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MAY 2022

22 CONTRIBUTORS Meet some of the talented writers and photographers who made this issue possible. 24 NUMBERS A numerical snapshot of Nantucket. 26 NEAT STUFF Take your wedding weekend to new extremes courtesy of Next Level Watersports. 28 NTOPTEN Your hit list for all the best events this spring. 30 TRENDING The second season of the Nantucket Sound podcast launches this month. 32 NECESSITIES Jot down these hot items for your spring shopping list. 34 NGREDIENTS Straight Wharf Chef Gabriel Frasca dishes one of his favorite spring recipes. 36 KID’N AROUND Keep your kiddos entertained with these spring activities. 38 HEALTH N WELLNESS Wellness coach Trish Law teaches us how to really catch our breath.

42 NEED TO READ Get started on your summer reading.

40 NBUZZ All the latest headlines courtesy of Nantucket Current.

44 NOSH NEWS The return of the Nantucket Wine and Food Festival

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Dorothy Stover’s campaign for topless beaches on Nantucket.

NSPIRE 48 FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS Meet Nantucket’s only Guinness World Record holder. 52 SOBERING NEWS Marking its fiftieth anniversary this year, Gosnold strives to fill critical gaps in addiction treatment and mental health services on Nantucket.

NVESTIGATE 58 NIGHT LIFE A new nonprofit seeks to protect Nantucket’s dark night skies from light pollution. 64 BARING WITNESS Meet the local woman on a crusade to make Nantucket’s beaches legally topless.

Skyler Wright’s breakout role on Showtime

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70 BEHIND THE VENEER Chris Yates takes us on a worldwide hunt for the rarest of woods. 78 THE WRIGHT STUFF Nantucket-raised Skyler Wright catapults into Hollywood thanks to her role in the hit Showtime series, Dexter: New Blood. 84 ISLAND AID TO UKRAINE Nantucket resident Tom McCann leads a heroic effort to bring aid to fleeing Ukrainian refugees in Poland.

NQUIRY 90 MR. GIFFORD GOES TO WASHINGTON Nantucket summer resident and former Ambassador to Denmark, Rufus Gifford takes us behind the scenes of the White House where he serves as Chief of Protocol in the Biden administration during one of the country’s most trying times.

102 The hottest looks to warm up your spring wardrobe.

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111 A look back at Nantucket’s Cape Verdean history courtesy of the NHA archives.

NUPTIALS 122 Callie McLaughlin and Brian Belichick tied the knot on Nantucket.

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124 A quick chat with local marketing guru Renee Perkins.

96 UKRAINIAN CONFLICT ASSESSMENT Ambassador Nancy Soderberg provides startling insights into the war in Ukraine and where the conflict may be headed.

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SPEAKING UP If you put three Nantucketers in a Gifford’s job to make sure that we enhance room, you are likely to get four opinthose relationships. ions. This is an island where freeThis issue also features an interview dom of expression is alive and well, with yet another ambassador with Nanfrom Town Meeting to the numerous tucket ties, Nancy Soderberg, the former media sources that cover Nantucket. Ambassador to the United Nations under However, when one of democracy’s President Clinton who is now living in greatest gifts—freedom of speech— Kosovo. Ambassador Soderberg shared inis challenged, islanders really begin sights into Russia’s war on Ukraine with to raise their voice. The events in some sobering perspectives as to where the BRUCE A. PERCELAY Publisher Ukraine have hit a strong nerve on conflict could possibly end up. Nantucket and have motivated people While there are many sobering topics leading our into action. headlines, there is certainly one on the island that has Our exclusive story about island residents raised eyebrows and perhaps generated a little bit of Tom McCann, Chris Yates, Jonathan and humor. Local resident Dorothy Stover is leading a camKasia Rodriguez, and N Magazine photographer paign to legalize topless bathing on island beaches. Talk Kit Noble heading off to the Polish-Ukrainian about getting thoughts off your chest! Stover bares her border speaks volumes about our collective confeelings about the right of women to go topless, just like science. McCann’s group, Nantucket Cares, has men, and is actively pursuing a citizen warrant to revise already raised hundreds of thousands of dollars public exposure laws. and will be distributing much-needed supplies After the long COVID-19 hangover, this sumto refugees located in remote villages that are mer hopes to provide freedom from masks and social unreachable by the larger rescue agencies. Our distancing. While we all hope to enjoy the renewed story on their journey that has been chronicled freedom from restrictions that have been with us daily in the Nantucket Current is both heartfor the past two years, we are also reminded of our warming and heartbreaking. larger freedoms that cannot be taken for granted. Our cover story featuring Ambassador Rufus Have a wonderful spring, and all of us at Gifford takes us from the front lines of the conN Magazine wish you a healthy summer season. flict to the inner circles of the White House. As Chief of Protocol for President Biden, Gifford's Sincerely, role has taken on new significance as he presents the United States in its best possible light to visiting dignitaries as well as on foreign trips with the president, most recently in Poland. Never in recent memory has the alliance between the United Bruce A. Percelay States and NATO been more important, and it is Publisher

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Charity Grace MOFSEN Charity Grace Mofsen captures the island of Nantucket in all its glory. With a particular affinity for astrophotography, she believes there is always light, if you have eyes to see it. From fine art landscapes to fun portrait sessions and creative product photography, she finds joy sharing her love of Nantucket with the hope that others will also cherish the island’s natural beauty. Recently featured in Framebridge’s “Black Artist Spotlight,” her work speaks to [wo]man’s connection to the cosmos. Describing her style as meditative, Mofsen highlights the beauty of the island’s contrasts—the solitude of the offseason and the joy of summer, the colors of the light and the wisdom of the night. For this May issue, Mofsen showcases her astrophotography for a story detailing the efforts of a new Nantucket nonprofit trying to preserve the island’s night skies.

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Larry LINDNER Larry Lindner is a New York Times best-selling writer who also penned a nationally syndicated column for The Washington Post for several years. His work has appeared in publications ranging from The Los Angeles Times to The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, and O, the Oprah Magazine. Currently, he serves as executive editor of Your Dog and Catnip, monthlies put out by Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. For this May issue, Lindner explored the extensive recovery services provided by Gosnold as the organization marks its fiftieth anniversary.

David ZAUGH David Zaugh is a portrait photographer based in Los Angeles who has photographed movie stars such as Mark Hamill, Bruce Dern and Chris Pratt. In the past, Zaugh has also photographed Nantucket’s own male super model, Hoyt Richards. For this May issue, Zaugh photographed Nantucket native Skyler Wright who most recently appeared in the Showtime hit series Dexter: New Blood. The photo shoot took place in Santa Monica, California, under the direction of managing editor, Emme Duncan.

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$200,000 Grants awarded to local business owners to date by the Nantucket Chamber of Commerce’s Rock Solid Fund.

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NHA AND N MAGAZINE’S FLOWER POWER PARTY

DREAMLAND COMEDY NIGHTS: MATT BRAUNGER

Whaling Museum Flower Power is back! N Magazine and the Nantucket Historical Association are teaming up once again to throw the biggest party of Daffodil Festival weekend. Enjoy amazing tunes, dancing, cocktails, a photo booth, costume contest and more at this all-yellow fête that will be anything but mellow. For tickets and more information, visit nha.org.

Dreamland Theater Get a giggle in the middle of Daffodil Festival weekend with a hilarious set from comedian Matt Braunger. Known for appearances on ABC, NBC, Netflix, Starz and Amazon, Braunger will have you in stitches from start to finish. For tickets and more information, visit nantucketdreamland.org.

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DAFFODIL FESTIVAL ANTIQUE CAR PARADE & TAILGATE PICNIC APRIL 23 — 9:30 AM – 3:00 PM

Downtown and Sconset Village It’s a Nantucket tradition like no other: Daffy Day! Head to Main Street before noon to wander through all the vintage cars, then make your way out to Sconset to revel in the tailgate fun. Don’t forget to wear your best hat and festive yellow fashions. For more information, visit nantucketchamber.org/daffodilfestival.

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PEEPS DIORAMA CONTEST APRIL 19 – 25

Atheneum Peeps of all ages will enjoy voting in the Atheneum’s 11th annual Peeps diorama contest. Contestants have made a diorama based on a book or literary theme using the famous springtime marshmallow treat, and the results are good enough to eat. Winners will be announced April 26. For more information, visit nantucketatheneum.org/2022-peeps-diorama-contest.

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46TH ANNUAL NANTUCKET GARDEN CLUB DAFFODIL FLOWER SHOW

APRIL 23 – 24 — 2:00 – 5:00 PM

Bartlett’s Farm What’s a Daffodil Festival without the main attraction? The Nantucket Garden Club will have a daffodil show at Bartlett’s Farm featuring flower entries, floral arrangements and photography. There will also be a complimentary bus on Saturday, April 23, from Washington Street. For more information, visit nantucketgardenclub.org/daffodil-flower-show.

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MAY 9 — 10:00 AM

17 India Street Get to India Street early on the morning of May 9, as the line for the Hospital Thrift Shop reopening will likely wind down the street for good reason. Now in its 93rd year in business, the thrift shop has been accepting donations all offseason and will be filled with one-of-a-kind antiques, artwork and furniture ready for discovering and coveting on opening day. For more information on how to donate, visit hospitalthriftshop.org.

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MAY 21 – 22 — MULTIPLE TIMES

White Elephant Oenophiles, rejoice! The Nantucket Wine Festival is back and ready to pop off once again. All scheduled events will be sure to delight your palate, but if you’re looking to try a little bit of everything, the Grand Tasting sessions are can’t-miss. Sample wines from all over the country while you mingle with some of the wine world’s greatest winemakers. For tickets and more information, visit nantucketwinefestival.com.

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NANTUCKET WINE FESTIVAL JAMES BOND'S BORDEAUX LUNCHEON MAY 21 — 12:00 – 2:00 PM

White Elephant In this NWF event, the name of the game is Bordeaux, James Bond’s Bordeaux. Join wine educator and enthusiast Philippe Newlin for a unique tasting experience where each of the featured vinos will be paired to one of the actors who have played 007. Cheers to that! For tickets and more information, visit nantucketwinefestival.com.

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MAY 24, 25, 26 — 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Greater Light, 8 Howard Street Romantics and crafters alike will love this class, where sailors valentine expert Elizabeth Braun will teach her secrets of the craft that she’s been honing for more than twenty years. Participants will be provided with materials, tools and instruction to create this prized shellcraft keepsake. For registration and more information, visit nha.org.

This annual inspirational evening hosted by NCTV returns this May to continue its mission to ignite change through storytelling. Showcasing films by and about women, Lunafest started as one small California premiere 21 years ago and has now celebrated the work of more than 170 filmmakers and raised more than $6.5 million for women’s causes. For more information as it is announced, visit nctv18.org. *All events are subject to change.

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KILLER CONVERSATION Fresh off the set of the serial killer drama Dexter: New Blood, actress Skyler Wright kicks off the second season of the Nantucket Sound Podcast This season’s first episode of Nantucket Sound debuts this month with an extended conversation with breakout actress and Nantucket talent, Skyler Wright. Profiled in this issue (“The Wright Stuff,” page 80), Skyler catapulted to celebrity after recently acting in the mega-hit television

drama Dexter: New Blood. Yet with stardom has come unforeseen challenges that Skyler wasn’t quite prepared for. In an intimate conversation with host Robert Cocuzzo, Skyler discusses this high price of fame and how she’s protecting herself as her career continues to take off.

