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Editor & Publisher Bruce A. Percelay Managing Editor Robert S. Cocuzzo Art Director Paulette Chevalier

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The words “I do� have special meaning on Nantucket. There is something magical about getting married on this island,

Head Photographers Nathan Coe Kit Noble

which is why nearly two hundred couples tie the knot here each year, thus making this small strip of sand a mini Las

Operations Consultant Adrian Wilkins Contributors Robert Barsanti Alexandra Cody Juliet Kennelly Jen Laskey Brian Mohr Amy Roberts Ryder Ziebarth Photographers Jordi Cabre Zofia Crosby Michael Diskin Cary Hazlegrove Katie Kaizer Shelly Kroeger Kali Lu Brian Mohr Emily Johnson Advertising Director Fifi Greenberg Advertising Sales Audrey Wagner Publisher N. LLC Chairman: Bruce A. Percelay

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Vegas. Weddings are also big business, providing the local economy a wedding present of tens of millions of dollars each year. Accordingly, our September issue focuses on Nantucket weddings and will hopefully encourage even more people to Editor & Publisher

exchange their vows right here.

If getting to the church on time is a concern, we summarize three extraordinary means of transportation, ranging from the fastest private jet in the world, to a car that morphs into a plane, to a water-propelled jet pack. And for those who savor wonderful wedding food from local caterers and restaurants, it is reassuring to know that there is a generation of young culinary talent being cultivated on the island by Nantucket’s Junior Chef Competition, of which N Magazine is a proud sponsor.

We checked in with these culinary up-and-comers to see what they have cooking for this year’s competition being held September 30th.

From the serenity of weddings, we dive into a story of thrill-seekers who get their adrenaline rush by surfing during the September hurricane season. Also in the realm

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While many lament the end of summer as we know it, those familiar with Nantucket know that September can be the most beautiful month of the year, providing not only brides and grooms the perfect time to enjoy the island, but fall visitors as well. Take advantage of the warm waters, mild temperatures and relatively quiet streets and have a happy fall.

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Enter the kitchen with the three student cooking teams that will go head-to-head in this fall’s fifth annual Junior Chef Competition.

30 A PORTRAIT OF HIS HOLINESS AT HOME

Local artist Lisa Sawlit unveils her masterpiece painting of the Dalai Lama.

Beekeeping is more than a flight of fancy on Nantucket. Meet some local honey farmers and learn what all the buzz is about.

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Longtime summer resident, Tom McCann, established Holidays for Heroes this summer, a nonprofit giving wounded veterans a vacation on the island as well as hope for a better future.

While some Nantucketers batten down the hatches for hurricane season, a select few toss on wet suits, wax up their surfboards, and paddle out into the swell.

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From flowers to food, dresses to decor, revel in Nantucket weddings in all their glory.

Local florist, Michael Molinar, demonstrates how to make the perfect wedding centerpiece.

From no-shows to cold feet, Reverend Ted Anderson shares some memories of his forty-two years helping couples tie the knot on Nantucket.

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Take a trip in three cutting-edge aircrafts and see how flight is reaching new, breathtaking heights on Nantucket.

The NHA blows the dust off from some wedding wear of yesteryear.

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GUESTCONTRIBUTORS MICHAEL MOLINAR Flowers on Chestnut’s Michael Molinar has brought beautiful blooms to more than two thousand weddings over the past twenty-eight years. In that time, he’s seen it all, fielding every possible flower request imaginable.

For this September wedding edition, Michael takes us through the making of a centerpiece. Although he shows us how easy the project can be, Michael discourages a bride from taking up the task on her special day: “It’s like making your own wedding cake.

There’s nothing to it…we can all make a cake. But on your wedding day, let others do it for you.”

JEN LASKEY “The hum of tens of thousands of honeybees buzzing beneath your bare fingertips might not be especially comforting,” says frequent N contributor, Jen Laskey, “but spend a little time talking to a beekeeper while examining a hive, and you may just change your mind—along with and your whole global perspective.” For this September issue, Jen Laskey met up with some of the island’s beekeepers to see what all the buzz is about.

Jen is a freelance writer, specializing in food, wine/spirits, travel, health, and Italian gastronomic culture. Her writing has appeared in Fodor’s Travel guidebooks, Everyday Health publications, Reader’s Digest, Elevation Outdoors, and Playboy, among other print and online publications. She has also been a ghostwriter to several best-selling authors.

ROBERT BARSANTI Bob Barsanti lived on Nantucket for twenty years. He taught in the schools, lost golf balls on all of the island’s courses, and has eaten in all of the island’s restaurants. In the summer, he is often at the beach with two charming boys. When the snow falls, he lives and teaches in the Berkshires. Bob is author of three books, including Sand in My Shoes and Rolling in Surf. For

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Nantucket Whalers football and how today’s Boys & Girls Club program is winning Nantucket High School football a promising future.

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The Nantucket Beach Club For many couples tying the knot on Nantucket, a

Beach Club at Jetties. Brought to the island by

wedding celebration on the beach is the ultimate

Longwood Events this past August, the Nantucket Chef David Blessing brings flair to the local fare,

dream. The logistics behind that waterfront

Beach Club coordinates every aspect of the recep- creating dazzling plates with seasonal Nantucket

wedding, however, can be a certified nightmare.

tion. With award-winning venues such as Belle

Tents, caterers, musicians, family and friends are

Mer in Newport, Wychmere Beach Club in Cape décor is catered to each couple’s specifications.

all thrown together amidst sand, wind, and

Cod, Alden Castle and State Room in Boston,

Whether dining in the open-air terrace of The

unpredictable weather. Just ask the Boston Pops.

Longwood has perfected the planning and

Jetties or in a tent set on the sand, the Nantucket

execution of major events over its ten-year history.

produce and local fresh fish. Meanwhile, the

Fortunately, it has just become a little bit easier

Beach Club can create a stylish, sophisticated

to celebrate by the sea, courtesy of Longwood

atmosphere that will propel a Nantucket wedding

Events and The Jetties, which will be rebranded

to the next level.

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Identical twins, Louise and Andrea Masano, share both a love for Nantucket as well as unique artistic talent. Creators of a new television pilot that aired in New York called “Couture Du Jour,” each sister has developed her own artistic specialty. Andrea created a clothing label called “Top of Nantucket,” a line of women’s blouses that is now in three hundred stores across the country. According to Andrea, “The design is becoming the ‘Nantucket red’ of tops.” Meanwhile, Louise, whose creative credentials include a successful career in advertising, is an accomplished painter who has developed a following in dog portraiture. Her K9 canvasses fetch some serious money, making her one of the region’s top dogs when it comes to pet portraiture.

So while the Masano sisters may be identical in appearance, their art is completely unique and worth more than a double take.

A STROKE OF BRILLIANCE The waters of Nantucket will come alive on Saturday

Race directors, Jason Bridges and Kit Noble,

October 13 , as islanders off all ages take to the harbor

have marked off courses for serious competitors

in kayaks and stand-up paddleboards for the first ever

as well as young, first-time paddlers. “On Nantucket,

“Nantucket Paddle Battle: The Race for Clean Water.”

it can be easy to take water for granted. I mean,

Organized by the Maria Mitchell Association and the

let’s face it, we’re surrounded by the stuff,” says race

Nantucket Land Council, the Paddle Battle seeks to

director, Kit Noble. “Hopefully, this race will raise

raise awareness about local water quality. “Protecting

awareness and help people realize that the quality

our ground water, the sole source of drinking water

of our water is not just another drop in the bucket.”

on Nantucket through education and awareness is an

Participants are encouraged to register for the race

important priority for the island,” says Janet Schulte,

online and to follow the MMA’s and the Land

Executive Director of MMA. “All coastal communities

Council’s Facebook page for up-to-date race

have experienced serious declines in water quality as a

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result of anthropogenic nutrient overloading caused by a number of factors including storm drain run-off, the improper application of fertilizer and insufficient waste

information and registration procedures.

