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Gary Winn, Broker gary@maurypeople.com 508.330.3069 Quidnet $15,995,000
Pocomo $9,450,000
Madaket $2,995,000
Brant Point $1,695,000
IN TOWN WITH POOLS Town $7,850,000
Town $3,495,000
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Kathy Gallaher, Broker 37 Main Street, Nantucket Island, MA 02554
Extraordinary Homes For Extraordinary People
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Sales and Rentals Office: 508-228-1881 ext. 109 Cell: 508-560-0078 kathy@maurypeople.com
$2,895,000
The recently renovated Nantucket four bay historic home was originally built in 1844 . This beautiful restoration is designer decorated to create a modern warm and comfortable living space while preserving the historical nature and integrity. The renovation includes three floors of beautifully designed rooms with high quality furnishings throughout. The tranquil outdoor patio provides a great place to entertain friends and family.
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Located in the heart of Siasconset Village and beautifully designed by Botticelli & Pohl, this home is located on a quiet white-shelled lane. It is sited on an over-sized lot and features four-plus bedrooms, five full baths, one half bath, a heated pool and a recently built single-car garage. This stunning property is a classic reproduction of a rambling Sconset summer home but with all of the modern amenities. The high-quality construction, custom built-ins and the European hand scraped white oak flooring are just a few of the many fine details that highlight the quality of the construction. The spacious great room with hand hewn rustic antique beams combines a kitchen and living room that opens into a three-season room with an antique barn board ceiling and a stone fireplace. The luxurious first floor master suite with full bath and walk-in closet overlooks the pool. This property must be seen to be appreciated. Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated. Equal Housing Opportunity.
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Extraordinary Homes For Extraordinary People
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A contemporary-style home custom designed and located atop three very private and pristine acres on the highest point in Tom Nevers East. A sun-filled home with beautiful views from every room – spectacular views of the ocean, Sankaty light house and moors. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. A cozy family room with wood-stove, pocket doors and closet can be easily used as a 4th bedroom. Up and downstairs decks ideal for entertaining. Oak floors and Cypress trimming throughout, as well as many built-ins. All bedrooms are fully furnished with built-ins and custom matching furniture. Expansion options for a second dwelling, pool and tennis courts with a seven-bedroom septic in the ground.
$6,995,000
Exquisite estate property featuring a fully furnished four bedroom, four and one-half bath main house and a three bedroom, two and one-half bath guest cottage with an oversized two-car garage, salt-water pool, spa and pool cabana. The high-end craftsmanship combines style with efficiency that include built-ins, vaulted ceilings and high-end appliances. The extensive stonework and professional landscaping add to the high quality of this special home.
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Located on the Eastern side of the island in a highly sought after and unspoiled location, this rare offering exudes peace and tranquility. The property features unobstructed first and second floor water views with easy beach access directly across the street. The entire parcel consists of two conforming lots which total 1.94 acres of pristine land that offers endless possibilities. Enjoy beautiful sunrises from the rear deck and stunning sunsets from the front deck from this three-bedroom, two-bath beach house.
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$3,195,000
Enjoy the charm and delight of Old Madaket in this recently updated and beautifully maintained four bedroom, three full-bath, two half-bath home, offering gorgeous views and sunsets over Hither Creek and easy access to the boat landing and dock that is located directly across the street. This prime piece of real estate abuts Land Bank property and has exceptional outdoor living space that include large decks, patios, covered porches and a beautifully landscaped spacious yard. The studio features an entertaining area with a half bath and adjoining outdoor shower. There are three outbuildings that are conveniently located for additional storage. This special property is located within a very short distance to the beach, bike paths, marina, convenience store, public transportation and restaurant.
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Located on the eastern side of the island in the peaceful and undeveloped area of Squam, this highly sought after location provides easy beach access to some of the prettiest white sand beaches in the world. The main house features a wonderful floor plan with lots of living space and beautiful water views. There are two spacious living rooms with wood burning fireplaces and four en suite bedrooms each with easy access to a large wrap around deck. The combined kitchen, living room and dining room have gorgeous water views of the Atlantic Ocean. The master suite has a private deck with French doors that look towards the water, and a large bath with views to the harbor. A recently finished lower level includes a theater and a finished living room. Private blue-stone deck off of the rear of the house abutts nearly 300 acres of conservation land. A private two-bedroom cottage and single-car garage with ocean views!
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Lincoln Ave $11,250,000
Quaise Pastures Road $8,950,000
Brewster Road $7,195,000
Eel Point Road $4,895,000
Nantucket legacy living at its best! 6-bdrms, 4.5-baths
Luxury retreat in a lovely private setting. 5-bdrms, 5.5-baths
Brewster Road $3,750,000 Main House & Guest House with Pool! 5-bdrms, 5.5-baths
New construction in private Harborfront location! 6-bdrms, 6.5-baths.
Set in the dunes with private beach access. 5-bdrms, 3.5-baths
Washington Avenue $2,695,000
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Grand Pondfront home in desirable Cliff neighborhood! 7-bdrms, 5.5-baths
Eel Point Road $4,595,000
Beachfront living with breathtaking views. 3-bdrms, 2-baths
Union Street $2,249,000
Charming home in great Town location. 3-bdrms, 2.5 baths
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Two great lots remain in the all new Pippens Way subdivision located in the highly desirable Shimmo Estate area of the island. Located a mere 1/3 mile from the water and only 2.5-miles to downtown! 15 Pippens Way is a 10.4-acre lot with 6.21-acres of upland area as well as an easement to access a nearby pond. This lot is approved for 12-bedrooms and can also have a pool. $2,750,000
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Gary Winn, Broker gary@maurypeople.com 508.330.3069 DIONIS | $19,950,000 An outstanding property consisting of two homes, each sitting on nearly two acres; offered together, the main house, studio and cottage overlook four acres of ocean-front real estate on the north shore of Nantucket Island. The property boundaries extend from the grassy dunes, across the beach to the mean high tide line of Nantucket Sound. This is a rare portion of the island undergoing accretion of land rather than erosion.
CLIFF | $8,750,000
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This spectacular, impeccably maintained, nearly 10 acre estate is nestled in the gently rolling hills of Nantucket and located less than a mile from Main Street. Surrounded by three miles of groomed, 12’ wide bridle paths, the six bedroom home boasts antique floors, custom cabinetry, a gourmet chef’s kitchen and a lovely, manicured, terraced yard. Additionally, this property features an extensive pasture enclosed by fencing, beautifully scenic riding trails, as well as, an eight-stall horse barn, a tack room, a feed room and two oversized garages.
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ENERGY-SAVING steps STEP 5: Reduce dishwasher and laundry use in the evenings when highest energy consumption occurs on the island, especially during summer months. Bonus tip: Use delayed start features to run your dishwasher or laundry appliances after 9 PM. STEP 6: Wash clothes in cold water and line dry them instead of using the dryer. STEP 7: Set water heater temperature to 120°F. The default setting is usually higher and you don’t need it that hot. Bonus tip: This simple measure can save you up to $9 a month.
National Grid’s path to saving energy on Nantucket Looking out to Nantucket Sound from Steps Beach, it’s easy to forget that there’s more than just fish below the surface. Two giant cables connect Nantucket to the mainland, providing the island with its electricity. Today these cables are working overtime, as demand for energy on Nantucket has grown five times faster than the state average. Unless steps are taken by the Nantucket community to reduce energy consumption, a third costly cable might need to be installed. (Rate payers are contributing to the cost of the first two cables until 2026.) As part of its Nantucket community initiative to delay the need for the third cable, National Grid has outlined ten small steps that can have a big impact on saving energy and deferring the need for this third cable.
STEP 1: Sign up for a no-cost home energy assessment. Residents will receive no-cost energy saving devices, such as LED bulbs, which will result in a reduction on their electric bill, and help to reduce Nantucket’s energy usage.
STEP 8: Use LED instead of incandescent bulbs. Replacing your five most commonly used light bulbs with LED can save up to $9 month. Plus, LED bulbs give off less heat and last longer so you don’t have to replace them as often. STEP 9: Install a Wi-Fi thermostat, which will allow you to control temperature remotely from your phone. National Grid customers may be eligible for no-cost or discounted WiFi thermostats. STEP 10: Enroll in ConnectedSolutions. This National Grid program lets you earn bill credits for saving energy during times of high demand.
STEP 2: Turn off lights and electronics when you leave a room and turn the thermostat to 74 - 78 degrees when you leave your house.
STEP 4: Grill more! Avoid using the oven, which can heat up your house and cause the AC to run more.
To learn more steps to saving energy or to schedule a no-cost home energy assessment, contact National Grid at 1-844-615-8316, or visit ngrid.com/nantucket.
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STEP 3: While away at the beach or at work, keep blinds and curtains closed to prevent the sun from heating up your house.
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Enjoy this vintage circa 1920s summer home on one of Nantucket’s most prestigious streets. Featuring solid construction and distinctive detail and charm of the period, this property overlooks Nantucket Sound and the Harbor with a lovely yard and unattached garage. Enjoy the opportunity to renovate and enjoy this very special island home for decades to come. This property is subdivided into three building lots giving this exciting listing a multitude of development or family compound possibilities.
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A numerical snapshot of Nantucket in August.
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Ntertainment you need to see, read 60 Everything and watch on the island this month.
Nteriors interior designer Karli 62 Island Stahl turns her styling loose on the great outdoors.
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84 OLD SALTS Set sail with Nantucket’s senior citizens with 52 an inspiring program called Sails for Old Salts. 90 UNDEFEATED
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Nantucket ballerina Ali Lubin takes us behind the scenes of her life in dance.
125 THE AMBASSADORS CLUB
There are many exclusive clubs on Nantucket, but none quite like this.
139 ECLIPSE CHASER
Chip Webster has been waiting a lifetime to see the Great American Eclipse this August.
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Nquiry 157 TIME WITH JOE RIPP Former Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp talks about the future of media.
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The hottest musical act to hit Nantucket this August sounds off.
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Local ballerina Ali Lubin graces the cover of this August issue with a photo on Madaket Beach by New York City-based ballet photographer Luis Pons. Lubin is wearing a dress designed for the shoot by Le Wins.
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When it comes to hitting the beach, Nantucketers really make history.
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Peter and Caleagh Creech tied the knot on Nantucket this summer.
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Bestselling author Ben Mezrich dishes on his latest book before speaking on the island this August.
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As the striking pose by ballerina Ali Lubin suggests on the cover of this issue, August is indeed a celebration of everything Nantucket. No event on the island pulls everyone together like the Boston Pops on Nantucket Concert, which will have 1,500 islanders singing “Help Me Rhonda” with the legendary Beach Boys this year. The real celebration on Nantucket continues to be the remarkable breadth of talent that lives on or visits this island. In a feature article entitled The Ambassadors Club, we profile five island summer residents who have served in the lofty role of US Ambassador, representing US interests around the world. In another story about an exceptional American, N Magazine profiles athlete, author and motivational speaker Chris Waddell who, after suffering a paralyzing
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injury as a young skier, emerged as a Paralympics superstar. Waddell’s drive,
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determination and skill are truly extraordinary. Shifting from body to mind, Nantucket has no shortage of renowned thinkers and business leaders. Bestselling author and economic advisor to two presidents
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David Smick shares his insights, concerns and projections for the increasingly complex US economy. We also interview another business leader, Joe Ripp, who recently retired as chairman and CEO of Time Inc. Ripp shared with us his perspectives on the rapidly changing media world, including some cautionary words on the future of the free press. At the root of Nantucket’s appeal is the great outdoors, which can be both rugged and fragile at the same time. Nothing is more delicate than the ecological balance of the waters surrounding our island, which continue to be threatened by
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commercial fishermen who are decimating the squid population that is an essential component of the aquatic food chain. Unlike virtually every coastal community in Massachusetts, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard remain largely unprotected from commercial draggers, which raises very curious questions as to which side the state’s environmental watchdogs sit. While every August on Nantucket is unique, this year’s will be particularly interesting thanks to the Great American Eclipse, which will play out overhead on August 21. To get us prepared, we met with island resident Chip Webster who has been chasing eclipses for most of his life. From land, sea to sky, August in Nantucket is truly the high point of the season and we hope you enjoy this month-long celebration of summer. Sincerely,
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Miles swam by Swim Across America on Nantucket since 2013, raising funds to provide 1,600 cancer treatments on the island.
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Violinists will perform at the Boston Pops on Nantucket concert.
Animals have been adopted at NISHA in the last five years.
Hourly wage for a babysitter on Nantucket.
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Flavors of ice cream now offered at Island Kitchen.
Average hourly wage for a carpenter on Nantucket.
Number of visiting doctors, nurses and other medical personnel that Nantucket Cottage Hospital needs to house each night.
1,208 Loaves of bread baked every day at Something Natural in August.
67.5 Average temperature of Nantucket Sound in August.
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Average number of days the dinoflagellate lives to create bioluminescence in Nantucket’s waters in August.
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SOLE sister Written by Jess Feldman
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Nantucket Preservation Trust August Fete
. Nantucket
by Design
Tuesday, August 1- Saturday, August 5 @ 6 PM The Nantucket Historical Association presents Nantucket by Design. With lectures, panel discussions and grand gatherings, the NHA celebrates the very best in creative design. The design luncheon will feature keynote speakers Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch of Roman and Williams. For tickets and more information, visit www.nha.org.
