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The Art of Paint and Plaster A CO NVERS ATI O N WIT H KAR EN WAR D, D ECOR ATIV E PA IN TE R HOW DID YOU FIND NANTUCKET?

I moved to Nantucket in March 1991. I had vacationed here throughout the eighties while working in Manhattan.

I am originally from Scarsdale, NY. After 10 years of working in the field of Institutional Banking, my division at Barclay’s PLC moved back to the UK. This was a pivotal moment in my career. I decided Nantucket was really where I wanted to be. From the minute I came around Brant Point the first time, I knew this was where I belonged. I am a visual person and Nantucket is aesthetically pleasing. Unlike the mainland, there is so little “eye pollution” here. Over the years I have heard people say, “It’s so grey here”, but through my eyes, I see blue-grey, green-grey and purple-grey. It’s not just the Grey Lady.

DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL FOR ART?

No, I actually have my degree in Elementary Education. How I wound up in banking is still a mystery to anyone who knows me!

I have studied over the years with four Decorative Painting Masters, each specializing in different techniques: plasterwork, marbling, woodgraining, and trompe-l’oeil. When I first started out everything was taught in oil paint. Now all my products are water based and eco-friendly. I love what I do. It is never boring. Each surface is different and presents its own challenges.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FINISH?

I love watching plaster dry. Lime plasters create such beautiful and intricate finishes. They are unique in that they go through a process called ‘curing’. They do not just simply dry out like a paint or clay, but actually reabsorb carbon dioxide in the environment to cure out to a pH between 10 and 12. Within the layering process of multiple coats, we are able to build out depth of color and a level of mottling and movement that isn’t achieved with any other wall finish. It is the subtle and soft nuances of the materials that elevate the experience of the space by bringing about greater intrigue and interest to the surfaces.

Their complexity also comes from their ability to read light differently – the aesthetic and color will read differently in morning light vs. midday light vs. evening light, and thus, a temporal aspect or quality of the finishes is achieved when using lime plasters. By bringing these earthen materials inside, we create healthier spaces while also creating more intricate finishes which helps to enhance the experience of the interior spaces.

“Over the years I have heard people say, “It's so grey here,” but through my eyes, I see blue-grey, green-grey and purple-grey.

It’s not just the Grey Lady.”

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Wedding Season Style 18 CONTRIBUTORS Meet some of the talented folks who made this September issue possible.

20 NUMBERS A numerical snapshot of Nantucket.

22 NEAT STUFF Cartolina sets a new standard for Nantucket fashion.

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24 NTOPTEN A rundown of the top events on Nantucket this month.

26 TRENDING The latest episode of Nantucket Sound features breakout musical talent Brynn Cartelli.

28 NECESSITIES Your wish list for Autumn.

30 NGREDIENTS Top off your summer season with a lobster roll...Topper's style

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32 KID’N AROUND School might be in session, but there’s still plenty for your kiddos to do outside of the classroom.

34 NTERIORS A luxury spa located in the Finger Lakes region of New York redefines relaxation.

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HEALTH N WELLNESS Monika Rudnicka introduces hypnotherapy to Nantucket.

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NBUZZ All the major headlines brought to you by Nantucket Current.

Photo by Brian Sager

40 NEED TO READ Tim Ehrenberg helps you turn the page on the summer with these fantastic fall reads.

42 NOSH NEWS Nantucket says goodbye to a beloved dining institution.

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94 Witness to History

NSPIRE 46 FOUND IN TRANSLATION How Esmerelda Martinez became the voice of a community on Nantucket.

52 MEMORIES FROM GROUND ZERO Former NBC producer and Nantucket summer resident Lisa Parker remembers the day that changed the country.

NVESTIGATE 60 NEVER NEVER LAND What is the future of Tom Nevers?

66 GOING BATTY Bats across North America are being devastated by disease—but not here on Nantucket.

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NDEPTH 72 SHOOTING A HUNDRED Sankaty Head Golf Club commemorates its centennial this September.

78 LAUGH TRACK Donick Cary’s wild trip to show business.

86 LEGACY BUILDER How Jerry Rappaport transformed the city of Boston.

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104 LANDING THE POST Jesse Bell gives her first official interview since being made executive director of the Land Bank.

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110 WEDDING SEASON STYLE ‘Tis the season for weddings.

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NUPTIALS 136 Mary and Tim tied the knot on Nantucket.

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140 A quick chat with tastemaker and lifestyle blogger, Penny Lyons.

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94 WITNESS TO HISTORY Former Bush Chief of Staff Andy Card remembers the September 11th attacks.

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It has been twenty years this month As for other notable Nantucketers, we since our world changed in an instant conducted the first official interview with the when the World Trade Towers were new Land Bank executive director, Jesse attacked. We all remember where we Bell. Having served in multiple capacities at were when the news broke and our the Land Bank, Bell replaces outgoing execsense of disbelief. In this issue of utive director Eric Savetsky after he was in N Magazine, we feature two firstthe position for more than twenty years. Bell hand accounts of what happened that discussed her plans for future Land Bank day, from Ground Zero to the very projects as well as what role the organizaheart of the Oval Office.

BRUCE A. PERCELAY Publisher tion can play in the island’s housing crisis.

In a remarkably open and canN Magazine profiles a man who knows did interview, President George W. more than his fair share about housing, ninety-fourBush’s Chief of Staff Andy Card provides insight year-old Nantucket summer resident Jerry Rappainto 9/11 that few of us have ever heard. Card, port. A Harvard-educated lawyer turned developer who was a steady hand at the Bush White House, turned philanthropist, Rappaport played an enormous was at the doorstep of history as he lived 9/11 role in shaping modern Boston, most notably through moment to moment at the very center of our govthe sweeping development of the West End. Today, ernment. We also profile Lisa Britton Parker, a Rappaport and his wife Phyllis are dedicated to proNantucket summer resident and former producer moting the next generation of leaders in the spheres of at NBC who witnessed the Twin Towers being atpublic policy, science and the arts. tacked firsthand. In the weeks following the atAfter a crowded summer season, arguably too tack, Parker embedded herself at Ground Zero crowded, we hope you enjoy the quiet serenity of Sepwhere a sad yet inspiring recovery mission was tember. It’s an ideal time for reflection as we on Nanunderway. Both interviews with Card and Parker tucket have plenty to be grateful for. Let’s remember can be heard in special editions of our Nantucket the many Americans we lost on September 11th as Sound podcast. their memories should remain in front of our minds.

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Ben CAMM Ben Cammarata is a recent high school graduate from Marshfield Massachusetts. Through photography and filmmaking he hopes to bring awareness to environmental issues facing both people and animals. Last year, Ben placed second in the youth category at the Ocean Photography Awards and produced several conservation videos for local organizations. Whether photographing seabirds on the open ocean or filming local coyote pups, Ben hopes to improve his skills while learning more about the natural world. For this September issue, Ben followed Nantucket Conservation Foundation ecologist Danielle O’Dell in tracking bats on Nantucket.

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Georgie MORLEY Georgie Morley is a photographer, podcaster and blogger based on Nantucket.

She grew up on Nantucket and moved back to the island in 2016. Her Nantucket photography has been featured by Yankee Magazine, Town & Country, Real Simple and more. While Georgie considers herself a jack of many trades, the commonalities in her work are holding space for people, exploring curiosities and developing meaningful communities. Whether it’s portraits, landscapes or commercial work, Georgie believes that photography helps us see familiar subjects with a new perspective. For this September issue, Georgie photographed Monika Rudnicka, who is introducing hypnotherapy on Nantucket.

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Laurie RICHARDS A native of Buffalo and longtime Nantucket resident, photographer Laurie Richards has an affinity for both children and weddings that is reflected in her sensitive portraits and candid photography. Her relaxed, intuitive approach to any photographic assignment, combined with her state-ofthe-art technical savvy, ensures beautiful, enduring images that connect the viewer to the person or event year after year.

For this September issue, Laurie photographed Wendy and Peter Jannelle and their family as they prepared to close their beloved Fifty-Six Union restaurant after twentytwo years in business.

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The Nantucket Select Board vote awarding Sandbar the renewed lease to the town-owned concessions and bathhouse on Jetties Beach.

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Funds raised from Adam Nagler’s 450-mile stand-up paddle from Virginia to Nantucket.

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The Chicken Box Singer, songwriter and Yellowstone actor Ryan Bingham will kick off September (and the off-season) by lighting up the stage at the Box. Bingham is known for his folksy sound, raspy voice and hits like “The Weary Kind” from the film Crazy Heart, so these shows are sure to be sell-outs. For tickets and more information, visit thechickenbox.com.

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A delightful musical set in turn-of-the-century New England.

Fun for the whole family!

A comedic masterpiece featuring 3 Tony-Nominated actors, with a Gala Benefit Grand Opening July 20th.

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White Heron Theatre When quiet, unassuming protagonist Morton Plank sets out on his boat Courage to face his fear of boating from a childhood accident, he ends up becoming a part of Nantucket history. This true-ish island mystery from Mark Shanahan will be sure to entertain all audiences with innovative theatricality, magic and fun. For tickets and more information, visit whiteherontheatre.org.

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Dreamland Theater In honor of the 20th anniversary of the attacks on 9/11, the Nantucket Book Festival is bringing author and former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff to the Dreamland to discuss his deeply moving book Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11.

Joining him will be Brian Clark, a survivor and hero of the South Tower who escaped just moments before its collapse. Free to the public courtesy of the Community Foundation Nantucket Fund.

To register for the event and find more information, visit nantucketbookfestival.org.

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Online Nantucket, Tuckernuck and Muskeget comprise one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States, and they’re all at risk for sea-level rise. How can we protect them? Find out in this year’s Nantucket Preservation Trust Symposium, where the theme will be “Rescuing History: Nantucket in Response to Rising Seas” and will focus on climate change mitigation strategies. To register and find more information, visit nantucketpreservation.org.

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Private Residence Celebrate the close of the summer season and the protected beauty of Nantucket at the NLC’s annual Labor Day Dinner. Hosted by Mary-Randolph Ballinger and Susan Baer, the fundraiser will support the council’s ongoing efforts to protect Nantucket’s delicate environment. For table host details and more information, visit nantucketlandcouncil.org.

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AUTHOR DISCUSSION: FALL AND RISE: THE STORY OF 9/11

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Heartbreakingly funny, a grown-up story of love, hope, climate...and change.

SEPTEMBER 30 - 5:30 – 6:30 PM

Online Dive into the mind of Herman Melville and his imaginative (and complicated) relationship with Nantucket in this fascinating webinar focused Get Tickets at WhiteHeronTheatre.org on some of the real-life events Or call 508-825-5268 that inspired his legendary tome White Heron Theatre Thetheprogram will be 5 Moby-Dick.

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SUSTAINABLE NANTUCKET FARMERS MARKET

SATURDAYS, MAY 29 – OCTOBER 9 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Get connected to the local scene this fall by winding your way through the Sustainable Nantucket Saturday Farmers Market (if you haven’t already this summer!). Filled with farm-to-table finds, organic foods and products, and handmade artisan treasures, the market is always full of delightful surprises. For more information and to see a complete list of farmers, artisans and producers, visit sustainable-nantucket.org.

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WOMEN OF SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM

NANTUCKET CRANBERRY FESTIVAL

Maria Mitchell Association We predict a whole bevy of new female scientists will STEM from this three-day festival of science. Designed to serve as a source of inspiration and support and to be a hands-on experience, the Maria Mitchell Women of Science Symposium will feature keynote speakers, panels and salon-style gatherings to encourage young women to explore the wide reaches of the scientific world. For more information, visit mariamitchell.org.

Milestone Cranberry Bog Don your best Nantucket Reds, queue up some ’90s hits from The Cranberries and head for the bog, because the Nantucket Cranberry Festival is back! This one-day cranberry party celebrates the history of cranberry production on the island and features family activities, tasty cranberry treats, harvesting demonstrations and more. For more information, visit nantucketconservation.org.

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OCTOBER 9 - 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Whether you’re an avid runner or just a casual walker, the Run for Robin 5K is a great way to get outside and enjoy the fall in Nantucket while supporting a great cause. The seventh annual race honors the life of beloved community member Robin Harvey and raises money for the Harvey Foundation, an organization working to assist in the education and perseverance of Nantucket residents. To register for the run and find more information, visit harveyfoundationnantucket.org.

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VOICE LESSONS Breakout singer Brynn Cartelli headlines this month’s lineup on Nantucket Sound Just days before leaving the island to record her first major album in London, eighteen-year-old musical phenom Brynn Cartelli stopped by the N Magazine studio to catch up with Nantucket Sound host Robert Cocuzzo. Featured on the cover of our August issue three years ago, Cartelli shot to musical stardom after a viral video of her

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CHARLES PATRICK HAPPY PLACE NANTUCKET MAP

Made from Nantucket maps that have been hand-cut into butterflies and arranged with entomology pins, this incredible Nantucket map was The perfect pour for a fall sunset, this small batch created by artist Charles Patrick and is a truly unique work of art. whiskey from Steven Busch features notes of SAMUEL OWEN GALLERY toasted oak, chocolate and fig. @charlespatrickart • samuelowen.com WALKER’S CAY @walkerscaybourbon • mashandgrape.com

CUSTOMIZABLE HARBOUR ISLAND BAR CART It’s 5 o’clock somewhere for this fully customizable bar cart with removable trays and the brand’s signature wood-turned tiki spindles. Choose your size, color and details to make it a one-of-a-kind!