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Holiness at Home WRITTEN BY ROBERT S. COCUZZO

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE

Nantucket artist, Lisa Sawlit, reveals her greatest masterpiece yet, a life-size portrait of the Dalai Lama.

Later this fall, the Dalai Lama himself will be asked to bless the painting, which will then be offered at a private auction and could end up touring the world. Just before being shipped off the island, Lisa gave N Magazine an exclusive look at the painting and shared its story.

Peace Prize in 1989, or most recently when he was presented the

Montserrat College of Art, Lisa opted to paint the portrait on

Templeton Prize, of which he donated the $1.7 million award to

Nantucket as the island afforded her tranquility and complete focus.

charities, mainly to India’s Save the Children fund. His hands are

In fact, the island even made its way into the painting. “The color

lightly folded over lush robes, golden yellow in hue, the color he

of the skyline is a dead match to the north sky on an April day on

wears when teaching his message of “loving kindness.” In the

Nantucket,” Lisa indicates.

distance over his right shoulder is Potala Palace in Tibet, the winter home where he once resided before being forced into exile by the

Picking up the brush at the age of eleven and eventually earning a

Chinese in 1959. Mount Everest peaks out of the mist over his other

bachelor’s and master’s degree in fine arts from Tufts University, Lisa

shoulder, while two Tibetan snow leopards flank his sides. Finally,

possesses incomparable skill as a classically trained painter. Turn

an outpouring of lotus flowers, Tibetan symbols of enlightenment, lines

to page six of her 2008 book, Drawing the Cast, and she charts her

the bottom of the canvas. “The whole painting has been composed as

pedagogical lineage as a master artist back through the ages to names

a fantasy landscape; it’s not a geographical reality,” Lisa explains.

like Titian, Raphael, and Leonardo. And just like Leonardo, Lisa has

“It follows the psychic landscape of how we think and dream of the

dabbled in more than just paint over her career. In addition to her

world and the places we’ve lived and belonged to.” In this case, the

tenure at Wisdom Publications, she’s studied philosophy, trained in

dream belongs to the Dalai Lama: to be home again.

ophthalmology, worked in philanthropy, and even tried her hand at finance, serving as creative director at Fidelity.com from 1997 to

Lisa Sawlit made her home on Nantucket four years ago, after

2001. Yet it was ultimately her passion for painting that enabled Lisa

summering on the island since the early eighties. Splitting time

to fulfill the Dalai Lama’s instruction: Learn to concentrate.

between here and Boston, where she has a studio and teaches at

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working for the Dalai Lama for nearly a decade, she had never met the man. As artistic director of Wisdom Publications, Lisa designed and produced many of

the Dalai Lama’s books. Now, in September 2003, at the Kurukulla Center in

Medford, Massachusetts, she was finally to meet Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. “He came out to a porch overlooking this little garden to talk with us, and in front of him stood a table where all the books I had made for him were set— the many years of my labor in front of this most holy man,” Lisa remembers today, her eyes distant in the memory. “And he looked at me and said, ‘You have a good mind. Use it. Learn to concentrate.’”

A decade later, Lisa stands before a life-size portrait of the Dalai Lama in her Nantucket cottage. Titled simply “Tenzin Gyatso, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet,” the six-foot-by-four-foot oil painting dominates the space—not in size necessarily, but in subject matter. The Dalai Lama stands perfectly in the center of the canvas, his face cast in the same beatific look as when he received the Nobel

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echnically speaking, the painting is a triumph. From the execution of the figure, to the drapery

After a year painting the piece, Lisa describes its completion as the “liquid mercury moment.” “When you pour out mercury from a thermometer and let it land on a table or

of the robes, to the anatomy of the

a piece of glass, you can’t pick it up. It will escape your

cats, to the landscape, the architecture,

fingers,” she explains. “When you’re that close to having

the vegetation, all is rendered with

the highest level of absolute accuracy, color, value, hue,

exquisite precision. Achieving this

required two years of research and sketching

before even a single tube of paint was pushed

the touch of the paint, and there is nothing you can improve, you have met the limit of your skill and insight— you’ve struck liquid mercury! At that point the painting

onto her palette. She sourced over 350 images and

is done.” With that, Lisa put down her brush and stepped

composed the phantasmal scene virtually in Photoshop.

out on to her back porch. A light rain had just passed

This computer-generated sketch then became her cartoon

over the island, and a brilliant double rainbow emerged

to paint from. For someone as classically trained as Lisa,

through the mist, soaring across Nantucket’s North sky.

the use of Photoshop to create the image’s composition is

The painting was indeed complete.

noteworthy. “I get the feeling that Leonardo would have used Photoshop as a sketch tool if it were available during

On October 16th, the Dalai Lama will come face to face

the Renaissance,” Lisa says, “as would have Raphael

with Lisa’s painting at a private ceremony at the Kurukulla

and Michelangelo.” She continues, “One can chronicle

Center. She hopes the Dalai Lama will consecrate the

the studio practices of the old masters all the way up to

painting in a Buddhist ritual known as rab-nay, thus

William Bouguereau and discover that many of the finest

elevating the work to what some might deem the “sacred

painters in the world combined state of the art optical

relic of a saint.” From there, it will go into a private

tools and empirical study to make their magnificent images.”

auction, of which all the proceeds will be donated to the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, a nonprofit dedicated to

The photos she painted from were carefully selected,

publishing, promoting and preserving the teachings of

from the images of the Dalai Lama, which were taken

Tibetan Buddhist masters, including the Dalai Lama.

by photographer, Michel Henry, during a teaching His Holiness gave in France, to the lotus flowers, which were

While high-end art dealers and auction house directors

grown and photographed by lifelong botanist, Bahman

hesitate to even speculate a starting bid, the painting is

Farzad. Lisa did have the benefit of primary sources such

likely to sell in the hundreds of thousands, maybe even

as the robes, which she used to dead match the color in

a million. “Shelly Farmer of Hirschl Adler in New York

Nantucket’s natural light.

City compared the painting’s auction potential to Jackie Onassis’ pearls,” Lisa notes. “She pointed out that the

Beyond her technical ability, Lisa’s familiarity with

pearls are worth something on their own, but it’s the

Tibetan Buddhist tradition allowed her to inundate the

story surrounding the pearls that made them take off at

painting with allegory and symbolism. Take, for instance,

auction.” While Lisa hopes her painting donation will

the two snow leopards posed at either side of the Dalai

fetch a handsome sum for the sake of the Archive, this is

Lama. One of the rarest protected species in the world,

only part of what moves her. She speaks about the work

the Tibetan snow leopards are symbolic of the fragility

reverently, as if His Holiness were sitting there in the

of Tibet and the surrounding environment. Lisa poses

room with us. “I knew I would relinquish this picture to

them like the mythical snow lions of the Tibetan flag,

the world because I knew what it was,” Lisa says. “It’s

protectors of the Buddha and Tibet.

going to go in whatever auspicious direction it takes,

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may never see it again.” Though the painting may travel to distant lands, Lisa will always remember where its narrative began: here on Nantucket.

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A HERO’S WELCOME WRITTEN BY MARIE-CLAIRE ROCHAT

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KATIE KAIZER

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FOR VETERANS RETURNING FROM ACTION IN IRAQ OR AFGHANISTAN, THE TRANQUILITY OF NANTUCKET MIGHT SEEM WORLDS AWAY. YET, FEW COULD BE MORE DESERVING OF THE PEACE AND RELAXATION AFFORDED BY THE ISLAND THAN THESE TROOPS. IT WAS WITH THIS IN MIND THAT LONGTIME SUMMER RESIDENT, TOM MCCANN, FOUNDED HOLIDAYS FOR HEROES, A NONPROFIT PROVIDING OUR WOUNDED WARRIORS WITH SOME MUCH NEEDED R&R.

