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Paying the price On Nantucket in July, the weather is glorious, the beaches sparkle and the ocean is teeming with bluefish and bass. There is simply no better place to get away and celebrate the Independence Day holiday. But it is during this most American of holidays that we must not forget that others are fighting a difficult war overseas. Our incursion into Afghanistan and Iraq is almost as old as this very magazine, but over the past five years, the war has slipped into the background of our collective consciousness. The reality of the War on Terror has come home to me through my 23-year-old first cousin who is serving with the Marines. In the past month, he has witnessed the death of his best friend and the severe injury of another. If not for a flak jacket, he too would have been lost. Yet he and his company remain deeply committed to their mission and would not likely trade places with us even if they had the choice. To me, this is what the Fourth of July is about. While the majority of us are living in peace and comfort, others are willing to put their lives at risk to protect our way of life here at home. While the wisdom of the war can be debated, the resolve of our soldiers cannot, and they deserve our unconditional support and gratitude. In this issue of N Magazine, editor Bill Ferrall interviews Olympic skating legend Dorothy Hamill, one of Nantucket’s newest summer residents. She shared with Bill the ups and downs of her post-Olympic life. While Nantucket has gained an American sports icon, it has also unexpectedly lost one of its most visible and beloved media figures. Tim Russert, host of NBC’s Meet the Press, was again scheduled to be a lecturer for Nantucket Atheneum’s Geschke Lecture series as well as the guest-host again for this summer’s annual Boston Pops concert for Nantucket Cottage Hospital and for Nantucket Boys and Girls Club annual Summer Groove. Tim’s warm smile and friendly demeanor will be deeply missed. Thomas Jefferson once said that had he the choice between government without newspapers or newspapers without government, he would choose the latter. Although Tim was a broadcast journalist, he provided the type of check on our government and political process that Jefferson viewed as so critical, and his loss affects us all. There is however much to celebrate and be thankful for this Fourth of July, and we hope you all enjoy what Nantucket has to offer.
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Tips for summer time dressing up and dressing down, from Nantucket Style Council fashion mavens Cheryl Fudge, Beth English, Kim Pizzitola and Azra Wilmott-Smith.
Chair–itable art You’ll want to grab a seat for this fundraising effort by eight island artists to benefit Nantucket Lighthouse School.
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Many rue their loud noise or fret about their safety, but motorcycles have many local owner-fans, many of whom find fun times and do good deeds while steering their bikes around Nantucket.
The state of real estate Longtime Nantucket Realtor Edward Sanford analyzes Nantucket real estate today with thoughts on we people buy second homes on the island.
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With a longtime love for being near the ocean, 1976 Olympic skating gold medalist Dorothy Hamill has found a new home on Nantucket. She offers special praise for the frozen arena at Nantucket Ice.
65 Plein air BoHo & shining Pearl
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For more than two decades, The Boarding House has excelled among local dining rooms with its patio lunches, its bistro noshes and fine dining. Now its hip sister The Pearl is spicing up its late-night scene.
A green party view Our new column on being environmentally smart and sensitive if you’re living on or visiting Nantucket. In this issue, how to throw an eco-smart party with products and services that leave behind only memories.
25 Nature’s bouquet Longtime Nantucket Garden Club member Lyndon Dupuis offers tips for prettying up your home and recounts how she has competed for over two decades for flower show blue ribbons.
29 The perfect date Whether it’s some secluded rendezvous or it’s “seeing and being seen” in public, you’ll find plentiful ideas for that perfect Nantucket date in our early summer roundup.
71 Brunch sunnyside up Down on Nantucket’s Old North Wharf, the sun often shines on the picturesque view. Join in for an early summer barbecue by E.J. Harvey of The Sea Grille for a group of island friends.
Cover U.S. Olympic Gold figure skater Dorothy Hamill takes in the scenery at Nantucket Life Saving Museum on Polpis Road, where photographer Laurie Richards found her at ease and enjoying the sunset.
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The comics are coming, the comics are coming Would be comics on Nantucket’s Main Street in June get in the spirit of the upcoming Nantucket Comedy Festival Photo by Barbara Gookin
‘Sconset resident Jason Briggs—a millionaire who retired from Wall Street at age 32, according to published reports—is bringing new highs to Nantucket this summer. As owner of New Hampshire’s Manchester Millrats, a 2007 expansion team of the American Basketball League, Briggs is giving his players a summer respite on the island. Five of them turned out in May for the Nantucket Wine Festival Gala, where they warmly greeted N Magazine ad director Fifi Greenberg but couldn’t resisted looking down on her—in a friendly way, of course. Others in the usual cast of high-profile summer
A Hollywood figure on a different high also arrives that week. Edgy actor Stephen Baldwin—one of the well-known Baldwin acting brothers—visits the island to spend a day with Spiritual Nantucket Heritage, a “non-denominational group whose mission is to build and encourage the Christian community.” Baldwin spurned his early Hollywood madness for his “Breakthrough Ministry,” a transformation you can witness on-line at stepehanbaldwin.com before getting face-to-face with him Thursday, June 19. Nantucket seasonal residents Bob and Suzanne Wright—he’s the former head honcho at NBC Universal and she’s a longtime arts and community activist—were named to Time magazine’s annual list of “The World’s Most Influential People.” The couple was our 2007 cover subjects in a story about their indefatigable work for autism, a condition that afflicts their grandson. The couple has spurred congressional action and appropriations, millions of dollars in research and international awareness about autism. William Ferrall
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residents and visitors are flocking here as well. Downtown types in black jackets, jeans and dark glasses blow in from Wednesday, June 18 through Saturday, June 21 for the lucky 13th year—and au courant director Judd Apatow will get some swag bestowed on them. That should make Ryan happier than a few years back when a staff member of Nantucket Preservation Trust at the group’s annual summer residents and visitors are flocking here as well. Downtown types in black jackets, jeans and dark glasses blow in from Wednesday, June 18 through Saturday, June 21 for the lucky 13th year of Nantucket Film Festival. Hot Hollywood actor Meg Ryan—she’ll probably skip over from her Vineyard digs—and au courant director Judd Apatow will get some swag bestowed on them. That should make
Ryan happier than a few years back when a staff member of Nantucket Preservation Trust at the group’s annual summer kitchen tour turned away the actress and her friends because they lacked tickets.
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Nthings It’s apparent to those of us who’ve chatted with Connor Gifford at various social functions that he regularly attends that he is a special young man. Born 26 years ago with Down Syndrome, Gifford has already accomplished more in his full, young life than many people his age. An active volunteer on island, Gifford is a board member of STAR, Nantucket’s Sports and Therapeutic/Accessible Recreation program, which is an innovative provider of services to children with special needs. Gifford is also the prophet-like voice of the book “America According to Connor Gifford,” created and compiled by Victoria Harris. During a casual conversation at a summer event last year, Harris learned that Gifford, son of Julie Gifford and Chuck Gifford, has a passion for American history. “He was talking to me about his deep love of history and tears came to my
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eyes as I listened to him so movingly and insightfully discuss our nation’s past,” said Harris. “Finding a way for him to express his thoughts simply had to be done. I stopped writing my novel and started writing with him last summer.” Harris created an interview process for Gifford that primed his thoughts in a cohesive manner. Thousands of hours of interview tape began with the words, “Hi. I’m Connor Gifford. Welcome.” “Through history, we know that every character is different,” said Gifford, who identified his favorite historical character as Rosa Parks. “As for my having Down Syndrome, it means that I have a gift. I thank God for having the opportunity to
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share my thoughts about our past, and my hopes for the future.” Including civil rights, women’s rights and religious freedom, the topics that Harris and Gifford raised spanned 400 years of “America’s attempt to get it right,” as Harris put it. In all, the book includes 53 profiles as well 58 original drawings by Gifford. “The profiles are pithy, to the point,” Harris said. “People who’ve read the book are moved... that it communicates the essence of our identity in such a readable fashion. Tim Russert knew this, and this is why he was our most enthusiastic endorser.” Russert endorsed the book, as did Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Nat Philbrick and Vern Laux, before Harris and Gifford brought it with them to Book Expo America in Los Angeles in May, where they were a great success.
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According to Harris, whose company is publishing the book, America “needs” Gifford’s perspective now. “When eighty percent is dissatisfied with the direction of our country, along comes a young man with Down Syndrome who makes sense of our past. We need that,” said Harris, who is looking toward an August national launch for the book, timed with the political conventions. “The timing is right, the concept is right, the process of how it is made between myself and Connor is fascinating and will help
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“Connor was phenomenal. Absolutely everyone fell in love with him,” said Harris, who added that the book had its own booth and its own feature in Publishers Weekly’s Book Expo newsletter.
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Before the national release of the book, you can order it through 800-BOOKLOG or connorgifford.com. You could also meet Gifford directly at a book talk and signing with the co-creators at 7 PM on July 7 at the Nantucket Historical Association Whaling Museum.
with new Egan curator Hall University.
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Taking her place is a seafaring man named James Lansing. Originally from Trenton, New Jersey, Lansing and his wife, the artist and teacher Jean Benfante, relocated to Nantucket from the Poconos in June.
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Spring is a time of regeneration, not just for the Nantucket landscape, but also for its organizations. This spring, respected Egan Maritime Foundation curator Jascin Leonardo Finger stepped down from her position to focus on her work with the Maria Mitchell Association.
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New Egan Foundation curator James Lansing.
“The whole search committee really was interested in his background,” said Egan Maritime Foundation Executive Director Jean Grimmer. “He’s got a good mix of life experience and professional experience.” Lansing joined the Coast Guard out of high school, served in Hawaii and went on to get his undergraduate and graduate degrees in English before becoming a teacher for many years. More recently, he completed his Master’s degree in Museum Studies at Seton
Just as the foundation receives a new curator, it also opens its newly renovated Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum on Polpis Road to the public on July 2. Under construction since September, the remodeled space houses engaging new elements such as an interactive map showing all the shipwrecks around Nantucket as well as a boat room where walls are filled with old quarterboards. For kids, there’s an interactive kiosk that allows them to see the weather in the harbor and takes them through boat
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The whole shebang is topped with Breeches buoy, hung from the ceiling like a cherry on a sundae.