Thursday, August 10 @ 6 PM A celebration of Nantucket’s architecture, the evening will start with a tour of historic island homes followed by a tented reception. Come out and enjoy live music by the Chuck Colley Band, food by Nantucket Catering Company and Spanky’s Raw Bar. For tickets and more information, visit www.nantucketpreservation.org.
Autism Speaks Walk
Saturday, August 19 @ 8:30 AM Take steps toward enhancing the lives of people affected by autism at the 11th annual Autism Speaks Walk. Walkers will meet with their teams at Jetties Beach and embark on a two-three mile walk that will help advance autism research and services. For registration and more information, visit www.autismspeaks.org.
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Wednesday, August 2 6 PM - 9 PM The Nantucket Island Safe Harbor for Animals is celebrating its fifth anniversary at Bartlett’s Farm with cocktails and appetizers, farm-totable dinner, silent and live auctions, and special appearances by furry friends. For tickets and more information, visit www.nantucketsafeharborforanimals.org.
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Wednesday, August 9 11AM - 4 PM Revel in the beauty of local homes and gardens during the Nantucket Garden Club’s 63rd Annual House and Garden Tour. Tickets will be sold a week prior to the event on Main Street, Bartlett’s Farm and in ‘Sconset by the rotary, and will also be available for purchase at each house the day of the tour. For more information, visit www.nantucketgardenclub.org.
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Saturday, August 12 @ 7 PM This summer, The Beach Boys will join conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra for an evening celebration of music, dancing, and fireworks located on Jetties Beach. Voted Nantucket’s best summer event, the annual concert is the largest single fundraiser for Nantucket Cottage Hospital. For tickets and more information, visit www. nantuckethospital.org.
63rd Annual House and Garden Tour
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Donavon Frankenreiter at The Box
Sunday, August 13 @ 10 PM Hawaii-based musician Donavon Frankenreiter is island-hopping for a one-night performance at the Chicken Box. As an artist who started his professional career as a surfer, Frankenreiter’s music is a free-spirited blend of soft and acoustic rock. For tickets and more information, visit www. thechickenbox.com.
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16th Annual Tim Russert Summer Groove
Saturday, August 19 Support Nantucket’s Boys & Girls Club at their biggest fundraiser of the year with a night of food, music, and bidding big. In honor of the late Tim Russert, the 16th annual Summer Groove directly benefits youth development programs on island. Highlights include exclusive auction items and the presentation of this year’s Tim Russert Spirit of Hope Award. For tickets and more information, visit www.nantucketboysandgirlsclub.org.
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Trustees Great Point Celebration
Thursday, August 24 @ 5 PM The Trustees of Reservations are cooking up the ultimate beach barbecue on Coatue to celebrate the preservation of Nantucket’s ruggedly beautiful northwest peninsula. In addition to local bites, beverages and island-inspired music by a steel drummer, the Trustees will be guiding tours of Great Point Lighthouse and educating guests on Nantucket’s fragile wildlife haven. For tickets and more information, visit www.thetrustees.org.
Suit up, swim out, and make a splash to support oncology services on Nantucket at the annual SAA open water swim at Jetties Beach. The event will benefit PASCON and the Nantucket Cottage Hospital to enhance cancer treatment and support services for island residents. For registration and more information, visit www.swimacrossamerica.org.
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Nantucket’s New Doctor Nantucket Cottage Hospital is pleased to welcome Joel J. Hass, MD, to the hospital’s medical staff as a full-time, year-round primary care physician. Dr. Hass, who signed a five-year commitment with the hospital and has purchased a home on the island, opened his practice at Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s satellite office at 4 Bartlett Road in late June. His practice is open to new patients of all ages. “As the complexity of healthcare continues to grow and access to primary care continues to burden Nantucket, I am eager to do my part to help island residents get the care they need,” said Dr. Hass. “Dr. Hass shares our commitment to meeting the primary care needs of the island and we hope the community will join the hospital in giving him a warm welcome to Nantucket,” said Dr. Margot Hartmann, President and CEO of Nantucket Cottage Hospital. To establish a primary care relationship with Dr. Hass, patients should call 508-825-0142 or sign up online by visiting nantuckethospital.org. Nantucket Cottage Hospital 57 Prospect Street Nantucket, MA 02554 (508) 825-8100 nantuckethospital.org
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Ntertainment
WHAT TO see... WHAT TO Read... Written by Jess Feldmen & Rebecca Lockhart
Compiled by Tim Ehrenberg
The Soul Rebels Originating in New Orleans, The Soul Rebels are a group that
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
wanted to incorporate the brass tradition they grew up on with
(Published on August 1)
the pop music they loved on the radio. Today, the group consists
On the morning of August 4,
of an eight-piece lineup that creates an eclectic live show blend-
1892 in Fall River, Massachu-
ing funk and soul with elements of jazz, hip-hop, and rock. After
setts, Lizzie Borden calls out
touring four continents and collaborating with artists including
to her maid “Someone’s killed
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Marilyn Manson, the group is
Father.” Since then, this true-
making its way to Nantucket for two nights of pure entertainment
life murder mystery has turned
on August 1st and August 2nd, both at 10 p.m. Tickets available at
into one of the most fascinating
www.thechickenbox.com.
murders cases. This debut novel dives into the real-life play-
Page to stage: Buzz Bissinger
ers and what really happened
On the evening of August 3rd at 5 p.m., witness Pulitzer Prize-
on that infamous August day.
winning journalist and author Buzz Bissinger in conversation with former broadcast journalist Natalie Jacobsen at the Dreamland.
In addition, Bissinger is a longtime contributing editor at Vanity
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O by Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland
Fair, has published work in both The New York Times and Sports
With a little bit of everything—
Illustrated, and has written five nonfiction books. In this one and
history, mystery, magic, time
a half hour page to stage event, Bissinger will be discussing his
travel, adventure, and sci-
most recent book, The Secrets of my Life, co-authored with Cait-
ence—this story is fantastical,
lyn Jenner. Tickets available at www.nantucketdreamland.org.
but also teaches readers a bit
Bissinger is most known for his nonfiction book Friday Night Lights, which was adapted to a film and popular television series.
about the modern world and
Romeo & Juliet
their role in it. Thought-pro-
Beginning Thursday, August 3rd, the White Heron Theatre pres-
voking, funny, and some inge-
ents the Shakespeare classic Romeo & Juliet with a musical twist.
nious plotting.
Psittacus Productions’ rendition of the play is a brand new, hourlong musical adaptation of the romance that has captivated audi-
choreography, inventive staging, and Shakespeare’s timeless, elo-
Theft by Finding Diaries: 1977 - 2002 by David Sedaris
quent poetry. The show will continue through Sept. 3rd. Tickets
David Sedaris tells all in a
available at www.whiteherontheatre.org.
book that is literally a lifetime
ences around the world for centuries. In addition to live music, the performance features an ensemble of five performers, intricate
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in the making. I loved this
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Page to stage: David Gregory
collection of private writings
On August 15th at 5 p.m., journalist David Gregory will hit the
that are laugh-out-loud funny,
stage at the Dreamland in conversation with Natalie Jacobsen.
perceptive,
Gregory is best known for his role as the former moderator of
written.
NBC News Meet the Press, and has served as a CNN political analyst since 2016. On Thursday evening, Gregory—who was raised by a Catholic mother and Jewish father and married a Protestant woman—will discuss his exploration of spirituality. Tickets available at www.nantucketdreamland.org.
and
beautifully
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Nteriors Local interior designer Karli Stahl shares her secrets to CREATING outstanding outside space With this outdoor living room in Monomoy, I was going for a casual and comfortable vibe, but also durable enough to be outdoors. I always love as much texture as possible worked into all of my designs, along with a touch of an organic feel. For me, Nantucket is all about being outside as much as possible and this living room provides you that opportunity with all the comforts of home.
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Wool-cashmere blend blanket in slate.
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Within an hour of unveiling N Magazine’s July cover featuring Bill Belichick and Linda Holliday on social media, the photo took the internet by storm. A throng of media outlets ranging from CNN to Fox News, CBS to TMZ, People magazine to Sports Illustrated, Barstool Sports to the Huffington Post, The Boston Globe to The Washington Post, ran stories on N’s exclusive look into the lives of Bill Belichick and Linda Holliday. Before the magazine even hit stands, millions of people had already viewed the cover online. When the story finally hit stands, it became fodder for sports talk radio and ESPN segments across the country.
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NBUZZ After years of planning and fundraising, the Nantucket Cottage Hospital broke ground last month on the 100,000-plussquare-foot hospital phase of its new campus. Leaders of the project in attendance included Dr. Margot Hartmann, Kevin Hickey, Elisabeth and Bruce Percelay, Maureen and Jim Hackett, and Steve and Jill Karp. The hospital is planning a second groundbreaking once it completes the $20 million fundraiser campaign for the housing component of the project. Look to late 2018 for the hospital building itself to be complete, providing Nantucket with a cutting-edge, stateof-the-art-facility, which is expected to yield the finest rural hospital in America.
Back by popular demand, Andrey Stanev and Ballroom Dance Nantucket presents a one-nightonly performance at the Dreamland Theater on August 26th. Stanev has been mesmerizing audiences for seven straight summers, and this August performance promises to be truly magical as he dances back to Biblical times with “The Legend of King Solomon.” Doors open at 7 p.m. and tickets can be purchased at www.nantucketdreamland.org.
PREVAILING Nantucket has never seen a trunk show quite like this. On August 8th and 9th, New York-based artist Ala von Auersperg—the daughter of Prince Alfred von Auersperg and Sunny Crawford von Bulow—will be teaming up with well-known philanthropist and art collector Clarissa Alcock-Bronfman for a trunk show at Serenella. As part of Clarissa Bronfman’s summerlong pop-up in Southampton, the two ladies will make an exclusive appearance on the island to show their handcrafted jewelry and fashion designs. While both are highly regarded for their incomparable charity work, this trunk show will reflect another stylish side of these worldly women.
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Nearly a decade ago, a remarkable nonprofit took to the sea on Nantucket. Sail To Prevail serves individuals with disabilities by taking them aboard a twenty-foot Independence sailboat where they gain the confidence, community and skills only found by being on the water. Partnering with Autism Speaks and S.T.A.R.Z. programs on Nantucket, Sail To Prevail has dramatically impacted the lives of children and adults alike. Thanks to the generosity and support of donors, the program runs for five weeks in July and August is offered entirely for
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ing event will be held at the home of Kay and Peter Bernon on August 6th. To donate and learn more, visit www.sailtoprevail.org/nantucket.
GREEN
HEALTHY
INVESTMENT
IS THE NEW GOLD
One of the island’s most beloved inte-
In collaboration with the island’s health and
rior designers, Susan Zises Green, re-
human service agencies, Nantucket Cottage
cently added yet another feather to her
Hospital and the Community Foundation of
cap. Actually, make that two feathers.
Nantucket are taking major steps toward im-
Green’s exquisite restoration work on a
proving the health and wellness of island resi-
property in Palm Beach known as Casa
dents through a five-year, multi-million-dollar
Marius not only earned her the prestigious
grant-giving project called “Healthy Nantuck-
Ballinger Award, but also the 2017 Florida
et 2020.” As part of its capital campaign to
Preservation Award by the Florida Trust
build a new facility, the Cottage Hospital
for Historic Preservation. With many
received approval from a state Department
considering Palm Beach the “Nantucket
of Health Program that requires the hospital
of the South,” Green’s timeless style
reinvest 5% of its total capital expenditure
carried over seamlessly to this historic estate, which is considered one of the
IN THE
into local initiatives outside the hospital. The
and white exterior, Casa Marius’s inte-
VAULT
Community Health Initiative will direct grants
A sparkling new boutique has launched
a number of community leaders, the Commu-
rior is a breathtaking example of Green’s
onto Nantucket’s jewelry scene this sum-
nity Foundation will help select recipients for
exquisite decorating taste.
mer. Located on 5 Chestnut Street, The
the $4.25 million available in one-time grants.
Vault was opened by renowned jewelry
Nonprofits can apply for a grant at nantucketh-
designer Katherine Jetter and offers a stun-
ospital.org or cfnan.org. Grant applications
ning array of pieces curated from around
are due by August 18, 2017.
most widely recognized homes in Palm Beach. Known locally as the “Ham and Cheese House” due to its layered pink
to nonprofits addressing such issues as behavioral health, women’s and children’s health, access to healthcare and housing. Along with
the world. “As a designer with an inside track on the finest workmanship and leading talent in the business, I am excited to share my take on the best jewelry the world has to offer,” Jetter says. “This is not only a chance to build a timeless piece of art, but also an immersive experience in understanding the world of fine gemstones and their inherent value.” Regarded as one
SAILING iNTO THE
FUTURE
of the top heirloom contemporary jewelry designers in the country, Jetter sources extremely rare gems in creating custom pieces that range from $30,000 to $1 million. The Vault will be opened through September. For the second year, the Nantucket Historical Association is presenting its premier summer fundraiser at the Oldest House on
worldwide. Out of the twelve fleets in six countries and two continents, the Nantucket IOD fleet is
August 5th complete with a night of drinks,
recognized for maintaining each boat exactly as the rest of the IOD Fleet elsewhere in the world. For
dancing, and design. As the final celebra-
the past twenty years, these
tion of NHA’s Nantucket by Design week,
six meter designed boats
The New Party at the Oldest House will be a
have been seen racing
party for the ages. To purchase tickets, visit
one another in the outer
www.nha.org.
harbor every Sunday and will continue to do so for years to come.