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THE HOLIDAYS FOR HEROES MISSION WAS TWOFOLD: Offer an

lized, he was transported to the Walter Reed Medical Center in

all-expense paid vacation on Nantucket to Iraq and Afghanistan

Washington, D.C., where he underwent fourteen surgeries over

War veterans and their families, and establish a college scholarship

the next four months. While doctors were able to save both legs,

fund for the children of those veterans. Tom McCann’s long-term

Bannon lives in constant pain. “On a scale of one to ten, my pain

vision for the program is ambitious. He is looking to make it an

is always at a three,” he said. “If I am horsing around with

annual event, one that garners national attention and widespread

my two-year-old daughter, I can be sure I will be icing my

support. The idea for Holidays for Heroes came to McCann as

leg the next day.” For Bannon and his wife and their two

he watched the somber Memorial Day ceremonies on television at

young children, a vacation on Nantucket was never something

his home on Nantucket. “I was watching those wounded warriors

they considered an option. While he does receive VA

struggling to get up the steps to be honored for their heroic

disability benefits, the family has no other source of income.

achievements,” remembered McCann, “and it occurred to me they

Bannon plans to return to school in the fall to complete his

were the heroes—they were the ones that deserved the holiday.”

undergraduate degree and his wife, Seanna, is a stay-at-home mom to their two pre-school children. “We don’t have any extra

McCann marvels at how the community embraced the idea from

money in our budget,” he said. “A trip to Nantucket was never

the get-go. “I spoke to a few people about it and the next thing

something we thought we could afford.”

I knew, the entire island was behind me,” he said. “I had twenty emails

Josh Schichtl and his wife Emily

and twenty phone calls every day.

also participated in the July event.

I didn’t reach out to anyone, they

Emily was the only spouse to attend,

all approached me, all wanting to

and spoke about the challenges of

be involved.” He continued, “There

being the primary caregiver for her

are so many great causes on this

husband, Josh, who sustained severe

island, but it seems like people

facial injuries and brain trauma in

have an emptiness in them about

Iraq, while she also cares for a grow-

the wounded veterans. People want

ing family of five children under the

to do something to help, but don’t

age of nine. “There is really no state

know what to do.”

or federal programming in place that offers this kind of support to the

A kick-off event was held on July

families of veterans,” she explained.

7th at the Nantucket Hotel, with several veterans on hand to

Emily also spoke about the college scholarship fund that will be

speak about their experiences in the war, about the debilitat-

generated through the Holidays for Heroes program, saying, “That

ing injuries they had sustained, and about the toll their ongoing

it is just phenomenal. It’s really nice when you know that there are

rehabilitation had taken on their families. They spoke about the

people out there that care about the future of your kids.”

many ways their lives and the lives of their loved ones had been so drastically altered by their military service. But before taking

According to a VA study of nearly 170,000 veterans of the Iraq

the stage at the Nantucket Hotel’s ballroom, the soldiers were

War released six years ago, twenty percent have been diagnosed

treated to a day of fishing by captains Pete Kaizer of the Althea

with psychological disorders. While there are many programs

K and Jay Starr of the Starrfish—just a taste of the type of fun

in place to assist the affected servicemen and women, there are few

McCann hopes to provide veterans at future Holidays for Heroes

that support their families. That is a void that Holidays for Heroes

events.

hopes to fill. Since coming on board in mid-July, former Nantucket

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incorporating Holidays for Heroes as a non-profit and writing the by-

the event. Bannon served three months in Iraq over the winter

laws. She and McCann are working to assemble a board of directors

of 2007-2008. Stationed in Saidya, a residential district in south-

and appoint committee heads whose task it will be to coordinate the

western Baghdad, he was on routine foot patrol when a land

many activities that will fill the week. A fishing tournament, a ladies’

mine concealed along the roadway detonated. Bannon sustained

spa day, a family clambake, a date night, and a variety of activities

major shrapnel wounds to both legs. Once his condition stabi-

for young children are just some of the ideas being considered by the committee.

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WITH THE FIRST EVENT SET FOR 2013, Tom McCann is surging forward with Holidays for Heroes, feeling confident that the program is on the right track. “With Cheryl’s guidance, as well as the countless Nantucketers who have reached out to passionately volunteer just about anything you could think of, we can make Holidays for Heroes a true Nantucket homegrown success,” he said. “I guarantee the 2013 Holidays for Heroes event will be one of the most exciting events to ever wash

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HOW THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB IS RETURNING NANTUCKET HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL BACK TO ITS FORMER GLORY.

THE LONG EST YARD PHOTOGRAPHY BY NATHAN COE

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BACK IN THE 1970S AND EIGHTIES, WHALER FOOTBALL MEANT MORE TO THE ISLAND THAN JUST ANOTHER HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITY. The game and its players

At each touchdown, a mini-howitzer fired

The boys, according to Coach Brian Ryder,

off in the end zone, sirens announced the

“first learn how to depend on each other. It

score, and the crowd swelled in applause.

has to be all eleven together.” When the

In the reddened evening, the losing team

boys pick up the game in the heat and dust

knit the local community together, from

would pile into their bus and ride, serenaded,

of September, they focus on what they

group to group and generation to generation.

down to the boat and slip away back to the

have to do individually. By November,

Whalers were lawyers and policemen,

mainland.

the players, even the younger ones at Cyrus Peirce, can anticipate what their

plumbers and electricians, restaurateurs and realtors. The bonds forged on the practice

Then, in the new millennium, the Whalers

teammates are going to do. From the

fields brought in the scallops, built the

began to lose—badly. The team slipped

coach’s perspective, if the players know

houses, and taught the children.

to 0-10 in 2005—the first winless season

what each other is going to do in sixth

in forty-one years—and only seventeen

grade when scrimmaging at the Boys and

Each Saturday in autumn, the island settled

players dressed for the final game against

Girls Club, they will know what to do

itself down to the high school field, fell into

the Vineyard. In 2009, the school dropped

against the Vineyard in high school.

their assigned seats at the football stadium,

the age-old rivalry game entirely. Whaler

and watched Coach Vito Capizzo’s

football might have dropped to junior

In his summer program, Coach Ryder

varsity status.

has been highlighting the other aspects of

Middle school boys

In order to bring back the team and those

discipline. A group of young players have

took the back row in

Saturday afternoon victories, the players

been training through the summer, doing

the bleachers, faculty

had to start learning the game much earlier

a workout “that is as hard as many college

and family sat in

than high school. The Boys and Girls Club

off-season programs.” In the words of

the center, and

now offers seven years of football, starting

player, J. T. Gamberoni, “It’s an

the retired

with boys in second grade and finishing at

excellent, hardcore, exhausting workout.”

cheerleaders, the

the end of middle school. The young players

The routine combines free weights,

practice and scrimmage on island. Later, in

plyometric boxes, jump ropes, and one

Billy sat in the front row.

middle school, they play off-island games

gigantic truck tire. For one part of the

If you had to work, Dick

on a travel team. More than a hundred

workout, the players flip this gigantic tire

Herman’s Boston baritone young men take part in the program. The kept you up to date over the radio.

— COACH BILL MANCHESTER

football, namely emotional and physical

Whalers win, handily.

cowbells, and Boxing

“WHALERS WERE A GROUP OF YOUNG MEN WHO WORKED TOGETHER TO DO SOMETHING BIGGER THAN THEMSELVES—WHETHER THAT WAS KILLING A WHALE OR WINNING A FOOTBALL GAME.”

Boys and Girls Club provides equipment,

from one end to the other, until their legs ache and shoulders burn.

the coaching, and the space for a $25 membership fee. Scholarships cover the players

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CORY RYDER HAS BEEN PLAYING BOYS CLUB FOOTBALL for six years and has one year left.

At first, he wasn’t among the best players on his team, but was “vocal and energetic.” As he got older and more experienced, Cory climbed the depth chart. For the past two summers, he has been prepping for the football season. The exercise has demanded all his energy, but he “feels good when he’s done.” Had he not been working out, he might have wasted his afternoons “watching TV, going to the beach, or working.”

