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THE ART OF LIVING
WAUWINET | $9,995,000
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TOWN | $3,980,000
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RELIEF FOR IRRITATED EYES IPL treatment for Ocular Surface Disease is now available on-island
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Dermatologic inflammation of the face from conditions such as Rosacea cause inflammation around, and congestion within the meibomian glands in our eyelids, leading to one of the most common causes of Ocular Surface Disease & Dry Eye Disease. Dermatologists have been performing Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) treatments for Rosacea and other facial skin concerns for decades. A few years ago, observant physicians realized the secondary benefit to patients with dry & irritated eyes. This remarkable light therapy is the single most helpful advancement in the treatment of dry eye disease, without drugs, without down-time, and has the added secondary benefits of collagen stimulation, improved facial skin tone, and reduction of unsightly spider vessels. ACK Eye is pleased to add Lumenis M22 IPL treatment to our armament of options in the battle against the underlying causes of Ocular Surface Disease and Dry Eye Disease. We invite you to call to schedule a consultation to determine if IPL would be helpful for you.
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Meet some of the talented folks who helped make this issue possible.
NUMBERS N 32
A numerical snapshot of Nantucket in August.
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See how Nantucket Whaler is making a splash on 7 Old South Wharf.
NTOPTEN 36
A rundown of reimagined and rescheduled summer events happening in August.
KIDDIN’ N AROUND 38
Top tips for keeping your kiddos entertained this month.
N NECESSITIES 40
Put these items on your summer wish list.
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Chef Devon Francis shares his recipes for tomato soup and carrot cake.
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August 2020
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JEN & STEVE
BELICHICK The Son Also Rises
The Local Magazine Read Worldwide
Patriots secondary coach Steve Belichick appears on the cover of this August issue with his wife Jen and daughter Blakely at their family's home in Sconset. Photography by Brian Sager.
Pursuit of Justice for the
AFRICAN MEETING HOUSE Super Yacht
SCOUT
Spindrift Founder
BILL CREELMAN President Trump's
TROUBLED WATERS
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NTERIORS N 48
Scandinavian style hits Nantucket thanks to Eleish Van Breems Home.
NBUZZ 50
All the news, tidbits and scuttlebutt that’s fit to print.
NEED TO READ N 52
Here’s your mandatory reading for August.
NOSH NEWS 54
Take a stroll around all the new eating options on the island.
NSPIRE 56 SOCIAL FABRIC
A young entrepreneur inspires the community with his words and wears.
62 WRITE TO THE TOP
Nantucket High School grad Gabriella Burnham is the country’s next breakout author.
69 RAW TALENT
Explore the underwater worlds of artist Zoe Markham.
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The community calls for justice in the African Meeting House hate crime case.
82 TROUBLED WATERS
How will President Trump’s latest environmental rollbacks impact Nantucket’s waters?
Nantucket artist Zoe Markham's shell paintings capture deep-sea creatures.
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A caddie camp tees up the leaders of tomorrow. Steve and Jen Belichick continue a family tradition on and off the field.
104 SCOUTING REPORT An exclusive look inside the super yacht SCOUT.
116 TAKING OFF
Nantucket's private pilots fly in the face of turbulent times for the airline industry.
N NQUIRY 124 SPARKLING PERSONALITY
Spindrift founder and serial entrepreneur Bill Creelman talks about his companies’ island roots.
NVOGUE 132
Beauty hits the beach with local looks for her and him.
NHA 152
Stroll down memory lane in Madaket courtesy of the NHA image archives.
NUPTIALS N 158
Brides Hayley Richards and Cristin Barth tied the knot on Nantucket.
NOT SO FAST N A quick chat with event planner AJ Williams.
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A Tale of
TWO SUMMERS
Keeping a game face on this summer has not been easy. There is something about walking down Main Street with a mask on that contradicts the openness we usually enjoy on the island. And yet, the masks are also a sign of solidarity and a critical tool in our shared effort to keep Nantucket healthy. Speaking of game faces, our cover story featuring Steve Belichick and his wife, Jen, reminds us that hope springs eternal relative to our beloved New England Patriots. Young Belichick is a rising star as a defensive coach for the Patriots, and he spoke with N Magazine about his family’s love of Nantucket, the challenges facing football today and his future in the league. Going well beyond the playing field, the events following the killing of George Floyd have impacted our island community and raised questions about racism on Nantucket. Two years since the African Meeting House was defaced with a racial slur, a petition launched by Nantucket High School graduate Logan Hennessy calling for answers to the unsolved hate crime garnered nearly ten thousand signatures. The incident, which shocked an island known for its progressive past, remains unsolved. N Magazine covers the progression of events and where the case stands today. Nantucket is also dealing with a recent Trump administration ruling that is paving the way for commercial fishing in waters once protected by the federal government. One of the president’s many environmental rollbacks, the action could have hugely detrimental effects on Nantucket’s waters, which local fishermen like Pete Kaizer and environmentalists like Tobias Glidden have been working so hard to protect. For observers of all things nautical, few objects in our harbor are more talked about than the 209-foot super yacht SCOUT. Named after one of the owners’ rescue dogs, SCOUT started as a sketch on a cocktail napkin that became one of the largest yachts ever built in the storied Hakvoort Shipyard in the Netherlands. For the past two summers, SCOUT has been one of the most spectacular yachts to grace the Boat Basin. N Magazine was given a below-deck view for this issue. Nantucket has always been home to entrepreneurs, including a number of notable soft drink creators. The latest beverage success story is Bill Creelman, whose naturally flavored sparkling water Spindrift has bubbled to the surface of the seltzer water craze. A former charter fishing captain on Nantucket, Creelman has launched a number of successful companies that trace back to his days working on the water. One of the island’s most impressive products has been its youth. Last month, Nantucket High School graduate Gabriella Burnham released her much-anticipated debut novel, which is already being lauded as a lyrical masterpiece. Meanwhile, ten-year-old island resident Daniel Richards used his own words to unite the community during racial justice demonstrations earlier this summer. Richards is also a budding entrepreneur, with a line of T-shirts designed to motivate young leaders like himself. Without a doubt, this has been the most unusual summer we have experienced on the island, but many have managed to turn the challenges into opportunities. We are all looking forward to the time when masks, hand sanitizers and social distancing requirements will be a thing of the past and we can look forward to celebrating life as we knew it.
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CONTRIBUTORS JEFF BROWN The creative director of BREED Media, Jeff Brown is one of the leading super yacht photographers in the world. Brown’s background in design gives him a different view on photography that puts more emphasis on composition, resulting in powerful and compelling photography. Brown took this approach in photographing the super yacht SCOUT, which has been docked on Straight Wharf for the last two summers. Courtesy of SCOUT’s owners, Brown’s images provide a rare glimpse into one of the most spectacular yachts in the country.
JOSHUA SIMPSON Joshua Simpson is a photographer based in New York. His work elevates the ordinary through formal portraiture often focusing on overlooked subcultures, such as community choirs, truckers and New York City tour guides. Simpson’s work has appeared in publications including Vice, New York Times Magazine, Runners World and Popular Mechanics. His clients include Marvel Architecture, The Museum of the City of New York and the National N magazine
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literature from UC Davis and is an avid reader of contemporary fiction, which made it a pleasure to photograph author Gabriella Burnham for this issue.
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Wedding licenses have been issued on Nantucket in 2020 at press time (down from 83 in 2019).
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The number of signatures received by a petition demanding an update from the Cape & the Islands District Attorney on the African Meeting House hate crime case.
The number of times Nantucket threatened to secede from Massachusetts.
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town, Nantucket Whaler’s lines transition seamlessly from high seas to high society, sewn with the spirit of adventure, Americana, and authentic island living. The brand style translates the grit, strength and endurance of those early nautical explorers into well-crafted clothes for modern men and women who embody those same core values. Some Nantucket Whaler products incorporate proprietary ADVANTEDGE® technology that has performance features combining function with fashion. While the brand’s name pays homage to islanders, adventurers and seafaring men and women of yore who once made Nantucket an economic epicenter, today’s Whaler is committed to protecting marine mammals. Nantucket Whaler is proud to support the Whale and Dolphin Conservation whose mission is to protect the wildlife that has defined Nantucket’s waters for generations. The brand also finds other ways to give back to the community like participating in local events and providing much-needed face masks to those on the frontline at Nantucket Cottage Hospital earlier this spring. Like the mariners of old, Nantucket Whaler believes in having “all hands on deck” and never giving up the ship.
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A RUNDOWN OF REIMAGINED AND RESCHEDULED SUMMER EVENTS
NANTUCKET BY DESIGN JULY 30 – AUGUST 1 If anyone could design an event to be both fascinating and engaging in the era of COVID-19, it’s the Nantucket Historical Association. This year, its fifth annual Nantucket by Design fundraiser will offer virtual seats for a variety of exciting events, including private dinners, discussion panels with celebrity designers and a virtual dance party for the annual Night at the Museum gala. What better way to learn about Nantucket’s impact on American design than to do it while funding the preservation of the island’s rich history? For more information, visit nha.org.
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NISHA KEEP OUR SHELTER IN PLACE JULY 31 • 7:00 – 8:00 PM While the past few months have certainly been “ruff,” take some time to heal by celebrating NiSHA’s first virtual event, Keep Our Shelter in Place, to support our furry friends on-island. With appearances from “paw-dorable” rescues, a live-action Puppy Bowl and music and art, the celebration is sure to produce some tail-wagging and smiles through the screen. Consider contributing the cost of a ticket to the event and continue to support NiSHA all year round at nantucketsafeharborforanimals.org.
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NANTUCKET SUMMER ANTIQUES SHOW JULY 31 – AUGUST 3 Although antiques may be things of the past, this year’s fourth annual Nantucket Summer Antiques Show is anything but, with a new virtual platform. Collectors can view and acquire antiques from across the globe in the privacy of their own home, all while helping the Antiques Council support charitable organizations benefiting Nantucket’s architecture and history. For more information, visit nantucketsummerantiquesshow.com.
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AUGUST FÊTE AUGUST 6 • 7:00 PM Take a house tour from the comfort of your own couch during the Nantucket Preservation Trust’s virtual edition of its annual August Fête. This year’s event, titled There’s No Place Like Home, offers viewers prerecorded home tours of preserved properties and live Q&As in the week leading up to the Fête. On August 6, join the virtual gathering and silent auction to celebrate NPT’s Sense of Place exhibition and support its ongoing work to preserve historical properties. For more information, visit nantucketpreservation.org/events/august-fete.
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NANTUCKET RACE WEEK AUGUST 8 – 16 Don’t rock the boat by missing Nantucket Race Week! Cruise over to the harbor to watch sailors of all levels compete in a variety of regattas and other events hosted by Nantucket Yacht Club and Great Harbor Yacht Club. All funds raised benefit Nantucket Community Sailing, a nonprofit providing affordable access and outreach programs for locals to enjoy sailing and water sports. At press time, plans for the regatta to occur virtually were still being formed, if deemed necessary. For more information, visit nantucketraceweek.org.
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HOUSE & GARDEN TOUR ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED AUGUST 5 Although the Nantucket Garden Club had to cancel this year’s House & Garden Tour, the island is still in full bloom, and taking time to stop and smell the roses feels more important than ever. Continue to water the seeds of the garden community by joining the club to help care for Nantucket’s landscapes. In addition, funds from the annual House & Garden Tour support scholarships and community grants, and now is the perfect time to apply to receive one next year. For more information, visit nantucketgardenclub.org.
6 BOSTON POPS FOR NANTUCKET AUGUST 8 A crowded Jetties Beach is not on the horizon for August 2020, but summer’s favorite event is still popping. This year’s Boston Pops for Nantucket, brought to you by the Nantucket Cottage Hospital, recognizes the courage of hospital and health-care employees, workers and the island community. Gather your picnic essentials and tune in to the online celebration on August 8, or make a donation at givenantuckethospital. partners.org/virtual-pops.
NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB CHILDREN’S CHARITY CLASSIC AUGUST 9 – 10 There’s nothing more tee-rific than golfing for a cause! The Children’s Charity Tournament allows golfers to put their skills on the range to good use. Hosted by the Nantucket Golf Club Foundation, the tournament benefits charities aiding the enrichment of local Nantucket youth, as well as continuing the Foundation’s grant and scholar programs. As this issue went to print, the tournament was still set to take place August 9–10. For updates and more information, visit nantucketgolfclub.org.
