a pioneer in
from Harvey Mudd College. He
evolutionary biology who might evolution,” have just found his own Galapa- Esvelt and his team are
earned a PhD in biochemistry
gos with Nantucket.
to graduate magna cum laude
In what he calls “sculpting
ticated tools and methods to edit genes in organisms that can then
The
dramatically impact the natural
white-footed
world. While other scientists are
mouse is the primary
leveraging this technology to fight
reservoir for Lyme disease and
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from Harvard University and
developing highly sophis-
malaria and dengue fever by ge-
tick-borne illnesses on Nantucket.
netically reengineering the mos-
Esvelt believes that if he vac-
quitos that carry those afflictions,
cinates a white-footed mouse
Esvelt is out to defeat Lyme dis-
against Lyme and then sequences
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ease—but not by targeting ticks.
its genome, he’ll be able to identi-
fy the antibodies that ward off the disease. He would then breed a colony of white-footed mice that are genetically engineered with those antibodies and release them on the island. As those genetically engineered mice mate with the wild white-footed mouse population on Nantucket, the powers of evolution will theoretically eliminate all instances of Lyme in their offspring and break the circle of infection. The other option, which could be done separately or in tandem with the Lyme immunization, is to immunize the mice against
would be like if we hadn’t
Either way, he thinks it will take
not only wants the community
ticks themselves. This might of-
screwed it up with fragmented
two and half years to raise enough
involved with the project, he
fer the added benefit of not only
woodlands and lots and lots of
mice for the project. Of course,
wants skeptics to challenge his
preventing Lyme disease, but also
deer...So we’re pushing every-
before anything can begin, Nan-
every step. “I want to make sure
other tick-borne illnesses such
thing back to the natural state.”
tucket must decide whether it
everyone raises every possible
wants to be the guinea pig for this
objection,” he says. “I hope peo-
unproven science.
ple push us to be as rigorous and
babesiosis, anaplasmosis, and eh-
However, there are sig-
rlichiosis. This would also reduce
nificant logistical and technical
the tick population overall.
challenges to the project, which
“I want the community
“I have a really hard time
Esvelt “guestimates” would cost
to be in the driver’s seat,” Es-
require us to use the outside
thinking of something that could
around $10 million for both Nan-
velt says. “It’s the community’s
experts and safety
go wrong,” Esvelt says. “If any-
tucket and Martha’s Vineyard.
project—it just has to be.” In
monitoring.”
thing, all the anticipated effects
In order to raise 100,000 geneti-
a field typically defined by
are restoring the system
cally modified mice, Esvelt and
secrecy, Esvelt insists upon
back to what it
his team would first need an
absolute
uninhabited test island. Another
ency.
careful as we possibly can and
transpar-
He
option is to raise the mice on a cargo freighter.
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o ward off concerns of any corporate interests lurking behind the scenes, Esvelt says the project will have to be a nonprofit funded mostly by private donations. To meet these standards, a steering committee is being assembled that includes ethicists, doctors, scientists, community leaders and a skeptic charged with voicing the concerns of all the skeptics on the island. “In my opinion that’s how science should be—as open as possible,” says the Nantucket Board of Health director Roberto Santamaria, who attended Esvelt’s presentation back in June. Santamaria believes Esvelt’s plan, while not perfect, is the most viable option for combatting the island’s Lyme disease epidemic, which will reportedly impact a staggering 40 percent of the island’s population. “The biggest obstacle here is explaining to a nonscientific group a major, complex scientific process,” Santamaria says. “It’s getting people to understand that they’re Indeed, the very idea of genetically modified mice, let alone releasing tens of thousands of them, makes many people on Nantucket uneasy. “How is this going to effect the food chain and all the other creatures that are involved with the white-footed mouse?” asks Nantucket resident Danica Connors. “No matter how much they test for that in a lab—or even on an uninhabited island—we will not find all of the potential reactions of what can happen to that food chain.” not altering the environment itself, but rather amplifying something that is already
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Connors is a “Lyme literate” herbalist who treats clients on the island, 90
Yet whether it’s tomatoes or white-footed mice, GMOs are a hot button is-
percent of whom she says are fighting
sue. “Some people feel that evolution is evolution, and if we mess with the natural
tick-borne illnesses. While she com-
environment in any way we can create a butterfly effect,” Santamaria says. “Some
mends the transparency with which
people are adamantly against any genetic modification at any level and of any
Esvelt is pursuing this project, Connors
animal. And you can’t change their opinion hell or high water.”