Now, with the training he and his teammates have been doing, he struts on to the field this September confident and ready.

“The biggest challenges these players face,” says varsity coach, Bill Manchester, “aren’t physical, but mental.”

Young football players come to the game as individuals, with their own goals and objectives. The hardest part of getting a football team ready to compete is convincing the young men that they have to give of themselves and be part of a team. “Whalers,” Manchester continues, “were a group of young men who worked together to do something bigger than themselves—whether that was killing a whale or winning a football game.”

The Boys and Girls Club coaches work closely with Coach Manchester and the varsity football program.

They run the same plays with the same calls. That way, should the players rise to the varsity level, they already speak the same language. Moreover, the philosophy at the high school extends all the way down to the second and third graders tottering around in their helmets.

The coaches, from elementary school to graduation, emphasize the need to “work together, stay committed, and learn from your mistakes.”

For many young men, playing fields make the best classrooms. The discipline and toughness picked up on the practice squad makes more of a mark, years later, than learning the anatomy of a frog or the proper use of an Oxford comma. The lessons of mud, grass, and collision build in many young men’s minds. And if

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and the trust that football demands, perhaps they will become the right men for the future of the island.

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hey say getting there is half the fun, but in some cases it’s all the fun.

Today’s aviation technology is taking pilots and passengers to new,

exciting heights—not just in commercial planes or private jets, but personal jetpacks and flying cars. Take a trip in some of these cutting-edge flying machines and see why there has never been a better time to catch a flight.

COOL YOUR JETS

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he two villains had James Bond cornered on the rooftop when suddenly the British agent strapped

on a jetpack and blasted off in a hail of bullets. While Hollywood has donned the jetpack many times since Sean Connery’s flight in the 1965 Bond film Thunderball, such personal aircrafts have been mostly grounded to the public. Enter Raymond Li, the real-life inventor who’s giving the jetpack new wings.

On a drizzling, overcast Nantucket afternoon, crowds gathered on the docks downtown to watch the flight of the Jetlev, an aquatic jetpack made newly available to the public. Floating in the harbor, a pilot nodded to the crowd and then in seconds he was thirty feet in the air, propelled by two fire-hose-strength water jets. A long tube dangled from the jetpack, attached to a small watercraft below that circulated water up and out the pack’s two spouts at around 420 pounds of force. The aquatic rocketeer negotiated the crowded harbor with ease, reaching top speeds of twenty-five miles per hour,

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master finally came to shut him down. So what’s it cost to own a Jetlev? A few shekels short of $100,000.

THEJETLEV

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eave it to a group of MIT-trained engineers to create the world’s first flying car—a modern day

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Since 2006, Terrafugia Inc., a company based in Woburn, Massachusetts, has been developing the aptly named Transition, a roadable aircraft in the Light Sport Aircraft category intended for public use. The Transition will allow amateur pilots to drive to the airport, continue onto the runaway, and take off with almost never having to leave the comfort of their driver’s seat.

By road, the Transition gets a fuel-efficient thirty-five miles per gallon, and comes equipped with a cargo area specially designed to hold golf clubs. Once on the tarmac, the pilot flips a switch from the cockpit, and two wings fold down, extend out, and lock into place. After getting the green light from the tower, the Transition cruises down the runway at seventy knots for 1700 feet before lifting up, up, and away.

Terrafugia (Latin for “Escape the Earth”) designed the Transition to resolve longtime hindrances in private flight, namely “cost, weather, door-to-door travel time, and a lack of mobility at the destination.” So if a storm kicks up unexpectedly and the Transition needs to make an emergency landing, the pilot can then fold up its wings and continue on his or her merry way by road. Just think, in twenty hours of flight training (and for $279,000) you can make your island commute a breeze, while also saving some money at the pump.

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IF TELEVISION COOKING COMPETITIONS HAVE TAUGHT AMERICANS ANYTHING, IT’S THAT THE COMMERCIAL KITCHEN IS NOT TO BE ENTERED LIGHTLY. Chefs are masters of their stainless steel domain, and mixing it

Chef is championing aspiring young cooks, and, in turn, the

up with them can be humbling to say the least. Yet, as with all

future of food on Nantucket.

revered disciplines, it’s being in the presence of a master that an apprentice truly learns. So it is that the Nantucket Junior Chef

This year’s competition, taking place at Cisco Brewery on

cooking competition stacks eager young culinary students with

September 30th, sees the involvement of two new head chefs.

accomplished, battle-worn chefs for a crash course in the finer

Stephen Marcaurelle of the Boarding House and Andy Howard

points of fine dining.

of American Seasons recently took over the reigns of their

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Celebrating its fifth year this September, Junior Chef offers

looking to best one another, as well as the veteran, home-team

much more than just a trial by fire for these culinary up-and-

challenger, Chef Neil Hudson of Bartlett’s Farm. While Chefs

comers. Over its five-year history, the event has raised

Howard and Hudson have the advantage of second year

approximately $35,000 for the Nantucket Culinary Arts

cooking students Louis Guevarra and Ingrid Mendez, and

Foundation, which directly benefits the Nantucket High School

Brandon Harwood and Stephen Brown in their ranks, Chef

culinary arts program. Students seeking to compete in national

Stephen may just have a ringer in Nantucket High School

ProStart cooking competitions find their travel and ancillary

sophomore, Max Ritchie. Son of a former pastry chef, Ritchie

costs covered by the money brought in by Junior Chef.

has been behind the line at Arnos this summer, preparing

Moreover, the event raises awareness for the invaluable trade

pancakes, omelets and French toast for the breakfast and brunch

programs being fostered at the Nantucket High School. Through

rush. Joining Richtie to round out the Boarding House team will

the impassioned efforts of Orla Murphy-Lascola, Jenny

be Taja-lee Falconer. Keeping them honest will be NECN’s TV

Garneau, Nantucket High School’s Bob Buccino, NECN’s

Diner co-host Jenny Johnson as well as a panel of discerning

Jenny Johnson, and a slew of local restaurants and chefs, Junior

local palates.

American Seasons’ chef, Andy Howard, and NHS culinary student, Luis Guevarra, putting their own take on a tomato

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IN PREPARATION FOR THE CONTEST, THE THREE TEAMS MET IN THEIR RESPECTIVE KITCHENS AND PLOTTED THEIR ATTACK. The challenge: How to turn Bartlett Farm tomatoes into sweet victory through three courses?

While the recipes for the competition were kept strictly off the record, Chef Andy and company offered this take on the tomato for you to try at home: Bartlett tomato salad, Burratta cheese, Bartlett tomato granola, pickled ramp dressing and pickled cherry tomatoes.

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RAMP DRESSING

1 cup oats 1/8 cup oil 1/8 cup honey 1 teaspoon tomato paste Oven dried Bartlett tomatoes Toasted almonds Dried cherries Raisin Thyme 1 tbsp. rosemary

12 pickled ramps 1 egg yoke 1 tbsp. Dijon mustard Juice and zest one lemon ½ cup of vegetable oil 2 tbsp. white vinegar

1 Combine oil, honey and tomato paste. Pour on oats and combine with chopped rosemary and salt and pepper.

2 Bake in oven at 350 degrees, till brown.

Combine all ingredients in blender, except for oil.

While blender is running, slowly add oil to emulsify.

Season to taste.

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4 Combine oats and nuts in bowl.

Cut tomatoes into wedges, removing the core. Season with olive oil and salt and pepper.

5 Add fruit.

Serve at room temperature.

6 Slice tomatoes thin and season with salt and pepper, olive oil, chopped thyme.

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3 Toast almonds and pecans.

7 Bake tomatoes until dry.

8 Dice tomatoes and add to granola mixture.

With dressing on the plate, arrange tomatoes. Add 3–4 tbsp. of barratta, then granola.

Garnish with Bartlett’s arugula and fresh herbs (any will do). Enjoy.