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SUMMER GROOVE VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE AUGUST 15 COVID-19 may have put a brief damper on our dancing spirits, but now it’s time to lace up those dancing shoes and groove for the Tim Russert Summer Groove virtual celebration. The annual fundraiser for the Nantucket Boys & Girls Club is a unique oppor opportunity to support the island’s children and shake off those quarantine blues. Find more information and donate at nantucketboysandgirlsclub.org.
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STAY CHILL WITH HANG LOOSE HELADO
Hang loose this summer with local Islander, Chris Getoor’s new ice cream truck! This frozen treat mobile has been making the rounds all over the island, from the playgrounds and neighborhoods to Cisco Beach. Throughout August, you can find Hang Loose Helado at one of these routes: Mid-Island, Surfside, Bartlett Road. Sunday is the "Wild Card Route"; they could be anywhere! Be sure also to catch Hang Loose Helado nightly at The Dreamland Drive-in. Of course, HLH will also bring its old-fashioned frozen fun to your private event or birthday party. For a more detailed schedule and daily updates, please follow along on Facebook or on Instagram @hang_loose_helado, or send them an email at hanglooseack@ gmail.com.
MAGIC MARK IS BACK
Mark Carapezza, aka "Magic Mark," is back on the island with his bags of tricks this summer. Known for his "Straight Jacket Escape," Magic Mark makes magic happen! His shows are sure to dazzle, entertain and delight children of all ages. To reserve a private performance, please email him at micarapezza@me.com or join him on Facebook at Magic Mark’s World Tour.
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Where, Oh Where, is Barnaby Bear in 'Sconset?! The 'Sconset Trust is hosting the next Barnaby Bear Scavenger Hunt. Running July 15th through August 15th, you can search high and low for the nine Barnaby Bears that are hiding throughout the village of 'Sconset. Each child
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who finds all nine bears will receive a free Barnaby Book and tote bag filled with treats. To start your adventure, please stop by the 'Sconset Trust at One New Street to pick up the form or visit @barnabybearbooks on Instagram (the link for the scavenger hunt form is in the bio). For more information or questions, please email barnabybearnantucket@gmail.com.
CRUSIN’ WITH SHEARWATER EXCURSIONS
Hop aboard with Shearwater Excursions this summer for one of their many kids’ adventures around Nantucket Harbor! There’s the popular Ice Cream Cruise as well as clamming excursions and kids’ fishing trips. These “salt of the earth” local experiences are interactive from driving the boat and learning how to fish to digging for quahogs. Please call 508228-7037 or email info@shearwaterexcursions.com to book your private trip.
SUMMER FUN ACTIVITIES
Two of my all-time favorite Nantucket summer fun crafts are Sailors’ Valentine and Fairy & Tree House Building. These popular coastal crafts get the kiddos outside while capturing their imaginations. Making a Sailors’ Valentine is a great way to engage your child’s creativity using seashells that they have collected to form different patterns and designs. Originating in the 1830s, Sailors’ Valentines were brought home from a sailor’s voyage as gifts for their loved ones. You can start by collecting shells large and small with your kids. Then decorate a wooden or shaker-style box, picture frame or tray. Be sure to use a strong glue, preferably Gorilla Glue, E600 or a glue gun. Fairy & Tree House Building is another great way to get outdoors and be creative by using any natural materials that your child finds. From crab claws, seaweed, shells and grass to rocks, moss and twigs, you can start building away. You’ll need a flat base like a piece of bark or cardboard. You can start building your house using craft sticks (or twigs), glue and string. Clay planter pots are also a great base for your “house” as well. There’s no right or wrong. Happy building!
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BRANDY: A NISHA ADOPTION STORY In this educational and heartwarming family-friendly story, high school senior and longtime summer resident – author and illustrator Christina Oates – takes readers on a journey alongside Brandy, a former shelter dog at Nantucket Island Safe Harbor for Animals (NiSHA). Bonus: All author proceeds from book sales go directly to benefit NiSHA services. Christina Oates
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Perfect for your next afternoon at the beach, the award-winning Long Drink is a smooth, crisp and refreshing citrus soda with a liquor kick! Originally created by the Finnish government for the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, the unofficial national drink of Finland is now available for the first time on Nantucket and the mainland.
Adorned with nautical motifs and rolling cap waves, this Nantucket deck is an ode to all that ACK has to offer! From Great Point and Something Natural to the cranberry bogs, enjoy all of your favorite summertime sites with these beautiful cards illustrated by LouLou Baker. Over The Moon with LouLou Baker @overthemoon overthemoon.com
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She’s done it again! With a glowing review from The New York Times describing it as her “best ever,” N Magazine’s June cover star Elin Hilderbrand (@elinhilderbrand) took the top spot on NYT’s bestsellers’ list for the second time in two years with her latest novel 28 Summers—and for its debut, no less! Hilderbrand shared the accolade on Instagram (drawing in over 5,800 likes) on the heels of the announcement for MRC Film to adapt the book into a full-length movie.
Thirty miles out to sea, Nantucket was quick to join the rising tides of the Black Lives Matter movement this summer, using social media as a platform to spread awareness and spur the community into action. Formed by four Nantucket youth, the Nantucket Justice League (@nantucketjusticeleague) is an anchor of information, coordinating events—like the June 12th candlelight vigil on Main Street, which amassed more than five hundred people—to support the greater #BlackLivesMatter movement. Similarly, Justice for Nantucket (@justicefornantucket) is dedicated to amplifying the marginalized voices of Nantucket through social media posts and petitions. Keep an eye out for a series of Black Lives Matter signs throughout the island, which contain a special QR code linking your smartphone to online educational sources and petitions.
Chase Winovich (@wino), a New England Patriots defensive end, shared a sweet snapshot with girlfriend Meg Dombrowski aboard a boat off of Nantucket’s coast with his 240,000 Instagram followers over July 4th. The post, which scored over 23,700 likes, featured the pair dressed in festive red, white and blue attire. If the NFL comes back this fall, here’s hoping he’ll have the chance to put his strong coordination skills to use back on the field!
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BARTLETT’S FARM PASTRY CHEF DEVON FRANCIS SHARES HIS RECIPE FOR TOMATO SOUP AND CARROT CAKE
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees Rough cut tomatoes and roast for 35 minutes Add roasted tomatoes to sauce pan and cook for 20 minutes Add pinch of salt and pepper Add cheese and put in a food blender Blend until smooth and serve
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Devon Francis has served as the pastry chef at Bartlett’s Farm for nine years. After learning family recipes cooking with his grandmother growing up, Francis attended the Western Culinary Institute. He has lived on Nantucket for twenty-six years and has owned and operated a number of restaurants during that time.
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3 CHOOSE POSITIVITY Seek the good, hold on to the positive and free yourself of what is toxic or negative. This seems obvious, but it is often a challenge, for example, to free yourself of a toxic relationship when it is a family member or longtime friend. You may need support from a friend or therapist to make positive change in your life, but if you can surround yourself with what serves your best self, you will notice many benefits to your well-being.
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1 ASK FOR HELP Unfortunately, one of the easiest things to do when you feel depressed or highly anxious is to avoid asking for help. Why is that, when reaching out could mean so much? Maybe you feel stuck, suspended or paralyzed. But if you can, nudge yourself to reach out to someone. If you can’t quite make a call to a place like Fairwinds for an appointment, just talk to a trusted friend. Maybe then you’ll be empowered to seek professional help if you need it.
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GET GOOD SLEEP Some people really struggle with this, and poor sleep has numerous mental and physical health consequences in the near and short term. A few tips to help you sleep: Get plenty of light during the day (the sun is best!), avoid screens before bed (blue light interrupts the production of melatonin, for one thing), avoid latein-the-day naps and caffeine, and try to sleep and wake at regular times.
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AFFIRMATIVE SELF-TALK When we repeat ideas and phrases to ourselves, we change our thoughts and emotions, which, in turn, guide our actions and affect our entire being. Why not have those repeated ideas and phrases be affirmations of the good, the positive and the hopeful? By speaking to yourself in ways that support best outcomes—even before you fully believe what you are saying— you can transform your life.
5 TAKE AS PRESCRIBED At Fairwinds, we see first-hand how medication, when prescribed thoughtfully by a licensed professional, can turn someone’s life around. It can be the reset that you need to lift yourself out of depression or ease the stranglehold of anxiety. We would like to reaffirm what you already know: Taking your medication as prescribed honors your process and keeps you safe.
6 PRACTICE GRATITUDE Gratitude makes us healthier and happier, and that’s proven by science! Everything from hypertension to anxiety and depression are alleviated by a daily practice of gratitude.
Amanda Wright joined Fairwinds, Nantucket’s Counseling Center, in August 2019 as clinical director. She most recently was the social work supervisor in the Care Management Department at Boston Medical Center, overseeing a staff of 25 in the emergency department and intensive care units. She has been a clinical social worker since graduating with her master’s in social work from Simmons College School of Social Work, and she is experienced working with patients in critical care or suffering from trauma. A Toronto native, Wright has deep summer roots in Nantucket, but now lives on the island full time.
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1 Inspired by animals and nature, artist Charlotte Nicolin adds her own special humor and magic to her collection of accessories such as this handcrafted beechwood tray of owls.
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We adore the simple lines and beautiful blue-and-white glazes of Gustavsberg Porcelain’s Natur, designed by Siv and Stina Juhlin.
3 The Duke sectional by Verellen is the epitome of simple elegance and upholstered in soft yet durable linen.
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6 Fine Swedish porcelain collection Hado & Hoki by Gustavsberg is a nod to Japanese design.
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Scandinavian style embraces island sensibility at the newly opened Eleish Van Breems Home, whose inviting porch overlooks the historic Easy Street water basin. Furnishings and accessories at the store reflect the timeless allure of indoor/outdoor living and entertaining with a focus on high quality natural materials and small artisan makers from both sides of the Atlantic, as well as luxury furnishing brands Verellen and Dedon. Owners Rhonda Eleish and Edie van Breems are the authors of three books on Swedish design, Swedish Interiors, Swedish Country Interiors and Reflections on Swedish Interiors, and their work has appeared in Veranda, House Beautiful, Elle Décor, Town and Country, The Financial Times and The New York Times among others. “We are drawn to the special qualities of Nantucket and are very excited to bring to the island a Scandinavian point of view focused on ease of living on the water. Our offerings include eclectic, one-of-a-kind finds from our travels ranging from statement pieces such as Gustavian tall case clocks and Danish Halyard chairs to fun, vintage marine barware such as a silver lighthouse cocktail shaker. We look forward to seeing you!” www.evbantiques.com 14 Easy Street, Nantucket 508-901-9912
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Of all the in-person events canceled this summer due to the coronavirus, the Boston Pops on Nantucket Concert struck the most painful chord for many. Thankfully, while adapting to the burdens of the pandemic, the Nantucket Cottage Hospital improvised a virtual alternative for the widely attended benefit concert. Continuing the concert’s twenty-three-year tradition, the Cottage Hospital will be offering a special broadcast featuring the greatest hits of past performances as well as a lineup of surprise guests. Airing on NCTV and 97.7 ACK-FM on August 8th at 7:00 p.m., the Boston Pops for Nantucket hopes to garner contributions that the hospital depends on each year. “Now more than
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Celebrating its twentieth anniversary, Sustainable Nantucket has taken a truly organic approach to navigating the complexities created by the coronavirus this summer. With Posie Constable starting as managing director just days before island-wide stay-at-home orders were put in place, the nonprofit organization has adapted its core initiatives to ensure that it continues to grow. After restrictions were lifted, the
ever, the hospital needs the support of our community to keep the island safe,” said this year’s co-chairs, Michelle and Bob Atchinson. “Sponsorships and other support of this reimagined Pops event will allow NCH to continue to respond to this unparalleled challenge in the most effective way possible, and help it emerge with the financial foundation and professional staffing capability we need to continue providing excellent care for all.” After a heartfelt video tribute to the many doctors, nurses, administrators and other frontline workers, viewers will join in a communitywide round of applause. To make a donation to the Nantucket Cottage Hospital, visit nantuckethospital.org.