Sustaining Nantucket Under its new executive director Michelle Whelan, island group Sustainable Nantucket joined the downtown ranks in May with a new office at 14 Federal Street. The office space is located on the second floor, and was once the former office of Nantucket’s “first lady,” the late and revered Grace Grossman. “We are looking forward to establishing a more visible and accessible presence in the community,” said Whelan. “As our focus is on our community character and includes the revitalization of a year-round downtown, this location is perfect for us as a growing grassroots organization. The space became available and we saw it as a great opportunity to raise our profile.”
it’s one that could be told in other museums.” Jeremy Slavitz continues as curator of the Lifesaving Museum. For more on the museum, go to eganmaritime.org.
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“The story of how important Nantucket has been in the lifesaving service leading up to the Coast Guard is a story not
enough people know unless you live here,” Lansing said. “My goal is to get the collection completely catalogued, under control and stored in a manner that it deserves, whereas now it’s stored in two different buildings. Then, I’d like to get this story of Nantucket off the island through traveling exhibitions, because
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Sustainable Nantucket is a local nonprofit organization whose mission is “to preserve the community character of Nantucket while sustaining its economic and environmental vitality.” In addition to forming a Green Council partnership with the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives’ / Cities for Climate Protection Campaign, Sustainable Nantucket also steers a Buy Local/Hire Local programs, a budding Youth Council and Nantucket Farmers and Artisans Market, which starts Saturday, June 28. The market has been a treasure trove for local produce and goods from cottage industries. Held through August 2 this year in the Dreamland Theatre parking lot off of
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Sustainable Nantucket’s new Director Michelle Whelan. Photo by William Ferrall
Easy Street, the market moves to the Nantucket New School parking lot from August 9 through October 11.
Nantucket Celebration Save the Date! Saturday, July 26, 2008 Cocktails and Light Buffet Honoree Bob Mooney Chairs Ann and Chris Quick
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A passionate advocate for the sustainability of Nantucket’s year-round community, photographer Cary Hazlegrove has set her sites on the arts-oriented Nantucket Lighthouse School, where her daughter, Virginia, has been a student for seven years. “The school’s individual-oriented approach to teaching has also taught my husband Andy and me how to be better parents,” said Hazlegrove, who created the Four fundraiser earlier this year in part to benefit the Lighthouse School and is now spearheading the school’s Painted Chairs auction. Hazlegrove asked eight of her close friends and fellow artists each to personalize a chair, which she is auctioning off with $10 raffle tickets that allow the buyer to bid on one chair per ticket. “Every one of these artists I would consider a close friend,” added Hazlegrove, who noted that Edwin Rudd also has a son at the Lighthouse School while John Lochtefeld has grandchildren who attend. “I’m trying to help the Lighthouse School get outside of the box with the fundraisers,” said Hazlegrove, whose mother gave her the idea for Painted Chairs after working with the Roanoke Symphony in Virginia on a similar exhibit of painted violins. The drawing takes place Wednesday, August 6, at 7:30 PM at Diana Kim England Goldsmiths. For tickets call 508-228-0427 or see nantucketlighthouseschool.com.
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Conversation Piece
Under the Sea
Sherre Wilson-Rae In the studio, I keep a book of quotes I’ve pulled from different things I’ve read, or things of my own that I write down, or Buddhist precepts—a variety. I would come in my studio everyday and write something on the chair, then I’d start doing thin layers of paint, then I’d write more, then I’d paint. It was a kind of conversation I was having with the chair.
Jeanne Van Etten I’m, I guess, “obsessed” with mermaids. Plus, we’re surrounded by ocean, so I wanted to make the chair nautical and colorful and cheery. I found a nautical encyclopedia at the Take It or Leave It and copied some shells out of there and some from life. I put twenty-seven hours into this chair. I had a lot of fun with it. I learned a lot.
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In My Studio
Joan Albaugh When I was a kid in first grade, there was a chair in the front of the class called “the thinking chair,” which is where you went when you were in trouble. I like the idea of a “thinking chair” as a place to go for creative inspiration, which is what the light bulbs are there for.
Christine Sanford I’m into the drip technique. That’s the way I paint, because I like to see the journey paint takes down the canvas. While I was making paintings for my show at South Wharf Gallery, I used the paint on my palette to drip onto the chair, which was even more fun than canvas, because it had so many angles.
The Green Chair
Apple and Eve
John Lochtefeld I based this on what I usually do, which is sort of whimsical figures from a seagoing past, perhaps Nantucket, with whales, dolphins, mermaids, sailors, suns and stars.
Kasia Baker I’m very interested in the stories of women, and Eve is, of course, one of the very early ones. We get a lot of blame there, and I think the jury should be out on that.
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Fancy Pants
Joanna Kane I was just having fun putting different patterns together. No matter how I tried to mix other colors, I kept coming back to these. I was trying to make it really lighthearted, in the spirit of the Lighthouse School and children. It looks very much like it belongs to a child to me.
Edwin Rudd I tried all sorts of different things. I started with old shingles, and that didn’t look too hot. Then I tried fog, and that didn’t read. So then I just remembered, as a kid, being here and so many people wore Nantucket reds. I’ve always associated them with the island, and the color came out great.
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Nantucket Real Estate Trends by
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Families are bedrock In the early 1920s, Henry and Ellen Smith, who lived in Plainfield, New Jersey, heard of Nantucket through their good friends Henry and Ellen Fargo. The Fargos had visited Nantucket and thought that the Smiths would enjoy the island. The next summer, the Smiths rented a home in town and arrived with their three children for a two-week visit. Two years later, they purchased that same home at 10 Academy Lane. Today, that home is owned by one of their great grandchildren. Hugh Sanford and his wife Margaret lived in Knoxville, Tennessee. Each summer they packed up the family and household staff and headed north to escape the long hot summer months in Tennessee. They had already summered in Maine and Connecticut. In the early 1920s, an old Harvard classmate wrote to Hugh Sanford suggesting that he take his family to Nantucket. They came to the island for the next summer, and two years later they moved into a new home designed and built by Margaret Sanford, on Cliff Road.
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Henry and Ellen’s daughter Lizzy Smith and Hugh and Margaret’s son Teeny Sanford crossed paths as youngsters at Wyer’s Stable at the foot of Cliff Road and Centre Street. Love blossomed between them at the Nantucket Yacht Club in the summer of 1936, and they married two years later. Seventy years have passed, and many families descended from the Smith and Sanford clans have made Nantucket a focal point of their family gatherings. Many of their grandchildren own homes on the island, and several great grandchildren are island natives.
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This story is not unique. Hundreds of local families have similar stories and experiences, all revolving around Nantucket summers. That tradition of summering on the island, which began in earnest in the late 1800’s, serves as the foundation for Nantucket’s seasonal real estate market. Today, through word of mouth or a random Internet search, people still discover the island. Once they arrive, they are awed by the same sense of history and natural beauty that captured the
The Sanford clan summering on Nantucket. Photo courtesy of Edward Sanford
Smiths and Sanfords in the early 1920s. Despite the national and global market forces that impact the Nantucket Real Estate market, there is an inalterable element that provides a rock solid foundation for the Real Estate market. Nantucket is a place that people come to love. They raise children here during the summer months, and that becomes the foundation for generations of families returning year after year. The demand that is created is not from the speculators but from people who see Nantucket as an important part of their lives. That has been a constant for over a century and will continue long into the future. Today’s market There are reams of statistics to analyze real estate markets. I prefer to keep things simple and work on the tried and true formula of price being established as a function of supply and demand. The Nantucket market went through a significant bear market in the late 1980s, bottoming in 1991. From a peak in 1986, the number of sales transactions fell by almost 50% in that period. Prices went down and inventories went up. From that baseline, though, the market expanded to the 2000 peak, after which another downturn of three
years created the foundation for the most recent expansion of our real estate market in 2003 to 2004. Today, we are seeing a very similar trend in declining sales transactions. In 2004, there were 776 transactions. Each year since has seen declining volume, with 446 transactions in 2007. Inventories have increased substantially and prices have moderated. The good news is that people, like the Sanford and Smith descendants, still want to be on Nantucket. But that demand is tempered by numerous factors weighing on buyers. For many buyers, the downturn represents an increasingly good opportunity to purchase a property. Buyers are in control, and prices are forced to moderate to generate an increase in transactions. If the last recession in sales is any indication then we might be reaching the bottom, with 2008 producing the fourth down year in sales transactions, the same as during the 1988-91 recession. If history is a guide, the future beyond this year looks very bright. N Edward Sanford, founder of Sanford Real Estate, merged his company with Great Point Properties and is now a principle along with Greg McKechnie and Bill Liddle of Great Point Properties. Their new office is located at 1 North Beach Street.
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This year, we offer our new Green View column to suggest ways for those who live on or visit Nantucket to adopt environmentally sensitive practices and products. Created with the Nantucket firm Verde—an environmentally focused design and build company founded by Rebecca Weld, Ian Konecko and Burr Tupper—the Green View will advocate making the island a healthier, more sustainable community for generations to come.
M I N D F U L E N T E R TA I N I N G By Rebecca Weld and Burr Tupper Verde’s Ian Konecko, Rebecca Weld & Burr Tupper.