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BARBOUR CLASSIC BEDALE JACKET When the temps start to drop, look no further than Barbour’s classic waxed cotton jackets, made to withstand wind, rain, and that crisp, autumn weather.

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TOPPER’S LOBSTER ROLLS Serves 4 TO MAKE THE LOBSTER SALAD • 1 ¼ pounds lobster meat *WE CANNOT OVEREMPHIZE HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO HAVE FRESH LOBSTER MEAT* • 1 egg, room temperature • 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard • 2 tablespoons Meyer lemon juice • 1 cup neutral oil, grapeseed or canola are best • Kosher salt • 4 brioche buns • 4 leaves Boston bibb lettuce • Bread-and-butter pickles 1

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Kid' N AROUND BACK TO SCHOOL AT THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB It’s back to school at the Boys & Girls Club, and they are ready with a great variety of after-school programs to get Nantucket students back in the swing of things. The Boys & Girls Club has wonderful digital platforms such as BookNook, Boddle and Powerhouse, a nationwide after-school program that focuses on homework and tutoring assistance.

Kids can take advantage of this “Power Hour” at the Club or at home by using the interactive games and tools that help stimulate learning. Please show your support for the Club by visiting nantucketboysandgirlsclub. org and make a donation today.

CREATE AT BARNABY’S TOY & ART SHACK Stop by Barnaby’s Toy & Art Shack at 12 Oak Street in downtown Nantucket for a variety of art classes for children ages two and up.

Classes in September include Marimo Moss Aquascapes, Working with Clay, Beading Bonanza, Painting Madness and Macrame Bracelets. The doors are also always open to drop in and create works of art any time of day.

The toys here have been carefully selected to provide functionality, hands-on interactive play and entertainment. And don’t miss Barnaby’s Art Kits to Go! Please visit the full calendar of programs at barnabysnantucket.com. Call 508-680-1553 or email barnabyack @gmail.com for more information. Be sure to follow @barnabystoyartshack.

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THIS FALL WITH DREAMLAND THEATER Join the Dreamland Stage Company this fall for its Musical Theatre Workshop. This exciting program is perfect for children ages 5-12.

The workshop will include movement exercises, theater games, singing and improvisation, helping these Dreamland kids to develop the skills needed for the stage through concentration, communication, imagination and self-expression. Students will also develop vocal techniques and learn to move with versatility while exploring scenes and songs from Broadway musicals. The program will conclude with a final performance. Registration opens September 15th. For more information and to sign up, please visit nantucketdreamland.org.

Also, be sure to visit @dreamlandstagecompany.

SEPTEMBER AT THE NHA’S WHALING MUSEUM The NHA’s interactive play space is the perfect destination for families and will spark children’s imaginations as they play on the waterfront set which includes Sarg’s Curiosity Shop, the Harbormaster’s office and Tilton’s Scallop Shanty. Visitors can also enjoy the outdoor Discovery Park featuring a catboat, lighthouse and a bathymetric and topographic Nantucket map. To reserve your visit or to learn more about the Whaling Museum and its other historic properties, please visit NHA.org.

VISIT PEACHTREE KIDS THIS FALL Peachtree Kids, located at 19 Main Street, has you covered for all your clothing essentials this fall from boots, sneakers, socks, rain gear, coats and more. 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. Be sure to follow them on Facebook and Instagram @peachtreekidsnantucket!

BACK-TO-SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE WITH AAN Each year, A Safe Place on Nantucket donates school supplies for local families in need. This school year, the Artists Association of Nantucket is helping to support their efforts. Back-to-school supplies such as markers, paper, pencils, erasers and backpacks are needed. Supplies are welcomed at the Visual Arts Center, 24 Amelia Drive, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday. Help make this school year extra special for the Nantucket youth! Also, please visit nantucketarts.org to see a list of AAN’s fall programming or to show your support for the arts.

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RELAXING INN STYLE A luxury spa located in the Finger Lakes region of New York redefines relaxation

As fall descends upon Nantucket, seasonal and year-round residents alike cast their eyes to the mainland to take a deep breath after the hustle and bustle of the summer season. Few places offer the kind of tranquility found at the newly opened luxury spa and healing center at the Inns of Aurora in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

Situated on 350 acres of bucolic farmland, the sprawling 15,000-square-foot spa looks out on the enchanting Cayuga Lake. The serenity of the landscape is reflected inside the spa itself through stunning design achieved by the global firm Hart Howerton. Here are some of the elements that make this spa simply otherworldly.

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THE BUILDING’S WHITE WALLS and chimneys, complemented by dark metal windows, are a nod to the tradition of white farmhouses. But the choice also ensures the surrounding colors of nature, changing season to season, feature as the primary palette.

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used for the furniture brings warmth and texture to the modern building, reinforcing feelings of serenity and safety.

REINFORCING the design’s commitment to health and well-being, the spa is registered to pursue WELL certification, the premier global standard for advancing human health and well-being in buildings. The WELL Building Standard is a performance-based system for measuring, certifying and monitoring features of the built environment that impact human health and well-being through air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort and mind.

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In addition to hypnotherapy, Monarch Face and Body offers a number of restorative treatments.

You’ve started offering hypnotherapy at Monarch Face and Body. What’s the experience like for a client?

What are the health benefits?

The health benefits of hypnotherapy are endless. A few that interest me most include stress reduction (according to recent studies, stress is one of the main causes of most diseases), anxiety (one of the most common and debilitating emotional states, which keeps individuals feeling stuck, losing sleep at night and unable to experience life to its fullest), depression (often caused by a traumatic childhood experience, which is sometimes not recognized as trauma), pain, IBS and weight gain.

Are all people able to receive hypnotherapy?

Yes, everyone can be hypnotized. In my experience, when someone is skeptical of something it usually means they don’t have much knowledge on the subject. In this case I would share facts on what hypnosis is so they have a better understanding of it. A fascinating study published by American Health Magazine found that it took 600 sessions of psychoanalysis to create 38 percent recovery in patients; behavior therapy created 72 percent recovery after 22 sessions in patients; but it only took six sessions of hypnotherapy to create 93 percent recovery in patients.

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Generally speaking, the experience is relaxing, transformational and potentially emotional.

During hypnosis you have your eyes closed and you’re guided to a relaxed state of mind, beginning with a guided meditation script in order to reach theta brain wave state. Once in theta brain wave state, you are guided to look at blocks, limitations or even past traumas from an objective point of view and from an observer’s perspective. You are able to feel the emotions of the experiences, just not as intensely as you would while it was happening for real. So you are not reliving the uncomfortable or traumatic experiences. Instead, you are observing them and being guided by the hypnotherapist to create changes within that memory in the subconscious, therefore creating new, more positive outcomes and new neural pathways that transform you and change your reality so you no longer feel limited. You are able to break an unhealthy habit (and create a healthy one) or let go of an emotional challenge. In the first session, I also teach you self-hypnosis so you can practice daily to reinforce the positive changes.

What are some misconceptions of hypnotherapy?

Here are a few facts on what hypnosis is and what it isn’t. During hypnotherapy you are not asleep. You are awake in a relaxed state and you are able to remember everything from each session. Hypnotherapy is not like drinking a truth serum. You are in full control and will be able to keep your secrets to yourself. No one can make you do anything you don’t want to do. You will not get stuck in a trance either. Hypnosis is a natural state of being. It is a safe and calm experience. It is a state similar to daydreaming, for example, like when you are driving long distances and lose track of time or the road passing and finding yourself thinking random thoughts.

In the theta brain wave state, we are almost asleep but not quite. That’s the state of hypnosis, and in that state, we are able to bypass the critical factors of the mind—the logical, analytical, linear thinking—and get straight to the subconscious, where all of our beliefs, memories, emotions, habits and automatic bodily functions live. In hypnotherapy sessions we are having a conversation with your eyes closed. Hypnotherapy feels like guided meditation but has a specific agenda and it is one of healing what needs healing.

Schedule a session with Monika Rudnicka at MonarchNantucket.com.

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A longtime island summer resident, community supporter and Nantucket Cottage Hospital board member, Melanie Sabelhaus was selected by the NCH board to receive the annual Percelay Philanthropy Award. The award recognizes an individual who through their “time, talent and treasure” has the most meaningful impact on NCH during a given year. Sabelhaus came to the island for many years with her late husband Bob,

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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker was on Nantucket last month for a fundraiser at a private residence in Polpis, along with Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito. In his remarks, Baker hit on the state’s response to the pandemic, Photo by according to several people who attendWendy Hudson ed, and specifically criticized the media for its coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak in Provincetown. The outbreak resulted in nearly 1,000 people becoming infected but only seven required hospitalization. Yet it was portrayed as if the vaccine had failed, Baker said, when in fact it showed the opposite. The small number of hospitalizations out of a significant number of cases demonstrated that while the vaccine was not stopping transmission, it was extremely effective in preventing severe illness and death. Baker added that context should be applied to Nantucket’s recent cluster of cases by taking into account the large seasonal population on the island right now. Considering that there are 50,000 to 70,000 people on Nantucket in July and August, the number of cases and hospitalizations is extremely small, Baker noted.

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and she has previously served on the boards of the Nantucket Historical Association and the Dreamland Theater. In receiving the award Sabelhaus said, “It is an honor to be recognized but the real privilege is in serving an institution that is so critical to life on Nantucket.”

According to Bruce A. Percelay, “Melanie’s energy and enthusiasm for this hospital has been invaluable and we wanted to recognize her for these outstanding efforts.”

SANKATY GOES DARK

The Sankaty Head Lighthouse has been dark for almost a month after being damaged by an indirect lightning strike. The U.S. Coast Guard is in the process of repairing the light, according to the ’Sconset Trust, which maintains the lighthouse. In mid-July, the Coast Guard added Sankaty Head Lighthouse to its weekly “Notice to Mariners” bulletin to advise the maritime community about its status along with other discrepancies in aids to navigation.

According to the ’Sconset Trust, Sankaty Head Lighthouse has been an active aid to navigation for more than 160 years. It is visible for 25 miles at sea, and when operational, its light completes a rotation every 7.5 seconds.

The lighthouse was converted to electricity in 1933 and fully automated in 1965.

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Nantucket’s official year-round population is 14,255 people according to the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau figures released August 12. The new figure represents a 40 percent increase over the last census count of 10,172 in 2010. On a percentage basis, Nantucket grew more than any other county in Massachusetts. The new Census Bureau figures have been highly anticipated as they determine not only political representation, but also the amount of state and federal funding that comes back to Nantucket in many areas, including schools, transportation, childcare and health insurance programs like Medicaid. In Massachusetts, it is estimated that for every additional person added to a community’s official census population, it means another $2,400 in federal funding for that city or town. Despite the significant increase recorded on Nantucket, many islanders responded to the announcement with skepticism, believing that Nantucket’s true year-round population is even larger. The new official census number for the island is far below other recent estimates, including the analysis by the Nantucket Data Platform in 2017 that pegged Nantucket’s year-round population at 17,200.

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The Chicken Box, Cisco Brewers and the Gaslight all began requiring customers to show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test before being granted entry to the popular island establishments last month. They are the first establishments on Nantucket to implement such a requirement. Amid a growing COVID-19 outbreak on Nantucket being fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant and the challenges of implementing the town’s new indoor mask order in a live music environment, representatives of the Box, Gaslight and Cisco said they were putting the new policy in place for the safety of their patrons and staff, as well as the bands and vendors at their venues.

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Nine people were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard in Nantucket Harbor last month after a 41-foot powerboat struck the east jetty, leaving the boat high and dry on the rocks. There were no injuries reported. After getting all the passengers safely to land, crews from Coast Guard Station Brant Point provided them with lodging for the night in the station’s galley because there was no vacancy anywhere on the island. Coast Guard Station Brant Point launched its 24-foot response boat after getting a call directly from the boat’s owner around 10:45 p.m. that night, according to Master Chief Boatswain’s Mate Andrew Babione. The Coast Guard crew found the powerboat up on the rocks at high tide and brought all nine adults back to the station where they were assessed by EMTs and found to have no medical concerns. The boat, a 41-foot center console, and its passengers were headed back to Cape Cod at the time of the crash, Babione said. All nine individuals were screened, and alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the incident, he added.

