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Personof theYear One of the most striking aspects of life on Nantucket is the strength of our community and the capabilities of the people who live here. There are so many gifted, committed, exceptional, generous people on Nantucket that singling out a specific individual for special recognition is a difficult and perhaps risky task. However, in any given year, there is usually one who by a combination of timing, circumstance and Editor & Publisher

their own capabilities has had a level of impact on the community that stands out.

For our first annual Person of the Year Award, N Magazine recognizes Dr. Margot Hartmann for her work as President and CEO of the Nantucket Cottage Hospital, and for her vision for the future of this most vital of island institutions.

In two short years, Dr. Hartmann has been the steward during the NCH’s affiliation with Massachusetts General Hospital and presided over a dramatic improvement to both the hospital’s finances and services. For those who have experienced the NCH recently, the changes in the range of services, the quality of delivery and the staff morale are impressive. All this is a precursor to an ambitious and much-needed project that will ultimately result in the replacement of an aging building with a brand new and cutting-edge facility that will set a new standard for community hospitals. We are proud to recognize Dr. Hartmann for what she has achieved to date at the NCH and for the trajectory she has set for the hospital in the coming years.

The Stroll Issue also highlights other extraordinary seasonal and year-round residents such as former advisor to Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy, Senator Harris Wofford; Vanity Fair special correspondent, Maureen Orth; the island’s oldest artist, Maggie Meredith; and Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s newest family physician, Dr. Nicole Stienmuller. And in celebration of Thanksgiving, we learn about two Nantucketers of the past who are responsible for bringing the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade into being.

As for winter activities on Nantucket, we check out everything from preserving fruits and veggies, to listening to gypsy music, to scoping out plans for Nantucket’s first gun range. For those who missed it, we recap the second annual Nantucket Project, held this past October. And just in time for holiday shopping, we take a look at winter fashion and gift ideas.

Beyond anything else, simply being on Nantucket for the holidays is one of the best gifts of all, and we wish you a wonderfully festive and healthy season.

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Stroll 2012 21 A Meeting of the Minds Take a cram course into the second annual Nantucket Project and learn some of the big ideas that were presented at this year’s conference.

27 the MAcy’s dAy PArAde Did you know that the essence of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade started on Nantucket?

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Vanity Fair Special Correspondent and longtime Nantucket summer resident, Maureen Orth, talks about her career, her nonprofit and her life on the island.

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In recognition for her outstanding work as President and CEO of the Nantucket Cottage Hospital, Dr. Margot Hartman is N Magazine’s first annual Person of the Year.

Head out to Tom Nevers for a look at winter fashion through the lens of photographer, Nathan Coe.

50 the triuMPh & trAgedy of hArris Wofford From serving as advisor to Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy, to becoming Senator of Pennsylvania, longtime Nantucket summer resident, Harris Wofford, has lived a historic life.

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Nantucket’s most sought-after band, Coq au Vin, has been filling local venues since the spring.

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This winter, preserve a taste of summer by smoking meats and jarring and pickling fruits, and local veggies.

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Think its cold now? Take a trip back to winters past when the harbor would freeze, the mail couldn’t come, and Nantucket became frozen in time.

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any people say that Nantucket rejuvenates the soul, but an enterprising couple has discovered a secret

ingredient in our seaweed that literally rejuvenates the skin. Not just any kind of seaweed, however, this is native algae that Mark and Ellen Comerford spent weeks searching for in the dead of winter. Where did they find it? It’s a secret.

“We wanted to start with a rich moisturizing cream that had a nice texture and aroma and would last on the shelf,” said Ellen, who owns Boston’s Core de Vie holistic wellness spa and fitness studio with her husband, Mark. “We absorb so many nutrients through our skin, so it made sense to start out with a base that was nutrient-dense.

Seaweed contains a host of nutrients from the seawater, including selenium, potassium and iodine.”

Does the world really need another specialty skin care line? Let’s face it: There are plenty of creams, cleansers, serums, moisturizers and toners out there.

However, as the Comerfords explain, many of these contain synthetic paraben, a petroleum-based derivative commonly used as a preservative in cosmetics that may have links to breast cancer. Those that are paraben-free, typically have other chemical additives to extend their shelf lives. Simply put, there was no effective, all-natural skin care line out there that met the Comerford’s high standards. So Mark and Ellen decided to make their own.

Employing his background in chemistry, Mark tracked down a specific species of brown kelp sea algae that contains an ultra-high concentration of fucoxanthin, a major carotenoid shown to have anti-oxidant, anti-aging, anti-pigment and anti-cancer properties. Mark discovered that this rockweed thrives in cold seawater and eventually sourced the kelp from a farm in Northern California. Further digging revealed that the algae might grow in the pristine waters off Nantucket.

The couple, who live on a boat on Straight Wharf during the summer, asked their slip neighbor, Captain Bobby DeCosta, if he had ever seen the plant. “He told us that there was no way it would grow here, as it isn’t a rocky enough coastline,” said Ellen. Undeterred, the couple scoured the shores by dinghy. Their persistence finally paid off when they found the algae last year. As it turns out, Nantucket is just about the farthest point south where the species can survive.

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ate holiday shopping? Have someone else do it for you…and do it in style. Just in time for the holidays,

Nantucket stylist, Kimberly Pizzitola, has turned her eye for fashion towards finding the perfect presents. “So many people just dread holiday shopping,” she says, “either that, or they just don’t have time to search for the perfect gift. Several of my clients are husbands who have a specific thing in mind for their wives, but don’t know where to begin to find it. This is where I can help.”

Not only will Pizzitola scout out and purchase the gift, but she also will wrap and deliver it. If it were any easier, it would be shoplifting.

While they won’t disclose the location of this elusive Nantucket seaweed, the Comerfords did stress the great care they take in harvesting it, delicately clipping snippets of the algae to ensure its regrowth. As Nantucket is not an Mark and ellen e c comerford on Madaket Beach

ideal habitat for the species, there is no mandate or regulation restricting

Kimberly Pizzitola picking out some possible presents at Pollacks.

or prohibiting the culling of it, added Mark. Further protecting the

This shopping service is an extension of Pizzitola’s City and

species is the winter season during which it thrives.

Seaside Styling, which she founded when clients from her chic Nantucket boutique, Blu, started asking for her assistance outside

Mark and Ellen have made every single tub of cream and bottle

of the shop. “People kept approaching me for help editing their

of cleanser, from the harvesting to the labeling. They are eager to

closets, putting outfits together and picking out clothes that would

expand their line, ramp up production, and are meeting with local

work for their lifestyles and figures,” she says. “I decided to turn

vendors. Whether or not they will ever disclose their trade secrets

it into a business a few years ago when I closed Blu, and it has

is another story. At the moment, they have found this to be a

just taken off.”

rejuvenating experience.

Pizzitola’s clients range from big-time CEOs to jet-setting fashionistas, and everyone in between. With more than twenty years of experience in the fashion industry, she has the personality, the professional savvy, and, most importantly, the eye to tackle any closet and dress, whether her client needs an off-the-runway couture gown or a pair of jeans that really fit. Her the inside. And this holiday season it’s better to be on Pizzitola’s good list, as she may be the one picking the present.

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NothiNg breaks up a fall weekeNd quite like haviNg two u.s. seNators, pepper you with their personal and professional views of the world. This is the second annual Nantucket Project, a three-day long conference where the influential join the powerful and the brilliant join the gifted to disseminate the latest accomplishments in the realms of medicine, education, technology and social innovation.

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the world’s top stem cell researcher, the former Secretary of the Treasury and the CEO of America’s largest private company

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o big or go home,” was the Bill Gates quote referenced by the Nantucket Project’s first presenter John Wood,

the founder of Room to Read. After

leaving Microsoft, Wood has managed to create a global literacy organization that has resulted in building more libraries than Andrew Carnegie did, reaching over six million children. Wood’s organization opens as many schools per day as Starbucks does coffee outlets, and, as a young man, he has already left an indelible mark on the developing world.