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As you celebrate Nantucket’s summer season with food and festivities, we encourage you to think, “More fun, less impact.” There is nothing more natural to Nantucket than a beach party, so make sure that your beach party supports the nature that you are there to enjoy. Pick a location that allows everyone to park and walk in to the beach or choose a beach with easy access to Nantucket Regional Transit Authority busses or the island’s extensive bike path. Don’t bring flyaway paper or plastic to the beach. Instead, carry in and carry out. At totallybamboo.com, you’ll find reasonably priced plates and very reasonable $4 utensils. Nantucket Gourmet on India Street carries bamboo serving vessels and cutting boards as well. Don’t forget to provide easy and obvious trash and recycling receptacles for your guests. Feel good about grilling, which has a smaller carbon footprint than cooking with your electric stove. With more natural options like mesquite wood, you can also minimize commercial additives sometimes found in charcoal briquettes. Be sure to pick up your required-by-law $5 fire permit from Nantucket Fire Department at 131 Pleasant Street, which is good for one year and covers all fires burning within a container. Open fires are not allowed and can be dangerous to our delicate beach environments. If your party is during the day, you’re automatically solar powered, but at night, consider lighting the area with Sun Jars—a mason jar with a solar charger on top and LED light inside that provides a beautiful diffused light for the table or walkway for up to five hours. We also prefer bees wax candles over conventional paraffin ones. You can purchase these candles and Sun Jars at fiddlehead.us, the online store of a green home emporium based on Boston’s Newberry Street. Once you’re here, you’re on “island time,” so leave behind the notion of “fast food.” Slow Food is a philosophy cum movement aimed at bringing pleasure and thoughtfulness back into how and what we eat through good, clean and fair-trade food. The concepts behind slow food, found at slowfood.com, are part of what motivates the owners of Nantucket’s Water Street Restaurant and American Seasons. They offer gourmet food centered on a farm-to-table mission, with meats from humanely raised animals prepared using a head-to-tail philosophy—leaving no portion of meat, fish or fowl unused—along with seasonal produce from local or nearby farms. What’s summer without a fresh insalata caprese
or brine-soaked corn on the cob? Get the goods at either Bartlett’s Farm or at Moor’s End Farm, which are each rich in Nantucket farming heritage. Bartlett’s produce and flowers can be found at their farm in Cisco, their pushcart on Main Street or at the summer-long Farmers and Artisans Market produced by Sustainable Nantucket on Saturdays. Already attuned to ecofriendly practices, Bartlett’s will soon be getting greener by installing a large wind turbine. Operated by the Slosek family, Moor’s End is located on Polpis Road not far from town. You can pick your own strawberries or buy their tomatoes, corn and other prized veggies. While not certified organic, their improved cultivation techniques—such as their enormous composting operation—mean that some foods, such as their strawberries, don’t need to be sprayed with insecticide. It’s worth noting that Nantucketgrown tomatoes are not affected by the nationwide salmonella warnings. Located in the same neighborhood as Cisco Brewery and Bartlett’s Farm is East Coast Seafood on Hummock Pond Road, where proprietor Bill Sandole offers a quick wit and warm smile as well as locally caught fish, shellfish and farmed Nantucket Harbor oysters. Finally, there is Annye’s Whole Foods, a little store on Amelia Drive off Old South Road. Here you can fill up your reusable shopping bag with greener goods including produce, organic wines, recycled paper goods and green cleaning supplies. Local products rule here, including Mickey Rowland honey from local bees and Nancy’s Meltdown Cookies made by Nancy Cook. Whether you use a bushel basket, your trusty fishing pole or points on your credit card to eat here, Nantucket is world class for food and entertainment. Enjoy and respect it for all its worth through the open eyes and clean palette of a Green View.
Resources Annye’s Whole Foods at 14 Amelia Drive annyes.com / 508-228-4554 Bartlett’s Farm on Bartlett Farm Road bartlettsfarm.com / 508-228-9403 Cisco Brewery / Nantucket Vineyard 5 Bartlett Farm Road ciscobrewers.com / 508-325-5929 East Coast Seafood 167 Hummock Pond Rd. / 508-228-2871 Moor’s End Farm Polpis Road / 508-228-2674 Nantucket Gourmet 4 India Street nantucketgourmet.com / 508-228-4353 Nantucket Regional Transit Authority shuttlenantucket.com / 508-228-7025 Sustainable Nantucket sustainablenantucket.org / 508-228-3399
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nthings party life Eco-smart ideas for low-impact parties
Party lite
By William Ferrall
Who doesn’t like a good party? Apparently few of us, since summers on Nantucket are punctuated by dozens of cocktail parties, small to large weddings and benefits with sometimes hundreds of attendees. A little careful planning and smart shopping trips can create modestly healthier events and reduce their environmental impact on the island landfill. Come to enjoy and leave only memories behind.
Glass reunions You’ll find tranSglass® from Artecnica ensconced in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, but the best thing might be its recycled origins. Designed by Tord Boontje and Emma Woffenden, these sleek but functional vessels include lidded carafes, vases and hanging lights. Find them in stores and online at re-modern.com.
Freshwater stream Soda-Club claims that its counter-top home seltzer makers can be found in over 10 million households worldwide. Help reduce the mass of plastic bottles entering our environment and mix up mean drinks to boot, by ordering one of their half dozen seltzer makers and reusable bottles at sodaclubusa.com.
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Galas go green Environmental lifestyle expert Danny Seo suggests eco-friendly methods and the latest products for decorating and entertaining. Among his many books, this guide to Simply Green Parties advises how to have fun and yet stage memorable events without leaving a heavy impact on the world around. Available through local bookstores or online at dannyseo.com.
Replace disposables at your next gala with real glass, china and real silverware, gussied up with colorful linens, natural placemats and colorful accessories, all from Placesetters. For just over 16 years, Nantucket owner Jennifer Shepherd has outfitted everything from small cocktail soirees to large weddings. Inquire about rentals by calling 508-228-2192 or see placesetters-inc.com.
Zen perfection With the already proven health benefits of green tea, we’ll embrace it even inthe new ZEN™ Green Tea Liqueur, from the same bottler who produces Sky Vodka. It’s distinctive color and unique flavor help make it memorable on the rocks or mixed as a cocktail. You’ll find it available at several Nantucket package stores.
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California’s non-profit Monterey Bay Aquarium has pioneered consumer awareness about buying seafood. Their Seafood Watch program advises which fish and shellfish are least harmful, which are not endangered and which are most sustainable. This pocket-sized guide to Northeast fisheries is one of seven similar regional publications. Get downloadable and printable versions online at montereybayaquarium.org.
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Green Thumbs Up The quest for flower show blue ribbons By Lyndon Dupuis When the casual visitor wanders into The Nantucket Garden Club’s Green Thumb Flower Show in mid July, she has little notion of the frenzy, drama, spirit of competition and general monumental effort of about 150 women plus husbands, sons and any other general “dogs”—bodies who can be “volunteered” into service of one sort or another—that have gone into producing what appears to be a placid and sweet little summer event. Ellin Wallin and Barbara Charlton join Lyndon Dupuis at her blue ribbon winning table arrangement in 2001. Photo by William Ferrall
While the venue along with the atmosphere has changed to the Nantucket New School on Nobadeer Farm Road, everything else pretty much remains the same. The Tuesday before the show, when all of the setting-up takes place in the morning with the judging after lunch, falls typically on what we all believe to be the hottest day of the summer. Or it’s the rainiest—one can usually count on one or the other— so the boon of an air-conditioned space is not under-appreciated.
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That was certainly my naïve impression those 20 plus years ago when, on a warm but breezy day, I wandered into what was then the Gordon Folger Hotel on Easton Street—it’s currently being redeveloped as The Point Breeze—and felt such a peace and sense of “rightness” about both the environment and the flowers on display. The hotel was the epitome of shabby chic before the term was ever invented—a phrase that, if you
ask me, is now used to death, with the “look” bearing little resemblance to the real thing. But the Point Breeze was the real deal, with its white paint, many old-fashioned windows, wicker, rattan and faded slipcovers. It wasn’t striving for “chic” at all, but was certainly a reflection of the “old moneyed” attitudes prevailing at the time. But, I digress.
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Nantucket Garden Club’s 44th Annual Community Green Thumb Flower Show, this year titled “ACKtive Summer,” takes place Monday, July 14 through Wednesday, July 16 at Nantucket New School on Nobadeer Farm Road. Horticulture and botanical jewelry entries are accepted Monday from 3 – 5 PM; floral design and horticulture entries are accepted Tuesday from 8 – 11 AM. A preview party with $60 admission takes place Wednesday from 6 – 8 PM. The show opens free to the public on Wednesday from 10 AM – 5 PM. All entries must embrace the rules of The Garden Club of America Flower Show and Judging Guide and will be judged according to those standards by official Garden Club of America judges. The public is welcome to enter specimens and arrangements. For further information call Gretchen Riley at 508-2282601 or Leslie Baldwin at 508-228-1158. Nantucket Garden Club’s 54th annual House Tour of local homes and gardens happens Wednesday, August 13th, this year in ‘Sconset.
business on the day before the show— hence to be known as DBS—which is to keep one’s flowers and oneself from wilting. Truly, any drooping flowers will disqualify an entry; so savvy arrangers always come loaded with plenty of extra plant material. The “schedule,” which is the Bible for the show, stresses that if any flowers in a winning arrangement should succumb during Wednesday’s show, they must immediately be replaced or the award will be removed. Quelle horreur! None of us can ever remember that happening in Nantucket, and we’ve all seen at least one or more wilted blossoms. Please, after all, this isn’t the Chelsea Flower Show. Speaking of being prepared, one ardent exhibitor always comes with bucket loads of extra material. It was put to good use one year when one exhibitor didn’t show up, thus potentially disqualifying the entire class from the judging. Ever resourceful, a couple of the women grabbed flowers, borrowed a container from someone and produced the missing entry. It took third place.
ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION AN ARRANGEMENT HAS TOPPLED OVER OR HAS BEEN TOPPLED BY A CARELESS BYSTANDER
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Bridget Hubbard, Garden Club President, explained, “Our club isn’t divided into red and blue states… exactly. But we do have flower arrangers and we have horticulturists, and never shall the twain meet.” As Hubbard also noted, though, there are a couple of members who regularly walk off with blue ribbons along with a few special awards in both categories. I hesitate to mention names for fear of leaving someone out, but you know who you are. Because the only gardening I ever do is deadheading as I pass through, I have never entered a horticulture exhibit. Therefore, I can’t speak much about the mechanics of these exhibits but will defer once again to Hubbard: “Our hort entries number more than our design entries continued on page 63
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“passed” by the “passing judge.” Once, passed, it may not be touched until after the judging. Two years ago, a small knot of us watched in horror as a child came roaring by with his entry balanced on a tray. He stopped suddenly, but the arrangement did not. The chairman of the whole show, saw it, raced over, scooped up the squishy mess with the greatest aplomb, gently took the child by the elbow and said, “Let’s just go fix this.”
member said, “It’s just a zoo with people coming in with their specimens, looking up the Latin names for their cultivars in Hortus, with an arranger who comes at the last minute and decides to re-do her arrangement, with people jockeying for position for pedestals and tables— needing pens and forms, misplacing their lists of both common and botanical names for the flower arrangements, sometimes becoming the teensiest bit churlish with one another. But also with laughter and wit—lots of both.”