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The USS Nantucket, the U.S. Navy’s newest littoral combat ship, was christened August 7 during a ceremony in Marinette, Wisconsin, where the vessel was built by Lockheed Martin. Nantucket summer resident Polly Spencer, the wife of former Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer, is the ship sponsor and broke a bottle of sparkling wine across the bow, adhering to a longtime Navy tradition. A delegation of Nantucket town officials, including Town Manager Libby Gibson, Harbormaster Sheila Lucey and Public Outreach Manager Florencia Rullo, was also present for the ceremony. Plans are in the works to have the ship make a pit stop in Nantucket waters at some point in the future. According to the Department of Defense, the littoral combat ships are fast, agile, mission-focused platforms designed to operate in nearshore environments, against 21st-century coastal threats. The platform is capable of supporting forward presence, maritime security, sea control and deterrence.

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(AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 14) Let’s take a trip with Nantucket’s very own award-winning historian, Nathaniel Philbrick. We’ll be traveling with Nat, his wife Melissa and their dog Dora, and retracing George Washington’s path in 1789 across all thirteen former colonies in Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy.

The United States of America at that time was divided and quarrelsome, grappling with issues of religion, race, politics and what it means to be American.

Sound familiar? Yes, Nathaniel Philbrick knows how to make history thrilling, important, compelling and very relevant to the present day.

Join Nat at Mitchell’s Book Corner on Monday, September 20th from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. for a book signing.

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BY STEPHEN KING September is still summer, especially with the newest Stephen King novel, Billy Summers.

Stephen King will always be the KING in my book. I would read the Yellow Pages if he wrote it. A murderous phone book anyone?

We can’t deny the man can write a good story and he has, over seventy times. This latest is about a killer for hire, who wants out of the business after one last hit. It's part war story, a love letter to small-town America, and all classic King, complete with memorable characters and just a great story well-told.

THE MADNESS OF CROWDS

BY LOUISE PENNY It would not be a September “Need to Read” piece without including one of my favorite mystery novelists, Louise Penny. We are catching up with the Three Pines residents and some of my favorite literary characters to see how they all fared through the COVID-19 pandemic. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is asked to provide security for a professor of statistics, whose agenda creates a madness of opinion and debate in the community. Come for the mystery, stay for the human insight.

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BY COLSON WHITEHEAD

(AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 14) When you win two Pulitzer Prizes, you deserve to be on this list regardless of what you publish next, but Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle is just as profound as it is entertaining. A bit of a departure, this is a novel of heists in a re-created New York City of the early 1960s. Most notably, and comparable to his past award-winning novels, it is a social exposé about race and power.

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THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS

BY RUTH OZEKI (AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 21) Coming later this month from Ruth Ozeki, the author of A Tale for the Time Being, is a story for those that who think books have the power to speak to us—The Book of Form and Emptiness.

One year after the death of his father, Benny Oh begins to hear voices, and realizes they are the voices of the material things around him.

One voice is a book that narrates Benny’s life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter. This is a big novel with magical and complex themes showing that books, in the author’s own words “connect readers and writers in a lively and deeply personal conversation.” After all, every book I feature in N Magazine has spoken to me.

FALL AND RISE: THE STORY OF 9/11

BY MITCHELL ZUCKOFF Where were you on 9/11? It is a question that anyone alive at the time will have an answer to. Often, events become more about the infamous date and lose the individual stories of those who lived, died and experienced it. With meticulous research and sensitivity, former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff gives us the definitive 9/11 account, Fall + Rise: The Story of 9/11.

Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, the author and Zuckoff will visit Nantucket on September 18th with the Nantucket Book Festival to share these recollections of tragedy and triumph. Joining him will be Brian Clark, a survivor and hero of the South Tower who escaped just moments before its collapse. This is a free event with registration at nantucketbookfestival.org.

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Fifty-Six Union marks the end of an era next month

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n this age of COVID-19, news of a restaurant closing has become tragically commonplace. Yet in the case of Fifty-Six Union, which will close this October after twenty-two years in business, the decision was not thrust upon owners Wendy and Peter Jannelle by the pandemic or any other external circumstances for that matter. “We felt it was time to close this chapter of our lives,” said Wendy. “Twenty-two years of doing this— and forty-five in the business—is a little much…and we wanted to go out on a high note.” Indeed, the couple’s planned exit has given them the opportunity this summer to say a long goodbye to their many devoted diners, some of whom have had weekly standing reservations since the very beginning.

Peter and Wendy first met back in 1982 while working at the old India House where Peter was the chef. Both had amassed extensive fine dining experience—Peter had also been the chef at the Languedoc and Wendy worked with Seth and Angela Raynor at the Pearl and the Boarding House— when they decided to take the gamble of their lives and buy a

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“When we bought this property twenty-two years ago, it was an investment,” Wendy explained.

“It was not only an investment in Nantucket real estate, but an investment in what we love to do.

We were able to live our dream.”

Together, with the help of their two sons and longtime employees like master bartender Evan Hourihan, who has been slinging drinks there for fourteen years, Wendy and Peter created a warm, welcoming dining experi-

ence that made Fifty-Six Union an institution on Nantucket. “We wanted to make memories for people,” Wendy said. They also created unforgettable food. Curating an international menu, Peter perfected staples like curried mussels or pecan-encrusted halibut that his faithful diners demanded he keep on the menu. “Everyone has their own niches,” the chef explained. “Ours was that we wanted to create food that was not too over the top with adornment and accoutrements on the plate. We focused on creating great, simple food from different parts of the world.” Indeed, Wendy and Peter brought their travels back to Nantucket, whether it was the truffle fries they found in Napa Valley or the dim sum they

discovered in Vermont. “We really didn’t pay attention to what other restaurants were doing,” Wendy said. “We just tried to be ourselves and be consistent.”

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Looking toward retirement, Wendy and Peter plan to take a long, well-deserved nap. When they come out of hibernation, they’re interested in creating a cookbook, teaching private cooking classes and possibly cooking intimate dinners in private homes.

But for the time being, they’re committed to savoring this final chapter of Fifty-Six Union. “Now that we’re shutting down, people have been telling us many stories about weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, rehearsals and all the many memories we made for them,” Wendy said. “It’s very humbling to think that you created that for people.

And that was our intention from the beginning.”

The Fifty-Six Union property was purchased by the Great Harbor Yacht Club, which will close on the property next month with plans to turn it into a private club. September is diners’ final opportunity to enjoy the unique cuisine and atmosphere created by the Jannelles.

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How Esmeralda Martinez became the voice of a community on Nantucket

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espite representing a growing percentage of the island’s year-round population, the Latinx community has never had an official voice in Nantucket’s town government. That was until this spring. Esmeralda Martinez is known on Nantucket for helping the Latinx community navigate cultural and language barriers. Even so, when she decided last year to make a bid to become the first-ever Latinx person elected to a town board, she was admittedly nervous. “I did not know what to expect,” she says, “but now that I am on the school committee, I feel honored that the community really made this happen for me.” Not only did Martinez get elected this past June, but she received a record number of votes, more than any other person in the long history of the Nantucket Public Schools’ board.

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vehicles. “I remember her mom and dad came in, and she translated for them,” Martinez recalls. “When they noticed I was there, I could see the little girl’s face. She was so relieved that there was someone that actually spoke Spanish and she didn’t have to translate for her parents anymore.”

Soon after Martinez started helping the Deras family more— their little girl, Emile, is now twenty-eight—and more Spanish-speaking island residents started seeking

tinez says. “I don’t feel they run into any racism issues. It’s mostly more of a culture shock. And, obviously, the language.”

Now taking college courses online and working as an administrative specialist for the town’s Planning & Land Use Services office, Martinez is determined to give all students what she didn’t receive: a greater opportunity to pursue college. During the school committee campaign, she talked about being a voice for the Latinx

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hough Martinez was born and raised in Boston, she knows what it’s like for a family to adopt a new country in a quest for a better life. In the 1980s, her parents fled the brutal Salvadoran civil war. She grew up in Allston/ Brighton and Revere, where, in high school, she met a boy from Nantucket whose parents owned the flower shop where she worked after school. They began dating, and after a falling out with her own parents, sixteen-year-old Martinez moved to Nantucket during a particularly snowy, bone-chilling March to live with her boyfriend’s family.

By the time Martinez was a senior at Nantucket High School, she was married and had a baby girl. She graduated on a Saturday in 2005 and started work at the Steamship Authority the following Monday. She would have liked to continue her education, but she had a child to support and for young women in her situation, she’d been told that college simply wasn’t an option. Instead, she became the only Spanish-speaking ticket seller at the Nantucket terminal.

Shortly after starting her job at the Steamship Authority, a girl of around twelve years old came to her counter asking to book a car reservation for her parents. The girl reminded Martinez of herself at that age, having to translate for her parents at parent-teacher conferences, the bank and the registry of motor

“The Latinx community is very supportive.

They’re very excited, very happy that there’ll be someone on the board to voice their concerns.”

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her out. Word spread that if you needed someone to help read your letters or fill out paperwork, Esmeralda at the Steamship was “your girl.” Everyone knew where to find her. “I called them my groupies,” she laughs. “It just made it easier for them. The Steamship was a very intimidating place at the time.” In the process, she also learned about their struggles, coming from different countries to a predominantly white community. She assisted however she could, helping residents navigate the RMV and apply for their driver’s license, and even becoming a justice of the peace to perform weddings in their native tongue.

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community and about building trust and collaboration. She plans to advocate for families and students, strengthen anti-bullying programs and rebuild connections and learning experiences affected

by COVID-19. She’s happy to see more outreach happening in Nantucket’s multicultural community, not just for Salvadorans, Mexicans and other Spanish speakers, but also for Portuguese and Jamaican-born residents. It’s a priority for her to bolster these efforts through her role on the school committee. “The Latinx community is very supportive,” she says.

“They’re very excited, very happy that there’ll be someone on the board to voice their concerns.”

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE

A Nantucket summer resident’s experience on September 11th

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isa Britton Parker was actually looking forward to jury duty the morning of September 11, 2001. A producer for NBC, Parker had just wrapped a grueling eightmonth project with Tom Brokaw that had finally aired two nights earlier on September 9. After months of working endless hours, she was now content to just sit in the courthouse in Lower Manhattan with a new book and a bagel and wait for her name to be called for jury duty. Gazing out the window of her cab as it was pulling up to the courthouse, something caught her eye. “What was that?” she asked the driver. His answer was unforgettable: “A plane.”

As smoke billowed from the North Tower of the World Trade Center, Parker hustled over to a pay phone and called her boss at NBC. “I think something has happened at the World Trade Center,” she said.

“Send a camera crew and I’ll meet them there.” Parker began walking toward the towers where people were exiting. With her reporter’s notebook in hand, she started speaking to those on the scene. There was a lot of confusion on the ground. Some thought it had been a news helicopter that had struck the building, or maybe a small prop plane. Suddenly a terrible sound filled the air. Parker looked up. “Oh my god, is that a plane?” she gasped. Before she could process the sight, the second airliner smashed into the South Tower.

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s a multi-award-winning producer of Dateline NBC, Parker was used to putting herself into dangerous situations for the sake of a story, whether that was entering the hideout of a dangerous white supremist or reporting from inside of a crack den. A Boston University graduate who went on to receive a master’s degree in journalism from Stanford, Parker had a reporter’s instinct. Her most recent project with Dateline followed two groups of Sudanese men, so-called “Lost Boys,” who were arriving in the United States after spending a decade in a refugee camp in Kenya.

The documentary would go on to haul in a slew of awards. Parker thought it was the project of her lifetime—but now, staring up at the Twin Towers pouring smoke into the pristine morning sky, she saw a wholly different story was emerging.

“The whole mood changed,” Parker recalled of being on the ground. “This was no accident.” While others fled from the building, Parker sprinted toward it. People were exiting the towers in all states of shock and terror, barefoot, bleeding, soaking wet from the fire sprinklers. One man seized Parker by the arm. “I just left them. I just left them,” he kept saying.

The man had been on one of the upper floors of the South Tower, where he and his fellow employees had been told over the intercom to stay in their seats after the first plane hit. “But I didn’t listen to them,” he told her. “All my co-workers stayed.”

And now they were all most likely dead.

Nearing the base of the buildings, Parker came to a makeshift police barrier. “I’m a reporter,” she said. “I need to get in there to do my job.” The policeman looked around and then let her by, saying, “Just don’t tell anyone I let you in.”

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“I saw the tower do a wave motion, this little bend. And I just thought, ‘Oh my god, that thing is coming down.’”

— Lisa Britton Parker

Tower falling. She looked back again to find a tsunami of ash and debris, a giant ball of black, descending upon her. Parker dragged herself to her feet and started limping away as fast as she could. She came to a divider in the street that she struggled to get over. Suddenly a man grabbed her by the arm and lifted her over it.

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tinued fleeing together. Spotting an older police officer in a state of panic, hastening back to his cruiser, Parker tried to get in the back seat of his car to take refuge from the debris, but the cop forced her back into the street, got into the driver’s seat and locked his doors. Meanwhile, the ball of

were gathered on every street corner staring up at the unfamiliar sight of a lone tower piercing the sky. “I’m scared to let you go,” Parker said to the stranger as they prepared to part ways. The man had just started a new job and had been in one of the Twin Towers. “But we made it,” she said.