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Halve cherry tomatoes.

Combine 2 cups white vinegar, ½ cup water, salt and pepper, fresh thyme (to taste) and one bay leaf. Warm and pour over cherry tomatoes.

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THERE ARE MILLIONS OF HONEYBEES LIVING ON NANTUCKET TODAY, AND THEIR COLLECTIVE HUM CAN BE HEARD AROUND THE HIVES THAT DOT BACKYARDS AND FARMS ACROSS THE ISLAND. FOR SOME, THE BUZZ OF A SINGLE BEE IS GROUNDS FOR RETREAT. YET, FOR BEEKEEPERS LIKE TED ANDERSON, JIM GROSS, CHRISTINE HERMANSDOFER, DAVID BERRY, AND DYLAN WALLACE, THE BUZZ OF A HONEYBEE IS A SWEET SOUND OF SUCCESS. N magazine

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Honeybees are truly fascinating creatures with a complex and selfsustaining colony structure. The queen is at the top. She lays all the eggs and is supported by thousands of devoted female worker bees. The rest of the bees are male drones, whose sole purpose is to find and mate with virgin queens. And after their “glory moment,” as David Berry puts it, these male drones die.

David has thirty hives placed in different locations around Nantucket.

Each of them contains fifty to sixty thousand honeybees and yields about sixty pounds of honey a year. “Honeybees are gluttonous for honey,” says David. “Fortunately for us, they make and collect a lot more than they need to sustain themselves.”

Eighteen-year veteran beekeeper, Jim Gross, is an award-winning honey maker, a mentor, and a veritable fount of knowledge when it comes to apiculture. He is also the guy most people call when stumbling upon a swarm of bees that looks like something out of a horror movie. Just recently, Jim was enlisted to remove a colony of about forty thousand feral bees from beneath the floor of the Department of Public Works facility building. Sawing into the plywood and removing a section of floorboard, Jim discovered several large honeycombs along with the swarm of aggravated bees. While he examined the combs, his assistant carefully vacuumed up the bees, storing them in a container with a screen lid. “This year has been very swarmy,” Jim says as he reaches barehanded into the crawl space to retrieve another comb. Controlling these swarms can be an issue for beekeepers, especially those who become neglectful and let the swarms cast off. Sooner or later, Jim will be around with his smoker, hood, and in his shirtsleeves to relocate the swarm. Not surprisingly, Jim is also the go-to-guy for those looking for

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sustainable landscaper, adds that, “with so

Another factor that may be contributing to

health and government experts are also

much protected land, we also have great

colony collapse is the farming monoculture in

concerned about the implications of the

pollen sources on Nantucket that will never be

large agricultural areas where huge swaths of

world’s faltering bee populations on our

wiped out.” Moreover, David Berry explains

singular crops require commercial pollinating

environment and food chain.

that there are very few animals on Nantucket

operations to travel from region to region with

that are a threat to beehives. “There are no

millions of bees to pollinate the crops. Rather

The good news is that bees are thriving on

bears, no raccoons or skunks. Nantucket is

than being exposed to many different flowers,

Nantucket. Colony collapse disorder is not a

also a wonderful place where wildflowers are

these commercial bees only ingest pollen from

problem on the island, and, as Dylan attests,

incredibly prolific,” he says. “Additionally,

one kind of plant at a time. “It creates a dietary

“Other than the hives that are brought in to

there are so many cultivated gardens that are

imbalance,” says Jim. Furthermore, the condi-

pollinate cranberry bogs, we don’t have any

producing flowers from which the bees can

tions associated with commercial pollination

industrial bees here.” Jim, Christine, David

gather nectar and pollen. It’s like a supplement

can cause bees to become stressed or weak,

and Dylan are dedicated to organic, sustain-

to the natural flowers that are available. And

and to develop illnesses and spread mites and

able apiculture and, as small-scale beekeepers,

the honey on Nantucket is really terrific.”

apiary viruses to other bees.

they are confident in their abilities to take care of their bees without relying on chemicals.

There are many standard practices in hobbyist beekeeping, such as

But not Christine Hermansdofer—you’ll never catch her outside a

beginning with two hives to compare performance. But there are

full bee suit when tending to her hives. That being said, she might

also some individual choices to be made, including what kind of

also be the bravest beekeeper of all. Three years ago, Christine

bees and hives to use. David, for example, prefers using heartier

was tending to her six hives when a bee got caught in her hair

Russian bees as opposed to the gentler, more common Italian

and then stung her on the top of her head. Stings come with the

ones. For his seven hives, Dylan Wallace has opted for the top-bar

territory, of course, so she brushed it off and went about finishing

style in which the bees

her business. Minutes later, Christine felt her body drop from

build their own comb.

beneath her. Her world went black. Lying on the ground, blind,

“Top-bar frames are lower

with bees swarming around her, she thought, I’m going to die

maintenance, can be made

out here. “I called out for help, but it sounded like a whisper in

with recycled materials,

my head,” she remembers. “So I yelled louder.” Thankfully, her

and cost less than the

husband Bruce heard her calls and rushed to her aid. An ambu-

traditional plastic frames,”

lance arrived soon after, and she was taken to the hospital. After so

Dylan explains.

many stings over a decade of beekeeping, Christine had developed

Unfortunately, the buzz around honeybees in

The clincher is that honeybees are absolutely

general is not so sweet. Although more people

essential to agriculture. Food experts like

With their eco-friendly practices, these

are engaged in backyard beekeeping, bee

Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food move-

intrepid keepers of the hive are making a

populations continue to decline in the United

ment, claim that without them we would have

significant contribution to nature in a time of

States. Recent studies show that a relatively

no agriculture at all. Best-selling food and

need. And, in turn, the bees they’re raising are

new class of neurotoxin pesticides, known

culture author, Michael Pollan, has reported

helping to take care of Nantucket by pol-

as neonicotinoids, is one possible explana-

that we depend on honeybees to pollinate forty

linating our flowering plants and crops, and

tion for colony collapse disorder (CCD), the

percent of the food we consume. Petrini and

providing us with the sweetest gift of all—

mysterious death of bees en masse in America.

Pollan are not alone: Many apiary, science,

delicious, local honey.

an allergy to honeybees. Today, Christine continues to maintain As with any type of

her six hives, and may even acquire five more from Ted Anderson,

farming, beekeeping comes

who plans on retiring from beekeeping this year.

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beholden to nature. However, the overall time commitment is

Helping her cause, along with that of all other local beekeepers,

surprisingly minimal. David estimates that he spends about an hour

is the island itself. “It’s a pretty healthy environment for the bees

per hive a couple of times a month. Then there is conquering the

here,” Christine says. “And the way things are going with all of

fear of being stung. After a while, many beekeepers end up tending

the little organic farms popping up on Nantucket, it’s going to

their hives with little more than a hat, a veil and a smoker.

get even better.” Dylan, who is also an organic farmer and

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eptember is the height of the North Atlantic’s tropical storm season, a time of year when hurricanes—the most powerful of all tropical storms—

can threaten New England with flooding rains, damaging winds and giant waves.

While most Nantucketers batten down the hatches for these storms, there are some who

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hese swells often arrive when a storm is still far from New England, and can last for days, lingering even after

a storm’s passage. When a swell approaches from the right direction, with just the right winds at play, an impressive

display of beautifully sculpted breaking waves can be found off the south shore of the island. “Specific storms and swells are tough to recall,” says Chris Emery, who’s been surfing through the island’s hurricane seasons for thirty years. Storms with names like David, Frederick, Erin, Emily and Igor are just a few that come to mind for Emery. “But the memories are so strong…of being on the water as the swell builds, for instance, of those crisp September skies, and of the experiences shared

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with friends.” Amidst these many storms of yesteryear, Hurricane Fabian sparks special memories for Emery.