And then there was Dr. Daniel Kraft, a former physician at Mass General Hospital and now at Singularity University, who demonstrated to the audience a cardiogram app for an iPhone that enables patients to communicate vital heart information to their doctor without leaving home. Kraft then went on to open people’s eyes to medical technology right around the corner that literally comes out of episodes of Carly Fleischman with moderator Tom Ashbrook and former Universal chairman, Bob Wright

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“Star Trek.”

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New York Times bestselling author and economist, Dambisa Moyo

Moderator Peter Hopkins, Paypal founder Peter Thiel, and Harvard University professor Lawrence Summers.

To paraphrase the old EF Hutton television commercials, “When the Nantucket Project speaks, people listen.� And listen they did. In a remarkable moment, a young lady unable to speak due to autism, Carly Fleischman, stunned the audience by demonstrating full cognitive skills locked within her body through the use of a laptop computer. On stage with Autism Speaks founder and former Universal chairman, Bob Wright, Fleischman grilled U.S. Senator John Kerry with questions about autism that raised the larger question as to whether millions of other non-verbal autistic children have broader cognitive skills than ever Senator John Kerry with Vice President of Academics and Innovation at Singularity University, Vivek Wadhwa

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Former CEO of Patagonia, Inc., Michael Crooke, Ph.D.

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Nantucket Project participants Stephen and Jill Karp

f a picture is worth a thousand words, a great political cartoonist has an entire vocabulary of his very own.

Ranan Lurie, the most influential political cartoonist of our time, spoke of his interactions with various leaders around the globe, including Mikhail Gorbachev. He recounted to the moderator, MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews, that upon his first meeting with the former Russian president, Gorbachev immediately

embraced him with a bear hug because of Lurie’s blood relationship to Karl Marx. Lurie quickly indicated to Gorbachev that his family had shunned Marx because of the rumor that he may have been a Communist, which was one of the session’s great understatements.

At a time when Americans are caught between feelings of optimism and pessimism, the Nantucket Project presented both cautionary tales and uplifting examples of boundless inventiveness and creativity. By the end of the weekend, the theme of collective intelligence impacted everyone’s thinking in the room by suggesting that no matter how many obstacles we face, virtually nothing is impossible by unlocking the power of individual talent.

For many, attending the Nantucket Project was the smartest decision they may have made all year.

Legendary cartoonist Ranan Lurie fields questions from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews.

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the macys day parade… it all began on nantucket!

One of the first balloons by Nantucket artist, Tony Sarg for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.

three million of which crowd the streets of New York City, their eyes cast to the sky as giant super heroes and cartoon characters float by.

Macy’s Day is the Super Bowl of parades, and it all began here on Nantucket. As curious as this might sound, it’s absolutely true: Not only was a Nantucketer responsible for making the Macy’s Day Parade an iconic Thanksgiving tradition, but the event’s very namesake, R.H. Macy & Company, traces its roots back to the island.

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tony sarg showing off his sea serpent to crowds on Washington street in what became one of the great hoaxes in Nantucket history.

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n 1921, Tony Sarg, a celebrated illustrator

sister, Phyllis. “My God that was a hundred

red star come from? Off R.H. Macy’s arm: it’s

and puppeteer, bought a home on

years ago—well, almost a hundred,” laughs

a tattoo he got while he was off awhaling.

Nantucket and eventually opened a toy store

Chase, now eighty-one. “I must have been

in town. From his off-island studios nestled in

seven or eight, and my sister is a year

Today, the parade remains tethered to the island.

Times Square, Sarg’s artwork appeared on the

younger…we went down there to Washing-

In fact, there are at least two Nantucket residents

covers of magazines, on the pages of children’s

ton Street and we were amazed by the thing.”

who spend the day before Thanksgiving

books, and eventually in Macy’s department

Throngs of Nantucketers joined the two girls,

inflating the balloons before they embark on

store window displays. Beginning in 1924,

rushing down to catch a glimpse of Sarg’s

their march through Manhattan. Longtime

Macy’s held an annual Christmas parade to

balloon beast like times of old when giant

summer resident, Linda Lynch has been

celebrate the holiday shopping season in New

sperm whales were unloaded on the docks.

volunteering for twenty-seven years now,

York City, and appointed Tony Sarg as its chief designer.

inflating balloons ranging from Spiderman to Nantucket’s connection to the parade doesn’t

Sponge Bob with helium. The inflation process

begin and end with Tony Sarg’s balloons,

for an especially large balloon can take up to

After three years of the Christmas Parade, in

however. Rowland Hussey Macy was a

two hours, requiring more helium than a hot

November 1927, the president of Macy’s, Jesse

Nantucket whaler who left the island in the

air balloon and sometimes a team of fifty to

Strauss, announced to America that

tame. When she’s not on the island,

the parade was going to take it up

Lynch is a professor at the Stevens

a notch, way up. The press and the

Institute of Technology in Hoboken,

people of New York City swelled

New Jersey. “Hoboken, until last year,

with anticipation, all waiting to

was the home of the Macy’s Parade

see what Tony Sarg had in mind.

studio,” she says. “So years ago they

At one o’clock, Thanksgiving Day

decided that maybe we would have

1927, Sarg unveiled his lofty

students that weren’t going back

creations—first a twenty-one-foot

home for Thanksgiving help inflate

balloon man that peeked into

the balloons.”

second story windows and then a jaw-dropping sixty-foot-long

One hundred twenty-five students,

balloon dragon. The balloons were

faculty and staff help with the

a huge hit, and have been the

inflation, and Lynch is the co-organizer

centerpiece of the Thanksgiving

of that group. One honorary member

Day Parade ever since.

of the group is year-round islander, PJ Joyner. Originally from New York City,

In the summer of 1937, one of

Joyner grew up attending the parade

Sarg’s balloons appeared on the

as a little girl, and when she found out

shores of Nantucket, but not

about Lynch’s role in it, she pleaded to

before the artist called up the press

be involved. “We generally don’t take

claiming to have seen a sea serpent

outsiders other than people from our

out at Coatue. The town was abuzz

school,” says Lynch, “but we made an

as reports came in of fishermen

exception with PJ and she’s become a

finding giant footprints in the sand

really great member of the team.” This mid-1800s to find fortune on the main land.

Thanksgiving, Joyner celebrates her tenth year

the Sound. Then on hot summer afternoon, the

Beyond whaling, Macy seemed to have retail

volunteering at the parade.

sea serpent revealed its giant rubber head on

in his blood as his father ran a storefront

Washington Street and Sarg’s elaborate hoax

adjacent to where Murray’s Toggery Shop

And so it is that from R.H. Macy to Tony Sarg

was up.

stands today on Main Street. After several

to Linda Lynch and PJ Joyner, the Nantucket

financial failures in Wisconsin, California, and

Macy’s Day Parade tradition is brought to new

Somewhere in the family album of renowned

Massachusetts, Macy made his way to New

heights by generations of Nantucketers. It’s an

Nantucket scrimshander, Nancy Chase, is a

York City and opened R.H. Macy & Co. Over

uplifting experience not only for them, but also

black and white photograph of two young girls

a century and a half later, Macy’s is one of the

for the millions who watch this Thanksgiving

sitting in the shadow of Sarg’s balloon. The

largest department store retailers in the United

tradition.

older girl is Nancy, and the younger is her

States. And where did the Macy’s trademark

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It’s late fall in New York City and Vanity Fair Special Correspondent, Maureen Orth, is in Central Park. “This is where

I started my career,” she says as we walk, “I was one of the first female writers for Newsweek back in 1972.” Orth smiles

endearingly and I almost forget that this

is the same woman who investigated the

opium trade and terrorism on the border of Afghanistan six weeks after 9/11. Indeed,

she seems less a tough-nosed journalist and more like the name of her Twitter handle: @LukeRsMom. Yet as we discuss her

career both past and present, this Nantucket summer resident appears as driven as

ever, pursuing her craft with the same

determination that has made Orth one of

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always tried to strike a balance. I have so many other

and lifestyle reporter, Orth’s byline could

things in my life that are positive, that are light instead

be found under the great music and

of darkness—my time on Nantucket, my nonprofit, my

Hollywood headlines of the time, interviewing Bruce

friends and my family—things like that allow me to not

Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Richard Pryor,

get carried away in the bad and the ugly.”