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WOODCHUCK HARD CIDER BRUNCH BOX America’s original hard cider company since 1991, Woodchuck is back with an exciting variety pack of four innovative ciders inspired by everybody’s favorite classic brunch cocktails: Pearsecco, Mimosa, Paloma and Bellini. WOODCHUCK HARD CIDER @woodchuckcider • woodchuck.com

CUSTOMIZED GIANT TUMBLING TIMBERS ANKLE DECK BOOT Crafted specifically for offshore anglers, the Ankle Deck Boot is the perfect fit for any and all on-the-water athletes looking for protection with slip on and go styling. Made of 100% waterproof hand-layed rubber, these lightweight boots feature pull tabs for easy on and off.

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STRAIGHT WHARF EXECUTIVE CHEF GABRIEL FRASCA SHARES HIS RECIPE OF SPRING PEA & BITTER GREENS SALAD INGREDIENTS

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1/2 lb. English peas

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1/2 lb. snap peas

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1 tablespoon Dijon mustard

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1 tablespoon honey

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Juice of 3 limes

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3 tablespoons of cider vinegar

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2 heads of endive

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Picked herbs for garnish (mint, parsley, tarragon)

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Now the hard part: line a dozen or so snap peas up on a cutting board so that they look something like a picket fence. Moving quickly, without worrying about precision, julienne the snap peas, moving from right to left on your board. Repeat the process with the remaining peas.

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Cut the endive in half, lengthwise, make a V-shaped cut at the bottom to remove the heart, and then julienne it lengthwise. Repeat the process with the radicchio.

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Put the peas and the snap peas in a mixing bowl, add 1/4 cup of the dressing, season with salt and pepper, and taste. Adjust with more salt and pepper or dressing as needed. Add the endive, the radicchio, and the arugula, season with salt and pepper, and add a few tablespoons of dressing. Taste and add more dressing if necessary.

Bring a pot of well-seasoned water to a boil and blanch the English peas for roughly 30 seconds, before transferring them to a bowl of ice water with a strainer in it. Remove them once cool, let them drain, • To serve, divide the salad evenly amongst four plates, and top each and then repeat the process with the snap peas. one with 1 tablespoon of chopped pistachios, any garnish herbs, and • Put the mustard, honey, lime juice, vinegar, and 1/4 a small shower of grated parmesan. cup of parmesan (half of your total) in the top of a Sweet, salty, tart, crunchy, and blender. Turn it on, and then slowly add the extra redolent of spring, this salad has virgin olive oil. Season with salt and pepper, taste, most everything a fella could want. and add more olive oil (up to 1/4 cup) if the dressing Should you fancy a little more, my remains too acidic. Once finished, put aside. preferred version adds a pinch of chopped pickled peppers, or a little Aleppo pepper, for some foundational heat.

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SPRING INTO PEACHTREE KIDS Peachtree Kids, located at 19 Main Street, carries timeless, classic clothing, accessories and shoes for both everyday wear and special occasions for children newborns up to 12 years old. The store is filled to the brim with lines like Rylee + Cru, Quincy Mae, Mayoral, Hatley, Busy Bees, Sperry, See Kai Run and many more! Peachtree Kids is open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.. Or visit them online at peachtreekidsnantucket.com. You can also follow them on Facebook and Instagram @peachtreekidsnantucket.

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AROUND SUMMER WITH THE DREAMLAND STAGE COMPANY Registration is open for the Dreamland Stage Company’s summer theater camps and productions. The Dreamland is offering theater and dance for kids of all ages with Dreamland Kids, Dreamland Youth and Dreamland Teens programs. This summer children will be performing the popular musicals Into the Woods Jr. and Madagascar Jr. For more information and to register, visit nantucketdreamland.org and follow @dreamlandstagecompany. YOUTH WEAVING AT THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION It’s never too early to learn the craft of basket weaving. The NHA, in affiliation with the Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum, is offering a Youth Weaving Program for children in grades 3-6. With generous funding from the Nantucket Golf Club Foundation, these small classes provide students with hands-on instruction to help them not only learn a new skill but also gain a deeper understanding of this cherished Nantucket craft. For more information, please visit nha.org and be sure to follow them on @ackhistory.

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STARGAZING WITH MARIA MITCHELL Have you ever wondered about the constellations and planets that you see in Nantucket’s uniquely dark skies? One of the island’s special and must-do family activities is visiting the Maria Mitchell Association’s Loines Observatory and enjoying a magical tour of the night sky. See the Moon, star clusters, other planets and even other galaxies with the association's professional astronomers! On May 4th and 6th from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., families can participate in the popular, and free, Look Up program aimed at children. Also starting in June, stargazing at the observatory will be offered every Monday and Wednesday evening. For more information, please visit mariamitchell.org/open-nights and follow them @maria_mitchell_association. BARNABY’S TOY & ART SHACK Barnaby’s is kicking off the season with more than 100 art classes for children ages 2 to 13 years. Kids can also drop in and create everyday, all day! All Barnaby’s classes are taught by professional artists and educators who will guide your child’s technique and processes in an inspirational space in downtown Nantucket. Barnaby’s also has a wide variety of toys and art kits to go that have been hand-selected and designed for all ages. For the program calendar or for more information, please visit barnabysnantucket.com, call 508-680-1553, or email at barnabyack@gmail.com. And, be sure to follow @barnabystoyartshack! LINDA LORING FOUNDATION Looking for an adventure? Head outside to the Linda Loring Nature Foundation at 110 Eel Point Road to enjoy their Story Walk. Each month, a new children’s book is posted along the trail, so you can read along while enjoying the beautiful sweeping views of the western end of the island. On Sunday, May 22nd, Lizza Obremski with her fun-loving Nanpuppets will be performing at 10 am. For more information, please visit llnf.org or @loringnatureack.

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BREATH INTERVIEW BY ROBERT COCUZZO

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE

NANTUCKET-BASED LIFE COACH AND TRAINER TRISH LAW TEACHES THE TRANSFORMATIVE ART OF BREATHING Can you tell us what breathwork is? Breathwork is a technique that’s used to access a different mental state, gain clarity and even purge emotions. The style I teach is called transformative breathwork. It’s described as twenty-seven years of therapy in twenty-seven minutes, without saying a word. Although that experience isn’t always true for everyone, it often leaves people mentally “lighter” after a session. Breathwork is also a fantastic way to get out of your head and into your body, which makes healing more accessible. People have likened it to experiences with psychedelics. What are the benefits of breathwork? Personally, I love the clarity it brings and the emotional release. People that I’ve worked with have shared that, in a few sessions, they were able to work through an emotional issue or problem that had been weighing them down for decades. It seems to really get to the root of things by somehow bypassing the narratives the brain has about a situation and addressing things at the source. It’s been deFor more information scribed as life-changing. on Trish Law and her coaching and breathwork practice, visit How does one apply breathwork to trishlawcoaching.com their daily lives? There are so many different styles of breathwork that serve different purposes. Box breathwork is a technique that people can use daily as an anxiety and nervous system management tool. It’s easy, super-effective and takes just a few minutes. I think of this as the breathwork equivalent of brushing your teeth. The style of breathwork I teach is a little different. It’s more surgical. In other words, transformative breathwork is something you do maybe once a week to once a month with the intention of healing old trauma. The purpose of it is to release things and heal things so you can be happier and feel more connected to yourself.

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a “bottom up” approach. In other words, I witness how someone’s emotions impact their thoughts. The body feels the emotions and the brain makes sense of them. It’s

Are there benefits to breathwork that people would be surprised by?

How are most people shortchanging themselves in the way they breathe?

Such a great question. Nose breathing is better for nervous system regulation and helps with mitigation of increased cortisol levels, which would absolutely impact fat loss. I think one of the most surprising things for people with the style of breathwork I teach is how effective it is at releasing emotion. I always tell my clients that what comes out of them emotionally isn’t going to make them sick, but what stays in them will. It’s like a Bioré strip for buried emotions. It brings things up to the surface where we can purge them.

Honestly, the breath is one of the few constants we have in our life. It’s this beautiful involuntary thing that our body just does automatically for us. I “Breathwork is also a fantastic way to think that we shortchange ourselves get out of your head and into your when we forget how powerful this is. body, which makes healing more You’re also a life coach; how does breathwork play into that part of your practice? Life coaching is my purpose on this planet, for sure. I absolutely love my job and it’s something I truly feel I was born to do. The problem is…that sometimes the brain is the thing causing all the problems. In coaching I use what’s called

accessible. People have likened it to experiences with psychedelics.” — Trish Law

how I find patterns—and it’s one of my most effective tools in helping people understand themselves better. Sometimes though, a person’s brain is getting between them and their own emotions. This is where breathwork is incredible. It gets them out of their head and into their heart where all the “capital T” truths are.

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ANOTHER NOTCH IN TRIPLE EIGHT’S BELT Bryan Jennings, head distiller for Triple Eight Distillery, had his eyes glued to his screen on a cold winter night in late March. Two screens, in fact. On his television, the University of Arkansas graduate was watching his alma mater knock off the No. 1 seed Gonzaga in the men’s NCAA basketball tournament. And on his computer, he was streaming the World Whiskies Awards from London, where Triple Eight’s Notch whisky

won the World’s Best Small Batch Single Malt award. A pretty good day for the island resident. Jennings and Triple Eight Distillery co-founder and head blender Randy Hudson weren’t able to make the trip to London to accept the award. Former island resident Chris Perone, who is general manager of food and beverage at the NoMad Hotel in London, attended the gala and accepted the prize on their behalf. Photo by Dan LeMaitre

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OPENS ON HANABEA LANE

Nantucket Nutrition opened its doors on Hanabea Lane off Old South Road in late February and has since been cranking out smoothies, energizing cold teas and protein coffee. The new business is operated by island resident Laura Smith, who moved to Nantucket from Maine four years ago. Smith said she had been looking for an opportunity to help people meet their health and nutrition goals in a fun and enjoyable way. “This is what I’ve been wanting to do for six-and-a-half years,” she said. The teas, smoothies and other products offered at Nantucket Nutrition are all made with Herbalife Nutrition supplements and products. Smith is affiliated with the global dietary supplement company that she credits with helping her get healthier following the birth of her third son. “I was a mom, tired, a little overweight after my third son, and I wanted to lose weight,” she said. “I was introduced to these products and went on to lose 30 pounds and felt amazing.”

UPS MISSES THE BOAT

If you thought getting a package delivered on Nantucket was a challenge the past two years, well, buckle up. Nantucket Current broke the story in March that UPS, the shipping and receiving giant, failed to secure its normal boat reservations aboard the Steamship Authority ferries for the upcoming summer season. During those peak months, the volume is so significant that UPS traditionally Photo by Cary Hazlegrove, NantucketStock.com image, sends two to three trailers of packages from Hyannis to Nantucket on a daily illustrated by David Creed basis aboard the Steamship vessels. That includes most, if not all, of the Amazon orders destined for the island. The story went viral, making headlines across the country and even in the U.K. But the Steamship Authority is working on a fix. Its board of governors voted unanimously in March to prioritize UPS on the waitlist for reservations and add them to any existing trips with available space if possible. Steamship Authority General Manager Bob Davis also vowed that the boat line would not displace anyone with existing reservations to accommodate UPS. 4 0

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DAREDEVIL CLIMBS CRANE

Around Thanksgiving there was a rumor that someone had scaled the massive crane at Old South Wharf that has been parked in the harbor as part of the wharf repair project. Not only was the rumor true, but the woman who climbed the crane recorded it and posted it on YouTube. Nantucket Police Lt. Angus MacVicar said the department never received a report about a person climbing the crane but added, “This illegal activity is extremely dangerous and if caught the person or persons would certainly be charged with trespassing at a minimum.” The Nantucket Boat Basin and crane owner Mohawk Northeast are aware of the incident.

