N MAGAZINE Winter 2021 by Nantucket Magazine

Winter 2021

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CONTENTS / 18 CONTRIBUTORS Meet some of the talented folks who made this Stroll issue possible. 20 NUMBERS A numerical snapshot of Nantucket this fall.

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The hottest looks for the holiday season

22 NEAT STUFF How Anna P. Jay is redefining jewelry on Nantucket and beyond. 24 NTOPTEN Where you need to be and what you need to see this holiday season. 26 TRENDING Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand dishes about her latest book on our podcast Nantucket Sound. 28 NECESSITIES Put these items on your winter wish list. 30 NGREDIENTS Chef Kyle Daley shares a seasonal recipe. 32 KID’N AROUND The ultimate rundown on keeping your kiddos entertained this holiday season. 34 HEALTH N WELLNESS Sandy Walsh shares the power of Thai massage. 36 NBUZZ All the latest island headlines courtesy of Nantucket Current. 38 NEED TO READ Tim Ehrenberg has your winter reading list ready and waiting. 40 NOSH NEWS Nantucket resident Noemi Zhong delievers a delicacy from her native China to the island.

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Craig Carreau’s custom 4x4s have taken the island by storm.

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Shark Tank star and Nantucket lover Kevin O’Leary appears on the cover of the holiday “With First Republic’sissue support,(photo by we can continue to thrive in uncertain times.” Brian Sager).

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NSPIRE 44 SHARK BITES Hayden Arnot and Sara Jemison won the second annual Pitch Competition with their startup, Nantucket Crisps. 50 RUN FOR YOUR LIFE One nonprofit’s dramatic escape from Afghanistan this summer.

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66 AFTERSHOCK Was this the busiest summer on record or did it just feel that way?

72 DRIVEN TO SUCCEED The man behind the classic 4x4s taking the island by storm. 80 AT THE HELM The unlikely story behind the commander of the USS Nantucket.

NQUIRY 88 IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary shares his secrets of entrepreneurship, the deals that didn’t go through and his love of Nantucket. 96 TRIAL OF THE CENTURY Former Senator Chris Dodd reflects on his father’s role in the historic Nuremberg Trials.

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56 WIND AT THEIR BACKS A spin through the Vineyard Wind project and how it will impact Nantucket.

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102 Try on some of the island’s hottest holiday fashion.

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112 Take a stroll through holidays past courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association.

NUPTIALS 126 Autumn St. Hilaire and Jack Mulcahy tied the knot on Nantucket.

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REASURE ISLAND The entrepreneurial spirit and partner Sara Jemison are featured in a willingness to take risks are part of story about the island’s Shark Tank-inspired Nantucket’s DNA. The backbone of Nantucket Pitch Contest. The team of the whaling industry consisted of Arnot and Jemison won the $10,000 first people who had the confidence to place prize in front of a sold-out crowd at take chances in light of an uncertain the Dreamland theater with their Nantucket outcome. Our cover story on Kevin Crisps potato chips, which they hope will be O’Leary is of a person who has the next Nantucket Nectars. helped celebrate entrepreneurship In yet another story about entrepreneurial among young and old alike through drive, N Magazine covers the career of Craig BRUCE A. PERCELAY Publisher the popular NBC television show Carreau, whose custom car restoration Shark Tank. O’Leary’s persona as business is now generating national attention. “Mr. Wonderful” goes deeper than what appears Starting with tinkering on the family’s Jeep Wagoneer, on the show and is revealed in our cover story Carreau is now the go-to guy for restoring 4X4s, from about him and his background. Broncos to Land Rovers to International Scouts. Part Entrepreneurship does not always focus mechanic, part artist, Carreau has turned his passion on making money. In this issue, we cover an into a thriving enterprise. innovative nonprofit designed to empower A story with a more serious tone is that of women in countries where their freedoms are Connecticut United States Senator Chris Dodd suppressed. Island summer resident Leah Anathan and his book remembering the Nuremberg Trials in and best friend Stephanie Case have developed which his father, Senator Thomas Dodd, played a leada bold program called Free to Run, which is an ing role. Chris Dodd, through letters he discovered impressive example of how social entrepreneurfrom his late father to his mother, was able to weave ship can change lives. Most recently, Free to Run together a gripping story about the details of the trial was thrust into the limelight through their efforts of the century where Nazi war criminals were brought to help women during the Afghanistan crisis, to justice. In our story, Dodd draws from his important which is detailed in our feature story. book Letters from Nuremberg, which dramatized the In another article about high risk and high importance of human rights and the rule of law. reward, we follow the trials and tribulations of We hope you enjoy the holiday season, which Vineyard Wind, which appears to have successis always a treasured time on Nantucket, and when fully navigated the hurdles and opposition in an thinking about gift giving, remember to buy local! effort to produce a large-scale wind farm off the island. The massive investment behind the project Sincerely, reflects a belief in the future of wind-generated electricity, and those behind it appear to have learned lessons from the failed Cape Wind project that was planned for Nantucket Sound. Closer to home, budding entrepreneurs Bruce A. Percelay Hayden Arnot, son of Dr. Bob Arnot, and his Publisher

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Jurgita BUDAITE Jurgita Budaite is the founder and owner of Island Glow. Born and raised in Lithuania, Budaite became a fully licensed aesthetician at the Spa Tech Institute of Massachusetts. In 2008, she was certified as an eyelash extensionist in Europe and was recertified in the United States, introducing the specialty to clients on the island thereafter. She recently received additional certifications in chemical peels, HydraFacial and product knowledge from Environ, Eminence, Institut Esthederm, Comfort Zone, Naturopathica, Luzern and Image Skincare. For the last two years, Budaite has been the chief makeup artist on N Magazine’s NVOGUE fashion shoots, including for the spread of this Stroll issue.

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Liza GERSHMAN Best-selling author and photographer of nineteen published books, Liza Gershman serves as the associate chair of Photography for Savannah College of Art & Design. Honored to launch two cameras for CanonUSA, Liza Gershman has worked for clients including Williams-Sonoma, Goldman Sachs, Pepsi Co., Hyatt Hotels, Restoration Hardware, Safeway, Party City, Getty Images, Airbnb, Visa, Hinckley Yachts, Governor Jerry Brown’s campaign, America’s Cup, and more. Gershman’s twelfth book, Cuban Flavor, won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award, was a number one bestseller in two categories on Amazon, and was featured by National Geographic as a “Top 18 books of 2018.” For this Stroll issue, Gershman photographed U.S. Senator Chris Dodd.

Melissa PIGUE Born and raised in Gainesville, Florida, Melissa Pigue was a fine arts and art history major before attending cosmetology school. She moved to Nantucket in 2010 and worked at a salon seasonally while spending winters either backpacking through places like New Zealand and Thailand or hairdressing and bartending in Park City, Utah. Pigue opened Melissa David Salon in 2017 and is today a year-round resident. She has been providing hairstyling for fashion shoots as part of N Magazine’s NVOGUE team for the last two years, including for the spread in this Stroll issue.

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NUMBERS NANTUCKET BY THE

Number of communities Ted Cruz identified—including Nantucket—where he wants to establish new ports of entry to send undocumented immigrants who have been detained at the Texas border through his Stop the SURGE bill.

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Length of the powerboat that ran aground at Fisherman’s Beach last October, requiring two bulldozers to free it from the beach.

Grant funding endowed by the Nantucket Cottage Hospital this fall to local nonprofits addressing the island’s most pressing health needs.

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Age of the American elm tree that fell on the corner of India and Centre streets in the Nor’easter this October.

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Nantucket High School students were vaccinated as of late October.

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$3.625 Million Price paid by the Great Harbor Yacht Club to purchase 56 Union.

Months the Take-It-or-Leave-It was closed due to COVID-19 before reopening this November.

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Closing cost paid by Blue Flag Partners to purchase the former properties of the Pearl and Boarding House restaurants.

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Weight of the sculpture that a drunk driver ran over in the Sparks Avenue rotary this summer.

Years the Nantucket Dart League has been in existence at the Chicken Box.

Years after his death that a Nantucket man known as “Whale Oil Gus” was laid to rest on the island this October.

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ROCK STAR HOW ANNA P. JAY IS REDEFINING JEWELRY ON NANTUCKET AND BEYOND

When Nantucket resident Anna P. Jay was pursuing a geology degree at William and Mary, she wasn’t exactly sure how her study of rocks and their formation would translate into a career. She didn’t see herself working in a research lab or on an oil rig as many geologists end up doing. Instead, after graduation, she found her calling quite literally like a diamond in the rough. “I had no idea geology could have such a fun and practical application in jewelry,” says Jay, who launched Anna P. Jay Fine Jewelry on Nantucket in 2020. After falling in love with the

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world of fine jewelry, Jay enrolled in the distinguished Gemological Institute of America and pursued graduate degrees in diamonds, pearls and gems. Today, she’s redefining jewelry on Nantucket and beyond by both creating and procuring staggeringly beautiful pieces for her clients. “Buying jewelry should be fun or at least not scary and overwhelming,” insists Jay, who operates her eponymous jewelry service on 14 Federal Street. “You should know what you are getting and what true quality is. I can educate you on that and we can have some fun while we do it.” Whether in search of an engagement ring, wedding band, earrings, necklace, bracelet or fine watch, Jay is a master at connecting her clients with the perfect pieces that suit their style, sensibility and budget. Her procurements make a statement while also becoming family treasures. Jay also creates fine jewelry of her own, marrying her gemological expertise, her geology background and her own exquisite sense of style. “We can work together to create the piece of your dreams,” she says. “Something high quality but versatile—a piece you can wear running errands, and then to brunch at Black-Eyed Susan’s, and then home by the fire or out for dinner at the Wauwinet.” From her fun Ruby Gumdrop earrings, to her elegant Girl with the Pearl earrings, to her dazzling Orion’s Belt necklace, Jay’s pieces fuse fun with high fashion. Not to mention, they’re a rock-solid investment. Just ask Anna P. Jay…she’s a geologist.

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47TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS STROLL TWN’S FOREVER PLAID: DECEMBER 3-5 PLAID TIDINGSANNOUNCING Downtown Nantucket NOVEMBER 25 – DECEMBER 4 Stroll. Is. BACK! The crown jewel of the Bennett Hall OPEN THROUGH DECEMBER 31 Nantucket offseason makes its official return Offering up the best of Forever Plaid, 2nd Floor of Thomas Macy to the social calendar this December. Wear Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings is filled with Warehouse, 12 Straight Wharf WHITE THEATRE’S comfortable shoes, a good mask and festive Christmas standards that haveHERON all been If you have not yet had the chance, check out clothing to hit the town to shop for holiday “Plaid-erized.” Enjoy classic music sung the exhibition from ReMain’s ERNC and learn SUMMER SEASON gifts in many of the island’s boutiques. For in perfect harmony and delightful tunes more about how we as a community can more information, visit nantucketchamber.org. all ages will love. For tickets and more prepare for the effects of climate The10 daddy long change. legs July 5 - August July 5 - Aug 10 July 19- Aug 18 visit theatrenantucket.org. Salt Costs Climbing August 30 - Septemberinformation, 15 showcase features studentEvanston design proposals Noel Coward’s Private Lives July 19 - August 18 DADDY NOEL COWARD’S from five participating universities to show how LONG LEGS PRIVATE LIVES Nantucket businesses and residents can live with sea level rise. For more information, visit Directed By Michael Kopko Directed By Mark Shanahan envisionresilience.org. A delightful musical set in A comedic masterpiece featuring 3 REMAIN NANTUCKET’S ENVISION RESILIENCE NANTUCKET CHALLENGE EXHIBITION

turn-of-the-century New England. Fun for the whole family!

20TH ANNUAL COLD TURKEY PLUNGE NOVEMBER 1 – NOVEMBER 25

Virtual This year, you can do the #PlungeDayYourWay by participating in the 20th annual Cold Turkey Plunge any day in the month of November leading up to Thanksgiving Day. Children’s Beach will always be the top swim spot (President Biden has been known to take part), but you can take a freezing dip anywhere this year with the event’s virtual program. All proceeds benefit the Atheneum’s Weezie Library for Children. To register and find more information, visit nantucketatheneum.org.

NHA’S FESTIVAL OF WREATHS + FESTIVAL OF TREES

NOVEMBER 19 – 27 (WREATHS) + DECEMBER 3 – 31 (TREES)

Whaling Museum ’Tis the season to deck the halls, and no one decks them better than the local decorators in the Festival of Wreaths and Festival of Trees! These two annual NHA events kick off the holiday season and benefit Nantucket’s leading historical association. For tickets and more information, visit nha.org.

ANNUAL RED TICKET DRAWING DECEMBER 24 (RED TICKETS START NOVEMBER 1)

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White Heron Theatre Directed By Leonard Foglia Nantucket’s newest favorite holiday miss premiere tradition isDon’t back, andthis soworld are the spirits preview! The humorous & poignant visiting Ebenezer Scrooge! Take the whole story of Calvin Trillin & his wife. family to enjoy this cherished tale with an island twist and revel in the true spirit of Christmas. For tickets and more information, visit whiteherontheatre.org.

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TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY NOVEMBER 26 AT 4:30 PM

Virtual And on the thousandth day of the pandemic, the Nantucket Chamber of Commerce said, “Let there be light.” Cozy up at home with some hot cocoa to watch 150 trees come alive and celebrate the beginning of the holiday season. Event details are subject to change. For more information, visit nantucketchamber.org.

Tony-Nominated actors, with a Gala Benefit Grand Opening July 20th.