Farmers and Artisans Market held downtown every Saturday reopened with mask requirements, hand-sanitizing stations and a new shopping configuration to enforce
social distancing. Sustainable Nantucket has also been cultivating an online marketplace, thanks to the help of newly hired marketing manager Allie Penta, that will support local vendors year-round. Taking
a “big-tent approach,” this online market will be designed to include other businesses and nonprofits such as bACKyard Beekeepers and the Nantucket Shellfish Association. On the education front, Sustainable Nantucket has gone farm-to-tablet, with program director Calin Duke teaching online courses available on YouTube. As one of many nonprofits that have been forced to cancel inperson fundraisers this summer, Sustainable Nantucket launched the 20/20 Campaign, asking donors to give $20 (or multiples of $20) to commemorate the organization’s twentieth anniversary. At press time, the fundraising initiative had garnered more than $20,000, with the help of notable donations from ACK Smart and board member Jenny Benzie of Epernay. To make your own 20/20 donation, visit sustainable-nantucket.org.
RESCUE ON THE HY-SEAS
Hy-Line Captain John Flynn was motoring up Hyannis Channel one dark night at the end of June when he heard a faint scream. Looking down from the open window of his pilothouse, Captain Flynn spotted a man treading water. He stopped the ferry and launched rescue procedures, lowering a cradle for the man to swim into. When the sixty-year-old man got onboard, he told Flynn and his crew that he had fallen off the Steamship Authority ferry and had been treading water against the tide for at least thirty minutes. Captain Flynn was happy to ferry the man to safety.
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SHOP STRONG
Last month, N Magazine’s Nantucket Strong initiative launched a new interactive shopping portal in partnership with ACK SHOPS. Instead of buying from Amazon, Chewy or some other big online shopping corporation, users can log on to NantucketStrong.com/take-action and connect directly with local business owners to request specific products. This shopping function is just one prong in the partnership between Nantucket Strong and ACK SHOPS designed to support local businesses and nonprofits. Throughout the summer, youngsters have also been enlisted in Team Nantucket Strong to contribute to this community effort.
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After twenty-two straight days without a positive coronavirus case, the Nantucket Cottage Hospital reported an uptick in COVID-19 patients at the end of June. At press time, there were a total of twenty-seven positive cases out of more than 2,200 tests. In light of this increased infection rate, Town leadership instated a mandatory mask-wearing policy for downtown Nantucket and Sconset. Public health officials have enforced these measures to summer visitors coming off each ferry. Those who violate the policy could be issued a $50 ticket for the first offense, $100 for the second, $200 for the third and $300 for the fourth and any subsequent violation. Tickets aside, wearing a mask is a small price to pay to help promote public safety and support the efforts of those on the frontline at the Nantucket Cottage Hospital.
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Taking a page out of the Dreamland’s playbook, the Nantucket Conservation Foundation launched a drive-in concert series to be held in the Cranberry Bogs this August. Spearheaded by Grace Hull and Hayden Arnot, the Concerts for Conservation is one of the innovative ways the foundation has adapted to fundraising challenges this summer. In July, the nonprofit launched a virtual event, Race for Open Space, in which participants ran their own self-guided fundraising race to benefit the foundation. While the Concerts for Conservation was still being organized at press time, potential headlining musical acts included Marc Roberge of O.A.R. For more information, visit nantucketconservation.org/ concerts-for-conservation.
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Nantucket's beloved bookworm gives his summer reading list for August.
HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST BY IBRAM X. KENDI “The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind,” writes The New York Times. I think I may have to agree and wish it was required reading for all of us right now. I hear all the time, “but, I'm not racist.” In fact, I have said it. This book is a combination of memoir, how-to manual and vision for a better world. Ibram X. Kendi writes, “We know how to be racist. We know how to pretend to be not racist. Now let’s know how to be antiracist.” It is also the perfect book to read if you just don’t understand what to do, what to say and what to think regarding racism in America. How to Be an Antiracist gives you the tools to intelligently and respectfully discuss it with those around you.
THE VANISHING HALF BY BRIT BENNETT Your whole day and responsibilities will vanish the second you pick up The Vanishing Half, which was a Good Morning America Book Club pick earlier this summer. I was also happy to see it reach No. 1 on The New York Times Best Sellers list. Black identical twin sisters, Stella and Desiree, ran away from their Southern town at the age of sixteen and chose to live in two very different worlds: one black and one white. It’s an important exposé on race, gender, identity and racial “passing” all seen through the eyes of two sisters. I loved these characters and the writing style, and kept thinking about their story way after I finished it.
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I spy with my little eye another Daniel Silva thriller on my bookshelf. Nothing says hot summer days like the new Silva suspense novel burning up your beach bag. This latest in the series featuring art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon has it all. The suspected murder of a pope, a long-suppressed gospel, a shadowy Catholic society with ties to the far right—the intrigue will keep you turning those pages well into your August night. Expect plot twists galore and make sure to have another book on hand because you will finish this faster than the summer goes by.
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I was saddened to not be able to welcome Gabriella Burnham back to the island for the Nantucket Book Festival this past June. Gabi Burnham is a 2005 graduate of Nantucket High School and a former reporter for the Inquirer and Mirror newspaper. Her debut novel, It Is Wood, It Is Stone, was published at the end of July, and the early reviews have been stellar, including this one by Gabi’s high school English teacher and Nantucket resident, Anne Phaneuf: “Burnham’s vision is clear and richly crafted, an inviting, intriguing narrative that transported me from a gray New England day to the tastes, music and landscape of a lush, faraway world. A quick, but richly layered read!”
DEACON KING KONG BY JAMES MCBRIDE Oprah’s Book Club pick for summer is James McBride’s character-driven novel, perfect for right now, Deacon King Kong. It’s about the shooting of a Brooklyn drug dealer and the people who witnessed it. These characters all live at the Causeway Housing Projects in South Brooklyn and that creates a setting for a funny and surprising story. Oprah says, “In a moment when our country roils with righteous anger and grief, Deacon King Kong reminds us that when we come together as a community in compassion and empathy, our love triumphs.”
NEW ENGLAND OPEN-HOUSE COOKBOOK BY SARAH LEAH CHASE If you know me personally, you know that I’m not the best chef. I can barely boil water. I love cookbooks, though, and to entertain. Sarah Leah Chase’s New England Open-House Cookbook isn’t new, but it feels new every time we pull it off the shelf for a summer soiree. The book provides “hearty chowders for chilly nights, summer rib eyes and swordfish steaks for cookouts on the deck. Plus boils, bakes, and lobster 17 ways.” Born and raised in Wisconsin, this cheesehead absolutely loves New England’s down-home flavors, regional ingredients and classic seafood dishes. No one does summer better than Sarah Leah Chase with more than three hundred recipes inspired by the bounty of New England.
Support your Island Indies. All books are available at Mitchell’s Book Corner & Nantucket Bookworks!
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n mid-March, many of Nantucket’s restaurateurs were so busy preparing for the impending season that few anticipated that the novel coronavirus would threaten to decimate their businesses come summer. Two weeks later, nearly every eatery on island had been shut down, along with the rest of the local economy. The only restaurants that remained open were delivering meals to the island’s elder and at-risk communities. “At the time it was kind of an unimaginable scenario that this would impact summer,” said Orla Murphy LaScola, co-owner of Proprietors Bar & Table on India Street. “Reopening has
been difficult and it has been extremely hard to “At the end of the day we want figure out how to anticipeople to know we are trying as pate what’s coming next, hard as we can to be welcoming along with the guideand provide a great experience lines we’ll have to abide while keeping everyone safe.” by.” LaScola indicated — Orla LaScola, co-owner of Proprietors that due to a variety of reasons, Nantucket has conspicuously lacked a restaurant association in recent years. Xxxxxxx When the potential impact of the coronavirus on their industry became more apparent, LaScola and other restaurateurs formed a representative committee under the Nantucket Chamber of Commerce, which has since worked tirelessly to save our local restaurants and reopen them in an effectively safe environment. New outdoor seating at Proprietors on India Street
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As the state allowed more and more people back into restaurants, the Town of Nantucket endorsed local initiatives enabling island restaurants to seat customers outdoors, either on their own property or in areas belonging to the Town. Three downtown cross streets were also closed to traffic to allow several restaurants critical additional seating. To date, most of these outdoor expansions have been well
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received, with many restaurants fully booked with reservations days or even weeks in advance. According to Nantucket’s Board of Health, all patrons dining indoors and outdoors at island restaurants must wear a face mask at all times, unless they are sitting at their own table eating or drinking. Some restaurateurs lamented that enforcing these requirements has been tested by a subset of patrons unwilling to adhere to these guidelines due to personal beliefs. This has often resulted in restaurateurs having to remove stubborn would-be customers. One restaurateur said that the joys of the job have been stripped away by how careful they have to be serving patrons and interacting with them, which has also made it difficult to motivate their staff. Another challenge includes a percentage of guests who make reservations at multiple restaurants, then decide to pick one at the last minute, letting the others go. While this was already a frustrating trend prior to the pandemic, this summer
this loss of business levies a significant blow to small businesses already struggling to stay open. “Every restaurant has an investment in the guest right now even before they show up,” said a restaurateur who wished to remain anonymous. “People don’t realize that this type of behavior is really hurting the industry. We’ve all had to start taking credit cards at the reservation point. It’s not great hospitality, but we can’t afford not to.” Recent reports in the Inquirer & Mirror and elsewhere indicate a tepid “we-hope-to-break-even” outlook shared among restaurant owners, with some making dire predictions should the economy be forced to shut down again. If that were to happen, many restaurateurs worry that their establishments will be doomed to close for good.
However, with patrons, restaurateurs and the town working together, one of Nantucket’s most cherished industries has a fighting chance. “We were blessed that our town showed leadership on this,” LaScola concluded. “At the end of the day we want people to know we are trying as hard as we can to be welcoming and provide a great experience while keeping everyone safe.”
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aniel Richards started his first business when he was eight years old—not a lemonade stand but a clothing line. The thread of inspiration came when his mother, Debby, was getting him ready for his first day of third grade. It was a sweltering September morning on Nantucket and Daniel wanted to wear something that was formal but also breathable. So his mother suggested he dress in a fresh T-shirt with a tailored waistcoat over it. The T-shirt-vest combo created the perfect balance of cool and classy that Daniel was hoping for. After he received compliments from his friends and teachers at school, Daniel and his mother realized that they were on to something. Two years later, MOTIVEST is a promising clothing startup on Nantucket that has recently transcended fashion to help tie a community together. “MOTIVEST stands for ‘Motivate Others to Tolerate, Inspire, Value, Encourage and Support Teamwork,’” explained Daniel, now ten. “MOTIVEST will not only improve your look, but also help others.” Daniel’s older brother, who now lives in Jamaica, helped their mother develop the prototype for MOTIVEST. What started as a simple vest has since branched off into a line of $20 T-shirts all branded with the MOTIVEST ethos. The idea was to create a piece of clothing that would inspire young leaders to combat bullying in school. “By wearing a MOTIVEST shirt, you are telling others that you are a friend who can be trusted,” Debby explained. “So if someone is getting bullied, they know they can get help from someone wearing a MOTIVEST shirt.”