BIGGEST WEDDING SEASON EVER

Nantucket’s wedding industry is preparing for what is expected to be the biggest wedding season in island history. Event planners, photographers, tent companies and caterers are all reporting unprecedented bookings for island weddings in 2022 and beyond, with pent up demand after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic on full display. “What’s happening now is that 2022 is booked and done, locked up,” said ACKtivities’ Aisling Glynn, who has been planning weddings on Nantucket for two decades. “Already for 2023, we’re seeing unprecedented demand for the prime dates. The lead time used to be about twelve months or less, now it’s eighteen to twenty-four months. I couldn’t believe it when someone called me for 2024. It’s crazy.” It’s a trend that is being seen nationwide. An estimated 2.5 million weddings are expected to happen this year—with many that were rescheduled from 2020 and 2021—the most since 1984, according to the trade group, Wedding Report. The Nantucket Town Clerk’s office grants just over two hundred marriage licenses in an average year—there were 227 last year—and that number is expected to surge in 2022.

BROHO

IS BACK! More than a year after it was shuttered, the Brotherhood of Thieves restaurant on Broad Street is reopening under new ownership and management. The Brotherhood is tentatively set to reopen its doors on Monday, May 9, according to Steve Silverstein, who was hired by the new ownership group to manage the

restaurant. The downstairs pub and patio will open first, followed in June by the upstairs bar and restaurant area. The goal, Silverstein said, is to recreate the experience islanders have come to know and love at the Brotherhood as it enters its fiftieth season in business. “We’re doing exactly what they did before,” Silverstein said. “Our goal is to recreate the Brotherhood on its best day, whenever that was, and encapsulate that day. It will look like the Brotherhood. The menu will be similar—elevated pub food. Burgers, cheese soup, curly fries and fish sandwiches intended to be as affordable as you can do it on Nantucket.” The lower level will remain as the Brotherhood, while the upstairs bar will be more of a whiskey bar to showcase Triple Eight Distillery’s award-winning Notch single malt, while the dining area will have a “surf vibe” featuring live music when it opens in June.

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THE SWIMMERS BY JULIE OTSUKA

Books like this are why I love to read. The Swimmers is a small but mighty novella with language that floats off the page and into our minds, hearts and shared human experience. The book begins with a group of obsessed swimmers who notice a crack at the bottom of their local pool. This crack is a moving metaphor of loss and grief written with some of the most beautiful prose I have read in years.

LOST AND FOUND BY KATHRYN SCHULZ

Sitting down with this memoir is like talking to your best friend about everything—the details of your day to more profound insights about life and death. I’d follow Kathryn Schulz to any page in this book as she provides philosophical musings on two of our most mysterious but universal human experiences, dealing with death and finding love.

THE BETRAYAL OF ANNE FRANK BY ROSEMARY SULLIVAN

As a history buff and mystery lover, The Betrayal of Anne Frank was calling my name. This cold case investigation attempts to determine who betrayed Anne Frank and her family. Offering new technology and recently discovered materials, Sullivan documents the international team that takes us back to wartime Amsterdam in 1945 to uncover the truth beyond the diary.

THE VIOLIN CONSPIRACY BY BRENDAN SLOCUMB

The Violin Conspiracy was music to my bookish soul and one of my favorite reads this winter. The main character of Ray is unforgettable in his plight to find his stolen Stradivarius violin and win one of the most prestigious musical competitions in the world. This saga of sonatas, suspense and surprise delivers as a commentary on racism and prejudice as well as being an electrifying thriller and coming of age story.

NOTES ON AN EXECUTION BY DANYA KUKAFKA

Lovers of true crime and serial killer documentaries should take note of this novel. Notes on an Execution may begin with serial killer on death row Ansel Packer, but this story is told through the eyes of the women who knew him: a mother, a sister and a homicide detective. Gorgeous sentences and literary suspense flip the serial killer narrative from the violence of men to the voices of women.

THE LIONESS BY CHRIS BOHJALIAN MAY 10

Old Hollywood meets an African safari adventure by an author who promises “to never write the same book twice.” The diverse cast of characters and their back stories, shocking plot developments and stunning safari details in these pages made for a “read in one sitting” experience.

MARY KAY ANDREWS, NANCY THAYER AND JENNIFER WEINER.

Summer begins with Mary Kay Andrews, and The Homewreckers is the ultimate house-flipping book with enough romance, mystery and renovation fun to fill up an old home. Summer Love by Nantucket author Nancy Thayer brings old secrets to light when four friends gather on-island for a summer to remember. The Summer Place, out May 10th, is one of Jennifer Weiner’s best novels, and I loved the characters, the Cape Cod home and setting (a character in itself) and the funny observations on pandemic living. These three books smell of suntan lotion, the ocean breeze and that sweet summer spirit.

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Ripe On Time WRITTEN BY ROBERT COCUZZO

The Nantucket Wine Festival gets back to its roots

fter two years on the wagon due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nantucket Wine and Food Festival returns this May and is juicier than ever. As you might expect, the look and feel of this year’s festivities will be slightly different than the jam-packed pre-pandemic bacchanals of yore. The big airy tents will be the same on the White Elephant’s back lawn, but attendance to the marquee events—namely the Harbor Gala and Grand Tastings—has been reduced by half from around a thousand people to five hundred. (Attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination.) While there will be much more space to move around, the wines and foods available for tasting will still be loaded with exquisite options thanks to twenty-five world-renowned chefs and thirty-five winemakers.

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Nancy Bean and Opus One winemaker Michael Silacci

“That’s the piece that sets us apart... The charm, the boutique-feel, the access…you actually get to meet the winemakers and the chefs. It’s not a big tradeshow.”

“Every year we were growing a bit more and a bit more,” said NWF Executive Director Nancy Bean. “But the roots of the festival have always been boutique, so we’re going back to those roots by being a bit smaller and intimate.” Focusing on quality over quantity, Bean and her team are emphasizing their exclusive luncheons and dinners. “That’s the piece that sets us apart,” she said. “The charm, the boutique-feel, the access…you actually get to meet the winemakers and the chefs. It’s not a big tradeshow.” Beginning with the Wednesday evening Welcome Reception on the back deck of the White Elephant, which primarily showcases local purveyors, the festival will roll out nearly forty highly curated events. From its trademark Grand Wines in Grand Homes—featuring such blockbusters as Opus One, Ovid, Krug and local favorite Donelan Family Wines—to the ever-intriguing James Bond’s Bordeaux Luncheon, to the four Grand Tastings, the festival will deliver the high-caliber experience that it has been known for, while harking back to the nostalgic early days of Denis Toner’s fes-

tival. This year’s festival also brings in some new breakout talents from around the globe, including an array of stunning Chilean wines as well as a unique United Kingdom program called “Food Is Great,” featuring the best English sparkling wines. “We’ve received an outpouring of support from the community,” Bean said. “It wasn’t hard to get participants back with us…they were ready.” Indeed, like April daffodils blooming, the return of the Nantucket Wine and Food Festival signals to many a much-awaited return to Nantucket normalcy after a long, long COVID winter.

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Nantucket’s only Guinness World Record holder keeps his wife’s memory alive by tending to her bell collection

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n a quiet side street in ’Sconset resides the island’s only Guinness World Record holder. Inside what he calls “The Belfry,” Nantucket resident Nelson “Snooky” Eldridge carefully attends to the world’s largest collection of bells—more than 11,500 of them—that cover the walls and every nook and cranny in three large rooms of his home. There’s no website or social media pages, and you won’t find The Belfry on any list of island attractions. Snooky, a lifelong ’Sconset resident and retired volunteer firefighter, hands out business cards with his phone number and welcomes visitors year-round by appointment only.

Even if he only gets about a dozen visitors each year, The Belfry represents Snooky’s way of carrying on the memory and life’s work of his wife, the late Myrtle Eldridge, who spent decades collecting the bells and meticulously cataloging them before her death in 2006. The story of The Belfry, then, is truly a love story. The Guinness World Records organization officially recognized Myrtle’s The late Myrtle Eldridge collection as the world’s largest back in 2005. The framed certificate hangs prominently in one of The Belfry’s three rooms. Since then, Snooky has continued to add to the collection, even if he’s not actively searching for more bells as his late wife once did. “She was bent on having the world record,” he said. “She documented every bell.” As he walked through The Belfry, Snooky noted his wife’s very first bell that she brought home one day in 1963. “The bell that started this whole collection she found at the ’Sconset dump when we had our own dump out here on this end of the island,” he said. “It started growing from there, and all the sudden she said, ‘The kids are getting too big, they’re going to break them all.’ So she put them away for a few years, but once [the kids] quieted down a bit, [the bells] came out again and I said, ‘Get out of the way, because here they come.’”

“She was bent on having the world record. She documented every bell.” — Nelson “Snooky” Eldridge

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More than 11,500 bells make up Eldridge’s world record collection

“We were running out of space, and I said, ‘You’re not going to take over the house!’” — Nelson “Snooky” Eldridge

rom that first bell Myrtle took home from the dump, her collection grew into the hundreds and then the thousands. She and her friends would hit every yard sale on the island searching for bells of all shapes and sizes. Many she secured from friends and family back in her home state of West Virginia. And anytime the Eldridges would travel off-island, their first stop would be the New Bedford antique stores. The bell collection grew so large, Snooky said, that in the summer of 1998, he built a 400-square-foot addition onto his ’Sconset home just to house the bells. “We were running out of space, and I said, ‘You’re not going to take over the house!’” Inside The Belfry, the sheer number of bells surrounding visitors is almost overwhelming. It’s a feast for the eyes, and photos alone don’t do it justice. The bells are stored in relics of Nantucket history: a display case from the old Seven Seas gift shop or a cigar humidifier from the Nantucket Pharmacy that had been destined for the dump before the Eldridges snagged it. Amid the thousands of bells on display, Snooky can quickly point out a few of the more notable ones in the collection, and some that have a story behind them, including “the only one that means a damn to me.” It’s the bell from Nantucket’s first motorized fire engine, a 1923 Stutz. “That engine was on its way to ’Sconset, and where the Tom Nevers Road comes in, it T-boned a Mac truck turning into the Milestone cranberry bogs with a load of boxes,” he said. “The engine was on its way out to a fire and was never worth a damn after that.” Another one Snooky pointed out with a hint of pride is a large bell that used to hang in the Brotherhood of Thieves. “The big one up there,” he said, “when Arty Krause had the Brotherhood, that’s what he rang for last call.” And there was the bell made out of parts from German airplanes shot down over England during World War II, engraved with busts of Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt.