“I thought for sure I was dead. It was like someone took a really thick black felt blanket and just wrapped it around you as tight as possible and then shoved it down your throat.”

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black kept rolling toward them. “This thing was just coming, you could feel it, you could hear it, you could smell it,” she recalled. As the wave of debris consumed them, Parker and the man crouched down and put their arms around each other. The man yelled for her to pull her shirt over her face, but the material wouldn’t give.

She took a big breath as the debris engulfed them.

“I thought for sure I was dead,” she recalled. “It was like someone took a really thick black felt blanket and just wrapped it around you as tight as possible and then shoved it down your throat.” They were in darkness for what felt like an eternity. Dust and debris penetrated every orifice. Staggering to their feet, Parker and the man stumbled down the street in a daze. “We looked like two gray ghosts,” she recalled. “I’m walking, holding the hand of a complete stranger.”

They continued walking through Manhattan. New Yorkers

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Passing through the barrier, there was no one to tell even if she wanted to. The streets were mostly empty.

Reams of paper floated through the sky like tickertape. The scene would have been beautiful, she thought, if it wasn’t so eerie. She reached the edge of the World Trade Center. Throngs of firefighters were on the ground staring up at the buildings bleeding smoke and debris. The horrible reality began setting in. A cold sense of dread filled her gut. “What am I doing here?” she asked herself.

Parker turned to leave, but stopped and shot a quick glance back up at the buildings. “I saw the tower do a wave motion, this little bend,” she recalled. “And I just thought, ‘Oh my god, that thing is coming down.’” Parker started sprinting through the streets, but before she was more than a few blocks away, a wave of air lifted her up and threw her down hard onto the pavement. It had been the pressure of the South

“We’re alive…Thank God, we’re alive.” They shared a final embrace and then went their separate ways.

Twenty seconds later, the second tower fell.

Parker was now far enough away that the debris from the second tower wouldn’t reach her, but the sight of it falling still sent her into a panic. She ran up to those gathered in the street and pleaded for them to flee.

“I was desperate to have them leave,” she recalled. A woman took her by the shoulders, looked her in the eyes, and said, “You’re having a panic attack.” Hearing this snapped Parker back into reality. She continued walking toward 30 Rockefeller Plaza to rejoin her team at NBC, which had now set up a makeshift office across the street after a bomb threat was called in. On the way, she spotted a priest dressed in flowing robes with a big cross around his neck, standing in front of the church with his hands raised to the heavens. Parker decided to enter the church. “It was packed to

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the gills,” she recalled. “All these people were praying and crying.” She took a seat at one of the pews and said a silent prayer.

Within twenty minutes of reaching NBC’s headquarters, before she even had time to get the dust and debris out of her hair, Parker was thrust in front of a camera to share her eyewitness account with the millions watching around the world. Despite being in shock, she dove directly into the whirlwind of work, helping NBC cover the Pearl Harbor of our time. She continued at that pace in the office for two straight days until something drove her back into the street.

“I started showing up at the site,” she said.

“Nobody could get in.”

Police had set up a perimeter around Ground Zero, admitting only rescue workers and other officials. But for some reason, when Parker asked to enter, the police let her pass.

“I went back every day for two weeks.”

Parker spent most her time during those two weeks sitting in a makeshift cafeteria where rescue workers, firefighters and other officials gathered. When she told her boss at NBC that she was gaining access to the inner sanctum of Ground Zero, he pleaded with her to bring a camera and shoot some footage. “But I couldn’t take out my notebook or the camera,” she recalled. “I just sat there and talked to people.

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There were a million sad stories.” Workers with heavy machinery had come from all over the country to help recover the victims. Any time a rescue worker thought they found a person or someone’s remains, everything stopped. Silence broke out over the site. “As sad and as hard as it was, it was an incredible effort to witness,” Parker recalled. “People just showed up to help in this heroic recovery mission.” She never did take out her camera or notebook. Sometimes she would help hand out hot meals to the workers, but mostly her time at Ground Zero was spent processing an experience that would alter her life—and the lives of all Americans—forever.

Twenty years later, the memories of those days are just as visceral. Parker and her team at NBC earned several of awards for their coverage of the aftermath of the attacks.

Parker herself was nominated for an Emmy that year for breaking the story of the shoe bomber the December following the attacks. NBC gave her hazard pay for her 9/11 coverage. “It’s normally given to reporters who go to war zones,” Parker reflected. “I never imagined in my life that I would be getting war pay in my own town.”

Yet it’s not the footage from those segments that brings her back, but rather a box of items she had tucked away until recently. Inside was her jury duty card from that morning. The journal she kept in the days following the attack. The gas mask she wore on Ground Zero. And the business card of a friend from high school who was the only person she knew personally to perish in the Towers. “I knew him since he was a little boy,” she said. “His name was Blake Wallens. He was a spectacular guy. A truly special human being. Newly married. And I just think this is why I have to keep sharing this story.

There are so many stories like his in those buildings that need to be told.”

Listen to Lisa Britton Parker’s full story on a special September 11th edition of the Nantucket Sound podcast by scanning the Flowcode or logging onto Nantucketpodcast.com.

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he twenty-five-acre Tom Nevers Park on the southeast shore of the island— what some consider one of the crown jewels of Nantucket’s public spaces— gets a grand total of four sentences on the town’s official website. The town describes it as “remote,” featuring “old pavement” with playground equipment that is “somewhat outdated.” Island resident Cheryl Emery is a little more blunt in her assessment. “It looks like crap out there,” she says.

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“[Tom Nevers] could be such a beautiful reflection of the community. We need more programming and activities for kids.”

— Cheryl Emery

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The carnival, which has been defunct in recent years, was one of the few popular uses of Tom Nevers Field.

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ndeed, the park is at the former location of the island’s U.S. Navy base and it still bears a lot of that military utility. The two baseball diamonds are functional and continue to be used each summer, but are not in great shape. The old roller hockey rink built in the late 1990s is in disrepair. In June 2019, the playground equipment had grown so rusty and rundown, the Department of Public Works (DPW) put up yellow caution tape and then removed it. (New playground equipment has since been installed.) But the condition of Tom Nevers Park led Emery and a group of island residents to embark on their own mission to improve the beachside area.

“It could be such a beautiful reflection of the community,” Emery said. “We need more programming and activities for kids.” Along with Jesse Dutra, Elisabeth O’Rourke and others, Emery—who at the time was serving as an appointed member of the town’s Parks and Recreation Commission—held a forum at the community room of the town’s public safety facility and made the rounds to the Tom Nevers Civic Association and the Civic League and other groups.

The presentations and listening tour became the basis of a plan to upgrade and improve Tom Nevers Park with new fields, tennis and basketball courts, a play-

ground, ADA-accessible walking trails, shade structures and public restrooms.

The old John F. Kennedy bunker, a relic of the Cold War that remains on the property to this day, would be opened to the public as a museum to showcase the history behind the subterranean structure.

In November 2020, those plans were largely adopted as part of the town’s Parks & Recreation Master Plan. Drafted by the firm Weston & Sampson, the plan calls for a phased approach to the improvements at Tom Nevers, starting with the new playground, parking, basketball courts, beach access and landscape improvements in the first phase. The preliminary estimated price tag in the master plan is between $4 million and $5 million for the first phase alone.

After the COVID-19 pandemic put plans for any major town project on hold, municipal leaders are now looking ahead to 2022 and the potential for

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came to a boil in June at the island’s annual Town Meeting. The town has not had a formal parks and recreation department since 2010, and some have said the DPW’s wide range of responsibilities beyond the parks has left__ them without the attention they deserve. “The whole park system is broken,” Emery said, “because we don’t have a parks and rec department. There’s no budget, no money; it’s all been stripped away.”That will change soon, however, after island resident Maria Zodda sponsored a warrant article at Town Meeting to reinstate the position of parks

“The whole park system is broken because we don’t have a parks and rec department.

There’s no budget, no money; it’s all been stripped away.”

— Cheryl Emery

funding capital projects, including the initial work at Tom Nevers. “We’re trying to work these projects into our capital improvement plan,” said Town Manager Libby Gibson. “The phases [of the Tom Nevers project] need to get into that plan.”

With Nantucket Police Department Chief Bill Pittman suggesting that the Boston Pops on Nantucket—the island’s largest summer event— be moved from Jetties Beach to Tom Nevers Park, the improvement plan for the area will likely be moved to the front burner in the coming year.

But still, there are several factors working against the project as proponents look ahead to 2022. Number one is that the DPW, which currently oversees all of the island’s parks, recently lost its director, Rob McNeil, who resigned from his post in late July. The fact that the department is in charge of the island’s recreational areas to begin with is another bone of contention that

and recreation director in municipal government. The proposal was approved in a landslide vote, and the town is now undertaking the process of redefining the new role, advertising the position and initiating the hiring process.

Yet even when the DPW has leadership again and the parks and recreation department gets resurrected, the costs associated with the project could pose another challenge. The cost of construction and building materials has soared in the past year, meaning the original $4 million to $5 million estimate for just the first phase of the project is most likely going to be revised upward. But proponents are still hopeful that after years of work and now long-awaited recognition by the town that improvements to Tom Nevers Park should be a priority, their vision for this underused property will come to fruition.

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Bats across North America are being devastated by disease—but here on Nantucket, they’re soaring

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he sun begins to set as Nantucket Conservation Foundation ecologist Danielle O’Dell—also known as the “Bat Lady”— prepares for a night of field work. As she drives down a winding dusty road, the sun’s vermillion rays coat the tips of the pitch pine forest where she and her assistant Libby Buck will set up mist nets across forest trails in hopes of catching northern long-eared bats. “It’s been a lot of work,” O’Dell says. “It’s adapting myself to working at night when I’m inherently a morning person, but I’m learning so much new stuff…It’s inspiring work.”

After dark, the mayhem soon begins as bat after bat flies into the nets where they are then carefully untangled and processed. Taking measurements and skin samples and banding the bats are all part of the field work O’Dell and Buck have trained to do, but they must also check for signs of a devastating fungus killing bats across the country. By swabbing the wings, checking for orange spots under black lights and looking for scars, O’Dell and Buck look for signs of white-nose syndrome.

A northern long-eared bat on Nantucket

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uring 2006 and 2007 in New York, biologists first began noticing bats dying from a mysterious fungus called Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd for short). This fungus is the cause of white-nose syndrome, which has quickly spread throughout eastern and central North America from bats hibernating closely together in caves and mines.

On infected bats, the fungus coats the wings and face, taking on a powdery white appearance while causing the metabolic rates of the bats to increase, which wakes them from their hibernation. With their wings damaged by the fungus, combined with the difficulty of finding food in the winter, many infected bats eventually starve to death.

Interestingly, bats were not thought to even reside on Nantucket until they were discovered in 2015. While researching the potential impacts of offshore wind on migratory bat species, Zara Dowling, a Ph.D. student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, put acoustic detectors across the island to see if bats were present. To everyone’s surprise, Dowling’s detectors found that there were plenty of bats on the island.

“To have a mammal species escape notice for all this time, after all this study, I just find to be really interesting and inspiring,” says O’Dell. “You think you have a handle

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on things and then you come to find something totally new…I was super excited.”

In July 2016, researchers placed nets near the acoustic detectors and were able to capture juvenile and lactating female northern long-eared bats, which proved they were breeding on the island. Not only were the bats breeding, but it was soon discovered that they were also hibernating in crawl spaces and basements across Nantucket. According to O’Dell, “that one little piece of information has completely changed a lot of the work that we do at the Foundation,” since much of their work is now centered around summer and winter habitat use of the bats on Nantucket as well as how to manage these habitats to encourage persistence of the species.

The recent detection of northern long-eared bats on Nantucket makes it all the more “To have a mammal important to study the species species escape notice since they are being devastated for all this time, after on the mainland by white-nose all this study, I just find syndrome. “Northerns are not to be really interesting doing well anywhere else right and inspiring.” now,” O’Dell explains. “In most — Danielle O'Dell places you have a very hard time finding northern long-eared bats; they are just gone…So it’s super, super critical that we protect our populations.”

Once found throughout much of the central and eastern regions of the United States and Canada, this species is becoming increasingly hard to come by and is considered a high risk for extinction throughout its range.

“In most places you have a very hard time finding northern longeared bats, they are just gone…

So it’s super, super critical that we protect our populations.”

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during the day. Most important, the Nantucket Conservation Foundation will be working on developing an artificial hibernaculum that could be used by bats as they hibernate throughout the winter. If successful, these hibernacula can be placed on properties around the island and possibly even offisland to reduce the density of bats hibernating in caves and mines, thereby reducing the spread of white-nose syndrome.

As the population of northern long-eared bats continues to decline, Nantucket’s healthy population does offer hope.

And biologists like O’Dell will be working hard to study and monitor the species to help maintain its population in the island’s forested areas for years to come.