and many other big names famous and infamous. She would go on to win awards, write two books, and cover

As we make our way around children

world dignitaries like Margret

playing in the park, Orth tells me more

Thatcher and Vladimir Putin for

about one of these sources of light in her

Vanity Fair. Her pieces are time-

life, namely the Marina Orth Foundation.

less—not in their subject matter

In as much as her journalistic acumen can

per se, but in their execution and

be credited to a BA from Berkely—

style. Read, for instance, her early

she grew up in the Bay Area—and a

work for Newsweek and then follow

masters from UCLA, Orth’s investigative

it up with her most recent Vanity

nature was forged in a little school in

Fair cover story on Katie Holmes,

Medellin, Colombia—a school that she

Tom Cruise, and Scientology—the

built. Fresh out of college, Orth joined

construction and style of her prose

the Peace Corps and was assigned to a

resound with the same literary prowess.

small village high in the Andes. There she collaborated with families and local workers to build a school that

At a time when blog posts and Twitter tweets readily get passed off as jour journalism, Orth continues to take the “long view” with her

the village later named in her honor, La Escuela Marina Orth.

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journalism, I have the ‘EEEPPP’ rule,” she says, “energy,

“Being thrown into the middle of nowhere for two years,

enthusiasm, empathy, polite, prepared, and persistent.”

as the Peace Corps does, was excellent for journalism,”

This approach has unveiled some dark stories in the past,

she says, “because it taught me how to listen and observe.”

as with her investigative pieces on the Michael Jackson

Greater still was the worldview Orth would take away

pedophilia cases for Vanity Fair. When asked if digging

from Colombia: “Humanity is pretty much all alike. It

deep into such hard truths takes a toll on her, Orth replies,

doesn’t matter where you were born or how much money

“I don’t set out to find the dark underbelly of a story, but

you have…God doesn’t discriminate with talent and brains

if the reporting takes me there, of course, I follow it. I’ve

and beauty.”

(Left to right) Maureen Orth with Richard Pryor, Bruce Springsteen, Paul and Linda McCartney, and Stevie Wonder.

In 2004, Orth returned to Colombia and at the request of Medellin’s Secretary of Education she created the Marina Orth Foundation. Today, the foundation serves three schools in and around Medellin where over 1200 students from kindergarten through high school each has their own laptop. Escuela Marina Orth was the first to introduce the One Laptop Per Child program in Colombia, and the school has become an exemplar for teaching technology, English, and leadership in the country. The Marina Orth Foundation seeks to continue educating teachers in the region, and open similar schools throughout Colombia.

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While many know Orth from her blockbuster cover stories and nonprofit work, many others are more familiar with her late husband, “Meet the Press” moderator and beloved newsman, Tim Russert. The two met at the 1980 Democratic National Convention, and a year later, Russert brought Orth to Nantucket for her first visit while they named Luke, now a correspondent for MSNBC. In the Washington household of two esteemed journalists, the dinner table often became a debate stage, with Luke sometimes acting as moderator.

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Nantucket renting a cottage out in

Madaket. “Those were extremely happy years, right on the water there on Massachusetts Avenue,” Orth remembers. “We got to know that community, Mr. Roger’s neighborhood, and that was just a privilege. I love the people down there. That was really a part of old Nantucket.” In 1999, Orth and Russert purchased their own summer home on the island, and became increasingly active in the community. “There are so many services provided to us summer people throughout the year,” Orth says. “The least we can do is try be engaged to make it the best possible place it can be and do things that help the full-time residents.” The Summer Groove Benefit became their way of giving back, raising money each year for the local Boys & Girls Club.

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In June 2008, Tim Russert passed away suddenly in his offices in Washington D.C. after returning from a family vacation in Italy. He was fifty-eight years old. Russert’s death was mourned across the country. With her family and friends in support, Orth turned to journalism for catharsis. “When Tim died that was a dark time,” she says. “Five weeks after his death, I was back over in Paris covering Ingrid Betancourt [who had just been released after over six years of being held hostage by FARC guerillas in Colombia] …I knew the timing was

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this fabulous interesting story that I was very excited to do.”

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Today, the story of Maureen Orth continues to be written. She is constantly on the go—attending conferences, visiting her schools in Colombia, hunting for her next story for Vanity Fair. She is a woman of passion and curiosity, gracious and humble. At a time when the future of journalism is uncertain, Maureen Orth reminds readers that the pursuit of truth through the written word will remain strong no matter the medium. On a larger level, her life in service goes to show that some of the greatest gifts are indeed found when helping others.

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Dr. Margot Hartmann has spent her career healing patients in hospitals. Now, she finds herself improving the health of a hospital itself. In just two years of being president and CEO of Nantucket Cottage Hospital, Dr. Hartmann has not only helped financially resuscitate NCH, but she is now overseeing the delivery of a brand new medical facility for the island.

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“The ability to see a top quality neurologist without leaving the island is the way of the future for here” — Dr. Margot Hartmann

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ransitioning from emergency room to boardroom, Dr. Hartmann has managed the hospital with surgical

precision and today, through increased services, improved

finances and a dynamic partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital, NCH is on the path to becoming stronger than ever. One only needs to listen to her vision of the hospital’s future to realize that the health and wellbeing of the Nantucket community is indeed in very good hands. “We have an opportunity to create something for this community that will be a beacon of wellness long after we’re here,” Dr. Hartmann says. “I would like to be a hospital that is not only

of the number one hospital

where people bring their illness, but where people bring their hopes in the country.” As a result, for wellness.”

more and more patients have been checking back into NCH

Two years ago, this vision might have sounded a bit lofty amidst

rather than going off island for their care.

the hospital’s $7.5 million losses. Certainly the very idea of building a new facility at the time would have been unrealistic. Upon

On the revenue front, Dr. Hartmann has streamlined the hospital’s

taking office, Dr. Hartmann faced a “perfect storm” of decreased

infrastructure, both fiscally and technologically. “For decreased

patient volume, decreased reimbursements, and an outdated building. reimbursement, we’ve worked with Partner’s Healthcare and our Over the last two years, she and her board have remedied the first

board to redefine certain contracts for insurance payers,” she ex-

of these challenges by reaching out to the community, learning

plains, “and we’ve been able to reduce charges in our lab by forty

hospi services what its specific needs are and increasing the hospital’s

percent.” The hospital’s billing system has also been improved. By

precisely to meet those needs. The hospital has since

leveraging federal dollars, all medical records are being digitized

grown in primary care and specialty

and soon every room in the hospital will be equipped with a

clinics, and is offering new services

computer. These measures have helped tourniquet NCH’s financial

ranging from podiatry to neurology.

bleeding and put it on a road to recovery.

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but also the quality of care meets

With patient volume and reimbursements on the mend, Dr.

a “gold standard” through the NCH’s

Hartmann now turns to treating the failing building. While the

partnership with Mass General Hospital.

specifics of its design are still being determined, her vision for a

“We have a lot of local expertise and a lot of local

new hospital is clear: “This hospital should not be more hospital

knowledge about how to deliver care,”

than it can sustain. It’s not going to be a little Mass General. It has

Dr. Hartmann says, “but we now also

to be the customized hospital that this island and this community

have all the clinical power and breadth

needs for all its constituents.” In particular, the new hospital’s

infrastructure will support both evolving

wants it to become a community focal point

emergency room that prepared her best for the

medical technology and a patient population

where islanders go to discover ways of living

job. “You’re constantly having to triage to your

that fluctuates five-fold from winter to summer.

better. “I would like to be a hospital where we

larger vision of health,” she explains, “how to

can have meeting spaces to educate the commu-

keep the greatest number of people safe and do

Every room will be equipped with telemedi-

nity in wellness,” she says. “This hospital wants

the best amount of good.” Yet she also thinks on

cine, thus connecting Nantucket patients with

to be the hospital for our community. It wants

the micro level, drawing from her own personal

leading physicians in Boston and beyond. “The

to be in relationship with it in an active, alive

experiences with the hospital: “I know what it

ability to see a top quality neurologist without

way.” This will require not only a change in the

means to have this hospital here because my

leaving the island is the way of the future for

building, but also a change in the public’s per per-

mother needed cancer treatment and was able

here,” she explains. “We’ve always struggled

ception of NCH. As she explains, “I think there

to receive it here on the island in her eighties…

to bring specialists out to serve the community.

are some people who drive by this building and

Nothing matters if we don’t have a great

We now have a modality that allows us to

don’t see a building where they feel confident to

hospital for life on this island. Period.”

access the best quality specialists that we can

bring their vulnerability, because I don’t think

with a flat screen TV and a nurse practitioner

this building reflects the quality of the medicine

While she has delivered change quickly, there is

at your side.” And this is only the beginning.

delivered within it.” Thanks to Dr. Hartmann

nothing breathless in her approach. As with many

Ultimately, Dr. Hartmann wants to build a

and her board, that perception will change

physicians, there is a calm about Dr. Margot

hospital that meets the unique challenges of

dramatically in the next several years.