Photo courtesy of Nantucket Fils Festival
Accidents do happen as well. On more than one occasion an arrangement has toppled over or has been toppled by a careless bystander and had to be “refreshed.” All of this might transpire, mind you, only before the entry has been
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The Perfect Nantucket Date By Marli Guzzetta
If you can’t find a romantic date location on Nantucket, you might want to hang up your cupid’s bow, because creating ambience on this island can be as simple as making a picnic for the beach or making reservations. For the most basic date night, the island is blessed with an abundance of romantic seating options, including dining rooms at the Boarding House on Federal Street, Ship’s Inn on Fair Street and the Eden-esque patio at Chanticleer in ’Sconset. Friday evening gallery openings offer free inspiration and free wine. Photo by Gene Mahon
Artistic ardor On Fridays, Nantucket galleries with new exhibits typically hold receptions from around 6 PM to 8 PM. Gallery hopping can be a nice excuse to stroll through town, getting light-headed on the picturesque beauty of Nantucket in low light and from free wine served at most gallery openings. Visit Nantucket Social Calendar at nantucketmagazine.net and check local papers to see which galleries host openings that week.
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After dinner, you might want to skip dessert at the restaurant and grab an ice cream at the Juice Bar at the head of “the strip” near Steamboat Wharf, then go for a stroll along the boat basin. Those selfdescribed “pick-up artists” in books and on television shows lately advise changing locations on a date to foster a feeling of bonding. Use this article to help that along by discovering unknown parts of the island and keeping your date lively in the process.
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From there, head to a stage show at the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, which presents its summer stock at the United Methodist Church at 8:30 PM, Wednesdays through Sunday. Tickets are $25. On Monday’s in July and August, you can also catch our friend and man crush comedian Kevin Flynn on the Methodist lower stage at 8:30 PM. Admission is $20. In August at Bennett Hall alongside the Congregational Church on Centre Street, you can fill much of the night with TWN’s annual summer musical, this year “Grease.” On some Tuesday evenings, Nantucket Musical Arts Society brings credible classical musicians to the main sanctuary at the Congregational Church. Check local listings for dates and times. After your show or concert, grab a few delicious morsels at The Pearl, which has recently extended its kitchen hours to serve late night until 12:30 AM. Learning curves
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“Our American Flag” Artist Reception July 3rd. 6 to 8PM Open Daily 10am - 5pm Location: 40 Straight Wharf • Next to Hy-line Ferry
ton Post foreign policy correspondent Robin Wright on July 30 and “This Week in Washington” moderator Gwen Ifill on August 2. Admission is $25 for the lectures, which begin at around 8 PM, making them a good event to pair with an early or late dinner. For history buffs, an under-utilized gem is the historic local African Meeting House, located just outside of downtown on Pleasant Street and York Street at Five Corners. Once a segregated schoolhouse and location for religious services, the Meeting House offers a primer on the rich history of non-white people on Nantucket including Eunice Ross, whose successful and difficult fight to matriculate at Nantucket High School in 1847 is among the first known cases of integrated public schooling in the country. The Meeting House is open to the public July and August, Tuesday through Saturday, 11 AM to 3 PM and Sunday 1 to 3 PM. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights, the Loines Observatory on Milk Street, a facility of the Maria Mitchell Association, is better than candlelight for kindling a sense of wonder at the known universe, beginning at 9 PM.
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Opposite: Dinner in the garden at the Chanticleer makes a romantic date. Photo by Ron Lynch
This page: Catch Topper’s Wauwinet Lady at Straight Wharf for a ride up harbor and a fine meal at Toppers. Photo by Terry Pommett
Rural rendezvous On the way to Cisco Beach, stop into Bartlett’s Farm just off Hummock Pond Road for prepared foods to make a little picnic lunch before heading back to Cisco Brewery, just next door. Boasting three individual tasting bars — one for Cisco Brewery, one for Triple Eight Distillery and one for Nantucket Vineyards, here you can sample libations for $6 - $8. Then take your lunch at one of the tables in the courtyard, where a mostly under-40 crowd loiters on lazy summer days. On the more expensive end of wining and
dining, couples can make a full day on the eastern end of the island at The Wauwinet with a 60-minute couple’s massage in a private room at Spa by the Sea for $300. Then shower off for dinner at the adjoining five-star restaurant Topper’s, where the caviar service is pitch-perfect and men are expected to wear jackets. If you’re sleeping in town and making the trip to the restaurant only, you can use the Wauwinet’s water shuttle, leaving Straight Wharf at 5 PM or 7:30 PM, though the latter doesn’t offer return service. Call for a reservation.
Off beaten paths Peter Brace, N Magazine contributing writer and a chronicler of Nantucket’s natural landscapes, shared an outdoor locale that has produced “incredible results,” but warned that only those in good health with an affinity for the outdoors—fear of poison ivy and biting insects might deter you—should make the trip. It begins by putting kayaks into the water at the Washington Street beach extension, then paddling toward Monomoy and following the shore up harbor to Coatue, where you’re aiming for the house on the second bend. Beach the kayaks east of the house then follow a dilapidated wooden walkway through the bushes to a shack. Behind the shack, an overgrown beach trail heading back toward town will lead you to boardwalks that go over the dunes and to the other side of Coatue, where you can enjoy an ocean-wide view of the sunset and skinny dip in privacy. For a healthy duo, the trip should take about 45 minutes. It’s conservation land, so be respectful—portage in and portage out—and bring insect repellant. Mosquitoes and green heads abound. Rainy days The magnificent Whaling Museum of the Nantucket Historical Association is one
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Whitney Gallery, at the NHA’s Research Library on Fair Street, will open an exhibit of presidential documents on July 3 that includes a remarkable collection of Nantucket-oriented documents dating back to George Washington. Afterwards, huddle together under an umbrella for a walk to the cute and cozy coffee café The Bean, on Centre Street, where you can grab a mug of something and start a game of Scrabble. The Nantucket Historical Association’s Whaling Museum. Photo by Claudia Kronenberg Photography
of the island’s most reliable rainy day or any-day activities. Non-member adults pay $15, seniors $12 and children ages 6 – 17 pay $8, for access to this renovated candle tryworks that now houses the most comprehensive collection of Nantucket artifacts, the skeleton of the last sperm whale to hit Nantucket shores and changing exhibits. This summer, the featured exhibit is “’Sconset: 02564, A Celebration of the Patchwork Village,” which includes a model of the old Nantucket Railroad, oral history interviews with ’Sconseters, a movie chronicling the 2007 move of Sankaty Light and a digital ’Sconset Family Album. The
Seaworthy sweetness Depending on your personalities, a seafaring date could go anywhere from dinner at Galley Beach restaurant near Jetties Beach—guests there regularly applaud spectacular sunsets—to a fishing charter with Captain Tom Mlezcko or one of many other local charter fishing tours. The restaurant at Jetties’ Beach also sets up private sets of beach chairs on the beach during the summer, where you can relax with a cocktail served to your taste and your toes in the sand. Back in town, the back patio of the Straight Wharf restaurant also yields a private view of the harbor as well as a lesser known, after-dinner ice cream spot. And locals still toast the sunset with a drink at the nearby Rope Walk bar and restaurant.
A date with history: The Museum of African American History’s Nantucket location, the African Meeting House on York Street. Photo by William Ferrall
If you’re really trying to make an impression, however, Endeavor Sailing Excursions will allow you to charter a private boat, starting at $350 from Straight Wharf, for up to an hour-and-a-half-long daytime or sunset cruises, during which numerous couples have become engaged. N
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Ask Dorothy Hamill what lies beneath her almost lifetime passion for figure skating, and you’ll understand part of why Nantucket has recently become an attractive retreat for her. “I remember falling in love with the wind in my face, the freedom of being alone, the movement,” Hamill said of discovering figure skating as a child in Connecticut. “I was also painfully shy, and being on the ice, I could be alone with the music, which I love.”
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By the time she won the Olympic gold medal in figure skating in 1976 at Innsbruck, Austria, Hamill had captured the hearts and minds of fans around the world and especially in the United States. The 19-year-old had already been three-time United
States Figure Skating National Champion from 1974 to 1976 and World Champion in 1976. Commentators praised her almost constant smile while on ice, while other skaters adopted her trademark “Hamill Camel” move combining a spin-and-sit maneuver. She was well on her way to becoming a cultural icon, both as a role model for other young girls and for her trademark bob haircut, still known by many as the “Dorothy Hamill.” Within a year of her gold medal-winning performance, a Dorothy Hamill doll had appeared on store shelves. Such attention and accolades seem well deserved for someone who worked as hard as Hamill did to achieve her successes. Among her more lighthearted impacts on popular culture, Hamill said she “never really understood the haircut phenomenon.” She had long worn it short
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world-famous Lake Placid, New York, Olympic Ice Arena, site of the 1932 World Olympics. She recalled working sometimes 10 hours daily, at least during the summer, on the most rudimentary of skating moves. Year-round, including during school months, she practiced daily while trying to still find room for the playtime and boyfriends one might expect a young girl to seek out. Whether it was back home in Connecticut or in Lake Placid, Hamill’s parents sustained her desire to skate. “I remember begging my mom for skating lessons,� Hamill recalled, “and she eventually acquiesced.� Conceding that she and her mother “had some rocky times,� including her mother’s odd failure to appear at the arena during her gold medal winning performance, Hamill nonetheless praised both of her parents for nourishing her early career. “We were very hands-on,� she explained. “My mom made the pretty dresses, and my dad made the music.� Those were what Hamill described as “simpler times� for even accomplished skaters, before multiple coaches and agents, before commercial endorsements to help fund training and before amateurs turned professional early on for fees and salaries. “It’s a big business now,� reminded Hamill. “Even though I was a national champion, no one knew unless
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they were avid figure skater fans, so it was real overnight success [for me] with the Olympics.� In fact, the word “luck� came up repeatedly as Hamill recalled her youth. She praised her mother, in particular, for “her brilliance as a mom who was really dedicated, who wanted to make sure that she was doing the right thing all the time so that I could fulfill my dream as it became.� The dream was not always entirely pleasant, as Hamill recounted extensively in her recent autobiography “A Skating Life: My Story,� published last fall. Her earlier autobiography, “Dorothy Hamill: On & Off the Ice,� from 1983, focused more on her successes on the ice rather than her life off it. In “My Story,� Hamill tells of the strains on her family caused by her pursuit of skating, including sacrifices made by her mother who also cared for two older siblings and by her father who was a career engineer. Her family’’s continuing financial strains, according to Hamill, contributed to her leaving the world of ice skating competition after the ’76 Olympics. Elsewhere in the most recent book, Hamill examines her lifelong struggle with depression, her two marriages that ended in divorce—her first marriage was to Dean Martin, Jr., the actor’s son who died in a
Dorothy Hamill greets young fans at Nantucket Ice.