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“I am a black boy, I am ten years old, I have seen and heard too many stories been told. They say the police are to protect and serve, but I am scared they may put a trigger to my nerve.” — lines from a poem Daniel Richards recited at the candlelight vigil
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hile the Richards family’s company experienced modest growth over the last two years, the recent Black Lives Matter demonstrations on Nantucket introduced MOTIVEST to a much bigger audience. During the demonstration at Tom Nevers Field in early June, Daniel climbed onto the back of the pickup truck where the high school organizers were delivering speeches. Taking over the bullhorn, he made his own impromptu remarks. “That was the first time he’d ever spoken in public,” Debby said. “But he has a knack for it.” Nantucketers were so moved by the young boy’s speech that he was invited by the Nantucket Justice League to speak at the candlelight vigil they held a week later. There on Main Street he recited poems by heart that he and his mother wrote about discrimination in the United States. “I am a black boy, I am ten years old, I have seen and heard too many stories been told,” Daniel began over the microphone, wearing one of his MOTIVEST waistcoats. “They say the police are to protect and serve, but I am scared they may put a trigger to my nerve.” The crowd marveled at the boy’s delivery and impassioned words. “I love my
country; it is all I know. No need for Halloween, every day is a scary show…Please wake me up to the America of opportunity, where every individual is treated with dignity.” Since his performance at the vigil, the community has rallied around Daniel and helped him emerge as one of the island’s youngest voices calling for justice and an end to systemic racism. With the help of social media strate-
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gist Anastasia Wolf, Daniel and Debby have been sharing their poems and MOTIVEST products through Instagram. Daniel has also been working with Brian Mullen of Nantucket Innovation in build-
ing his MOTIVEST brand. Above all, Debby remains his chief support system. “I love how the community has rallied around Daniel,” said Debby, who moved to Nantucket from Jamaica full time more than twelve years ago. “I’m trying to teach him that even if he doesn’t sell a lot of shirts, he still needs to stand behind the message of the shirt. I try to remind him that if things don’t go your way now, that doesn’t mean they won’t go your way later. Most importantly, I want to teach him gratitude.” Together, Daniel and Debby are sewing inspiration into the Nantucket community, one poem and one T-shirt at a time.
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rowing up on Nantucket, Gabriella Burnham didn’t plan on becoming an author. Even after graduating Nantucket High School and heading to Trinity College where she studied English literature, she was uneasy about pursuing a literary career. Instead, after graduating college in 2009, Burnham began working at a law firm in Boston and then in New York City, where she’s spent most of the last decade. With her passion for literature still simmering, Burnham enrolled in the MFA writing program at Saint Joseph’s College in New York. The program completely altered the trajectory of her life. Today, Burnham is widely regarded as one of the most promising literary talents in the country. This month, her debut novel It Is Wood, It Is Stone hits stores and is already being heralded as a masterpiece. Published by One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House, Burnham’s first book details the lives of an expat couple living within the upper-crust world of São Paulo, Brazil’s academic community. Her character Dennis is a young college professor whose wife, Linda, is restless and struggling to find purpose. Lauded by critics as a “fever dream of a book” and “immensely satisfying and new,” It Is Wood, It Is Stone is a psychological and emotional rollercoaster that takes place over the course of a year in Brazil—a country where Burnham traces her own roots.
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“I have a kind of conflicted relationship with Nantucket for a few reasons, but all my closest friends are from Nantucket and it’s just an extremely unique place to grow up.” — Gabriella Burnham
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“Whether you remain on the island or not, I think Nantucket really becomes a part of who you are.” — Gabriella Burnham
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e moved to the island when I was ten years old from Brazil, and all my family is in Brazil; my mom is from Brazil,” Burnham said. “But I’ve been thinking more about the island lately. I have a kind of conflicted relationship with Nantucket for a few reasons, but all my closest friends are from Nantucket and it’s just an extremely unique place to grow up.” While the island is known for its literary talents, Burnham is the first Nantucket High School graduate to skyrocket to the top of the publishing world with her first book. And she’s quick to credit the island for the early inspiration for her career. “Honestly, the first time I ever read a book that I loved was in Anne Phaneuf’s class at Nantucket High School,” she said. “I read Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez.” Back then, Burnham was highly critical of the books she was assigned in class, so she leapt at the chance to pick a novel that she thought would interest her. “I’ll never forget it; Anne just allowed me to choose Cholera and right from the beginning I could not believe this was something another human being had put
together. It was so beautiful, and it was in that moment that I said I could read this forever—and I want to write.” Burnham is currently working on a new project inspired by Nantucket that is tied to some of the issues the island faces today. “Right now, it’s a fictional island, so who knows if I will actually decide to set it on Nantucket, but it’s closely based on it,” she explained. “I think of the island as this really beautiful moment, but a moment that will eventually go away because of erosion, and other things happening in the world. It’s a special place that feels finite—and was a finite moment in my life as well…It’s kind of like a temple in my memory, now balanced with the realities and difficulties.” It Is Wood, It Is Stone, originally set to be published this past June, was just released at the end of July due to the
ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Burnham was also set to appear as a featured author at the 2020 Nantucket Book Festival in June, but participated in the podcast series the festival hosted instead, delaying what would have been her first return to the island in a couple of years. In the meantime, she will continue to return to Nantucket in her mind as a source of inspiration. “Whether you remain on the island or not, I think Nantucket really becomes a part of who you are,” she concluded. “And when you talk to other people from Nantucket, it’s like you have this shared thing…it’s very different.”
Gabriella Burnham’s first novel It Is Wood, It Is Stone is available through Nantucket Book Partners and everywhere books are sold.
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like to paint pieces that will hypnotize you,” she said, “pieces that you’ll just get lost in.” At just twenty-five years old, Markham is a rare artistic talent who appears to have only just scratched the surface of her potential. Her paintings fuse fantasy with vivid depictions of marine life and the deep-sea worlds they inhabit. “I love to paint creatures in their element,” she said, “showcasing their fundamental behaviors that hold aesthetic value—being themselves, playing, lounging, enjoying a meal—to portray scenes
that are oddly mesmerizing, surreal and strange.” Each piece reflects an intimacy with the natural world that Markham said started early. “Nature has been a root in my life since childhood,” she said. “Today, I have concocted techniques to merge my loves of earth and art.” This unique approach goes beyond Markham’s subject matter and exacting brush strokes and extends to the canvas itself. Along with painting on large-scale canvases, Markham creates her surreal marine scenes on the inside of seashells she
collected on Nantucket. “Each shell I collect was strong enough to withstand the journey through the waves and surf to become vessels for my art,” she said. “I polish the shell and start my pencil sketch, then slowly apply layers of ink and paint until personal perfection is achieved.” The intricate detail on the inside of the shell is complemented with gold leaf on the outside, which frames each artwork. Markham began creating her clamshell masterpieces ten
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years ago as a way of digging out her own niche in the art world. Employing materials such as resin and liquid glass, her shells achieve a scrimshaw quality in keeping with the Nantucket aesthetic. “Breathing fine art onto the shells, I try experimenting with materials to make scenes and creature portraits,” she explained. “The intricate details catch your curiosity, while the color use tells a dreamy story.” Markham’s own story began in Los Angeles, where she was born before her family moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Spending summers at their cottage in Rye, New Hampshire, Markham was an avid beachcomber and drew her early artistic inspiration from the sea. “Finding inspiration at first for me is very surface and physical,” Markham explained. “Whatever creature I am painting intrigues me. The details, the texture, the appendages interest me from a beauty standpoint. Then the creatures that “Breathing fine I find myself reart onto the shells, I try doing over and experimenting with over again are the materials to make scenes ones that have inand creature portraits.” teresting life hab— Zoe Markham its, biology and histories.”
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Zoe Markham’s artwork is available for purchase on her website ZoeRMarkham.com as well as at Nantucket Looms.
Three years ago, Markham and her boyfriend moved to Nantucket full time from Colorado. After two years of her renting studio space in the Visual Arts Center, the Artists Association enlisted her as an instructor. Today, Markham teaches private and group classes, as well as a popular “Paint and Sip” class at the Nantucket Culinary Center downtown that combines alcohol and art. When she’s not teaching, Markham continues to push the boundaries of her creativity. Along with canvases and seashells, she also works on large-scale murals. Most of these murals have been commissions in private homes; however, Markham hopes to someday paint on the side of a public building on Nantucket. “Breathing organic life onto any lackluster spaces and surfaces helps us remember how beautiful and curious life can be,” she insisted. While the Historic District Commission might have something to say about that, Markham’s enchanting art is a reminder that even something as old as the ocean can look different through someone else’s eyes.
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days and weeks that followed. Vigils were held. Signs reading “Not Here” sprouted up on front lawns. Community members flocked to the African Meeting House to scrub off the graffiti while bright signs of solidarity were pinned to the fence surrounding the property. The story was picked up by national news outlets. Amid the calls for swift justice, the Nantucket Police Department launched an investigation. The community waited for answers—but none came. Four months after the hate crime was committed, Chief Bill Pittman told the Inquirer & Mirror that the police had knocked on more than a hundred doors in the neighborhood but turned up no leads. A private home security camera at the nearby “Five Corners” intersection didn’t capture any usable evidence due to the fact that the homeowners hadn’t paid for the surveillance footage to be recorded. Nantucket Sgt. Detective Tom Clinger told the I&M that he had personally spent more than a hundred hours chasing down leads and interviewing fifteen individuals ranging in age from early teens to late twenties. Chief Pittman added that some of those interviews had even been shared with the FBI for review, and other police departments on the Cape and as far away as Florida had been enlisted to help track down leads. All suspects were subsequently dismissed after surveillance footage was used to corroborate their alibis. With the case growing cold, Chief Pittman announced in June of last year that the Nantucket Police Department was turning the investigation over to the state police and Cape and Islands District Attorney’s office.
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antucket historically has been at the forefront of social justice movements. Whether it was the early suffragists like Lucretia Mott and Anna Gardner or abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass, Nantucket has long been home to progressive thinkers who are well ahead of their time. And yet less than two hundred years since Frederick Douglass delivered his first public address from the steps of the Atheneum during an island-wide anti-slavery conference, Nantucket is once again grappling with the impacts of racism that lurk beneath the surface of island life. When the African Meeting House was vandalized with a racial slur in the spring of 2018, many were shocked that this form of vile bigotry existed on Nantucket. However, other island residents like Charity Grace Mofsen, who was serving at the time as associate director of Nantucket Operations at the Museum of African American History, viewed the hate crime as the island’s underlying racism breaking Charity Grace Mofsen through the surface. “If you talk to a lot of people of color on the island—and I say ‘people of color,’ because it’s not just Black folks—nobody was really surprised. Nobody was really surprised at all,” Mofsen said days after she discovered “N----r leave!” spraypainted across the doors of the historic eighteenth-century structure. “People want to say that this is not our Nantucket—but it is. This is a part of our Nantucket, and we have to deal with it.” The hate crime at the African Meeting House spurred a groundswell of community support in the
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munity needs to er Libby Gibson, Chief Pittman apdo better withproached the microphone to answer in itself bequestions directed to him by Samufore thinking els regarding suspects in the African we can spark Meeting House case as well as rumors change in the that, as he described, “police officers world.” or family members of police officers Anderson’s have been involved in this.” Chief pleas for justice Pittman expressed frustration that echoed those of island resdespite community members making ident Rose Marie Samuels who had allegations, no one had come forward raised the issue of the African Meetwith evidence. “[R]ight now, nobody n the year that followed, the ing House more than two months earhas told us a name,” he said. “They case appeared to have gone lier at a public meeting of the Select just say ‘everybody knows’…well, from cold to frozen. Despite Board on March 11th. After alleging everybody but us.” members of the community continuthat the Nantucket Police Department Two months later, in the wake ing to demand answers, some going had failed to investigate a hit-and-run of the George Floyd killing and amid as far as posting signs on their lawns perpetrated against her twelve-yearrenewed calls for justice in the case, reading “African Meeting House Hate old son, Samuels insisted that Crime: Our Community Deserves law was not served equally on Justice,” no updates on the case were Nantucket. “The police departissued by the state police or the Cape “Why has it been two years since someone committed a hate crime on the ment takes sides,” Samuels and Islands District Attorney’s office. African Meeting House? It is 2020. said. “They don’t look out for Then in June of this year, the killing This is embarrassing. Our community needs the Black population or the rest of George Floyd and the national to do better within itself before thinking we can spark change in the world.” of the other people who come protests that followed thrust the Afrifrom different countries in this can Meeting House case back to the — Britney Anderson community.” Directing her adforefront of public discourse. During dress across the room, Samuan island-wide Black Lives Matter els continued, “You have to come to Chief Pittman said to the Inquirer and demonstration held on Tom Nevers realize that this is a new Nantucket. Mirror on June 4th: "It wouldn't be Field on June 1st, co-organizer BritNantucket has changed from what it responsible for me as a police chief ney Anderson delivered a speech has been. It’s become a diverse comto investigate an incident in what peothrough a bullhorn from the back of munity…and justice is supposed to ple believe we were involved. I think a pickup truck. “I am tired of racism be for every single one I know who did it, to be honest with in this community.” With you, but I don't have the facts and it's “People want to say that this is not our that, Samuels raised a out of my hands." Nantucket—but it is. This is a part of our hand-drawn sign calling With the case no longer being Nantucket, and we have to deal with it.” attention to the fact that handled by Chief Pittman and the — Charity Grace Mofsen it had been exactly two Nantucket Police Department, the years since the African calls for justice were directed to Cape Meeting House had been vandaland Islands District Attorney Michael being swept under the rug,” Anderson ized—and yet nothing had been done O’Keefe. On June 6th, island native lamented. “Why has it been two years from her perspective. and Nantucket High School grad Losince someone committed a hate crime After some heated exchanges gan Hennessy started a petition on on the African Meeting House? It is between Samuels and Town ManagChange.org demanding an update 2020. This is embarrassing. Our com-
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back on March 13th, but it was closed from the state police and district attorney. launched yet another petition in midalong with the rest of the courts a week “I went to the protest that the high school June, calling for the case to be translater due to the coronavirus. The statestudents put on after George Floyd was ferred to Massachusetts Attorney ment indicated that the court would not murdered and I heard Rose Marie SamGeneral Maura Healey. “We are not resume until September or later. (A reuels speak…and that initially drew ire in confident in the investigation that has cent call by N Magazine to O’Keefe’s my mind,” Hennessy said. “Having grown been conducted thus far by both the office for an update had gone unreup on this island and having gone to high Nantucket Police Department and the turned at press time.) school here, I was familiar with what hapMassachusetts State Police, nor would Dissatisfied by the DA’s press repened a couple years ago with the African District Attorney Michael O’Keefe be lease and fearing that justice would Meeting House, but I wasn’t aware that an impartial voice in a potential hate not be served by O’Keefe, Hennessy there had been almost zero transparency crime prosecution,” Hennessy wrote in the investigation. That was the reason why I started the peti“You have to come to realize that this is a tion: to get answers.” new Nantucket. Nantucket has changed from what it has been. It’s become a diverse After posting it community…and justice is supposed to be to his Facebook page, for every single one in this community.” Hennessy’s petition went viral and quick— Rose Marie Samuels Chief Bill Pittman attending the candlelight vigil ly garnered nearly ten organized by the Nantucket Justice League in June. thousand signatures. “Out of the 9,794 people that signed it, only 1,491 were from Nantucket,” Hennessy explained. “There were signatures from every state in the U.S., including D.C., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands—as well as from sixty-five countries.” On June 10th, Hennessy submitted the petition to the DA’s office, which posted a press release about the case the very same day on Mass.gov. “There are people on Nantucket who know what happened,” Michael O’Keefe was quoted as saying in the press release. “I would hope they will come forward to help the investigators in this in his second petition, which had garcase.” The two-hunnered more than five hundred signadred-word update tures at press time. “There have been went on to indicate so many potential leads that may that a “newly deshave been missed, and the Black ignated grand jury” community on the island has once had been assembled again had their concerns pushed to begin hearing evaside for what seems like in the inidence in the case terest of local politics.”