Hartmann that fills the room, and she speaks with

an island thirty miles out at sea while also

the measure of someone who has faced dire

setting a new standard for community

Considering where Nantucket Cottage Hospital

situations before and found solutions. So as she

hospitals nationally.

has come in the last two years and where it’s

leads the charge to break ground on a new

poised to go in the years to come, the fact that

hospital, Nantucketers can take comfort in

Beyond the building’s functionality, Dr.

Dr. Hartmann had no prior experience in

knowing that the project is in the steady

Hartmann envisions the new hospital as

business or hospital management is remarkable.

hands of a doctor, an astute manager, and

offering more than just treatment and care. She

Perhaps it was her time as head of the

a visionary.

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woFFord WRittEN By rObert S. COCuzzO

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a a tiMe when Few twelve-Year-olds ventured F at Far beYond their own neiGhborhoods, harris woFFord boarded a transatlantic ocean liner and sailed east FroM new York citY. Y Y. The year was 1937 and the tides of change were rising fast, causing a wave of social, economic and military unrest to crest around the globe. Accompanied by his grandmother, Wofford’s first stop was in London, where he saw the king and queen and heard the early warnings of a statesman named Winston Churchill. From the United Kingdom, it was on to Paris and then

Rome where he stood amidst a mass gathering and listened to the words of a fiery fascist dictator named Benito Mussolini. On Christmas Eve, he huddled in a church in Bethlehem as gunfire went off outside in the dark, during the Arab revolt of 1937-38.

In Bombay, he crossed paths with Mahatma Gandhi. And in Shanghai, he sifted through the rubble from the Japanese bombardment in their conquest of most of China. After six months of extraordinary adventures, Wofford returned home to seventh grade acting, as he describes, like a “know-it-all foreign policy expert,” and declaring himself a “citizen of the world.”

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oday, Harris Wofford is no longer a young man and there is a distance to his gaze that suggests he’s seen more than most. Yet as the former Pennsylvania

Senator muses upon his life from his beach home on Madequecham, an unmistakable zeal and

clarity defies his eighty-six years. “By the time I had gone around the world, I had already fallen in love with the idea of America—the Founding Fathers, the Declaration, the words of Jefferson

and Lincoln,” Wofford says over dinner. “When I returned with my grandmother, the world

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“it took most of a year in india to make me look back on America and see more vividly that racial discrimination, segregation, the denial of the right to vote, was the shame of America, was the great blot on the American soul and the American idea in the world.”

— harris Wofford

The bullet points of Wofford’s life are impressive. So

When pressed to talk about Martin Luther King at pre-

much so that accomplishments such as founding the

sent, Wofford takes a long pause and shuffles his hands

Student Federalists organization in high school, or

about the table as if sifting through his memories. “My

volunteering for the Army Air Corps during World

wife had never met King,” he begins, “and we picked

War II, or being the first white student to graduate

him and his wife Coretta up in Baltimore to drive

from Howard University Law, often get lost in the

them back to Washington. In the front seat, Martin and

fine print of his many

I were talking about Gandhi strategy and we

bios. Such distinctions

heard Coretta say to my wife, ‘You know Clare,

are overshadowed by

ever since Martin chose this course, I’ve had a

his involvement in the

nightmare that at the end of it, he’s going to be

Civil Rights movement.

killed.’ King turned around and said, ‘Corey, I

When retelling of these

keep telling you to take that nightmare out of

formative times in his

your head, and think of all the things that we can

life, Wofford provides

do now. I didn’t choose this course. You know

the listener with not

I didn’t choose this course. They asked me to

only his story but also

take the lead in the bus boycott and I said yes.’”

that of the day and age.

Wofford looks up and concludes the account: “And then he hummed a spiritual. I’m not going to sing it, but the

“It took most of a year in India, right after col-

thrust was: ‘The

lege, to make me look back on America

Lord came by and

and see more vividly that racial discrimi-

asked, and my

nation, segregation, the denial of the right

soul said yes.’”

to vote, was the shame of America, was the great blot on the American soul and

While much

the American idea in the world,” Wof-

can be said

ford says. Prior to attending law school

about Wofford’s

at Howard and then Yale, Wofford sailed

political mark on

back to India for a study fellowship in 1949 with his

the 1960s, his involvement is encapsulated in what’s

wife Clare, a year after the assassination of Mahatma

become known as The Call. After becoming a close

Gandhi and two years since the country achieved

colleague of King’s, Wofford went on to work on John

independence. On returning, they coauthored India

F. Kennedy’s 1960 Presidential bid, as deputy to Sargent

Afire, a book championing Gandhian nonviolence and

Shriver in the campaign’s Civil Rights Section.

prescribing it to the growing Civil Rights movement in the United States.

Kennedy was struggling to secure the black vote, some of which opposed him because of his Catholic faith.

Then on October 19, 1960, King was arrested at a

dations for civil disobedience and nonviolent protest.

sit-in in an Atlanta restaurant, along with fifty-one

Howard University dean, William Stuart Nelson,

others. Although initially released with the other

who once visited Gandhi and urged him to come to

protesters, King was rearrested and taken to a county

America, wrote Wofford saying, “Reluctantly, I’ve

prison outside of Atlanta and then in shackles to a

concluded that the American Negro has no Gandhi in

faraway state prison. The judge sentenced him to four

him.” Then came the arrest of Rosa Parks, and a young

months hard labor. It became a front-page story in the

Baptist minister, Martin Luther King Jr., rose up to lead

American press and around the world it was treated

a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. The American

as a scandal.

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At first, many black leaders rejected the recommen-

Negro had found his Gandhi, and Wofford became one of his close advisors.

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earing that her husband was going

Through all the comedy and tragedy of his years,

to be killed, Coretta King, who was five

Wofford went on from serving as Special Assistant

months pregnant, called Wofford in a

to the President for Civil Rights in Kennedy’s first

panic, hoping he could do something. Knowing

five hundred days to become the Peace Corps’

that Kennedy did not want to intervene publicly

representative to Africa and eventually to be Sargent

with the court process, Wofford suggested to Shriver that

Shriver’s Associate Director of the Peace Corps in

he urge Kennedy to intercede on an emotional level and

Washington. In 1966, he entered academia as the

phone Coretta King to extend his personal sympathy and

founding president of State University of New York’s

concern. Shriver took the idea directly to Kennedy, who

new College at Old Westbury. In 1970, he became

thought briefly and then asked for her phone number and

president of Bryn Mawr College.

made the call.

After the tragic death of U.S. Senator The story of Kennedy’s

John Heinz in 1991, Wofford was

empathy and the warm

appointed senator, with six months

words of thanks from

to win the seat in a special election

King himself, spread

against former governor and then U.S.

quickly through the

Attorney General, Dick Thornburgh.

black community in the

Wofford’s surprise landside victory

last ten days of the cam-

was attributed widely to his campaign

paign (with help from

theme of universal health care. The

Shriver and Wofford).

late Ted Kennedy credited him with

By all accounts the im-

carrying that banner of health

pact of Kennedy’s call

care into the Senate, but by

swayed many black votes, north and south.

the Republican wave of 1994,

With a margin of only 112,827 popular

the banner was in tatters, after

votes, Kennedy’s victory in the Electoral

the failure of the Clinton plan.