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To date, only one bat has been found to have died from white-nose syndrome on the island, while another tested positive for the fungus that causes the disease, but the overall resilience of the population provides hope for the species.

It’s not exactly clear why the bats are doing so well on the island, but the Nantucket Conservation Foundation has come up with a few hypotheses. First of all, the weather on Nantucket stays warmer for longer into the fall, so the bats have more time to build fat reserves before entering hibernation. This means that in the case of a bat contracting the fungus, they would have enough fat reserves to last them through the relatively short hibernation time. Furthermore, the northern long-eared bats on Nantucket also don’t hibernate with other species in tightly packed caves and mines. In fact, the hibernaculum with the most bats found on the island numbered no more than five individuals, and this significantly reduces the chance of the fungus spreading to a larger portion of the population during hibernation. Whatever the reason for the success of the bats, it is essential that the population is continuously monitored as white-nose syndrome continues to spread.

To many, bats are dirty vermin that are responsible for spreading disease, but these small animals are actually essential parts of most ecosystems. Bats are responsible for consuming large amounts of insects that would otherwise interfere with human health and agriculture, helping farmers save billions of dollars each year. No matter how snaggletoothed or beady-eyed they are, it’s hard to deny the importance of bats despite their vilification in the media. While the population of bats on the island seems steady for now, there are several ways for people to help these creatures continue to thrive.

Attracting native insects by growing native plants or maintaining a pollinator garden helps ensure bats have enough food, especially as they prepare for hibernation. Putting up artificial roosts, maintaining forested landscapes and leaving dead trees alone can also provide places for bats to rest

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Sankaty Head Golf Club commemorates its centennial this September

The clubhouse on the hill at Sankaty Head Golf Club

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View of the east side of Sankaty Head Golf Course

ankaty Head Golf Club sits in the shadow of the 171-year-old Sankaty Head Lighthouse on the eastern end of Nantucket, the last visible evidence of the Laurentide ice sheet that extended down from Canada twenty-five thousand years ago. The course twists and turns through what nature left behind in a sea of scrub oak. From every vantage point, a player feels a connection to the place and its rolling terrain. The course can both delight the novice and challenge the scratch player. With the island being thirty miles out to sea, the wind at Sankaty is constant and ever-changing. A short par 4 might command the player to use an iron one day and a driver the next. The course plays firm and fast in true linksland fashion.

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ne hundred years ago, Sankaty began as one man’s gift and another man’s vision of what a championship course should be. The course came to be as a result of a team of friends who, having found an ideal setting, enlisted members and transformed a dream into reality. David Gray, a Detroit businessman, became serious about the prospect of developing a suitable golf course and clubhouse in ’Sconset in 1919. Gray had recently become the primary beneficiary of an

investment made by his father at the founding of the Ford Motor Company.

With the windfall in hand, Gray assembled his good friends at his Milestone Cottage in ’Sconset on July 5, 1921, and proposed that he would acquire the land surrounding what was known as Mayflower Hill and fund the building of a clubhouse and the construction of a golf course. The Sankaty Head Golf Club was incorporated that day and his friends became the first board members. Almost immediately thereafter, options at $20 per acre were exercised on twenty-nine parcels of land, totaling 276 acres, and the footprint for the golf course and the clubhouse was established.

David Gray

Gray and the new club board appointed the then two-year reigning champion golfer on Nantucket, H. Emerson Armstrong, to lay out the course and oversee its construction.

“I have traveled a great deal, and I have seen nothing more beautiful, more restful than this wonder country here at ’Sconset.”

— David Gray

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Armstrong came from good golf stock.

His father, George, was both a championship golfer (one of twenty-eight players who took part in the first “unofficial” U.S. Amateur championship in 1894) and had spent many years nurturing his son’s love of the game and golf course

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design. Gray understood that while not formally

club. Today, 545 members, seasonal visitors and na-

trained as a golf course architect, Armstrong had

tional and international golf champions enjoy Sankaty

developed almost a symbiotic relationship with the

and all its challenges. “Oh, just look at it,” Gray said

Sankaty land on account of his extensive excursions

of his course a year after that first round. “It’s beauti-

hacking his way through the scrub oak that covered

ful. Restful. That’s it, rest-

much of the island.

ful. Why, you could sit

Armstrong wanted Sankaty to be a “champi-

out here all day and look

onship” course equal to the great Scottish courses

down across that stretch

of his time. “Every lover of the Royal and Ancient

of country and never tire

Game of Golf, who has ever driven over the island

of it…I have traveled a

of Nantucket, is impressed with wonderful possibili-

great deal, and I have

ties from a golfing standpoint,” he

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“Every lover of the Royal and Ancient Game of Golf, who has ever driven over the island of Nantucket, is impressed with wonderful possibilities from a golfing standpoint.”

— H. Emerson Armstrong

course will be of championship nature, being built

(Clockwise from the top) H. Emerson Armstong; a Sankaty Head golf pro in the 1930s; Sankaty Head caddy in 1930; putting at Sankaty Head Golf seen nothing more beautiful, more restful Club; two ladies at the club in the 1920s. than this wonder country here at ’Sconset.”

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For one hundred years, Sankaty has ben-

upon the most up to date lines of golf course con-

efited from the ingenious design choices made by

struction…People who have played the celebrated

its course architect and the careful stewardship of

British Courses say there is nothing finer on the oth-

the club leaders who have followed. To celebrate

er side of the water, so far as the possibilities of this

this milestone this September, Sankaty is hosting 264

Golf Course are concerned.”

talented mid-amateurs who have qualified for the

told a Cape Cod tourism magazine in early 1922.

“Its moors remind one of Scotland…The [Sankaty]

Construction moved quickly from July 1921, and

40th U.S. Golf Association Mid-Amateur Champion-

on September 2, 1922, Gray and his fellow Sankaty

ship. There are golf courses and then there are golf

members were able to play their first round of golf on

courses, but with a stunning perch on the Atlantic in

the front nine. The membership had swelled to more

the shadow of one of the country’s most iconic light-

than 150 by that time, a healthy beginning for a new

houses, Sankaty stands alone.

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Donick Cary’s wild trip to show business

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“Every day was a carnival of fun...This was in the middle of the talk show wars with Leno, so it was a very interesting time to be working with David Letterman.”

— Donick Cary

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those days, Cary would lend a hand by driving the talent to and from the shows. Behind the wheel of Michael Kopko’s old 1972 Buick Skylark complete with incomplete brakes, he’d keep his guests entertained with jokes as he pointed out which watering holes they should hit after the show. “Oh, you’re so funny,” one of the dancers gushed. “You have to meet my husband…you guys would really hit it off!” Cary accepted her invitation and was later introduced to her husband Steve O’Donnell, one of the head writers on Late Night with David Letterman. “It was one of those lightning moments in life

where you know you’re going to remember this,” Cary said.

While O’Donnell didn’t line Cary up with a gig at Letterman that night, the serendipitous meeting put the career path of being a television writer in his mind, so that when Cary was a junior in college, he took a year off to pursue an internship at the Late Night show. After that, there was no turning back. “I found the house I

wanted to live in,” he said of being on the set of Letterman, “and did everything I could to fit in and stay.” Cary worked his way up from being a lowly intern in the graphics department to serving as O’Donnell’s writing assistant to then becoming a writer himself. All of a sudden, he was writing skits for his comedy heroes like Bill Murray and rubbing elbows with icons like Johnny Cash and Madonna. His favorite skit was of Letterman stacking mashed potatoes on his head and then going to the NBC payroll and impersonating Phil Donahue to pick up his paycheck.

“Every day was a carnival of fun,” he said. “This was in the middle of the talk show wars with [Jay] Leno, so it was a very interesting time to be working with David Letterman.”

Eventually, Cary got promoted to head writer and worked directly with Letterman on a daily basis. “Dave is hard to work with,” Cary said. “He’s incredibly smart, one of the funniest human beings on the planet, but he’s fueled by his own self-criticism.”

Ironically, as head writer, Cary found himself doing a whole lot less writing. On top of managing the stable of writers below him, he became pseudo-therapist to Letterman, juggling his emotions, expectations and frequent mood swings. What started as a dream job fueled by creativity became a chore producing toxic amounts of stress. “I was twenty-six years old, but I felt like I was eighty,” he said. Cary’s body began failing

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onick Cary’s brain is wired differently than most of ours. Whether it was creating zany skits for David Letterman as one of Late Night’s head writers, throwing Homer Simpson into hilarious situations as one of the producers of The Simpsons, or most recently writing and directing a feature-length documentary about psychedelic drugs, Cary has built a life and career that has been anything but scripted. And it continues to this day. When he was asked to speak at the Nantucket Yacht Club earlier this summer, Cary arrived by boat bearing a homemade Jolly Roger flag complete with dollar signs for eyes. While his entrance into show business some thirty years ago might not have been nearly as swashbuckling, the story is no less entertaining.

The son of professional actors Richard and Mara Cary, who, after their divorce, competed for headlines by running rival theater companies on the island, Cary was drawn to the stage early on. He particularly loved making people laugh and soon began consuming a steady diet of Monty Python, Charlie Chaplin and Bill Murray movies. “I knew I wanted to pursue comedy in some way,” he said.

“The magic of growing up on Nantucket is that people from all over the world pass through here, so if you’re looking to pursue something, you’ll probably cross paths with someone doing it.”

When Cary was sixteen years old, his father was producing a dance troupe from New York City. In

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him. He was diagnosed with an immune system disease, which he believed was brought on by the stress. “I always thought that if I got a job at Letterman I would never leave,” he said.

But when an opportunity came his way to write for The Simpsons, Cary jumped ship.

The Simpsons introduced Cary to the long form of animation. Coming from the hectic pace of late-night television, the nine-month process of creating a season of the animated show was a welcome reprieve. Cary’s four-year tenure at The Simpsons, added to his time at Letterman, solidified his stature as a top writer in show business. He’d go on to create and write dozens of pilots, including one based on his childhood on Nantucket that he titled “The Off-Season.” “I handed in this pilot to the Fox executives and they said ‘this doesn’t seem real,’” Cary recalled. “They started giving me notes; I didn’t realize you had to listen to them.” The show never got made, but it didn’t slow his ascension. Cary proceeded to write on a number of hit sitcoms like Just Shoot Me, Parks and Recreation and New Girl. During the end of the Bush presidency, he created an animated show for Comedy Central called Lil’ Bush, which ran for two seasons with Cary voicing the character of Lil’ Dick Cheney.

Throughout that time, Cary and his wife Kim remained committed to Nantucket, splitting their year between the island and Los Angeles. He was particularly involved in the Nantucket Film Festival, which nurtured his passion for documentaries and ultimately sparked the idea for his first feature-length film.

Eleven years ago, he was attending a film festival event when actor Ben Stiller told a story on stage about a bad acid trip he experienced. The highly entertaining story got Cary thinking about why these psychedelic tales aren’t told more often in public. So began a decade-long saga filming a documentary about the use of psychedelics, which debuted on Netflix last year. Have a Good Trip explores the world of psychedelic drugs through interviews with a slew of big-name figures, including Sting, Sarah Silverman, Carrie Fisher, Deepak Chopra and Anthony Bourdain. The film also delves into the groundbreaking uses of psychedelics in treating depression, PTSD and addiction. Have a Good Trip garnered a huge audience and has since become a platform to disseminate information about these powerful psychedelic compounds.

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“As humans, we don’t want to do things that are uncomfortable.

But traditionally, doing things that are uncomfortable is how we’ve evolved and become better humans. One of the ways that gets us to do those things is if we laugh about it.”

— Donick Cary

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ost recently, Cary has been working on a new documentary that centers on the renaming of the Washington Football Team, formerly known as the Redskins.

Before being raised on Nantucket, Cary was born in Washington, D.C., and has remained a devoted fan of the team his whole life. When the team’s original name came under fire as being racist and derogatory toward Native Americans, a national debate emerged, which Cary and his son Otis also took up in their own home. Their conversations inspired a fouryear project, traveling to reservations and speaking with Native Americans. Much like when diving into the world of psychedelics, Cary found a much bigger story to tell than simply determining whether a football team’s mascot was racist. In the context of

the racial reckoning happening in the country, Cary expanded the scope of the film to contribute to the national conversation and doing so in his own comedic way.

“It’s a little counterintuitive to say ‘here’s something horrific, let’s laugh about it.’ That’s certainly not the intention,” Cary explained when asked how humor can be used in addressing serious topics like racism. “As humans, we don’t want to do things that are uncomfortable. But traditionally, doing things that are uncomfortable is how we’ve evolved and become better humans. One of the ways that gets us to do those things is if we laugh about it. Maybe you can then listen a little more and bring your guard down a bit…I love that part of comedy. That comedy can help bring you into things that you might ignore or run away from.”

Log on to Nantucketpodcast.com to listen to Donick Cary’s interview on N Magazine’s podcast Nantucket Sound.