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t the time of this writing, the community was still awaiting answers for the African Meeting House. More broadly speaking, the hate crime case has prompted a reckoning on the island in recognizing its failures in creating a just and equal community for all its residents. On June 11th, Select Board member Jason Bridges addressed the community during a virtual meeting. “The reality is that your Select Board has failed you, has failed your community—and we all know it,” said Bridges. “I think we failed to acknowledge the severity of the pain resulting from the racist defacing and hate crime of the African Meeting House. I think
we failed to provide opportunities for our community to voice their concerns and their frustrations…We failed to recognize that an independent body should have been brought into managing the investigation as soon as there was a suggestion of any conflict of interest. We failed to ask and provide transparency throughout the investigation in order to keep our community up to date.” Bridges then issued an apology on behalf of the Select Board, before adding, “I want to listen but most importantly I want to learn.” Committing a perfect crime under any circumstances is extremely difficult. On an island as small as Nantucket, one would think it would be virtually impossible. Yet the community still does not have answers. With the calls for justice growing louder and louder, Nantucket’s history as a social justice leader weighs in the balance. As Frederick Douglass said, “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
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itting behind the presidential seal and a stack of lobster traps hauled in for the occasion, President Donald Trump announced his latest environmental rollbacks in Bangor, Maine, last June. One of a hundred such rollbacks he has pursued since taking office—sixty-six completed and thirty-four in progress— Trump signed a proclamation stating that he will undo most of the commercial fishing restrictions imposed on an area off the coast of the Cape and the Islands known as the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. Despite the fact that less than 5 percent of Maine’s regional catch comes from Cape Cod, and that red crab and lobster fisheries had been provided with a seven-year exemption to transition their operations, along with free consulting and low-interest loans to purchase and upgrade their equipment, Trump claimed that President Barack Obama had been “deeply unfair to Maine lobstermen” whom he felt had been “regulated out of business,” adding to the fishermen assembled for the announcement: “You better remember your president.”
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Just weeks after acting unilaterally to quadruple the size of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii, Obama
again invoked the Antiquities Act of 1906 to establish the first and only U.S. national marine monument in the Atlantic Ocean, an area 130 miles off the coast of Cape Cod encompassing 4,913 square miles of marine ecosystems that includes part of the Georges Bank fishing grounds. Dubbed the “Serengeti of the Sea” and “Yellowstone under the Sea,” this marine monument boasts commingled warm and cool currents that circulate through submerged ravines stretching hundreds to thousands of feet deep, with seamounts rising up to eight thousand feet from the ocean floor to form intermittent pockets of shallow, sunlit waters rich in plankton and algae.
It’s an ecosystem as abundant and complex as a rainforest that includes more than fifty-four species of deepsea corals, sponges, anemones and dense kelp groves, providing sustenance, shelter and spawning grounds for many at-risk and endemic species of fish, sharks, dolphins and birds, including endangered sperm, fin, sei and right whales and leatherback and Kemp’s ridley sea turtles. The waters surrounding the monument have historically been some of the world’s richest fishing grounds, generating tremendous wealth for Europeans and Americans for more than a thousand years. Georges Bank cod, in particular, was so plentiful during the 17th and 18th centuries that New England fishermen saturated global markets with it,
President Obama again invoked the Antiquities Act of 1906 to establish the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, an area 130 miles off the coast of Cape Cod encompassing 4,913 square miles of marine ecosystems... supplying the Triangle Trade of the West Indies with cheap, salted fish and building Boston into an international commercial center, even as Nantucket’s whaling captains maintained their neutrality—and their trade relationship with the British Empire—throughout the Revolutionary War.
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Tim Malley of Blue Harvest Fisheries in New Bedford says the president’s decision is “welcome news” for the approximately eighty boats that regularly fished the monument.
With early American fishermen diving headlong into the seafood gold rush, by 1850 the Georges Bank fish stocks were already dwindling. The halibut population had been all but decimated, and when the hand-fishing methods used for centuries yielded to the steam-powered trawler in the 1920s, other fish stocks like herring and haddock were also pushed into rapid decline. Even the mighty codfish became caught in a perfect storm of novel frozen food technology, sophisticated filleting gear and the invention of the “fish stick.” By 1994, twenty years after the Magnuson-Stevens Act banned international factory fishing ships from American waters, Georges Bank had been almost entirely stripped of prime commercial fish and shellfish species, spurring officials to indefinitely close six thousand square miles of prime New England fishing grounds, with most fish populations still dwindling to this day, despite such efforts. Trump’s proclamation to lift the protections on these waters came in response to demands on the part of Republican congressman Rob Bishop of Utah, who called on the president to “act
swiftly and effectively to remove all marine monument fishing prohibitions.” He was also acting in support of the Pacific Legal Foundation, which filed a lawsuit in 2017 on behalf of fishing groups who accused Obama of overreach, claiming that the Antiquities Act only gives the president power to designate land, not ocean, as a national monument, and that the area designated—which is roughly 40 percent of that of the original proposal—is not confined to the smallest area necessary. The scientific evidence in support of marine sanctuaries was also called into question, but in December 2019 a federal appeals court upheld Obama’s designation and the veracity of the research of more than 145 top U.S. marine scientists who lobbied for protections for the monument. Tim Malley of Blue Harvest Fisheries in New Bedford says Trump's decision is “welcome news” for the approximately eighty boats that regularly fished the monument.
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However, environmental groups state that a $90 are catching them billion commercial fishing industry that cannot set aside all before they can 1.5 percent of federal waters in the Atlantic for the fish popcome in to spawn.” ulation to regenerate is essentially robbing its own bank. Glidden insists The National Wildlife Federation, Environmental League that commercial fishermen of Massachusetts, Environmental Council of Rhode Island should not use gear that harms the enand Audubon Society of Rhode Island have shot back with vironment, and consumers should be looking locally for a federal lawsuit. Sean Mahoney, director of the Maine their daily catch. “We should be promoting the livelihoods chapter of the Conservation Law Foundation, has also of small-scale, local fishermen,” he said, “and not be bepromised to fight Trump’s ruling, holden to international corpostating, “The only body that has rations who are mining our two “I’m not an old man—I’m the authority to change the boundhundred miles of ocean, taking thirty-two—and I used to aries, conditions, the terms that twenty million pounds of squid catch herring at the secgovern a national monument is the and dumping eight million pounds ond bridge in Madaket, but Congress.” of bycatch, including herring and On Nantucket, the Select there are no herring running striped bass, dead, into the water.” Board stands unified behind local For those of us who will through those bridges anyconservationists who are worknever see the Northeast Canyons more because the net-draggers ing together with Massachusetts and Seamounts Marine National are catching them all before state senator Julian Cyr to push Monument, the sheltered crescent they can come in to spawn. ” for more protective measures of of Nantucket Harbor is the end of — Tobias Glidden Nantucket’s coastal waters and the seaward journey. But beyond Cape Cod’s fishing stocks, even as the barrier beaches of Coatue and Trump seeks to dismantle them. “We call it ‘Cape Cod,’ the tranquil inner harbor, the shifting sands of the south but when is the last time you or anyone else you know has shore give way to the rips and banks of the treacherheard of someone catching a codfish on Nantucket?” asks ous Nantucket Shoals, the Great South Channel and the Tobias Glidden, co-owner of ACK Smart Energy and an Georges Bank, an expanse of elevated prehistoric sea floor eighth-generation Nantucket native who descends from a roughly the size of Massachusetts, flanked by ancient sublong line of fishermen and fishmongers. “I’m not an old oceanic canyons and extinct volcanoes that are home to a man—I’m thirty-two—and I used to catch herring at the host of both familiar and seldom-seen species—an othersecond bridge in Madaket, but there are no herring running worldly place beyond this faraway land that many agree is through those bridges anymore because the net-draggers worth protecting.
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Ninety years ago, caddie camps sprang up around New England to serve members of newly opened golf clubs in distant and isolated places. One such course was Sankaty Head Golf Club...
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inety years ago, caddie camps sprang up around New England to serve members of newly opened golf clubs in distant and isolated places. One such course was Sankaty Head Golf Club, which was created in 1922 on the far eastern edge of Nantucket Island. Set hard against the ’Sconset Bluff and Sankaty Head Lighthouse, the course was built as a true “Scottish links” course with little foliage, plentiful fescue and rolling hills. Members knew early on that they needed caddies to navigate the hills of their new course, but finding skilled caddies on an island with fewer than three thousand people was harder than double-eagling a par-five. So in 1930, Sankaty Head established its own caddie camp.
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The first caddies to arrive at Sankaty Head were a ramshackle collection of boys who found their way to the island from hardscrabble areas like Revere, Saugus and Roxbury.