College depended on states where the

Wofford calls it “a fiasco” for

large increase in black votes from the

both the Congress and the

1956 election made the difference. Among

President—and for himself as

the many factors necessary for his victory,

he lost his reelection by a nar-

Kennedy’s call ranks as one of them—a

row margin to Rick Santorum.

footnote to how the course of history can be changed.

But Wofford says he has no complaint: “At sixty-five, I

“When people say to me, ‘How lucky you

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had the chance to be Pennsylvania’s Senator, and we did

and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King,’ I say, some

pass the National Service Act of 1994, a goal I’ve had

luck! The three people that meant the most to me during

since 1965 when I helped Sargent Shriver create VISTA

that part of my life were all killed.” Wofford then corrects

(Volunteers in Service to America) as a key part of

himself, “But I was lucky. We were all lucky to have had

President Johnson’s War on Poverty. And in all the years

them in our national life. I predominately think of myself

since, I’ve been in the front lines of the campaign for

as a comic character, in the broad meaning of comedy. But

large scale National Service.” He points to President Bill

I have been close to real tragedies such as the Vietnam War

Clinton’s call on him to help save AmeriCorps, as CEO

and the assassination of our best leaders in the middle of

of the embattled Corporation for National and Com-

the 20th century.”

munity Service. The House of Representatives had voted to terminate it, but Clinton and the Senate held firm

Wofford being sworn in as US Senator of Pennsylvania (top), Wofford with President Bill Clinton (bottom).

“i realize that i am yearning to be around the next time when idea and fate cross again in a creative hour.”

— Harris Wofford

Wofford with John F. Kennedy

and AmeriCorps grew to fifty thousand on

four feet of beach per year. Some years,

have been a part. Looking now at a country

Wofford’s watch. After 9/11, President Bush

the ocean gives back a little. And so it has

divided and mired in partisanship, Wofford

called on Congress to enable AmeriCorps to

been with Wofford’s public life: losing

quotes what the philosopher Martin Buber

grow to 75,000, and Wofford was a leader

some—King and the Kennedys—and gaining

said to him in Jerusalem shortly after

in building the nation-wide coalition that

some—Barack Obama. In 2008, Wofford

Kennedy was killed: “‘Good ideas will rise

helped make that happen.

introduced the future president in Philadelphia

again and come back when idea and fate

just before he delivered his now famous

once more meet in a creative hour.’” He turns

After dinner, Wofford leads me down to the

speech, “A More Perfect Union.” Watching

to the horizon. “I realize that I am yearning

edge of his property overlooking the shores

Obama in Philadelphia, Wofford says he

to be around the next time when idea and

of the Atlantic. He and his wife Clare

saw shades of King and Kennedy in this

fate cross again in a creative hour.”

purchased the land in 1977, and ever since

next generation of American leader, the

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for eight long years, the Nantucket hunting Association has been gunning for a shooting range to be built off shadbush road out by the airport.

It’s been an uphill battle, but the project finally may be in their sights,

of its construction are still being determined, the facility’s basic design calls for three open-air firing ranges, five trap-shooting stations, an archery range, as well as basic facilities for the shooters.

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onsidering the country’s polarity on the issue of firearms, it’s no surprise that some members of the

community have gone slightly ballistic in opposing the range, particularly its would-be neighbors on nearby Wigwam Road.

Their two major concerns were that of safety and noise, but negotiations have since resulted in amending the lease and building plans to ensure a quieter and safer abutter. “We’ve gone from opposing the range, to saying: ‘Let’s work together on this, so that it’s done in a way that it doesn’t affect us,’” says Dan Saevitz, a resident of Wigwam Road and spokesman for the neighborhood.

Shooting and hunting is a Nantucket pastime, and it doesn’t look to be going anywhere anytime soon. “I think there is a misconception about the percentage of people that are shooting here,” says Nantucket Hunting Association president, Steven Holdgate.

“They think it’s only one percent of the population that shoots.

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It’s more like ten percent or more.” And that percentage is not

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made up entirely of men, as some might think. Women are one of the fastest growing segments in shooting.

Just ask Maria Carey, a physician’s assistant

Beyond recreational hunters and shooters,

beer and shoot cans all day long, or drive

at the Nantucket Cottage Hospital and

the range will also be made available to the

around at night jacking deer under the

competitive target shooter. “Women are much

Nantucket Police Department and the US

moonlight,” says Luke Natsis, the Hunting

less traditional than they used to be,” she says.

Coast Guard, which has earned the Nantucket

Association’s vice president. Natsis is sitting

“I think shooting is very empowering and

Hunting Association’s cause some influential

in a lawn chair surrounded by ten other

gives us a sense of accomplishment because it

support. “This facility will allow us to safely

members of the association. The scene is a

has traditionally been a male-dominated sport.

conduct our quarterly weapons qualifications,

far cry from some of the regal hunting clubs

Three or four women together shooting is a

[and] allow our firearms instructors to conduct

off-island, but that all stands to change if the

real camaraderie-building experience.” Seeing

classroom training,” says Nantucket Police

range gets built.

Carey fuss over firearms with local female

Chief, Bill Pittman. “Nantucket needs a place

shooters like Susan Whitlock, Allyson

where residents and visitors who enjoy the

The debate over firearms is likely to continue

Silverthorne, Jo Perkins, and Michele Letlaire,

shooting sports can safely engage in their

for years and years to come in this country—

it’s easy to see her point. If they

pastime.”

and Nantucket will no be exception. All poli-

weren’t passing around rhinestone-bedazzled Smith & Wessons and .44 magnums, the women could almost seem to be at a Tupperware party. Almost.

“i think shooting is very empowering and gives us a sense of accomplishment because it has traditionally been a male-dominated sport.”

tics aside, the topic of safety is paramount to the discussion.

So while a gun range might not be music to everybody’s ears, hopefully it will provide an increased level of safety, and perhaps

Perhaps even more interesting is Carey’s

Attend a Nantucket Hunting Association

a venue to become better educated on the

perspective on firearms as someone in the

meeting, and you’ll be quick to see Pittman’s

topic. Ultimately, shooting can be viewed as a

medical profession. “I used to work in very

point. The association’s monthly meeting used

sport, and the Nantucket Hunting Association

big inner city ERs, so I was exposed to a lot

to take place in the Kennedy Bunker out in

is aiming to provide its players with a facility

of gun violence in my previous years before

Tom Nevers, but since their lease ran out, the

not unlike a golf course for golfers. Except on

coming to Nantucket,” she says. “Shooting has

group has convened in the rear garage of

this course, instead of yelling “Four!” they’ll

changed my intimidation factor to one of

Homer Ray’s Refrigeration Repair Shop on

be yelling, “Pull!”

curiosity and enthusiasm. I think you gain a

Amelia Drive. “This is not a good old boys

better appreciation for what the danger is, but

club where we sit and guzzle

I also think you gain appreciation to be in awe of them and treat them with absolute respect.”

Not all firearm enthusiasts shoot to kill wildlife. Some just shoot to shoot, namely the Nantucket Shooters. Club chairman and year-round islander, Paige Buckley, leads the Nantucket Shooters off-island to try their hand in USPSA shooting competitions. If you’ve never seen one of these competitions, picture an obstacle course with a man or woman shuffling from station to station, unloading a hand cannon on plywood targets. The event seems a cross between a SWAT training exercise indeed get built, it’s entirely feasible that similar competitions could be held on Nantucket.

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A Portrait of the

Artist WRittEN By jeN laSKey

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t the age of ninety,

Maggie Meredith is the

oldest artist on Nantucket.

A painter, poet and rug maker, Meredith is the matriarch of a creative island family whose legacy continues to flourish on the island.

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aggie Meredith is best known for her whimsical

cat portraits, acrylic paintings of fancifully dressed felines. She has painted hundreds of them—along with countless still-life subjects and landscapes. And then she has her whales. “I painted my ‘happy whales’ for years in all kinds of human situations,” she says. “They were fun and they make people laugh, which I like to do.”