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The man who reshaped modern Boston

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t ninety-four years old, there’s no question that Jerry Rappaport has lived a full life.

Yet, as Abraham Lincoln would have noted, what’s most remarkable is not the years in Rappaport’s life, but the life in his years. A Harvard-educated lawyer turned developer turned philanthropist, Rappaport can trace his impact back to prestigious institutions, prominent political figures and entire city blocks in Boston that still bear his fingerprints. Today, he and his wife Phyllis are championing both cutting-edge medical research as well as the next generation of American leaders. This longtime Nantucket homeowner has achieved a lot during his nine decades of life by not wasting any time—starting from the very beginning.

A child of soaring intellect, Rappaport was a troublemaker in elementary school until a teacher discovered that he simply needed his energy channeled into more challenging

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subject matter. She turned him on to studying Latin America and by the fourth grade he was the foremost expert on the topic in the Bronx public school system. By the sixth grade, after his father moved the family to Manhattan, Rappaport was actually giving lectures on Latin America to the rest of the student body at the behest of his teachers. Outside of the classroom, the eleven-yearold competed in Kid Wizards, a New York City-wide radio show where he dominated questions on science, history and geography.

It wouldn’t be the last time his voice was heard over the airwaves.

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Eleven-year-old Jerry Rappaport (fourth from the left) competing on the Kid Wizards radio program

Rappaport proceeded to hopscotch through high school, skipping grades until the age of sixteen when he applied and was accepted to Harvard. “I was the first student from the Taft School to even think about going to Harvard,” Rappaport said.

“I chose Harvard because FDR had gone there and he had been my folk hero.” He completed his first three years of Harvard in just sixteen months and entered Harvard Law School. “I was filled with this passion about the world changing and the responsibility at the end of World War II of creating a better society,” said Rappaport, who, due to the fact that he was one of the youngest students at Harvard Law, was assigned the dean as his advisor. “Law school graduates became important in public affairs and elected office, but they were living in a monastery, a trade school, a vacuum. They needed to be exposed to the problems that were going to impact our world while we were at the law school.”

To expose his fellow students to real-world issues, Rappaport created the Harvard Law School Forum. Inspired by town hall forums he’d heard broadcasted over the radio, he asked the dean if he could start a forum where prominent government officials and academics would discuss the issues of the time. Approving of the idea, the dean gave him an office, a phone and a letter of introduction to Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter—a former professor of Harvard Law—who would help him enlist speakers from Washington. With five hundred to eight hundred people in attendance, the Harvard Law School Forum was broadcasted statewide over the radio and became the longest running law school speaker series in the country, featuring figures such as John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro and Martin Luther King Jr. over the years.

Graduating Harvard Law at the age of twenty-one, Rappaport was enlisted by Boston mayoral hopeful John Hynes to help run his campaign against James Michael Curley, the hugely controversial fourterm mayor whom Hynes had Rappaport speaking at the Harvard Law School Forum, which he founded in 1946 N - M A G A Z I N E . C O M

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John F. Kennedy, Jerry Rappaport and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. in 1952

briefly replaced while he was serving a jail sentence for mail fraud. “The campaign manager really allowed me to be at the center of everything in the political process,” Rappaport said. “I brought a whole new vision to the campaign.” He believed that victory could be secured for Hynes—whom many deemed a long shot—by rallying young voters behind the candidate. Though some political strategists within the campaign initially poohpoohed the idea, Rappaport succeeded in dramati-

that mission was the creation of a planning department that de“I was filled with this veloped a master plan passion about the of the city. Back in the world changing and the early 1950s, Boston responsibility at the end wasn’t the bustling of World War II of metropolis it is tocreating a better society.” day. “The population — Jerry Rappaport was diminishing by a hundred thousand,” Rappaport described.

(From left to right seated) FHA regional cally galvanizing the youth vote, which “People and retail stores were moving to the suburbs. Textile, head Andrew Young, publications from The New York Times shoe and leather manufacturing went south. The city hadn’t had Mayor John Hynes and Pete Bonan. (Standing) to Reader’s Digest lauded for Hynes’ a new building built in twenty-five years, except maybe the old Ted Shoolman and stunning win against Curley in 1949.

Jerry Rappaport John Hancock. This was all against the background that there As the Coronet wrote in 1953, “Rapwas no vision, no plan.” paport had molded in one year the most active political As the Hynes administration tried to introduce reforms to organization the city had ever seen.” Defeating Curley the city, members of the old guard on the city council, some of propelled Rappaport to political prominence, not just in whom were Curley loyalists, resisted and threw up roadblocks.

Boston but across the country.

Rappaport realized that reform would only come if a larger crossAfter the election, Rappaport became one of section of the population was engaged in city government. WorkHynes’ chief assistants in the mayor’s office and was ing outside of the mayor’s office, he turned to the army of young appointed to a three-man committee tasked with reorpeople he’d organized behind Hynes to form the New Boston ganizing and restructuring city government. Central to Committee, a broad-based citizens organization that would rep-

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resent all twenty-two wards. Within the committee, he created a civic council consisting of leaders from each ward that were recruited by his young allies. The New Boston Committee became a mighty political force that helped elect five out of the nine city council members and four out of the five school committee seats in 1951. At just twentyfour years old, Rappaport had effectively altered the face of city government. This did not go unnoticed. A year after John F. Kennedy was awarded the prize, Rappaport was named Massachusetts’ Most Outstanding Young Leader.

Despite his growing political powers, Rappaport Jerry Rappaport in his Boston office in 1988 wasn’t long for city government. “Early on, John Hynes told me not to enter govHowever, Rappaport’s most historyernment on the basis of making development came with Boston’s becoming a perpetual “The campaign manager West End. In the 1950s, the federal governoccupant of political ofreally allowed me to be at ment was promoting urban renewal in cities fice because you become the center of everything across the country by pledging to subsidize restricted, you become in the political process. an approved list of major projects through fearful, you become a I brought a whole new the Housing Act of 1949. Boston had three civil servant, you lose vision to the campaign.” such projects identified by the planning deyour vision, you lose — Jerry Rappaport partment, one of which was forty-four acres your freedom,” Rapknown as the West End. “The West End paport said. So, after area had been considered for redevelopment back for forty years because it was considered to be a slum,” Rappaport said. “That doesn't define the people who lived there; it defines the area. The statistics showed that it had narrow streets, four-story walk-up units.” Thirty percent of the apartments were abandoned, while 80 percent of the buildings were deemed substandard. The streets were tight and tangled. There was not high demand for the project. Rappaport joined forces with two others in bidding for the project, which had been approved for 2,400 apartments and commercial areas. Paying between $40,000 and $50,000 per acre, they won the bid, thus beginning a sixteen-year saga that would change Boston forever.

“Every newspaper in the city supported the West End project,” Rappaport said. “The church supported it, the unions supported it, the Chamber of Commerce supported it. It was conRappaport formed the New Boston Committee, sidered the great hope for the city.” Seeking to lure people back which reshaped the face of city government. from the suburbs, Rappaport hired first-class architects to create new luxury high-rises. They eliminated streets to make the neighthree years, he left city government and started his own borhood more walkable, from the Charles River straight through law firm that would transform the city of Boston in other to the other end of town. After completing the first section of ways. “I really thought that it was easier to change Boston apartments, they put up a sign reading: “If you lived here, you’d physically than change it politically,” he said. “I recognized be home now.” People got the message. early on that zoning in Boston was antiquated and needed “Charles River Park [as the development became known] to change.” Representing developers, Rappaport literally is probably one of the most successful in achieving what was brought the city to new heights by achieving the first height visualized as the goals for the city,” Rappaport said. “It brought variations in Boston, which would give rise to new fifteenback 7,500 people. It created a new tax base. It was the first restory towers in historic neighborhoods like the Back Bay.

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development project in the whole city. It was the first residential building. It was a first hotel built in years.

The first urban Stop & Shop.

It built the first urban movie theater since the 1930s.”

But not everybody welcomed the change. The development required the relocation of working-class families who lived in the West End. The sweeping demolition of decrepit public housing buildings resulted in the displacement of 4,700 families who were told they would eventually be able to return to the neighborhood—but few did. “I think that many of the people of the West End have a legitimate complaint about the way the policy was administered,” Rappaport said.

“There was an insensitivity to the relocation of both commercial tenants and lowincome tenants. There was a sense of community that could have been handled better.

But you have to understand that there wasn’t any experience with relocation at this size or scale. And it was all the government…we had nothing to do with it. We were the developers.” In the years following the West End

The development of the West End was a herculean undertaking that would take sixteen years to complete and would dramatically transform the city of Boston (Frani Collection, The West End Museum)

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elected, and has improved the relationship between Harvard and the city governments of Boston and Cambridge.

After he began selling his holdings of Charles River Park in the nineties, Rappaport accumulated some wealth.

“I never believed in having trustee kids, so I thought I would set up a foundation,” Rappaport said. He and Phyllis established the Rappaport Foundation in 1997, which was designed to promote emerging leaders in public policy, science and the arts. Through the Rappaport Institute at the Kennedy School of Government and the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy at Boston College Law School, they’ve supported more than 550 public policy fellows who have gone on to make tremendous impacts while holding prestigious positions in government.

“Charles River Park [as the development became known] is probably one of the most successful in achieving what was visualized as the goals for the city.”

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development, Rappaport represented other property owners and tenants as a lawyer to change how the law was administered in similar projects.

While other developments dotted Rappaport’s career, none reached the stature of Charles River Park. Instead, his future crowning achievements came in the forms of family and philanthropy. He raised ten children and put them all through college and multiple graduate schools. When the last child left the nest, Rappaport turned his time and treasure toward fighting Alzheimer’s disease, which had claimed his mother’s life.

“That was a disastrous disease, which was incomprehensible at the time because the body existed, but the person wasn’t there,” he said. “I was very impacted by it and I didn’t have a lot of money, but I wanted to do something about it.” With the help of his wife Phyllis, Rappaport established a modest $100,000 grant at Harvard Medical School to support graduates who wanted to pursue Alzheimer’s research. Today, the Rappaports are key drivers behind the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, which has awarded more than $125 million in research grants since 2004.

In the early 1980s, Rappaport endowed Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government to set up a fellowship designed for elected city and state officials from the city of Boston to attend a master’s program. The fellowship reflected Rappaport’s longtime mission of connecting academics with politicians, believing that both parties had much to learn from one another. “Politicians could know more about theory, and the academics could know how to put solutions into effect,” Rappaport explained.

“This wasn’t just about educating politicians; I wanted the students to learn the skills the politicians had to implement ideas.”

The fellowship has been in existence for thirty-five years, expanding to include appointed public officials as well as those

— Jerry Rappaport

Meanwhile, their partnerships with Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have empowered more than seventy research fellows in addressing some of the most confounding afflictions to mental health. And the Rappaports show no signs of slowing down. Earlier this summer, McLean Hospital announced the Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport Center of Excellence in Basic Neuroscience Research, which represented a doubling down on their decades-long support of emerging leaders who are seeking cures for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and other mental illnesses.

Building a lasting legacy usually takes a lifetime, but Jerry Rappaport still believes it was worth getting started early. “You don’t have to grow old to have an influence,” he said. Whether it’s the Harvard Law School Forum that continues to this day, the West End that remains one of the best residential communities in the city, the leaders emerging from his fellowships or the revolutionary science he and his wife are making possible, Rappaport is a testament to what one can achieve during their time on earth. Yet when asked what his greatest accomplishment is, he points to his wife Phyllis and then to the portraits of his large family hanging throughout their home in Sconset.

Jerry and Phyllis Rappaport at their home on Nantucket.

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Andy Card delivering the news to President Bush at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida that a second plane had hit the World Trade Center towers.

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What was your first political experience?

What were your impressions of Reagan?

I was elected to the Planning Board of the Town of Holbrook right out of college with my engineering degree. I eventually ran for MA State Representative and got elected in 1974, representing Holbrook and Braintree in Massachusetts. I did that for two terms. Then I represented Holbrook, Abington and Whitman for two terms. I ran a forgettable campaign for governor of Massachusetts in 1982. After I came in third in the GOP Primary, I got a call from James A. Baker III, who was chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan. He invited me to come work at the Reagan White House.

Ronald Reagan was a great communicator. He was also a very good listener and could translate what he was being told in such a way that made it more understandable for everybody else. I remember him being very comfortable and inviting to people.

Explain the next progression.

I was very close to George H.W. Bush when he first ran for president in 1980. I signed on in December 1978 as the volunteer chairman of his campaign in Massachusetts and got to work very closely with his sister Nan Ellis and came to know the Bush family pretty well. I ended up being his deputy White House chief of staff and in 1992 joined the Cabinet as secretary of transportation.

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A lot of people did not take George W. Bush seriously. How did he transition from someone perceived as an undisciplined party boy to someone holding the most powerful office in the world?

