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The Frey family have churned out a brand new way to make butter that’s delightfully old-fashioned.
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A new aviation company has landed on the island and it’s bound to cut down your travel time in style.
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This quintessential 1920’s summer home currently offers ground level water views, great light through the oversized farmhouse windows, high ceilings, wood burning fireplace and fir floors. Expansive harbor views from second floor. Separate garage. The large property spans from Lincoln Street to Capaum Road. One of the last remaining oversized lots in the neighborhood, this property allows several options for the buyer. They could consider a complete renovation or expansion of current home or the possibility of subdividing this site to create an estate setting. This property is one of a kind!
Town - Circa 1803 Old Historic District $1,850,000 Well maintained antique home that blends the character of an older home with modern amenities. High ceilings, great light throughout, 5 fireplaces, random width pine flooring, central air conditioning. Master bedroom with full bathroom, two additional bedrooms and full hall bathroom, 2 half baths. Buyer also has the option to finish the attic and basement for additional living space. Oversized deck and landscaped yard. Two off-street parking spots. Excellent rental history. This home is not to be missed!
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86 SPY GAMES
A look back at the secret life of former CIA agent and late Nantucket summer resident Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.
When it comes to Nantucket Island Resorts, Khaled Hashem runs the show.
54 CYBER SPORTS GONE WILD
Why Nantucket’s newest resident Dave Portnoy is sure to make some waves this summer.
62 CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ A small sampling of some of the worldrenowned wineries coming to the island for the Nantucket Wine Festival.
68 A TASTE OF NAPA
If the Wine Festival really gets your juices flowing this spring, why not start a winery of your own—right here on Nantucket?
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Spring into the warm weather with these trendy new looks from island retailers.
NQUIRY 82 ISLAND ANCHOR
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NHA 97 NOAH’S ACK
When it comes to the island’s love of pets, the story goes back many dog years.
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Check out one of the latest couples to tie the knot on the island.
Not so fast 104
A quick chat with Wine Festival founder, Denis Toner.
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TWENTY Although not nearly as harsh as last year, this winter
felt longer than usual, making the return to spring on the island all the sweeter. Among the many harbingers of spring is the blossoming of daffodils, the colorful commotion of the Daffy car parade and the Nantucket Wine Festival, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary this May. As we kick off another season at N Magazine, the range of fascinating people who live on Nantucket both year-round and for the summer season never ceases to amaze us. Few life stories are more remarkable than that of the late summer resident Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.—the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt— who passed away sixteen years ago and would have turned one hundred this winter. Roosevelt’s timeless story as a CIA operative reads like a John le Carré novel, with the added benefit of it being entirely true. A more contemporary story of an island resident who has also lived an unconventional life is that of Khaled Hashem, the managing director of Nantucket Island Resorts. Born in Cairo, Egypt, Hashem’s distinguished career in the hospitality industry propelled him around the world before landing him on Nantucket over a decade ago. Today, Hashem’s scrupulous attention to detail and boundless love of people continue to ensure that NIR properties remain world-renowned. Nantucket has drawn a wide variety of television personalities over the years, but for Heather Unruh her love affair with the island began long before she ever stepped in front of a camera. The four-time Emmy Award-winning news anchor at WCVB, Unruh has been summering on Nantucket since she was a little girl and continues to return to the island with her own family each summer. Finally, our cover celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the Nantucket Wine Festival, of which N Magazine remains the proud local media sponsor. Founded by Denis Toner and now led by Mark Goldweitz and Nancy Bean, the Wine Festival has emerged as one of the premier wine events in the country. This year’s event promises to be the largest and most impressive to date, continuing to raise the bar for festivals on the island. N Magazine raises a glass to toast both the Wine Festival and the beginning of spring, and we look forward to covering events this summer that shape Nantucket. Sincerely,
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As with everywhere else in the blogosphere, April Fools gets plenty of play online here on Nantucket—and this year was no exception. From Angela Raynor opening a tattoo parlor at the Boarding House (“25 special rates for under 12 customers getting full sleeves”) to Jason Bridges retweeting a shot of the Town clock with a new digital face, Facebook took a page out of the funnies. N Magazine got in on the action by breaking the news that the Hy-Line would be offering submarine services from Nantucket. After a dreary winter, it’s nice to have a few laughs to ring in the spring.
Going viral calls for a very specific recipe of hashtags and retweets, but former Nantucket-based chef Christine Flynn discovered her own unique ingredients to social media stardom. Flynn secretly started an online alter-ego— @ChefJacquesLaMerde—and began posting photos of dazzling dishes of food on Instagram. What caught people’s attention was that this mystery chef wasn’t using prime cuts of beef or expensive black truffles to create her plates, but rather ingredients you’d find at a 7-11. Doritos, hot dogs, Cheese-Wiz—everything was inbounds. The posts quickly went viral, garnering Flynn over 100,000 Instagram followers and landing her on Top Chef where her true identity was finally revealed to a stunned audience.
With seemingly all the wine in the world being poured at the Nantucket Wine Festival, you can easily get swept up in the juicy jubilation and find yourself wandering aimlessly around the White Elephant not knowing where to go next. Thankfully, to mark their 20th anniversary, the good folks of the Wine Fest have launched a new app that will keep you on target with all of your tastings. So as you prep your palate for this year’s annual bacchanal, log on to iTunes and download this for free.
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Flight service between Nantucket and Cape Cod was done by Island Airlines before it shut down this winter after 24 years in business.
7,042 X-Rays administered at the Nantucket Cottage Hospital in a year.