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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Nantucket IOD Fleet and the 80th anniversary of the fleet
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Steeped in history and tucked behind the beloved hedge tunnel sits what has long been referred to as ‘Aloha.’ It was 1903 when the well-known and famed Broadway actor, Henry Woodruff, purchased land on Morey Lane and hired O.W. Humes to build one of ‘Sconset’s most intriguing homes. After a visit to the Hawaiian tropics, Woodruff was mesmerized by the native architecture which led to the inspiration for Aloha. Once famously known for its annual summer lawn party open to the entire ‘Sconset community, Aloha preserves the historic allure and charm of old ‘Sconset. Courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association
A recent and impressive renovation provides a fresh and modern flair to this historic and once simplistic property. First and second floor open air verandas are embellished and supported by aged cypress tree trunks, offering sweeping views over ‘Sconset Trust land to the sea. Expansive and gorgeous gardens frame the intricate and custom stone path leading to the main house and guest cottage. A whimsical tree house constructed in the same fashion as the main house, adds an element of enchantment to the property. One of the exquisite details includes a central staircase that has been recreated to its original design, complete with reconstructed balustrades. Luxurious interiors, geothermal cooling systems, a gourmet kitchen and detailed fine carpentry are but a few of the modern amenities offered in this home. Aloha is a sensational work
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Kitchen Remodel Written by Josh Gray
Photography by Kit Noble
Patrick Ridge has expanded his mid-island restaurant Island Kitchen
Serving a packed house for breakfast, lunch, and dinner year-round, Island Kitchen has become one of the mid-island staples that many here on Nantucket can’t imagine living without. With his small dining room bursting at the seams over the past couple of summers, owner Patrick Ridge recently expanded Island Kitchen across the parking lot and into the neighboring building, formerly the home of the Grey Lady. “At first we wanted the space for the parking for the existing business,” says Ridge, a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America and former head chef of Le Languedoc Bistro. “But we realized we really did need more space in our kitchen to
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While expanding his footprint and menu offerings, Ridge’s addition offers a spacious outdoor seating area equipped with a large, outdoor bar. Another bar with additional seating for dining is located on the second floor. Meanwhile, much of the first floor is taken up by Ridge’s secret obsession. For the last two years, he’s been perfecting recipes for homemade ice cream and homemade doughnuts.
Nosh news Ridge traveled the country sampling the best ice cream and doughnuts to craft a menu of finger-licking-good delights now offered at Island Kitchen. Of the thirtytwo ice cream flavors, ten could be considered traditional staples, while the other twenty range from blueberry pie to Captain Crunch cereal. “We want to make the best ice cream on the planet,” Ridge says. On the doughnut front, he and his team are crafting a wide variety of yeastraised pastries (think Krispy Kreme) that will complement an already robust breakfast menu. The popular lunch and dinner menus have also expanded to include eight new appetizers such as fried oysters, clams, and chicken quenelles, as well as three new sandwiches, including crab cake and Portobello mushrooms sandwiches. To accommodate these expansions, Ridge has added nearly twenty new employees to his staff. “When I say I have the best team, I really mean just that,” says Ridge. “This is not a solitary effort, and to be honest I have a lot less to do with the success of Island Kitchen than people think. It’s a nice feeling knowing we all feel at home here.” On a weekend in late June, Ridge and his team handled fifteen catering jobs and served more than eight hundred covers in the restaurant. The icing on the Island Kitchen cake is an adjoining retail space where Holly Finigan, the founder and editor of Nantucket blACKbook, is running a series of pop-up shops featuring a variety of labels, including her own Happy Place brand. Dining at Island Kitchen is offered seven days a week for three meals a day throughout much of the year. The outdoor dining patio and bar will operate seasonally. Patrick Ridge sees his midisland neighborhood as becoming the new “downtown” to the year-round community, an area that will continue to grow and meet the needs of an ever-expanding island population.
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The Making of the Boston Pops on Nantucket Concert
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Photo by George Reithof, OverNantucket.com
n August 12th, the single largest, most complex and most popular event in the Nantucket summer season will take the s t a g e on Jetties Beach. The Boston Pops on Nantucket is the largest fundraiser for Nantucket Cottage Hospital, historically generating $2 million each year for the hospital’s year-round operations. Orchestrating the transportation of a hundred musicians, erecting a forty-two-foot stage, managing 250 volunteers and nearly fifty electricians, stage crew and sound experts are just a sampling of the thousands of details that make up this logistical opus. With seven thousand people on Nantucket gathering in one place, organizers cannot miss a beat. The event requires thirty-six hours of nonstop work to transform Jetties Beach into the hottest concert venue on Nantucket. During this time, a number of key players dance behind the scenes. Jon Rosbrook has been the producer and technical director of the show since it started in 1997. Aisling Glynn of ACKtivities runs the complex logistics of seating, dining, décor, transportation and the pre-party and after-party for 1,500 VIP guests. Kate Perry, the senior officer for events at the Nantucket Cottage Hospital, choreographs all the other details. With fireworks being shot off from the beach, there’s extensive coordination with Nantucket’s police department, fire department, harbor master and N magazine
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eyond the logistics, the look and feel of the Boston Pops on Nantucket and the selection of the talent itself are often heavily influenced by the event’s chairs. This year, summer residents Glenn and Mary Jane Creamer will take center stage along with co-chairs Bob and Laurie Monahan who directed the extravaganza two years ago. The Monahans introduced jumbotrons, added capacity and were the drivers behind the selection of the Beach Boys for this year’s concert, creating a virtual frenzy of ticket sales.
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Co-chairs Laurie and Bob Monahan.
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Co-chairs Mary Jane & Glenn Creamer.
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While the Beach Boys are no longer boys, they still tour extensively and their unmistakable falsetto sound and lazy summer melodies will regale the crowd with songs that made them one of the top grossing bands in the early sixties. “It’s the West Coast meets Nantucket,” says Bob Monahan, “The Beach Boys music resonates with all age groups and will ensure a night to remember.” Like Good Humor ice cream, a slice of Wonder Bread and a glass of Hawaiian Punch, there is something about the Beach Boys that takes us back in time and appeals to our yearning for nostalgia. Collaborating with the Monahans, the Creamers’ involvement as co-chairs has greatly enhanced the planning of this year’s performance. “Being chairs for this year’s Pops concert has been so much fun,” says Glenn Creamer. “Everyone from the hospital has been fantastic to work with and very flexible. There’s such a great group of volunteers who dedicate their time and talents every year to make the event so special.” Mary Jane Creamer adds, “The level of enthusiasm for the Pops concert on the island and the way so many people come together to ensure its success make chairing the Pops such a pleasure. We’ve also had the great fortune to work together with our friends Laurie and Bob Monahan, who chaired the Pops in 2014 and have shown us the ropes as our co-chairs for this year’s Pops.” The Boston Pops on Nantucket concert has sold out every year since 2011, and all indications point to another packed crowd on August 12th. In fact, organizers are expecting so many attendees that they are closely monitoring the tide on Jetties Beach to make sure the audience doesn’t spill into Nantucket Sound. For those who can’t make it, the concert will be live-streamed at The Saltmarsh Senior Center, Sherburne Commons and Our Island Home. Everyone else can just tilt their heads to the sky when fireworks mark the grand finale of this massive beach party.
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Old Salts Written by Vanessa Emery
Setting sail with Nantucket’s senior citizens
Penny Snow first arrived on Nantucket aboard a sailboat in the sixties. “Back when you could still get a guest mooring at the yacht club,” she says. Packed onto an Alberg 35 with her husband and in-laws, she made the ten-day round-trip voyage from Southern Connecticut. On the fifth day of their journey, Snow spotted Nantucket from the bow. “It was love
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at first sight,” she says. Although sailing has been in her veins
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since that first trip to the island, Penny Snow’s life glided by without her taking to the sea as often as she would have liked. But now, thanks to a nonprofit on the island, this longtime Nantucketer is setting sail once again.
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Sails for Old Salts is a program created by Nantucket age range of sailors,” says Brown. “It’s our mission and what Community Sailing and the Saltmarsh Senior Center that we enjoy doing.” takes elderly island residents out for sunset sails. The idea
Adding more wind to the program’s sails has been the
for the program first came when Rocky Fox, co-owner of the Community Foundation for Nantucket. “We have been Chicken Box, asked Diana Brown, the executive director of proud to support the Old Salts sailing program through the Community Sailing, why they didn’t offer programming for Nantucket Fund for the past five years,” says Margaretta Anseniors. This question prompted Brown to reach out to Laura drews, the executive director of the Community Foundation. and Sails for Old Salts was born. Today, Community Sail- est priorities determined by the Community Foundation’s ing can boast that it teaches everyone from five year olds to Advisory Committee.” ninety-five year olds. “We feel fortunate to teach such a wide
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Stewart, the Saltmarsh Senior Center’s Program Coordinator, “Programs and services for elders have been among the high-
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ails for Old Salts has grown to as many as six trips per summer, which have become so popular that there’s now a waitlist. “We get great feedback; people love the program,” says Laura Stewart of the Salt Marsh Senior Center. “They return the next day and come into my office all excited. It’s a great way to keep seniors active and bring them together to meet new people.” Participants meet at the Children’s Beach boat launch where Community Sailing instructors, usually college-age students, pick everyone up in a skiff and bring them out to the J/105 field boats. Designed for racing, the J/105 yacht is sleek, fast, and fun to sail. “When the opportunity presented itself, I signed right up,” says Penny Snow. “Next thing I knew I’m on a 35foot sloop with two terrific skippers.” While participants are free to just sit back and enjoy the wind in their hair, some sailors like Snow want to be more hands on. “Holding the helm in my hands took me back to my first days on the island,” she says. “It was like coming full circle back home.” Indeed, not only did Snow first set eyes on Nantucket aboard a sailboat, but she was also one of Community Sailing’s first volunteers. Now she can enjoy the fruits of her labors by sailing every chance she gets. This partnership between Nantucket Community Sailing, the Saltmarsh Senior Center, and the Community Foundation for Nantucket is an example of the collaboration required to meet the growing needs of seniors on Nantucket. On any given day, the Saltmarsh Senior Center can be packed to capacity with fifty to seventy-five visitors playing bridge, exercising, and socializing. As the baby boomer generation gets older, more offerings like these N magazine
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UNDEF Written by Robert Cocuzzo
Photography courtesy of Chris Waddell
Thirteen-time Paralympic champion Chris Waddell returns to Nantucket this August
In the eyes of many, Chris Waddell is a superhero. After being paralyzed from the waist down at the age of twenty in a skiing accident, this Massachusetts native went on to become one of the most decorated athletes in the history of the Paralympics, earning a total of thirteen medals—five of them gold—in both the winter and summer games. And that was just the beginning of his winning streak. People magazine named him one of the “50 Most Beautiful People.” The Dalai Lama gave him the Unsung Hero of Compassion Award. He was inducted into the Paralympic Hall of Fame and the Skiing Hall of Fame. And in 2009, Waddell became the first paraplegic to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro almost entirely unassisted. This August, Waddell returns to Nantucket for the second year in a row to talk about what is perhaps his greatest endeavor of all. Waddell is on a mission to redefine what it means to be disabled in the twenty-first century. When Waddell wheeled into my office last August, I was quick to try and help him navigate around the furniture. “Can you get over that?” I asked, nodding to the carpet. What an absurd question, I immediately thought to myself. This was a guy who had wheeled his way to the top of the highest point in Africa—through boulder fields and up steep scree—yet here I was worried that he couldn’t push himself over a half-inch thick piece of carpet. And that’s exactly the subconscious misperception of disability that Waddell is trying to rid society. “As adults, we’ve formed our biases about disability, whether they’re informed or not,” he told me recently. To break this circle of bias, Waddell has been touring around the country telling his story at hundreds of schools as part of his foundation, One Revolution. “Kids’ minds are open,” Waddell says. “They want to ask questions. They’re not bound by political correctness as we are as adults. They’re willing to ask, ‘Why are you in a wheelchair?’” By showing impressionable kids the incredible heights those with disabilities can reach, Waddell hopes to bring about an overall shift in society’s perception of disability. “The objective is for them to see the individual for their potential and not their limitations,” he says. Since founding One Revolution, Waddell
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year, he enlisted seven other para-athletes to amplify the message. “The hope is to reach a million students a year.”
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ut it hasn’t always been medals for Waddell. Before his accident, he failed to even finish a ski race, let alone end up on a podium. In many ways, Waddell’s success as an athlete came in the wake of tragedy. In 1988, during Christmas vacation, he was skiing recreationally with his brother when his binding popped free and sent him into a tumble. The fall broke two vertebrae and rendered Waddell paralyzed from the waist down. He spent two months in the hospital, during which time he dropped fifty pounds and couldn’t lift himself out of bed. “I couldn’t walk and had lost many prospects for my future,” Waddell wrote in his must-read book, Things I Want To Remember Not To Forget. “Yet, it was the most powerful that I’ve ever been because my life achieved a simplicity that I’d never experienced.” Less than a year after his accident, Waddell was back on the mountain learning to carve turns in a sit ski. Not long after that, he became one of the fastest monoskiers in the world. Waddell’s life became about beating the odds and
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sibility to stretch the imagination of the general public with every race,” he wrote. After becoming the fastest monoskier in the world, Waddell turned his attention to the summer games and became a wheelchair sprinter, winning silver in the 200 meter in the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney, Australia. Then came the off-sport accolades—the recognitions from everyone from the Dalai Lama to People magazine. Waddell’s triumphs elevated him to superstar status, and with it, a new, unexpected challenge emerged. “I felt a responsibility in a lot of ways to a lot of people as a superhero,” he says. “So many people said to me, ‘You’re my inspiration.’ And so I thought that meant I really couldn’t have a bad day.” The pressure of having to live up to this superhuman status weighed heavily on Waddell. He feared humiliation and public failure. All this came to a head during one of his most audacious objectives: climbing Kilimanjaro. Waddell trained for months to tackle Africa’s highest peak. He worked with engineers to custom design a four-wheel hand bike equipped with off-road tires and a winch to pull himself up the steepest sections of the 19,341-foot climb. He enlisted guides, porters, and filmmakers to capture the entire journey. “When I was climbing Kilimanjaro, it felt like it was a goal that was bigger than me myself,” he says. “There are hundreds of millions of people in the world with physical disabilities…I felt responsible to a lot of other people who don’t necessarily have a voice.” For seven arduous days, Waddell climbed up the dusty path to the summit. Pedaling with his arms while lying on his stomach, he finished each day failed to gain purchase in the loose scree, wooden boards were placed painstakingly under his wheels for each pedal stroke. Waddell demanded that no one help him up the mountain. He wanted to reach the top completely unassisted.