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But throughout The Belfry, it is Myrtle’s presence that looms the largest. There’s the picture of her with the first bell she collected from the ’Sconset dump, along with her notebook with thousands of typed entries for each bell noting their place of origin and a description. There are hand-written notes documenting when, where and from whom she acquired a certain set of bells. And there are clippings from the American Bell Association newsletters marking her record-setting collection, as well as her death in 2006. For Snooky, they are all memories of Myrtle that he holds dear.

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Addiction services on Nantucket seek to meet dire gaps in treatment

hat is it about Nantucket that seems to exacerbate mental health and substance abuse issues? According to an island-wide report released over the winter, Nantucket is grappling with fifteen gaps in adequate treatment for addiction and related mental health issues. Among the gaps detailed in the Nantucket Behavioral Health Assessment is a lack of appropriate step-down care for people who have gone off-island for detox or other intensive treatment and now want to reintegrate into life on Nantucket. One organization standing up to bridge this critical gap is Gosnold Behavioral Health.

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Marking its fiftieth anniversary this year, Gosnold offers treatment for behavioral health and substance use disorders and has recently introduced its SOAP program to Nantucket. An acronym for Structured Outpatient Addiction Program, SOAP is more intensive than the once-a-week-type therapy that has traditionally been available to islanders, whether at Gosnold’s offices on Old South Road or from other Nantucket-based therapy providers.

“Nantucket is one of the worst-off communities in the commonwealth. The average number of clinicians is one for every 150 people... Gosnold has played very needed roles on the island.” — Jason Bridges, Fairwinds executive director who serves on the Nantucket Behavioral Health Initiative leadership team

Led by clinical social worker Glenn Gemma, SOAP attendees come together in a group setting three times a week, for three and a half hours each meeting. SOAP’s thrust is largely to help people transition from detox or rehab, but it can also be used by people struggling in the community who need a higher level of care— more frequent therapy with longer-lasting face-to-face time—than they have been able to access on-island.

Gosnold’s SOAP program on Nantucket is sponsored by the Cape Cod & The Islands affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) via grants secured from the Town of Nantucket and the Community Foundation for Nantucket. That makes it free to all comers regardless of health insurance status. Not that Gosnold hasn’t been chipping away at problems associated with addiction in other ways. “I had a really good program of sobriety for thirteen years,” says one Nantucket resident, an educated professional, “and then in 2019 I picked up my drug of choice, and my life started falling apart again…Because of my addiction I was not being a good husband, not being a good father, not performing well at work, causing a lot of pain. Wracked with guilt, I wanted to end it all. I came pretty close. But I credit David with saving my life. He’s an amazing, amazing man.” “David” is David Nawrocki, a nurse practitioner at Gosnold who provides outpatient psychiatric services to help people with addiction recovery and mental

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says Jason Bridges, Fairwinds execuand why it keeps perpetuating itself.” tive director who serves on the NanOne group member, whose son tucket Behavioral Health Initiative leadhas been suffering from addiction for ership team. “The average number of twenty years, since he was a teenager, clinicians is one for every 150 people. talks of Kelly’s likening the people Here, there’s in the dynamic as one clinician parts of a mobile. for every 250 “If one part acts,” “Our goal is to care for to 300 people.” she says, “it affects as many people as Bridges says possible, whether through everything else. But that “we need Gosnold or not.” if you change how more Gosnold you act, it changes — Danae Young, Gosnold senior director of operations on the island, the dynamic.” She more Fairsays it was hard for winds…Gosher not to keep trying nold has played very needed roles on to do things for her son, to keep him the island.” from trying to take missteps, especially For another novel way of because as a parent you believe that’s filling in gaps, Gosnold offers a exactly your role. But her backing off Monday evening group for has not only been what she calls “a treCandice Tetrault Kelly family members of those mendous relief.” It has also led to her counsels groups as part of Gosnold with addiction strugson calling her more instead of pushing gles, run (on Zoom her away. “My recovery—how I’m during the pandemic) able to listen, how I’m able to respond, by island resident my empathy—these have been impactCandice Tetrault ed tremendously,” she says. Kelly. Like SOAP, it “Our goal is to care for as is free, thanks in part to many people as possible, whether a grant from the Siasconthrough Gosnold or not,” says Gosset Union Chapel. “Ininold Senior Director of Operations tially, people who come think Danae Young. Gosnold is pleased to they’re going to figure out how to be able to deploy a multipronged ap-

health. Nawrocki is one of many Gosnold clinicians involved in providing a continuum of care depending on where people are in recovery—everything from one-on-one therapy to a residential treatment facility off-island in Falmouth for detox. And the need for treatment only seems to be increasing. The latest Nantucket Chronic Disease Report shows, for instance, that in 2017, a total of 513 hours were devoted to “Drivers Alcohol Education,” a court-mandated course for people who have been convicted of

proach to helping people across the spectrum—from “Initially, people who come think they’re going to a DUI. In 2018 the people who love figure out how to get their loved one to stop misusnumber of hours desomeone with ing a substance. But they soon learn that they’re voted to that course a substance use embarking on their own recovery journey.” increased to 668, and disorder to those — Candice Tetrault Kelly in 2019, 1,292. The needing detox or course is adminiswho are at other tered on the island points on their get their loved one to stop misusing a by Fairwinds, which offers therapy for recovery journey. As Young puts it, substance,” Kelly says. “But they soon mental health issues in general in addiGosnold works consciously to reach learn that they’re embarking on their tion to therapy that addresses addiction “underserved populations struggling own recovery journey.” Part of the aim specifically. to find care. How we expand of the group, she adds, is to “find in“Nantucket is one of the worst-off directly reflects…the needs of sight as to who you are in this dynamic communities in the commonwealth,” the community.”

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A NEW NANTUCKET NONPROFIT’S CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT THE ISLAND’S DARK NIGHT SKIES

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“Our heritage of dark skies—the ability to see the Milky Way, shooting stars and constellations—is slowly being eroded in many places on the island. But quality stargazing isn’t the only thing at risk. — Gail Walker, the founder of Nantucket Lights

antucketers have always had a unique relationship with the night sky. From whalers navigating by the stars to Maria Mitchell identifying a comet, island history has been defined by the darkness above. However, according to the new island nonprofit Nantucket Lights, the island’s historically dark night sky is under threat from light pollution caused by both residential and municipal lighting. Over the last decade, satellite data shows that light pollution has increased by 24 percent on Nantucket. “Our heritage of dark skies—the ability to see the Milky Way, shooting stars and constellations—is slowly being eroded in many places on the island,” says Gail Walker, the founder of Nantucket Lights. “But quality stargazing isn’t the only thing at risk.” Walker says that excessive artificial light at night takes a human toll by suppressing melatonin, which can throw off our circadian rhythm and increase the rate of deadly diseases. Harvard Medical School confirms this, with studies showing that nighttime light exposure may lead to increased rates of cancer, depression, diabetes, heart disease and obesity. Perhaps more predictably, the increase in artificial light can have devastating effects on wildlife, disrupting their feeding, migratory habits, mating and other natural cycles that contribute to the balance of the island ecosystem. “My main concern is impacts on bat populations,” said Nantucket Conservation Foundation ecologist and field supervisor Danielle O’Dell, who also serves on Nantucket Lights’ steering committee. “We are one of the only places on the East Coast with healthy populations of northern long-eared bats, a federally threatened species that is likely to be upgraded to endangered soon.” O’Dell explained that increased light pollution makes it harder for these rare bat populations to navigate and feed at night, while also making them more vulnerable to predators such as owls as well as more likely to encounter humans. “While we’ve not had a case of rabies on Nantucket as far as I am aware,” O’Dell said, “increasing human/bat contact could be a public health concern.”

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“Nantucket’s dark skies are a precious resource...It’s not everywhere that one can look up and see the Milky Way stretch from one side of the sky to the other. Moreover, the night sky, particularly here on Nantucket, connects us with generations past...” — Dr. Regina Jorgenson, the director of astronomy at the Maria Mitchell Association

ats are just one part of a long list of nocturnal species impacted by increased light pollution and its downstream effects on the island. “I worry most about insects and birds,” explained Dr. Sarah T. Bois, the director of research and education at the Linda Loring Nature Foundation and a member of the Nantucket Lights steering committee. “Birds and insects often use light cues for migration and can be misdirected with brightly lit buildings or other overly bright lights. Insects are especially worrying to me since they are the basis of our wildlife food chain. A lot of our favorite charismatic species rely on insect fauna.” The impact of light pollution extends from land to sea, where some turtles and whales rely on the stars to navigate. Marine life aside, Nantucket boaters also depend on dark skies for safety. “We all know the story of the Iyanough hitting the jetty in Hyannis allegedly from mistaking background lights for navigation lights,”

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said Captain Blair Perkins of Shearwater Excursions. “It is a real problem, especially for small craft that may not have GPS units.” Captain Perkins says that Town Pier used to be equipped with lights shining directly out into the harbor, which were blinding boaters coming in to dock. “They finally replaced them with lights that face down,” he said. “Even floodlights on buildings present a problem, as do lights on some of the big yachts.” The most recent flashpoint for the Nantucket Lights campaign has centered on Nantucket Public Schools. Immediately after launching the nonprofit, Walker was inundated with complaints about the lighting around Nantucket Elementary School. Walker and her team enlisted Keith Yancey of Lam Partners, an organization that specializes in lighting for college campuses and public buildings, to review the complaints surrounding the school. Yancey found that while Nantucket’s intermediate school and high school were mostly compliant with the town’s bylaws, Nantucket Elementary School’s illuminance levels were fifty-eight times higher than what was allowed according to Nantucket Code. “Not only is this lighting contributing to light pollution and light trespass,” Yancey wrote in his report, “it is also resulting in the expenditure of much more on electrical bills than necessary for safety and security.” In February, Nantucket Public Schools took Yancey’s recommendation to reorientate the security lights to face downwards, but refused any other measures, such as installing dimmers, motion sensors and timers on security lights, as well as lowering the height of light posts that exceeded twelve feet. The school indicated that the lights had been updated in 2019 and not only matched the lights throughout the rest of campus, but were also saving the school upward of $3,300 a year. “For us this was a safety issue,” NPS Director of Facilities Diane O’Neil told N Magazine’s Nantucket Current. “In the colder months many teachers and staff leave the buildings well after dark. They were not feeling safe with the older lights. We are not supposed to shut off any outside lights due to other safety issues.” When considering the importance of light around the schools, as with NPS, safety is often the common argument. Yet, in fact, increased

tional Dark Sky Place. In joining the ranks of other communities around the world who have successfully reduced their artificial light to meet the parameters of the International Dark-Sky Association, Nantucket would be the first International Dark Sky Community east of the Mississippi River. “Nantucket’s dark skies are a precious resource,” said Dr. Regina Jorgenson, the director of astronomy at the Maria Mitchell Association and member of the Nantucket Lights steering committee. “It’s not everywhere that one can look up and see the Milky Way stretch from one side of the sky to the other. Moreover, the night sky, particularly here on Nantucket, connects us with generations past— who used the night sky to navigate, or in the case of Maria Mitchell, to make great discoveries and explore the nature of our cosmos.”