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White Elephant Ballroom This can’t-miss (and free!) community event is truly one for the kids. Featuring unique handcrafted items, heirloom quality gifts, a holiday bake shop, craft activities and more, the Fair is your one-stop shop for all your holiday needs. For sponsorship details and more information, visit nantucketlighthouseschool.org.

On Christmas Eve, if you have the chosen red ticket, you have Nantucket’s very own version of a Golden Ticket. Starting on November 1st, red tickets will be available to shoppers at participating stores. If your ticket is selected during the drawing, you could win a cash prize of $1,000 or $5,000—happy shopping! For more information, visit nantucketchamber.org. *All events are subject to change.

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On a recent episode of Nantucket Sound, bestselling phenom Elin Hilderbrand checked in with host Robert Cocuzzo for a sprawling conversation about her literary life. From dishing details about her latest book, to revealing the pros and cons of being the

“Queen of the Beach Read,” to explaining her recent decision to retire from her uber-successful book series in 2024, Elin leaves little left unsaid between the lines. Dial in this episode and continue to listen to the rest of the debut season of Nantucket Sound at the flowcode below.

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n ecessities NANTUCKET BEACH STONE NECKLACE Local beach stones are transformed into wearable art by Icarus + Co., creating a wonderful way to capture the magic of Nantucket and keep it with you wherever you go. This one-of-a-kind necklace is made using beach stones cast into sterling silver or 14k gold. ICARUS + CO. • @icarusandco • icarusandco.com

WENTWORTH NASH MILL VINEYARD PINOT NOIR

A delicious and compelling wine from Wentworth’s organically farmed Anderson Valley Estate vineyard, with notes of strawberry, raspberry, plum and cherries. The elegant tannins and refreshing acidity make this bottle the perfect sip! WENTWORTH VINEYARD & RANCH @wentworthvineyards wentworthvineyard.com

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RAPT GIFTWRAP HOLIDAY ENSEMBLE Rapt reusable fabric gift wrap is the easy, elegant and eco-friendly way to give gifts this season. With 3 sheets, 3 accents, 3 gift tags and ribbon, Rapt is a sustainable solution that replaces the need for single-use wrapping paper!

Based on a 1920s camera case, this lightweight and stylish bag is perfect for day or evening. Exclusive to Eleish Van Breems, who partners with Nystrom Leather out of Stockholm, these bags are made of eco-friendly, vegetable-tanned luxury Italian leather. ELEISH VAN BREEMS @eleishvanbreems evbantiques.com

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MEN’S VEST This bestselling men’s vest from Peter England is hand-loomed in the USA with luxurious and ultra-soft imported yarn. The perfect layer for those colder months! PETER ENGLAND @peterenglandnantucket 508-241-8301

CU SHIMMY HOME The touch-free Shimmy Home sanitizer dispenser is perfect for busy families at home and on the go, with a seamless design made to blend in (or stand out!) with any space. It holds enough formula for over 500 sanitizer doses, and the brand’s alcohol-based hydrating sanitizer is packaged in infinitely recyclable aluminum cartridges, cutting single-use plastic waste entirely! SHIMMY • @getshimmy • getshimmy.com

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BLACK FOOD Black Food is a rich and groundbreaking book exploring Black foodways within America and around the world. With contributions from more than 100 Black cultural luminaries, it is filled with incredible writing and delicious recipes! NANTUCKET BOOK PARTNERS @nantucketbookpartners nantucketbookpartners.com

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TUSCAN KALE Preheat a large sauté pan on high heat. Add ¼ cup olive oil and 1 clove garlic and add kale last. Sauté on high heat for 4-6 minutes and remove from heat. Add salt and pepper to taste.

NANTUCKET BAY SCALLOPS Clean scallops with salted ice-cold water (this will help to pull off sand) and pat dry between two paper towels to absorb the extra water until scallops are very dry. In mixing bowl, add scallops, ½ cup olive oil, lemon zest, 1 clove garlic, salt and pepper and mix well. Preheat a 12-inch nonstick sauté pan until “smoking” hot. Cook scallops in 2-3 batches, ensuring there is space between scallops in the pan, for 1 minute on each side. Allow pan to reheat after each batch.

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INGREDIENTS • 2 pounds Nantucket bay scallops • 4 cups medium diced butternut squash • 4 cups medium diced parsnips • 2 bunches Tuscan kale • 1 pound chopped bacon • 1 ½ cups small diced onions • 3 cloves garlic, crushed • ½ bunch parsley, chopped • 1 tablespoon butter • 1 cup olive oil blend • 1 ½ cups apple cider vinegar • 1 cup sugar • 1 cup fine diced shallots • ½ bunch mint (about 10 leaves) • 1 teaspoon Chinese five spice • Zest of 1 lemon • 3 tablespoons chives • Salt and pepper 3 0

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APPLE CIDER GASTRIQUE In a small sauce pot, add apple cider vinegar and sugar. Simmer on medium heat for 10-15 minutes until the liquid coats the back of a spoon (should have the consistency of a thin agave syrup). Let cool to room temperature and fold in mint, shallots, Chinese five spice and salt (to taste).

Place 1 large spoonful of hash in center of plate and add 2 small spoonsful of Tuscan Kale at the top and bottom of the plate (to offset the colors). Place 1 spoonful of scallops to the right of each spoonful of kale. Drizzle Chef Kyle Daley with gastrique over all components and top with chives.

FALL HASH In a large sauté pan, render the bacon until crispy and remove pan from heat. Remove bacon from pan (place on the side), leaving 2 tablespoons of the rendered bacon fat in the pan. Reheat the pan to medium-high. Add onion, 1 clove garlic and butter, then sweat in pan for 1 minute. Add parsnips, butternut squash, ¼ cup olive oil, salt and pepper (to taste). Sauté on medium-high heat until parsnips and butternut squash are cooked through and tender. Remove from heat and fold in parsley.

Kyle Daley is the chef-owner of PPX Events, a catering and event planning company in Nantucket. Previously, he worked at Great Harbor Yacht Club as the executive sous chef for four seasons as well as for Seth and Angela Raynor at Corazon del Mar and with Fred Bisaillon at both B-ACK Yard BBQ and The White Elephant.

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WRITTEN BY WENDY ROUILLARD

For the Holidays!

NHA’S FESTIVAL OF TREES The Nantucket Historical Association is excited to host its 28th annual Festival of Trees with more than 80 trees decking the halls of the Whaling Museum this holiday season. Designed and handcrafted by local merchants, nonprofit organizations, artists and children, the trees will be on display from December 3rd through the 31st. Marine Home Center has been graciously sponsoring this event since 2009, so admission is free to all Nantucket residents. This is an island tradition not to be missed! For more information, please visit nha.org or call 508-228-1894. STEM AT HOME WITH THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB The Nantucket Boys & Girls Club offers a series of STEM programs ranging from Lego Robotics and Kids Science Labs to its Photo Club. Children can start a scavenger hunt “photo” journal at home. All they need is a notebook, colored pencils and tape. (Kids can also use a camera if one is available.) They can search for flowers, pets, insects, trees, windows in different shapes and sizes, and any other objects they would like to mention in their journal. Then, they can draw and color each item or simply take a photo and tape it on the page. Next to each item, children can put the number of that item to spot. The Nantucket Boys & Girls Club has more than 800 members. To support the club and programming like this, please visit nantucketboysandgirlsclub.org and consider making a donation.

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CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS AT BARNABY’S TOY & ART SHACK Barnaby’s Toy & Art Shack at 12 Oak Street in downtown Nantucket is offering a variety of art classes for children ages two and up through Thanksgiving and Stroll. Classes includes Holiday Ornaments, Make Your Own Advent Calendar, Gingerbread Houses, Holiday Winter Wonderlands and more! The doors are always open to drop in and create works of art any time of day. Toys have also been carefully selected for the holiday season to provide functionality, hands-on interactive play and entertainment. Also, don’t miss Barnaby’s Art Kits to Go! Visit the full calendar of programs at barnabysnantucket.com, or for more information, call 508-680-1553 or email barnabyack@gmail.com. Be sure to follow @barnabystoyartshack. HOLIDAY SHOPPING AT PEACHTREE KIDS Peachtree Kids, located at 19 Main Street, has you covered for all your holiday shopping needs this season, from Christmas pajamas and holiday outfits to winter clothing essentials. They offer a perfect selection for children ages 0-12 years. Peachtree Kids is open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. or visit them online at peachtreekidsnantucket.com or call 508-228-8555. Follow them on Facebook and Instagram @peachtreekidsnantucket. FAMILY ART IS BACK AT AAN Create art together with the Artists Association of Nantucket this winter. Join AAN for its family art class at the Visual Arts Center, located at 24 Amelia Drive, on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Each week this free workshop, led by one of the AAN art teachers, will explore various mixed media. No registration is required but space is limited. For more information, please visit nantucketarts.org and follow them @ackartists for up-to-date information about winter programming. THE DREAMLAND THEATER Head to the Dreamland theater this winter! The theater is open Monday through Saturday offering current screenings, theater productions and programs for adults and children of all ages. For upto-date information, please visit nantucketdreamland.org and follow them @nantucketdreamland.

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INTERVIEW BY ROBERT COCUZZO PHOTOGRAPHY BY LISA GETTER

SANDY WALSH REVEALS THE ANCIENT HEALING ART OF TRADITIONAL THAI MASSAGE

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How is the experience of a traditional Thai massage (TTM) different than what most people think of as traditional body work? Today’s more popular modalities tagged Swedish, sports injury, trigger point or reflexology are practices typically provided on a massage table. Thai massage, which over the years has been westernized and marketed into simplified forms known as Thai yoga massage or yoga stretch, is done on a futon on the floor. This would be the most obvious difference.

Such as? Upper body, neck and shoulder issues are rampant. Heightened and embodied stress due to individual circumstances and the global state of affairs, an increase in anxiety and depression, and frequent use of technology give rise to this affliction. Carpal tunnel, limb numbness, interrupted sleep and debilitating headaches are common complaints. Depending on the condition of the client, one massage session may alleviate the suffering or regular sessions might be needed.

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TTM originated in Asian monasteries between 800 and 1200 AD as a form of preventive health care and derives from the practices of Theravada Buddhism, Indian and Tibetan Ayurveda and Yoga Vedanta. It’s a spiritual medical practice founded by Buddha’s doctor, fondly known as Shivago, that encompasses our whole being, and all “the bodies” of both the receiver and the practitioner. What do you mean by “all the bodies”? What I mean by this is TTM addresses disease or discomfort in the spiritual, emotional and energetic bodies as well as the physical. The focus is not on one system or aspect, but inclusive of the bones, joints, muscles and soft tissue as well as the vital organs and systems via the energetic meridians and the spiritual body. This is a more far-reaching difference than other modalities. For me, TTM is a spiritual practice and I too receive its benefits while giving a session. What are the benefits of a Thai massage? As one client succinctly stated, her treatment was “a game-changer.” Most walk away feeling more open, relaxed or rejuvenated. However, due to the holistic nature of traditional Thai massage, the effects—though subtle at times—are often more profound. Depending on the focus of treatment, all ailments can be addressed—morbidities that could turn acute might be minimized or relieved.

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Do you have any stories that illustrate the power of this practice? One sixty-five-year-old client who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease gained over 50 percent more upper body flexibility after a series of eight bimonthly sessions and was able to resume daily activities including driving, with more mobility and a lot less pain. Is there a unique approach to your practice? My practice encourages a deep level of client awareness regarding their state of well-being; connecting the dots of how restricted breath, repetitive or habitual movements, emotional stress or old injuries might limit or block the flow of vibrant life force energy manifested in the form of headaches, tension, pain, numbness, mental fatigue or depression. The ancient stretching protocols and meridian pressure point therapy of TTM increase blood flow as well as energy levels, improve flexibility, reduce muscle tension, lubricate the joints and in general allow the body to heal itself and sustain its efficiency. The Thai people believe that wellness and freedom from pain is a result of the unobstructed flow of energy through the body’s tissues.

Sandy Walsh has practiced traditional Thai massage for over fifteen years. She received her certification from Loi Kroh School in Chiang Mai, Thailand. To book a session, visit thaimassagenantucket.com

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The Nantucket Inn was sold at the end of October for $30 million. The 4.5-acre property near Nantucket Memorial Airport, which includes 100 condominium units, is being acquired by summer resident Vaios Theodorakos, the owner of Framingham, Massachusetts-based VTT Property Management, which owns more than 70 commercial and residential properties across the island. The town had previously explored a potential acquisition of the Nantucket Inn for affordable housing purposes as well as a potential site for a new senior center. But that deal fell apart in 2019 after the sides failed to agree on terms. Theodorakos told the Nantucket Current that he will continue to operate the Nantucket Inn as an affordable, family-friendly lodging establishment while also pursuing a series of upgrades to the property.

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flood barrier. The price tag? As much as $900 million. “This is not a railroad track where we get the plan and start implementing the recommendations immediately,” said Mary Longacre, the chair of the Coastal Resilience Advisory Committee. “This is more of a wake-up call. If we’re going to protect the entire island from the erosion and flooding we expect to have happen, it would be a tremendous undertaking. That opens the door to evaluating the highest priorities for us as a community. What do we need to start protecting right away?”