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“Part of it is that you don’t have to do everything yourself. Asking for help can be the most empowering thing that we do. When we ask for help, together we can achieve a whole lot more…”
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manjaro was captured in a compelling documentary titled One Revolution, which was shown at the Atheneum last year. Waddell will return to the island this August to speak at private gatherings and continue his mission of reaching young people. Along with fighting to change society’s perception of disability, Waddell strives to achieve a level of truth and transcendence with each of his presentations. He takes off the superhero cape and reveals a vulnerability that makes his message universal. As he says, “It’s a lifetime pursuit that gives purpose to the decisions I make every day.”
But then, he and his team reached a steep boulder field separating him from the final camp. Despite arduous attempts to set up Waddell’s winch to help have him crank his way up, he couldn’t budge. Hours ticked by. Fearing that they wouldn’t get to camp before sundown, the lead guide decided that Waddell would need to be carried up to the next camp. Waddell was crushed. Because he wasn’t going to get to the top entirely on his own power, he felt like a failure. “The biggest gift the mountain gave me was allowing me to separate myself from the superhero image that I created since I left the hospital,” he says. “I’d become remarkable in ways that I always craved, but it prevented me from understanding who I really was.” On the final stretch to the summit, Waddell began to glean the ultimate lesson from climbing Kilimanjaro. “Part of it is that you don’t have to do everything yourself,” Waddell says. “Asking for help can be the most empowering thing that we do. When we ask for help, together we can achieve a whole lot more…I feel like I’m continuing to learn about that as I move forward.” Waddell’s remarkable journey to the summit of Kili-
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Something’s
Fishy Written by Tom Bell
Photography by Kit Noble
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Why aren’t Nantucket’s waters being protected like the rest of Massachusetts?
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Nantucket charter captain Pete Kaizer
harter boat captain Pete Kaizer was fishing for striped bass off the coast of Chatham last year when he started wondering why the Cape’s inshore waters were so abundant with fish compared to the depleted waters around Nantucket. His answer came when a state fisheries official sent him a color-coded map outlining commercial fishing restrictions. The map showed that “mobile gear”— essentially a net pulled through the water— is prohibited during all or part of the year in the inshore waters of 90 percent of the state’s coastal communities—virtually everywhere except the outer Cape near Provincetown, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.
For Kaizer and other Nantucket charter boat captains, the map explained
why they’ve been seeing a dramatic decline in juvenile squid, which spawn in the waters around Nantucket and are critical forage food for stripers, bluefish and tuna. Just five years ago, squid could always be found near local fishing hotspots like Old Man Shoal. “Squid were everywhere,” says Tom Mleczko, a veteran Nantucket charter boat captain. “There was squid as far as you could see. In the last few years, that hasn’t happened. There aren’t any ‘squidos.’ Nothing is in the water.”
Baby squid
Kaizer, Mleczko and other charter boat captains say fishing trawlers that drag their nets on the sandy bottom are destroying the masses of white squid eggs that dot the ocean floor. The trawlers are also scooping up adult squid before they’ve spawned. Moreover, they contend that squid are being overfished in federal waters, which begin three miles offshore. Last year, commercial fishing boats were allowed under existing federal rules to harvest 19 million pounds of squid between May and August, even though the quota for that period was only 8.4 million pounds. “It was a massacre,” Kaizer says. “We can’t keep beating up on this thing. It’s not sustainable.” While Nantucket captains like Peter Kaizer see this as an environmental crisis, mainland commercial fishermen, who for years have been much more involved in the process of shaping fishing policies than the charter boat captains. Going up against the commercial fishing industry is not politically expedient, especially in recent years as many commercial fishermen are struggling to stay in business due to tighter federal fishing rules designed to rebuild stocks.
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Squid school over eggs
antucket might also be hampered
as they can get to Nantucket while remaining
that are anchored to the seafloor. Dragging
by an image problem that comes
in federal waters. Between 2007 and 2015,
their nets on the bottom, fishing trawlers dis-
from being a wealthy summer
the area south of Nantucket was the most in-
lodge the capsules from the ocean floor.
resort. While commercial fishermen harvest
tensely fished area on the East Coast during the
While some squid fishermen contend
fish for commercial food markets, the Nan-
summer, according to data from Mid-Atlantic
that this process helps distribute the eggs,
tucket fleet of charter boats fish for the plea-
Fishery Management Council, which regulates
researchers contend otherwise. Working
sure of their well-to-do clients. This makes it
the fishery in federal waters.
politically more difficult to add restrictions that harm the commercial fishermen.
Nantucket’s charter boat captains and their environmentalist
Fishermen have been pursuing squid
allies are working on two fronts
commercially as both a delicacy and as bait
to curtail this commercial fishing
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pressure. At the federal level,
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they’re lobbying regulators to change
with squid in captivity, Roger Hanlon, a se-
the rules. While at the state level, they
nior scientist at the Marine Resources Center
are pushing a bill that would ban all
in Woods Hole, found that dislodging eggs
mobile gear in state waters around
causes the eggs to hatch prematurely. Because
Nantucket from May through October.
their stomachs have yet to be fully formed,
So far, they are seeing more success
they are unable to eat. “Those animals do not
with the feds.
survive,” he says. “They are all dead.”
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Man-
Joseph Gordan, the manager of U.S.
agement Council in June endorsed a
oceans in the Northeast for The Pew Chari-
since the 1800s. It’s become a significant
package of regulatory changes that would
table Trust, says the new rules, which still
industry, with preliminary landings in 2016
limit the future expansion of the fishery and
need final approval from National Oceanic
totaling nearly 40 million pounds. In recent
reduce the squid catch in summer months
and Atmospheric Administration, would
years, squid boats have focused their efforts
when squid are spawning. Squid are easier to
allow for more squid to reach maturity. “Re-
on the productive waters of Nantucket Sound
catch when they are spawning because they
ducing the effort in the summer months is a
and south of the island. The boats can often
aggregate. Females lay as many as three hun-
great conservation gain for the coast and the
be seen just three miles offshore—as close
dred eggs encased within gelatinous capsules
overall population,” he says.
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aizer, who had attended the council’s June meeting in Norfolk, Virginia, says the
Pierce declined requests to
council’s decision is good news for Nantucket because a healthy squid popula-
be interviewed for this story. In
tion is critical to the health of other fish populations. Still, Kaizer plans to keep
a written statement, he says the
pushing for more protections. He wants federal regulators to put the federal waters around
petitioners had not provided jus-
Nantucket off limits to fishing during the summer, in effect creating a “buffer zone” around
tification for their measure. In a
the island. California, South Africa and Tasmania have implemented similar closures.
December memo to the Marine Fisheries Advisory Commission, Pierce said there are no scientific studies that prove that disrupting squid mops reduces the sur-
Kaizer and his allies are also pressuring the Massachusetts fisheries regulators to do more
vival of eggs. In addition, despite
to protect spawning squid in state waters. The Commonwealth currently allows squid fishing
years of fishing pressure, there is
in these areas from April 23 through June 9, although the state sometimes extends the season
no evidence that squid are being
for a week or two. But the problem, Kaizer says, is not just the squid boats but any fishing
overfished, he said. Closing state
boat that drags gear along the ocean bottom. “You tow small mesh around, you are going to
waters around Nantucket, he
catch everything,” Kaizer says. “It’s like sterilizing Nantucket.”
said, will displace trawlers to the remaining open areas and lead to more gear conflicts in the center of Nantucket Sound. Pierce would face fierce backlash from commercial fishermen if he put Nantucket waters off limits. It would be easier if commercial fish stocks were healthy and
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commercial fishermen had other places to go. Still, Kaizer and his allies continue to push for the bill ban-
ning all mobile gear in the state waters around Nantucket from May through October. The bill’s Senate sponsor, Sen. Julian Cyr, who represents the islands and Cape Cod, said current rules restricting mobile gear in the state’s inshore waters are sorely out of date. Put in place in the 1930s and 1940s, the rules pro-
by commercial fisherman. The
tected the interest of fishermen
issue has yet to come before
who used fish weirs, which have
the commission for a vote. Mi-
since steadily disappeared from
chael Pierdinock, one of only
the coast. Although those gear
two recreational fishermen on
conflicts also existed in Nan-
the board, says he’s not sure
tucket, it’s unclear why similar
how he would vote. While
restrictions were not put in place
he is sympathetic to the Nan-
around the island, he says. Commercial fishermen op-
tucket charter boat operators,
pose the bill. Ed Barrett, presi-
there is no direct scientific evidence that scraping squid mops off the seafloor is killing the
dent of the Massachusetts Bay
eggs, he says.
Ground Fishermen’s Associa-
The only scientific work has been conducted on squids in captivity. Hanlon, the scientist
tion, said it would be a mistake
at Marine Resources Center in Woods Hole, says conducting a study in the wild would be
for the state to allow “Not-In-
extremely difficult, and there is no funding source to pay for a study. Other factors, such as
My-Backyard” pressure from
climate change and increased seal populations, could also explain why squid are in decline
Nantucket charter boat operators
near Nantucket, says Pierdinock, who operates a charter boat based in New Bedford.
to overturn longstanding regulations that are based on science and sound fishing management practices. The Marshfield commercial fisherman said it would set a “terrible” precedent if Nan-
The issue is a tough one politically, Pierdinock says. Many commercial fishermen are already
tucket succeeded in passing a law
struggling financially due to new fishing closures on Stellwagen Bank, a marine sanctuary at
to implement a fishing ban.
the mouth of Massachusetts Bay. Adding new restrictions around Nantucket would impose
Commercial fishing interests wield more power over state
a real hardship on them, he said. “I would not want to push the commercial fishermen out of business based on the lack of science,” he says.
fishing policies than the sports
Kaizer believes the state’s refusal to grant protections to Nantucket is the result of pressure
fishing industry. The nine-mem-
from the commercial fishing industry. Ironically, he says, the state limits the use of bottom-
ber Marine Fisheries Advisory
dragging gear in waters near its commercial fishing ports like Gloucester and New Bedford.
Commission, which would vote
“Everyone else is fat and happy,” he says. “They’re not saying much because they got the
on any regulatory changes af-
protection.” He says people in those communities aren’t interested in helping Nantucket. That
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QUIET CRISIS Written by Jason Graziadei
Photography by Kit Noble
The H-2B Visa shortage is having serious consequences on the island economy A quiet crisis is playing out behind the scenes on Nantucket this summer, in the island’s commercial kitchens and in the backrooms of its hotels and inns. The frenzy of the peak season returned this year as it always does, but the backbone of the island’s seasonal economy workforce did not. Hundreds, perhaps more than a thousand, of the guest workers from around the globe who spend their summers on Nantucket toiling over hot stoves, cleaning bathrooms and bedrooms, greeting guests and generally serving as the engine of island’s hospitality industry were unable to return. The failure of the federal government to increase the number of H-2B visas granted to these guest workers has had a ripple effect across the country, especially in locations with seasonal economies like Nantucket. The visa shortage means longtime employees at dozens of island businesses, including many who had been coming for years and even decades, were barred from the country. The fallout has sent island restaurants, inns, hotels, and other establishments in the hospitality sector scrambling and in some cases forcing painful compromises.