lights might not actually deter crime. In 1997, the National Institute of Justice presented a report that found that not only does increased light not prevent crime, but it can actually encourage it. “The problematic relationship between lighting and crime increases when one considers that offenders need lighting to detect potential targets and low-risk situations,” the report stated. “We can have very little confidence that improved lighting prevents crime, particularly since we do not know if offenders use lighting to their advantage.” In the midst of a global pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine, protecting our ability to see stars might seem like a flight of fancy to some, but the effort has gotten global attention, with editorials in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and oth-

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Baring Uncovering Dorothy Stover’s campaign to allow island beaches to go topless

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eventh-generation Nantucketer and self-described love and sex educator Dorothy Stover was sunbathing on the beach last summer when she felt the urge to take off her bikini top. As she looked around the beach and saw men with exposed chests in all shapes and sizes, she wondered why women weren’t allowed the same freedom. She went home and researched it. “And that’s when I saw this discrepancy in equality,” Stover explained. “I realized that the current law is antiquated.” As Stover discovered, nearly a hundred years ago, men fought for the right to be topless on America’s public beaches. At the time, bathing suits were commonly made of wool and were worn to cover both men’s and women’s bodies. The men’s version even included a ruffled skirt for modesty. However, the discomfort and swimming hazard that the wool imposed eventually caused men to revolt against such decency standards, and after much protest, they won the right to go topless in the 1930s. Recognizing this historic inequality in the law, Dorothy launched a petition this winter to make female toplessness legal on all of Nantucket’s beaches. Before her citizen’s warrant could be added to the ballot to be voted on during Town Meeting in May, she needed to defend her case in front of the town’s Financial Committee. “I was super nervous,” Stover said. “I thought my best possible outcome would be that they simply would hear what I had to say.” Yet to her surprise—and to the

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surprise of many other islanders—the committee endorsed her warrant. “It certainly wasn’t a feeling on the Finance Committee that people should be topless on all beaches on Nantucket,” explained Joanna Roche, the executive director of the Maria Mitchell Association who has served on the Finance Committee board for the last seven years. “The feeling was that this is an outdated law that’s not equitable, and to let the voters decide.” Since then, Stover’s so-called nipple equality campaign has grabbed national attention, with splashy headlines in everything from the New York Post to Yahoo News. Her hashtag #nantucketnippleequality has been trending on social media, and the response has been, according to Stover, surprisingly massive. “I’ve been getting a lot of messages from people who feel empowered and free by taking their top off on the beach,” she said. “I feel like Nantucket could now be a destination for these people.”

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he most vocal response has I think it’ll look more like it does now, come from Nantucketers themwith only a few people that may decide to selves, with strong arguments lay out topless. This law doesn’t require for and against. “I love being in the everyone to be topless; it only allows you water naked,” said Hana Schuster, a to do so.” The founder of the Nantucket thirty-three-year-old construction projLove School, Stover teaches women to ect manager and Nantucket year-round feel connected with their bodies. “I was resident. “Nudity is natural—it doesn’t never taught that my body was shameful,” always have to be sexual. It’s only said Stover, who credits her late mother taboo because we have made it that and former longtime Town Clerk, Cathway.” However, seventy-two-yearerine Stover, for encouraging her to stand old island resident Alyce Moore isn’t up for what she believes in. “As a child, about to cast her vote to cast off I’d be running down Pocomo Beach bikini tops. “It totally naked, not a reminds me of care in the world.” the hippie days Stover cites “This law doesn’t when people that societies and require everyone to be burned their bra,” cultures where topless; it only allows she said. “This nudity is permitted you to do so.” equality business also tend to have — Dorothy Stover is foolish; women the lowest occurare different from rences of sexual men. We’ve lost assault and other our true sense of self-respect, dignity similar sex crimes. Biologically speakand true femininity.” ing, Stover argues, there is not much As conservative as Nantucket is ofevidence to differentiate between male ten known to be, the island already lays and female breasts. Both (yes, men, claim to a single nude beach, albeit not too) contain mammary glands and milk legally recognized. Located roughly beducts. In fact, men can theoretically tween Miacomet Pond and the Surfside breast-feed children. sewer beds, this beach is not found in Nantucket has long been on the foreguide books. A similar stretch of coastfront of gender equality, stemming back to line exists on Martha’s Vineyard where the whaling-era days when, in the absence Lucy Vincent Beach has permitted nudiof their husbands, women ran a majority ty since the mid-1960s. Legally speakof the businesses along Petticoat Row. ing, nudity on these beaches is, in fact, Several centuries later, Stover hopes the against the law, specifically under one island can again be trendsetters in gender currently upheld by the state on lewdness equality, allowing all nipples to be bared, and lascivious behavior, carrying with it regardless of their owner’s sexual identity. a penalty of up to three years in prison “Whether someone wants to be topor up to a $300 fine. The vote at Town less or not is entirely up to them,” Stover Meeting on May 4th could change that. explained. “This is not necessarily about “I think a lot of people are envisionwhat we will do at the beach, but it’s ing a sea of breasts,” Stover joked. “But about righting that wrong.”

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“I think a lot of people are envisioning a sea of breasts. But I think it’ll look more like it does now, with only a few people that may decide to lay out topless.” — Dorothy Stover

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HOW CHRIS YATES IS GOING AGAINST THE GRAIN

hris Yates is to the wood business what Stradivarius was to the manufacturing of violins. Esoteric yet scientific, artful yet pragmatic, Yates possesses an understanding of wood that borders on the spiritual. The result of his passion is a business that produces some of the most spectacular wood products for the interiors of luxury homes, yachts and even private jets. His business takes him around the world in search of the best wood nature has to offer. On the island, his East Wood Trading Company is known in inner circles as one of the finest preservers of unique wood products anywhere. It can be difficult to get an appointment with Yates at his East Wood Trading workshop. Typically, potential clients are instead steered toward the mid-island showroom. This luminous Scandinavian-style gallery offers gleaming wood samples and eye-candy color-source materials—chunks of rich ambergris, honey-colored

resin chips and Japanese wabisabi finishes touched with smoke, all design deliciousness that will instantly give new meaning to the phrase “so clean you can eat off the floor.” In fact, Yates is so busy (more than five hundred projects currently planned for this calendar year alone) that he is actively hunted down by people who can’t (or won’t) take no for an answer. Sometimes, he receives uninvited guests from industry professionals who desire access to his top-secret, innovative wood-finishing techniques—some 3,000-plus formulas he has invented over the years, many protected by copyright, most still existing solely in his head. “We have an app in development…” he muses, perhaps mulling over the fact that he has very little digital footprint—further testimony to the powerful reputation for a level of craftsmanship that has earned him success without the aid of technology, or even a website (a new one is under construction).

tanding in his impeccably organized workshop—a Harry Potter-esque apothecary with floor-to-ceiling shelves of meticulously organized bottles, jars and tins full of the naturally sourced liquids, powders and emulsified pigments he uses to create his uniquely beautiful wood finishes—Yates seems somewhat baffled by his own excellence. He attributes it to having “locked himself up” for nearly ten years of obsessive experimentation geared toward the perfection of techniques that

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“WE HAVE TAKEN ARCHITECTS, DESIGNERS AND HOMEOWNERS ON TRIPS TO SELECT MATERIALS FROM OLD STRUCTURES—LAST YEAR, SUNKEN CYPRESS LOGS FROM THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ERA ON THE GULF COAST. RIGHT NOW, WE ARE WORKING ON A REALLY COOL PROJECT USING A 10,000-YEAR-OLD BOG OAK.” — Chris Yates

have been jealously guarded for centuries by European artisans. For those of us who think of wood refinishing as the end result of a visit to Lowe’s or Home Depot, or an afternoon spent alone at home with the windows open, rag and noxious jar of Minwax in hand, East Wood Trading offers an elegant alternative—lovingly treated wood that tells the story of a journey through time, from tree to hand-crafted flooring or custom furniture. No off-gassing here, no worries about children playing on a floor that is expos-

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tomers.” Stacks of nonfinish work in Bavaria. We will finish disclosure agreements the materials there and bring them back notwithstanding, pre-finished, and they will look differYates admits to having ent than if we were in Switzerland.” worked all over the world Born in Maryland, Yates, along for an impressive roster of with his four siblings, grew up splitting clientele from the sports, tech, wood and driving tractors on a farm entertainment and corporate arenas, with near Washington, D.C. But his Nanprojects ranging from single-family homes tucket connections go back more than to sleek luxury yachts, a paneled library seventy years, and in 1973, his uncle, that cost upward of $3 million (for a single Tony Yates, founded Yates Gas with room) and detailed restoration work in the his wife, Grace, and family members Three Bricks on Main Street. Linda and Gary. “It was with Linda Personally selecting source materials is that I founded East Wood,” Yates says. just one of the ways that Yates ensures a “We were exclusively focused on restandard of excellence that has earned him claiming old structures for reuse. We a place among the world’s top wood artiwere searching for very high-quality sans. “We have taken architects, designers antique materials from factory buildand homeowners on trips to select materials ings and barns—mostly in Pennsylvafrom old structures—last year, sunken cynia, Virginia and Maryland.” press logs from the Industrial Revolution From those early days spent neera on the Gulf Coast. Right now, we are working on a really cool project using a 10,000-year-old bog oak.” Retracing the footsteps of his grandfather in the Schwarzwald—the mountainous, ancient Black Forest of southwest Germany—Yates discovered the intimate connection between craftsman and source, family history and artistic tradition. “I’ve walked the Black Forest where my grandfather fought in World War I. “ULTIMATELY WHAT TOOK ME TO He was there with his three EUROPE WAS TO UNDERSTAND FINISHING brothers fighting in the —THE TECHNIQUES IN THE UNITED war, and I was looking for STATES WERE INADEQUATE.” trees—dead standing trees. I — Chris Yates was there with a guy by the name of Wolfgang, and we were looking at nature for color and natural materials to make color out of. I will do

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gotiating with the Amish, who did not permit the use of electric machinery in the reclamation process, Yates’ network has expanded all around the world, as has his “fascination with Old World techniques and a more European interest in sustainable practices.” Apparently, Nantucketers are at times as fanatical as the Amish about historic preservation—Yates recently completed a project on West Chester Street where the homeowner also forbade the use of electric tools. “Ultimately what took me to Europe was to understand finishing—the techniques in the United States were inadequate. Looking at trees and wood on a molecular and cellular level, studying the vascular system of the tree—specifically oak trees—trees that grow in harsh, cold conditions, like on the border of Germany and France, where the tree’s defense mechanisms produce tannins to keep bugs away…[there are] more tannins in stressful con-

ditions, so you are looking for wood you can age…the tannins in the woods create the all-natural finishes.” Traveling the world and devoting oneself to the creation of functional beauty—the life of a wood artisan may seem like a proverbial walk in the park. But with the stressful demands of perfectionist clients, the stakes are very high. Yates prefers a more Zen approach. “Wabi-sabi is an order of spiritual values…letting things be as they are. Every single tree is different. Every board is different. You are working with these world-renowned designers and they want the wood to look uniform. A lot of the time you are hiding the scars and the history of the tree. They’ve got these scars, fractures. They crack like our bones, but a designer doesn’t always want to see that.” For Yates, it’s not about smoothing over the fractures or hiding the scars—as any proponent of the wabi-sabi philosophy knows, the cracks are where the light shines in.