New species of insects discovered on Nantucket by naturalist Charley Eiseman.
103% Increase in median home price since 2002.
11,543 Shots of espresso made at the Handlebar Café from January 1st to March 25th.
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$2,975 The price per ticket to the Nantucket Wine Festival’s “First Growth Bordeaux Dinner”.
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Wineries or vintners from California attending the Wine Festival this year.
$83,300
Proceeds received by Nantucket Lighthouse School after the sale of Nantucket license plates with low numbers at December auction.
Homes lost electricity during January’s winter storm Jonas.
2% NHS 2015 graduates attending Ivy League colleges.
$4.75Million Price paid for a deep-water slip on Old North Wharf this March.
BEAUTIFUL POCOMO ESTATE $9,450,000
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Butter me up ove over Fabio, there’s a fresh new face in the butter business. Longtime Nantucket summer residents, the
Frey family, have created a modern-day interpretation of an age-old culinary appliance. Enter the Churncraft, an ergonomically-designed butter churn that’s about to put your cardiologist on notice. In twenty minutes, the Churncraft transforms cream into rich, decadent butter. “Freshly made butter just tastes better, kind of like cookies fresh from the oven,” says Kiki Frey. “It has a rich, creamy taste and a soft, spreadable texture.” The Churncraft will jazz up your toast with easyto-make compound butters such as cherry vanilla, blackberry bourbon, bacon chive, lavender honey and so much more. And if that didn’t make your mouth water enough, the byproduct of the Churncraft is rich buttermilk, perfect for pancakes, biscuits, cookies, cakes, pastries, salad dressings, brines for meat, ice creams and sorbets, mashed potatoes, gravy—the list goes on! Find the Frey family at this year’s Nantucket Wine Festival where they will be presenting their Churncraft at the Harbor Breakfast and in the Culinary Tent on Saturday,
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Legend has it that when Napoleon’s cavalry men returned home from victory, they were handed celebratory bottles of champagne while riding their horses. Rather than dismounting, the soldiers quickly unsheathed their sabers, lopped off the top of the bottle and started drinking. So began the tradition of sabrage. For any thrill-seeking party host, here’s how to really impress your guests at your next dinner (without losing a finger).
How to • Start with a very chilled bottle of Champagne. • Remove foil and wire cage around the cork. • Locate one of the two seams that run from the bottom of the bottle to the top.
• Take the knife with the blunt side toward the cork and swipe along the seam of the bottle without stopping.
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• Follow through as one would a golf swing. As the knife hits the lip of the neck, the glass breaks and the • Hold the bottle in the nonpressure inside the bottle dominant hand at a 45-degree pushes the broken glass angle pointed up and away out and away. from people.
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DAFFY CAR PARADE Saturday, April 30 at 10 a.m.
Costumes, cocktails and classic cars—need we say more? The Nantucket Chamber of Commerce’s Daffodil Festival rolls into its 42nd year this spring. For more info, visit www.daffodilfestival.com.
2 Nantucket Daffodil 5K Sunday, May 1st, 2016 at 7 a.m. Why not start your spring off on the right foot by running in a 5k set around ‘Sconset? Starting at 7 a.m., the race will snake through scenic Sconset Village and could earn you fifty bucks if you come in first! For more info, visit nantuckethalfmarathon.com/ nantucket-daffodil-5k.
NIGHT WITH THE S.T.A.R.S. Saturday, May 7th at 7 p.m. Dance the night away at the Chicken Box where the SavBrothers age will be preforming for a good cause. Benefiting children on Nantucket, food, drinks, and a silent auction will be enjoyed for a $25 ticket. For more info, visit www.nantucketstar.com
5 BREAKFAST ON THE BEACH Sunday, May 15th at 8 a.m. Starting up a new breakfast menu for the weekends this summer, the Galley Beach Club is holding a fundraising breakfast to benefit the Nantucket New School. For more info, visit www.galleybeach.net.
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Sunday, May 1st at 10 a.m. The Nantucket Garden Club is digging into spring with a budding new theme for their annual Daffy flower show, “Streets and Lanes of Nantucket.” Held at Bartlett’s Farm, the show will highlight a vast variety of daffodils. For more info, visit Nantucketgardenclub.org.
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LUNA FEST Saturday, May 28th at 6 p.m.
Thursday, May 18th- 22nd Drink it up! The Nantucket Wine Festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary with yet another spectacular lineup of wineries, winemakers, chefs and artisans. Marking the start of the island’s social season, this event is not to be missed. For more information, visit nantucketwinefestival.com.
7 NWF JUNIOR CHEF COMPETITION Sunday, May 22nd at 9 a.m. Fix a napkin around your neck and head to the Nantucket Yacht Club as aspiring young chefs slice, dice and sauté their way to victory at the Wine Festival’s annual cooking competition. For more information, visit nantucketwinefestival. com.
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OPENING NIGHT OF “THE ODD COUPLE” Thursday, May 26th at 7 p.m. Start celebrating the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket’s 60th anniversary by buying a ticket to this sidesplitting, Tony Award-winning comedy. The show will take place at Bennett Hall on 62 Centre Street. For more info, visit www.theatreworkshop.com.
9 ART RECEPTION Friday, May 27th at 6 p.m.
Looking for some inspiration heading into the summer? Pop into the Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery on 19 Washington Street for the Artists Association’s spring show and you’re bound to come across some strokes of genius. For more info, visit www.nantucketarts.org.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more inspiring night on Nantucket this spring than the Luna Fest, where female filmmakers are celebrated and money is raised for the fight against breast cancer. For more info, visit www.theatreworkshop.com.