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he first caddies to arrive at Sankaty Head were a ramshackle collection of boys who found their way to the island from hardscrabble areas like Revere, Saugus and Roxbury. A feisty bunch, the campers lived in tents between the eleventh and thirteenth fairways. In these early years, the campers had little to no adult supervision. By 1960, they became so unreliable that they put the future of the camp in jeopardy. Fearing that golf itself at Sankaty Head might grind to a halt without caddies, the trustees of the club raised $5,000 from the membership to create the Sankaty Head Foundation in an effort to revamp the camp. The foundation’s Articles of Organization in 1961 outlined its purpose to “promote, stimulate, and encourage the education and general welfare of young men of high school or college age by establishing a free summer camp.” To further entice contributions, the foundation pursued tax-exempt status, which was granted in 1964 based on the criteria that a quarter of the forty-eight caddies attending the camp, then called “slum boys,” would come from underprivileged neighborhoods each year. Nowhere in the original documents or IRS filings was “caddieing” or even “golf” mentioned. Instead, this was to be a camp first and foremost; caddieing was simply how the campers would pay for their room and board at $3 a day.
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To shape these boys into respectable young men the foundation in 1962 enlisted Norman Claxton, a former World War II Navy ship captain and then junior high principal in New Jersey, to become the first director of the new camp. As a Navy man, Claxton created a “quasi-military” environment that gave the campers the structure they needed. Reveille was at 7:00 a.m. sharp. Morning meal was at 7:30 in the mess hall, followed by inspection of bunks and quarters at 8:00. Campers then stood at attention and in formation as the American flag was raised. “First Bench,” an alphabetical list of the first twelve caddies of the day, was announced. Those not caddieing were relegated to “work party,” which might have entailed cutting the camp grass, shingling a hut or cleaning the one bathroom at camp called, naturally, The Head. The camp thrived under Claxton’s leadership, bringing new boys into the ranks in the decades that followed. Many of these caddies found the camp thanks to teachers or parish
priests who had convinced their parents to send their sons away from tough towns like Taunton, Massachusetts, or Paterson, New Jersey. Others, like Mike Dussault, heard about the camp from other kids in his neighborhood. Born and raised in Taunton, Dussault was of French and Native American descent and To shape these boys into respectable young lived among an men the foundation in array of other im1962 enlisted Norman migrated AmeriClaxton, a former World cans. He learned War II Navy ship captain and then junior high about the caddie principal in New Jersey, to camp through two become the first boys in Taunton director of the new camp. named Joe Paulo and Dave Simas. (Paulo went on to become a Massachusetts state trooper, while Simas served as an advisor to President Barack Obama and is currently the CEO of the Obama Foundation.) “I was fourteen and didn’t know anything about Nantucket,” recalled Dussault, who first came to the caddie camp in 1992. “We caddied or worked every day…I learned to fold my clothes all the same Norm Claxton (right) and his son Doug Ellsworth.
size for inspection, with the folds out. I still do that.” Three summers at the caddie camp helped set the trajectory of Dussault’s life. After graduating from college and working in the music business in Los Angeles for twelve years, Dussault felt the pull back to Nantucket and returned to the island where he married and made his home. Now, most nights Dussault can be found tending bar at the SeaGrille where he enjoys telling a story or two from his days at the camp. Today, Sankaty Head repNorm Claxton (right) and resents the last caddie camp in his son Doug Ellsworth. the country. While professional caddies rightly carry on the tradition, the caddies of Sankaty Head represent a fleeting experience of growing up in the game. This summer, among the myriad of jobs lost on Nantucket due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of sixty teenaged summer visitors have found themselves not only out of work but also out of their camp. While they wait for reveille to be “up and at ’em” once again in the huts between the eleventh and thirteenth fairways, Sankaty Head’s caddies know that they’re only a swing away from another summer experience and lifetime memory.
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Article author Cris Farley was a camper in 1965 and 1966 and caddied for Roy E. Larsen, a founder of the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, in the Sankaty Head member-guest tournament. Thanks to his experience at the camp and along with the guidance of Camp Director Claxton, Farley went on to become a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy.
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STEVE BELICHICK AND HIS WIFE, JEN, CARRY ON A FAMILY TRADITION ON THE FIELD AND ON THE ISLAND
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he scion of the New England Patriots football dynasty struck an unassuming presence at a picnic table outside the Sconset Market last month. No one was stopping to snap a photo of or even turning a head for Steve Belichick, the bearded, long-haired defensive coach who has helped guide the Patriots to three Super Bowl victories since 2014. But, of course, the son of legendary head coach Bill Belichick seemed just fine with not being bothered by such distractions. Naturally. Steve Belichick was sitting with his wife of three years, Jen, and their young daughter, Blakely. The village of Sconset has been a getaway for him since he was just a boy, when his father purchased a property that he subsequently expanded and built into a family compound over four decades. “Nantucket has always been my roots. I’ve been coming here every summer of my life,” Steve said. “It’s a really special place for us. It’s a place we can get away; with everything going on in the world, we come into our little bubble and disappear for a bit.” Being able to disappear, however, may become increasingly difficult for Steve as his role with the Patriots expands and his growing stature within the organization gets noticed despite his father’s long shadow. After his college days at Rutgers University, Steve joined the Patriots in the humble role of coaching assistant. He has since risen to the position of secondary/safeties coach, leading the back end of one of the most dominant defenses in the NFL. There is even speculation that Steve could be named the Patriots’ defensive coordinator this season.
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“I just try to create my own name for myself...I just try to be consistent with who I am and eventually people will form their own opinions of me.” — Steve Belichick
role I get, I’ll do the best I can at it,” “W hehatever said when asked about such conjecture in
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own opinions of me. I can’t be too worried about what everyone thinks about me.” But after eight years with the Patriots, eight playoff runs and four Super Bowls, has that dynamic become less of an everyday concern as he has established himself within the organization and personally with his players? “Every year I get more comfortable and more confident just because I’ve been doing it a year longer than I had the year before,” he said. “But I don’t think I’ve changed a lot in who I am. I’ll always have my beliefs and what I feel is right and I’ll stick to that.”
Regardless of whether he gets the big promohad to handle at every level and in almost every relation to defensive coordinator, the upcoming season— tionship. “I’ve been going through that my whole life, if it even happens—will present whether it was changing schools unique challenges. At this point when I was young, or going to “Nantucket has always been my roots...It’s a in the offseason, Steve would Rutgers, or being a coach,” he place we can get away, normally be in Foxborough, said. “I just try to create my with everything going on not Sconset. But the coronaviown name for myself. It’s what in the world, we come into our little bubble and rus pandemic has disrupted the I’ve done forever. I just try to be disappear for a bit.” NFL schedule like it has every myself. I know people will have — Steve Belichick other facet of American life. The certain opinions of me coming preparations for the Patriots’ 2020 into the relationship, but I’ve season, however, are well underway, even if the team grown to understand that and I just try to be consistent can’t come together yet. with who I am and eventually people will form their
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“It’s nothing like I’ve namesake Steve Belichick, to his father Bill, “Every year I get more ever experienced,” Steve said. and now to him and his brother Brian, who also comfortable and more confident...But I don’t “Everything is done virtually, serves on the Patriots staff as a coaching assisthink I’ve changed so it gave me the opportunity to tant. “Going through this experience, it makes a lot in who I am.” come here [to Nantucket] earlier me appreciate and realize how much I love and — Steve Belichick because we were unable to be care about football, not that I didn’t before, but in the offices. So I’ve had the now with the threat of it not being there, it really chance to spend more time with the family and continue makes me think about how much I love it,” Steve said. “I don’t want to work. It’s weird not being in the office. We usually it to get taken away from me.” have spring practice now but we can’t be there. It’s an While the Patriots are famous for their laser focus on the next adjustment for everyone.” season, the next game and the next opponent, the ongoing protests over With a little more time on the island this social justice, racial inequality and police brutalyear, Steve and Jen were able to celity in the United States have become a ebrate their third anniversary central issue in the sports world, with dinner at The Galley and inside the Patriots locker last month. They first met room as well. Many Patriwhile attending Rutgers ots players have spoken and are expecting their out, including Devin second child later this McCourty, the New year. They share a pasEngland safety whose sion for lacrosse (Jen is better, Steve said with a laugh) and both played at the collegiate level. With a Master's degree in Occupational Therapy from Tufts University, Jen now works closely with the One Love Foundation, which educates young people about the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships, and helps them to identify and avoid abuse. Serving on the foundation’s Boston Regional Leadership Council, Jen helps advance the mission of the foundation, which was founded after the tragic death of Yeardley Love, a University of Virginia student-athlete originally from Jen’s hometown. Jen and Steve were married in 2017 at the Sconset Chapel, carrying on the Belichicks’ decades-long connection to the village. “It’s a little surreal,” Jen said. “We see the next generation and it adds a whole other element to how long they’ve been coming here. His parents show us pictures of when they were building their house and Steve was two, running around the site. He looks like a twin of her [Blakely].” The silver lining of the pandemic has not just been more time on Nantucket and more time with family, but also a greater appreciation for the game that has been passed down from his grandfather and
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leadership on these issues is reported to have inspired Bill Belichick to pledge to do more. In June, the Monday Morning Quarterback reported that Belichick brought in Rahsaan Hall, the director of the ACLU’s racial justice program in Massachusetts, to address the team. Steve, who was McCourty’s teammate at Rutgers University, said he’s been listening to his players, learning from them, and wants the conversations to continue. “They have a lot of great feedback and I have a lot to learn from them,” he said. “I’m just trying to learn and improve the situation that we’re in. I absolutely support those guys and feel they do a great job taking advantage of the platform they have. I think it’s a topic for everybody moving forward, not just me or my team. I think we should all be having these conversations.” One conversation Steve is not having, however, is anything about the dearly departed Patriots icon Tom Brady, who announced the unthinkable in mid-March when he said it was time to part ways with the organization after twenty years. He later signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, leaving Patriots fans with a gamut of
emotions. So how does Steve think the Patriots can begin to move on without their Hall of Fame quarterback? “I just coach the defense,” he said. “I just don’t let them score.” And what about those rumors that Bill is using Brady’s departure to help motivate the team? “My job is to not let them score,” Steve said. “Whoever the quarterback is—whether it’s me, Jen or Blakely—we’ll just try to keep them out of the end zone.” “...this experience, it makes me appreciate and realize how much I love and care about football... I don’t want it to get taken away from me.” — Steve Belichick
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Clearly, holding his cards close to the vest in the presence of the media is a lesson Steve has learned from his father. There’s a long list of other lessons he’s taken away from Bill—but only a few he is willing to share. “I learn something from him every day; I just try to apply it the right way,” he said. “Stay in the moment when you’re at work. Work hard when you’re at home, work hard for your family. Leave work at work. And leave family with family.” Family with family. Does that mean he wouldn’t consider coaching outside of New England if another team came calling? “I’m always listening, but I like working for my dad,” he said. “Until he retires—as long as he doesn’t fire me—I’ll try and work for him.”
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nyone entering Nantucket aboard the Hy-Line Ferry this summer has likely caught themselves gawking at the yellow-trimmed super yacht docked at the end of Straight Wharf. Splitting its time between Palm Beach, St. Barths, the Bahamas and Nantucket, SCOUT has made port on the island for the last two summers, captivating the curiosity and the imagination of all those who pass it on the docks. N Magazine had an opportunity to get a glimpse inside this spectacular floating home.
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lthough the owners named the yacht after their rescue dog, a ten-pound rat terrier mix, SCOUT is hardly the runt of the litter. At 209 feet long with seven decks, four guest cabins, two staff cabins, crew quarters and a sprawling owners’ apartment, SCOUT was the largest vessel ever constructed in the hundred-year history of the Hakvoort Shipyard in the Netherlands. Launched in 2019, SCOUT began as a sketch on a napkin four years earlier. The owners wanted a vessel equipped with ice-classed capabilities, long-range fuel efficiencies and sophisticated telecommunications to explore the globe for months at a time. Unlike other super yacht owners who might only spend a handful of weeks a
year aboard their ships, SCOUT’s owners built it to sail around the world while also serving as their main base of operations. Prior to the coronavirus, SCOUT’s owners were about to embark on a nine-month global voyage beginning in May. When their plans were put on hold by the pandemic, the couple was more than happy to return to Nantucket and tie SCOUT up to the end of Straight Wharf this summer. “We will do our cruising from here,” indicated the owners. “We love Nantucket because of everything available to us with the docks being right in town. We can walk and bike. Our guests can shop. We all appreciate the beauty of the island, the gardens and, of course, having CRU only steps away!”