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STUFF SKYLER WRIGHT SHOWS KILLER INSTINCTS IN SHOWTIME’S MOST-WATCHED SERIES DEXTER: NEW BLOOD

unkered down on Nantucket during the depths of the pandemic, Skyler Wright never could have imagined that dying her hair green would help catapult her acting career. Having worked as a professional actor since the age of fourteen, Wright had been trained to keep her appearance exactly as it’s depicted in her headshots for the benefit of casting directors. But with the gears of Hollywood grinding to a halt and with the tedium of quarantining on the island riding high, the twenty-three-year-old Nantucket resident decided to truly let her hair down. A week after dying her brunette locks aquamarine green, her agent called with an audition for her out of the blue. Skyler sheepishly signed on to the Zoom audition from her bedroom in Nantucket to read for a part on an undisclosed show being shot outside of Boston. The scouts ended up wanting her for the role, pending one request: “Is Skyler willing to keep her hair green?”

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Shameless and Billions with eight million viewers each week—effectively thrusting Skyler Wright to the top of an industry that she had been clawing up since middle school. “I started my career on Nantucket doing community theater and shows with the Theatre Workshop,” Wright said. “I was eight or nine when I started. I remember telling my mom when I was around twelve or thirteen that I wanted to be an actor when I grew up.” Wright’s mother, Amber Cantella, thought there was no reason for her to wait. “She basically said, ‘OK, for eighth grade I am going to take you out of school and homeschool you,” Wright recalled. “‘We are going to spend two months in New York City and you are going to be an extra on movies.’” Wright worked behind the scenes on movie sets, auditioned for countless roles and enrolled in acting, singing and dancing courses at New York University, Berklee School of Music and other distinguished performing arts institutions.

“I didn’t realize until recently just how many eyes are on me. It’s both cool and daunting.”

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ince landing her role in the Showtime series Dexter: New Blood—a smartly written thriller about a serial killer starring Michael C. Hall that returned for a ninth season this past November after an eight-year hiatus—Wright’s public profile has exploded. “It’s surreal,” she said earlier this spring. “I wake up every morning, make myself coffee and look at my phone…and it’s so bizarre the amount of engagement I get on social media alone.” Indeed, the morning after her character Chloe debuted in episode four of Dexter: New Blood, Wright was shocked to discover that she was the eleventh most-searched name on IMDb’s database of 2.2 million actors. In retrospect, perhaps that shouldn’t have come as such a surprise, given just how successful the series has been. Dexter: New Blood drew the highest number of viewers in Showtime’s thirtyone-year history, beating out such household names as Homeland,

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After graduating high school in Duxbury, where her family relocated from the island to be closer for auditions in the city, Wright moved to California to be fully immersed in the entertainment industry. In 2019, she decided to return east to pursue theater in New York City, but then the pandemic hit. Fleeing the eye of the COVID storm in New York City, Wright moved back to Nantucket to quarantine with her family. Like everything else, acting opportunities quickly dried up. She bartended at the Tap Room and Dune, while she auditioned for roles in films such as Don’t Look Up and Julia over Zoom. Then came that serendipitous call from her agent to audition for an unnamed show in Massachusetts.

“I started my career on Nantucket doing community theater and shows with the Theatre Workshop. I was eight or nine when I started. I remember telling my mom when I was around twelve or thirteen that I wanted to be an actor when I grew up.” — Skyler Wright

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Filming outside of Boston in the middle of February 2020, Wright arrived for her first day on the Dexter set and immediately had her head covered in silicone and plaster to make a mold of her face for her body double. “What am I getting myself into?” she thought, as the plaster hardened around her skull. But that was only the beginning. Taking advantage of Massachusetts’ winter conditions, director Marcos Siega shot all the show’s outdoor scenes first. Thus, on her very first week on the job, Wright was driven out to a cabin in the woods where she immediately spotted her stunt double having green hair extensions put in. “We want you to be as comfortable as possible,” Wright remembered Siega saying when they first met on the set, “but whatever stunts you feel comfortable doing, I want you to do them.”

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he next thing she knew, Wright was being tied to a harness to film her— Spoiler Alert!—death sequence at the hands of actor Clancy Brown. “It was a pretty intense first scene to shoot,” Wright recalled. In the highly charged moment, Wright’s character Chloe—a poor runaway who gets held hostage by Brown’s serial killer character Kurt—runs at her captor, tears of fear streaming from her eyes, only to be shot in the face by a hunting rifle. Performing the stunt herself, Wright was violently yanked to a mat on the ground by ropes tied to her harness to simulate the arresting power of the rifle. It would prove to be one of several scenes that challenged Wright in ways she never encountered before as an actor—both on and off the set. Wright’s career has flirted with a number of big breakout moments, including her first major cinematic casting in The Forger with John Travolta in 2014, but nothing has elevated her stature like her work on Dexter. “I didn’t realize until recently just how many eyes are on me,” Wright reflected. “It’s been both cool and daunting.” Overnight fame has come as a double-edged sword that Wright is still trying to get a handle on. “The second people get some recognition from the public, they get less humanized,” she reflected. “I think I’m trying to bridge the gap because my actual life hasn’t changed that much. I’m still the same girl behind the bar five nights a week. I’m still sending in audition tapes. There’s just so much that changes in the way that people perceive you, but the actual person doesn’t change very much.” A significant amount of the unwanted scrutiny Wright has received on social media has come in response to a brief nude scene she performed in the show. “That led to thousands and thousands of comments and DMs from people talking

Scenes from Dexter: New Blood in which Wright plays a runaway named Chloe. The role has since catapulted her into the public eye.

about or scrutinizing my body and my weight,” Wright said. “A lot of them are compliments, but they’re not always taken as compliments. Even if it’s some creep in his mom’s basement trying to tell me that I’m hot because I’m chubby…no one really likes hearing that.” As her public profile skyrocketed from zero to a hundred, there has been little time for Wright to prepare for these complicated implications of celebrity. “It’s the dehumanizing factor of being on TV,” she said. “All of the sudden it hit me that ‘yes, this is an amazing experience and I loved every second of it, but it doesn’t mean that it’s been all butterflies and rainbows the whole time.’” Wright credits the support of her parents, boyfriend, close friends and licensed therapist for helping her grapple with the unforeseen mental and emotional tolls of her success. She hopes to use her emerging platform to raise awareness

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around mental health and positive body image while continuing to support the causes close to her heart such as protecting trans youth, racial equality and gender equality. Meanwhile, though her character Chloe might have been killed off the show, her career in showbiz is very much alive. Since moving back to California, her primary focus has turned to music, recording an album she wrote while quarantining on Nantucket. She describes her music as “somewhere between pop, R&B and a little bit of rock.” Her pursuits in acting also remain in full force, with more calls coming in to her agent and new projects underway that were still too top secret to talk about at press time. As for her hair, Wright is keeping it green, at least for the time being. “It’s funny that something that could be considered so insignificant has changed my career and my life so much,” she said, “and now it’s just become such a part of who I am.” Yet no matter what her hair color may be, Skyler Wright clearly possesses those intangible gifts, what author Tom Wolfe would have described as “the right stuff,” to continue riding this rocket ship to stardom.

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Nantucket Cares personally delivers aid to Ukrainian refugees sheltering in Poland

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om McCann has always been a man of action. Whether it was launching Holidays for Heroes to support wounded warriors in 2012 or parachuting into Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria in 2017, McCann takes a jump-andthe-net-will-appear approach to humanitarian work. Last month, when the sixty-eight-year-old Nantucket resident began seeing on the news the pained faces of Ukrainian refugees fleeing into Poland—most of them women and children who reminded him of his daughters and grandchildren—McCann instinctively started hatching a plan to help. But it wasn’t enough for him to just send a check to the Red Cross. He wanted to be at that border, literally embracing families as they crossed. “I’ve been watching the television with tears in my eyes,” McCann said. “I said, ‘I can’t watch from the couch anymore. It’s driving me crazy. I need to go over there and do something, do anything.’” As fate would have it, McCann’s trainer at the Nantucket Hotel, Johnathan Rodriguez, and Johnathan’s wife, Kasia Chmielewska Rodriguez, had been planning a trip to Poland prior to Russia invading Ukraine. Born in Poland, Chmielewska consulted with her family amid the emerging conflict; they said the couple should still make the trip. When the Rodriguezes ran into McCann on-island and told him where they were headed, the idea for an aid mission was born. Under the banner of Nantucket Cares, an emergency relief fund McCann originally founded with Tracy Long and Carlos Castrello to bring aid to Puerto Rico in 2017, their homegrown humanitarian mission to

Poland quickly began taking shape. a host of islanders to set up a GoServing as both guide and translator, FundMe page, launch social media Chmielewska connected with her handles, craft a mission statement contacts on the ground in Poland to and logo, and, most important, fundidentify small pockets of unmet need raise. In the process, the Nantucket among the millions of refugees pourCares team grew to include Naning into the country. tucket residents Chris Yates, Jacquie “I’m focused on small places,” Chmielewska said in the lead up to their departure. “In the big cities, they have more help. But some of these villages where there are now fifty kids, it’s hard for them.” She identified “I can’t watch from three small villages in parthe couch anymore... ticular where hundreds of I need to go over refugees were being shelthere and do something, tered by regular Polish do anything.” citizens. The Nantucket — Tom McCann Cares team began building a list of their needs, from general hygiene supplies to specific items like size-six Nike sneakers for one of the little boys in the shelter. Meanwhile, McCann was doing what he does best—drumming up support. With a high-energy rogue (Clockwise approach, he rallied the Nantucket from the top) Tom McCann at community into action, enlisting

Logan Airport prior to departure; Johnathan Rodriguez; Yuliya Novak; some of the twenty-three duffel bags of supplies Nantucket Cares flew to Poland; Chris Yates.