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t the beloved Downyflake restaurant on Sparks Avenue, for instance, the doors were closed nearly every Wednesday in May and June. “We remain short-staffed in our Kitchen, due to the failure of our government to reinstate the Returning Workers’ Exemption & our inability to find US workers to replace them,” the Downyflake posted on its Facebook page on June 13. “We have been working on resolving the situation since October of 2016. Our Kitchen staff on hand have been working 6 days a week. We are pacing the troops. However, we will go to war with the army we have beginning next week. In the meantime thank you for your patience.” Angela Raynor, the co-owner of the downtown restaurants The Boarding House and The Pearl, says the visa shortage is affecting Nantucket “on every level of hospitality.” The unintended consequences, she says, have yet to be reckoned. “We have team members [who are impacted by the visa shortage] who are now like family, they have been with us for eighteen years,” Raynor says. “They are fully vetted, pay taxes, and the real kicker, do not use government services. We are all trying to figure out how to be open seven nights next week. Many restaurants and businesses may be unable to make the Nantucket equation work. We have ten weeks. None of this
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At a mid-island lodging establish-
66,000 guest workers. The inaction set off
by the [Trump] administration’s position on
ment, longtime innkeeper Scott Thomas
alarm bells on Nantucket, but there seemed
hiring Americans,” says Thomas.
was cleaning the pool himself, running
to be a resolution on the horizon, as there
Under the federal government’s H-2B
the business’s social media accounts, and
had been in years past. In early May, law-
visa program, guest workers have performed the type of jobs Americans generally don’t want to do. Businesses are only allowed to hire seasonal employees from out of the country if they can demonstrate to the Department of Labor that they have made a good faith effort to hire American workers through advertising
his administrative assistant was filling in
makers authorized nearly doubling the
and other means. But in the thirty years
as his front desk manager. The bar inside
number of H-2B workers to 130,000 vi-
of participating in the H-2B program,
the inn, which is normally open every
sas, but punted the final decision to the
Thomas says his inn has received less
staffed. But we’re all doing stuff behind
Department of Homeland Security, which
than a dozen applications from American
the scenes. I’m also paying a ton in over-
failed to approve the increase.
workers seeking one of the seasonal po-
night of the week, is only open on weekends. With fifteen unfilled positions due to the H-2B visa shortage, Thomas and his existing staff are all working more hours and wearing more than one hat. “The good thing is you won’t see it in your experience on Nantucket,” Thomas says. “The comments we’ve had from our guests have all been positive, and I don’t think people have noticed that we’re short
time as everyone is working extra hours,
What should have been viewed as a
including all my managers. People are
relatively sim-
burnt out.”
ple fix for a
sitions he has advertised. “And most of
small business
citizens of other countries to work season-
problem came
ally in the US, seems to have become a
to be perceived
victim of the toxic political climate in
as an immigra-
Washington DC this year. Early in 2017,
tion issue under the Trump administration,
them, once you contact them and send
Congress failed to reauthorize an exemp-
according to Thomas and others involved
an application form back, you never hear
tion that would have made returning H-2B
in efforts to have the cap increased. “I
from them again,” he says.
visa holders not count against the cap of
would say it’s very much being influenced
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Nantucket Island Resort’s managing director Khaled Hashem meeting with his team at the White Elephant.
“The people who are impacted the most by this are those who are not coming back. They are not going to have an income this year. They’re fantastic people, they have the expertise, and this is their livelihood.”
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antucket Island Resorts (NIR) is among the largest employ-
sent from her home in Jamaica, Lo-
ers on the island, and was one of the businesses hardest hit
gan-Osbourne wrote that she loved her
by the inaction in Washington on the H-2B situation. With
job on Nantucket, and vowed to return
its sprawling footprint across Nantucket’s lodging, dining, and re-
despite the uncertainty surrounding
tail establishments, NIR typically hires 130 guest workers for the
the H-2B visa program. “I am so sorry
season, and this year a total of forty-five employees were unable to
for not getting the chance to be with
return. Among them were longtime seasonal staffers who had been
the company this season,” Logan-
with NIR for ten, fifteen, and even twenty years or more.
Osbourne said. “Being in Nantucket,
“Those forty-five are an
it’s like a home away from home. I
amazing group of people who
worked at the Wauwinet and I always
are part of what makes this
have a smile.”
company and our reputation,”
And while NIR was sharply im-
says Khaled Hashem, NIR’s
pacted by the shortage of guest work-
managing director. “Guests
ers, it was also uniquely positioned
come here and expect to see
to meet the challenge and possessed
them.”
distinct advantages that many of the
The longtime NIR work-
island’s smaller businesses did not.
ers who were unable to return
Tapping into its extensive network of
this year all received letters
seasonal employees, recruiters, and
from the company as well as
partners in the hospitality industry—
gift cards, Hashem says. But
namely ski resorts—Hashem and his
those things won’t replace a
team immediately went to work to fill
summer’s worth of income on
the gap.
Nantucket, he says. “The peo-
“We have amazing, healthy re-
ple who are impacted the most
lationships all across the country, and
by this are those who are not
they referred people to us who were
coming back,” Hashem says.
already in-country,” Hashem explains.
“They are not going to have
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an income this year. They’re
percent of NIR’s seasonal employees
fantastic people, they have the
come back every year under the H-2B
expertise, and this is their live-
visa program and have institutional
lihood.”
knowledge of the company’s op-
One of those workers was
erations and its customers. “How do
Rhona Logan-Osbourne, who
you replace that overnight?” he asks
had worked with NIR on the
“That’s the tough part.”
island for the past three years at The Wauwinet. In an e-mail
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Written by Rebecca Nimerfroh
Photography by Luis Pons
Beyond the stage with Nantucket ballerina Ali Lubin Ali Lubin used to dread Saturday mornings. As a professional ballerina in a small dance company in New York City, she was forced to step on a scale after practice. Her weight was then posted for all to see. If she weighed more than a dancer taller than her, Lubin was scolded. If she gained five pounds, she was put on probation. “You would do anything you could to weigh less,” Lubin says. “I would even take the bobby pins out of my hair—it was so sad.”
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he life of a professional ballerina is brutal. Beyond the diet and mental fatigue, dancers’ bodies are ravaged by thousands of hours of practice. Toes are destroyed. Ribs are cracked. Many have their hips replaced by the age of thirty. “There’s so much sacrifice involved,” Lubin says. “You can’t have a social life. You’re so cautious about your diet. And you’re stuck in a room with a bunch of people you’re competing against twenty-four seven. So you look happy on stage, but the rest of it is a lot of blood, sweat, and tears.”
Those days are now long gone for Ali Lubin. Having relocated to Nantucket a year ago, this professional ballerina is now turning her dancing skills toward helping others attain healthy “ballet bodies.” “It’s not about the number on the scale,” she says. “It’s about having a balanced and strong body that’s toned and healthy.” Lubin teaches Pilates and barre classes at CORE, Go Figure, and The Westmoor Club. She’s also an instructor at Nantucket Ballet, which has gone from teaching three students to eighty students in the last three years. “I like
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ery type of person can find the one they like,” she says. “Everybody can get a ballet body, without having to be a ballerina.”
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espite the fact that her mother was a ballet instructor, Lubin’s love of ballet did not come naturally when she was growing up in Southern California. “I ran out crying,” she remembers of her first class. But as she grew older, Lubin came to love it, and immersed herself in the art form. After attending Loyola Marymount University, she danced with several dance companies, including the illustrious Los Angeles Ballet. She then moved to Manhattan to audition for Broadway.
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et, like many of her colleagues,
Lubin’s
body
began breaking down from a lifetime on pointe. First she suffered a tear in her hip and then fractured a rib. “I realized that ballet was destroying my body,” she says. “For me it wasn’t worth it anymore.” Instead, Lubin began teaching ballet, barre, and Pilates, a form of exercise that was originally created as a core-strengthening workout for the overly taxed muscles of ballet dancers. “I realized that I could still teach ballet and be in that world without having to have a hip replacement by the time I turn thirty.”
When one of her clients offered her a job as a part-time private instructor and part-time nanny for the summer on Nantucket, Lubin leapt at the chance. “By the time I moved here, I knew I enjoyed teaching more than being a full-time professional dancer,” she says. After the summer, Lubin decided to stay on island full-time. “I absolutely love what I’m doing now. I have no injuries. I have a social life. I can eat, I can sleep. It’s a very balanced, happy lifestyle, which I’ve never had before.” Nantucket has also benefited from Lubin’s decision to stay on island. Before she arrived, ballet classes were limited to children. Now Lubin teaches adult ballet classes at Nantucket Ballet. And while teaching them to dance, Lubin is also getting her clients’ bodies on point in the healthiest ways N magazine
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The
AMBASSADORS Written by Robert Cocuzzo
Photography by Kit Noble
Club
There are many clubs on Nantucket, but few as exclusive as this
Once you have served as a US Ambassador, the title is
far more serious tone. As the highest ranking American official
attached to your name in perpetuity and suggests an air of in-
in their respective countries, ambassadors represent the presi-
fluence that few attain. Not surprisingly, Nantucket is home to
dent and serve American interests abroad. Moreover, in this age
an inordinate number of US Ambassadors during the summer
of terrorism, they are also highly visible targets for those intent
months. Ambassadors like Rufus Gifford, whom this magazine
on sending a message.
profiled in 2015, and Matt Barzun have found reprieve from the
served as ambassadors under either the Bush, Clinton or Obama
There are essentially two paths to becoming an ambassador:
administrations. Louis Susman, Elizabeth Bagley, James Nichol-
one is that of a career diplomat and the other is by being a top
son, Nancy Soderberg and Timothy Broas are only a selection of
fundraiser and donor to a presidential campaign. Once consid-
the ambassadors with Nantucket ties, but they provide an inside
ered largely ceremonial, the role of ambassador has taken on a
look into this exclusive club.
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rom 2009 to 2013, Nan-
ranging from John Kerry to Barack
ghanistan, and actively engaged the Muslim
tucket summer resident
Obama. When President Obama offered
community within the United Kingdom to im-
Louis Susman held what
him the Ambassadorship to the Court of
prove relations with the United States. As the
many consider the most
St. James, Susman accepted before even
highest ranking American official in the United
coveted appointment in the
asking his wife. “[The President] asked,
Kingdom, Susman received the same tri-weekly
United States Foreign Service: The Am-
‘Don’t you want to think about it for a
CIA briefings as the President. “Some things
bassadorship to the Court of St. James.
minute?’” he recalls. “And I said, ‘No,
you wouldn’t want to know,” he says.
“They tell me it’s the number one,” Sus-
I don’t want you to change your mind.’”
Four years into his tenure as ambassador,
man says in his study on Washing Pond
The distinction of being Ambas-
Susman received a phone call that he’ll never
Road. “It’s all because of the ‘Special
sador to the Court of St. James has been
forget. At 3:30 in the morning, his houseman
Relationship’ between the United States
held by five US presidents and comes
woke him up with Obama’s Situation Room
and the United Kingdom…It’s the hub
with much pomp and circumstance.
on the line. “They told me to call 10 Downing
that everything goes through.”
Susman and his wife Marjorie delivered
Street and wake up the Prime Minister,” Sus-
A former managing director and vice
his credentials to the Queen by way of
man remembers today. “We’d just killed Osama
chairman of Citigroup, Susman was a
horse-drawn carriage and royal guard
Bin Ladin.”
prodigious fundraiser for the Democrat-
in an elaborate parade to Buckingham
Looking today at the string of terrorist at-
ic Party, earning himself the nickname
Palace. They lived in a twenty-room
tacks in London, Susman says, “I think we’re
of “Hoover” and “The Vacuum Cleaner”
mansion on twelve acres in Regent’s
all going to have to live with this for a long
for sucking up donations for candidates
Park where they regularly hosted the
time because the ISIL issue is not just a battle-
Royal Family, President Obama, Vice
field—it’s a battlefield of religion, battlefield of
President Biden, and many other dig-
thought, a battlefield of all kinds of things.” He
nitaries from around the world. With a
adds, “If the public knew how many attacks [the
thousand-person embassy and consul-
British] were able to successfully thwart while I
ates in both Edinburgh and Northern
was there…it would send a chill up your spine.”
Ireland at his disposal, Susman was the
But Ambassador Susman’s concerns extend
most powerful American official in the
far beyond the threat of terrorism. “The world
United Kingdom.
is messed up,” he says. “Whether you look at
“There are two kinds of ambassa-
Europe and Southern Europe…you look at Af-
dors,” Susman says. “There are the am-
rica and their terrible issues of poverty and cor-
bassadors that go and become more of
ruption…when you look at the Middle East in
a figurehead and then there are ambas-
turmoil forever…then you get to North Korea,
sadors that get right into the substance.
which I think is the biggest potential problem
I was lucky to be in the substance.”
facing us today. Then you go further into the
Indeed, there was plenty of substance
South China sea… it’s all pretty messed up.”
during Susman’s tenure. His appoint-
Not to mention, Susman is concerned about
ment came just as Julian Assange be-
the future of the United Kingdom. “I think Brex-
gan revealing American secrets through
it will be a disaster for the United Kingdom,” he
Wikileaks, which later forced Assange
says. “It was a horrible mistake. For the United
to seek asylum in the Ecuadorian em-
Kingdom, it has the potential of marginalizing
bassy in London. He traveled to Af-
the country… the cost of it is going to be large.”
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(Top) Ambassador Susman meeting with President Obama in the White House. (Bottom) Ambassador Susman and his wife Marjorie hosting President Obama and the First Lady as well the Royal Family.
ponders today from his summer home on Nantucket, where he’s been summering since 1969. Interestingly enough, Susman’s successor as Ambassador to the Court of St. James was yet another island summer resident, Matt Barzun. So while the United Kingdom might be more than three thousand miles away from Nantucket, it has a special relationship with the island that remains ever strong.
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ELIZABETH BAGLEY
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hen Elizabeth Bagley arrived in Portugal in September 1994, the odds were stacked against her. Not only was she the first female US Ambassador to Portugal, but she was also the youngest by thirty years and the first non-career diplomat appointed to the post. “I came in with my son at the age of one and my daughter clinging on to my skirt,” Bagley says today in her summer home on Eel
held a number of positions in all levels of
Point Road. “My husband was 6’6”
government, including working for Senator
and he looked the part of ambassador
Ted Kennedy, who became a longtime friend
and I looked the part of young moth-
and mentor. She and her late husband, Smith
er. So it took some time for people to
Bagley—heir to the RJR tobacco fortune—
understand that I was the ambassador.
became legendary fundraisers for Democratic
I had to prove myself more than any
candidates, ultimately earning her the appoint-
male ambassador.”
ment to Portugal.