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The Nantucket Dreamland recently
The Cape Cod Times recently reported that Nantucket has once again
turned to island resident Joe Hale to
topped the charts as the healthiest county in the state of Massachusetts.
serve as executive director, leading the
According to the University of Wisconsin Population Institute,
theater and performing arts center into
the island bests the rest when it comes to length and quality
the future. “I’ve found my dream job
of life. However, due to a scarcity in primary care physi-
at the Dreamland,” said Hale, who has
cians, Nantucket hobbles in at number six in terms of health
served as board chair of the Theatre
projections. Nevertheless, the fact remains that island living
Workshop for the last four years. “I see
is healthy living.
many opportunities for us to broaden the variety of our programming. In ad-
DESIGNER GENES
dition to a focus on film and children’s theater, I’d like to include more lec-
Nantucket summer resident Dr. Craig Venter recently
added to his catalogue of ground-breaking discoveries by creating a synthetic cell with the smallest genome in existence. In other words, Dr. Venter and his team have created a brand new artificial species. Consisting only of 473 genes (by comparison, the human genome consists of around 20,000), Venter’s new synthetic cell gets him one step closer “to creating life from scratch” by understanding the minimal amount of genes required to sustain life. Dr. Craig Venter was the first to sequence the human genome, and has received a dizzying array of awards including the National Medal of Science given by President Obama. tures, dance, concerts, young people’s theater, seminars, visual arts exhibits, book talks, and more.” He added, “I want the Dreamland to be the cultural heartbeat of Nantucket.” Hale is
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With its doors finally set to open this summer, the new White
ond act. Just ask Wendy Schmidt, the
Heron Theatre has picked the perfect person to cut the ribbon.
president of the Nantucket Dreamland
Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis, who performed on
Foundation. “It was really the perfect
the White Heron’s first stage in New York City, will be bring-
storm when Joe walked in to interview
ing her own one-woman show, Rose, to 5 North Water Street
for the executive director position,”
this July. Dukakis’s appearance kicks off an exciting inaugural
Schmidt says. “From where I sit, we
year for the White Heron in their new digs, which will also
have in Joe an exceptional executive
house a collaboration with Sundance Institute. Set to be one of six labs worldwide, the
to lead The Dreamland into its next
White Heron’s Sundance Theatre Lab will host playwrights developing their work through
chapter as the cultural arts center for
a collaboration with creative advisors and actors. Learn more about Olympia Dukakis’s
the island, building on the foundation
upcoming performance of Rose and the Sundance Institute at www.whiteherontheatre.org.
we have been laying since 2007.”
Ladies and gentlemen, raise your glasses. The Nantucket The Theatre Workshop of Nan-
Wine Festival is celebrating
tucket is going big for its 60th
its twentieth anniversary this
anniversary celebration this July
May. What began as a grass-
by having three-time Academy
roots-style festival founded
Award winning actress Meryl
by Denis Toner has evolved
Streep join island actor John
into a three-day bacchanal attracting the most sought-after
Shea in an intimate cabaret per-
winemakers and vineyards in the world. The festival’s president
formance at the Nantucket Hotel.
Mark Goldweitz and executive director Nancy Bean, who took
Tickets to this exclusive affair—including pricey VIP tables—sold
over from Toner in 2012, have a delicious array of food and
out within days of the announcement. Best of all, 100% of the pro-
wine events to mark the occasion. The Nantucket Wine Festival
ceeds raised by the event will benefit the Theatre Workshop.
will take place May 18th through the 22nd.
Meghan Trainor isn’t the only big breakout musician to get her start on Nantucket. Samuel Adams Wisner spent his summers on the island working by day and performing music by night. A struggling rapper, Wisner caught the attention of another island summer resident named Zack Johnson while performing at the now defunct Bamboo Supper Club back in 2009. Johnson saw Wisner’s potential and created a music label around him, an enterprise which ultimately became 1st Round Records. Under Johnson’s leadership, Samuel Adams Wisner became Sammy Adams, bumping him from the Bamboo to the Billboard Top 100. This spring, Sammy Adams launched a new album, The Long Way, available on iTunes, that exploded in popularity. The rapper will begin touring in Boston later this spring, but no word yet on when he might return to the stage that launched him.
BOOK THIS Director Jay Craven is back on the
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island this spring shooting a new film
Diane Rehm to bestselling authors Marlon James, Sebas-
with his Movies from Marlborough
tian Junger, Diane Ackerman, and Nathaniel Philbrick—
program. Craven describes the film
the Nantucket Book Festival will mark its fifth anniver-
Wetware as “a noir thriller set in the near
sary this June with an all-star lineup of authors, poets,
future—based on the novel by Guggen-
and presenters. Also returning to the festival is Typewriter
heim Fellow Craig Nova.” Two years ago, Craven was on island shooting his
Rodeo, a group of poets who will tap out a poem for you
period piece Peter and John, which showed on the island last summer and
on demand. The events will culminate on the closing night
toured throughout the Northeast. Now the third picture produced by Craven’s
with a book-to-film event at the Whaling Museum. The
Movies from Marlborough program, Wetware will be created by twenty-four
Book Festival will take place June 17th through 19th.
fabulous cast and the best crew and student group, so far,” the director said. As for his shooting location, he couldn’t have picked a better spot.