Charity on Ice Celebrity Hockey Weekend Friday, July 11 & Saturday, July 12 After playing in the 2002 Winter Olympics, Nantucket native and Olympic hockey player AJ Mlezcko Griswold parlayed her on-ice friendships to initiate Nantucket’s Charity on Ice Celebrity Hockey Game. The event helps fund Nantucket Ice CNB Community Rink, which also opened that year. Players from the Boston Bruins and U.S.A. Hockey strap on skates for a friendly game followed by a raffle, auction and family fun. This year, 1976 Olympic gold medal winner and professional skater Dorothy Hamill appears on Friday to share skating tips. A steak and lobster dinner on Saturday brings celebrities to dine with patrons. Hockey game tickets are $20 and $10. Call 508-228-1516 or visit their website at nantucketice.org for other details.
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plane crash not long after their divorce and who she has called “the love of her life”—her troubled business dealings with her second husband and a lucrative drug company endorsement that eventually soured. For several years from the mid1980s to mid-1990s, Hamill and her second husband owned the Ice Capades until declaring bankruptcy and selling the business in 1996. The two have one daughter, Alexandra, who enters college this fall. Asked why she returned to the subject of her own life through a harsher lens aimed sometimes at when she was off her edge, Hamill said, “Part of it was being in a good place personally. A lot was the depression. There’s such a stigma attached to it. I thought it was important for people to know that you can be an Olympic champion, and everything seems great on the outside, but it’s not all as rosy and glamorous as it seems.”
Keeping an edge In person, sporting an updated version of her signature bob haircut, Dorothy Hamill appears younger than her 52 years and frequently offers her characteristic smile. She appears remarkably upbeat and is quick to offer a warm greeting despite her recent well-publicized bout with breast cancer, an affliction that runs in her family. By early spring this year, she had completed minor surgery and a round of radiation therapy. Her prognosis is good so far, according to
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Dorothy Hamill warms up at Nantucket Ice.
with John MacColl, her companion of about a year who’s a lawyer and businessman who already knew Nantucket. “We were thinking about looking in Maine,” MacColl explained, “but I said let’s have a look at Nantucket.” The two have recently settled into a Nantucket home purchased earlier this year. Hamill especially appreciates Nantucket’s Christopher Nugent Bovers Community Rink, home of Nantucket Ice, where she’ll appear on July 19 for the organization’s annual Celebrity on Ice benefit. Without hesitation, Hamill praised the rink at Nantucket Ice as one of the top facilities in the United States and one notable for it’s “great” ice surface. Much of the focus at Nantucket Ice is on intramural amateur hockey teams and synchronized skating. A local girls synchronized team—girls ranging from age seven to 15 are in training at Nantucket Ice—has represented Nantucket both regionally and nationally in recent years, with Nantucket girls finishing last year in the finals of the Eastern U.S. Synchronized Team Skating Championship. Because of growing demand on Nantucket for the sport, Nantucket Ice will offer “a ton of programs” this year for the burgeoning program, according to team manager Jo Sullivan, whose daughter Elena is among the participants. Hamill considers the endeavor an admirable one. “Synchronized skating is so good for the kids because it’s not just about jumps and spins,” said Hamill. “It’s not just about winning the Olympics, it’s about precision, timing and the quality of the edges—the fun things about skating. You don’t have to be an Olympic hopeful and you don’t have to do it at world-class level.”
Besides the apparent fun and joy Nantucket girls are finding in the synchronized skating at Nantucket Ice, some of
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On the other hand, Hamill noted that even synchronized skaters find greater opportunities today in the world of skating, with colleges now offering scholarships and an increasing number of competitions.
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Hamill on the Olympic gold medal platform, at Innsbruck, Austria in 1976. them still long to hone their individual figure skating skills and a handful on Nantucket. Although Nantucket’s synchronized team coaches, Kristin DeFrancisci and Belinda Young, also teach individually, the lessons are focused on team participation. A few young skaters have gotten the more specialized instruction they desire by taking regular lessons off island.
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Ten-year old Farrell Duce, for example, has traveled to Tony Kent Arena in Dennis, Massachusetts on Cape Cod for the last 2-1/2 years to take lessons from a former coach of Olympian and Massachusetts native Nancy Kerrigan. “It’s really fun,” said Duce. “I get to hang out with skating
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friends, but it’s hard to play two other sports on some Saturdays.” For Hamill, the sacrifices have been worth it to her, and she is far from forgotten or far from done with her career. For the last thirty years she has starred in several ice skating companies, performed in numerous televised ice skating productions including one for which she won an Emmy. Last year, she was part of Broadway on Ice, to which she hopes to return when her health improves and the company develops a new touring program. Although Hamill conceded that “skating is going through a transitional period” of smaller audiences for both televised and in-person events, she doesn’t imagine doing anything else at this point, although stage acting has “been a consideration.” She noted that other well-known skaters in her age range have continued to perform well into mid-life. Lest anyone think later generations might not know of her influence on the world of skating and popular culture, a cursory Internet search turns up more than a thousand references to Hamill. It’s even possible that her college-bound daughter Alex will someday listen to one of at least three songs, including two recent ones by popular hip-hop artists, that mention her by name. N
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Fashion Fourthward By Nantucket Style Council For many on Nantucket, Fourth of July traditions are sacred and to be observed all the way down to a favorite blouse or, in the case of Randy and Nancy Berry, wedding anniversary champagne at the Chanticleer. ott ra Wilm dge, Az izzatola. u F l y r P e ise) Ch nd Kim (Clockw eth English a B Smith,
On Independence Day, Main Street is awash with families like Marty and Holly McGowan’s, who revel in the annual water fight, while sailors like Susan and Buzz Goodall take to the water. At night, families head to Jetties Beach for the fireworks, while islanders climb up to their roof walks to enjoy the fireworks or hide away in romantic retreats to enjoy their own. Though summer resident and Republican activist Melanie Sabelhaus changes her outfit several times throughout the day to keep up with the festivities— “from shorts in the morning for the in-town festivities, to a fun outfit at night”— she keeps it “big and bold.” “It gets you into the spirit!” Sabelhaus said.
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vintage sweater every July 4, while nonprofits consultant Meryl Bralower, who noted that the best dinner reservations in town can be made on the Fourth, always carries her red, white and blue, beaded flag purse. “Even my husband, Michael, won’t let me leave home without it,” she added. For others, dressing for the first time in the holiday spirit is an opportunity to start new traditions, and maybe even start new trends. “Nantucket represents the quintessential family Fourth celebration in America,” averred Sabelhaus. Whether you prefer the old or the new, remember that you could be influencing more style than your own. As Coco Chanel once put it, “In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.” Today’s new ideas could be tomorrow’s traditions, so dress your best to salute our Grand Old Flag.
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Poolside cocktails At The Cliffside Beach Club, Elin Hildebrand promenades poolside in a navy, re-styled vintage maxi, $278 from Cheryl Fudge, and vintage straw hat from Murray’s Toggery, with original price tag still intact.
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Cliff Lodge Mason’s trouser, $260, and simple button-down shirt, $260, with a Boglioli Jacket, $1440, while host Nicholai Stefanov dresses up a bold yellow rugbystripe Brunello Cucinelli sweater, $1110, with a Brunello Cucinelli linen vest, $1110. All from Pollock’s.
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On the beautifully scenic roof walk at Cliff Lodge, Gabriella Biro proves you don’t have to do red, white and blue to shine on the Fourth in a Pauw blazer, $990, and skirt, $1220, Majestic top, $95, and Avant-Toi scarf, $180. Boyfriend Levi Barna pairs smart
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Beach Bar Gallivanting at the Jetties Beach Bar, Amanda Morgan and Virna Gonzalez sport twin, nautical-stripe, “super-mini” tunic dresses by The Glam from Ceri, $98, with retro-patent sling-back Bettye Muller sandals from Blu. Megan Anderson rejuvenated a school-girl style nautical dress from the Cottage Hospital Thrift Shop, $12, with her own Aragonite & Enamel Necklace available at megananderson.com. And Hays Westbrook pulls up the rear in a re-style men’s shirt, $98, from Nantucket Stock Exchange.
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Independence Day Friday, July 4 The celebration begins on Main Street at 10 AM, with an old fashioned street fair that includes a dunk tank, watermelon and pie-eating contests, face painting, puppets and general milling about and catching up with friends. A bit before noon, fire engines new and old roll into town, precipitating a water fight. Get out of the way or get wet. Sponsored by Nantucket Parks and Recreation Commission. From 5 to 6:30 PM at Children’s Beach on Harborview Way, kids’ games include an assortment of races and a tug-of-war. Weather permitting, fireworks begin a bit before 9 PM, shot from a barge anchored off Jetties Beach. Weather not permitting, the show will be postponed until Saturday night, July 5th. It’s sponsored by Nantucket Visitor Services. Traffic is a bear, so walk or take the NRTA, which leaves town from Broad Street in front of the Whaling Museum every 15 minutes. Check weather updates on Comcast Channel 17 or Plum TV 22, or call Nantucket Visitor Services at 508-228-0925 or nantucketma.gov/visitor.
Dick Voigt’s Big Apple Jazz Band Saturday, July 5, 8 PM Unitarian Church, 11 Orange Street Dick Voight is a Nantucket summer resident but his Big Apple Jazz Band plays Dixieland jazz “with a New York accent.” The concert benefits the new Frank & Bette Spriggs Scholarship Fund.