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n September 2003, Hurricane

for with a hefty paddle back out through the

In the late afternoon, Emery and friends

shore break. Offshore winds groomed the

headed to a favorite surf break for a sunset

moisture off of Africa and later dealt the

swell into nice, clean lines, or “corduroy on

session, accompanied by only a few

island of Bermuda a heavy blow, brought

the horizon,” as surfers like to call it. As the

shorebirds, plenty of baitfish and seals. The

Nantucket surfers some of the best waves

morning progressed, the island’s surf breaks

incoming tide gave the swell a nice boost,

of the year. As it gradually tracked into the

came alive with fellow surfers, spectating

and an underwater sandbar brought perfect

Gulf Stream, several hundred miles east of

family members, and other beachgoers.

shape to the breaking waves. The roar of the

Fabian, which began as a band of

the United States, Fabian developed into a

surf filled the air. As daylight waned, calming

major hurricane, with winds topping 125

“It’s hard to describe the energy of a storm,

winds transformed the surface of the sea to a

miles per hour as it passed Bermuda. The

that wave energy that’s been traveling for

silky reflection of the colorful sky. For surfers

peak of Fabian’s swell arrived to Nantucket at

hundreds of miles across the sea,” reflects

and all those able to witness it, it was the stuff

sunrise on a clear September morning, after

Emery. “But it’s incredibly powerful…

of dreams. Then again, it was September on

the summer’s crowds had thinned. “Days like

rejuvenating. It totally recharges the

Nantucket. “No doubt, hurricane season is our

this are just too good to miss,” says Emery,

batteries.” Offshore winds sent plumes of

best shot at getting world-class waves on

who purposefully lightens his workload

ocean spray off the backs of cresting waves

Nantucket,” says Emery. He stirs up memories

come September, as many island surfers do.

that day, spawning countless short-lived

of a few more recent storms – Igor, Bill and

“When a good swell is running, there’s just

rainbows in the sunlit spray. The ocean

Ophelia – which produced great surf without

nothing else like it.” Fabian’s swell delivered

was alive and well.

causing any major destruction on land. “On a really good day in September, it’s as good

Each wave ridden toward the beach was paid

as it gets...”

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NUPTIALS Featured Wedding

B&G: CLAUDIA BUTLER AND DYLAN WALLACE DRESS: CHARLOTTE HESS, ISOBEL & CLEO ENGAGEMENT RING: HANNAH BLOUNT WEDDING PLANNING: SUSAN WARNER, NANTUCKET CLAMBAKE CO. MINISTER: CAROLINE DEAN FLOWERS: NELL VAN VORST AND YURGA AND BETSY JOHNSON BROOKS RECEPTION: WESTMOOR CLUB CATERING: AMERICAN SEASONS MUSIC: COQ AU VIN CAKE: SAMANTHA PICHETTE FAVORS: CRISTAL CHINDAMO, BAKED AT SEA

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ver his twenty-eight years in the flower business,

Michael Molinar estimates he’s decorated just about

This past July, Michael gave a demonstration at the Great Harbor Yacht Club on how to create the ultimate centerpiece without having

two thousand weddings on the island. From modest Brant Point

your purse pay the ultimate price. “What we are trying to do here is

ceremonies to extravagant White Elephant galas, Michael has

stretch your ‘flower dollar’ while also making flower arranging easy,”

fielded most every flower request imaginable, often flying in

he said to the audience of seventy. “Any housewife can do it like a

out-of-season blooms from around the globe for a couple’s

pro.” The next day, women were lined up out his door to try their

special day.

hand at this technique. For those that missed his presentation, here are

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flower power

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the steps to the making of Michael’s centerpiece.

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The trend in flowers lately has been to cover up the stems in a clear glass vase with a ti leaf or a piece of

Beyond the flowers, the most important part of the centerpiece is this new waterproof cellophane tape. Create a

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Make sure to secure the grid with a strip of tape along the edge. Fill the container

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interesting foliage. So just put that

grid with the tape, making the spaces

along the inside in the vase.

an inch wide. This is great for large

between late May and the Fourth of July. Cut the stems

containers where you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want a lot

at an angle. Each should be no more than fourteen

of filler or greenery. The tape is a big

inches long.

with warm water.

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B&G: ELISABETH SCHADAE & BRUCE A. PERCELAY CATERER: SIMPLY WITH STYLE FLORIST: FLOWERS ON CHESTNUT INVITATIONS AND GRAPHIC DESIGN: PAULETTE CHEVALIER PHOTOGRAPHY: CARY HAZLEGROVE & JORDI CABRE SERVICE: REVEREND ROBERT HILL BOSTON UNIVERSITY PERFORMERS: THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET’S ALEX KOPKO, VANESSA CALANTROPO, FREDA THOMSON-STOLZ & SARAH FRAUNFELDER DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY: LINDA MEREDITH MUSICAL CHOREOGRAPHY: CHRIS MEREDITH VIDEO CREATIVE DESIGN: THINKMODO VIDEO PRODUCTION: AVFX VIDEOGRAPHY: TERRY POMMETT DJ: DEREK HOLT MUSIC: MOLLY GLAZIER HAIR/MAKEUP: RJ MILLER TENT: NANTUCKET TENTS

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EVENT PLANNER: MAUREEN MAHER

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B&G: MELISSA MATERESE & MICHAEL FENSTERSTOCK VENUE: THE WAUWINET CATERER: TOPPERS CAKE: PETTICOAT ROW BAKERY CANTOR: AVI TEKEN TENTS: NANTUCKET TENTS RENTALS: PLACESETTERS WEDDING PLANNER: JIMMY JAKSIC FLOWERS: SOIREE FLORAL / DAWN KELLY DRESS: JUNKO YOSHIOKA VEIL: JUNKO YOSHIOKA SHOES: JIMMY CHOO GROOMS SHOES: FERRAGAMO BRIDESMAIDS’ DRESSES: JENNY YOO RINGS: FRANK GOMEZ AT G CREATIONS HAIR AND MAKEUP: DARYA SALON BAND: BRICK PARK

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PHOTOGRAPHER: CARY HAZLEGROVE

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A WALK DOWN THE ISLE WITH THE REVEREND TED ANDERSON INTERVIEW BY RYDER ZIEBARTH

PHOTOGRAPHY BY CARY HAZLEGROVE

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Over the past forty-two years, Reverend Ted Anderson has seen more knots tied than

N: AS A UNITARIAN MINISTER, ENCOMPASSING ALL

ignore things until the problem is in their lap. There

most sailors or fisherman on the island. The now retired reverend of the Unitarian

FAITHS, DO YOU WEAR A CLERICAL COLLAR AND BLACK

are two brains in a marriage, which are always better

Universalist Church estimates that he’s presided over two thousand Nantucket weddings

SUIT WHEN YOU PERFORM A WEDDING?

than one brain when a problem arises. Learn to think

since becoming a man of the cloth. It’s a colorful history that includes no shows, cold

ANDERSON: No, I prefer a dark suit and a tie, even

together as a team. Learn to think out loud with each

feet, the island’s first same-sex unions, and, of course, lots of love and kisses. N recently

though I hate wearing ties. So if I’m putting on a tie,

other. Communicate. Come up with better solutions if

grabbed a pew with Reverend Ted to talk weddings.

the couple better show up.

the first one doesn’t work. When problems arise, and

N: HOW MANY WEDDINGS HAVE YOU PREFORMED AS A CLERGYMAN?

N: NOT SHOW UP? YOU MEAN SOME DON’T?

doesn’t practice solving little everyday problems,

ANDERSON: Probably about two thousand couples since I was ordained

ANDERSON: Absolutely! I hate no shows. Sometimes,

larger issues will just overwhelm them, and one or the

in 1967 from Yale Divinity School. Most of those were, and still are,

I put on my regulation suit and tie and set out for the

other will throw up their hands and say, “I can’t deal

on Nantucket. I began preaching here in the 1970s. I figure by

appointed wedding and I am the only one there. Once,

with any of this!” Then you’ve really got a problem.

the time I shuffle off this “mortal coil,” I will have married

I arrived at the address given me and knocked on the

everyone on the island at least once.

door and all I heard was a vacuum cleaner. The couple

N: DO YOU EVER TEAR UP WHILE PERFORMING

had called it off, but had forgot to call me off.