Bagley set out to make her posi-
By the end of her tenure, Bagley was
tion clear from the beginning. During
widely beloved by the Portuguese. She had
her first meeting with the Prime Min-
flexed her political muscle to push through
ister, she had arranged an invitation to
a Lajes Treaty on Cooperation Defense that
the Clinton White House, an offer that
Bagley says had been in negotiation for nearly
had never been extended to him while
a hundred years, and was subsequently able to
H.W. Bush was in office. “I wanted to
secure long desired F-16s for the Portuguese
bring something to the table to prove
Air Force. The Prime Minister came to admire
my worth,” she says. “I knew they
Bagley so much that he awarded her the Grand
were going to be looking at me with
Cross of Prince Henry the Navigator, the high-
more suspicion because they really
est civilian honor in the country.
wanted George H.W. Bush to win.” Bagley had pulled a number of
Most recently, Bagley was a major fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. Had Clinton been
strings to arrange the visit, so she was
elected, Bagley would have undoubtedly occupied a prestigious post in her
taken aback when the Prime Minister
administration. On top of her despair over Clinton’s defeat, Bagley is deeply
nonchalantly turned down her invita-
worried about President Trump’s leadership. “I’m concerned that he doesn’t
tion. But Bagley doubled down and
understand foreign policy,” Bagley says. “He doesn’t know what he doesn’t
advised that it wouldn’t be politically
know, which is really dangerous…I’m worried that this is a transactional for-
expedient for him to refuse the invita-
eign policy…He is decimating the State Department. I’m also worried about
tion. Everyone in the room drew quiet,
the militarization of foreign policy. There will be no soft power, there is only
until finally he accepted.
hard power. The importance of diplomacy cannot be underrated—and it is.” Today, Bagley remains a fierce supporter of the Democratic Party. “I’m not
ing was nothing new for Elizabeth
looking to any presidential [candidates] right now,” she says. “What I’m trying to
Bagley, whose first encounters with
do is help the House and the Senate. We need twenty seats to flip the House to the
politics came at a young age while
Democrats, which is really important in terms of impeachments, subpoena power,
her father was campaigning to be a
and a lot of major issues.” And while she might consider the situation dire, Bagley
family court judge. Before taking her
is quick to say that “politics is the art of the possible…it is a question of getting to
post as Ambassador to Portugal, she’d
yes and having the will to come partway and compromise.”
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The Boston Globe began reporting on the church sex scandal that shook the church to its foundation. “The sovereign states have a lot of their internal issues, so that was a matter of concern that was problematic to my diplomatic partner, the Holy See,”
(Clockwise from the top) Ambassador Bagely presenting his credentials to Pope John Paul II; Ambassador Bagley and his wife Suzanne at the Vatican.
says Nicholson who is a practicing Catholic. “But it was not an issue of ours at a diplomatic level. So while it came up often, it was not something of which I was involved.” Nicholson’s tenure as ambassador ended in 2005 when President Bush appointed him head of
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ames Nicholson presented his
of the embassy has changed, but Nicholson says
ambassadorial
to
the role of Ambassador to the Vatican has never
Pope John Paul II just two days
been more important. The relationship between
after the September 11th attacks.
President Trump and Pope Francis has been report-
Instead of following the tradi-
edly contentious. “But they had a very, very good
tional ceremony, Nicholson and
meeting together in Rome,” says Nicholson, who
the Pope put aside their prepared remarks
supported Trump for president. “I have friends on
and prayed together for the victims. Nich-
the staff of our embassy there who tell me that the
olson then briefed the Pope on the attacks,
people at the Vatican were very pleased with the
to which the leader of the Catholic Church
visit.”
credentials
responded, “Ambassador Nicholson, we
Of Pope Francis, Nicholson says, “Overall I like
have to stop these people from killing in
him a great deal, but I don’t necessarily agree with
the name of God.” Reflecting on that con-
him on some of the areas he’s chosen to opine—
versation today from his living room on
[particularly] about climate. For me, the science
Vestal Street, Nicholson says, “That was a
is too unsettled for a guy in his authority to come
very significant thing for the Pope to say…
down the way he did.” Nicholson continues, “To
That ended up being very helpful to us—in
me, it’s ironic because there are still over a billion
invoking his moral authority and putting a
people today who do not have electricity…These
coalition together to go into Afghanistan.”
are the people he cares the most about, yet by sup-
Nicholson was appointed Ambassador to the Vatican in 2001 after serv-
porting those who deny cheap electricity to those
ing as the Chairman of the Republican National Committee that helped elect
undeveloped countries, he’s denying the upward
George W. Bush. “When I think of Jim Nicholson, I think about one of the fin-
mobility that those people need.”
est public servants I have ever known,” President Bush once said. Nicholson
More globally speaking, Nicholson’s main
emerged from poverty in Iowa to attend West Point and received a number of
concern is international terrorism. “These stateless
decorations—including a Bronze Star—as an Airborne Ranger in Vietnam. He
terrorists represent a tremendous threat to the way
later earned a law degree from the University of Denver and a master’s degree
of life that people in civilized societies have come
from Columbia, before becoming a successful businessman. Then came his
to expect,” he says. “And it’s amplified by the fact
appointment to the Vatican.
that these people are willing to give their own lives
As the Ambassador to the Vatican from 2001 to 2005, Nicholson pledged
in this disruptive behavior, which is a huge, huge
to pursue moral diplomacy and was dedicated to enhancing human dignity
moral problem. We need to be clever, consistent
around the world. He spent his “diplomatic currency” on combatting human
and persistent about the need for all countries to try
trafficking, protecting freedom of religion, feeding the hungry, fighting in-
to bring about a realignment so that religion is not
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a zero sum game.”
acres, but they’re in commune with 1.2 billion Catholics,” Nicholson says. “So
The intersection of religion and politics remains
they’re tremendous conduits, which the United States use as resources.” His
an ever heated aspect of American society. And yet
“moral diplomacy” so moved the Pope that Nicholson was eventually knight-
in Ambassador Nicholson’s experience, church and
ed for his many efforts.
state—or in this case the Catholic Church and the
Nicholson’s tenure as Ambassador to the Vatican coincided with a dif-
United States—can not only coexist, but also work
ficult time for the Catholic Church, particularly in the United States. In 2002,
together for the betterment of the rest of the world.
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NANCY SODERBERG
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s Ambassador to the United Nations
and honor to be part of when
curity Council. When Clinton
terrorism, cyber attacks, cli-
you see it work.”
appointed her as Alternative
mate change and nuclear non-
during the Clinton
The United Nations deploys
Representative to the United
proliferation. “Every one of
Administration,
the second largest number of
Nations as a Presidential Ap-
those issues is a world problem
longtime sum-
troops in the world. The United
pointee, she was given the
and we need the world to fol-
mer resident Nancy Soder-
States is number one. As Am-
rank of Ambassador. For four
low us,” she says. “If we don’t
berg’s primary focus was on
bassador to the United Nations,
years, Soderberg sat on the
lead, they’re not going to fol-
peacekeeping missions. Her
Soderberg was in the midst of
UN Security Council directly
low. That’s the risk of the new
appointment came after the
two world powers that could
next to Russia’s Sergey Lav-
approach that’s been taken...
Rwanda genocide in which
bring about great change. Yet
rov, who has recently been a
It’s perplexing that an admin-
inadequate numbers of troops
when it came to peacekeep-
central figure in the Trump/
istration thinks that they don’t
were deployed. “Had we had
ing missions, she noticed an
Russia controversy. “He can
have to engage on these issues
more troops on the ground
interesting trend. “I was very
switch between being a very
and can just walk away and
in Rwanda,” she says, “that
involved in the Irish peace pro-
sophisticated man of the world
think that United States inter-
could have been prevented.”
cess and saw firsthand the role
to a Soviet apparatchik with-
ests are going to be protected.”
With the tragic lessons learned
of women in demanding peace
in thirty seconds,” she says.
But Soderberg isn’t just
from Rwanda and later from
because women are the ones
“It’s fascinating to see him
watching this unfold—she’s
Somalia, Soderberg entered
who bear the brunt of conflict,”
now representing Putin on the
taking political action once
the UN committed to pursuing
she says. “They lose their hus-
world stage.”
again. At press time, she was
peacekeeping missions around
bands, have to raise their kids
Today, Soderberg is con-
preparing to announce her bid
the world.
alone, manage the households,
cerned with the White House’s
for Congress in Florida’s 6th
and they’re the ones who saw
position on Russia. “I don’t
Congressional District. “If I
mis-
first the possibility of peace in
understand President Trump’s
can win this seat, it will turn
sions, I would probably say it
Northern Ireland.” With this in
view of Russia as our friend—
the House Democratic and
was in Bosnia and Kosovo,”
mind, Ambassador Soderberg
they’re not,” Soderberg says.
force compromise and nego-
Soderberg says. “We saved a
also used her tenure to bring
“They work against us in Syr-
tiations on some of the key is-
lot of lives in Kosovo…We
more women into peacekeep-
ia, in cracking down on human
sues facing the United States,”
stood up to Miloševic and ba-
ing roles.
rights, dissidence in their own
she says. In particular, Soder-
“In terms of the most successful
peacekeeping
Soderberg’s ascension to
societies, locking journalists
berg is concerned with health
tering a lot of Albanians in
Ambassador to the United Na-
up, killing their opponents.
care, the middle class, educa-
Kosovo.” She adds, “What’s
tions was a high point in an
It’s a country that’s moving in
tion, and the growing lack of
powerful about representing
already distinguished career
the wrong direction on pretty
civil discourse in Washington.
the United States is that when
in civil service. After serving
much every level.”
“I’ve spent all my life worry-
the United States acts, it liter-
as the Foreign Policy Direc-
Soderberg fears that the
ing about democracy abroad,”
ally saves lives. It’s not you
tor during Bill Clinton’s 1992
United States is swiftly losing
she says. “I never in a million
personally, it’s you represent-
presidential campaign, Soder-
its leadership role on the world
years thought I’d have to wor-
ing the power of the United
berg was appointed to Staff
stage, making it far more dif-
ry about it here at home.”
States, which is a real privilege
Director of the National Se-
ficult to address issues such as
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distinguished lawyer and top fundraiser for President
States, indeed facing the world, Broas took advantage of every oppor-
Obama, Timothy Broas accepted his appointment
tunity to learn about how the Dutch are preparing for continued rising
as Ambassador to the Netherlands without hesita-
seas and more powerful storms. “When members of Congress and other
tion. “I always wanted to serve my country,” says
government officials, state or federal, came to visit the Netherlands, we
Broas, who has been summering on Nantucket
would show them the various Dutch projects and how they deal with
since 1988. “I was very excited when the White House [sent me]
water and their canal systems and their river systems,” Broas says. “I was
to the Netherlands.” With his ambassadorship based in The Hague,
always a believer in climate change, but spending almost three years over
Broas’s credentials as a lawyer made him particularly suited for his
there, I really came to understand how significant and real a threat it is.”
position. “We also have Dutch roots. Broas is a Dutch name,” he
In addition to these responsibilities and diplomatic tasks, Broas also
says. “So I think that might have had something to do with it, too.”
enjoyed his role in cultural and sports diplomacy. “The Netherlands have
From 2014 to 2016, Broas’s responsibilities covered a range of
some of the world’s finest museums all over the country,” he says. “Wheth-
diplomatic activities. First and foremost, he was representing President
er Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Vermeer or dozens of other great Dutch Mas-
Obama and working with the Dutch government on matters of diplo-
ters, they have it all. I worked extensively with all the art organizations and
macy, business, politics and foreign relations. Another top priority for
museums.” Last but not least, Ambassador Broas devoted much time to
all ambassadors is “commercial diplomacy.” Broas sought to facilitate
“sports diplomacy.” He
business between American and Dutch companies. “The Dutch are the
is an avid baseball fan—
world’s number one trading country—they’ve been traders for centuries—and we learned a lot from them as traders when our country was very young and just being formed.” Ambassador Broas also devoted a significant amount of time and effort to enhancing relations between the US and Dutch militaries. He traveled extensively throughout the Netherlands and other parts of the world where the Dutch military is serving side by side with the US military. “The Dutch are one of the
and the Dutch love baseball. He
strongest supporters of our national security efforts around the globe. They
devoted whatever time he could
are one of the founding members of NATO,” says Broas. “As a son of a
spare to help the Dutch Baseball
US Marine, I thoroughly enjoyed working with the Dutch military and our
Federation enhance its relations
defense attachés to do whatever I could do to promote strong relations.”
with Major League Baseball
As a result of his efforts, Broas was awarded the Distinguished Public
(MLB). Even after retiring from
Service Award from the Secretary of the US Navy.
his ambassadorship, he continues
In addition to being the world’s foremost trading country, the Dutch
to work with the Dutch Kingdom’s
are also the world’s premier experts on water management. Ambassador
leagues in the Netherlands and
Broas devoted significant time and effort working with the Dutch wa-
Curacao to promote awareness in
ter management industry. “Because they are surrounded by water and
the United States of the enormous talent that the Kingdom produces and
most of the country is below sea level, the Dutch are very vulnerable to
brings to the MLB and other countries around the world.
flooding and storms,” Broas explains. “They have done an amazing job
Now retired from the Foreign Service, Broas is concerned that our
of building dikes and dams and deltas and dunes to protect the country
country, one of the world’s largest polluters, is not exercising the necessary
from flooding and climate change. The Dutch have been believers in
leadership to protect and preserve the planet. He points to the new admin-
climate change for a long time and it has factored into their planning.
istration’s actions pulling out of the Paris Agreement, seeking to revitalize
There’s no scientific debate in the Netherlands about climate change.”
the coal industry, and reversing a number of Obama’s executive actions
Broas became involved in water management even before he arrived in the Netherlands, and consulted with the Dutch Special Water
that targeted reducing auto emissions and carbon output as his greatest concerns for the country today. “I’d have to say that climate change is the thing I put at the top of
connection with the post-Hurricane Sandy mitigation efforts in New
the list,” Broas says. “I have children and worry about their future and
York and New Jersey. “The Dutch water management experts are pro-
the future of my children’s children and beyond because if we don’t
viding invaluable assistance to the post-Katrina, and post-Sandy reme-
do something to stop or at least slow down climate change, this earth
dial efforts,” Broas says. “They are an indispensable partner.”
is not going to survive in the form we know and love.” He adds, “The
Considering climate change as the greatest threat facing the United
low-lying areas will go first.” Low-lying areas like Nantucket.