The Big Apple Jazz Band plays a combination of traditional New Orleans and Chicago-style jazz combined with the looser, freewheeling rhythms of the “swing” bands of the 30s, 40s and ‘50s, whose “New York Sound” originated in “Swing Street” jazz clubs of 52nd Street. The Spriggs scholarship will be awarded to qualifying Nantucket graduating seniors who have been accepted by a trade school or who need special assistance directly related to entering a trade. The scholarship is in honor of island residents Frank and Bette Spriggs, whose unusually generous contributions of expertise and time over many years have benefited many Nantucket civic and non-profit programs. Tickets are $30, available at Nantucket Pharmacy, Nantucket Bookworks, Island Pharmacy, Valero’s Garden Center, Nantucket Trading Post, Nantucket Cottage Hospital and at the door. Donations toward the scholarship are encouraged. For more information, call Moses Easley at 508-364-0661.
An Evening with Judy Collins Sunday, July 6th, 8 PM Nantucket High School Auditorium A benefit for Nantucket AIDS Network. For ticket information call 508-228-9600 or 508-228-3955, or visit nantucketaids.org.
An Evening with the Stars Saturday, July 12, 7 - 10 PM Loines Observatory, 59 Milk Street Extension
This Maria Mitchell Association annual fundraiser benefits the research, education, and historic preservation of the association. Take this opportunity to stargaze through the newly refurbished antique Clark telescope. Music provided by ECliff and the Swing Dogs in a rare Nantucket appearance, with food by Spanky’s Raw Bar and caterer Susan Warner. Silent auction includes crafts by local artisans and a drawing for an exclusive Kim England necklace. Tickets are $150. Sponsorship opportunities begin at $500. Contact Rachel Rasfeld at 508-228-9198 or info@mmo.org.
Shakespeare by the Sea Festival Sunday, July 13 – Sunday, July 20 Nantucket Arts Council presents Shakespeare by the Sea Festival with indoor and outdoor performances by two theater companies, films, a lecture, children’s workshops, and a concert. All events are free. Nantucket’s own Seaside Shakespeare Company performs a preview of “Much Ado About Nothing” on Saturday, July 12 at 4 PM, and full performances Sunday, July 13 through Wednesday, July 16 at 6 PM at Children’s Beach. Shakespeare on the Cape presents “The Tempest” at 8 PM on Friday and Saturday, July 18 and 19 at Bennett Hall, 62 Centre Street. The Shakespeare Film Series screens “Romeo and Juliet” by Franco Zeffirelli on Tuesday, July 15 at 7 PM in Hendrix Hall of the Unitarian Church, 11 Orange Street. “Looking for Richard”, about the
A L S O O F N OT E Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum Grand Reopening Tuesday, July 1 – Sunday, July 6 See nantucketlifesavingmuseum.com Theatre Workshop of Nantucket A.R Gurney’s “Sylvia” Through Saturday, July 12 See theaterworkshop.org
Firecracker 5K Road Race Friday, July 4 See nantuckethealthclub.com Nantucket Atheneum Book Sale Saturday, July 5, 10 AM - 4 PM Visit nantucketatheneum.org. “Seussical The Musical” Tuesday July 8 - Saturday July 12 See theatreworkshop.com.
Event Under the Tent Folk Art & Crafts Show Friday, July 11 & Saturday, July 12 Benefits Small Friends on Nantucket See smallfriendsnantucket.org
Nantucket Boys & Girls Club Family Clambake Sunday, July 13, 6 – 10 PM Jetties Beach Visit nantucketboysandgirlsclub.org
AJ Mleckzo Charity on Ice Celebrity Hockey Game Friday, July 11, 5 PM Nantucket Ice, CNB Community Rink See nantucketice.org
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mounting of a production of Richard III, and starring Al Pacino, will be shown Wednesday, July 16 at 7 PM in Hendrix Hall. In a pre-festival related event, author Vanessa James talks about her book “Shakespeare Genealogies” on Sunday, July 6th, from 8 – 9:30 PM in the Great Hall of Nantucket Atheneum. Shakespeare scholar and author Marjorie Garber speaks on Thursday, July 17th at Coffin School, 4 Winter Street. Children’s theatre workshops with Shakespeare on the Cape performing “The Tempest” will be held on Saturday, July 19th at 10 AM and 11 AM at Bennett Hall, funded by the Nantucket Golf Club Foundation. The week wraps up with “Music in Shakespeare’s Time,“ directed by Robert Behrman and featuring Nantucket soloists, Sunday, July 20 at 4 PM at the Congregational Church, 62 Centre Street. All events are free. For complete schedule, visit nantucketartscouncil.org or call 508-325-8588.
Natasha Misanko and Bartlett’s Farm executive chef M.J. Mojer. Kitchen’s to be visited are at 4, 8, and 10 Ash Street; 51, 57 and 68 Centre Street; 13 and 24 North Water Street; and 3 and 6 Step Lane. Tickets are $40. See nantucketpreservation.org or call 508-228-1387.
the historic church building. Tickets are $25 and $50, with a $150 ticket including dinner at Sfoglia restaurant. Call 508-228-9752 for information.
Summer Kitchen Tour Thursday, July 17, 10 AM – 4 PM Ash, Centre and North Water streets This fourth annual Summer Kitchen Tour for the Nantucket Preservation Trust highlights kitchens in the historic Centre and North Water Street neighborhood. The tours focus on how historic homes can be sensitively updated or historic kitchens incorporated into everyday life and will feature local chefs who will demonstrate their favorite recipes and provide treats for participants along the way, including celebrity chef Sarah Leah Chase, American Seasons pastry chef
Adventure Benefit Night Friday, July 18, 6 PM —9 PM Strong Wings Adventure School See strongwings.org Race for Open Space Saturday, July 19, 8 AM Benefits Nantucket Conservation Foundation. Register online at nantucketconservation.com
From Nantucket To Venice Dinner, Dancing & Art Auction Saturday, July 19, 6 PM Members of the Artists Association of Nantucket donate their paintings to be auctioned at this dinner to fund operations of the Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery at 18 Washington Street, as well as year round arts and crafts classes for island residents. Artists Association of Nantucket. For tickets, see nantucketarts.org or call 508-228-0722.
Victoria Rowell Sunday, July 20, 5:30 PM Nantucket United Methodist Church Main and Centre streets Emmy-nominated actress and author Victoria Rowell visits Nantucket to talk about her bestselling book “The Women Who Raised Me,” a “celebration… of women who nurtured… and molded” her. Rowell is best known for her network television roles as Drucilla Barber on CBS’ The Young and the Restless, for which she won 11 NAACP Image Awards one Soap Opera Digest Award and Daytime Emmy nominations. The appearance benefits Two Centre Street Restoration Project, which has been preserving
Lightship Basket Museum Auction Preview Sunday, July 20 and Monday, July 21, 1 PM —4 PM Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum, 49 Union Street. Call 508-228-1177 or see nantucketlightshipbasketmuseum.org
Visual Arts G.S. Hill unveils “Our American Flag” themed paintings at their Straight Wharf Gallery on July 3, 6 PM to 8 PM. Dane Gallery on Centre Street features “Women’s Glass Invitational” of sculpture beginning July 5, 6PM – 9PM. Barbara Toole’s Clay Art Studio and Nantucket Artisans Collective hosts “Art in the Backyard” at 50 North Liberty on Saturday, July 27 from 10 AM-4 PM. Scott Duce and Jim Rennert’s show opens at Cavalier Gallery on Main Street, July 3. On July 17, Cavalier opens its “Young Masters Exhibition,” featuring Robert Bodem, Joel Carson Jones, Edward Minoff, Travis Schlatt, Cody Swanson, Scott Waddell. The Gallery at Four India opens “Henry St. Clair, French 1899-1990: “The Coast of Normandy,” June 20, then impressionist Kent Lemon, Kevin Shea and Barbara Insalaco on July 1. “Collecting 19th-century American Masters” opens July 4. Judith Brust reveals “Nantucket Series,” July 3, reception 6-8:30 PM, at Gallery Blue on Old South Wharf. On July 18, 6-8:30 PM, Gallery Blue opens themed “Escapes” with Elizabeth Durand, Tom Lightfoot, Kathleen Sherin, Michael Shults, Zerbe Sodervick, Lisa Tubach and Allan Tubach.
GET IT ONLINE For more up-to-date information about island events visit the Nantucket Arts & Social Calendar, a joint effort of Gene Mahon and N Magazine, at mahonabouttown.wordpress.com or visit nantucketmagazine.net. Compiled with help from Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce.
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Sprinting into summer We can think of few ways better to prepare for Nantucket’s summer-long sprint from party to party or fundraiser to fundraiser than a half-day workout every June in the annual Iron Teams Relay to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Nantucket. Building company Hatch & Burns steamed ahead of recent three-time winners Taste of Nantucket in team competition, while Levi Barna sped to first place among individual competitors. Maybe a few contestants were working off calories from the almost-weeklong Nantucket Wine Festival two weeks earlier, when festival founder Denis Toner and his staff again welcomed hundreds of oenophiles to Nantucket for cooking demonstrations, wine tastings, a gala night and a wine auction dinner. In between, Nantucket Sports Therapeutic/Accessible Recreation boosted their efforts for islands kids with their spring fundraiser, while island art galleries warmed up for the season ahead. Here at N Magazine we welcomed the early season with our annual appreciation cocktail party for advertisers at the always welcoming American Seasons.
Youthful volunteers at Iron Teams Relay. Photo by Katie Kaizer
Sage and Leigh with thier mom Donna Leigh at Iron Teams Relay. Photo by Katie Kaizer
Competitor Dr. Bob Kennedy gets boost from Youngs Bicycle staff at Iron Teams Relay. Photo by Katie Kaizer
Ryan Dobbins competes in Iron Teams Relay. Photo by Katie Kaizer
The winning Hatch & Burns team at Iron Teams Relay. Photo by Katie Kaizer
Family competitors at Iron Teams Relay.
Schooners team at Iron Teams Relay.