remains skeptical that the science can
outmatch the powers of nature. tain period of time. It’s not some-
before as a whaling community,
“I personally believe that
“Even if we genetically modi- thing that we’re setting up that’s
as an abolitionist community, as
scientists should hold themselves
fied another species, which I have irreversible. And we’re using
a tourist community,” says San-
morally responsible for all the
enough ethics issues with, from Nantucket mouse DNA, it’s not
tamaria. “It would be great to be
consequences of their work,
what we have seen in the capac- anything exotic. From my perspec-
up there as a first in the scientific
which means I’m on the hook
ity of these spirochetes, it’s just tive, you can’t really come up with
community as well.”
for a number of things,” Esvelt
Back in his office at MIT, Dr.
says. “It’s very important to me
Nantucket is an extreme mi-
Kevin Esvlet waits as the gears of
that we figure out how to do this,
she says. “Nature’s timeframe is so crocosm of a nationwide epidem-
town government turn on Nan-
and I think Nantucket is the best
much different than humanity’s.”
ic. According to a study by Johns
tucket. From his perspective, this
place to do that. It’s sort of a baby
This is not the first plan Hopkins Bloomberg School of
project represents more than just
step, but it’s an important one that
that’s been proposed to break the Public Health, between 240,000
defeating tick-borne illnesses. If
could be a model for how we do it
circle of infection on Nantucket. and 440,000 Americans are in-
the community decides to pursue
for the future.”
In 2005, Dr. Timothy Lepore, fected with tick-borne illnesses
this project, it could serve as a
the island’s leading tick-borne each year, costing the US health-
model of how modern society and
disease expert, successfully peti- care system upwards of $1.3 bil-
modern science worked together
tioned the Board of Selectmen for lion. If the project on the island
to achieve a common goal for the
an additional week of hunting to proves
future of mankind.
a matter of time until they adapt any great arguments against it.” past this genetic modification,”
successful,
Nantucket
cull more deer on the island. “The might go down in the annals of town wanted to hang me in effigy medical history for helping cure after that,” Lepore laughs today. one of mankind’s most persistent While the extra week of hunting afflictions. “Nantucket has put itsucceeded in bagging an addi- self on the world map many times tional 250 deer, the public outcry it caused shot down the chance of it ever happening again. “I think this is a very ingenious method,” Lepore says of Esvelt’s proposal. “I don’t think we’re disturbing the environment. I think it will reset in a cer-
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WINE SECRETS Interview by Robert Cocuzzo
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Photography courtesy of Bianca Bosker
Just in time for Wine Festival, Nantucket summer resident Bianca Bosker dishes on her top secrets from investigating the wine world. Two years ago, Cisco summer resident Bianca Bosker quit her job as the executive tech editor at the Huffington Post and went on an eighteen-month drinking binge. No, she didn’t fall into the grips of alcoholism, but rather dedicated her life, as she puts it “to pull back the curtain on parts of the wine world that no books, films, or TV shows had explored.” The fruit of her labors, a memoir entitled Cork Dork, hits shelves this spring and has already been lauded as the Kitchen Confidential of the wine world. N Magazine caught up with Bosker, who will also be featured at the Nantucket Book Festival this June, to prepare our palates for Wine Festival.