PRICE TAG NEARLY $1 BILLION Checking in at 286 pages, Nantucket’s Coastal Resilience Plan, a document that was finalized in October, is huge, as are the challenges it outlines and the estimated costs of the solutions it recommends. With 4.3 feet of sea level rise anticipated by 2070 and billions of dollars in public and private property at risk, the plan proposes forty projects around the island, including raising roads and wharves, dune restoration, sand pumping and bypass systems, as well as a downtown

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After 45 years running the Nantucket Bake Shop, Magee and Jay Detmer sold the iconic island business last month to their former employee and Nantucket native Kerry Reilly. Reilly plans to continue operating the bakery essentially unchanged, selling its famous Portuguese bread, donuts, muffins and other baked favorites. From the original location on Orange Street to its current spot on Old South Road, the Detmers have stewarded the Bake Shop since they took it over from founders Anne and David Bradt after coming to the island as college students.“We have customers that come in today that are the children of customers of ours from 40 years ago,” Magee Detmer said. “It’s history and tradition. It’s what I feel is part of what makes this island so special.”

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Following the 56 Union restaurant’s final dinner service in September, Peter and Wendy Jannelle finalized the sale of the property to the Great Harbor Yacht Club. The sale closed on October 15 for $3.625 million. The Janelles had operated the restaurant and bar for twenty-two years. Great Harbor Yacht Club general manager Stephen Creese said the club had no immediate plans for the property, but it made sense to acquire it given the location adjacent to the entrance of the club.

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Texas Senator Ted Cruz has identified Nantucket and twelve other communities as locations where he wants to establish new ports of entry to send undocumented immigrants who have been detained at the Texas border. Cruz introduced the legislation, which he calls the “Stop the SURGE Act,” in late October as a way to “alleviate the massive overload at the southern border by establishing new ports of entry in Democrat-led communities.” In addition to Nantucket, the bill identifies Martha’s Vineyard; Block Island, Rhode Island; Greenwich, Connecticut; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Palo Alto, California, among others, as the communities where new ports of entry should be established under the bill. The Texas Republican went on Fox News and said part of his motivation in proposing the legislation is “so rich Democrats can be sitting there and suddenly see 10, 20, 30, 50,000 illegal immigrants, like we’re seeing in Texas on a daily basis. And I can just envision them in Nantucket sipping a martini saying, ‘Oh goodness, they want to come to our clubs!’ They would be horrified, but they need to face the disaster of their policies and the humanitarian misery they’re causing.”

The 38-foot powerboat Poco Loco grounded at Fisherman’s Beach the night of Saturday, October 16, with two people aboard who escaped from the vessel uninjured. A salvage effort got underway the following morning, as crowds of islanders gathered along the south shore to watch crews from TowBoat US and an excavator from Holdgate Partners operated by Nantucket resident Erik Hughes work to free the vessel. After hours of towing and digging in heavy surf, crews attached a tire to the bucket of the excavator so it could safely nudge the boat free from the sand, and the Poco Loco was back at sea around 1:40 p.m. The Poco Loco is based on Martha’s Vineyard and owned by Vineyard Haven resident David Kadison, who was aboard the boat with his daughter when it grounded just after sunset that Saturday. Harbormaster Sheila Lucey said the boat had been in Nantucket waters while it was participating in a fishing derby based on the Vineyard. It was headed back to its home port when the boat’s autopilot system malfunctioned, Lucey said, resulting in it grounding on Fisherman’s Beach.

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The nor’easter that became a bomb cyclone over Nantucket in October took down a giant 173-year-old American elm tree at the corner of India and Centre streets. The beloved elm was planted in 1848 by Henry Coffin and was one of the oldest trees in the downtown area. By the time Town arborist Dale Gary and crews from the Public Works and Sewer departments had finished chainsawing it into pieces and transporting it for disposal, more than 14,000 pounds of lumber had crossed the scale at the town landfill. Gary told Nantucket Current that the elm was weakened by decay that was likely the result of a wind crack the tree suffered roughly 10 years ago. He intends to replant a hybrid American elm at the same location, either a Princeton or a New Harmony, species that are resistant to Dutch elm disease.

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If I had to describe this book in one word, it would be “beautiful.” The story. The prose. The author. This is a memoir about an undocumented immigrant living in poverty in America after leaving China in 1994 with her parents. I loved the lyrical observations about everything from the books and TV shows of my own generation to the cuisine and adventures in New York City. This is a coming-of-age story about the American Dream, beautifully told through the senses of a memorable young girl, as a struggle to survive.

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Jodi Picoult always manages to tackle subjects that are of the moment: school shootings in Nineteen Minutes, systemic racism in Small Great Things and abortion in A Spark of Light. This November 30th, she tackles the COVID-19 pandemic in her new novel, Wish You Were Here, and I wish for it to be gifted to all this holiday season. It’s a deeply personal book for the author but a universal read, and as I turned each page, I examined my own thoughts and feelings about the pandemic. This book is a testament to what we all have faced these last two years and about the power of the human spirit through crisis. I thought about this book long after I finished it, and that’s a mark of a good read.

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The best holiday gifts are experiences, and reading The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois is an experience. Being hailed as a kitchen table epic, it’s a little bit of everything from historical fiction to a contemporary novel about our own tumultuous era. I haven’t been this consumed in a story for a long time, and I could have followed Ailey Garfield, her family and her ancestors for another eight hundred pages. Don’t let the size of this book deter you from picking it up or wrapping it up this year. It reads like an epic poem and an extraordinary ode to the Black American experience, with all its oppression and cruelty, resilience and joy.

STOCKING STUFFERS Books make great stocking stuffers! Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan is a cozy magical book about C.S Lewis’ Narnia, but it’s also about the origin of all stories and where they come from. The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom is an inspirational novel about faith, no matter what you believe. As a Harry Potter fanatic, I will read anything J.K. Rowling publishes, but The Christmas Pig is especially noteworthy this holiday season. Read Island, for your youngest bookworms, is about an island made of books, complete with beautifully bookish illustrations and a rhyming adventure sure to become your child’s new favorite story.

NANTUCKET NOCTURNE: A WINTER’S IDYLL BY STEVE SHEPPARD The sequel to Tourist Town is on shelves now, and it will make you nocturnal as you stay up late to finish it. Steve Sheppard knows Nantucket, and through his characters you can also experience a winter on the Grey Lady. Nantucket Nocturne has it all: island history, buried treasure, secrets, crime, fog, insider knowledge, snappy dialogue and the most wonderful time of the year, scallop season. For all of those who wonder what it’s like to be on Nantucket in the offseason, shuck open this winter idyll.

ON ANIMALS BY SUSAN ORLEAN

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For nonfiction lovers, look no further than Susan Orlean’s On Animals. The author of The Library Book, Orlean returns to our shelves with a book for anyone who loves the creatures we share this world with. We meet chickens, rabbits, killer whales, pigeons and even lions and tigers and…well, not bears, but there are pandas in these pages. Orlean manages to amaze us with her stories and “gathers a lifetime of musings, meditations, and indepth profiles about animals.”

NEVER BY KEN FOLLETT I can never resist a new Ken Follett novel. While his historical fiction is my favorite, I was immediately taken with this political suspense epic imagining the globe-spanning happenings and characters that might trigger World War III. Join the first female U.S. president Pauline Green, spies, terrorists, world leaders, intelligence agents and government officials for one of the best thrillers of the year. You’ll be asking yourself from your favorite reading chair, could this really happen? N - M A G A Z I N E . C O M

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Noemi Zhong began making dumplings for her two children. It quickly turned into a business.

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Nantucket resident Noemi Zhong brings an authentic taste of her native China to the island

hen Noemi Zhong left her hometown of Liuzhou, China, for a job as an au pair on an island more than seven thousand miles away, the then twenty-four-year-old college graduate had no idea what to expect. “I thought I was going to a big city!” she laughs today. Fast forward ten years and Zhong is a vibrant member of the year-round community with two children with her husband, Nantucket native Scott Capizzo. Recognizing a general lack of Chinese culture on the island, Zhong has recently taken it upon herself to recreate the comforts of her former home in the form of one particular food, dumplings.

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of many Nantucket families who might not otherwise have been so lucky to try this delicious and authentic cuisine. “With a store-bought dumpling, most of what you taste is the bread,” Zhong explains, “but these taste fresh and flavorful because they are handmade.” Zhong offers sev-

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Zhong first learned to roll dumplings as a child in her mother’s kitchen. She knew these simple yet delicious recipes would not only connect her own children to their Chinese heritage, but also trick them into eating their vegetables. “If I put the veggies in the dumplings,” she says, “they’re definitely going to eat it.” It wasn’t long before friends took notice of Zhong’s delicious dumplings and asked if they could buy a batch of their own. “I thought I should do this as a business here because on Nantucket there really isn’t any Chinese food.” With the generous help of Mark and Eithne Yelle, owners of Nantucket Catering Company, who offered space in their commercial kitchen free of charge, Zhong completed all the legal permitting required to sell her raw and frozen dumplings. “Mark and Eithne just want to help local people,” Zhong says. “They’re so nice.” This fall, Noemi’s Dumplings launched curbside pickup six days a week from the Youngs Way commercial kitchen. Zhong’s dumplings have since made their way onto the dinner tables

eral dumplings to choose from including her personal favorite, the pork and leek dumping, a traditional combination from her hometown, as well as pork, shrimp and cilantro. She also offers a selection of cold salads and dipping sauces, all of which can be conveniently picked up. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Zhong’s mother would visit for entire summers and only speak to Zhong’s children in Chinese, but since she has not been able to visit for several years, the children have forgotten the language. But with dumplings in both their hands as they stand in the family’s Nantucket kitchen, spoken word is not really needed, and instead the language of food continues their bond. “Making dumplings is a family activity and it’s passed down from one generation to another,” Zhong says. “Every family has their own best or secret recipe, so it really gets me thinking of my family when I am making them.”

To order a batch of Noemi’s Dumplings, log on to noemidumplings.com.

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n early October Sara Jemison and Hayden Arnot huddled with their fellow contestants backstage at the Dreamland theater waiting to hear the judges’ decision. One of four finalist companies in the second annual Nantucket Pitch Contest (inspired by NBC’s popular series Shark Tank), the young entrepreneurs and founders of the fledgling startup Nantucket Crisps had moments before told the three judges—Ring founder (and former Shark Tank contestant) Jamie Siminoff, novelist and Nantucket resident Elin Hilderbrand, and real estate developer and N Magazine publisher Bruce Percelay— why they should be the winners of a $10,000 first prize to help get their business off the ground. Both natives of New York City and lifelong Nantucket summer residents, Jemison and Arnot grew up playing with and around each other on the same beaches before reconnecting as adults. “My mom jokes that we met and played together as kids,” said Arnot, “and it was just so funny that we reconnected in the city, working just feet from each other for more than a year and didn’t even realize it.”

“We not only wanted them to be delicious, we needed them to be something people felt good about eating.” — Hayden Arnot, co-founder of Nantucket Crisps

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Hayden Arnot and Sara Jemison, the founders of Nantucket Crisps, which won the annual Nantucket Pitch Contest this fall

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“...working with the Chamber’s Karen Macumber and our pitch coach Hugh Davis, we realized that this business could be bigger than we’d ever thought possible...”

Jemison and Arnot presenting Nantucket Crisps to judges Jamie Siminoff, Elin Hilderbrand and Bruce A. Percelay

— Hayden Arnot

rnot, a budding entrepreneur who already had projects in the works in both the retail and music spaces, sees Nantucket Crisps as a means of bringing consciously and sustainably made chips to Nantucket with a hyperlocal approach. In the spirit of Cape Cod Potato Chips and the island’s own Nantucket Nectars before it, he said their hope for the business is that people will start to identify the brand

The second annual Nantucket Pitch Competition was held at the Dreamland

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as part of the Nantucket experience, just like a cold Nectar was for people back in the day. “We talked about it and immediately got to work on our own test kitchen of sorts, but not having experience in the chip-making business, things didn’t go as planned,” Jemison said with a laugh. From there, the partners set out to find a commercial producer of the “crisps” that matched all the criteria they imagined for the brand. “We not only wanted them to be delicious, we needed them to be something people felt good about eating, and that meant they are vegan, gluten-free, non-GMO and completely free of any harmful ingredients,” added Arnot. This past March, the pair decided on a producer based in New York state for the crisps since manufacturing on Nantucket on a large scale would simply not be possible due to a variety of reasons, including facilities, overhead costs and manpower. Arnot said the real tie to the island, however, comes through the brand’s various flavors that are inspired by the many tastes and smells of Nantucket, as well as their distinctly local packaging. Alliterative flavors like Cisco Beach BBQ, Madaket Sweet Onion and Sconset Sea Salt will launch the brand and are illustrated by sharp packaging designs depicting the distinct locales they are named for. “Each flavor was inspired by the different beaches on the island, and there’s no shortage

of inspiration,” said Arnot. Jemison and Arnot came prepared to the Dreamland that early fall evening. Even so, they waited in the wings unsure of how they’d fared before the judges. Then they heard the announcement, and they hesitated, almost as if they didn’t believe the words they were hearing from the stage. According to Percelay, whose career began in the advertising world, “As judges, we immediately saw the potential in this business and in the marketing power of the Nantucket name, but also cautioned that success in a crowded category will take a combination of a great product and good luck.” They had won, and what had begun as a simple idea six months before suddenly had a very viable path forward. The $10,000 they were awarded will be spent in the ensuing months to get a website up and running, as well as production and inventory to begin the 2022 season. The initial plan is to sell with as many local island retailers as possible, before expanding out to

the Cape and beyond in the months and years ahead. “Through this process and working with the Chamber’s Karen Macumber [founder and producer of the event] and our pitch coach Hugh Davis, we realized that this business could be bigger than we’d ever thought possible, and we’re Jemison and Arnot plan excited by that. It’s pretty cool,” to go live with their new said Arnot. website, nantucketcrisps.com, Since they are starting from early in the new year. the ground up and with limited resources, Arnot said he and Jemison will be spending most of their year on-island as they prepare for the late-April launch. “Sara and I will be the ones delivering the boxes to our suppliers every day, and we are going to be here to build this special brand. We hope families make Nantucket Crisps a part of their experience on-island, just as they have other iconic brands in the past, and we aim to leave a good taste in people’s mouths.”