I happened to have the privilege to be an infrequent but passionate observer of how George W. Bush came to be the man he is today. He is one of the most disciplined people I have ever met. I watched George W. Bush as he matured and helped himself by making decisions about his own life that were not easy decisions to make. He stopped drinking, got serious about exercising and got serious about having more discipline around his faith. I then watched as he took that personal discipline and brought it into his everyday life of making decisions in government in complement with his MBA training and experience as Texas governor.

Among the many things he did while in office, President Bush tried to prepare for a pandemic response if we had one.

Were you involved with this?

We were very involved. There were new variants of flu and viruses coming out of China. And we paid attention to what we were getting in daily briefings from the health community, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and others. We were getting ready for the potential of N1 viruses, and the president on his own read articles and a book about the 1918 flu epidemic that happened to the United States and devastated Philadelphia and St. Louis. He devoured that book and said, “We’ve got to be ready for a pandemic.” So he convened the health experts in the Roosevelt Room of the

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“I happened to have the privilege to be an infrequent but passionate observer of how George W. Bush came to be the man he is today.

He is one of the most disciplined people I have ever met.”

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President Bush with Andy Card and Karl Rove in the Oval Office (photo courtesy of George W. Bush Library.)

West Wing of the White House. You had the head of the CDC, the head of the FDA, Tony Fauci was there, and the White House staffers that are involved in domestic policy. It was a very significant meeting. The president asked very good questions and challenged each one of the bureaucratic leaders that were there, saying, “We need to do something about it.”

there for President Trump to be able to follow. And some of the people that helped develop that roadmap are involved with President Biden.

What did he do?

Let’s talk about the defining moment of Bush’s presidency and the defining moment of your role as chief of staff. Explain the day leading up to Twin Towers being attacked.

He actually put together a plan and gave a speech over at the National Institutes of Health. He wanted to file legislation for Congress to get prepared for a pandemic and it was a very good bill. He sent a bill to Congress titled the National Strategy for Pandemic Preparedness, but it didn’t go anywhere.

There was no appetite in Congress to deal with it. The president was frustrated, but we were not under “a threat,” or at least a known threat. But clearly it was the best roadmap out

We were in Sarasota, Florida, at the Colony Tennis and Golf Resort. On September 11th, I got up very early and went outside to check to see if we were doing the right things to get ready to go to a school. We were going to the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota. The president was going to read a book with second graders and then address the community in an event at the school about education. We piled in the limousines to go over to the Emma E. Booker School.

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I do remember two people asking a question. One was Karl Rove, the other one was Dan Bartlett. “Did anybody hear about a plane crash in New York City?”

When did the president learn about the first plane?

We arrived at the school. We went into a classroom that had been converted to a White House command center with secure phones and the staff. The president went to a secure phone and called back to the White House to Condoleezza Rice, who was the national security advisor. I went into the classroom to make sure it was set up for the president to come in. I saw second graders lined up outside the door with their teacher. Then I walked into the holding room. I’m standing at the door to the classroom with the president and the principal of the school, and Deb Loewer, who was a Navy captain and acting national security advisor on the trip, came up to the president and said, “Sir, it appears a small twin-engine prop plane crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.”

President George W. Bush calls New York Governor George Pataki, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Robert Mueller and Vice President Dick Cheney from Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida. White House Chief of Staff Andy Card talks on a cell phone. (U.S. National Archives

What was his reaction?

The president, the principal and I all had the same reaction: “What a horrible accident.

The pilot must’ve had a heart attack or something.” With that, the principal opened the door to the classroom and the president and the principal walked into the classroom. The door shut. I’m still in the holding room. Captain Loewer comes up to me and said, “Sir, it appears it was not a small twin-engine prop plane; it was a commercial jetliner.” My mind flashed to the fear the passengers on the plane must’ve had. That was only a nanosecond, because Captain Loewer came up to me and said, “Oh my God, another plane hit the other tower at the World Trade Center.”

What was your first thought?

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Osama bin Laden. I knew about the Al Qaeda network. I knew about Osama bin Laden. I knew about the attack on the World Trade Center in January 1993 and that it was organized by the Al Qaeda network.

How did you plan on telling the president?

I made a conscious decision to pass on two facts and make one editorial comment. I thought about what I would say. I did not want to do anything that would have the president ask me a question or start a dialogue, because I assumed he was sitting under a boom microphone.

I knew he was sitting in front of a press pool and second graders. I walked into the classroom. I came in from behind the president. The teacher was conducting a dialogue between the students and the president. As the students were reaching under the desks for their books to read with the President, I walked up to him. I leaned over and I whispered into his right ear, and he never turned fully around to me. He just kind of glanced towards me. I said, “A second plane hit the second Tower. America is under attack.”

The president continued to sit there for a few minutes?

He did not say anything to me. He did not get up. I was very pleased with how he reacted, because he did nothing to introduce fear to those second graders. He did nothing to demonstrate fear to the media that would have translated it to the satisfaction of the terrorists all around the world. The president was still facing forward, head bobbing up and down.

I could tell he was really thinking about his responsibility.

What happened after President Bush left the school?

be true—that because some communications had been picked up where someone used the term “angel”—“angel” is the code word for Air Force One—somebody thought maybe Air Force One was a target.

There was a little bit of angst that floated around. We end up flying up to about 48,000 feet, and fighter jets were trying to catch up with us to protect us. Then the president says, “We’re going back to Washington D.C.” I said, “I don’t think you want to make that decision right now.”

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kids are all right, but he’s focused on his job and what else is happening.

Are there other planes out there? I We’re in the back of the limousine. remember him receiving a phone We call it the Beast. The president call from the vice president. He was and I are sitting there. We’re both on sitting at the desk. I was sitting right our cell phones. I’m calling back to opposite him. I can hear the presithe Situation Room in Washington, dent’s side of the conversation. The D.C., and the president was trying to president says, “Yes, I will authorize reach Secretary [Donald] Rumsfeld at our fighter pilots to shoot down the Pentagon. He’s very frustrated. “I commercial jetliners if the jetliners can’t get anybody to answer the phone are not responding to the FAA orin the Pentagon.” It turns out that’s ders and landing.” when the Pentagon was hit. We are I’ll never forget arriving at the airfield in Sarasota how the president to get on Air Force One. The limouhung up the phone sine comes to a stop. The president after he said it. He is frustrated. I’m getting out of the said, “I was an Air limousine, and I’m struck by the National Guard sound of the engines on Air Force pilot. I cannot imagOne running. ine receiving that order.” Very soon Why was that surprising? after that, Flight The normal protocol is you don’t 93 crashes into the start the engines until the president ground in ShanksPresident George W. Bush meets Saturday, Sept. 29, 2001, with Chief of Staff Andy Card, left, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and is safely on the plane. I said to myville, Pennsylvania.

CIA Director George Tenet at Camp David in Thurmont, Md. Photo by Eric Draper, Courtesy of the George W. Bush Presidential Library I will admit that I and others on Air Where did you land?

Force One wondered, “Did we shoot it down?” We did not. All those conWe flew to Barksdale Air spiracy theorists out there—no, we Force Base. The president had did not, but it was a cause for angst done some pretty remarkable for us. things that he wasn’t even told to do. For example, one What are your thoughts on of the first things he did when Working with his senior staff, President George W. Bush Flight 93? he got on the plane, he says, reviews the speech that he will deliver to the nation from the Oval Office. (Photo courtesy of National Archives) “I want to call President Putin The first heroes in the War on Terin Russia and make sure he ror were the civilians on Flight 93. self, “Mark Tillman [the pilot] must doesn’t think we’re doing anything to They’re the ones who found out really want to get out of here.” We run start a war. We don’t want him to do anyabout the attacks in New York beup the gangplank and get on the plane. thing stupid. I want to tell him what the cause they called back to friends at The plane starts rolling down the runsituation is.” He called President Putin. It home. They’re the ones that realized way almost before the door has been was a remarkable phone call. It was very that their plane was going to be used shut, certainly before the president or brief, but I’m so glad that he did it. Also, as a weapon of mass destruction.

I had taken our seat and put our seatwe’re paying attention to what has hapWhen they said, “Let’s roll,” they belts on. Mark Tillman was nervous pened at the Pentagon. We’ve got all this probably saved the nation’s capital that there could have been a stinger information coming in from Washington, from being attacked— specifimissile at the end of the runway. There D.C. The president is checking on making cally the U.S. Capitol or the White was also a rumor—that proved not to sure Laura’s all right, making sure the House—and saved countless lives.

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the president says, “I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down are going to hear all of us soon.” Everybody’s chanting, “U-S-A. U-S-A.” Unbelievably emotional. Literally at the time that was happening, Congress was voting virtually unanimously to go to war.

That same day, after he delivered the impromptu address, the president met with families of those fallen?

President Bush delivers his famous bullhorn address from Ground Zero (photo courtesy of George W. Bush Library.)

What was it like when the president visited Ground Zero?

We drove to Andrews Air Force Base, got on the spectacular 747 that became Air Force One as soon as the president got on it. We took off and we flew to Lakehurst up by Trenton, New Jersey, where the president was met by the governor of New York and the mayor of New York City. We then get on Marine One and fly out to the coast of New Jersey. The sky is strange because it was a beautiful day, but there are no planes in the sky. No planes coming up from JFK, LaGuardia, Liberty. No planes. And then you see her and she looks beautiful, the Statue of Liberty. The torch is glistening, and she’s spectacular. But then you see this pillar of black smoke coming out of the tip of Manhattan. Nobody in the helicopter is saying a word. And we circle around the pillar of smoke twice, all looking out the windows. It was just eerie and sad.

How did President Bush’s historic speech at Ground Zero come about?

The president says he wants to stop and get out. They stop the motorcade.

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is working down this crowd of people behind barricades. They’re all rescue workers. Some people are crying. Some people are cheering. He works his way down to what we call Ground Zero. The crowd is chanting, “U-S-A. U-S-A.” I see people hanging off of scaffolding. “U-S-A. U-S-A.” They’ve got Canadian flags on their uniforms, Japanese flags on their

We went into the Jacob Javits Center, which is a huge convention hall. We drive right inside the building. There were teams of rescue workers from every state in the union and I think thirty-eight other countries coming in to help go through the rubble and try to find survivors. The president went to every one of them, took his picture with them, thanked them, rallied them and then gets back in the limousine. But we don’t leave the Jacob Javits Center. We go to another part of it.

“The first heroes in the War on Terror were the civilians on Flight 93...When they said, ‘Let’s roll,’ they probably saved the nation’s capital from being attacked— specifically the U.S. Capitol or the White House—and saved countless lives..”

— Andy Card

uniforms. And there’s this crushed vehicle.

Karl Rove comes to me and says, “What are you thinking?” I said, “I’m going to ask him.”

I asked a Secret Service [agent] and they sent a guy up there who jumped up and down on this crushed vehicle. He gives me the thumbs up. So I said, “Mr. President, would you be willing to get up on that and say something?” And he says to me, “Do you think it’s appropriate?” I said, “If you think it’s appropriate, it’s appropriate. If you don’t want to do it, you don’t have to do it.

If you think it’s appropriate, you can do it.” An Advance person, Nina Bishop, finds a bullhorn.

The President gets up there and he starts to talk.

He’s got his arm around fireman Bob Beckwith.

Somebody yells out, “I can’t hear you.” And

The Secret Service opens the door.

The president steps out and said, “What’s this?” The advance team says, “We’ve got a room set up here. There’s a podium at the front of the room. Thought you could stay for fifteen or twenty minutes, make some remarks to the people.” The president asks, “Well, who’s inside the room?” And [the advance team] says, “We’ve gathered some of the families of the policemen and firemen that are missing down at Ground Zero.” The president says, “I am not going to the podium.” He just barges into the room. He went to every single person in the room. There were tremendous emotions. There was tre-

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is that if we completely abandon, Afghanistan terrorist groups would try to find safe haven there. I also worry about all of the Afghan people who helped our troops during the war, many of whom were promised a chance to come to America. We also empowered women, brought them into the mainstream of the Afghan economy—even into its government—and certainly helped to give young women and girls an education. I want to make sure, as we leave, we keep our word, and that we do everything possible to make sure Afghanistan does not go backwards but goes forward.

You’re both an optimist and a realist. The country is incredibly fractured today. What is your perception of the state of our democracy?

Can you talk about the lead up to the invasion of Afghanistan and how Iraq got pulled into the equation?

I’m very troubled with the state of democracy. It became significantly more tarnished and probably dented on January 6th.

I was in tears watching what happened. I was offended by what On Saturday morning, 10 o’clock, Camp David, the president was happening. If you rationalize that as a good act, you are not met with his national security team and all the players were rational. It’s irresponsible, inappropriate, and it damaged our there. The president said, democracy, but of even greater “We’re going to war. I want to significance, it empowered others “Don’t forget what happened know what that means and how to resist democracy around the on 9/11.

Those of us who were it’s going to work.” There was world. We’re the shining light on never to forget. there promised a very free-flowing discussion. the hill. We’ve all got work to do.