N MAGAZINE: What were some of your methods in researching this book? BOSKER: I gave myself a year to pass a sommelier exam that recommends a minimum of three years in the industry, which means I turned my life upside down in my journey to train my senses. I gave up perfume, scented laundry detergent, any liquids above a lukewarm temperature, coffee, spicy foods, adding salt, and brushing my teeth except at select times. I replaced gargling Listerine with tasting dozens of dilutions of citric acid mixed with water. A neuroscientist explained to me that if you imprint a taste while, well, being intimate with someone, it will be more likely to stick in your memory. And if you want to know more...well you’re just going to have to read the book.
N MAGAZINE: So it’s all about training your memory? BOSKER: Appreciating the complexity of wine means improving our sense memory, building up a library of flavors and aromas that we can then recognize in a glass. Gnawing on rocks became a pastime. I’ve tasted more than my fair share of dirt. It’s surprisingly delectable.
N MAGAZINE: Obviously a lot of tasting went into researching this book. Did you pick up any miracle hangover cures along the way?
BOSKER: A word to the wise: When you tell your friends and family that you’ve quit your stable job to drink wine, you’ll start getting very concerned phone calls. In my quest to train my palate and work as a somm, I was drinking most weekday mornings, tipsy by noon, and painfully hungover by 2 pm most days. Cheeseburgers were the closest I came to hangover therapy, though really they just dulled the pain. N magazine
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somms and servers study jewelry or cause someone loves them.
don’t have to drink it with dessert,
luxury watches to gauge your poten-
it’s the perfect wine to bring out at
tial price range. Sure, there’s a profit
N MAGAZINE: What are the top gim-
motive at play. But the best som- micks in the wine industry today? meliers use all this information and
BOSKER: Perhaps it’s in my nature as
more to read what you want emo- a writer to be picky about words, tionally out of your meal, so they but I take issue with the language of can provide that along with a wine. wine—in particular the terms “terYou’re being watched and analyzed roir” and “minerality,” which libermore closely than you realize. The ally pepper winespeak. Not even inbest way not to get taken for a ride? dustry professionals can agree what Just be open, honest, and clear about “terroir” and “minerality” mean what you want to drink and spend. Some somms swore by detox tea.
exactly, or how to taste them in a wine. So how can we expect ama-
My favorite hangover advice came
N MAGAZINE: What’s one secret that teur drinkers to make sense of them? from an aspiring Master Sommelier most consumers don’t know when To me, these words are symptomatic who was my mentor. As he put it: ordering wine? of the hand-waving that sometimes “Being relentless is my defense.” BOSKER: In the course of working as takes over with wine—marketing a cellar rat, I quickly learned to read takes precedence over meaning—
N MAGAZINE: What are some good the hidden language of wine lists. and I fear that lack of specificity can questions to ask when a somm is try- For instance, most “by the glass” alienate people who’d otherwise ing to up sell you on a bottle? How lists have what somms call “gimme love wine. do you not get taken for a ride? wines.” These are the well-known
BOSKER: I apprenticed in Michelin- regions or grapes, like New Zea- N MAGAZINE: You’re invited to a din-
starred dining rooms as part of my land Sauvignon Blanc, or California ner party and have $20 to wow your sommelier training, and I was im- Cabernet, that guests instantly rec- host with a bottle of wine; what are pressed to discover that restaurants ognize and say, “Give it to me—I you picking up and why? are judging you just as much as don’t care how much it costs.” BOSKER: I’d pick up a bottle of Sauyou’re judging them. The top restau- If you order a gimme wine, you ternes, a sweet wine from Bordeaux. rants aim to Google all their guests will pay a gimme tax. Restaurants Some of the best, most expensive before they come in, and keep de- know they can charge more for the wines in the world are from Sautailed notes on their likes, dislikes, “gimmes” because many people go ternes, but it’s also fallen out of fatantrums, importance to the restau- on autopilot and order the safe, well- vor, partially because drinkers have rant, and so forth, so they know how known thing, regardless of price. a tendency to snub sweet wines. to treat them. Spend handsomely For your best shot at drinking great To me, it’s a special treat that too on wine, and you might be labeled wine for good value, try something many people haven’t explored, and a “Wine PX,” short for “personne offbeat from the grape you’ve never Sauternes age beautifully, meaning
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extraordinaire.” Get huffy, and you heard of, or the region you can’t pro- you can track down ten-, twenty-, or just might be labeled, “HWC,” nounce. Those bottles don’t usually even thirty-year-old bottles without short for “handle with care.” Other sell as easily, and they’re there be- breaking the bank. Plus, though you
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the end of a meal, to encourage everyone to linger just a little longer.