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“We hope families make Nantucket Crisps a part of their experience on-island, just as they have other iconic brands in the past, and we aim to leave a good taste in people’s mouths.” — Hayden Arnot

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A nonprofit’s dramatic escape from Afghanistan amidst the country’s collapse

A small village between Chaghcharan and the Minaret of Jam, Ghor Province in Afghanistan (Jono Photography).

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hen Leah Anathan was a little girl listening to Reverend Ted Anderson’s sermon at the Unitarian Church on Nantucket about being of service to others, she never could have imagined what that concept would mean for her decades later. The daughter of Tom and Patricia Anathan, who have been deeply involved in the island’s nonprofit community ranging from the Nantucket Historical Association to the Community Foundation for Nantucket, Anathan’s family history on the island goes back more than six decades. Today, her own philanthropic work centers on Free to Run, a global nonprofit dedicated to championing women and girls living in conflict zones through sports. Founded in Afghanistan by Anathan’s best friend Stephanie Case, Free to Run has served as a beacon of hope for hundreds of Afghan women and girls over the last seven years. But all that changed dramatically at the end of this summer.

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The chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan this August sent Free to Run into a deadly race against time. As a nonprofit funded by grants made possible through the U.S. Embassy and one dedicated to empowering women and girls, Free to Run’s team, participants and partners became prime targets for retribution by the Taliban. “The system really failed us,” explained Anathan, who became Free to Run’s board chair in 2018. “The events unfolded so quickly that it shocked everyone. The Taliban were outside of Kabul on a Friday and they overthrew the government on a Monday. We were scrambling to talk to the State Department to get our staff out.” When prearranged evacuation plans fell apart, Free to Run mounted its own ad hoc escape. They were up against impossible odds, but for Case, as the nonprofit’s leader, overcoming impossible odds was part of her job description.

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“...by finding ways to allow women to engage in outdoor activities, we were hoping to reclaim public space, which in turn, changes the view the community has about the roles women can and should be playing more broadly in society.” — Stephanie Case, founder of Free to Run

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human rights lawyer for the United Nations, Case was competing as an elite ultra-runner when she moved to Afghanistan on assignment in 2012. Many said that her running career was doomed. How would she be able to train in a country where women were regularly stoned if they found themselves outside in the wrong neighborhoods? Undeterred, Case ran laps around the U.N. compound and ended up using her running to raise money for a local women’s shelter. The women in the shelter were fascinated by Case’s passion for running and asked her how they could get started. So began Free to Run. “I really felt that the outdoor aspect was particularly important,” Case explained. “It’s not just about female empowerment through sports, which is important. In a country like Afghanistan that has been ravaged by conflict for decades, women are disproportionately negatively affected.” With each conflict, Case said, women were more and more restricted to the home. “So by finding ways to allow women to engage in outdoor activities, we were hoping to re-

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claim public space, which in turn, changes the view the community has about the roles women can and should be playing more broadly in society.” From a tent in the South Sudan, where the U.N. had moved Case after a year in Afghanistan, she began forming Free to Run. Anathan joined the fledgling nonprofit as an advisor, leveraging her expert marketing skills to help bootstrap the organization. “I found myself assisting in the growth strategies, fundraising and other aspects that are more related to a startup,” said Anathan, who works as a chief marketing officer for tech companies in London. “It started slow in 2014 and 2015—organizing the first hike took months—but then it started moving faster and faster.” Developing partnerships and engaging families whose girls were already in school (and thus were open-minded to female athletics), Free to Run grew organically in Afghanistan. What began as a single hike expanded to nearly two hundred women running alongside men in a marathon. “Free to Run is about sports and at the same time not about sports,”

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described Anathan. “It’s about sports as a vehicle for women and girls. Negotiating personal time outside the house. Developing friendships. About health and wellness. About setting ambitious goals that seem impossible.” Despite the ever-looming threat of the Taliban, Free to Run achieved seven successful years without a single incident. They took extraordinary measures to keep the women and girls protected. Unmarked buses picked them up and drove them out to safe zones where they could run freely. The identity of each woman was fiercely protected. Over the course of those seven years, Free to Run expanded to Iraq and ultimately empowered more than three thousand women through running and other adventure sports. But then circumstances in Afghanistan fell apart dramatically. From her years working in conflict zones, Case had been monitoring the ebb and flow of the situation in Afghanistan prior to the withdrawal, knowing how fast the tides can shift in the Middle East. On the one hand she held out hope that a possible peace treaty

between the government and the Taliban could allow Free to Run to remain, but on the other she made evacuation plans. In the end, there was no time for either. As the U.S. withdrawal mounted and the Taliban stormed the country unchallenged, Case’s prearranged evacuation plans with the State Department deteriorated overnight, forcing her to orchestrate her own evacuation for more than forty staff members. “It involved being on the phone with team members as they waited hours and hours and hours through days and nights trying to get past checkpoints,” Case said. “It involved working with special forces, militaries, reservists from multiple countries. It involved finding charter planes to take them out. It involved trying to get them any documentation to get them through checkpoints. It involved figuring out which gate at the airport was safest.”

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“The system really failed us. The events unfolded so quickly that it shocked everyone. The Taliban were outside of Kabul on a Friday and they overthrew the government on a Monday. We were scrambling to talk to the State Department to get our staff out.”

ase and Free to Run’s executive director Taylor Smith worked day and night to get their team members and their families out of the country. In the hours before and after an ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated himself outside of the airport, killing thirteen U.S. service members and dozens of Afghans, Free to Run managed to evacuate an undisclosed number of their people to countries like Qatar, Italy, France, Ukraine and Bahrain. Most times the passengers didn’t know where they were headed until they landed. Despite the relative success of the evacuation, Case, Anathan and their team are pained by the thought of all those they left behind, women and girls who would now be forced back under Taliban control. “It’s heartbreaking to think about,” Anathan said. “These are wonderful young women who have incredible potential. There was a lot of lost momentum.” But Free to Run still holds out hope for their future. They are doing everything they can to stay in touch with the women in Afghanistan, and Anathan remains committed to the long-term mission. Part of her motivation stems back to her childhood on Nantucket. “I was not the obvious choice to be board chair of Free to Run,” she said. “I was not raised in a region of conflict.

— Leah Anathan

Scenes from the evacuation at Kabul Airport

Nantucket is about as far away from that as possible. It’s probably one of the best communities on the planet earth to live in. But because I was raised to always believe that we were so fortunate to have a place like Nantucket and to live in a community, I think of the old JFK statement, ‘For [of those to] whom much is given, much is expected.’ I hope I’m doing justice to values that I learned through Nantucket, through the Unitarian Church and through my family by giving back in this way.”

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THE HIGH-STAKES ENERGY GAME OF VINEYARD WIND

ew England is known for its revolutionary spirit. But twenty years ago, when Cape Wind proposed an offshore wind revolution, the project was lost in a sea of opposing lawsuits. Supporters saw a clean energy industry that could address environmental woes and revitalize the economy, while opponents couldn’t see past the wind turbines— monumental eyesores to be situated in pristine Nantucket Sound. After almost two decades of extreme weather events, Vineyard Wind has stepped confidently into the wake of Cape Wind’s failure—now with the full support of state and federal governments, even as marine scientists, environmental activists and fishing groups continue to decry the paucity of data on the potential impacts of large-scale offshore wind development in the U.S. Northeast Shelf large marine ecosystem.

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“Vineyard Wind will not only ensure that Massachusetts is the hub of the offshore wind industry in the United States, it will deliver exceptional opportunities for the creation of new jobs and millions of dollars in much-needed state and local taxes.” — Vineyard Wind CEO Lars Pedersen

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ffshore wind is a vital part of President Biden’s climate strategy, and at least sixteen offshore wind projects are poised for development along the Eastern Seaboard. Vineyard Wind I—an 800-megawatt wind farm currently being developed on 166,886 acres of federally leased waters just twelve nautical miles southwest of Madaket—is the first utility-scale offshore wind project in the United States. A joint venture between Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, the company reached a critical milestone in mid-September when it secured nearly $2.3 billion in senior debt and investments from a consortium of global banks, including J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, BBVA, NatWest, Santander, Crédit Agricole, Natixis, BNP Paribas and MUFG Bank. The financial close allowed Vineyard Wind to marshal its contractors and suppliers, including GE, which

President Joe Biden speaking about climate change this fall in Colorado

tower supports a 220-meter rotor with individual blades longer than a football field, for a “swept area” of 38,000 square meters—just two rotations of a single blade can power the average Massachusetts home for a day. With all of the turbines working together at full capacity, Vineyard Wind I should be able to power more than

“There are many advantages associated with Massachusetts getting a head start as host of the nation’s first commercial-scale offshore wind power generation facility, but none as important as the direct economic benefits for Bay State residents.”

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400,000 homes annually. In terms of carbon emissions reductions, that’s 1.68 million tons—the rough equivalent of taking 325,000 cars off the road. Over the projected twenty-fiveyear lifespan of the project (offshore — Vineyard Wind CEO Lars Pedersen wind facilities are typically decommissioned after twenty to twenty-five in mid-October announced a years due to increased maintenance costs), Massachusetts residents can deal for sixty-two of its stateexpect to see a cumulative $3.7 billion in energy cost savings, starting of-the-art thirteen-megawatt in 2023. Haliade-X turbines. Each coFor Vineyard Wind CEO Lars Pedersen, it is as much about lossal 260-meter (853-foot) economic opportunity as it is about tackling the climate crisis. “Vine-

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train residents of Massachusetts,” with a special focus on Martha’s Vineyard, where it aims to have an all-local staff within five years of the project being operational.

“the Saudi Arabia of offshore wind for the planet” — Senator Ed Markey’s belief in Massachusetts’ potential in wind energy

A 2021 analysis by the American Clean Power Association cites a need for 12,000 wind turbine technicians in the next decade. It follows that there will be no shortage of opportunities available to New Englanders who endeavor to take on what has been characterized as mentally and physically demanding, even potentially dangerous work. Vineyard Wind I (not to be confused with Vineyard Wind South or Park City Wind, other Vineyard Wind projects under development) is only one of six offshore wind facilities currently destined for the coastal waters of New England—an area which, due to its consistently high winds and shallow waters, has been dubbed by Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey as “the Saudi Arabia of offshore wind for the planet.”

With the U.S. offshore wind manufacturing and supply chain sectors still largely undeveloped (i.e., American wind facilities are being built with European parts), the Southeastern Massachusetts Building Trades Council, an organization that represents thousands of pipe fitters, electricians, carpenters and pile drivers from the South Coast and the Cape FEDERAL LEASE AREAS FOR and Islands, will OFFSHORE WIND DEVELOPMENT play an important role in getting American offshore wind workers up to speed with those in Europe and China. To that effect, Vineyard Wind has recently committed to hiring at least 500 union laborers in southeastern Massachusetts, including New Bedford, Fall River, Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, with additional workers with prior offshore Source: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management; maps4news.com/@HERE GANNETT wind experience to come from Europe. The agreeSuch gold rush rhetoric has stoked ment also allocates $500,000 to support for the ten more proposed recruit and train workers from unoffshore wind projects stretching derserved communities. south from New England to the N - M A G A Z I N E . C O M

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yard Wind will not only ensure that Massachusetts is the hub of the offshore wind industry in the United States, it will deliver exceptional opportunities for the creation of new jobs and millions of dollars in much-needed state and local taxes,” he says. “There are many advantages associated with Massachusetts getting a head start as host of the nation’s first commercial-scale offshore wind power generation facility, but none as important as the direct economic benefits for Bay State residents.” Pedersen claims that “a lot of the workforce will be an American workforce,” but to date has not shared specific data about jobs. Vineyard Wind discusses job creation in terms of “fulltime equivalent” jobs and “job years”—talking points that blur the distinction between longterm full-time employment and temporary full-time employment (a “job year” indicates that one full-time employee will work for a year, but twenty-five job years is not necessarily twenty-five jobs—it could be one person working for twentyfive years). Such language tends to confuse the public and conflate the numbers. A 2017 study on Vineyard Wind I by the former UMass Dartmouth Public Policy Center projected that Vineyard Wind would create from 1,706 to 2,120 full-time jobs over a period of twenty-five years, most lasting just a few years during initial construction phases, with only about eighty long-term operations and maintenance positions. Vineyard Wind is funding and implementing its own $2 million Windward Workforce program to “recruit, mentor, and

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Carolinas. A recent white paper from the Special Initiative on Offshore Wind at the University of Delaware projected that, by 2030, offshore wind will be a $70 billion business pipeline in the United States. While support for offshore wind development gains momentum, some federal, state and local agencies have urged caution, expressing serious concerns about the potential impacts of large-scale industrial development on a fertile and diverse marine ecosystem already

“These projects raise valid concerns regarding historic livelihoods, essential fish habitat and fish populations, not to mention endangered and threatened species” — David Frulla, an attorney representing the Fisheries Survival Fund.