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film professionals and thirty students from a dozen colleges. “We’ve got a
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bakery on the rise Written by Josh Gray Photography by Katie Kaizer
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A new cafĂŠ takes up shop on Surfside Road
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owntown Nantucket has enjoyed a resurgence in cafés, coffee shops and bakeries over recent years, and now that tasty trend has spilled onto Surfside Road. “There isn’t a thing we can’t do,” says a spunky Rebecca Moesinger in her new kitchen on Surfside Road. “We are a little powerhouse team.” Flanked by fellow chefs Elizabeth Brown and Jeff Wheaton, Moesinger is putting the finishing touches on Nantucket’s newest dining destination to hit mid-island, 45 Surfside Bakery and Café. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner yearround, 45 Surfside’s menu will boast baked goods, sandwiches, paninis, “every kind of salad you can imagine,” coffee, teas, and dinner specials—all created with fresh, locally-sourced ingredients. “Pegging what kind of food we’re making is like asking a mom what kind of meals she cooks her kids at home,” said Moesinger. “A mom just does her research and makes what is good! Having already owned a business, I know that concept works.” Moesinger is the founder and one-time owner of the award-winning Konditor Meister Bakery in Braintree, which became renowned throughout New England. She eventually left her successful bakery behind to spend more time with her children, and became an instructor at Boston’s Le Cordon Bleu culinary school. That’s where she met Brown and Wheaton, who will be running the day-to-day of her Nantucket operation. “Jeff and Beth are just so talsome struggles in the process (she was forced to purchase additional property to accommodate adequate adjacent parking), and she was supposed to open her doors last summer. Situated on some prime real estate on the new Surfside/Bartlett roads rotary currently under construction, the café will house approximately 30 indoor seats with plenty of seasonal, outdoor seating as well. Moesinger sees the community as being a big part of the success that she hopes for 45 Surfside. She designed the café as a place where families, parents, ented and down to earth; they are going to make this
teachers, Town employees, friends and
place very cool and hip,” she says. “Between the three
couples can enjoy breakfast, lunch, or dinner. “The most important thing you
of us we’ve got the cooking covered. We all just want
can do is get people in the door, charge a fair price, and hopefully get them to
to make great food.”
come back in.” She expects the doors at 45 Surfside to open on June 1st, but will also have a booth in the Culinary Tent at this year’s Nantucket Wine Fes-
since she was a little girl and has always dreamt of hav-
tival for you to get a taste of what’s to come. Visit 45surfside.com for more
ing a permanent presence on island. There have been
information.
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Moesinger has been coming to Nantucket
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SKINNY
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Written by Ellie Nan Storck
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Photography by Brian Sager
What happens when three beautiful, young fashion entrepreneurs join forces on Nantucket? This Wine Festival weekend, three budding fashion entrepreneurs are making a splash on Nantucket’s boutique clothing scene by opening a high-end pop-up shop at 23 Old South Wharf. Taylor Ivey, Sara Rossi, and Milicent Armstrong each founded independent merchandise brands before joining forces to create a retail space on Nantucket that will wed high fashion with a fresh take on classic New England style. “The underlying theme is great quality and great design,” said Armstrong. “We’re choosing brands that have interesting, innovative new designs—designers who are pioneers in fashion.” And in fun Nantucket style, the three beauties have coyly named their shop The Skinny Dip.
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he way that little girls dream
ers who you can’t find on Nantucket.
about their Nantucket weddings,
“We’re trying to do something a little
that’s how we’ve been dreaming
bit different,” explained Rossi. “We
about The Skinny Dip,” said Rossi.
want to bring out things that people
Both she and Armstrong grew up va-
haven’t seen—that flavor that makes
cationing on the island, while Ivey
a lot of sense on the island, but isn’t
visited Nantucket once in her youth
necessarily here.” When sourcing
and then again several years ago
the brands, the designers expressed
when she first launched her brand.
a strong commitment to high-quality
“There is such a nice synergy be-
merchandise made in America.
tween what all of us do and where
They also have an extensive calen-
we are with our businesses that when
dar of events planned at The Skinny
the opportunity came up to do a re-
Dip to get the community involved in
tail location on the island it was a no-
their summer collective. From floral
brainer for us to partner on it,” Rossi
design classes to a speaking series to
said.
summertime parties, The Skinny Dip Rossi’s Beau & Ro Bag Com-
girls want their space to serve the
pany combines utility and style with
community that has supported their
her convertible belt bags for women
launch. “We really want to embrace
that are fashionable, functional and
the work community, other vendors,
made from materials sourced from
proprietors, and we’ll definitely have
all over the world. Armstrong’s
lots of parties,” said Rossi. “We want
company, Artemis Design Co., has
to be more than just a retail store,”
a similar international look and feel
Ivey added. “We want to be a hub
with handbags, shoes and accesso-
that people go to for collaboration.”
ries made from textiles she hand se-
The Skinny Dip will have its grand
lects abroad, specifically rugs from
opening on May 18th, and will remain
Turkey and Morocco. Finally, Ivey’s
open for the duration of the island’s
line, Ellsworth & Ivey, offers a con-
summer season, closing for Colum-
temporary take on timeless women’s
bus Day weekend and reopening for
wear based on the clean and clas-
the Stroll in December. “I think the
sic style of her two grandmothers,
main thing is that we all love Nan-
whom she named the line after. Styl-
tucket so much,” said Armstrong.
ish capes are her signature pieces.
“We always fantasized about opening
Beyond their own wears, The
a store together on Nantucket. It’s a
Skinny Dip girls will be featuring
special place for us.” Learn more at
brands from other innovative design-
www.skinnydipnantucket.com.