N MAGAZINE: After all you experienced, what’s your philosophy on wine? BOSKER: The best wines, regardless of pedigree, come with a story. Or it could be the story about the experience catalyzed by the bottle. Whereas before, the only thing I got from a glass of wine was drunk, now I can appreciate wine on an emotional and intellectual level, and the stories in each glass reveal themselves more readily now than they ever did before.
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N Magazine: What was your first thought upon hearing the first explosion?
Hoenk: I initially thought it was a cannon, but then we started hearing screaming. And there was too much smoke. I was shooting with a telephoto lens, so I brought it up to my face to see what was going on right when the second explosion happened. I was about as close as you could be without getting hurt.
N Magazine: Why didn’t you run away? Hoenk: People started running away, and I was standing there in shock. I figured the safest place to be was where the explosion just happened. I wanted to see if I could help. When I was running back with the camera in my hand, I noticed there wasn’t anyone else around that was taking photos, so I instantly just started shooting. I figured that these photos might be really important. Over the course of about five minutes I took about fifty photos.
N Magazine: Which photo sticks out in your mind most today?
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blood in his hair and was screaming. That’s something I see every single day [in my mind]. It doesn’t go away.
EYE WITNESS Interview by Rebecca Nimerfroh
Portrait by Kit Noble
Nantucket photographer Bill Hoenk remembers how his life changed in a flash. Nantucket photographer Bill Hoenk was just forty feet away from the finish line when the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon. In a matter of seconds, he went from capturing the jubilation of faces of runners to documenting the worst terror attack on US soil since 9/11. In the days and weeks that followed, Hoenk’s photos not only appeared on the cover of Time, but they also served as crucial pieces of evidence in convicting Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Now, four years later, Hoenk—who recently participated in the filming of Mark Wahlberg’s Patriots Day—reflects on the horrors of that fateful day and his personal journey to return to the race.
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N Magazine: The photo appeared on the cover of a special tablet-only edition of Time? What was your reaction?
Hoenk: I was dealing with a lot of guilt over the fact that I took those photos. As much as I wanted to contact these people in my photos, they had so much more to deal with than a photographer calling them. I followed all the stories online and learned who these people were and that they were recovering and doing ok. And that was good enough for me.
N Magazine: What would you say to that young boy if you could meet him today? Hoenk: I’d probably just break down crying. I’d give him a big hug. I’d shake his dad’s hand. I’d thank them for being brave.
N Magazine: What brought you to the casting call for the movie Patriots Day? Hoenk: I read that they were looking to speak with first responders because they wanted to make this movie as authentic as possible, so I made the trip up to Boston in hopes that I could help. I got a phone call from the casting department who said they had a special role for me as a finish line volunteer. I was a little bit worried because I
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N Magazine: What was it like being on set? Hoenk: They literally recreated Boylston Street. Every little detail, right down to the gum on the sidewalk—it was truly amazing. There was one scene they were doing a couple times, and I realized it was a direct recreation of my photo that was on the cover of Time. I had to leave the set because I became so overwhelmed with emotion at that point.
N Magazine: How do you find peace after such an event? Hoenk: I’m able to get the time off every year to go back to Boston for the marathon. Last year, I was right in front of Forum, taking pictures of runners again. I like to go there and reflect, and walk around the city.
career will definitely evolve as time passes. Capturing this world and sharing my vision of it is something I will be doing until the day that I die.