A CEREMONY?

they will, you’ll learn to be less threatened. If a couple

ANDERSON: Well, I married all three of my children.

N: WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE WEDDING VENUE? ANDERSON: I don’t have a favorite per se. I like them

N: DO YOU USUALLY ATTEND THE WEDDING RECEPTIONS?

For one of my daughters, I walked her down the aisle

all. I have married couples in the steeple of the Unitarian

ANDERSON: No, almost never. If I attended all the cer-

and presented her to the groom, then stepped in front

Church, which was lovely. I have married couples on the

emonies I have performed over the years, I’d weigh

and married them. That was pretty emotional.

water, on Tuckernuck, on Coutue, and at Eat Fire Spring

four hundred pounds by now.

N: WHAT WAS YOUR OWN WEDDING LIKE?

because of the Indian lore that island springs are mystical and good luck. I’ve married couples at the Nantucket

N: DO MANY COUPLES WRITE THEIR OWN VOWS TODAY,

ANDERSON: It was my bride, Gretchen, my parents

Yacht Club then ran over to Great Harbor Yacht Club

OR IS THAT TOO 1970S?

and I. That’s it. The Reverend Fred Bennett married

and married a couple there that same day. At-home

ANDERSON: Well, the intent is there for couples to

us at my parents’ home in Polpis, and then we went to

weddings are nice, and I do love the ‘Sconset Chapel,

do that, but usually the job gets put off and eventu-

the Ships Inn and had fondue, and then went home to

although they are only open for business three months out

ally they just go with the old tried and true, which

the Unitarian parsonage. It was perfect. We celebrate

of the year. All the churches are beautiful here, really.

is what I like best. But I leave out the “obey” stuff,

the day every year by having lunch at the Chanticleer

and the “’til death do us part” bit. It makes no sense:

restaurant in ‘Sconset. We celebrated our forty-second

N: MASSACHUSETTS HAS ALLOWED LEGAL GAY MARRIAGE

You don’t stop loving someone after they die. It’s a

anniversary this July.

SINCE 2004. HAVE YOU MARRIED MANY GAY COUPLES HERE ON

ridiculous notion.

NANTUCKET? ANDERSON: Yes, both legally and illegally. Out of sympathy

N: HAVE YOU EVER DONE ANY UNOFFICIAL MARRIAGE

in 1996, I married a very loving couple earlier when one of

COUNSELING BEFORE THE CEREMONY?

the partners was on her deathbed in the hospital. I married

ANDERSON: Yes, if asked, I will always help a nervous,

another couple in 2001. It is so much better now, legal and

or as I like to say, “excited couple.” Occasionally I

out in the open.

warm some cold feet a few days before the ceremony.

And if asked the secret to my own marriage of fortytwo years, I have one piece of advice I share: Think.

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G&G: TIM EHRENBERG AND JAMES SCHEURELL TUXES: ALTON LANE GROOMSMAIDS DRESSES: LILY PULITZER VENUE: WHALES WATCH FLORIST: SOIREE FLORAL CATERER: SIMPLY WITH STYLE HAIR AND MAKEUP: DARYA SALON

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DJ: PHIL TAYLOR

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DAN DRISCOLL PHOTOGRAPHY

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SOIREE FLORAL

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PORTER GIFFORD PHOTOGRAPHY

Phone: 508-228-2710

Phone: 617-448-9999

Web: www.kinsleyhancock.com

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CARY HAZLEGROVE PHOTOGRAPHY

KRISTINA RANSOM PHOTOGRAPHY

Phone: 508-257-9691

Phone: 508-221-1882

A TASTE OF NANTUCKET

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Web: www.kristinaransom.com

Phone: 508-228-9200

CATERING

SEPTEMBER PRODUCTIONS – WEDDING VIDEO

FUSION OF FLAVOR

Phone: 508-332-3577

Phone: 508-325-6481

Web: www.september.com

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TERRY POMMETT PHOTOGRAPHY

Phone: 508-228-6281

Phone: 508-228-5471

Web: www.nantucketcateringcompany.com

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WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY RANDI BAIRD Phone: 508-696-5335 Web: www.Rbaird.com JORDI CABRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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Phone: 508-228-4819 Phone: 508-292-1954

REVEREND TED ANDERSON

Web: www.highlanddrivers.com

(RETIRED MINISTER) Phone: 508-228-2730

ISLAND BUGGIES Phone: 617-803-8948

M.J. MOJER

Web: www.islandbuggies.com

508-228-1794

CHURCHES & HOUSES OF WORSHIP

Phone: 508-228-9283

MILESTONE TAXI

Web: www.zofiaphotography.com

Web: www.susanwarnercatering.com

Phone: 508-325-5511

SIMPLY WITH STYLE CATERING

BEAUTY

Web: www.simplywithstyle.com

Web: www.katiekaizerphotography.com

Phone: 508-228-0042

CLAUDIA KRONENBERG PHOTOGRAPHY, INC.

THE BEAUTY BAR

Phone: 508-228-1218

Phone: 508-228-1905

Web: www.claudiak.com

Web: www.beautybarnantucket.com

RON LYNCH PHOTOGRAPHY

THE CALMING ROOM

Phone: 508-325-4433

Phone: 508-325-8920

CHEF TONY NASTUS, LA LANGUEDOC BISTRO

Phone: 508-228-0550

Phone: 207-361-4806

Web: www.daryasalon.com

Phone: 508-325-8655

Web: www.jparave.com

Web: www.overnantucket.com R.J. MILLER SALONS Phone: 508-228-3446 Web: www.rjmillersalons.com

A PIECE OF CAKE

Phone: 508-228-2552

Phone: 508-228-6184

FLORISTS

ALL OCAKESIONS Phone: 774-236-9234

Phone: 508-423-5109 or 508-517-0148

CAKES BY JODI LEVESQUE

Web: www.florabundantnantucket.com

Phone: 508-228-4545

FLOWERS ON CHESTNUT

J. PARAVE & CO. Phone: 508-228-0436

Web: www.lelanguedoc.com/catering.html

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CAKES

FLORABUNDANT

DARYA SALON & SPA

AFRICAN MEETING HOUSE 29 York Street

Web: www.allocakesions.com

Web: www.rlynch.com BREA MCDONALD

transportation-service

Phone: 508-228-6248

KATIE KAIZER PHOTOGRAPHY

BETTE SPRIGGS

HIGHLAND DRIVERS

Phone: 508-221-4693

ANDREA MARIE SALON

Phone: 508-228-7841

Phone: 508-228-6007

NANTUCKET BAKE SHOP

Web: www.flowersonchestnut.com

Phone: 508-228-2797 Web: www.nantucketbakeshop.com

THE FLOWER SHOP Phone: 508-228-9008

NANTUCKET CAKE COMPANY

Web: www.nantucketflowershop.com

Phone: 508-228-4193 Web: www.nantucketcakecompany.com

Phone: 508-228-4819 COMMUNITY OF BAHA’I (BAHA’I FAITH) 120 Miacomet Road Phone: 508-228-1861 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY (CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST) 2 Madaket Road Phone: 508-228-0452 CONGREGATION SHIRAT HAYAM (JEWISH – PLURALISTIC) 11 Orange Street Phone: 508-228-6588 CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST (LATTER-DAY SAINTS) 15 Amelia Drive Phone: 508-325-0583