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Skinny Dip girls planning their space opening this spring.
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— Taylor Ivey
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“We want to be more than just a retail store... We want to be a hub that people go to for collaboration.”
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SWITCH
BLADE
Written by Robert Cocuzzo
Photography by Kit Noble
How Rob Wiesenthal is bringing cutting-edge air travel to Nantucket Imagine this: You’re working in New York City on a Friday afternoon, counting down the minutes until you can punch the clock and begin your long voyage to Nantucket for the weekend. But instead of creeping through bumper-to-bumper traffic to JFK airport to catch a flight, or worse, slogging six hours to Hyannis for the ferry, you simply stroll from your office to a swanky lounge in Manhattan. After enjoying a happy hour cocktail and some light bites, you board a sleek helicopter that then choppers you directly to a chartered jet waiting to take you off to Nantucket. Bing, bang, boom—the whole commute takes under two hours. Sounds like the stuff of rock stars, right? Well, not anymore. What’s been called Uber for helicopters, Blade is a new aviation company that’s been creating a buzz by whisking New Yorkers off to the Hamptons directly from the heart of Manhattan with the simple touch of a smart phone. Just the thought of chartering a helicopter screams expensive, but the company has leveraged new crowd-sourcing technology that means private air travel is no longer limited to the rich and famous. For instance, Blade’s helicopter flight to the airport can be booked within twenty minutes and cost around $150*. Sure, that’s more than cab fare, but to beat New York City traffic on a Friday, the flight is priceless.
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* At press time, a helicopter flight from one of Blade’s lounges in Manhattan to the airport in New York City cost $895 for six passengers, which shakes out to about $150 per passenger. Prices subject to change.
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personally negotiated a deal with Michael Jackson in a hotel room in Dubai that prevented the music icon from filing for bankruptcy, arguably earning Sony billions. Wiesenthal later became COO of Warner Music Group, where he continued his savvy streak in entertainment, landing on Billboard’s Power 100 list, and even finding himself center stage at Madison Square Garden to play the ukulele with Roger Waters. “A lot of people have asked me what does it feel like to have left the entertainment industry?” says Wiesenthal. “I’ll tell them, ‘What do you mean ‘left the entertainment industry’?’” Beyond safety, the forty-nine-year-old believes that air travel is all about entertainment. Now Blade has landed on Nantucket, bringing with it a chic lounge that’s
He thinks the airline industry has become stale and pedestrian. “We’re
bound to attract some high-end clientele this summer. And the timing couldn’t
trying to bring back the days before aviation became transportation,”
be better. Nantucket Memorial Airport has had a turbulent off-season, complete
he says. “We’re trying to bring some of that romance, that adventure,
with prolonged construction of its control tower and the shuttering of Island
the excitement, a little bit of edginess…back to when aviation was cool
Airlines. The addition of Blade will make Nantucket more accessible for New
and exciting, because right now it’s neither.”
Yorkers and also for those flying from Connecticut and Boston. Blade is not
Along with helicopters and specially-trained flight attendants
a direct air carrier, but rather connects passengers with charter flights offering
called CX’s, Blade is revamping the image of air travel by way of its
services that go far beyond your typical airline.
lounges. With chic, sophisticated design, Blade’s lounges epitomize the new image Wiesenthal wants his passengers to have about aviation.
Wiesenthal, the CEO of Blade. “Our view is that there’s no reason that your trip
While Nantucket will have its own Blade lounge in hangar 1, once the
can’t be as enjoyable as your vacation.” This is not Wiesenthal’s first rodeo when
digs of Ocean Wings Air Charter, don’t expect it to be a slice of Man-
it comes to entertaining people. As the former chief strategy officer, senior vice
hattan. Wiesenthal insists that its look and feel will be in keeping with
president, and ultimately chief financial officer of Sony Entertainment, Wiesen-
the island’s aesthetic. No matter what it looks like, Blade promises to
thal spent more than a decade orchestrating blockbuster deals in the realms of
provide Nantucket travelers with a new cutting-edge option in which
music, film, and television. In 2005, he became a legend in the industry when he
the sky’s the limit.
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“A big part of our business is reducing the friction for travelers,” says Rob
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One of Blade’s lounges in Manhattan.
One of Blade’s lounges in Manhattan.
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Blade’s lounge in Miami.
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Egyptian Elephant Written by Jason Graziadei
PORTRAITS by Kit Noble
How a native of Cairo came to run one of Nantucket’s premier hotels. When hordes of wine lovers and foodies descend on the White Elephant this May for the Wine Festival, they’ll be expecting the finest that the island has to offer, but the man responsible for meeting those high expectations isn’t losing any sleep over it. That’s because Khaled Hashem, the managing director of Nantucket Island Resorts (NIR), which owns the White Elephant, has spent a lifetime preparing. Hashem, 56, started out in the hospitality business cleaning toilets and doing dishes. Today, he manages Nantucket Island Resorts’ portfolio of luxury hotel properties, which accommodates more than 70,000 visitors to the island every year with a peak season staff of 400. The story behind the point man of Nantucket’s largest private business began half a world away in Cairo, Egypt.