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N Magazine: What’s next for you as a photographer? Hoenk: I don’t really like to look too far into the future. I love life and my photography
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curious
collection
Photos courtesy of NHA Archives
In November 1847, Rockwell’s New York Circus set sail on the brig Young Lady from Manhattan to Boston. After fourteen days of storms and contrary winds and running short of feed and water for their trained horses, the troupe persuaded the captain to put into Nantucket. To make the most of their unscheduled stop, the performers applied to the selectmen for permission to perform and pitched their tent at the corner of Broad and Water streets for four days only, with tickets costing 12.5 cents and 25 cents. Today we might think it a wondrous spot of luck for the island to have a circus “accidentally thrown upon our shores,” but pious Nantucketers of the day decried its appearance as “highly demoralizing, of no benefit to any one, and fruitful of much evil.” They stayed away, we presume, leading the Weekly Mirror newspaper to comment indignantly, “If the Circus remained here the entire year, it would be incapable of accomplishing a tenth part of the actual and positive evil which one rumseller inflicts upon this community. . . A single rumseller is, in every particular, of vastly greater injury to any community, than a hundred circus companies.”
Italian carved sofa with needlepoint upholstery depicting scenes of summer on Nantucket, designed by the Monaghan sisters and stitched by their mother in about 1930.
Portrait of 3 Coffin children, 1845
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The NHA’s latest exhibit will have you thinking outside of the box.
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Ship in bottle by Wm Chamberlain
Surfboard from the Nobel Surfer, on Centre Street. Purchased in the 1960s by Ba and Norman Rea, decorated with artwork by Ba Rea, used on the south shore beaches.
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This spring, the Nantucket Historical Association will display the sole surviving poster from Rockwell and Co.’s controversial visit to Nantucket as part of its major exhibition of the year, Out of the Box: Unpacking Nantucket Stories. Treasures from the NHA’s collections, many of them not exhibited in a long time, are coming out of storage to tell the fascinating and varied stories of real Nantucketers across four centuries of the island’s history. The exhibition is organized into sections that parallel some of the key rhythms of island life. “Nantucket At Sea” explores the centrality of water to everything that happens on island, presenting ship models, children’s toys, fishing artifacts, and mementos from wrecks, as well as the playbill from a crewmen’s theater performance aboard the whaleship Alpha in 1848. “Nantucket At Home” draws back the curtain on the quotidian and the extraordinary in the domestic sphere, featuring the extraordinary toy doll’s bed with whale-ivory decoration that island cooper David Folger made for his daughter Lydia in the 1850s. “Nantucket at Work” looks at the island’s many economic pursuits. An elegant box wagon made on South Water Street by Andrew J. Swain, hat works, baskets from Main Street grocers, and Native American tools.
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collected in 1906 but never before exhibited, takes center stage, surrounded by whalecraft, samples from the silk factory and the straw
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Poster from Rockwell’s Circus, 1847. Rockwell’s Circus got stuck at sea on a voyage from New York to Boston in 1847 and put into Nantucket for water and food. While on island, they asked for permission to perform. The circus obtained permission from the selectmen to perform for four days only, although numerous voices on island objected that such an entertainment was immoral.
Marie M Coffin, 1943
Portrait of William H. Chase, by Walter Gilman Page, circa 1929. William H. Chase carved and sold whirligigs on Old North Wharf.
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“Nantucket at Heart” is a mini-tour through islanders’ love old and new. The circus poster will be on view here, alongside affair with our humble spit of sand. It features scrimshaw given by artifacts from the island’s early bathhouses, souvenir whirligigs by sailors to their sweethearts; baby curls preserved in lockets; and local artists, and the whimsical men’s room door from the Skipper shell art; as well as “Nancy Tucket,” the figurehead Bob Perrin restaurant, painted by Tony Sarg in the 1920s. carved to decorate his studio on Old South Wharf, and the weather-
The exhibition will also contain the NHA’s version of
vane from Greater Light, with its silhouettes of Hanna Monaghan an “object theater,” where video, sound, and lighting will proand her greyhound named Angel Gabriel.
vide a virtual tour of selected key objects. Showcased objects
“Nantucket at Play” celebrates the island’s diversions, both will include the Monaghan sisters’ spectacular needlepoint sofa
Paint palette of James Walter Folger, 1851-1918, famous local woodcarver and painter.