The paintings beam with color and revelry, reflective of

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Meredith’s vibrant personality.

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B

eyond painting, Meredith is also an

She had adventures in Hollywood and in

married, he bought a plane of his own,” she

industrious rug-maker, hand-hooking her own

New York City, working for photographers as

writes. “That was how we wound up buying

designs on burlap bases with yarn in an array

a stylist and taking headshots for aspiring

a house in Nantucket.” Living on the island,

of colors. “I’ve been hooking for years,” she

models. It was in New York that she met a

Meredith came into her own as an artist. In

says with a laugh. “It’s the most wonderful

cameraman, Stan Meredith, and fell madly

1962, Reggie Levine encouraged her to have

hobby!” About her passion for rug-making,

in love. The two quickly married and

her first show. Recalling it, she laughs and

Meredith once wrote that her rugs represent

worked together on the controversial 1954

says, “Before I knew it, I was painting my

moments in her life: “Every stitch is a thought

movie, Salt of the Earth, the only film to

ass off!”

remembered.” And while she has sold many

ever be officially blacklisted by the U.S.

paintings and prints, she has never sold a single

Government. “Working on the film in New

rug. They are too personal.

Meredith’s son, Chris, is helping to carry on the family’s creative legacy. Both he and his wife, Linda, are performing artists.

Love is a major theme in all of Meredith’s

Chris is a musician and composer. He

work—in her paintings, rugs, and her

plays drums, bass, keyboards, and guitar—

writing. In addition to a significant body of

and has “done everything from producing

visual artworks, Meredith has published five

records to playing and touring with a lot

books of poetry. “You’ll see she always has

of really well-known artists.” Linda is a

the word love on everything,” says her son,

dancer and choreographer who has worked

Chris Meredith. “That’s been a big part of

on projects in New York City, and now

her. She is that type of giving, loving,

does choreography for the Theater

nurturing person.”

Considering her family, it is no surprise that Meredith became an artist.

Her father, Nathaniel

“You’ll see she AlwAYs hAs the word love on everYthing…she is thAt tYpe of giving, loving, nurturing person.”

Pousette, was a painter

Workshop of Nantucket.

“Growing up with everybody in my family being involved in the arts, it was very conducive to people being supportive of whatever you wanted to follow,” says

and writer, and her mother, Flora Louise Dart,

Chris. “If you had something you really

was a musician and poet. “My dad was a

loved, there was great support for it. Fortu-

wonderful painter,” Meredith explains. “He

nately, for all of us, it was the arts—music

never got the acclaim that my brother wound

and painting, and all of that.”

up with, but that wasn’t his interest.” She points to a large painting on the wall

Meredith has been a lifelong support to her

across from her desk. The style is fluid and

son Chris. The two have a mutual admiration

impressionistic with pastel brushstrokes that

and Chris has devoted himself to helping his

give the effect of summer sunlight bouncing

mother continue to pursue her creative path

between leaves, grass, and flowers. Nestled

by keeping her painting studio functioning

into the middle of the painting, there is a

and archiving and publishing her works as

woman asleep on a hammock. “That’s one

she marches toward the century mark. Today,

of his paintings of me,” she says, smiling.

Meredith’s work can be seen at Nantucket

Meredith’s brother, Richard Pousette-Dart,

Art Works on 31 Centre Street.

became a major figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement alongside names

Mexico was really an adventure,” Meredith

Fifty years after Meredith started painting on

like Jackson Pollack and Mark Rothko. His

remembers. “I just took to it. I designed

Nantucket, she continues to follow her own

masterpieces hang in the great museums of

the sets they were shooting on, picked

muse. Her paints and rug-making materials

America: the Met, Guggenheim, MoMA,

out all the clothing, and I loved it. It was

are ready for when inspiration strikes, but

Smithsonian, and many others of note.

a fascinating film and a wonderful,

she mostly focuses on writing these days—

wonderful experience.”

not for a book, she says, just for herself. “Living

Though she grew up surrounded by artists of

to ninety is not easy!” she declares. “But

all kinds, Meredith didn’t become a painter

Around that time, the Merediths found

everyone has a few people in their life that

until later in life. At sixteen, she preferred

Nantucket, not so much by washing ashore,

make it worth living. Mine are my son, my

to dance and performed regularly in the

but by landing. “Stan had flown four engine

daughter-in-law, and my good friends.”

Rainbow Room at the Waldorf Astoria.

planes during the war, so shortly after we

chris Noth at dreamland

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chris Noth & Virginia Joffe

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Jim hackett & Jonathan anastos

Bill Liddle & Patty Roggeveen

Laura Poole & addie Richards

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Susan cary & Sandy Walsh

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the band, coq au vin, has taken nantucket bY storM with an eclectic repertoire that includes everything from Django-style gypsy jazz, Eastern European and Russian folk music to French chansons, Cuban songs, American blues—and a little bit of pop.

Since launching the band last spring, they’ve become the most sought-after show on the island. “We played eighty gigs in ninety days this summer!” exclaims Ingrid Feeney, the band’s singer.

Coq au Vin’s bandleader, Nantucketborn Caleb Cressman is a musician, composer, ethnomusicologist and organic farmer. He plays an array of different instruments—Irish fiddle, flamenco guitar, mandolin, sitar and percussion— in a wide range of musical styles. The accordion is his newest instrument, and that’s what he plays for Coq au Vin. Cressman also composes all of the original music that Coq au Vin performs.

Cressman put together the earliest incarnation of Coq au Vin as an instrumental ensemble in the summer of 2011 to perform at art openings, cocktail receptions and other Nantucket events. With Cressman on accordion, Joanna Hay on gypsy-style fiddle, Zeb Bennett on acoustic bass, and Bob Walder and Pete Arsenault on guitars, Coq au Vin got its start, stunning Nantucket audiences with their completely unique, if not foreign, sound. A bit later, Cressman brought on horn player and fellow farming colleague, Andy Harris, who “plays a funky-dirty N magazine

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Ingrid Feeney, who joined the band at the beginning of this year.

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“Many people have embraced me with tears in their eyes, telling me how happy it makes them to hear this music and what a good job we are doing!”

— ingrid feeney

“When Ingrid started singing with us in January, we realized that something very good was happening,” says Cressman. “Putting a band together with players from such different backgrounds was a perfect fit for Ingrid’s tremendous voice and her linguistics background. Ingrid can sing pretty much anything in any language.”

Feeney explains that she was initially concerned that fellow islanders who hail from Russia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, and other parts of Eastern Europe would be critical of their “imperfect attempts at interpreting folk music from these regions.” But she says it has been just the opposite. “Many people have embraced me with tears in their eyes, telling me how happy it makes them to hear this music and what a good job we are doing!”

Part of Cressman’s vision for Coq au Vin was to be able to play unamplified. “Acoustic music has a more balanced, natural sound and the band can play intimate gatherings that a rock band would have trouble with,” says Cressman. “We are also highly mobile and versatile, since N magazine

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And thanks to Ingrid’s pipes, she can hold her own over the rest of the band, which is incredible.”

Mostly the band plays together for fun. They especially love gigs where they can “get a little more loose and where the audience is more rowdy” like at their weekly gig at Pazzo. But they admit that they’ve selected much of their repertoire to be appropriate for cocktail parties and other special events. “So I guess we did want to be able to support our music habit by playing fancy gigs too,” says Feeney. One of the most gratifying aspects of performing this past summer has been the community’s enthusiastic response. “It has been incredibly heartwarming,” says Feeney.

“We are especially grateful to the theater community for coming and dancing at Pazzo after their shows and really helping to create a special ambiance there.”

As for Coq au Vin’s future aspirations, they’re not yet sure where they want to go with it. The band will be on a brief tour the first week of December to New York City, Philadelphia, and Delaware.

They also plan to make a studio recording over the winter. “But we all have other plans in life too,” says Feeney. With that in mind, Nantucketers should take heed and catch the island’s hottest new band, when, where and while they can!