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Allen Bell and Dennie Doran at STAR benefit. Photo by Gene Mahon
Nancy and David Small, Shannon and Dominic Bell and Sally Bates Hall at STAR benefit. Photo by Gene Mahon
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Gable and Scott Fraley at Nantucket Wine Festival Gala. Photo by Gene Mahon
Straight Wharf’s Gabriel Frasca and Amanda Lydon (right) with Scott Fraley at Nantucket Wine Festival Gala . Photo by Gene Mahon
Sharon Lorenzo, Chris Donelan, Frank Lorenzo & Carolina Lorenzo at Wine Festival Gala . Photo by Gene Mahon
Kathy and Alan Costa at Wine Festival Gala. Photo by Gene Mahon
Mark and Eithne Yelle at Wine Festival Gala. Lili Baker, Inze Hutton, Pam Joslin & Annie Dickerson at Wine Festival Gala. Photo by Gene Mahon
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Joan MacIsaac, Irene Costello and Brenda McDonough at Wine Festival Tasting. Photo by Gene Mahon
David and Gretchen Callahan at Wine Festival Tasting. Photo by Gene Mahon
David Durman and Andrew Vorce at Wine Festival Tasting. Photo by Fifi
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Jeff Carlson, Scott Carson, Russell Carson and Bob Steber at Wine Festival Tasting. Photo by Gene Mahon
Dave Mullert, Mark Troy, Sean Moriarity and Scott Frazier raise glasses at Wine Festival Tasting. Photo by Gene Mahon
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Tracy King and Shawn Monaco on their 1983 Harley Davidson FXR in the El Diablo run between California and Mexico. Photo by Micheal Lichter
By Marli Guzzetta with Brian Murphy
Nantucket Choppers’ MySpace page reads like a shrine to all things loud and ornery, which is what you’d expect a self-respecting motorcycle company to champion, in addition to a gear-headed passion for rehabbing and rebuilding old “bikes” on Nantucket. You can afford to be a little bit cheeky when the sound of your revving engine can turn the heads of every man, woman and child within a 100-yard radius on the island. And with increasing frequency.
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And a lot of these new riders are not salty old hog riders, but professionals, including Sanford Real Estate broker Tracy C. King. Citing motorcycles’ high
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“There’s a core group of bikers here who have been bikers all their lives,” said Nantucket Choppers owner Brian Murphy. “But there has definitely been an increase, especially due to the popularity of biker TV shows, the formation of Nantucket Choppers and the increase in people just trying to beat gas prices.”
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fuel efficiency, King said she often prefers riding her bike to work. For $10 in gas, King estimated, she can go for about 125 miles. In April, she and her boyfriend, firefighter Shawn Monaco, transported her 1600 CC 1983 Harley Davidson FXR to San Diego to participate in the El Diablo Run between Temecula, California and Baja, Mexico then back. King also often bikes with coworker Debbi DeeleyCulbertson, who owns a Harley and a Ridley, which she rides with her husband, Peter Culbertson, who owns two Harleys.
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“Riding for me is like doing dressage work on a horse, which I also ride. I appreciate the skills work,” Culbertson said. “You really work your head and your body and your sense of balance while you’re also getting out with the sights and the smells.”
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Bikers Scotty Clauss and Douglas Camp.
Established two years ago, Nantucket Choppers is averaging one major bike refurbishment to-date, including the 87 Harley 1100 that Murphy rides. “I think it’s perfect for the island. It’s not a big bike, not too unwieldy,” said Murphy, who was enlisted by Dennis Parks and Christy Kickham to help run the island’s first charitable biking event last fall.
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different flower, or bush, or piece of architecture. I’m an athlete, so for me to be stationary but getting sensory overload is perfect.”
“We ride year-round practically. We always go out on New Year’s Day,” Clauss said. “We mostly ride the Cape, and we go everywhere. All the back roads, all the towns. Every week it’s a
Murphy described riding as “almost therapeutic” and added that Nantucket Chopper apparel sales have been up, along with the number of bikes he sees on the road.
Owner of Dennis Parks plumbing, Parks is one of the island’s most avid riders. Kickham, a Nantucket Town Financial Committee member, Nicholls & David Property Manager Associate and Rose and Crown bartender, has had his biking license since he was a teenager. He joined Parks in creating the Nantucket Charitable Riders Association. “I knew we could do something constructive and help a few people that maybe needed a hand,” said Parks. The pair contacted Murphy because they knew he’d held the position of Public Relations and Events Manager at Nantucket Cottage Hospital. In September 2007, the trio—along with organizational help from Stacey Parks—
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brought the island biking community together for the first annual Harpoon Run. Thirty-two bikes participated in a procession from the Rose and Crown that followed the Daffodil Parade route to ’Sconset and back. Afterward, the bikers returned to the “Rally in the Alley” behind the Rose and Crown for food and refreshments. Most of the riders who attended were
from Nantucket, according to Kickham. “I think we’re helping spread awareness of biking on the island,” Murphy said. “To a certain extent, bikers get a bad rep. But this case shows that bikers can get together for a good cause, without trouble, and show we’re contributing members of the community. Even before the Harpoon Run, these guys were all donating to different charities.”
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[there are 72 horticulture classes represented in the show] and demonstrate Nantucket’s superb growing conditions and the expert gardening skills of our members. It isn’t unusual to see visitors scribbling down Latin and common names of winning entries so they may reproduce like specimens in their own gardens.� Yes, I’m guilty as charged. Of course this is one of the reasons for the show: to inform and inspire.
results. That class offers a coveted trophy: a large silver bowl. One year I went so far as to enter the dreaded-bymany large pedestal class and was amazed and delighted with the judging.
my only goals were to challenge myself, to create something pretty and not to embarrass myself. Chiefly, the latter. I was truly a complete novice. Then I began to win things, really to my surprise and joy. Then I began to want to win things. I believed that I could. Then, by gosh, I really wanted that blue ribbon! And that is exactly when I stopped getting it. Hmm. Just wondering. I imagine the pros would say “stuff and nonsense� if anybody said that these days, but I am not so sure.
This brings me now to my favorite, the flower arranging division. Talk All musing aside, the about inspiration. If the commotion, the angst, visitor doesn’t come away the accidents, the funny from the show with at things that happen—even least one idea for adorning Florist Michael Molinar and Lyndon Dupuis at the Nantucket Garden Club’s the winning of a “horrible her home—or head if Green Thumb Flower Show 2006. Photo by Gene Mahon mention,� as one of our there is a “hat class� that wags calls the white particular year—she has wasted the ribbon—underscore the sense of us In the past two shows, I didn’t fare so price of admission. And that is hard to contributing something lovely to the well, but was bettered by some truly do since the show is open to the public community that keeps us coming back innovative designers. Just musing, I free-of-charge. every summer during the second week wonder if that has anything to do with I have entered the table class several of July to plan, produce and enter that how competitive I’ve become. When I times and have been pleased with the venerable Nantucket tradition, The first began entering arrangements, Green Thumb Flower Show. N
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Back a decade or so ago, when cool and modern were things done over in America but rarely on Nantucket, The Pearl restaurant and lounge began changing the island?s dining out scene. Its large-scale design elements and sleek, sophisticated furnishings gave an initial shock to some. The huge, almost floor to ceiling saltwater aquarium to the left inside the door and the glowing quartz crystal bar to the right both excited and hypnotized visitors. They still do except, perhaps, for The Pearl?s most repetitive, jaded or oblivious diners.
You?re bound to find plenty of the first inside on many nights, enjoying and fawning over chef-owner Seth Raynor?s
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Asian-inspired, coastal cuisine or gawking at the usually lively crowd. For those who?ve been around since it?s inception, they know this is how it has always been at The Pearl, especially at the height of summer when dinner reservations can be hard to come by or long-lines of would be bar patrons linger by The Pearl?s Federal Street porch. Only the throng that typically gathers on late weekend nights around the patio front door at the adjoining Boarding House, The Pearl?s older sister establishment, usually match this buzz in Nantucket?s downtown. Above, Chef Lance Richard
Yes, The Pearl especially has something of a rep as a hangout for hipsters and eye-candy, but
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I was dragged out of bed so as to not miss it all. —Susan Handy
neither Seth Raynor nor his wife and co-owner Angela Raynor make much of a deal from that. If a Hollywood star or billionaire mogul sits down beside you inside The Pearl, don?t count on reading about it in Boston papers or seeing your photo on society pages. We?re all about giving our customers a comfortable and enjoyable experience with whatever privacy they want, assured Angela Raynor.
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This summer, fans of both restaurants can chose their own level of comfort at the two from morning to night, as The Pearl adds a late night menu, something rare on Nantucket, and BoHo, as many affectionately call it, dishes up hearty weekend brunches in the fresh air on its patio, or in the cozy confines of its bar and dining room on blustery days. Some diners already appear to be taking the name Boarding House for its traditional meaning. We?re seeing guests in the morning who were there at The Pearl for last call the night before, said Angela Raynor.
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In truth, the greatest pleasures at The Pearl and Boarding House are found on their menus. Food enthusiasts have raved about The Pearl?s signature Salt and Pepper Wok Fried Lobster, the Yellow Fin Tuna Martini, Sauteed Nantucket Fluke or the Grilled Center Cut Sirloin Steak. Downstairs at the Boarding House, you?ll find Pistachio Crusted Organic Salmon, Sicilian Style Spaghetti with sea urchin and Provencal Fish Stew, in preparations overseen by Boarding House chef de cuisine Erin Zircher.
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For late nights until after midnight, ask about The Pearl?s refreshingly small bite dishes that are heavy on Asian flair or just plain fun, like the Dog and Pony Show gourmet hot dog and beer. On some nights, Boarding House staff will bring The Pearl?s bites to their BoHo digs so that sports fans can take in the big game on television screens over there.
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Fresh and worldly
When The Pearl first opened, the Raynors had already proven their topnotch abilities with fine cuisine for a half dozen years at the Boarding House,
where their fresh approaches to classic French cooking methods both are former culinary school students trained in traditional cooking techniques and ingredients served as a solid underpinning to a menu influenced by American, continental and worldwide cuisine. Both are inveterate travelers who bring home to their Nantucket restaurant kitchens the tastes and preparations they encounter elsewhere. Although she mostly manages business tasks in both restaurants, Angela Raynor has worked in kitchens in New York and France and has stepped in temporarily to replace departing chefs. Seth Raynor traveled extensively throughout Southeast Asia in preparation for opening The Pearl. As a family with their young children Nathaniel and Jacqueline, they?ve taken extended vacations in Hawaii and South America among other places. Each time, they bring back their culinary discoveries.