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ashem spent the first sixteen years of his life in the Egyptian capital, the youngest of three children in a middle class family who learned to speak English, French and Arabic at a young age. “I had an amazing childhood, and I have great memories of it,” Hashem says, recalling summers at the beach in Alexandria, playing soccer every day, and renting chalets with his friends in the shadows of the pyramids. His father, a general contractor who also owned a furniture factory, took Hashem on his first international trip to Beirut, Lebanon when he was eleven years old, sparking a lifelong love of travel and hotels. At sixteen, Hashem and his family followed a relative to the United States, immigrating to Dallas, Texas in 1976. Back then, Dallas was mostly “green land and pastures,” he recalls. And Hashem admitted there was certainly a little culture shock for a sixteen-year-old boy moving from Cairo to cowboy country.
“We landed at JFK and we were trying to call my uncle in Dallas from a pay phone, and I had to ask someone, ‘How do you work this thing’?” he says. “My brother and I used to stand there and look at all the different cars and take pictures of the Pontiac Grand Prix and the Firebirds and send them to our friends. The cars, the language, the accents—it all took some getting used to.” But Hashem quickly hit his stride. After finishing his last year of high school, he enrolled at the University of Texas at Dallas, taking two classes per semester toward a degree in marketing. As he navigated N magazine
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positions with the Marriott hotel chain.
As Hashem worked steadily toward his degree, he climbed the ladder at Marriott. By the time he graduated in 1986, he had been promoted to controller of the hotel’s Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport location. Hashem’s early success launched a prolific career in the hotel industry. He moved on from Marriott to Renaissance Hotels, taking posts in Houston and San Francisco—where he met his wife, Jennifer—as well as in Mexico, where he oversaw seven hotels. In New York City, he opened the Renaissance New York Times Square Hotel. From there, Hashem joined Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, one of the top luxury hotel companies worldwide. In 2003, Hashem found himself working at the Four Seasons in Amman, Jordan when the Iraq war broke out, throwing the region into chaos. “It was a challenge being able to stay there in that part of the world during
that time,” Hashem remembers. “We wanted to come back and a headhunter from London called me and said there is an opportunity in Nantucket. I said, ‘Nantucket? Where’s that?’ I had to look it up.” Hashem had other options, but after meeting with NIR owner Stephen Karp and his team, “I just clicked with them,” he says. “And over the last eleven years, we’ve built this amazing company together. We rebuilt the team, focusing on the people and getting the right people in the right places.” Karp, the chairman and CEO of New England Development, knew immediately that he had found the right man for the job in Hashem. “Khaled has impressed me from day one,” Karp said. “He is a great leader Island Resorts is a direct result of his leadership.”
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team hit the road like they do every
“You have to inspire people… We’re here to make it memorable. And hopefully we can deliver.” —
Khaled Hashem
year, meeting with travel agents and writers to market Nantucket well beyond its shores. His immediate focus now is on another successful Wine Festival weekend at the White Elephant and preparing his team for the busy summer ahead. “You have to inspire people,” he says. “I always tell our staff, people who come to Nantucket, before they even step foot in our hotels, they’ve spent thousands of dollars just to get here. We’re here to make it memorable. And hopefully we can deliver.”
n his thirty-eight-plus years in the hos-
rope and Asia.
pitality business, Hashem has tended to
But one place he
presidents, kings, queens, movie stars and
hasn’t been back
Fortune 500 CEOs. But it’s the people on
to in more than
his team that he’s always most interested in
eight years is his
talking about. “Our company has over thir-
former home in
ty-two different nationalities represented,”
Egypt.
he says. “We are very proud that over 80%
watched
of our seasonal employees return back ev-
afar as revolution
ery year.” Sometimes maintaining this in-
came to Egypt
ternational workforce presents obstacles,
during the Arab
such as in 2008 when H2B Visas were
Spring in 2011,
restricted and many of Hashem’s seasonal
when mass pro-
employees could not return that year. “The
tests
economy was also in a downward spiral,”
in the overthrow
he says, “but we were able to manage and
of President Hos-
still able to provide fantastic service.”
ni Mubarak fol-
That Hashem provides great service
Hashem from
culminated
lowed by the rise
no matter the situation comes down to his
of
scrupulous attention to detail, from select-
Brotherhood and
ing uniforms and tasting food and drinks
a military coup in 2013.
the
Muslim
to even testing out all the new mattresses.
“Not in my wildest dreams would
“Several NIR employees get to stay in our
I have thought what is happening today
hotels to try the various models and give us
would happen,” he says. “It was very
their opinion regarding the plushness and
peaceful when I was growing up. You al-
quality of sleep,” he says. Not surprisingly
ways hope things will turn around. I would
The Boston Globe has listed NIR as one of
love to take my son Ryan there. We talk
the “Top Places to Work” two years run-
about that. I want to show him the school
ning.
where I grew up…I talk to my friends who are there and I feel for them too because they’re amazingly educated people.
self-described “travel junkies.” Now the
They’re PhDs and they’re struggling with
couple has two young children, Jenna and
the life there now.”