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lthough the owners enjoy spending ample time on the island, SCOUT was designed to be an island unto itself. With the expertise of designer Jonny Horsfield, the owner of H2 Yacht Design studio in London, SCOUT’s imposing exterior—complete with two twenty-eight-foot tenders on the bow that can lowered into the water by crane—is matched with a dazzling interior design that the owners say was inspired by the 1927 sci-fi film Metropolis, the fictional submarine from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the villains’ lairs from every James Bond film and a dash of Looney Tunes.
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Customizations abound, from the plunge pool, to the full-scale gym with steam room, to the Turkish bath, to the climate-controlled winter garden, to a wholly contained dive store where scuba tanks can be refilled with nitrox. “SCOUT also has a greenhouse complete with a potting shed and watering system,” de-
scribed one of the owners. “It is my ‘man cave’ that’s unique to SCOUT.” Indeed, no other yacht in the world has one. SCOUT’s overall grandeur is enhanced by mesmerizing details throughout. There’s the SCOUT replica made of LEGO bricks, the industrial squid sculptures made from carbon fiber and Formula 1 race car parts, the traditional deep-sea diving
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helmets and an enchanting array of antique bells, clocks, levers, telephones, gauges and cogs. Buffed silver cleats double as handles, while portholes are framed in bolted steel and appear to have glacial water sloshing behind them. Perfect for entertaining, a giant wet bar globe made of metal is set into a wall and curls shut like an armadillo’s shell.
In the main lounge, a sprawling twenty-foot overhead addressable LED screen gives the illusion of being underwater with a video of hammerhead sharks circling. The highly polished stainless steel table below appears to be made of rippling water with droplets literally splashing off its surface. Set behind the table and circular couches is a metal wall embossed with the map of the world, above which is a quote from Walt Whitman’s collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass: THE UNTOLD WANT BY LIFE AND LAND NE’ER GRANTED, NOW, VOYAGER, SAIL THOU FORTH TO SEEK AND FIND.
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There’s more to discover outside on SCOUT’s six above-water decks. An expansive sundeck with plush lounge seating and a plunge pool boasts uninterrupted views of the surrounding waters below. For a quick exit, there’s a helipad as well as access to the two twenty-eight-foot tenders on the foredeck. One of the tenders is a ten-person water limousine custom-designed and built by Cockwells that can speed upward of forty-two miles per hour. Aft of the bridge is the owners’ “man cave” greenhouse where they can continue to cultivate their love of gardening no matter how far from land they sail. Much can be said about the overall execution of this super yacht. Every exquisite detail, clever customization and ingenious design element—both inside and out—feel unified and connected to that first sketch from 2015. Though SCOUT has many high-seas adventures ahead and plenty of far off ports to explore, Nantucket hopes to remain on its radar in the summers to come.
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n the last thirty years, the number of FAA-certified private pilots has plummeted by 55 percent. This tracks with a turbulent trend in the commercial airline industry where the number of pilots is projected to descend by 800,000 in the next twenty years. While this dramatic decrease has grounded many small aviation companies even before the pandemic, it has also put pressure on private jet owners who now have to compete with commercial airlines to hire pilots to fly their planes. Yet on Nantucket, a much different trend has been emerging. In the last three years, the number of private pilots has literally taken off—and those behind the controls are not who you might expect.
Builder and private pilot Steve Cheney has helped turn many islanders onto flying.
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“The economics of flight instruction are difficult and there’s problems with fog, distance and the seasonality of work. But a group nominally headed by Chad Gingras got together a couple years ago to attempt a flight instruction push and they have largely succeeded.” — George Riethof
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Natalie Jacobson, to philanthropists Stephahe aviation scene on Nantucket is blownie and Erwin Greenberg, to celebrity doctor ing up,” said Steve Cheney, who owns a Bob Arnot has owned and operated their own building company on Nantucket. “In the last planes. One summer resident named Anyear alone, I can think of seven people off the drew McKenna even commutes to the island top of my head who are learning to fly.” When aboard a World War II-era P-51 bomber that Cheney got his wings nearly a decade ago, he he also uses to perform in airshows. was the youngest pilot on Nantucket. In fact, The striking difference he purchased his first plane, today, however, is that those an Archer, before he even “When you’re learning to fly on the island knew how to taxi it down the learning to fly, it’s aren’t just high-powered runway. With the help of a like drinking from CEOs, media personalities retired airline pilot, Cheney a fire hydrant...There’s and other titans of industry. learned to navigate Nantuckso many things coming In the last three years, baret’s fog, rain, wind and erratic at you, and none weather conditions. “When of them are familiar.” tenders, real estate agents, fishermen, carpenters, vidyou’re learning to fly, it’s like — Steve Cheney eographers and other small drinking from a fire hydrant,” business owners have been he said. “There’s so many climbing into the cockpit. To earn their wings things coming at you, and none of them are on Nantucket, this group of island aviation familiar.” Now at the age of forty-six, Cheney enthusiasts have had to overcome more is encouraged to see new private pilots enterthan just financial hurdles. ing the ranks, many of whom have Cheney to “It’s difficult just to make flight inthank for first exposing them to the thrills of struction happen on Nantucket,” explained flying. “This is a great thing for Nantucket,” George Riethof, a commercial pilot who he concluded. has been flying out of Nantucket MemoFlying your own plane is nothing new on rial Airport since the early nineties. “The Nantucket. Summer residents have been taking economics of flight instruction are difficult off and landing on the island for decades. Inand there’s problems with fog, distance and deed, everyone from legendary anchorwoman
the seasonality of work. But a group nominally headed by Chad Gingras got together a couple years ago to attempt a flight instruction push and they have largely succeeded.” Like many other new pilots on the island, builder Chad Gingras got his taste for flying thanks to Steve Cheney, who also happens to be his boss at Cheney Construction. When Gingras decided to pursue his own private pilot license five years ago, he was discour-
aged to find a dearth in local instructors with access to planes on the island. “There used to be a flight school on Nantucket called Ocean Wings, but that went defunct eight or nine years ago,” Gingras explained. “I reached out to the local instructors on the island, but no one had a plane to teach with.” Taking matters into his own hands, Gingras cultivated a network of islanders who were interested in learning how to fly. With the buying power of nearly
twenty aviation enthusiasts, Gingras convinced flight schools off-island to send pilots and planes over to Nantucket to teach them. The first instructors hailed from Alpha Aviation in Plymouth, before the group switched to Stick’n Rudder out of Chatham. Ground classes were held just down the street from the airport at the Salt Box Tavern on Macy’s Lane. “It’s an ad hoc group, but it’s very committed and loyal,” Gingras said. “It’s been a long hard road, but once we got
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“It’s an ad hoc group, but it’s very committed and loyal...once we got the instructors, and the community started seeing the training flights going up, I had many people reaching out who always wanted to learn to fly but thought it was out of their reach financially.” — Chad Gingras
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the instructors, and the community started seeing the training flights going up, I had many people reaching out who always wanted to learn to fly but thought it was out of their reach financially.” According to Gingras, becoming a private pilot on Nantucket can cost anywhere between $8,000 and $12,000. “But you can chew away at that; it’s not an up-front cost,” he explained. “The initial investment is around $300 for the study materials.” From there, an aspiring pilot
can split the cost of the classes and getting the instructor pilots over from the Cape. This piecemeal approach has made flying more accessible to Nantucketers than ever before. “It’s a whole range of people learning to fly today,” Gingras said. “From people like me who work for a guy, to people who own second or third homes here.” Last year, Gingras took the same divide and conquer mentality to buying his own plane. Joining ranks with architect Dave Knouf, builder Chris Carey and property manager and concierge Christy Kickham, Gingras split the cost of a Piper 180. Like a club membership, they each pay a monthly stipend for insurance, hangar fees and maintenance costs as well as an hourly fee for flight time. “It’s pay to play,” Gingras said. “We have a rotating weekly schedule for when guys want to do bigger trips, otherwise if it’s a nice day, whoever wakes up first and says he wants to fly gets the plane.” Come summer, Nantucket Memorial Airport boasts one of the busiest runways in all of New England. During Fourth of July weekend, for instance, fifty planes take off and land every ten minutes. The tarmac transforms into a makeshift showroom, with some of the hottest private jets on the market lining the blacktop. While time will tell whether the national drop in pilots will have any impact on the island’s private jet owners, the renewed enthusiasm for flying among everyday islanders will help keep Nantucket’s aviation tradition soaring.
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parkling water is the fastest growing segment in the beverage business. Some believe that seltzer will eventually eclipse soft drinks and sodas entirely. In this bubbling marketplace, Spindrift has risen to the surface as an all-natural alternative to artificially sweetened sparkling waters. Launched by Bill Creelman in 2010, Spindrift has grown exponentially and shows no signs of going flat. While the company might end up being Creelman’s crowning achievement, Spindrift is just the latest venture in a long entrepreneurial journey that began on Nantucket.
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N MAGAZINE: How and when did you first discover Nantucket? CREELMAN: My introduction to Nantucket was “Still Waters” on Eel
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Point, the family home of W.S. Keith. It was a summer cottage that had served as a pontoon plane hangar for their family years earlier. They would land on Madaket Harbor and winch the plane up off the beach on railroad ties. They were kind enough to let us rent [the cottage] every summer for a few weeks starting when I was in elementary school. It was really simple but spectacular. We might leave the house a few times during our visit but mainly we fished, shell-fished and mucked around.
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and I lived on our boats on Straight Wharf. I owe this group a huge debt of gratitude. This was really my family on-island. They are all entrepreneurs who shared how their businesses were run as well as how to treat customers and each other respectfully. It was competitive for sure, but by the end of the day, we’d all sneak down to the back bar at the Ropewalk as friends. It was a magical time. It was actually so impactful that I named the company “Spindrift” after this time in my life. Dave and I were pounding back from Great Point, getting soaked by the spray off the waves, and he asked me if I knew what the wind-blown surf was called. “Spindrift!” I tucked away the word and ten years ago—when I needed a word that meant refreshing and bubbly—there it was.
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in western Massachusetts and attended Georgetown University, but you could argue that your entrepreneurial roots trace back to a charter fishing boat on Nantucket. CREELMAN: No question. When I got into high school, my parents allowed my brother Craig and I to start spending a lot more time on-island on one condition: We had to support ourselves. We were too young to get real jobs so we would knock on doors and offer to do work. First it was odd jobs, then “dump runs,” a short stint at Annie and the Tees and eventually a student painting business. Knocking on doors was really hard and humbling but invaluable. Finally, around the age of seventeen, I was introduced to the docks by my friend Davey Desloge, who was a mate on Just Do It Two.
opening Nantucket Harvest? What were some of the products you offered, what was the business model and how did they evolve? CREELMAN: I eventually ended up at Georgetown, and my senior year, I took an entrepreneurship course. As its only requirement, you had to write a business plan due on the final day of the semester. I chose “Nantucket Smokehouse,” which was intended to be an on-island operation smoking local seafood. Turned out, there were already people doing that really well— like Walter Sadowski at Straight Wharf. So, we pivoted to offering indigenous goods from the island and selling them year-round by mail out of a 120-year-old mill in New Bedford. We "I began the process in my partnered with the rekitchen in Boston adding a markable food supplisqueeze of fresh juice to sparers on-island includkling water, and after a period ing Straight Wharf of trial and error, we were off." (smoked bluefish — Bill Creelman pâté), Juice Bar Ice Cream (Crantucket!), Island Herbs and Sayle’s Seafood. We eventually added crafts like scallop shell Christmas lights from Bambi Mleczko. One summer, we hosted the Nantucket Harvest Series where we hosted lectures and interactive events (“Learn to Quahog with Spanky Kania!”). The problem with any foodgift business is that it’s seasonal, so in winter, particularly Thanksgiving through Christmas, we were very busy. In summer, we were slow.