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Brian McKernan and Kasia Rodriguez outside the refugee camp in the village of Milocin

the Nantucket Cares team, serving as translator, cultural guide and connection to the Ukrainians still in the country. Meanwhile, the Nantucket community responded to McCann’s call for support with full force. A number of island businesses made major financial commitments to the cause, while island students created works of art and cards and donated stuffed animals for Ukrainian refugee children. Marine Home Center committed $10,000 plus a pallet of flashlights that it shipped directly to

Colgan and N Magazine’s chief photographer Kit Noble, who would document the entire journey. “We have a connection to that part of the world,” said Yates, whose Nantucket-based company East Wood Trading (see “Behind the Veneer,” page 70) has collaborated with families in both Poland and Ukraine. “It’s just my personal nature to want to help, which is the case for so many people. You Tom McCann with a child at wonder how and what to do. You have the sense that it’s not the camp in Milocin enough and want to be on the ground there…to be able to give them the daily necessities and life-saving necessities—water, “I’m focused on small places...some food, shelter, any of those needs—and to give them hope and of these villages where there are now a desire to keep going and fighting for freedom.” fifty kids, it’s hard for them.” When a Nantucket Current article detailing McCann’s — Kasia Chmielewska Rodriguez mission was forwarded to island resident Brian McKernan, Nantucket Cares gained two key players. At the time, McKernan and his friend, Ukrainian-born Yuliya Novak, were searching for an organization they Warsaw. Both Island Energy could join to bring aid directly to Ukrainian Services and East Wood Tradrefugees. A friend of McCann’s for fifteen ing made significant donations years, McKernan called him up just days bewhile private individuals gave fore the scheduled departure and told him that to the GoFundMe page, some as he and Novak would like to join them. With much as $10,000. her family still living in Ukraine, Novak—who By the time the Nantucket moved to New York City a month before the Cares team arrived at Logan September 11th attacks and is now an AmeriInternational Airport on April can citizen—became an invaluable member of 2nd to fly overnight to Poland,

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Women and children made up almost all of the refugees Nantucket Cares encountered at the three camps

McCann and his team had raised more than $150,000 and already shipped more than $20,000 worth of supplies to Poland, including food items such as three thousand protein bars, along with baby clothes, medicine, hygienic products, teddy bears and other items. They took off from Boston with twenty-three fully loaded duffel bags, which Lufthansa airline checked free of charge, with plans to buy more supplies once they landed. Arriving in Gdansk, ´ a port city on the Baltic coast in northern Poland, the Nantucket Cares team was met by a three-man American security detail that Yates had arranged to run logistics, drive three sprinter vans and, most important, keep them all as safe as possible. Because humanitarian aid groups have been targeted, the Nantucket Cares team was given strict instructions not to discuss any of the locations they were visiting over the phone, out of fear that their lines could be tapped. One of the security detail was a doctor, who would be treating the refugees they encountered at the camps.

gestured to a prominently hung painting depicting an orphan holding out an empty cup. “This painting sits in my house because this is my purpose,” Jan told them through a translator. “To fill the empty cup.” In two separate structures behind Jan’s home, fifty-five women and children were staying in eighteen rooms with a single bathroom in each, one of which wasn’t operating properly. Most were sitting on mattresses splayed on the floor. Upon seeing Nantucket Cares and learning that these were Americans “Every woman we spoke to had either a husband, brother who had traveled all or father back in Ukraine this way to fighting for freedom.” help, many — Yuliya Novak of the refu-

To supplement their twenty-three duffel bags of supplies, Nantucket Cares went on a shopping spree in Gdansk, filling ´ four large carts with groceries requested by the refugees. They then drove thirty minutes inland to the first refugee camp in the village of Miłocin, population 243. There they found fifty-five women and children, ranging in ages from two to eighty-one, who had been sheltered since late February by a Polish man nicknamed Jan. Entering Jan’s kitchen, he

(Top) McCann with Jan at first refugee camp; (bottom) Doctor Brad giving children checkups

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McCann with a young Ukranian mother who gave birth shortly after crossing the border

be born on the border in a massive war? She is no different than my own grandkids.” The Nan tucket Cares team handed out bags of

ing the Russians. “Every woman we spoke to had either a husband, brother or father back in Ukraine fighting for freedom,” Novak said, shortly after leaving the community center. “Some of the woman had lost loved ones and now have no one to go back to.” Many of the woman arrived in Poland with little more than the clothes on their backs, having sought shelter in Ukraine for what they thought would be a single night but what ultimately led to them permanently evacuating the country.

gees were brought to tears. “When I asked “We should leverage this momentum one of the women and build Nantucket Cares into what else we can do a global humanitarian relief to help,” recounted organization...there’s no reason McKernan, “before why this has to stop here.” she could even answer — Brian McKernan the question, tears welled up and she supplies along with stuffed started crying.” Looking into McKanimals with notes donated ernan’s eyes, she responded through by island children. They Novak as her translator: “Please have left Jan and the refugees, America help us more. Have Amerbut not before pledging ica send its food and its military to $10,000 a month for three help us.” months to support his efWith tears in his own eyes, Mcforts caring for refugees Cann finally had the opportunity to and filling his proverbial embrace the families who had been empty cup. just images on a television screen on Jacquie Colgan handing out toys for kids In the days that folNantucket a couple of weeks earlier. lowed, Nantucket Cares continued On their fourth day in the One woman in particular took hold its crusade, delivering supplies and country, Nantucket Cares went to of McCann’s heartstrings. She had groceries to two other refugee camps the train station in Warsaw where fled over the border nine months in the villages of Brusy and Osiek. busloads of refugees were arrivpregnant and was fortunate to reach Meeting with the mayor of Brusy, ing. While Rodriguez, Yates and this shelter in time to give birth. they pledged to sponsor the town’s others volunteered dishing out Holding her defenseless baby girl community center at $5,000 a month meals at World Central Kitchen, in his arms, McCann was overcome for three months. At the community McCann began buying train tickwith emotion and became inconsolcenter, they met nearly a hundred refets for refugees who had arrived able for nearly a half hour. “Apart ugees, including a Ukrainian man in without any money. For the next from the birth of my own children, his seventies, who was the first male twelve hours, he saw to it that it was the most emotional experirefugee the group had encountered. a hundred families were able to ence in my life,” McCann reflected. The rest were back in Ukraine fightboard trains bound to relatives “How can this beautiful baby almost

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and contacts living in France, Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, England and elsewhere in Europe. “I’m struggling with the fact that our team of eight is experiencing things today that are impossible to put into words,” McCann wrote in a Facebook post late one night. “I can tell you how beautiful, resilient, loving, strong the two-hundred-plus women and children we met today are. I can try to help you all back home understand that while you sleep safely within your home later tonight with your family

“Life is a giant jigsaw puzzle...Nantucket Cares will hopefully be a big piece of the puzzle, but everybody needs to figure out how to be a piece of the puzzle.” — Tom McCann

and children all safe and sound, [there is] this absolutely horrific situation that our world is in right now.” One thing McCann can express is that the need they encountered in Poland was immense and is not going away anytime soon. On that front, he and other members of the team were discussing how Nantucket Cares can take a long-term humanitarian stake not only in Poland, but elsewhere in the world. “We should leverage this momentum and build Nantucket Cares into a global humanitarian relief organization,” McKernan said. “Start with Ukraine, start here on this trip and keep helping Ukraine, but there’s no reason why this has to stop here.” Indeed, supercharged by the small but mighty force of the island, Nantucket Cares is a testament to the power found when passionate people come together to do good. As McCann said, “Life is a giant jigsaw puzzle. No one person can solve the puzzle. Everybody has to be a piece. Nantucket Cares will hopefully be a big piece of the puzzle, but everybody needs to figure out how to be a piece of the puzzle.” After returning to Nantucket, Nantucket Cares plans on giving a presentation using the photos and footage shot by Kit Noble to rally even more support behind their efforts. In the meantime, please scan the Flowcode below to donate to the relief effort.

(Top) Yates and Rodriguez working at the World Central Kitchen; (bottom) Nantucket Cares team delivering stuffed animals donated by island children

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MR. GIFFORD Goes to Washington INTERVIEW BY BRUCE A. PERCELAY

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE

Nantucket summer resident Rufus Gifford serves as the Chief of Protocol in the Biden administration

fter serving as the Ambassador to Denmark during the Obama administration, summer resident Rufus Gifford served as then-candidate Biden’s deputy campaign manager, during which his base of operations was his home on Nantucket. This winter, Gifford’s effectiveness was recognized by President Biden when he was named Chief of Protocol for the United States. Established in 1948, the position manages all foreign and domestic diplomatic events and interactions with ambassadors around the world and is critical in presenting the United States in its most favorable light. Working within the State Department, the position requires traveling with the president for all high-level meetings with heads of state as well as being responsible for state dinners at the White House. In the world of diplomacy, nuance can make the difference between success and failure, elevating the role of Chief of Protocol to one of great significance, particularly now.

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How is your job going to be influenced by the events in Ukraine?

Putin has inadvertently united the West. How do you feel that this new commonality of interest will affect your job?

The work of protocol is advancing and highlighting the work of American diplomacy. In times of global crisis that work is heightened. We’re not the ones who are determining sanctions or next steps. That being said, we had the

I actually think this [unification of the West] took a lot of work, especially considering where we came from. We came out of an administration that questioned the relevance of NATO, questioned our strategic alliances historically, starting with the transatlantic alliance. As it relates to President Biden’s foreign policy, a lot of the focus has been reestablishing those ties with our NATO allies, with our European allies and, of course, our global alliances as well. Secre-

“He is every bit as grounded a family man as he projects. The stereotype of Joe Biden as this ‘Delaware Joe’ who rides the Amtrak home to see his young boys—that’s not a stunt. That is grounded in his heart and in his family.” — Rufus Gifford

Ambassador Gifford being sworn in with his husband Stephen and Vice President Harris

Ambassador Gifford with President Biden.

foreign minister of Ukraine at the State Department. We coordinated and built that trip. We have the prime minister of Finland coming to see the president in the Oval Office. There’s a number of different countries and their leaders that we’ve interacted with since the unprovoked invasion began. Secretary [of State Antony] Blinken, the president, the vice president are working day and night to build these alliances. We’re involved in that every step of the way with the visits and the in-person part. We’re not advancing the policy, but the in-person part is critical.

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tary Blinken is constantly working these alliances. This is a tireless effort on the part of this administration from top to bottom, from the president, the vice president, the secretary and all of us who have a role in advancing American and Western diplomacy at this time. Clearly, Putin underestimated the speed with which NATO and the Western alliance has acted. Are you surprised? Short of World War II, has there been a time where countries have coalesced so quickly over a world event? I don’t like to use the word “surprised” so much, but I have been inspired. As tragic as the events in Ukraine are—and they are tragic—I am certainly inspired to see the West come together and speak with one voice. That is why I supported then-candidate Joe Biden in the first place because of his true ability and his believing in this human side of diplomacy and the ability to sit across

“I’m a lover of American history. I’m a true believer in the U.S. government doing good for people. That’s why I’ve wanted to come back. I’ve been inspired more than I ever anticipated being because you help create an environment in which diplomacy can thrive.” — Rufus Gifford

Ambassador Gifford and his husband Stephen DeVincent

the table and have conversations with world leaders and get them to a place of what we see as moral clarity on an issue as obvious as this. The leadership at the highest levels of the U.S. government feels like a righting of the ship from the last several years. The pendulum has swung back to a place of Western leadership, which has kept the world as peaceful and prosperous as it has been since the end of World War II. I’m inspired by that.

You have spent a lot of time with the president, and you probably know him in ways that other people don’t. He has been in the public eye forever, but what can you tell us about the president that might surprise people? It’s sort of the opposite of surprising, which makes it surprising. He is every bit as grounded a family man as he

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“What we want to do is try to create a world where we’re highlighting American global leadership, American diplomacy. From where I sit, we do it with dignity and respect.” — Rufus Gifford

projects. The stereotype of Joe Biden as this “Delaware Joe” who rides the Amtrak home to see his young boys—that’s not a stunt. That is grounded in his heart and in his family. And when I went to see him, the first thing he’d do is ask about my parents and my husband. He has rules of his staff that he doesn’t want you to ever miss birthdays, christenings, those kinds of things. That is his core. And so, I think in this increasingly cynical world that we live in, people doubt that. People believe it’s all an act. People have reasons to be cynical about political leaders, but Joe Biden is grounded in that reality. And I think it’s important for people to know that. How has your vision of this job changed from the moment the president asked you to now? I’m a lover of American history. I’m a true believer in the U.S. government doing good for people. That’s why I’ve wanted to come back. I’ve been inspired more than I ever anticipated being because you help create an environment in which diplomacy can thrive. There are issues all over the world. Whether it’s Africa or South America or Asia, there are crises; there are issues. We play a role in every single one of them. We have incredibly competent diplomats working every day. For me, from where I sit, that part is so interesting. You get to see, experience and participate in American global leadership in a 9 6

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Ambassador Gifford and his husband Stephen outside their summer home on Nantucket

way that is impossible not to be inspired by. It’s something that few Americans get to see. People should know that their leaders are spending day and night trying to make the world a better, safer, more peaceful, more prosperous place. That is just fundamentally true. The eyes of the world are clearly on the United States. What stamp will Rufus Gifford put on our leadership that can help enhance our status as the world’s arbiter of leadership, fairness and everything else that America stands for? It comes down to two things: dignity and respect. What we want to do is try to create a world where we’re highlighting American global leadership, American diplomacy. From where I sit, we do it with dignity and respect. We do it together with our allies. Like any person, you hope to make a mark and be able to have an impression here. I will work day and night to try to make my role here as successful as possible in supporting the president, supporting the secretary, as well as the rest of the administration.