Map of the 16 wind energy lease areas in the Northeast US Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem

subject to competing interests between conservationists and the fishing industry. Nantucket Sound is encompassed by the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf, an area regarded by the scientific community as a “frontier region.” Of chief concern among scientists is the lack of data on the impact of offshore wind development on site-specific marine ecosystems, including the effects of pile-driving and vessel noise on species’ behavior, movements and migratory patterns; soft bottom habitat re-

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duction; modified hydrodynamic patterns; and electromagnetic field emissions from transmission cabling. Persistent, high levels of underwater acoustic disturbances associated with the construction and operation of offshore wind facilities are of particular concern to the survival of migratory species such as the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, which uses echolocation to navigate. It’s important to emphasize how differently sound behaves in the ocean—it travels five times more efficiently under water than it does through the air, and it must be measured relative to both acoustic pressure and particle motion when addressing the potential effect on marine mammals, fishes and invertebrates, because of complex biological adaptations that enhance detection of these factors. Data that accurately measures the impact of offshore wind production on marine ecosystems is scarce, in part, because particle motion can’t easily be

predicted near boundaries such as the surface of the sea or the seafloor. However, the particle motion component is thought to be far more relevant to important fishery species. Studies examining the cumulative effects of exposure to pile-driving noise show diverse impacts including altered hydrodynamic patterns around offshore wind facilities that may affect larval dispersal and the distribution

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of zooplankton, resulting in systemic changes to the food chain. Larger species such as whales and endangered finfish may experience changes in behaviors and migratory patterns due to both acoustic disturbances and electromagnetic field emissions from subsea cables, making them more vulnerable to serious injury or mortality from ship strikes. Mussels and other shellfish proliferating on the underwater portion of wind turbine towers—the so-called artificial reef effect—can potentially increase the abundance of prey species and therefore exacerbate competition between recreational and commercial fisheries and highly migratory finfish such as blue sharks, effectively creating de facto exclusionary fishing areas around offshore wind developments. The Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office of NOAA Fisheries, the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) and the New Bedford Port Authority Fisheries Advisory Committee on Offshore Wind outlined recommendations to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in 2018, at the start of a fragmented, three-year review process on Vineyard Wind I conducted during the transition between the Trump and Biden administrations and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Fishing groups claim the direct overlap between Vineyard Wind’s lease sites and prime fishing areas will likely have a devastating impact. “NOAA emphasizes in great detail these wind energy installations will be ocean-altering, both individually and cumulatively. These projects raise valid concerns regarding historic livelihoods, essential fish habitat and fish populations, not to mention endangered and threatened species,” said David Frulla, an attorney representing the Fisheries Survival Fund. Potentially adverse effects, Vineyard Wind claims, may be offset by benefits associated with a reduction in greenhouse gases. Dr. David Pierce, former director of the Massachusetts DMF, argued, “While the proposed project will provide an alternative to fossil fuel-derived energy, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from the Vineyard Wind project alone are unlikely to provide local benefits to marine mammals and other marine life that currently occupy the project area, particularly large whales that use these waters as foraging habitat. If this logic is being used to justify adverse impacts on local

“While the proposed project will provide an alternative to fossil fuel-derived energy, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from the Vineyard Wind project alone are unlikely to provide local benefits to marine mammals and other marine life that currently occupy the project area.” — Dr. David Pierce, former director of the Massachusetts DMF

populations of marine species, quantifying the GHG reduction benefits is necessary and should include associated construction costs.” In 2019 Vineyard Wind issued an agreement with the Conservation Law Foundation, the National Wildlife Federation and the National Resources Defense Council to restrict turbine construction in the winter and early spring, when North Atlantic right whales are known to frequent the area, to surveil the ocean and limit construction noise, to enforce vessel speed limits and to invest $3 million into technologies that will help protect the critically endangered species.

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ineyard Wind has since doled out $1.9 million to the UMass Dartmouth School for Marine Science and Technology “to assess the impact of wind farm construction on fish populations through surveys carried out pre- and post-construction,” compensating local fishermen to assist students and scientists in the collection of data, and $37.7 million to commercial fishermen in Massachusetts and Rhode Island to compensate them for future losses. For the rights to land transmission cables at Covell’s Beach, Vineyard Wind has agreed to pay the town of Barnstable up to $16 million, plus taxes, over the next twenty-five years. Although the only part of the project to fall directly under Nantucket jurisdiction is an undersea cable running through the Muskeget Channel, in 2020 the company also committed to paying the Town of

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Nantucket $34 million over the next forty-five years. The agreement came after BOEM released a 2019 Finding of Adverse Effect on the Gay Head Lighthouse and the Nantucket Island National Historic Landmark. Vineyard Wind agreed to shift a row of turbines back, equip them with a more efficient aircraft detection lighting system and paint them a nonreflective gray color. The first $16 million of the company’s “community benefit fund” will come over the next eight to ten years, with the caveat that town officials and nonprofit leaders must not divulge how funds will be allocated until Vineyard Wind closes on the project, and that they will support the company until the federal permitting process is complete. Funds will be administered by the Community Foundation for Nantucket and will include potential support for island nonprofits, historic preservation and restoration, coastal resilience

and climate adaptation measures, and mitigation for future offshore wind projects. Throughout the permit review process, environmental groups, including the National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Conservation Law Foundation, Defenders of Wildlife, Mass Audubon, Audubon Society of Rhode Island, Environmental League of Massachusetts, Whale and Dolphin Conservation North America, Humane Society of the

of “negligible,” “minor,” “moderate” and “moderate beneficial” impacts, many “in the context of reasonably foreseeable environmental trends”’ in lieu of actual site-specific data, underscoring concerns that the implementation of Vineyard Wind I is de facto research. The most outspoken opponents of Vineyard Wind I are an unlikely cast of characters that includes environmentalists like journalist Michael Shellenberger, who favors nuclear energy over land-intensive,

Nantucketers are once again in the midst of an energy revolution, but what can the past tell us about how we must navigate the present in order to ensure a successful future? short-lived wind facilities; fishing advocacy groups like the Responsible Offshore Development Agency (RODA); a litigious, small-scale solar developer who resides parttime on Martha’s Vineyard; Nantucket Residents Against Turbines, an island-based activist group fighting on behalf of the North Atlantic right whale; and of course, former President Trump, who famously dragged his feet throughout the permitting process. In mid-September, just days before Vineyard Wind announced financial closure on its funding deal, RODA fired back on behalf of the U.S. fishing industry with a Petition for Review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, alleging that BOEM rushed approval of Vineyard Wind I without adequate scientific analysis or the type of “holistic approach” necessary “to address the cumulative impact of offshore wind on the ocean ecosystem and shore side communities,” further claiming that it is “impossible to effectively plan a new ocean industry without such analysis, es-

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United States, NY4WHALES and the American Bird Conservancy, expressed concerns and submitted recommendations to BOEM, which, in July 2019 announced a delay of the federal environmental review process only to then abruptly announce the review’s completion after the change in administration, leading to what some groups claim was hasty approval of the Vineyard Wind I Environmental Impact Statement—a four-volume, 2,422-page document costing U.S. taxpayers upward of $3,539,425. In March 2021 BOEM released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS). Two months later the Biden administration granted a Record of Decision after an “exhaustive” three-year public review process. The FEIS contains thorough and detailed legalese compiled by dozens of government agencies outlining and reviewing the Vineyard Wind I project’s construction and operations plans, as well as what are considered to be anticipated reasonable risks to and loss of marine life and fishing habitat, citing a majority

pecially one with such a large environmental footprint.” RODA says that BOEM has neglected to “sincerely consider any mitigation measures beyond those voluntarily suggested by the investment banks and multinational energy giants to which it is leasing federal lands and waters,” emphasizing that climate change “must be addressed, but in a way that deliberatively minimizes these emerging technologies’ direct impacts to marine ecosystems, biodiversity, and food security.” Anne Hawkins, executive director of RODA, underscored the importance of getting it right the first time, “so

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that future projects are following a trusted roadmap instead of a flawed and dangerous example.” Nantucketers are once again in the midst of an energy revolution, but what can the past tell us about how we must navigate the present in order to ensure a successful future? When European settlers first invaded the island in 1659, it was the North Atlantic right whale that sustained them, then helped to continuously fuel Nantucket’s celebrated prosperity for two centuries. Now, the 380 or so remaining North Atlantic right whales will witness another energy revolution. In this case, many, many revolutions.

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AFTERSHOCK WRITTEN BY ROBERT COCUZZO

PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL HOENK

Analyzing the reverberations of a very busy summer

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ow about that pent-up demand? You didn’t even need to be on Nantucket to get a sense of just how busy it was this summer. From the Steamship dock in Hyannis alone—where at one time more than 120 vehicles were waiting in the standby line—the Sold-Out Season of 2021 was on full display. On-island, traffic was abysmal, trash cans were overflowing, hotels were booked solid, cell reception was spotty, and dinner reservations were harder to come by than parking spots. Boston MedFlight set a new record for emergency flights off the island. The airport ran out of jet fuel—not once, but twice. Some feared that the island would run out of water. And just about everyone probably ran out of patience. It was a summer like no other, but just how much of an outlier was it? Was this really the busiest summer on record? Or was it an optical illusion, the shock of waking up from our COVID-19 hibernation? While anecdotes abound, statistics reveal some of the complexity in answering that question. “As busy as 2021 seemed, passenger numbers were still below any pre-pandemic year,” said Steamship Authority board member Rob Ranney. According to Ranney, the busiest year on record for both passengers and cars coming to the island was 2016. While 2021 did

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not exceed 2016’s passenger numbers, this year set a new record for vehicles coming over to the island. As of September, the number of vehicles had already blown the 2016 count out of the water by 1,200, or about 5 percent. “There was about a three-week period leading up to the Fourth of July that routinely saw over one hundred cars and thirty trucks in standby every day in Hyannis waiting to come over to Nantucket,” said Ranney. “This caused some issues with vehicle staging and forced the standby line in Hyannis to be closed for short periods of time so as to be able to deal with the volume of cars and trucks at the terminal.” This dramatic increase in cars and trucks is the obvious explanation for the increase in traffic clogging the island. A similar story could be found at Nantucket Memorial Airport where, although overall flight and passenger numbers were down compared to preCOVID years, the number of private jets and major air carriers like Jet Blue, United and Delta were up. “With the increase in air carrier operations, the terminal is too small to handle the demand,” said Patrick Topham, Nantucket Memorial Airport’s control

tower chief. “There can be five to six air carriers here at the same time, with one hundred passengers per plane, so it doesn’t take long to run out of space.” This space only got tighter this fall when the airport was forced to close a runway after the FAA deemed it “non-standard,” which Topham explained made it ineligible for the FAA’s Airport Improvement Program funding. “Due to the lack of funding, the airport has decided to close the runway,” he said, “which will lead to delays in and out of Nantucket.”

“We definitely had a coming-out-of-COVID surge that made it seem as though it was busier than it ever had been before.” — Libby Gibson, Nantucket Town Manager

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nother point of concern is the island’s natural resources. Last summer, Wannacomet Water Company pumped 307 million gallons of water from June through August, setting a new record. “We never thought we would top it,” said Wannacomet’s director, Mark Willett. “Then in 2021, over the same summer time period, we pumped over 337 million gallons of water—more than a 10 percent jump.” Willett explained that the unprecedented pumping can be attributed to the increase in people on the island as well as the decrease in rain (“people use more water when it’s hot and dry.)” Beyond any other summer, Wannacomet logged more days pumping in excess of 4 million gallons of water. The pumps ran twenty-four hours a day, stressing the system and causing a couple main breaks and pump issues. “We delivered more water to our customers than ever before,” said Willett, who estimated that there were between 90,000 and 100,000 people on-island this summer based on his water data. Despite this dramatic spike in water use, Willett says he is not remotely concerned about the island ever running out of water. “Billions of gallons of precipitation recharge our aquifer every year,” he explained. “As it sits now, we pump out under 10 percent of that recharge. If you look at it like a water budget, we are not spending more than we make. We currently have a surplus of water.” The concern is instead not quantity

but quality. If the island’s aquifer became contaminated, there’s no nearby town to borrow from. Accordingly, Willett says that Wannacomet continues to push for new ways to protect the water source like fertilizer regulations, Zone II regulations and stormwater regulations. Because, as he says, “where would Nantucket be without clean drinking water?” Perhaps the most precious natural resource this summer was not water but people. Staffing shortages hamstrung operations across the island, making the onslaught of summer visitors that much more challenging. “We definitely had a coming-out-of-COVID surge that made it seem as though it was busier than it ever had been before,” said Town manager Libby Gibson. “With respect to Town operations, we struggled this year. Without more staff and ways to house them, things are going to continue not to get done.” Much like with restaurants where staffing challenges

is personal responsibility that people are not acting as they should.” The latter point suggests that the pressures felt this summer might have less to do with the quantity of people on the island as the quality. Whether it was in parking lots, restaurants or intersections, many complained of a general breach in civility. However, did this bad behavior translate to an uptick in arrests? “No, quite the opposite,” said Police Chief Bill Pittman. “While the number of actual in-custody ‘arrests’ was up in 2021 versus 2020, the number of summonses issued in lieu of an in-custody ‘arrest’ was down significantly. Basically, whether it was an arrest or a summons, our arrest/summons/protective custody activity was down 29 percent versus 2020 and down

“...as busy as 2021 seemed, passenger numbers are still below any pre-pandemic year.” — Rob Ranney, board secretary of the Steamship Authority

became so dire that some high-end establishments resorted to employing local eighth graders, Gibson said that the lack of Town staffing caused “a lot of things to slip” this summer. “It was very hard to keep up with things like trash,” she said. “Part of that is we don’t have enough staff to pick up trash, and part of that

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39 percent versus 2019, which was the last ‘normal year.’” Perhaps criminal activity was down, but what about overall bad behavior? This fall, the State Police indicated that they had confiscated more than five hundred fake IDs from bars and restaurants. The proliferation of fake IDs and the overall lack of civility caused the Gazebo to enforce a twenty-five-and-over mandate. So did more people equate to more loud debauchery?