“Olden Times” wallpaper by Tony Sarg showing quaint scenes of yore, including a whale hunt, ca. 1935
Portrait, James Backus
decorated with scenes from their island life in the 1930s; the 1848 whaling journal of Susan Veeder, with its unique watercolors of Pacific islands; and the 1928 wedding dress worn by four generations of brides in the Bishop family. The NHA’s exhibitions tell the stories of real people from the past and connect those stories to the lives and concerns of contemporary islanders and island visitors. Out of the Box will be a treasure chest of surprises and delights, with something of interest to everyone who loves Nantucket.
Sweater knitted by Gwen Gaillard, owner of the Opera House Restaurant, for summer resident Fay Anathan in 1975, incorporating words describing Fay.
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Wood figure: Billy Ray, Billy Clark, Alvin Hall
Toy doll’s bed with whale ivory pieces, ca. 1850, made on Nantucket by cooper David Folger for his daughter Lydia.
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Ss p i l l ing
N MAGAZINE: What’s the biggest misconception you’ve come across
when you took over the Wine Festival from Denis Toner.
when it comes to the outside perception of the Wine Festival?
How have you two put your own spin on the festival?
BEAN: Well there were big shoes to fill for sure! Denis had a vision for the festival—where it would go, how it would grow. He cultivated excellence driven by the winemakers and wineries and com-
the beans
N MAGAZINE: You and Mark Goldweitz had big shoes to fill
BEAN: The biggest misconception is that all of the festival events
are very expensive. There are over sixty events. Some of the events are high priced, because they feature valuable wines and top chefs—the content and production is costly. But there are
plemented by amazing chefs and world class food. We have worked
also outstanding events that have have low ticket prices and in-
to keep this high caliber and continue to grow the culinary program.
clude amazing food and wine. There is a wide range of events
Our goal has been to become a true wine and food festival, keeping
and a wide range of ticket pricing.
the excellence in the wine experience and celebrating the culinary arts. We have continued Denis’ vision. After twenty years as the
N MAGAZINE: Approximately how many miles of travel do you log
Nantucket Wine Festival, we are now officially “Nantucket Wine &
each year enlisting new wineries and vintners for the festival?
Food.”
BEAN: My husband would say two million. I’d guess between
25,000 to 30,000 miles a year
N MAGAZINE: What are some special events that festivalgoers should be
BEAN: We have introduced music into lots of our programing. One
N MAGAZINE: What’s one thing most people don’t know about you? BEAN: I have been coming to Nantucket since I was five years
of our events is “Rock ‘n’ Rhône,” which compares the power and
old, and it is my favorite place in the world. The fact that I have
depth of the wines of the Rhône to rock ‘n’ roll. Another is “Can you
combined my love of the island with my love of food and wine
Hear your Wine?” which is hosted at the Nantucket Music Center
and event production is a dream.
aware of this year?
and pairs different wine varietals with classical music. We have been
introducing more music each year. It goes hand in hand with our events and our audience.
N MAGAZINE: The Wine Festival isn’t just about indulging. Tell us a little bit about the philanthropic arm of the festival and how it impacts the Nantucket community?
BEAN: The Nantucket Wine & Food Festival Charitable Foundation is our charitable arm. We support lots of island organizations, with a focus on island youth. We have committed to helping build and enhance the Culinary Arts Program with chef mentorship and the annual Junior Top Chef Competition each year during the festival. Our vision is to work with the high school to build on this to include courses in hospitality. With this vocation, students will be encouraged to work in the industry that is vital to the island. We also regularly support fundraisers, auctions and island events. All of our
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A quick chat with Wine Fest executive director Nancy Bean
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