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ECLIPSE CHASER Written by Deborah Halber
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Chip Webster has been waiting a lifetime to see the Great American Eclipse this August On August 21st at 2:38.03 p.m., Chip Webster will be shin-deep in the shoals of a South Carolina creek, head tipped back, special glasses on, staring at the sky. With a little bit of luck and a clear sky, for the next two and a half minutes Webster and millions of others in the “path of totality” of the 2017 solar eclipse will see the sky go dark. A black orb—the shadow of the moon— will be rimmed by an undulating, fiery ring, the only visible part of the sun. Stars and planets might emerge in the daytime sky as birds and other wildlife fall eerily silent. Webster has attended upwards of a dozen eclipses on nearly every continent, a record held by a select few eclipse chasers.
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seventeenth-generation
de-
scendant of Tristram Coffin, Webster grew up in Mississippi, but spent summers at his grandparents’ home on Nantucket. A selfdescribed nerd in high school, Webster was the son of a businessman and an art teacher, the kid with the telescope in his bedroom bound for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yet Webster’s passion for eclipses, which began in 1991 when he joined friends on a spurof-the-moment, 12,000-mile road trip from Mississippi to Baja, Mexico, via Canada, is more than scientific. Webster believes the power of an eclipse can approach the religious or the spiritual. For instance, at an Easter Island eclipse in 2010, Webster witnessed a monsoon abruptly stop, clouds part, and a double rainbow appear. The eclipse happened, and then there was another spectacular double rainbow. The clouds then closed like a curtain,
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Faroe Island Eclipse
Then there are the exotic viewing sites: Madagascar, the Faroe Islands, Peru, a remote part of Indonesia, the Australian Outback. Total solar eclipses, in which the moon completely obscures the sun, draw aficionados like Webster who happily trek to far-flung locales under sometimes dicey circumstances to witness them firsthand. Antarctica is the only continent where Webster hasn’t witnessed an eclipse. And that’s in the works. In Webster’s airy architectural firm on Amelia Drive, we pore over global charts of the paths of eclipse shadows. The eclipse chaser’s holy grail—the total eclipses—are depicted in purple. Webster traces a purple band with his finger. “You could be anywhere along this path and see the total eclipse. However, a lot of these are over water, or they’re in places that are probably going to be cloudy.” You don’t want to travel all the way around the world for a twominute event and miss it because of an errant cloud.
This year’s pilgrimage is almost too simple: a culmination of events as unlikely as three planets perfectly aligning. When Webster was in his twenties, shortly before his eclipse-chasing days, he envisioned creating a place where he and a close-knit group of friends from high school and college—being pulled in different directions by family and careers—could reconnect. “A custom retirement community, a place for our children to grow up and get to know each other,” he said, although he didn’t mention retirement back then. “An Adirondack camp sort of thing.” The only spot in the US that met Webster’s exacting criteria turned out to be south of Greenville, South Carolina, in a tiny town identified on a map as Avalon. The island paradise of Celtic myth and Arthurian legend, Avalon struck Webster as the perfect name, although he never again saw the town identified that way and couldn’t find the original map. Almost thirty friends bought two hundred acres, and in the ensuing decades, more joined. The friends’ growing families, including Webster’s own utopian vision: The Big Chill ten times over. hen
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ebster learned that for the first time in ninety-nine years, a total solar
“Just as a convergence of things
eclipse will sweep the US from coast to coast. The Great American
led us to this property, now we are get-
Eclipse will be partial for most of the country, including Nantucket.
ting this bonus of the eclipse,” Webster
Its path of totality is narrow—picture a thirty-mile-diameter shadow originating
exclaims. The South Carolina property
over Oregon, traveling across the continent at the speed of sound—passing directly
encompasses a large field, where Web-
over Avalon.
ster anticipates that many of the owners and invitees (“relatively small, four hundred people or so”) will camp out and watch. Nearby is the sizable creek where shoals form a shallow waterfall that leads to a cove. As many as two million eclipse viewers are expected to descend on South Carolina, but one spot—the shoals that happen to align perfectly with the eclipse’s path—will host only a handful of viewers, Webster among them. What if the weather gods frown upon him and all the others hoping for front-row seats to this century’s sun-and-moon magic show? Webster al-
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A discussion with the former CEO of Time Inc.
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hen Joe Ripp took up flying as a hobby twenty years ago, he found Nantucket to be a beautiful destination to soar off to with his wife. They quickly fell in love with the island and bought a summer home here. After an extraordinary career leading such companies as Time Warner, AOL and most recently Time Inc., Ripp retired last year and now serves as the Commodore of the Great Harbor Yacht Club. N Magazine recently met with Joe Ripp at Great Harbor to discuss his experiences as chairman and CEO of Time Inc., his take on the future of media, and his approach to leading and managing people.
N Magazine: Can you provide us with some of the high-
RipP: I don’t really know. Twenty-five years ago, none
lights of your career?
of us would have predicted where we are today. The
RipP: I started out my career in public accounting and
iPad wasn’t here. The Internet wasn’t here. Digital
was assigned to two different accounts. My first ac-
distribution didn’t exist… I’ve actually had access to
count was the New York Association for the Blind,
some of the most state-of-the art virtual reality devices
which has become the Lighthouse Guild, a billion-dol-
in Hollywood. It’s probably the most dangerous tech-
lar charity in New York. And from my history with the
nology ever invented. It’s highly addictive. It’s going to
charity, I’m now vice chairman for that charity. My sec-
transform a lot of stuff. You look at how the iPhone has
ond client that I was assigned to was Time Inc. and I’ve
transformed us and it hasn’t been around that long. It’s
just retired as the chairman and CEO of Time Inc. So
all moving so rapidly. I don’t think we can look forward
my career started out in public accounting and led me
fifteen to twenty years and understand at all where we
through to these two organizations that I’ve continued
are going to be.
with throughout my career.
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N Magazine: Let’s talk about Time. Clearly one of the most
millennial preferences. How does conventional media
influential media brands of the past. Everyone reads Time.
adapt to a growing audience with a ridiculously short
Fast forward to today, the thickness of the magazine ap-
attention span?
pears to be a fraction of what it was. Is there a future for
RipP: To first highlight how short it is: there was a study
Time in something in its current format?
done that showed that the average attention span of an
RipP: Magazines will be around for the next twenty-
American adult is now one second less than that of a
five to thirty years. People are always going to read
goldfish. It’s seven seconds and a goldfish is eight sec-
magazines. It’s true that all news magazines have been
onds. So when you’re creating media, your question is
shrinking, but mostly that’s from advertising. The sub-
how do I capture these people? How do I capture their
scription side of the business is actually quite strong.
attention?
Time Inc. has about 33 million active subscriptions...
For instance, when Bruce Jenner transitioned, Peo-
Time Inc. is actually the 10th largest for internet sites
ple magazine wrote a seven-page story. In the past, we
now in the United States [with] about 130 million in
would’ve taken that seven-page story and put it online
digital audiences. People are still looking for engaging
and no one would’ve read it because no one wants to
stories, they’re still looking for great reporting, they’re
read seven pages on their iPhone. Now we chop that
still looking for great photos that Time has always been
story up into small snack bites that people can digest.
famous for. They just don’t want to read it in paper all
So the reality is that millennials are still interested in
the time.
brands and they’re still interested in quality. In fact, the largest growth audience for Time itself online is millen-
N Magazine: What do you foresee coming after magazines
nials. Millennials are still digesting content, but you have
when they’re gone in 25-30 years?
to give it to them in the way they want to consume it.
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“ ...there was a study done that showed that the average attention span of an American adult is now one second less than that of a goldfish...So when you’re creating media, your question is how do I capture these people? How do I capture their attention? ”
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N Magazine: Let’s just talk about People
world, reporters are writing stories
encourage and engage with a healthy,
magazine, which probably one of the
that go out online to millions of peo-
free press in this country.
most profitable magazines in the world.
ple [without] fact checkers. Twenty
RipP: People magazine is the leisure
years ago, no story ever got published
N Magazine: Tell us your philosophy in
time for millions of women in Amer-
without five fact checkers making
managing people and recognizing tal-
sure every fact was accurate. You just
ent. Do you have a mantra to how you
don’t have that luxury anymore.
manage?
ica. It has a huge audience—nine million people a week read it. It is a very trusted source among its readers and also among the Hollywood community because People will not print a cheesy headline or print the unsubstantiated rumor. Its standards for journalism are very strong. It became one of the most successful magazines in the company’s history because of its editorial quality standards. If People calls an agent or calls a star in Hollywood, they’ll take that call because they know this is a good magazine and they will be treated fairly.
N Magazine: The media world is in a
RipP:
level of flux that is more revolutionary
A good manager recognizes
than evolutionary. What are your big-
N Magazine: What does the shrinking me-
talent and lets them do what they do
gest concerns?
dia say about the future of democracy?
best. A good manager also under-
RipP: The biggest concern that I have
RipP: There is no country in the world
stands what they’re not so good at and
right now is who’s going to pay for the
with a vibrant democracy that doesn’t
doesn’t let them do that. I’ve never met an employee who is good at everything. Everyone is good at certain skills and everyone is bad at certain skills. The job of every manager is to make people do more than they ordinarily would do by themselves, give
content? Millennials are being taught
also have a vibrant free press. And
them the tools to be successful, give
that content is free; it’s being paid for
the free press is being threatened by
them the encouragement to make
with advertising. All of the television
Google, by Facebook, and the dollars
changes and make sure they can’t fail
that we’ve enjoyed in this country, all
that they’re siphoning off the market-
too badly by surrounding them with
of the newspapers we’ve enjoyed, all
place. Government requires someone
people who fill in their holes. It’s
of the wonderful magazines we’ve
to look over its shoulder. When that
about understanding where the or-
cut their costs to mask their revenue
doesn’t happen, it’s dangerous. I don’t
ganization is going and making sure
declines. That lowers the quality. Part
think we’re anywhere near there yet,
you’ve got the right people in the right
of that problem is nobody is check-
but you look long term, we’ve got to
job.
ing anything anymore. In an instant
make sure that we find the vehicles to
enjoyed, have been paid for by advertising, not consumers. If the digital giants like Google and Facebook siphon away all the dollars, who’s going to pay for all that? The reaction that’s been forced upon the publishers is to N magazine
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ROCK REVIVAL Written by Vanessa Emery
Photo by Brantley Gutierrez
The hottest musical act to hit Nantucket this summer sounds off to N Magazine Forty-five
minutes.
That’s
about how long it took for tickets to The Revivalists to sell out at The Chicken Box. Riding the wave of success off their number-one single “Wish I Knew You,” The Revivalists are returning to Nantucket for the fifth straight summer on August 15th and 16th. Since last year, they’ve performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Ellen, they’ve been lauded by Rolling Stone and Forbes, and they’ve sold out massive arenas around the country. To see The Revivalists play in the intimate dive bar setting of The Chicken Box is an opportunity that’s becoming more and more rare. Before he hit the stage, The Revivalist’s bassist, George Gekas, sounded off to
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Had anyone in your band
they’re right there, right up front, right
summer, to be honest. It’d be great for
come to Nantucket before your first gig
in close. It gives the fans a completely
us, it’d be great for the fans. Nantucket
here?
different perspective, and it gives the
is a special kind of place that brings a
I’m actually from Connecticut,
musicians a different perspective. As
special kind of feeling out.
and we spent summers on the Cape.
we’ve progressed over the years, our
We would do day trips to Martha’s
stages have gotten bigger and bigger.
N MAGAZINE: Your hit song “Wish I Knew
Vineyard, but I had never been to Nan-
It’s not that the crowd participation
You” has such a fun, funky, positive,
tucket. So, I had heard of the place, but
is different, it’s just that people aren’t
and kind of nostalgic feel to it. Can you
some of the guys had never heard of it
right up on us anymore usually. The
tell me about how the song was con-
before. We were able to go when the
Chicken Box is one of the few rooms
ceived?
owner of The Chicken Box, our good
in the country where we still connect
Gekas:
friend Packy Norton, had a ton of bands
with the audience in that way.
from] Dave [Shaw] when he was talk-
Gekas:
ing about a specific person in his life.