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charter fishing? CREELMAN: Dave Martin, captain of The Flicka, gave me my first chance, and we worked together for years. Along the way, I did stints with Ray and Bob DeCosta aboard Albacore as well as captains Marc Genthner, Freddie Tonkin and Tom Mleczko. Josh Eldridge from Critter Cruisers
Harvest turn into your next big business? CREELMAN: A few years into Nantucket Harvest, we were lucky enough to meet Nigel Dyche and Sarah Leah Chase—two brilliant food minds who had started Nantucket Offshore Seasonings. We combined forces and began selling a cocktail rimming salt in 2001 for Bloody Marys, margaritas and rum drinks. It was my first venture into the beverage space. Our “rimmer” line took off and we continued to add mixers, bar ingredients and cocktail sodas under the name “Stirrings.” Our timing turned out to be good because it coincided with the renewed interest in cocktails.
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were informed by our co-packer that they were unable entrepreneurial adventure. What kind of risks were to produce our product going forward because the pulp you taking to build that business? was clogging the lines and fillers and had ground the CREELMAN: Startup food and beverage business is chal- plant to a halt. It was the beginning of many complaints lenging with expensive startup costs, low margins and about the complexity of our product. Following this evolving consumer tastes. Looking back, my partner, complication, Spindrift started out as a bottled product Gil MacLean, and I took on a ton of risk, especially in – it was glass, refrigerated and had an inch of pulp on how we capitalized the business, which was both perthe bottom. I received a lot of noes from retailers when sonal debt (friends and family) and bank loans. When attempting to sell the product. The early product took you take this approach, you are constantly teetering up a lot of space, needed to be refrigerated because it right on the edge—just barely balancing losses and cash was a fresh product and cost $3 a bottle—it was overflow. It makes for a long Thanksgiving when you owe all very expensive for both the retailer and customer. money to all the people sitAfter a series of trial and ting around the table. error, Spindrift figured out "At Spindrift, I prioritize how to convert to non-refrigadding world-class talent and N MAGAZINE: You eventually erated storage with a longer bringing in people whom I sold Stirrings to Diageo. shelf life than the first batch. deeply respect and empower. How did that inspire your While at the time it was diffiThat has been a critical part next venture? cult, each challenge made the of the company’s success." CREELMAN: We were incredcompany smarter, faster and — Bill Creelman ibly fortunate to exit Stirultimately more successful. rings to Diageo, but there were things that remained unresolved for me. On the personal front, I loved our Stirrings team and culture, but I felt like I could have done a better job if I had the chance. And from a product standpoint, I had a different appreciation and understanding of beverage formulation. It seemed to me there was an opportunity to get away from the garbage in sparkling beverages—concentrates, synthetic flavor systems, aspartame—and replace them with simple, fresh ingredients. By this time, my wife, Harley, and I were cooking a lot. When you cook a great meal, you don’t start with a synthetic flavor that simulates the flavor you want to create; you start with a seasonal whole ingredient! This simple approach informed, and continues to guide, everything we do at Spindrift. I began the process in my kitchen in Boston adding a squeeze of fresh juice to sparkling water, and after a period of N MAGAZINE: Spindrift is growing exponentially each trial and error, we were off. year. What are the core elements of the product that
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where you were at the edge of the abyss but were able to hang on and power through to the other side? CREELMAN: In the beginning of Spindrift, I ran into a variety of issues that almost made me turn my back on the business. When we ran our first batch of Spindrift, we
have enabled it to compete with the big brands? CREELMAN: Everyone knows what flavored sparkling water is thanks to successful brands like Polar, LaCroix and the dozens of others. The sparkling water category is the fastest growing in beverages and we believe will replace soda one day in volume. But these products are all made the same way with “natural flavors” and sparkling water.
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Our challenge, and now mission, is to inform consumers that there is another option. Spindrift is made with sparkling water and real squeezed fruit, that’s it. We hope that people will try our product as they explore sparkling waters and a subset will come back for our differentiated flavor and clean, transparent ingredient deck.
N MAGAZINE: The big trend in the alcohol industry is toward hard sparkling. Does Spindrift have any plans in that direction? CREELMAN: Ha! Well, for now, we’re committed to our core product proposition—sparkling water and real squeezed fruit. And you can make your own spiked Spindrift really easily—just add booze! It’s a pretty great mixer.
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Through the generous support of the members of Nantucket Golf Club, their guests and others, the Nantucket Golf Club Foundation has raised over $29 million over the last 18 years for the benefit of Nantucket youth. Thank you! The Grant Program distributes funds to Island nonprofits that share in the Foundation’s mission to promote the positive development and enrichment of Nantucket’s children. The following are the 82 organizations supported: Nantucket Flying Association Nantucket Garden Club Nantucket Girl Scouts Nantucket High School Ice Hockey Club Nantucket High School MMSI Grant Nantucket Historical Association Nantucket Ice Nantucket Interfaith CouncilNantucket Rental Assistance Program Nantucket Island Little League, Inc. Nantucket Island School of Design Nantucket Lighthouse School Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum Nantucket Music Center Nantucket New School Nantucket Police Association Nantucket Preservation Trust Nantucket S.T.A.R. Program Nantucket Safe Harbor for Animals Nantucket Skating Club Nantucket Student Lacrosse Nantucket Student Soccer Association Nantucket Youth Hockey New England Life Flight / Boston Med Flight NHS Culinary Arts Fund One Book One Island Palliative and Supportive Care of Nantucket Sconset Playground & Park Fund Sherburne Commons, Inc. Small Friends on Nantucket, Inc. Special Needs Advisory Council St. Paul’s Cooperative Nursery School Strong Wings Sustainable Nantucket Swim Across America The Nantucket Project White Heron Theatre Thank you for the opportunities and services you provide to children living on Nantucket.
2020 Vocational Scholars Jackson Milne Wentworth Institute of Technology Camron Diadoti New England Institute of Technology Charlie Clarke Wentworth Institute of Technology Alexander Corkish New England Institute of Technology Originating in 2006, the Nantucket Scholar Program provides full four-year scholarships for two Nantucket High School seniors each year. In 2018, the NGCF expanded its support to Nantucket students by assisting those continuing their vocational studies beyond high school. We are proud of our Scholars: 2019 Scholars: Jennifer Lamb, Northeastern University Jenna Genthner, Bates College Micheal Bartley, Johnson & Wales University Malkia Blake, Culinary Institute of America Gideon Holdgate, Mass. College of Art and Design 2018 Scholars: Carter Snell, University of Vermont Deana Weatherly, Wellesley College Brianna Falconer, Johnson & Wales Blaise Flegg, NE Institute of Technology 2017 Scholars: Evan Borzilleri, University of California at Berkeley Sophie Kuhl, Brown University 2016 Scholars: Claire MacKay, Bates College Frances Steadman, Villanova University Prior Year Scholars: Lisa Genthner, Dartmouth College Mia Silverio, Georgetown University Isabella Day, Georgetown University James Roggeveen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joseph Zieff, Middlebury College Wisima Nipatnantaporn, Emerson College Eve Manghis, Harvard University Codie Perry, Boston College Ashleigh Inglis, Harvard University Will Horyn, Villanova University Ashley Clinger, Sacred Heart University Caroline Stanton, Vassar College Samantha Reis, University of Richmond River Bennett, University of Virginia Anita Elahi Small, George Washington University Tomas Smaliorius, Bucknell University Anna Burnham, DePaul University Samantha Pillion, Wellesley College Kelsey Fredericks Perkins, Connecticut College Rachel Schneider Shepard, Sarah Lawrence College
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Nantucket Cottage Hospital is making the medical care you need this summer accessible, convenient, and most of all, safe by implementing the following plan for non-emergency care. Our foremost priority is the health and safety of our patients, so this initiative will allow us to reduce the potential for transmission of the coronavirus within our facility and provide you with excellent care, safely. Same-Day Appointments Patients with common conditions and ailments that are non-life-threatening should call 508-825-1000 to schedule a same-day medical appointment. Staff will determine whether patients should be seen through a virtual visit or whether an in-person appointment is necessary. To keep patients and staff safe by reducing the number of individuals in our waiting area, NCH is not offering the walk-in care service this summer. Please do not arrive without calling ahead for a same-day appointment. Patients with same-day appointments will be seen at the physicians practice inside the main hospital, not at the Anderson Building. Hours of operation for same-day appointments: • Monday – Friday: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. • Saturday – Sunday: 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
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N MAGAZINE: How did Nantucket first enter your life? WILLIAMS: I’ve been coming here since I was sixteen. Our family fell in love with the beauty and the preservation of the island. Our first stay was at the Jared Coffin House. We rode bikes and went to the beach. Nantucket was the first place I heard the word “awesome.” Now we are building a home here.
N MAGAZINE: What’s one thing most people don’t know about you? WILLIAMS: Here are three: I was a semifinalist on Master Chef, I was a runner-up at both Miss Mass Teen USA and Miss USA, and I was born on the island of Jamaica.
N MAGAZINE: What are the three most critical elements of throwing a successful event? WILLIAMS: Creating energy, an experience at every stage of the event, and being flexible.
N MAGAZINE: You’ve worked with some bold names over the years. Who was most memorable?
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WILLIAMS: I loved working with Anthony Anderson, Queen Latifah, Common, Vanessa Williams, Jennifer Hudson, Michael McDonald and Don Felder of the Eagles—but I was most honored to work with President Bill Clinton. We worked very hard to secure his appearance and with only a month’s notice. We share the same birthday and I knew he loved the cannoli from Mike’s Pastry. To keep him at the event longer, I bought him a dozen. He stayed thirty minutes longer as a result.
N MAGAZINE: How do you think events will be different in the wake of the coronavirus? WILLIAMS: Events will be different for a while. Charity events are already coming back and weddings will come back fast when
restrictions are lifted. We have implemented strategies and safety measures to encourage behaviors that reduce the spread of diseases among staff and attendees. Some practices we will keep moving forward to protect everyone.
N MAGAZINE: Are there specific changes you foresee? WILLIAMS: We are glamorizing the new reality with curated food stations/bars with decorated barriers instead of buffets, and branded Plexiglass walls in front of registration. Packaged food items and cocktails with lids will be integrated for a while, but we see that as an opportunity to make it fun—branded masks with fun or mission-focused messaging and adding items like maracas or small percussions to engage audiences that are distanced. The key here is flexibility, unity and making it fun!
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N MAGAZINE: One of your biggest clients is the Museum of African American History. Why is that institution so important, especially today? WILLIAMS: The Museum of African American History (both Boston and Nantucket) is one of my favorite clients. We have so much Black history on Nantucket. African Americans settled here from the beginning, in the 1700s. The Nantucket museum has preserved the original buildings, making this island more unique. Visitors come away with the knowledge that all Americans, regardless of race, are shaped in profound ways by the African American experience. Black history is American history. To grow beyond the past, the larger community needs to recognize and learn its history.
N MAGAZINE: Are there specific parts of this history on Nantucket that you find most inspiring? WILLIAMS: A few years ago, over thirty thousand artifacts were discovered eight feet underground on Nantucket and are on display. The site showcases the African Meeting House, a church built in 1826 and the home of a seafaring Boston family—it was originally built
by Seneca Boston and inherited by her son, a whaling captain named Absalom Boston. Florence Higginbotham, an African American woman, purchased the property in the early 20th century, keeping its ownership in the Black community. Florence would invite everyone into her home as she stood daily at the five corners of the intersection with a plate of cookies, greeting folks that passed. That’s a hidden part of Nantucket history. The museum brings it out of the shadow, providing a new understanding of the diversity of the Nantucket community. It’s a place everyone should visit.
N MAGAZINE: If you could change one thing about Nantucket what would it be? WILLIAMS: What’s to change? We have the best sunset on the East Coast, beautiful beaches you can drive on, amazing restaurants. It’s my favorite place to be during a storm. The energy socially here is contagious anywhere you go. Can’t beat the thrill of driving down Milestone in the fog! We have N Magazine. I could go on and on. Mmmmmm, I wouldn’t change a thing, unless you can bring The Bean back.
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your business amid social distancing requirements? WILLIAMS: We are providing more intimate and well-curated events for our social and nonprofit clients to best engage audiences. Our live and online (hybrid) events planned for fall/winter are popular because the virtual experience is interactive and a true two-way experience. Guests receive a fun, branded “Party in a Box” with tools to use for social distancing. Virtual events
miss the impact of engagement, and engagement is so essential for the events I plan, especially for fundraising and mission-focused content.
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