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Hashem’s career enabled him and his wife to see the world together; they are
Ryan, who they have shared their love of
Back on Nantucket, Hashem is wrap-
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travel with, including a recent trip to Eu-
ping up an offseason in which he and his
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CYBER SPORTS
GONE
WILD Written by Dan McCarthy
Photography by Kit Noble
Batten down the hatches and hide your daughters: Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy has hit the big time—and he’s about to be your neighbor. There’s a strong likelihood that you’ve never heard of Dave Portnoy, or Barstool Sports for that matter. N magazine
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undoubtedly get the answer: “You mean El Prez? Of course.” In this digital age of Buzzfeed and Gawker, Dave Portnoy—better known by his legions of faithful online followers as “El Presidente”— has ascended to the top of the viral blogosphere, turning his website, Barstool Sports, into one hot commodity that just sold a majority stake for millions. Dealing in highlight reels, off-color humor and scantily clad women, Barstool Sports is an online locker room where no topic is out-of-bounds and controversy can be equated to monetary value. So
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much so, in fact, that Dave Portnoy has just purchased his own slice of heaven on Nantucket. Consider yourself warned. The brief history of Barstool Sports goes something like this: In 2004, Portnoy launched a rinky-dink black-and-white newspaper in Boston focusing on stats, fantasy sports and online gambling. The print version of Barstool, collected for its risqué Maxim-esque covers, is now long gone. In its place has risen an online empire that has spread across the country, boasting 200 million page views per month. Barstool satellites of big-time investment firm The Chernin Group, which is injecting cash and resources with the goal of taking Barstool to the next level. “I think we lead a lot of what’s happening in the digital space and we’ve been ahead of the game for a long time now,” Portnoy says. “We shape what a lot of people are doing.”
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have sprung up in Chicago, New York City and Philadelphia. And just this January, Portnoy got the backing
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Fueling Barstool’s popularity is not so much a focus on breaking news or deeply investigative journalism, but rather brash, often puerile humor and bawdy gimmicks. “There’s a very strong if-you-don’t-like-it-don’t-read-it, anti-PC vibe with us,” Portnoy says. He maintains that Barstool is a comedy site at the end of the day, one fixated as much on the personalities involved as the content they create. And there’s no bigger personality on Barstool than Portnoy himself, whose stunts include raising $16,000 to run for the Mayor of Boston, in 2013, only to come short on signatures to get him on the ballot. Last May, he burst into the NFL’s league headquarters in New York City to protest the Tom Brady Deflategate scandal. Wearing Patriots jerseys and eye black, Portnoy and his cronies handcuffed themselves in a circle in the lobby and demanded to see NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. The stunt landed them in jail for the night but also in the columns of several national newspapers and online newsfeeds the following day. Mission accomplished as far as Portnoy was concerned. “Controversies towards Barstool makes us stronger,” he says. “It rallies our base…it makes our audience like us even more.” The man behind the bawdy El Prez persona, however, is not what you might expect. Portnoy carries himself with an affable, every-guy demeanor, armed with a quick wit and distinct cackle that hints at his sense of humor. “I’d have N magazine
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rest of my life,” he says. “[Now] we’re rich for a Barstool reader, but super-poor for a Nantucket person. It’s crazy.” That self-deprecating humor is a familiar brand of cockiness
for which his readers know him, but Port-
ready to be debauched, many a party can be
noy is the first to poke fun at himself for it.
imagined at the Portnoy property, which has
And now that he has his own enclave
“It’s an amplified persona,” he says. “I’ll say
been dubbed “Path’s End.” When asked if his
on the island from which to rule his minions
things—and this gets me in trouble—where
new digs will become the island’s most infa-
and likely incite a few scenes when stomp-
I clearly know that I’m joking, and I’m sur-
mous house of ill repute, Portnoy is quick to
ing around the Chicken Box this summer,
prised when people are taking me literally
remind everyone that in spite of all his an-
the question surfaces: Will his relative fame
or seriously.” Indeed, Portnoy has posted
tics, pranks and controversial news-making
carry over to the island? “It happens regard-
highly questionable content in the past that
there’s one person still keeping everything in
less…Nantucket is bro central in the sum-
has landed him in some pretty hot water, but
check. “That will not happen as long as my
mer, and our people are very much here,”
the thirty-nine-year-old is self-assured in
wife is there,” he says. “That’s for sure.”
Portnoy says. “It’s the older people that ask
the way you’d expect a self-made blogger-
No matter though, because as island
turned-viral-kingpin would be, brushing off
residents will soon come to see this sum-
his critics and openly challenging anyone
mer, Dave Portnoy invariably
willing to engage with him.
draws a crowd wherever he goes. After all, it’s not uncom-
though, now he and his wife, Renee, have a
mon for him to be swarmed
retreat to escape to on the island. “We fell in
by throngs of fans any time he
love with Nantucket eleven years ago,” says
strolls down Lansdowne Street
Portnoy. “A friend of ours from ESPN got
during a Sox game or for him
a place and invited us down…and we got a
to be bombarded by college
house every summer since, typically during
jocks looking to snap a selfie
the Fourth of July.” Weekend rentals turned
with him at a bar. Portnoy
to week rentals, then full months. The dream
jokes that his wife is his unof-
became to buy a house of their own. This
ficial photographer when these
past fall, they purchased a $2 million four-
guys (or their girlfriends) ap-
bedroom in a secluded hamlet just a stone’s
proach tentatively, starry-eyed
throw from Cisco Brewers. Flanked by con-
from seeing their swag-draped
servation land and equipped with a pool
blogger in the flesh, ready to
me, ‘who are you?’” Well, now you know.
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If the heat does start to get to him,
high-five anyone within reach.