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Phone: 508-228-1309

CATHERINE FLANAGAN STOVER CRANBERRY TRANSPORTATION SERVICES

NANTUCKET CLAMBAKE COMPANY

Phone: 508-322-9091

Phone: 508-228-6979

Phone: 508-228-6890

ZOFIA PHOTOGRAPHY

PHOTO BY MIKE DISKIN

Phone: 508-325-4756

KAREN L. CARPENTER

Web: www.milestonetaxi.com/

NANTUCKET ISLAND EVENTS

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE

Phone: 508-825-9793

Email: info@september.com

Web: www.nantucketbythesea.com

TRANSPORTATION A1 TRANSPORTATION

Web: www.atasteofnantucket.com

Phone: 508-228-9166

PETTICOAT ROW BAKERY

TRESSES & THE DAY SPA

KRIS KINSLEY HANCOCK PHOTOGRAPHY

NANTUCKET BY THE SEA

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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH (BAPTIST)

ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH (CATHOLIC)

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (METHODIST)

1 Summer Street

Federal Street

2 Centre Street

Phone: 508-228-4930

Phone: 508-228-0100

Phone: 508-228-0810

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST

52 Centre Street

(EPISCOPAL)

11 Orange Street

Phone: 508-228-0950

20 Fair Street

Phone: 508-228-5466

KINGDOM HALL (JEHOVAH’S WITNESS)

Phone: 508-228-0916

43 Milk Street

SCONSET UNION CHAPEL (PROTESTANT)

Phone: 508-228-8816

New and Chapel Streets

QUAKER MEETING HOUSE

52 Somerset Road

7 Fair Street

Phone: 508-825-0805

Phone: 508-228-1894

RENTALS

MARTY KELLY NANTUCKET

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Phone: 508-314-0282

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Phone: 508-228-2825

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Phone: 508-228-4110

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ANDY BULLINGTON

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Web: www.nantucketpartyrentals.com

Phone: 508-257-9070

POETS CORNER PRESS

PLACESETTERS

Phone: 508-228-1051

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WEDDING BANDS AND MUSIC

Web: www.nantucketmusic.com

Web: www.andybullington.com

Phone: 508-257-6616 NEW LIFE MINISTRIES (CHARISMATIC)

INVITATIONS

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Wedding

TIMELESS

WRITTEN BY AMY ROBERTS

FASHION THE NHA BLOWS THE DUST OFF SOME WEDDING WEAR AND EXPLORES THE BRIDAL FASHIONS OF YESTERYEAR.

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y the turn of the nineteenth century, Nantucket weddings had evolved from small family ceremonies into opulent affairs embellished with elaborate gifts, floral arrangements, decadent cake

recipes, and, of course, the design and detail of distinguished wedding attire.

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Arline Wilma Preston when she married Clark Wallace Bishop in 1928, in Siasconset.

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s the whaling industry transformed Nantucket from

an isolated agricultural island into a metropolitan center, island

ivory-colored silk damask vest with a strawberry pattern, notched lapel collar, and covered silk buttons. And by the middle of the

weddings drifted away from the formal procedure prescribed by

nineteenth century, bridal gowns had shifted from the use of colored

the Quakers to a means of displaying success and status. While the

fabrics, which had served as a utilitarian choice (allowing dresses

Quaker wedding ceremony was more of a process than a celebration,

could be worn more than once), to the precedent of the white wedding

the nineteenth-century Nantucket wedding became an elaborate event

gown, embellished with exquisite detailing and designed with fine

requiring extensive preparations. The bride and groom no longer

silk, linen, and tulle.

sought the approval of religious authorities, but began to utilize popular magazines and etiquette manuals, such as The Ladies Indis-

According to records, wedding fashion became a focal point of

pensable Assistant, published in 1853, to guide their preparations.

written correspondence and newspaper accounts by 1850. On August 19, 1858, island resident Elizabeth Crosby detailed the wedding dress

As documented in a scholarly article by the Nantucket Historical

of her younger sibling in a letter to her sister, describing “a plain

Association’s registrar, Aimee E. Newell, by the time Florence Folger

brown silk tissue made low neck with a Spencer cape a handsome

posed for her wedding photograph in 1887, Quakerism had lost its

thread lace in the neck – cape trimmed with a narrow box plaited

influence over the wedding ceremony. The confluence of a

ribbon the same shade as the dress . . . elegant I should have said.”

weakening religious- approval process and the escalating

Nearly two decades later when islander Fannie McCleave

interest of islanders in flaunting their material wealth

prepared for her wedding to John J. Gardner in

resulted in increasingly elaborate wedding

1877, the Inquirer and Mirror described Miss

celebrations that included lavish wedding gifts

McCleave as “tastily dressed in white, with

and newspaper accounts. The Inquirer

lace veil, the whole being trimmed in smi-

and Mirror described the wedding of

lax, while the groom appeared in a dress of

Florence Folger and William A. Webster in

black, with white vest. The couple presented a

great detail, reporting that, “the bride was

very handsome appearance.”

LEFT PAGE MIDDLE: Pierced ivory and painted silk fan. Scene with two figures in center. Figures are holding a burning stick.

LEFT PAGE BOTTTOM: Men’s ivory silk damask with a strawberry pattern. Notched lapel collar, six silk covered buttons, two pockets and slanted breast pocket on right side. Cut straight across bottom. Back is silk in a twill weave. Two tabs tie with three bows at back.

TOP LEFT: A formal portrait of Florence Folger, about to become Mrs. William A. Webster, in Springfield, Massachusetts, December 12, 1887.

TOP RIGHT: Formal wedding portrait of William A. Webster, wedding date December 14, 1887, in Springfield, Massachusetts.

handsomely attired in white corded silk, en traine, with tulle.”

Although the nineteenth century bore witness

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sharp decline, Nantucket weddings continued to

bride’s wedding gown, it carefully described

reflect an adherence to elegant details and

the wedding that took place at her home on Union Street as

stylish wedding attire. Aimee Newell suggests that, “the romance of

“prettily decorated with ferns and flowers” and listed the “many

wedding gowns and…gifts provided an escape from the dreary days

costly gifts” received by the couple, including “a beautiful ivory fan

on an island with a dwindling population.” By the end of the century,

inlaid with gold.” The fan, having been brought to the island from the

Nantucket had endured the great fire of 1846 as well as the loss of a

East Indies in 1821 by Captain Eliakim Gardner (an ancestor of the

significant portion of its population to the Gold Rush. Therefore, the

bride), was testament to the worldly treasures collected on whale-

wedding celebration provided the perfect anecdote to this economic

ships throughout the century.

downturn.

Wedding fashion

Until the turn of the twentieth century, Nantucket weddings commonly

evolved propor-

took place on the island because it was the home of the bride and

tionally with the

groom. Shortly thereafter, Nantucket’s reinvention as a tourist des-

celebration itself.

tination in the 1920s and 1930s marked the rise of wedding celebra-

At the beginning

tions by summer residents. By the time that Arline Preston celebrated

of the nineteenth

her wedding to Clark Bishop in 1928 at “The Hedges” in ’Sconset,

century, wedding

the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Preston, Nantucket had

attire began to

made the leap toward elaborate, high-profile summer weddings. The

reflect a shift

newspaper described Miss Preston’s dress as “ivory satin and chiffon,

toward elegance

trimmed with rose point lace,” pointing out that the dress had been

and sophistica-

made by Bonwit Teller and the veil purchased in Italy. The Pres-

tion as opposed

ton–Clark wedding was one of many celebrations that would come

to function. In

to symbolize the modern-day Nantucket wedding: glamorous, full of

1838, Isaac Macy

intricate detail and truly one-of-a-kind. It is safe to say that today’s

donned an

lavish wedding affairs have a strong foothold in Nantucket’s history.

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Maria Mitchell Gala

FOGGYSHEET nantucket

Jean Doyen de Montaillou, Michael Kovner, Scott Peltier, Philip Nardone, Maria & George Roach Fran & Harry Ostrander

Eddie Schmidt & Michael Kovner

Janet Schulte & Judy MacLeod

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Charles Gottesman & Merrill Gottesman

Chris Drake & Russell Robinson

Rick Wackenhut, Mary Jane Bauer & Joe Serafini

John Johnson & Patience Killen

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