It was Seth Raynor?s trip to San Francisco that helped spur their founding of The Pearl. He was already experimenting with the occasional Asian dish at the
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Hung over reveler’s have dragged themselves out of bed as to not miss the sourdough frenchtoast with orange Jack Daniels butter and cinnamon pecans. Boarding House when he visited the west coast and discovered even more authentic Asian food styles and products. Soon, he was adding more of those to the Boarding House menu.
Angela Raynor recalled that one regular but slightly perturbed customer eventually asked, When is Seth going to be done with his Asian period? When neighboring business owner Michael Molinar decided to remove his flower shop from next door to the Boarding House, the Raynors jumped on the opportunity to give Seth full rein with his Asian bent. Left, the Schulzes; Above, Annye’s crew Gail, Annye and Lynn; Below left, Howie Nair and Annye
Not being stagnant ranks high among the Raynors? goals for both restaurants. Their menus are driven by current market ingredients, with local origins when possible. And Angela Raynor has recently re-booted their beverage offerings with wine steward Jamie Nickerson to feature an array of organic, biodynamic and sustainable wines, cocktails and beverages. Their ongoing effort to renew and recharge only partly explains the Raynor?s nearly two Boarding House | 508-228-9622 12 Federal Street | boardinghouse-pearl.com
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For the newly engaged Terry Sanford and Marla Mullen, a recent afternoon picnic on Old North Wharf at Mary F. Slade Cottage launched another succession of summer outings with friends. With grilled food from E.J Harvey of Nantucket’s Sea Grille and wines from the island’s new Epernay—served in plates and glasses from Nantucket’s Lion’s Paw boutique—the couple created a quintessential Nantucket-themed gathering.
Over Harvey’s first course of yellow tomato gazpacho soup with an avocado puree, the couple toasted early summer. Joining them for lunch were close friends Dalton and Jennifer Frazier, Seth and Brooke Christian and Brendan Mailloux, and Rebecca Becker. Pet canines Zili and Loki romped around the lawn. “I’ve lived or spent time in every cottage on Old North Wharf,” said Sanford. “These afternoons are why we all come here.” The couple was taking a break
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from their Boston-based business Territory Real Estate, an online flat-fee realty company. “To us, this afternoon is quintessential Nantucket,” remarked Mullen. “The wharf is simple, mostly untouched. Its our piece of the island, frozen in time.” When the Sanford family bought the Slade cottage, the quarter board now hanging in the living room came with it.
Digging through Nantucket’s historical records reveals that Mary F. Slade was a shipping bark built in 1848 and sailing out of the New England port of Boston. A shipwreck of a Mary F. Slade is also documented off the coast of California in 1859 near Cape Mendocino. As with any good Nantucket treasure, there might yet be a firm connection to the island, awaiting discovery by future researchers.
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At a meeting held in November of 1719, the Proprieties of Nantucket Island voted to allow the building of wharves from Brant Point to Gravelly Point and south to Straight Wharf. One share of common land—and probably the wharves— equaled 720 sheep in value. Nantucket’s Great Fire of 1832 destroyed the area
“The wharf is simple, mostly untouched.” — Marla Mullen from South Water Street to Cross Wharf but it was quickly rebuilt. By 1845, if one were to stroll down the wharf, the congestion of businesses there would have been impressive. Butchers, blacksmiths, sail makers, block and spar builders, fish merchants and ship chandleries bustled with customers, in an area that has since been transformed into a peaceful escape from the island’s busy Main Street. By 1875, picnickers might have watched “sloop boats” coming in and out of the harbor for blue fishing. The fee then was just $8 a day or $1 an hour. The Mary
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In fact, the wharf has long entertained guests. In 1929, the first waterfront carnival was held on Old North Wharf to benefit the Cottage Hospital. Chances at games, quahogs, littlenecks and hot dogs were sold. The recently elected Massachusetts Governor Frank Allen attended with his wife, and playwright Austin Strong showed Long John Silver’s pistols. In 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sailed into Nantucket Harbor near Old North Wharf, where the legendary Wharf Rat Club made him an honorary member. Roosevelt’s yacht, Amber Jack II, later flew the club’s burgee from her yardarm. In 1964, Hugh W. Sanford and Alfred F. Sanford purchased Old North Wharf from Richard Everett. Today, the Sanfords continue to treasure the past while taking time out to enjoy the wharf’s simple luxuries. Wines from Epernay included a white Karl Lagler Gruner Weltliner from Austria (elegantly spicy with exotic notes and juicy fruit), a Nicolas Potel Bourgogne Pinot Noir 2005 from France (medium-bodied with notes of bright cherry and chestnut that pairs well with salmon and tuna) and for dessert a California Bonterra Muscat (delicate notes of honeysuckle and orange blossom with aromas of lemon and rose petals).
On this day, the source of greatest joy to those at brunch came from chefs E.J.
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Harvey and Jeff Knab. Following their soup course, the two served up a salad of arugula and feta cheese with a mint vinaigrette. A half grilled lobster came off the grill to be garnished with a smoked corn relish. Seared tuna burgers, served on whole grain bread with fresh salsa, joined the lobster. A side of roasted fingerling potato salad, grilled asparagus and lemon aioli filled out diners’ plates. A sweet and luscious lemon curd Brule and goat cheese tart, with fresh berries and strawberry tarragon sorbet, made for a memorable end to the meal.
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Over dessert, after their party moved inside, Sanford reminisced about his childhood nights spent on the wharf: “At night, growing up, our floor used to not be insulated. When the wind would starting howling, it would blow right through the wooden walls of the cottage, sweeping in under our rug in the living room making the rug float in the air, literally.” N
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“Fashionable” Wine? / By Orla Murphy-LaScola
For the past couple of years, based on our experience at American Seasons, Merlot has been an impossible sell on the restaurant floor. It was surprising for me to read that nationally sales of Merlot have been increasing quite dramatically. Further research uncovered that Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay— along with the seemingly dreaded Merlot—currently make up 45% of our domestic market.
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This raises two questions: What happened to cause the decline in Merlot sales in the United States and, is that decline on the reverse? Answering the first question is easy. If you saw the movie “Sideways” you might remember the line: “No, if anyone orders Merlot, I’m leaving. I am NOT drinking any *%#~ing Merlot!” This line and the subsequent press it received single handedly took the wind out of Merlot sales. But everyone seemed to forget that one of the world’s finest wines is made with Merlot. It is hard to believe that even the pompous Miles Raymond, played so convincingly by Paul Giamatti, would refuse a much sought after glass of Petrus. And maybe that is why, after the dust has settled, we’re now able to better answer the second question posed above.
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Merlot is key The French region of Pomerol has long produced one of the world’s most highly thought of and expensive wines, Chateau Petrus. One of the key elements of Petrus is, you guessed it, Merlot! While Pomerol has never instigated a classification system, Petrus is ranked by oenophiles among the wines with the classification of Premiere Grand Cru or First Growth’s from Bordeaux. Among the grapes allowed in a first growth Bordeaux or a Meritage (which is the name given to a wine which has the same mix of grape varietals as a first growth) are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Petit Verdot and Merlot. Most sommeliers and wine journalists strongly believe that the aforementioned one line in “that movie” did cause a negative effect on the sales of a product that is very highly thought of elsewhere in the world.
One of the most asked questions by journalists to a sommelier is: What are people drinking right now? The honest answer to that question would not be tasty pinots from the Oregon region or some other such response—but rather, whatever Wine Spectator is telling them to drink. The glossy wine journals are now being read by everyone. No longer aimed at the trade exclusively, they are filled with well-produced stories and insightful looks into trends in wine drinking. Not with weather and harvest reports, which is the real information wine buyers need.
In the late 1990s a similar thing happened to chardonnay, especially California chardonnays, but this time it was without the aid of a small art house movie. Back then, when selling a wine, we were often confronted with the phrase “ABC,” which referred to “anything but
The beauty in wine, like any other art, is variation—the different growing regions, a varying reaction of two different winemakers to the same grape grown in the same vineyard. Wine, like art, has renegades. The same kind of people who scoffed at Van Gogh were the ones who
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chardonnay.” The press was lamenting the “over-oaking” of California chardonnay, and consumers reacted by being repulsed by an oaky chardonnay’s very existence on a wine list. Some people enjoy the sensation of drinking an Oak stave, and who am I to judge? I like a “cat’s pee” nose on my Sauvignon Blanc!
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Orla Murphy-LaScola who with her husband Michael co-owns American Seasons. Photo by Ron Lynch
considered wine makers like the Italian Marchese Piero Antinori—who gave us the first super Tuscan-Tiagnello in the 1970’s—to be “nuts”. The wines they produced were outside the norm, they openly flouted the Italian DOCG classification system, which is similar in its general make-up to the French AOC system. The mixing of Cabernet, not a Tuscan grape while Sangiovese is, was considered ludicrous. That is, until Robert Parker wrote an article referring to these wines as “Super Tuscans.” By presenting them with their own “classification” under the power of his pen, sales of “Super Tuscans” began to rise. It’s true that taste is subjective and everyone’s varies, but when we see a considerable spike in the sale or decline in sale of a wine product it is generally traceable. Drink what you like Regardless of external forces, one must remember that the most important thing when buying and tasting wine is drink what you like. But in order to know what you like, you must be open to trying everything. The most uttered words at the dinner table for me as a petulant child were ”I don’t like it,” to which my Mother
always responded “How do you know, you have never tried it.” If you like oaky chardonnay, then drink oaky chardonnay. If the subtleties of Burgundian whites are more to your taste, so be it! All I would ask of you as a sommelier and general fan of wine is that you drink outside your box every now and again to expand your personal repertoire. Think of it like this: if you try it and don’t like it, you’ll never need to try it again. If, however, you try it and love it, then you will have opened a whole other world of wine for yourself. Suggestions to try: Carodorum Special Selection 2004, Spanish-Tempranillo $$ Pax Cuvee Moriah 2006, CaliforniaGrenache, syrah, Counoise and Rousanne $$ Linne Calodo Contrarian 2007, California-Rousanne and Marsanne $$ Mas Cal Demoura L’Infidele 2001, Languedoc-Grenache, Syrah, Mouvedre, Cinsault and Carignan $
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