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I know the lyrical content [came
friends from the band Galactic put in a
N MAGAZINE: After you played last year,
There’s a sense of nostalgia surround-
good word. Packy has gone above and
a lot of people were saying that they
ing the song that I think everyone can
beyond to show us the red carpet there
thought it would be your last show
connect to. And it’s not necessarily that
ever since.
here—that you were getting too big to
times before were better than they are
come to Nantucket. What made you de-
now, it’s just that people like remem-
N MAGAZINE: How does the Chicken Box
cide to come back to Nantucket?
bering things fondly. It’s up for inter-
compare to other venues where you
Gekas: It’s the opportunity to get to hang
pretation for anybody…We’ve had a
perform?
with good friends and family. Every-
lot of fans come out of the woodwork
Gekas: What’s really special about The
one on the island has been spectacular
now saying that the song means some-
Chicken Box is that you get the oppor-
to us. There’s a special vibe and feeling
thing completely different to them than
tunity to see artists that would normal-
you get just from being here for a few
the next person than the next person.
ly perform at a much larger location.
days. I would like to think we could al-
There’s kind of a universal feeling and
But instead of being at a large venue,
ways find a way to make it work every
appeal that has come out of this song.
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“Wish I knew you” is breaking records for al-
tionally said we need to have this song sound like this, it’s
ternative hits and is a clear fan favorite. What’s your fa-
more about where we are as people at the time the songs
vorite Revivalists song?
are being conceived. And the second part of your question,
Gekas:
Everybody always asks that! I always say, it’s the
there is something that gives our songs immediate acces-
next song we’re going to play. Sometimes you’re really ex-
sibility. One of the things we pride ourselves on is to have
cited to play a certain song, and other times you’re burned
people like our entire catalog and not necessarily just one
out, but either way you go out and perform it, play it, and
song. Somebody’s favorite song could be “Wish I knew
love it because it’s part of the job. But yeah, I would say
you” or it could be a song from three albums ago. We cover
my favorite song is the next big song we’re debuting live.
a wide range, because it keeps it interesting and refreshing, and I think we have a lot to say. It’s natural for us to go
N MAGAZINE:
Your music has been described as a combina-
tion of genres, including blues, rock, funk, gospel, R&B,
with a wide approach.
maybe some pop. Am I missing any genres? How would
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you describe it, and do you think it’s accessible to people
your current and soon-to-be admirers here on Nantucket?
because of the mixed genres or some other alchemy?
Gekas:
Is there anything else you would like to share with
I would say hopefully you can get a ticket or try to
convince a friend to bring you who bought one. And we
Gekas:
We’re a band of seven guys that listen to a lot of
are always excited to come to Nantucket, always excited
different music, and come from a lot of different back-
to play The Chicken Box, and we are going to try and do it
grounds, and have a lot of different personalities. That’s
for as long as we can.
expressed in how the music comes out. We’ve never inten-
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NVOGUE NQUIRY
When Nantucket summer resident David Smick released his first book The World Is Curved nearly a decade ago, the world indeed took notice. Smick’s bestseller was lauded by the likes of New York Times columnist David Brooks as an “astonishingly prescient” look on international business and globalization. The World Is Curved was translated into dozens of languages, won awards, and sold evreleased The Great Equalizer, and N Magazine spoke with the author to find out what he sees in the country’s economic future.
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ery copy in China within two and half weeks. Most recently, Smick
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N MAGAZINE: What’s your connection to Nan-
its founding grown at today’s mediocre growth
to help them move from sections of the coun-
tucket?
rate, America today would have the per capita
try with low job growth to more vibrant areas
SMICK: My wife Vickie and I arrived the summer
income of Papua New Guinea.
where businesses and jobs are being created.
of 1974, stood at the bottom of Main Street,
Whether you’re a liberal or conservative,
and were smitten. In 2004, we built a home in
here’s the troubling fact: Almost half of Ameri-
Shimmo.
can families can’t afford a $400 bill for an un-
N MAGAZINE: What’s your game plan? SMICK: There is a theory called Secular Stagna-
expected medical emergency or car repair. A
tion that argues that the economy faces intracta-
message for Nantucket.
ble demographic and technological headwinds.
Economic mediocrity is baked in the cake. But
more with less) is essential to a robust economy.
N MAGAZINE: So how do we raise the growth rate? SMICK: Washington policymakers continue
Yet the rate of productivity expansion declined
to peddle top-down, centrally-engineered
and more policy stagnation. My book lays out
dramatically. That’s in part because innovators
schemes. Yet the world, from Facebook to
fourteen bipartisan policy changes that need to
were starting firms at half the rate they did fif-
ISIS, is in the midst of a bottom-up revolution.
happen quickly. We need a series of paradigm
teen years before. Newer firms found it difficult
The process of innovation-driven growth is an
shifts that change the nation’s expectations to-
to survive and invest in new expansion. Folks
evolutionary one. It is difficult to control and
ward the future. Average folk need to be en-
in the lower middle class suddenly found it a lot
predict. But we can nurture the process, first
couraged to dream big and dare big. But this
tougher to move up the ladder of opportunity
by establishing a level playing field. We need
requires a system in which Goliath doesn’t al-
and success. The rise of Bernie Sanders and
a series of reforms relating to anti-trust, pat-
ways win.
Donald Trump, I predicted, was inevitable.
ents, and banking that reverse the current bias
N MAGAZINE: What’s striking about your new book is that it is endorsed by both Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and Obama economic advisor Larry Summers. What’s the message?
SMICK: Under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the U.S. economy began losing its dynamism. The economy grew at subpar rates. Main Street economic risk-takers began holding back. Productivity growth (that is, doing
the problem may be less secular stagnation
N MAGAZINE: Are you optimistic toward the future? SMICK: I’m cautiously optimistic because I believe the American people are not going to give up on the American Dream without a fight. On the economy, the economist John Maynard Keynes was right when he referred to the essential role of the economy’s “animal spirits.” Attitude is everything. Public attitudes became more optimistic in the 1980s and again in the 1990s. In both cases, a kind of paradigm shift occurred. Americans began to believe in their destiny. The economic turnaround came quickly. It could happen again. The stock market is telling us the economy has a lot of pent-up energy. It is ready to soar.
Another reason for optimism: The world
is awash in capital. In the near decade since the
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N MAGAZINE: You say “growth is everything.”
in favor of the established corporate sector at
economic and financial system at twice the rate
Explain.
the expense of the small business/innovative
as during the decade before the crisis. America
SMICK: Almost everything. The long-term im-
startup sector. Washington should also provide
has been a global investment magnet, and it’s
plications of subpar growth are stunning. From
government support in a lot more communities
not just rich Chinese and Russian families in-
1789 until 2000, for example, the U.S. econ-
for a more effective ecosystem that improves
vesting. German investors have been buying
omy grew at an average annual rate of more
the connection between entrepreneurs and the
mid-size U.S. companies at aggressive rates.
than 3.5 percent. Today? Less than half that
academic and funding communities. Vouchers
This situation is not likely to change anytime
rate. Here’s the thing: Had our economy since
should be available to lower income families
soon no matter how reckless President Trump’s
tweets become. It is as if America, despite its flaws, keeps winning the global ugly person beauty pageant. There’s no question our problems are serious. With the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), for example, at least half of American jobs could someday be done by a machine. Yet America still has the building blocks for higher growth. Compared to the rest of the world, we have advantages, including in technology and energy. And we enjoy a culture that still tolerates innovative risk — taking and failure — and respects the rule of law. The American Dream is still alive. Women in America, after all, are
prices kept rising. For the Fed, the wild card is
Because the current one tells the story of a
starting new businesses at twice the rate of men.
the potential for global capital seeking a safe
dysfunctional Washington in which both par-
haven to rush into long-term U.S. government
ties are out to kill each other. Compromise is
N MAGAZINE: At today’s valuations could you see
bonds. Long term rates drop even as the Fed
a dirty word so nothing ever gets done. The
a major stock market reversal or even a crash?
is raising short term rates – a tricky situation
White House is dysfunctional. Plus, a corpo-
SMICK: Certainly the global financial system is
that has historically been destabilizing to the
rate capitalism of inside deal-making is deter-
safer today than it was in 2007 just before the
financial system.
mined to maintain the economic status quo, squashing upstart competitors. We need a new, bipartisan narrative for growth based on an explosion in innovative risk-taking. In the history of the West, the great increases in per capita income came during periods when average folk, not just the
Great Financial Crisis. It is unlikely that a sys-
N MAGAZINE: You’ve said that we need to rewrite
elites, were engaged in commercializing both
temic crisis will stem again from the banking
a new narrative for our country to thrive. Can
existing and new technologies through enter-
system. But it is still far too early to declare
you explain that?
prise startups. Nobel Prize-winner Edmund
complete victory. The financial system has
SMICK: I buy the argument offered by Robert
Phelps argues that during these periods, aver-
yet to feel the full effect of technological dis-
Shiller of Yale that at the center of a healthy
age folk became everyman “idea machines.”
ruptions. I agree with the market analyst Mo-
economy is a compelling narrative. The more
It’s kind of like the movie Joy. The female
hamed El-Erian who argues that certain seg-
that consumers, investors and the entrepre-
protagonist invented the “Miracle Mop” as a
ments of the non-bank system are in the grips
neurial sector believe in the narrative, the
means of escaping a dire personal economic
of a “liquidity delusion.” In other words, some
more confidence they have as economic ac-
situation. Throughout history, the big jumps
products risk over-promising the liquidity they
tors, and the better the economy performs.
in per capita income came when a kind of
can provide for transactions in high yield and
Of course, the
emerging-market corporate bonds that are par-
narrative has to
ticularly vulnerable to market volatility. Like
be
most analysts, I’m also worried about a so-
In
called “Black Swan” event — some complete-
for example, the
ly unanticipated geopolitical, governmental
narrative of op-
or market-related crisis. But we’ve survived
timism was that
them before, and will so again.
the stagflation dragon was in the process of
Main Street Capitalism came into vogue. The
I’m not as worried about the Federal Re-
being slain. Stock prices soared. In the 1990s,
economy benefitted from a bottom-up dyna-
serve returning short-term interest rates to
with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the new nar-
mism.
their historic levels. When the Fed several
rative was that the U.S. economy was about
years ago ended its quantitative easing (bond
to receive a powerful peace dividend. Again,
ger people believe effective change is either
buying to keep interest rates low), the finan-
the market soared.
an illusion or an impossibility, the greater the
the
1980s,
Why do we need a new narrative?
The clock is ticking because the lon-
chance pessimistic attitudes harden.
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fact-driven.
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Not so fast
mammoth undertaking A quick chat with bestselling author Ben Mezrich who will be on island discussing his new book Woolly this August.
N MAGAZINE: What can audi- N MAGAZINE: What’s one discov- in the Prudential Mall back N MAGAZINE: What would you for my beloved food court, say is the special sauce in but I’m guessing I’m alone your writing?
ences look forward to hearing
ery that struck you most dur-
when you speak at the Dream-
ing your research?
land Theater’s Page-to-Stage
MEZRICH: That at this moment, in that. My wife certainly dis- MEZRICH: I take a true story and
on August 17th?
three
prehistoric
Woolly
agrees with that one.
MEZRICH: I’ll tell you a story that Mammoth genes have been
write it like a thriller, or a movie. I see true stories in a
begins twelve thousand years
brought back to life, and are
N MAGAZINE: What can you tell three act system. I really get
ago and ends with a living,
living in elephant cells in the
us about Woolly the movie?
breathing Woolly Mammoth.
middle of Boston. Twelve
MEZRICH: It’s fast tracked! It’s at write, I see the movie going
As well as the end of ma-
thousand years after the mam-
laria and Lyme disease, and
moth they came from went
20th Century Fox, and being on in my head. I’m a little produced by Marty Bowen crazy when I write- it’s a wild,
the possibility that our chil-
extinct—it’s a wild thought.
dren will live a hundred and
into it, visually, and when I
who made Twilight and Maze physical thing. Runner. Oscar Sharp is writ-
fifty years or more. What else
N MAGAZINE: Beyond the woolly ing and directing. All we need N MAGAZINE: How much time
could you ask for?
mammoth, if you could bring any animal out of extinction,
at this point is our cast and we have you spent on the island? are good to go! MEZRICH: Love Nantucket.
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N MAGAZINE: How did this story which would it be and why? We’ve been many times, both find you? MEZRICH: Well, sadly dinosaurs N MAGAZINE: Of all your charac- for the Book Festival, and just MEZRICH: For the first time in are out of the picture. Juras- ters from Bringing Down the for fun. We’ve spent some
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many books, I went after this
sic Park is fiction—in reality,
story, rather than it coming to
there is no dinosaur DNA to
House to Woolly, is there one wonderful times at the White whom you feel particularly Elephant and at friends’ hous-
me. I’ve always loved Woolly
synthesize or engineer. It’s
connected to? If so, why?
Mammoths, and when I heard
too old. I’d love to see Dodo
MEZRICH: I am in awe of Dr. who’ve been going for years.
about a Harvard lab just down
birds, or a saber tooth tiger—
the street from where I live
but not up close!
George Church, who is the It’s quite a paradise. central character in Woolly.
es. We have many friends
that was attempting to bring
He’s the Einstein of our times,
back a Woolly Mammoth, I
N MAGAZINE: What’s one thing he’s on the cutting edge of ing about his new book WOOL-
had to reach out. I emailed
you wouldn’t mind seeing go-
George Church and he invited
ing extinct. Cell phones?
me to imbed myself in his lab.
MEZRICH: Cell phones are a good are going through. If anyone Theater on Thursday, August 17 choice. I’d like to trade Eataly
Ben Mezrich will be speak-
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