How is your approach different? What I want to do is try to tear down the walls a little bit and give people a little bit of faith and trust in these institutions that have existed for a very, very long time. The people in this building who’ve been called “deep state” for a lot of the last several years actually come to work every single day and devote their lives to service to the country. They come to work every day with one purpose and one purpose only, and that’s to work to make American diplomacy better, more prosperous and stronger. I want to be able to show that. That’s what I tried to do as ambassador in Denmark. Let’s see if we can try to tear down those walls and tell a story about American diplomacy that has never been told before.

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Ambassador Nancy Soderberg

s the world watched in horror as Russia invaded Ukraine, few have a more informed perspective on the conflict than longtime Nantucket summer resident, Nancy Soderberg. The former Ambassador to the United Nations under the Clinton administration, Soderberg now serves as the director of the National Democratic Institute in Kosovo where she works to promote democracy throughout the Balkans and in over sixty countries around the world. Stationed in Kosovo, Ambassador Soderberg says that the Russian actions witnessed in Ukraine have been experienced in the Balkan region since the 1990s. N Magazine spoke to Ambassador Soderberg from her office in Kosovo.

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In hindsight, should we have done anything differently in advance of the invasion? Could we have done more over the last few years? Of course. The big question is should we have expanded NATO to include Georgia? Georgia has basically been invaded twice—some count three times.

“I am hopeful that there’s a lot of support for the Ukrainians going on that we don’t know about yet. I hope there’s a lot of cyberattacks going on against Russia that we’re not hearing about.” — Nancy Soderberg

There was such a firm red line that at the time, it wasn’t really deemed as possible, and it didn’t seem that urgent. No one really expected this to happen. We could have done more to train and equip the Ukrainians more dramatically when this started.

It was only December that people started realizing how serious Putin was. I am hopeful that there’s a lot of support for the Ukrainians going on that we don’t know about yet. I hope there’s a lot of cyberattacks going on against Russia that we’re not hearing about. Can we help the Ukrainians jam the Russians, mess up their command and control? There’s another whole chapter to be written down the road of what we’re doing that we don’t yet know about. But yes. The answer, we can always do more. Honestly, I don’t think anyone expected it to be this dramatic a play by Putin. Are you surprised by how quickly NATO has united in its support of the Ukrainians? I’m less surprised by NATO than I am with the EU [European Union] economic measures, because Europe is on the front line of these sanctions. They usually hem and haw and don’t do it. The fact that the Germans and the rest of Europe have stuck by these is pretty extraordinary.

What role could China play in all of this? I think China is caught between a rock and a hard place here. They like the disruption of the Western narrative that Russia is portraying: antidemocratic, sowing discord in democracies, including here in the United States. But they also don’t want chaos. They’ve been oddly silent. Putin went to Beijing right before the Olympics, and by all accounts, [Chinese President] Xi Jinping asked Putin not to do anything until the Olympics were over. It’s not a coincidence that literally the day after the Olympics ended, Putin invaded. China has a real choice to make. Does it want to support Russia as it sows chaos over the world…undermining the Western narrative of democracy and integration? China can play a major role in reining Russia in, if it chooses to do so. As this spirals out of control and disrupts the world economy, China could step up and rein him in more than they’re doing right now.

Nancy Soderberg while serving as the Ambassador to the United Nations under the Clinton Administration in 1993 (photo courtesy of Nancy Soderberg.)

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“There is no scenario of victory here for Putin. He can control the country militarily, but that’s not a victory, because it’ll be a slow urban warfare.” — Nancy Soderberg

Could there be a more frightening scenario, where China comes to Russia’s rescue, and they develop an alliance that makes them, in effect, a world superpower?

It’s unbelievable that this is happening in the twenty-first century, in the year 2022. We thought we left this behind. It’s just absolutely horrifying and tragic.

I think that’s already happening to a certain extent. Neither of these countries are superpowers yet. China is on the way to becoming a superpower. No matter what Russia does, it’s going to be a regional power and not a global power. Those days are over, whether Putin realizes it or not. My best guess of what will happen is that they will create a banking system outside of the Swiss banking account that large pieces of the Russian economy have just been cut off from. But if the reports are correct, and Putin is becoming increasingly unhinged and erratic, that’s really not how China likes to do business. And so I think the wild card here is what China will do. That depends on a second wild card: How crazy is Putin? He’s just lost it. He’s going all-out killing civilians. He’s already bombed a maternity hospital in Ukraine.

What does Putin gain by “winning” the war in Ukraine? Another feather in his delusional czar cap that makes him think he’s ruler of a revived tsarist Russia. It’s a complete fiction. There is no scenario of victory here for Putin. He can control the country militarily, but that’s not a victory, because it will be slow urban warfare. It will be just a slog, worse than Afghanistan, where they were for ten years. If they think Afghanistan was bad, try occupying Ukraine for ten years. On top of that, the other part of the equation that’s unique here is the wall of sanctions that the Europeans have agreed to do. That is unprecedented. Ours are unprecedented as well.

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What was Putin’s miscalculation? Putin miscalculated in the information warfare. Last time he did this was 2014; social media wasn’t as big as it is now. We know exactly what he’s doing and we’re calling him out. That’s undermined President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (far right) his ability to sell his narrative. with commanders in Ukraine I have friends whose parents live in Russia, and the older population buys Russia’s line. But you look at the people who are out there demonstrating—it’s the youth—and they are not going to put up with this. A lot of people think that Putin’s going to get overthrown. I’m not one of them. I think this is going to be a slow slog, and Putin’s going to dig his heels in. Ukraine is going to get very messy. I can’t predict who is going to win the battle. The military balance is overwhelmingly in Russia’s favor. But why are Russian soldiers shooting civilians in the streets of Kyiv? So I think he’s grossly miscalculated.

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Do you see a possibility where the U.S. gets drawn into this deeper than it already has? Yes. I think the U.S. is driving the Western response. As Putin escalates it, we’re going to get drawn deeper and deeper in there. President Biden has drawn a firm line: no troops. We’re not going to do a no-fly zone, but there’s a lot up to that point that we can do. I think we’re going to keep escalating with cyberattacks, more training and equipping of the Ukrainian army. We can do things right along the border. As this escalates, we will escalate. And I don’t see the end of that until Ukraine is free. What do you think the Biden administration is doing behind the scenes right now that we don’t know about? As I mentioned earlier, there’s a lot going on with cyberattacks that you don’t know. I wonder

whether we have people on the ground clandestinely to help coordinate some of the defensive weapons that [are being distributed]. You can’t give this vast amount of weapons to a country and not have people on the ground to help execute it. They might be doing it in Poland, but how much behind-the-scenes training and equipping are we doing? How big are we going to go in terms of defensive weapons to the Ukrainians? I don’t actually rule out some kind of no-fly zone that is enforced by the Ukrainians with a lot of support behind them. I don’t agree with Trump’s decision to paint the planes Russian, but there’s a lot of secret ways in which we can make it look

ergy independent. I think people understand that in the middle of a crisis, you have to deal with the temporary situation. We’re on a track to get off of fossil fuels over the next couple of decades. And I think we’ll stick with that. I don’t see this pushing us back to more fossil fuel. Costs need to be offset, though. It is going to hurt people’s pockets in the middle of an inflationary period. A year from now, where do you see all of this? It’s impossible to predict, but there are a couple scenarios. One is a year from now: It looks like just a protracted conflict, with the Russians trying to

“I doubt [Putin would] lob a strategic missile at the United States, but I don’t think people rule out him using a small tactical nuclear weapon somewhere in Ukraine, just to send a message, and then we are in World War III.” — Nancy Soderberg

like it’s a Ukrainian operation. Reading between the lines, I think there’s a lot of that going on that we won’t hear about for years, and it could tip the balance to make sure that the Ukrainians succeed in the short term, instead of the long term. They will succeed. It’s just a question of how long and how bloody. Oil and energy are now becoming a key component of this entire episode, and Europe is much more vulnerable than we are. How does this play out? As the price of oil escalates—which it will whenever there’s a war going on with sanctions and embargoes—the U.S. will figure out how to get dollars into the pockets of Americans to offset that very difficult increase in pricing. Rather than open up the debate about the Keystone Pipeline, it’s likely to increase the debate about getting off of fossil fuels and being completely en-

hold various towns, and the Ukrainians taking potshots at the Russians so that there’s a stalemate that’s bloody on both sides. That’s probably the most likely scenario. The other scenario is that Putin recognizes the folly of his actions, the high cost given the sanctions, and he finds a way to declare victory and get out, which probably involves taking the Donbas region and getting out. That’s always what everyone thought he was going to do. Another is that it gets completely out of control, and Putin actually makes good on his threat of a nuclear attack somewhere. I doubt he’d lob a strategic missile at the United States, but I don’t think people rule out him using a small tactical nuclear weapon somewhere in Ukraine, just to send a message, and then we are in World War III.

Are you surprised by how Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has emerged as a leader? Yes, I think everybody is. I’ve not met him, but the world got to know him when President Trump was trying to extort him for dirt on Hunter Biden. The way he

“Throughout history, normal people do extraordinary things when pushed to the limit. You never know which of those normal people are going to step up and become true leaders. And Zelenskyy has done that.” — Nancy Soderberg

stood up to that got people’s attention. But no one expected him to have the grit, the muscle and the leadership that he’s shown through this. He really thinks he’s going to get killed—and he might. He’s the number one target of the Russians to decapitate the Ukrainian government. But he’s just standing up and representing the Ukrainian spirit of freedom, grit and determination in a way that nobody saw coming. Throughout history, normal people do extraordinary things when pushed to the limit. You never know which of those normal people are going to step up and become true leaders. And Zelenskyy has done that. Clearly the Ukrainian people have responded. You have to admire the gut and grit of the Ukrainian people. No one expected the Ukrainians to dig in. And it’s been an inspiration to everyone watching throughout this tragedy just to see the heroism and the pride in their country. That’s what’s going to defeat Putin; the Russians don’t have pride in this war. The Ukrainians have pride in defending their country, and ultimately, they will succeed.

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Growing on social media can be challenging when you don’t know what to post or how to engage with your audience and online community. Make sure you are keeping up with the latest trends and features on each platform. Create a calendar to post content and stick to it! And invest the time to grow by engaging daily with your audience. Growth doesn’t happen overnight and it doesn’t happen with minimal effort. When people say social media is a full-time job, it really is if you want results!

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