“Well, again, not really,” said Pittman. “I compared disturbance calls (not noise) and loud party calls and found again that our numbers were down over the prior two years. We were down 5 percent versus 2020 and 22 percent versus 2019. That would indicate that bad behavior is either being tolerated more or occurred less.” The same dip in calls, however, could not be said of the Fire Department, which experienced a 20 percent increase in fire response calls compared to last year and a 9 percent increase compared to 2019. “Calls as a whole have increased,” said Fire Chief Stephen A. Murphy, who also indicated that while the number of actual fires remained mostly the same (around forty), calls for other needs such as investigating the smell of gas have increased by 60 percent since 2019. “One of the largest issues for meeting

In another town, when a house goes up in flames, there will likely be up to thirty firefighters from a number of different ladder companies attending to the blaze. On Nantucket, a structure fire might have twelve. “Housing is an issue that people can help with and think of public safety when they have a year-round rental,” said Murphy. “If your firefighters are not able to live here, who will come back when we need them? The path that rentals have taken is endangering the stability of staffing for the department and many town or island businesses.”

the needs [of the community] has been staffing for multiple calls. Our department is staffed to handle multiple calls when the shifts are at full complement. But with time off, shifts do run at minimum staffing in all seasons; staffing the second call can be challenging.”

Ultimately, lodging was a key indicator of just how busy it was this summer. Hotels and inns had an outstanding season, booking unprecedented numbers of guests from early spring to late fall that at times resulted in there being absolutely no vacancies on the island. “It was certainly a record year,” said Garison Beale, general manager of the Greydon House on Broad Street. “We’re looking at almost 25 percent more occupancy than

2019 for Greydon House in the summer. Guests were thrilled to be back, and a decent amount of guests were avoiding Europe and staying more local.” Though happy with the business, the lodging industry also faced the same pressures felt across the island, trying to stay a step ahead of the never-ending

“While the number of actual in custody ‘arrests’ was up in 2021 versus 2020, the number of summons issued in lieu of an in-custody ‘arrest’ were down significantly.” — Nantucket Police Chief Bill Pittman

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wave of demand. “We’re like everyone: balancing appreciating the business and the ebbs and flows of the island,” said Mark Snider, the owner of the Nantucket Hotel. “The island has to come to terms with that. It’s a desirable place, people want to be here, and it’s special. But the infrastructure has to support the demand. It’s a balancing act.” Looking toward next summer, there’s nothing to suggest that this balancing act is going to end anytime soon. As the housing crisis continues to confound planners, spotty staffing will remain a pitfall in delivering the Nantucket experience that has brought so many to our shores. However, while good solutions are hard to come by, Nantucket has ingenuity in its DNA. The island’s history is dotted with chapters when it has completely reinvented itself to meet the times. What that looks like in the postCOVID Nantucket is yet to be seen.

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How Craig Carreau has revved up the classic 4x4 trend on Nantucket

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raig Carreau grew up during a time on Nantucket when driving a beaten-up 4x4 was a status symbol on the island. He took great pride in his family’s 1973 Jeep Cherokee Wagoneer complete with yellow whale pinstripes and rustedout wheel wells. “It rotted into the ground,” Carreau says. “We literally had to pick it up in pieces.” In more recent years, there’s been a resurgence in these old 4x4s—classic Broncos, Defenders and International Scouts— on the streets of the island. And many of them have Carreau to thank for putting them back in drive.

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fter growing up on Nantucket and studying art in college, Carreau took over the family business running a summer camp in Plymouth, Massachusetts. During the weekends and winter months, he tinkered with old muscle cars in his garage, taking them apart, rebuilding them and teaching himself how to be a mechanic as a hobby. Carreau eventually expanded his hobby to include old Ford Broncos, the boxy 4x4s he admired driving along the beaches of Nantucket when he was a kid. That’s when something clicked. With each 4x4 that Carreau meticulously brought back to life, word spread among car enthusiasts that he was the go-to guy for high-end 4x4 restorations.

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One day a man from New Jersey showed up unannounced at Carreau’s home garage in Plymouth while he was working on his latest Bronco. “I heard you have a nice Bronco for sale,” the stranger said. Carreau politely explained that the vehicle wasn’t for sale. This was just a hobby and he built the Bronco for himself. The man was undeterred. “Everything is for sale,” he said, opening a bag of cash. “I want to buy it…how much?” So it was that Caruzn Customs was born. Today, Carreau’s outfit has grown to nine full-time mechanics that turn out fifty classic 4x4s a year, ranging in price from $40,000 to $150,000 and up. It’s become a global operation, with Carreau sourcing Land Rovers from Portugal, Italy and Spain. After he finds a model he likes abroad, he’ll fly an employee over to vet it and then send it back to the United States in a shipping container or in the hold of a ship. And he’s not only importing vehicles. Carreau has shipped his Broncos to clients all over Europe and as far away as Dubai. Fifty percent of his clientele, however, is on Nantucket, where he still owns a family home in Cisco.

This summer, everyone from hedge fund managers for rust. “That made a lot of sense to me as the owner of to local bank presidents to art dealers could be seen five vintage cars on the island,” Milazzo says. “I have driving around in a Caruzn Custom. “As an art dealer spent the summer driving my 1969 Bronco around I am constantly looking at things Nantucket. I take it on the beach, with a curatorial eye,” says Lee through the mud and into town for Milazzo, the owner of Samuel dinner. It’s my daily driver, and “The Broncos Owen Gallery who received a it’s my most reliable (and fun) car have gotten crazy 1969 Bronco this fall as a birthday to drive.” in the last year... present from his wife Cindy. And that’s how Carreau wants Their value “When I saw Craig’s Broncos his vehicles to be driven. They for the first time I was blown shouldn’t sit in a garage as a has gone up by away by his work. Craig has show piece. They’re designed to 250 percent.” an artistic eye and his attention drive—hard. “I love the utilitar— Craig Carreau to detail is unmatched.” Milazzo ian purposes of these vehicles,” also appreciated the fact that he says. “A lot of guys who spend Carreau customizes his vehicles close to six figures on a toy don’t with Nantucket in mind, stripping each 4x4 down to only use them and I hate that. I want them to be driven the essential components so that there’s less opportunity on the beach and used as they were intended.”

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arreau’s shop shows the work in progress on vehicles that are either receiving cosmetic improvements or are being rebuilt from the chassis up. The job of restoring these 4x4s is complicated by the fact that sourcing parts can be akin to detective work as many vehicles have long since been discontinued. The complexity of his work more resembles reconstructive surgery than simply bolting parts together, which accounts for the enormous time it takes to bring a classic back to showroom condition. He currently has a year-long waitlist. “The

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Broncos have gotten crazy in the last year,” says Carreau, who also purchased the newest model Bronco released by Ford this past summer. “Their value has gone up by 250 percent.” Sensing that the Bronco boom might overheat at some point soon, Carreau believes that the full-size classic Chevy Blazers are about to become the next hot ride. “I see those trending high in the next year or two,” he says. “They’re bigger, they have more creature comforts and they’re a pleasure to drive…In the last few weeks, I’ve received twenty requests for Blazers.”

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“They always say, if you can do something you love for work, you’ll never really work…that’s certainly the case with this.” — Craig Carreau

hough his business only appears to be accelerating, Carreau still owns and operates his family’s summer camp in Plymouth. “I haven’t paid myself a salary from the cars,” he explains. “I’ve just reinvested into building the business.” Indeed, Carreau is still fueled by his passion for these projects. “I enjoy it; it’s relaxing for me…it’s fun… it’s therapy, I guess,” he says. “They always say, if you can do something you love for work, you’ll never really work…that’s certainly the case with this.”

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Nantucket resident and wife of the seventy-sixth Secretary of the Navy, Richard V. Spencer, Polly Spencer christened the USS Nantucket this summer.

AT THE HELM WRITTEN BY ROBERT COCUZZO

MEET THE NEW COMMANDER OF THE USS NANTUCKET

n the 246-year history of the United States Navy, it wasn’t until 1993 that women were allowed to serve aboard warships. It would be another five years before a woman became a combat commander. Today, there’s a growing cadre of female commanders. This year alone saw a number of firsts, including the first female to take command of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier as well as the first time four women of color were made commanders in the same year. The island now shares in this emerging chapter of naval history thanks to the first commander of the newly christened USS Nantucket, thirty-eightyear-old Kari Yakubisin. “There are more women in command every year than there used to be,” said Yakubisin, who was on the island this past September for the unveiling of the crest of the Nantucket at the Whaling Museum and the Great Harbor Yacht Club. “As more women join the military,

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then naturally over time you have more that reach that rank.” In Yakubisin’s case, no one could have predicted that she would end up in the Navy— let alone command a warship. Though she grew up near the coast in California, she didn’t spend any time on the water. No sailing, no fishing—not even surfing. Nor was military

But while touring a college campus with a Navy Reserve officer, Yakubisin became engrossed with his stories of the Navy and ultimately decided to change course. “Part of the appeal was the adventure of the Navy,” she explained. “They say, ‘Join the Navy and see the world.’ I thought the Navy was a great opportunity to branch

“There are more women in command every year than there used to be. As more women join the military, then naturally over time you have more that reach that rank.” — Commander Kari Yakubisin

service a family pastime. Apart from her grandfather serving in the Navy during World War II, most of Yakubisin’s relatives worked civilian jobs. After her family moved to Portland, Oregon, she graduated from an all-girls high school and planned on studying medicine in college.

out on my own from my parents, and to serve a greater purpose.” Yakubisin enrolled in Vanderbilt University where she joined the Navy ROTC and majored in molecular and cellular biology, still planning on becoming a doctor, except for the Navy. “But then I decided I wanted to be on ship instead.”

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Thirty-eight-year-old Kari Yakubisin will take command of the USS Nantucket (Photo by MC2 Jacob Milham)

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The USS Nantucket launched in Marinette, Wisconsin, this summer.

espite her lack of experience on the water, Yakubisin proved to be a natural in the Navy and rose up the ranks quickly. Commissioned as an ensign in 2005, her first job was as the electronic warfare officer on LPD-15. “In that tour I learned how to drive a ship, qualified as officer of the deck, and learned how to lead a division of ten people,” she said. “I also received my surface warfare officer warfare device, which is a certification that you have demonstrated the experience and requisite knowledge to proceed in your career.” And proceed she did. Three years after being commissioned as an ensign, Yakubisin completed Nuclear Power School, enabling her to work on aircraft carriers and submarines. She then received her master’s in engineering management. Her time on the water included tours aboard the USS Ponce, USS Ronald Reagan, USS John Paul Jones and the USS George H.W. Bush. She racked up awards and commendations, including the Meritorious Service Medal, the Navy

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and Marine Corps Commendation Medal and the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. Currently serving as the second in command on the USS Milwaukee, Yakubisin has acquired the skills and experience to command a ship of her own. She will assume her command of the Nantucket sometime at the end of next year, after the final construction is completed. At 378 feet long and drawing around fourteen feet of water, the Nantucket is a Freedom-variant littoral combat ship designed to navigate coastal waters that big-

ger vessels cannot. Armed with Rolling Airframe Missiles and a Mark 110 gun that fires 220 rounds per minute, the vessel will be as lethal as it is agile. “It was built as a multi-missioncapable unit with the ability to quickly swap between surface warfare, mine warfare and anti-submarine warfare,” explained Yakubisin. “With a crew of 73 personnel, missions range from countering drug operations utilizing SH-60S helicopters and UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] to countering small boat attacks with 30 mm guns.” On a gray day this August, Nantucket resident Polly Spencer walked up a steep gangway to the prow of the ship sitting in dry dock in Marinette, Wisconsin. Spencer—the

wife of the seventy-sixth Secretary of the Navy, Richard V. Spencer—then hoisted a champagne bottle and broke it across the bow. In dramatic fashion, the war vessel slid sideways, splashing into the Menominee River and marking the first chapter for the Nantucket. It’s the third vessel in Navy history to be named Nantucket, the first of which was commissioned in 1833 during the Civil War. One might think that being put in command of a multimillion-dollar warship would be intimidating to say the least, but Yakubisin discusses her new post with the emotionless tenure of the career military person she is. “We train for almost every situation,” she said. “Part of being selected for the command is

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“I feel a sense of responsibility to stay in the Navy so that younger female officers and sailors have a mentor to discuss their personal and professional goals.” — Commander Kari Yakubisin

Top and bottom photos courtesy of Kari Yakubisin. Center photo by Brian Sager

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that you’ve proven already that you can make those decisions. All of the training up to this point in my career has set me up for success.” For two years at a time, Yakubisin eats, sleeps and breathes Navy life. “We say the end of the work day here is 1500, but it’s a twenty-four-hour, seven-day-aweek, 365-day-a-year job,” she said. But the demands of her career have not prevented her from creating a civilian life off the water. Yakubisin has been married for fifteen years. Between tours aboard ship, she has two-year shore duties, which allows her to maximize her time with her husband and extended family and friends. Her life is not unlike those of the old Nantucket whalers, spending years at sea before returning home with their stories from offshore. “I feel a sense of responsibility to stay in the Navy so that younger female officers and sailors have a mentor to discuss their personal and professional goals,” Yakubisin said. “The second part is the satisfaction when those same people choose to stay in this profession. Regardless of gender, military service is a sacrifice that you and your family make. It’s not the right profession for everyone, but as we recruit more women each year, the numbers of females in higher ranking positions will continue to increase.” And they’ll have commanders like Kari Yakubisin to lead them forward.