We don’t want you to fail It was very serious. I remember When I got involved in politics, the to keep our promise.”

Paul Wolfowitz, who was deprug of American politics had more uty secretary of defense, spoke rug than fringe. Today, it has more — Andy Card up and said, “Well, we’ve also fringe than rug. But you really got to worry about Saddam Hussein and Iraq.” And the presicannot govern well, unless you have the courage to stand on the dent bristled. Some other people at the table did too. We broke rug, recognizing that the thread on the left and the thread on the for a bathroom break and the president said, “I don’t want to right go through the center of the rug. There is more common hear any talk about Iraq or Saddam Hussein. This is to deal with ground than we want to admit. the problem that we have right now. So if Paul Wolfowitz brings I feel strongly that the burden that we have is to listen to it up again, he won’t be invited to any more meetings. I want other people. And young people, please, please, please get inyou to tell him that.” The president was not interested in going volved and recognize the opportunity that this country has given to Iraq, not interested in taking on Saddam Hussein. He was us. We’re still a young country compared to a lot of other hiskeeping his word that those who harbored terrorists were going toric leading entities around the world. Our democracy is worth to be just as guilty as the terrorists. We were going to make sure protecting. And it’s definitely in need of polish. Young people that no terrorist could organize to perform the kind of task that can polish it better than we can. If you’re twenty years old today, they did on September 11th, 2001. you were not around when 9/11 happened. Don’t forget what happened on 9/11. Those of us who were there promised never As we’re doing this interview, U.S. troops have left to forget. We don’t want you to fail to keep our promise. Make Afghanistan to be fully drawn down by the end of sure you put a pebble in your shoes on September 11th, so you’ll the month. Is this the way you thought the war in remember what happened that day and how many families are Afghanistan would finish? still carrying the burden.

I don’t think anyone anticipated that this war would last twenty years, but let’s not forget why we went in. Afghanistan was harboring terrorists, and they facilitated Al Qaeda’s attacks on the United States and several of our allies. The mission of the war was to make sure that Afghanistan would never be a safe haven for terrorists to plan attacks or carry them out. My concern today

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When he’s getting ready to leave, a short, stocky woman stands up and looks up at him right in the eyes and holds out her hand. She said, “This is my son’s badge. His name is George Howard. Don’t ever forget him.” And the president puts his hand out. She drops the badge in the president’s hand. The president takes the badge and squeezes it. Tears are streaming down his cheeks. And all of us are crying. And the president says, “Mrs. Howard, America will forget. They’ll start to move on. But you don’t have to worry about me. I will never forget George Howard.”

This interview has been edited and condensed due to space limitations.

Listen to the full discussion on a special edition of the Nantucket Sound podcast available on Apple Podcast, Spotify or NantucketPodcast.com.

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You worked closely with Eric Savetsky for a number of years; how do you think your approach will be different than his?

Waterfront has always been a high priority for the Land Bank, but now with the unprecedented numbers of visitors we are experiencing, expanding public beach and pond access is more important than ever. There are also some key inland conservation parcels that are ecologically important to acquire. Some properties are best left alone for habitat preservation, but there are also environmental benefits to making pedestrian and bike travel easier so people are less reliant on cars. I’m interested in providing greater trail connectivity or “greenways” in places where it makes sense. Overall, balance is the name of the game. We strive to achieve a balance between nature and human activity in our approach to every new project or in the development of management plans for Land Bank properties.

What role do you think the Land Bank can play in addressing the dire housing problem on the island and how do you foresee collaborating with housing advocates?

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The challenge we faced in the months leading up to Town Meeting this year made me realize that we need to do a better job communicating everything the Land Bank does for the island to the residents. It spurred us to develop a more robust social media presence, revive our quarterly newsletter and place a series of ads reinforcing our mission in the print media. The way people consume information has changed dramatically over the last twenty years. The previous thinking was that it was better to keep a low profile and try not to share the public stage with other local nonprofits who are out there trying to fundraise. But what keeps the Land Bank alive is community support, and everything we do is for community benefit, so it’s important that we keep people engaged and informed. I think you will see a more proactive community outreach effort from the Land Bank going forward.

What are your priorities moving forward?

More waterfront versus open acreage?

We made a real effort during this community debate to ensure everyone knew that we are also concerned about affordable housing. It’s touched all of us in one way or another. However, it is important to avoid pitting the public goals of creating affordable housing and open space protection against one another. We should strive to be working collaboratively to benefit all residents of the island.

We have tried hard to assist where we can while staying within the bounds of our mission and enabling legislation. Specifically, the Land Bank Commission voted not to charge a fee on the sale of homes that are restricted as affordable, and for market-rate homes, last year they increased our first-time homebuyer exemption for local residents from $600,000 to $850,000. We also routinely offer any surplus houses and any of their interior contents for free to affordable housing organizations.

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As an island we need to come at this problem from multiple angles. I’m committed to sitting down with affordable housing advocates to explore potential collaborations, either through a joint acquisition that serves both our missions or through other mutually beneficial opportunities. However, it’s going to require more than what the Land Bank can offer to make real progress.

In recent years, the Land Bank has purchased houses—like on Washington Street—and razed them to create open green space. What goes into those decisions and do you foresee taking similar action on other properties down the line? If so, where?

With every new property we consider, we review the structures on the property and think about what we would do with them. We consider factors such as whether they are historic, whether they can be used for employee housing, or whether they could be offered to affordable housing interests, etc. Generally, we try not to purchase properties with structures on them in the first place, but then there are amazing properties we make an exception for, or those that provide a valuable linkage that we need, so in some cases it’s unavoidable. We are also paying close attention to the town’s coastal resiliency planning discussions. It will be interesting to see if they identify certain areas of the island that would be better off without development. Removing impervious surfaces and structures generally increases flood absorption capacity, so flood modeling projections should theoretically identify vulnerable areas that would benefit from undevelopment. That will be a new, interesting data point for the commission to consider in their acquisition discussions.

As the Land Bank acquires more and more land, it is forcing greater housing density in the land that remains. Do you have any thoughts on the island’s density increase?

I don’t think the Land Bank is forcing greater density in the land that remains by continuing to acquire land. The majority of the land we are looking to buy is not land that is suitable for high-density development. However, I think there is also a case to be made that adding a little bit of open space here and there in high-density areas helps maintain the aesthetic character of the island and gives people a little breathing room in year-round neighborhoods. With all the development we’ve seen in recent years, the Land Bank is such an important, balancing factor—key to maintaining the quality of life we all enjoy.

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After that, key projects on the immediate horizon are: (1) Phragmites eradication at Consue Springs, which will open up views of the harbor from Orange Street; (2) an accessible dock on Long Pond; and (3) an ecological restoration of the Lily Pond.

Other than that, we will be expanding trail connectivity, increasing opportunities for local agriculture and exploring how waterfront parks can improve resiliency while also providing areas for public recreation.

Given the unprecedented boom of the real estate market— having already surpassed a billion dollars in sales—the Land Bank’s coffers must be full. Can you give us a sense of what your war chest looks like right now and what that’s going to enable the Land Bank to do?

Some have asked the question: When will it be enough? When will the Land Bank have fulfilled its mission of protecting enough land for the future of the island? What boxes still need to be checked for that determination to be made?

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I don’t think of the Land Bank as a static organization. There has been and will continue to be a gradual evolution to it, which makes sense since we are designed to respond to the needs of the community and those needs clearly change over time. We have evolved from where we were thirty years ago. At its heart, the Land Bank is a planning agency The Land Bank currently has about $44 with a focused mission, but we do so much million in unrestricted funds right now, but more than just protect land. We also provide $32 million of that has already been committed to upcoming and pending acquiecological stewardship of that land, create sitions. Skyrocketing real estate prices have made our revenue stronger than ever, new outdoor recreational opportunities for but properties we’re interested in purchasing are equally at an all-time high and everyone, and are actively expanding our agbeing snapped up quickly. That is the beauty of the Land Bank funding formula—it ricultural footprint, which will result in more increases and decreases in direct proportion to the strength of the real estate develfresh food for the island. We are still preopment market pressures and cycles. We currently have two waterfront acquisitions serving critical conservation parcels, but we in the pipeline and a few more that will enhance existing properties. We also have are also building parks that are integral and projects in the queue that are in various stages of planning and permitting that accessible spaces for community interaction hopefully we will be able to execute in the near future. amongst diverse segments of our population.

These are places where people socialize with The Land Bank is in a plum position to execute its vision. What their neighbors, take in the view, have a cup transformative projects do you envision in the coming years? of coffee, watch their children or dogs play, What are some of the key projects on the immediate horizon? etc. As our population continues to grow, We still have some punch list items for the Easy Street Park that will be completed we should continue to add these open space in September. Soon we will also open the park overlooking the creeks by the rotary, resources. In addition, we are all learning as well as the dog park on the corner of Surfside and Miacomet roads. These parks about the urgent need for climate resiliency will be accessible to people of all ages and abilities, create new vista opportunities strategies to protect the island. What exactly the Land Bank’s future role will be in this and result in transformative community spaces for the island. We also are putting all-in effort is still a work in progress, but the finishing touches on the coast-to-coast trail, which can be followed on the we know it will become more important in ACKTrails app, and a paper map is currently in design. the years ahead.

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(Above) Two railroad cars with passengers, stopped at the head of North Wharf on Easy Street; (left) Steamboat Wharf with the train at the station and the steamer Gay Head in dock

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(Clockwise from top left) train arriving to Sconset; train leaving Easy Street; Captain Jack Killen, driving a golden spike, to connect the newly replaced rails at Siasconset; railroad employees; Tom Nevers Head station.

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The perfect hostess gift is something homemade, a tea bread, a jar of jam, a bottle of herb-infused olive oil or a loaf of exquisitely baked bread paired with a cutting board. I love to give bulbs planted in a terra cotta pot wrapped in cellophane and tied up with raffia, which brings long-lasting enjoyment and the fun of watching them grow. I often gift a pack of printed calling cards, monogrammed coasters or beautiful cocktail napkins.

What three simple items can you add to a table setting to elevate its design?

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What theme would you give the perfect summer soirée on Nantucket?

My idea of the perfect Nantucket soiree would be a Gatsby-themed party, no question! I love the history of the roaring twenties—opulent partying into the wee hours of the morning, elegant high flapper fashion, gentlemen in tuxedos, feathers everywhere, dancing the Charleston, drinking champagne from over-flowing towers and enjoying the abundance of high spirit coupled with a tiny bit of naughtiness...Guests like to be transported to another time and place and the twenties are emblematic of a fantasy era where soirees reigned queen.

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The most elaborate party I’ve ever planned was a party for 800 guests at the home of Martha Stewart to benefit Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, with the iconic American interior decorator Mario Buatta (the Prince of Chintz) as the guest of honor. We sewed eighty-eight tablecloths using Martha Stewart’s baby blue and white striped fabric from her sheet collection. We kept the color palette simple, crisp and elegant with all white tents and lots of live greenery. The fabulously creative centerpieces were oversized ivy topiaries in different animal shapes, adding that child-like touch of whimsy, reminding us of the children we were there for. This was simple elegance at its very best and for the very best cause.

What’s a common mistake people make in planning a party?

As long as you’re hosting with open arms and love, you can’t make a mistake! But here is my ultimate recipe for a great party. I use our five senses as a guide when planning an event of any kind. Focusing on sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste is a small cheat sheet for identifying what makes guests feel at home in your home. I greet every guest warmly upon arrival. I always have flowers and candles, which set the tone. Music should ebb and flow with the tenor of the evening in tempo and volume. I often change the lighting throughout the evening. My culinary selections coordinate with my theme allowing delicious aromas to waft through the air adding to the ambiance.

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What’s one thing that most people don’t know about you?

My husband and I met at ages seven and nine at the local ballroom dance studio. We were teamed up as a couple by height (and by chance!) and went on to dance competitively for thirteen years becoming the United States Ballroom Dance Champions in high school. We traveled extensively performing around the country and on television shows such as American Bandstand, the Ed Sullivan Show and Step This Way (the original Dancing with the Stars) where we won the grand prize, a Corvette Stingray.

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Lower level offers a home theatre, wine cellar, family game room, arts & crafts room. $13,600,000

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5 Bedrooms | 2 Bathrooms, 3 Half Bathroom Beautifully maintained antique, private garden, room for expansion $4,395,000

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3 Bedrooms | 4 Full Bathrooms Beach Property in Quaise Harbor Views and deeded beach access Garage w/ Studio & Bath above $4,265,000

4 Bedrooms | 4 Full Bathrooms Garage with Apartment | 5 acres Gorgeous sunset views over conservation land $3,895,000

BR A N T POI N T

5 Bedrooms | 2 Full Bathrooms, 1 Half Bathroom Great Location | Great Rental Income $2,895,000

NAUSHOP

3 Bedrooms | 2 Full Bathrooms, 1 Half Bathroom | 3 Floors of Living Space Close to Clubhouse | .17 Acres Offered Furnish $1,895,000

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