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Before

the season’s first frost, many

islanders look to preserve a taste of summer by canning, drying, pickling, and smoking a bounty of local produce, seafood, and wild

edibles. Their refrigerators and cupboard shelves get stacked high with canned tomatoes, dried peppermint and lemon verbena, frozen sweet corn, smoked bluefish and many other

Jarrin arrinG jams, sauces, and stocks. The practice is a

Nantucket pastime, connected to the days

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when preserving food was more than just a fun activity—it was a means of survival.

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Caleb Cressman, co-founder of Faraway Farms, turns into a hobby homesteader come fall. Armed with the unofficial preserving bible, Putting Food By, and a dash of local wisdom, Cressman and his wife, Lindsay, extend the life of their crops by way of the jar. “It’s one of the most basic things in the world, providing for your family,” Cressman says, removing a jar of applesauce from the pantry and handing me a spoon. “There’s a lot of pride that goes into growing something and sharing it.”

I dip the spoon into the jar. The contents are sweet, velvety and deceivingly fresh, like it was jarred yesterday, not nine months ago. Put short and sweet: the food tastes alive.

Another passionate preserver, Justine Paradis routinely forages for beach plums laden with red and purple fruit in the fall, identifying the shrub amongst scrub oak and honeysuckle.

She places the plums in a jar and eats them grainy flesh, and spitting out the pit. With the alchemy of heat, sugar, and pectin, the berries will turn into jelly, which Paradis plans to use for popovers on Christmas morning.

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t’s about taking personal responsibility for what you eat,” she says. “You touch every single berry as they go

into your jar and then you touch them again when you wash

them. How often can we say with certainty and confidence how

our food comes to us?”

Every batch of her jam or canned tomatoes delivers a unique flavor that reflects the particular time and place it was grown and harvested. French oenophiles term this nuanced, one-of-a-kind flavor: terroir. And just as with wine, every artisanal fruit and vegetable crop carries with it that power of place, the taste of the earth. Here on Nantucket the notes tend to be of glacial moraine with a hint of salt.

Food produced through large scale, industrialized agriculture, with its monocultures and GMO’s, cannot offer the same depth and diversity in flavor as locally grown or wild foods. And

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although we have more options labeled organic or sustainable than ever before, the eater looking to augment his or her diet with artisanal, seasonal, local or regional foods won’t find many commercial options. Thus, many people turn to preserving foods. So when the Stop & Shop produce section turns to jetlagged apples from New Zealand and waxy, unripe tomatoes from Florida, there is still a way to eat local and fresh on Nantucket.

You will need: . 6 lbs. apples

(use local or regional apples for best flavor)

. Sugar . Cinnamon . Water . A heavy bottomed pot for the apples . Canning jars (about 4 sixteen-ounce pint jars for every 6 pounds of apples)

. A large pot for the hot water bath (like a lobster pot)

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. A cookie sheet . Clean kitchen towels . Tongs . A chop stick

What to do:

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Wash the apples, core them, and cut away any bruised or damaged parts leaving the skin on. Cut apples into large chunks.

Place the cut-up apples into the heavy bottomed pot along with one cup of water and cook on medium heat until your apples turn to mush, around ten to twenty minutes. Stir occasionally and add more water as needed to keep it the consistency of applesauce.

While the apples are cooking, start your hot water bath to sterilize the jars. Fill your large pot with about 5 inches of water and bring to a boil. Add your jars, rings and lids in the pot and boil for 10 minutes.

Once boiled, carefully remove the jars and rings using tongs.

Place jars on a cookie tray lined with a clean dishcloth. If you are using metal canning lids, leave the lids in the hot water until you are ready to seal your jars to keep the rubber seal active.

Once the apples are all cooked down to mush, run them through the food mill or food processor to create an even pureed texture.

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7.

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Now fill your jars with applesauce, leaving half an inch of space at the top of the jar. Using a sterilized chopstick, stir the applesauce to remove any air pockets and gently tap the jar on a counter to settle. With a clean towel wipe the rim clean and secure the lids.

Now using tongs or a jar lifter if you have one, place the jars of applesauce into your boiling hot water bath, making sure the jars are covered by at least one inch of water. Use a canning rack or some improvised barrier between the bottom of the pot and the glass lids to keep them from cracking. Boil for 20 minutes.

Remove the jars and place back on the towel lined cookie sheet, and drape another towel over the jars so they cool slowly. Let sit undisturbed for 24 hours.

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Return your applesauce to the pot and sweeten and season to taste, over low heat. Often, the applesauce tastes so great alone we don’t need to add anything, but if your apples are on the sour side, a little sugar and cinnamon will help.

Check your jars to make sure they are all nicely sealed. Any lids that may have popped are not sealed properly and can be stored in the fridge and eaten within a few days. All other jars will keep on a shelf for a year.

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t the doctor w will see Your o whole FaMilY n now

Dr. Nicole Steinmuller

nce upon a time,

a doctor would deliver your baby, diagnose your husband’s back pain, help your grandfather pass a kidney

would arrive at your door with little more than a black leather bag, a

stethoscope, and a question: “What seems to be the problem?”

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all in a day’s work. The physician

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stone, and prescribe a pain reliever

While house calls may be a thing of the past,

do obstetrics, but it is part of family medi-

and underserved population at BMC and at

the Nantucket Cottage Hospital revives the

cine training,” Steinmuller accounts. Many

South Boston Community Health Center.

good old days of family medicine with the

family physicians shy away from obstetrics

For Steinmuller, family medicine calls for

help of doctors like George Buttersworth

as part of their practice because it can be

knowing and understanding the patient and

and Margaret “Mimi” Koehm. Joining their

demanding and challenging, especially in

their family beyond what the chart says, and

ranks this fall is Dr. Nicole Steinmuller, the

terms of the time commitment and skills

treating them accordingly. Her practice spans

newest addition to the family physicians

required. “I really wanted to do the O.B. part

the spectrum of the family, from obstetrics

practicing at Nantucket Cottage Hospital.

of [Family Medicine], but I felt I needed the

to pediatrics to geriatrics. “I wanted to be

additional training beyond my residency to

doing something where I develop relation-

A graduate of Tufts Medical School and resi-

feel comfortable and gain the skills needed,”

ships with patients,” she says. “You’re at the

dent at Boston Medical Center, Nicole Stein-

she says of her fellowship at Rochester

front end of things. You need to be a really

muller envisioned her practice somewhere

University. “Obstetrics is something that can

good diagnostician. People can come in with

in Massachusetts, but never on Nantucket.

go from low-risk to high-risk at any moment.

anything, and you need to either know how

Yet as fate would have it, NCH proved the

So I really wanted to be able to handle every-

to help them, how to treat them or where to

perfect place to establish her practice in fam-

thing that came my way.”

refer them.” Fortunately, NCH sponsors a strong network of doctors for Steinmuller to

ily medicine. “They were looking for exactly what I do,” Dr. Steinmuller says. “They were

In this age of medical specialists, where

call upon, whether it is a resident physician

looking for a primary care doctor, a family

there’s a physician for just about every

or one based at Mass General.

physician, that had surgical obstetrical skills.

pore and follicle, family medicine seems

They were basically looking for me.”

delightfully old-fashioned, reminiscent of

Living on an island where you can bump

the Rockwellian doctor raising a stethoscope

into your mailman, neighbor, and selectman

Steinmuller recently cut the cord, so to

to the little girl’s doll. This holistic style of

all in one aisle at the grocery store, Steinmul-

speak, completing a yearlong Maternal Child

caregiving appealed to Steinmuller from

ler is sure to get to know her patients very

Health Fellowship at Highland Hospital in

her earliest days in medical school, and

well. The young doctor is excited to become

Rochester, New York, during which time she

continued throughout her residency training

part of the island community and treat Nan-

delivered hundreds of babies and developed

at Boston Medical Center, where she was

tucket families with all the care and skill she

the surgical obstetrical skills to perform

eventually elected chief resident. During

has developed over the years.

cesarean sections. “Not all family physicians

that time, she cared for a greatly diverse

Obstetrics, or the care of women during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum, is in greater demand on the island as more Nantucket mothers opt to have their babies here, rather than on the Cape or in Boston. Island births are between ninety-five and one hundred per year (approximately one hundred births in 2011), and NCH representatives speculate that 2012 will be “record-breaking” in the arrival of “native” sons and daughters. Earlier this summer, one of NCH’s most seasoned family physicians, Dr. Greg Hinson, bowed out of the delivery room, thus opening the slot for Steinmuller to work alongside Dr. Mimi Koehm in the baby birthing business.