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Sharks are nothing new to Nantucket, but Kevin O’Leary is indeed a rare breed. One of the stars of the hit NBC show Shark Tank, O’Leary has been spending time on the island for decades. Known as “Mr. Wonderful,” O’Leary was born in Canada and has been involved in a wide range of business ventures, beginning with SoftKey Software Products, which later became The Learning Company and was sold to Mattel. Today, while acting as the most biting Shark on the show, O’Leary has been involved in everything from television production to fund management to private equity. N Magazine sat down with Mr. Wonderful for an expansive interview during which his direct, humorous and colorful television persona came through clearly.

What is your attraction to Nantucket? I moved to Boston in 1994 where I raised my family. Nantucket became part of our world each summer, particularly around the weekend of the Fourth of July. As I progressed in business, Nantucket also became a place where I would meet up with my bankers from New York, from Boston, from, frankly, Europe as well. There’s no place like it on Earth. You can mix business with pleasure, as I’ve been doing for decades. I’ve traveled the world and I don’t know another place like it. Even the Vineyard is different. The history of it, the cobblestone streets—I just love it. Any favorite spots on the island? The Chicken Box is a classic location. They call it the five-star dive bar be-

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cause that’s what it is. It’s got such a history of bands and musicians and artists and business guys. Half of the New York banking community was there with me in their jeans and flip flops one night. We were talking business and enjoying the music. When I get back there each summer, it’s like I’ve never left. Most entrepreneurs were inspired at an early age; can you talk a little bit about your early years and what sent you in this direction? I had a rather unique experience when I was in high school. There was a girl whom I was really interested in who got a job at a shopping mall shoe store. Right across from that shoe store was an ice cream store that was looking for ice cream scoopers. I took that job, knowing that we could probably meet up after the mall closed. At the end of my first day

at the ice cream store, the owner said, “Before you leave today, I want you to scrape the gum off the floor. You’re going to do this every day.” I had a huge problem with that. I didn’t want this girl to see me on my knees, scraping gum off the floor. So I said to the owner, “No, no, no, you hired me as a scooper, not a scraper. That’s what I agreed to. I am not going to clean the floor.” She said, “You’re going to do whatever I say. I own this store; you’re my employee.” And I said, “I’m not doing it.” She said, “You’re fired.” At that moment I realized that there are two types of people in this world: the people that own the store and the people that scrape the s**t off the floor. And you have to decide which one you are. In no way am I dissing employment or being an employee, but that was not for me. I didn’t want somebody else controlling my destiny.

“There's no place like Nantucket on earth... I've traveled the world and I don't know another place like it. Even the Vineyard is different. The history of it, the cobblestone streets—I just love it.” — Kevin O'Leary

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Did you ever go back to that ice cream shop? Decades later, I went back with a camera crew to find my old boss and thank her. I could now afford to bulldoze the mall if I wanted to, all because she gave me that directional push. We could never find her; the store was long gone. But, just a year ago, I got a FedEx package with a rock in it. It was a piece of the mall. Somebody had heard this story and went there when they bulldozed it and sent me that rock. I have that sitting on my desk in Florida.

It’s well known that you are a wine aficionado and have translated that into a significant business through QVC. What’s less known is your passion for music, that you are a self-taught guitarist. I have a theory that to be successful in business— particularly if you’re an entrepreneur and you’re trying to pivot all the time—having an anchor in the arts is really important. My theory is that business is really binary. It’s black and white. You either make money or you lose it. The arts are sheer chaos. For me, that passion for the arts manifests itself in multiple disciplines. I’m a huge watch collector. I love photography. I have a massive camera collection. I love the guitar. I was a shareholder in Fender and I have a massive guitar collection. I always travel with one. It just seems to me that when you meet up again with successful entrepreneurs, you’re going to find they pursue other disciplines.

“At that moment I realized that there are two types of people in this world: the people that own the store and the people that scrape the s**t off the floor. And you have to decide which one you are.” — Kevin O’Leary

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Most people who are successful like yourself have also faced some type of challenge along the way that they had to overcome. Was that the case for you?

Let’s talk about Shark Tank for a minute. What was your biggest hit on Shark Tank in terms of investments?

Yes, I had dyslexia when I was young. Most dyslexics fall behind almost immediately between the ages of five and seven, which is exactly what happened to me. I was very, very fortunate at that time, because I was living in Montreal, Canada, where Margie Golick and Sam Rabinovitch at the University of McGill had an experimental program for severely dyslexic children. Their thesis was that dyslexics are high-performance people. At that time, I could actually read a book upside down in a mirror. That’s how my brain was operating. They said to me, “How many people in your class can actually read a book upside down in a mirror? You have a super power. It’s not hurting you in any way; it’s actually a super power. So, if you have to be in class and read a book in a mirror, upside down, read it that way.” Which I did. Today, when I talk to classes full of dyslexic kids, I say, “This shouldn’t hold you back. You should be able to deal with it.” That’s the way I looked at it.

The largest exit in history on Shark Tank was a company called Plated out of New York. These were a couple of great entrepreneurs on Shark Tank that started the company thirty-six months prior. Plated was in the meal kit business at the same time that Amazon bought Whole Foods. Albertsons decided they wanted to own a digital platform. There was a bunch of grocers that started bidding for it. It sold for $340 million. That was my deal. It was an incredible journey for them, but it just shows you, in entrepreneurship, it’s serendipitous sometimes. That’s my largest and the most successful deal in Shark Tank history from just the size of the exit.

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What was your most painful missed opportunity? Not all deals are successful. In venture capital, the average is that about 20 percent work. We’re a little higher on Shark Tank; more than half work because the secret sauce of Shark Tank is the hundred million eyeballs that see the product over a year’s period through syndication. So your customer acquisition costs go straight down. But we’ve had plenty of losers. When I go to the Shark Tank set, I’m going to try and do fifteen deals and hopefully close ten of them. Five of them are going to work and the rest are living dead. Can you explain why you and your cohorts passed on Ring, created by a Nantucket summer resident, Jamie Siminoff? It’s not true that they all passed. I offered Jamie $600,000 cash as debt, a thirty-six-month balloon payment at 7 percent, plus 2.5 percent warrants in

with the other Sharks. However, at the end of this, she said, “OK, if it was 110 years ago, and I came in here with a boiling cauldron of syrup, and I told you it was full of cocaine and molasses, and that I was going to sell it and make a fortune, you’d laugh at me

“You do not need a Harvard MBA to be successful...Entrepreneurship is about street savviness. It’s about working twenty-five hours a day. It’s about myopic focus on your business and having a passion for it.” — Kevin O’Leary

There has to be a lot of funny stories out of Shark Tank with contestants. Is there one in particular that jumps out at you? There was one where a woman came on and said that she has a giant five-gallon drum of water that she sings to for twenty minutes a day. She said her singing splits the water into three elixirs: one makes you rich, one helps you fall in love, and one solves for jealousy. And she sells these vials for $20 a piece. Now, you can imagine the skepticism that I had along

too.” And I said, “Sure, I would.” She said, “Well, that’s Coca-Cola…you’re getting a chance to buy the next Coke.” That was pretty good. I didn’t think she was that crazy after that.

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The highest IRR [internal rate of return] in Shark Tank history is a company called Wicked Good Cupcakes, out of Cohasset, Massachusetts, that was started by a mother-daughter team. It was the first royalty deal in Shark Tank history. Nobody understood the power of Shark Tank in those days. This was an unknown cupcake company that put cupcakes in a mason jar and shipped them to you. I put up $50,000 and a royalty of a dollar per jar. That dropped down to fifty cents after I got my $50,000 back. When the show aired and I got my $50,000 back in ninety seconds. It was incredible. It just exploded. People loved it. They loved the honesty of it, the mother-daughter team, the different flavors. It made royalties famous on Shark Tank. Just last week, it got acquired by Hickory Farms.

the company. I would have made about $600 million had he taken that deal, but he didn’t. Today, we still rib each other about it. We’re very good friends now. He eventually sold it for $1.2 billion to Jeff Bezos. It’s a very, very famous deal. Jamie is a really strong entrepreneur.

From a ratings standpoint, Shark Tank is incredibly successful. But is there a particular demographic that the show really resonates with? I was in the San Francisco airport and this nine-year-old girl came running up to me and said, “Are you Mr. Wonderful on Shark Tank? That really mean Shark?” And I said, “Look, I’m not mean—I just tell the truth—but I am Mr. Wonderful.” And she said, “You should have done a convertible debenture up 20 percent last night.” And I went, “What? How old are you?” She said, “I’m nine.” I learned later from her mother that she was a phenom in mathematics. Maybe she was dyslexic. She didn’t know what a convertible debenture was, but between the Friday when she watched the show and the Saturday when she met me in San Francisco, she went online and learned about it. The point is our demo is nine to ninety. People love entrepreneurship; they love the American dream.

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Inflation on Nantucket has gone wild. Gas is over $4. Food prices are at historic highs. Housing has gone absolutely through the roof. What do people do to protect themselves in what appears to be a new era of rampant inflation?

This inequality issue has been around a long time. It’s not new to this generation. If you look at successful American entrepreneurs, nobody has a monopoly on good ideas. You do not need a Harvard MBA to be successful. Many very successful people have not even graduated high school. Entrepreneurship is about street savviness. It’s about working twenty-five hours a day. It’s about myopic focus on your business and having a passion for it. It has nothing to do with education. It’s very helpful to go through the secondary educational process, but it doesn’t determine success in entrepreneurship in any way.

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Nantucket is unique in its geography. Let’s talk about housing inflation. That’s built in with the Land Bank. More and more land is being taken off the market, which is making housing expensive to attain. It’s designed that way. So you know that buying a home will be worth more over time. There’s no question. It’s a false sense of inflation. The rest has to do with supply chain problems. Gasoline, food prices, restaurant prices— that’s because we have disruption globally right now. What’s occurring on Nantucket is occurring in every place in the country right now. We’re broken in America right now. This is going to take a while to fix. You think of the president asking companies to chip in to help fix the supply chain problem and then at the same time he’s thinking of increasing taxes—that’s crazy. Because we have to take that money and invest it in infrastructure at the corporate level to solve it, not the government level. Each company has to figure out their supply chain issues, so we’re in a really difficult time. I don’t think inflation is going to stop. But it is temporary. When we fix this over the next two years, you will start to see the pressure off Nantucket—but not on housing on Nantucket. That model is self-inflicted.

There’s a tremendous amount of talk now about income inequality and the fact that there’s a certain segment of the population that is somehow blocked out of the wealth-creating system. How would you draw the inner-city student or young person into entrepreneurship?

O’Leary with the other Sharks including Nantucket summer resident Jamie Siminoff

Politics are turning very progressive and success is often vilified. There are those who view somehow wealth creation as some type of evil. What would you say to politicians who feel that the wealth generators have too much wealth and don’t give back enough? First of all, that’s not true. You just look at how much capital Bill Gates has given back, Warren Buffett, Bezos…Bezos’s wife, she’s now given away $8 billion in just the last thirty-six months. That’s just not factual. Most people believe in karma that are successful. My mother taught me that you have to be philanthropic. There comes a point where you don’t need any more money—why not give it back? I’ve lived all over the world. My stepfather worked for the United Nations and I went from one country to another. I’ve lived in Cambodia. I’ve lived in Tunis. I’ve lived in Tunisia and Ethiopia. And I’ve met Haile Selassie and Pol Pot. I’ve lived everywhere. Show me a country that you’d rather live in than the United States of America? Show me one, for all of its faults, show me one. Every system has its issues, but if you want to live in a society that’s progressive, democratic, at the cutting edge of health care and medicine and technology and supports family values and all of that. You want to go live in Russia? How about Cuba? You like Korea? Would you want to be in China? No. So, there is nothing better. So, let’s not try and fix something that isn’t broken.

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Senator Chris Dodd reflects on his father’s historic role in the Nuremberg Trials

hristopher J. Dodd was the longest serving senator in Connecticut history. During his distinguished career in the Senate, he was chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committees, and served on the Committees on Foreign Relations, Health, Education and Labor, among others. He was the principal author of numerous pieces of legislation including the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the Child Care Act. Dodd’s career was highly influenced by his father, the late Senator Thomas Dodd, who was best known for his critical role in the Nuremberg Trials. A passionate defender of human rights both during and after his terms in office, Dodd published Letters from Nuremberg, which is a compilation of letters his father wrote to his mother, Grace, during what was termed the trial of the century. N Magazine sat down with Senator Dodd to discuss a range of topics, most notably his important book, the lessons drawn from his father’s work in the Nuremberg Trials, and how his mission continues through the Dodd Center for Human Rights at the University of Connecticut. Your father was a United States senator and you followed in his footsteps. What about your dad inspired you and set you on this course? Well, it wasn’t, of course, the only thing. I had served in the Peace Corps, which was a lifealtering experience for me in the mid-1960s. Even though John Kennedy had been assassinated three years earlier, it was still very much that calling to be involved in things larger than yourself. My father was still alive when I made that decision after college. The decision to get involved in public life, to get involved in elected office, is something that I thought one day might happen. But it’s a very dangerous ambition because the variables that allow that to happen are so beyond your control that sometimes I often say to younger people, “Don’t make it your only ambition. No matter how talented and competent you may be, no matter how successful you may be at it, the timing just may not be right for you.”