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give

the gift

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that Keeps on swimming

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What do you get for the person Who has everything?

How about a whale? This holiday season, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary of whale adoption. For less than you might pay for a six-ounce fish dinner on Nantucket, you can adopt a seventeen-ton humpback whale (aquarium sold separately).

Of course, you’re not actually buying the whale, but rather the

“In working with Shearwater Excursions, the Nantucket Marine

piece of mind of helping save one. True, whales are far more

Mammal Conservation Program, and the UMass Boston Field Sta-

protected than some years ago when over 100,000 humpback

tion we hope to further prove the importance of Nantucket waters

and sperm whales were harpooned

to large whales and increase public edu-

for oil. Yet despite today’s

cation and stewardship on the island,”

rigorous bans on commercial

says Karen Costa of WDC. “This year

whaling, thousands are still killed

marks the second year of this collabora-

every year. Since 1987, the

tion and WDC is appreciative of the

Whale and Dolphin Conservation

opportunity to collaborate on Nantucket

based in Plymouth, Massachusetts

and with these wonderful organiza-

has campaigned to protect these

tions.” On an island literally built from

magnificent mammals in our waters

blubber, adopting a whale could quite

and beyond, and their adoption

possibly be the most karmic gift of all.

program is the oldest in the country.

And if nothing else, it’s a present that promises to make a huge splash come gift-giving time.

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NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

Festival of Wreaths

& Silent Auction

Whaling Museum | 13 Broad Street

Preview Party Tuesday, November 20 5–7 P.M. Space is limited. Purchase tickets at NHA.org or call (508) 228 1894.

Festival Dates Wednesday, November 21 Friday, November 23 Saturday, November 24

Sunday, November 25 10 A.M.–2 P.M. Successful bidders announced at 2:30 P. M.

10 A.M.–5 P.M.

Need not be present to win.

A free NHA community event

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Festival of Trees Whaling Museum | 13 Broad Street

Preview Party Thursday, November 29 6–8 P.M. Space is limited. Purchase tickets at NHA.org or call (508) 228 1894.

A Night of Holiday Magic Saturday, December 15 5–8 P.M. NHA Members free

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Children under 6 free Nantucket Year-Round Residents $5

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General Admission $17

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For more information,

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Visit nha.org or call (508) 228–1894

A special family evening filled with the sights & sounds of the holidays.

Festival Dates November 30 Friday 11 A.M.–8 P.M.

December 27–28 Thursday & Friday 11 A.M.–4 P.M.

December 1–23 Thursday–Monday 11 A.M–4 P.M.

Saturday, Sunday, & Monday

December 29, 30, & 31

10 A.M.–5 P.M.

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When the last hurrah of visitors swarms the island for Stroll weekend, many a Nantucketer faces the inevitable question: “So what’s the winter like?” Answers typically range from “peacefully picturesque” to “dreadfully dull.” Ask someone from the Nantucket Historical Association, however, and the response will likely be: “The winters? They’re nothing like they used to be!”

When a particularly merciless cold spell struck Nantucket

of Nantucket’s past. During the eighteenth and nineteenth

in February of 1829, “no water could be seen from any side

centuries, from December through April, islanders lived at

of the island,” reported the Inquirer. Not only did the cold

the mercy of the elements, isolated by the all-too-common

weather result in a high sheep mortality rate and scarcity of

harbor “freeze-ups.” The frozen harbor, which could take

firewood, but the ice also prevented all mail delivery to the

three or four weeks to thaw, resulted in a complete detach-

island. When it did finally arrive, sleighs carried the parcels

ment from the outside world, embargoing essentials like

from the head of the harbor into town, where it sat frozen in

firewood and provisions as well as news and mail from the

a block of ice.

“continent.”

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w

hile these periods of isolation deprived Nantucketers of contact with the outside world, it did lay

the foundation for a community of industrious and resilient islanders who turned the seclusion

into opportunities for winter fun. According to NHA historian Edouard Stackpole, when snow

fell upon the island in the February of 1849 and the town was “transformed into a snow village,” Nantucketers harnessed their horses to a sleigh and raced along the streets. Years later, in 1865, when the ferry was once again

frozen in port, the harbor became a “skating park” and was enjoyed “by old and young alike.”

While some business came to a screeching halt during the freeze-ups, Nantucketers did keep pace with other, more recreational pursuits. In 1856, during a severe ice embargo that lasted from January 4th to February 23th, it was reported that, “The churches remained closed, men went unshaved, the only branch of business pursued as usual was ‘courting.’ No storm ever yet has been known sufficiently severe to interfere with that interesting pursuit.” And so it was that when the firewood ran low, Nantucketers remained warm in one another’s embrace.

By the middle of the nineteenth century it appeared that hard winters were becoming the “order of things,” as a young Maria Mitchell wrote in her journal on January 22, 1857. “[W]e have been frozen in our Island now since the 6th. No one cared much about it for the first two or three days, but as the daily temperatures steadily dropped day after day and even sleighing became uncomfortable, even the dullest man longed for the cheer of a newspaper.” Despite the boredom that came with a lack of news, Mitchell conveyed that families amused themselves by gathering together to write poetry in “great quantities” and N magazine

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Although, she contended, none of those activities could make up for being “now sixteen daily papers behind the rest of the world, and in these sixteen papers, are the items known to all the cities, which will never be known to us.” The mail finally arrived on February 3rd, after nearly a month of silence.

While Mitchell recorded her frustration by journaling, other Nantucketers resorted to more desperate measures of combating the isolation. After several weeks with a frozen harbor, a group campaigned to free the ferry, Island Home, by cutting away the ice encasing the vessel and then exploding a path out of port. Unfortunately, before any headway could be made, another blizzard swept in and thwarted the efforts.

By the turn of the 20th century, in 1914, the Inquirer and Mirror announced that Nantucket no longer “suffered” during the harbor freeze-ups as it once had. The advent of the telephone and construction of the Nantucket cable in 1886 had lessened the sense of isolation that Nantucketers endured when passage by the steamboat was halted.

By the middle of the twentieth century, airplanes, kerosene, and electricity forever transformed the limitations imposed by inclement weather.

Indeed, the times have changed and the weather seems to have warmed. So for those who shiver over the idea of spending the winter on the island, remember that it’s a Nantucket rite of passage, and not nearly as long brutal as it used to be.

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Trustees of Reservations Party at Great Point

Foggysheet nantucket

John & bonnie Gould

Kate saunders, Ken Roman, & Julie Williams

toni & Martin Mckerrow

ted steinbock, sarah Martin & Mark Goldweitz

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Marcia & steve Anderson

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stephen Nicolle, bill & Jackie Kupper, Carl Melberg & John Vasconcellos Photos by FiFi GreenberG

Kirtan Music festival

Kirtan musicians

ashley Flagg

Rasamrta Devi Dasi, Katherine glass-KumuDini Devi Dasi

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Clay ornaments—lighthouse, whale pants, tree in dingy, and Nantucket signs— are all hand-made and painted by Massachusetts artist, Mary McCormack. Available exclusively at Andersons on 29 Main Street.

The 2012 “Preppy Pants Santa” comes from the Radko Company, hand-made custom.

Available exclusively at Andersons on 29 Main Street.

Nantucket Noel bulb is hand-painted in Poland and is the first of the 2012 Stoll Collection. Available exclusively at Andersons on 29 Main Street.

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around for the holidays

The scrimshaw ornament (above) was hand-carved

by Michael Vienneau as part of his annual collection.

Available exclusively at the Scrimshander Gallery on 38 Centre Street and Made on Nantucket 18 Old South Wharf.

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