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Thomas Dodd holding the shrunken head of a prisoner, which he showed during the trial Defendants at the Nuremberg Trials

What influence did your father have on your entry into politics? My father’s influence on me became less about running. In fact, there were probably more reasons to be a little discouraged about running. He had a tough ending; he lost his last election. He went through a very rough period in the Senate despite a distinguished career in a number of areas. And I had siblings of mine that frankly were not overjoyed at the fact that I might run for Congress. Now, when I did run, they were very involved and helpful in many ways, and certainly celebrated the night and afterwards when I won election in 1974. But given the difficulty of public life and the pains and discomfort it can cause, not just in the “The evidence at Nuremberg, person who’s the target, but their famithe films that the Army Signal lies, there were more influences to disCorps took that he put into suade me in some ways from running evidence as the trial began, than there were from running. How did he shape you for your political life?

and the testimony of others that would report on the horrors of those Nazi years had a profound effect on him.”

Explain how you discovered the letters from your father to your mother written during the Nuremberg Trials that became the basis for your book Letters from Nuremberg.

Once elected, I very much admired his I had heard there were letters. courage, his willingness to stand up — Senator Chris Dodd When my parents passed away, for things he believed very deeply in, my sister, Martha, was the logand was successful at it. He won two ical choice to become sort of a repository of family heirlooms. I terms in the Senate and won two terms in the House. To this finally asked my sister about the letters. They were literally in her day, long since he’s been gone, gone for fifty-odd years, peogarage in Providence, Rhode Island, in several large manila enveple still come up to me and talk to me about him. It was those lopes in a totally disorganized fashion. I asked her if I could have qualities, many of which bore evidence in Nuremberg, that them. I was in the Senate now at this point. My first decision was probably had more of an influence on how I conducted myself to go through them chronologically, put them in order and then as a member than whether or not I made the decision to actuhave them typed up. I gave them, volume one of the letters, all ally run in the first instance. the letters in 1945, to my siblings and a bound version that I had

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made up for them as a Christmas gift. Then the following year, I did the letters of 1946 in a second bound version. I thought, “Well, that’s a nice keepsake for my siblings to have to pass on to their own children or grandchildren in time.” It did not occur to me to publish or suggest the publishing of these letters. That came about when I was talking to a friend of mine in Connecticut who was a writer. How did you father become the essential member of the prosecution under Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson?

What was the most dramatic moment in the trial? The court wasn’t going well. In fact, even the media was losing some interest. It was very data driven. The Nazis kept incredible statistics and data on their crimes. So the amount of information, basically the evidence that the Nazis provided to the trial, was so indicting that there was no hope

whatsoever that these people were going to escape serious punishment for their crimes. But people were losing interest. It wasn’t as dramatic as my father thought it ought to be.

“The data was so indicting that there was no hope whatsoever that these people were going to escape serious punishment for their crimes.” — Senator Chris Dodd

And so he put a table in the middle of the courtroom. He then went into some description of what he was about to show them, that it would say more about the defendant, in a sense, than all the data they’d heard. Eventually the cloth there on the table was pulled back [to reveal] a sole object: the shrunken head that was used as a paperweight on the commandant of Buchenwald’s desk. And in the video, in the audio, you can hear the

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He had been a special assistant to five attorneys general and Jackson was one of them. He and Jackson had a kind of special relationship. Jackson knew my father and knew him as a prosecutor and a very skilled courtroom lawyer. So [my father] was asked to join as part of the team that went to London first in 1945 and then on to Nuremberg. A guy named “Wild Bill” Donovan, who started the OSS [Office of Strategic Services], was originally designated as Jackson’s number two at Nuremberg. According to reports and records, the two of them couldn’t get along. Donovan left as the executive trial council in the fall of 1945 and Jackson turned to my father.

mand of Nazi Armed Forces]. Keitel always kept himself impeccably neat, very much the career soldier. My father thought Keitel was bright and talented, but he was stunned by the cult-like loyalty Keitel had to Hitler. He never could get over the fact that Keitel just didn’t understand the corruptness, the lunacy, the danger of Hitler. In every other aspect of Keitel’s life, he almost seemed to be very orderly and structured. And yet, this deviation was terribly perplexing to my father. Keitel asked my father at one point to give him a note to get to his wife. It’s unclear from the letters whether he actually delivered it or not. But it was an interesting moment. They developed sort of a decent relationship through the interrogation process.

What do the letters reveal that the history books miss? The letters reflect the people [my father] got to know. He talked about Martin Bormann [the head of the Nazi Party Chancellery] as being disheveled and unkempt. If he didn’t know otherwise, he would’ve thought he was sort of a homeless figure on the streets of Berlin. He was just physically a mess and didn’t maintain any kind of decorum of his own attire to the extent they were able to do any of that as prisoners at the installation at Nuremberg. He talked about Wilhelm Keitel [the high com-

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to office. He didn’t take power by force. He was popularly elected in the country. And so this assumption that we only have Hitlers in the world who take power because of force is a myth. Secondly, he said he talked about how radio played a hell of a role. Radio was

“We know that in politics appealing to people’s fears and hates works. Hitler did it, and did it with great success. It can happen in a democracy as strong as ours as well.” — Senator Chris Dodd

gasps in the courtroom. Given the horrendous crimes that were committed, you’d think that there would be more dramatic moments in a way, but this was one of the most dramatic in a sense. Your father described the trial as an autopsy on history’s most horrible catalog of human crimes. Was he himself traumatized by this? After the trial, did he embody or was he impacted emotionally by what he saw? He was. The evidence at Nuremberg, the films that the Army Signal Corps took that he put into evidence as the trial began, and the testimony of others that would report on the horrors of those Nazi years had a profound effect on him. He says in one letter to my mother in 1946, “People will wonder for a thousand years how this ever happened.” The brutality of it all was just beyond his imagination in many ways. And I think it had a huge effect on him. Did he draw a conclusion as to the circumstances and conditions that led to the rise of Hitler? Absolutely. My father was greatly worried that people were losing sight of how Hitler arrived at power. Hitler was elected

new. This voice that would’ve been maybe contained in some place actually could be heard. Hitler could be heard all over Germany. He was using modern technology to carry his message. And he was a mesmerizing speaker and of course appealing to people’s sense of pride. They had been humiliated in World War I and destroyed economically. The whole idea was almost in perpetuity. And so Hitler comes along and revives and appeals to all those nationalistic ideas. My father came back from that experience saying it can happen again. Are there echoes of that happening today? We’re in the midst of it. It’s not what might happen; it is happening. We’re in the middle of it in many ways. And it can manifest itself. We now know in far greater detail that January 6th was not just a coincidence. It was a planned event. And so the relevancy of Nuremberg is not just of historical significance. It has contemporary value. I’m not drawing comparisons between Donald

Trump and Adolf Hitler, but I am drawing comparisons between what was happening with the general public and people’s fears. We know that in politics appealing to people’s fears and hates works. Hitler did it, and did it with great success. It can happen in a democracy as strong as ours as well. How is the Dodd Center working to fend off these threats to our democracy? Over 60 percent of the American people today think Hitler came to power by force. They think that maybe a million people died in a Holocaust. And then, of course, [there are] people who deny it happened altogether, which are growing in numbers. And so you need to understand that this notion of human rights is not merely an international issue. Unfortunately, over the years, we’ve only discussed human rights in the context of international behavior. We haven’t often enough taken a closer look at matters close to home, to use the words of Eleanor Roosevelt, when she introduced the universal declaration on human rights in the late 1940s. That’s why we’ve named the program the the Dodd Center for Human Rights. It’s not just examining the horrors of the Uighurs or what’s happening in Africa or happening in Latin America. It’s [examining] what’s happening close to home. And hopefully what we’re doing at this public university in this one small state [the University of Connecticut] will gain some credibility so that other institutions will decide it’s worthy to begin teaching in an elementary school, let alone in a university, the importance of what we have here and how fragile it can be.

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STROLL Through History IMAGES COURTESY OF NHA ARCHIVES

View of lower Main Street looking towards the Pacific Bank in 1953

The store window of the Patrician Specialty Shoppe on 2 Fair Street with Christmas decorations in 1929

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Santa’s arrival to Stroll

Francis Holdgate with his baby daughter, Diane Holdgate, in 1938

Charles Clark Coffin in 1932

A group singers singing Christmas carols in the living room at the home of Mrs. Leeds “Christel” Mitchell on 77 Main Street in 1966 N - M A G A Z I N E . C O M

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Lighted Christmas tree outside Pacific National Bank. View of the interior of the Atlantic & Pacific market on 45 Main Street with manager Melford Small in 1950

Children and Santa posed around the Christmas Tree inside ‘Sconset Chapel in 1936

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Lucy Bixby arranging Christmas displays at the NHA Gift Shop in the 1980s

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Boy Scouts Christmas performance

Connie Greene with Santa Claus (Greg Hill) at Christmas Stroll in1993.

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This past October, Flannel Jam was back at Cisco Brewers featuring full-on fall fun. In collaboration with Levitate, Cisco hosted musical acts Mikaela Davis, Jamestown Revival, and Yonder Mountain String Band with a melodious kick off to the Nantucket shoulder season. Photography by Tucker Beatty.

FLANNEL JAM

ZACH CHANCE

NICK PICCININNI

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KARA BELLA JAMESTOWN REVIVAL

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MIKAELA DAVIS AND HER BAND

JONATHAN CLAY

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The Nantucket Shellfish Association’s Scallopers Ball kicked off the scalloping season in style this past October. Featuring food, drink, dance and a wide selection of local shellfish purveyors, the Scallopers Ball was one to remember. Photos by Burton Balkind.

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STACEY DAMMIAN & JOANNA ROCHE BONNIE ROSEMAN

TAMARA GREENMAN & DANIEL SIMONDS

RANDY & WENDY HUDSON

ERIKA SCULLY, BRUCE BENNI, SAMANTHA DENETTE

SEAN FITZGIBBON ALAN LA FRANCE & MARY WALSH 1 2 0

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DAN & JUDITH DRAKE

EMIL BENDER & SEAN FITZGIBBON

SARA & CARL BOIS WITH LAURA BURNETT

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ADAM DREAD & MELANIE WERNICK

DENNIS KOZLOWSKI, PETE KAIZER & JOE FARRELL

LEIGH MARR & ZACH DUSSEAU

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Boo! After a pandemic hibernation, the Halloween parade returned to Main Street this October and featured a dazzling array of costumes. Photos by Laurie Richards.

HALLOWEEN PARADE

BABY ELVIS

ELLA DOUGLAS & RUBY MUISE WENDY MURRELL, CHLOE & GEOFF SMITH, LYLAH MURRELL-SMITH KNOXIE & LEDGER SMITH

GEORGIA STAHL, VIRGINIA GRAHAM, ROAN LASCOLA & ANNABELLE BURTON

THEA KAIZER, KATIE, MILLIE AND EVAN SCHWANFELDER

DAVID GREYFIELD

JENNIE, JAMES, HADLEY, WINNIE, PIPPA & ROSS COOK

KATE, PIPER & BRIAN SULLIVAN JAKE CLARK, LIAM MCDONALD, RUSSELL SIMPSON, AXEL OBERG GOMES & BEN SLOSEK COURTNEY & ELOISE BRIDGES

SHAWN CASEY & ROAN DUPONT

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CHRIS & AILISH O’REILLY

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KYLE & LINDSAY DALEY WITH SONS NICO & CARTER SAM MYERS, KATE PELLETIER, SILAS MYERS, FAYE ANDREWS & LILY MYERS

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OK LAURIE BOURETTE, DAVE INGHAM, JANE BOURETTE, NATE BOURETTE & ALLIE GUERTIN

MELISSA DUDLEY & PHOENIX BONELLI

LUELLA FRAZEE & AZLYN FERNANDES JURGITA BUDAITE & NORA CONNOLLY

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A QUICK CHAT WITH OLD SAINT NICK What’s the biggest logistical challenge of delivering presents on Nantucket? Apart from the famous Nantucket fog? Trying to land the sleigh on a widow’s walk is harder than finding a parking spot in August. Have you made any upgrades to the sled? Many modifications over the years, but I like my hot cocoa holder. I’m still holding out for Elon Musk to roll out a self-driving sleigh. What’s your favorite tradition at Nantucket Stroll? I love riding through downtown on the fire engine, seeing everyone waving from the sidewalks. Even if Joe Biden’s on-island, I’ll be the most famous face in town. Which reindeer loves Nantucket most? Rudolph, of course. How do you think they came up with Nantucket red? Yeah, how does Rudolph’s nose work in the fog anyway? Better than Brant Point.

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What’s your favorite cookie? I’ve never met a cookie that I didn’t like, but I’m particularly partial to chocolate chip! Any other requests? Carrots for the reindeer…they love them! Do you ever receive letters from adults who summer on Nantucket? I often do, yes. This year, they’ve mostly asked for interest rates to stay low. What are you doing this offseason? Mrs. Claus and I always do a couple of weeks on Christmas Island. This year we’ll probably just take the sleigh, given all the COVID restrictions at the airport. What did you ask for this year from Mrs. Claus? Apple TV. But I think she’s getting me a Peloton. Too many cookies this year. What’s your favorite beach? Fat Ladies Beach. If you could change one thing about Nantucket Stroll, what would it be? Make it a month long!

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