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dreamin’ Written & Photographed by Robert Cocuzzo
A taste of what California vintners will be pouring at this year’s Nantucket Wine Festival
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hat does perfection taste like? Apparently, I’m about to
Toner, who founded the festival twenty years ago this May. “The
find out. Three glasses of red wine are set before me. The
wineries are the heartbeat of the festival,” Toner told me. “And since
one closest was given a rating of ninety-seven from the
the beginning, Californian wineries have grown with the festival,
prince of palates himself, revered wine critic Robert Parker, while
becoming ultra-high quality and an expression of the land.” Back
the other two were awarded straight-up perfect scores. A bottle of
when Toner popped the cork on his first festival, California was just
each of these wines retails for around the cost of a car payment—and
budding in the wine world as a legitimate player. Today, Napa and
a nice car at that. I reach for the furthest glass, give it a swirl, raise
Sonoma continue to represent a large swath of the vineyards and
it to my nose, and then take a sip. Flavors explode in my mouth
wineries featured at the festival.
like Pop Rocks: fruits, spices, a
“About 70 percent return to
silky essence of what I can only
the island each year, and about
describe as “luxury.” I’m no
30 percent are new,” explained
Robert Parker, but every one of
Nancy Bean, who took over the
my taste buds knows that this is
running of the festival along
nectar of the gods. Indeed, sam-
with Mark Goldweitz, in 2012.
pling these wines is an incred-
“Napa and Sonoma winemak-
ibly rare opportunity, but come
ers are down-to-earth and ap-
this May, you too will have the
proachable. They are farmers
chance to taste perfection at the
and scientists and hippies and
Nantucket Wine Festival.
music-lovers. Big personalities.
Seated to my left is the man
Nantucket embraces them all.”
responsible for these award-
And that’s exactly why I’m here
winning wines, sixty-five-year-
in California today: To meet a
old winemaker Pierre Seillan of
handful of the characters mak-
Vérité Vineyards in Sonoma,
ing for our shores this May.
California. He’s flanked by the
After leaving Vérité, I drive
Nantucket Wine Festival’s ex-
thirty miles south, up a steep,
ecutive director, Nancy Bean,
switch-backed
as well as Mark Donato and his
Pride Mountain Vineyard liter-
wife, Beth English. “Even after
ally straddles the border of So-
just eighteen years, Vérité is at
noma and Napa. Stuart Bryan,
the top, but we still have a way
the operation’s vintner ambassa-
to go,” Seillan tells us, raising
dor and husband of one of Pride
his glass and studying its mud-
Mountain’s founders, has been
road,
where
dy red contents with an air of showmanship. “In fifty years, I believe
attending the festival on and off for over a decade. Pride Mountain is
Vérité will be the most exceptional wine in the world.” Seillan is not
a festival favorite and Bryan’s tasting table invariably attracts a long
alone in this conjecture. His winery holds the rare distinction of re-
line of attendees hoping for a generous pour. “We pay those people,”
ceiving perfect scores for not one or two of its wines, but twelve. As
Bryan jokes, as he leads me into the depths of a candlelit cave lined
a result, the winemaker himself has become something of an icon,
with barrels branded with Pride’s insignia. More than 50 percent of
and the Nantucket Wine Festival has been longing to see him on
the Pride Mountain wines sold in Massachusetts are purchased on
Nantucket. This May, they’ll finally get their wish. Seillan and his
Nantucket. In fact, Pride ships more wine to The Galley Beach Club
wife will be pouring their celebrated creations at the Thursday night
alone than it does to most states. In addition to pouring at the Grand
Gala, the Grand Tasting and at a wine seminar. Put Vérité on your
Tasting at this year’s festival, Bryan and his wife, Suzanne, will be
list to seek out.
joining five other top producers in a seminar that will dig into the
been long and fruitful, stretching back to the early days of Denis
rich terroir of California’s legendary Cabs. The seminar, “California Dreamin’”, will take place on May 20th at the Dreamland Theater.
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ifteen miles to the east of Pride Mountain, I pull into the heart of Santa Rosa where longtime Nantucket summer resident Tripp Donelan welcomes me into the epicenter of his family’s boutique winemaking operation. It’s been a big year for Donelan Family Wines, having purchased the ten-acre vineyard, Obsidian, where they source their award-winning Syrah. “Nantucket and Sonoma County are two very special places for us,” Donelan tells me. “It was on Nantucket where my father began his journey into wine.” Donelan’s father, Joe, launched Donelan Family Wines (formerly Pax) in 2008, and today his wine is collected by some of the most discerning connoisseurs in the world. “The customers that we have on the island are the ones we’re looking for,” Joe Donelan told me over the phone. “They’re people that love to entertain, love things that are special and unique. They’re artists, chefs, and lovers of food and wine who are passionate about what they do and what they share with others.” At this year’s festival, Joe and his sons Tripp and Cushing Donelan To top off my California tour, I swing by another East Coast / West Coast connection that will be bubbling to the surface at this year’s festival. Produced in the heart of Healdsburg in Sonoma County, Champy is a sparkling wine recently launched by Bostonbased television host and longtime Nantucket-lover Jenny Johnson. The two-time Emmy-award-winning co-host of NESN’s Dining Playbook, Johnson has poured her passion for the restaurant industry into a bottle by teaming up with distinguished winemaker Penny Gadd-Coster. “Champy is all about transforming ordinary moments into extraordinary ones,” Johnson says as Gadd-Coster leads us into the heart of their operation. Workers scurry about, bottling, labeling, and moving giant pallets of sparking wine with forklifts. The scene is yet another reminder of how diverse the face of winemaking is in California. “Everyday is supposed to be fun, and Champy’s bubbles lend themselves to that,” says Gadd-Coster, who was named Winemaker of the Year in 2013. “You wake up in N magazine
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will be pouring rosé, two chardonnays, pinot noir, syrah,
not be able to attend this year’s festival, Johnson will be on hand
and possibly a few surprises yet to be tasted at the festival.
emceeing this year’s Culinary Marketplace and pouring her brand
So seek them out—I promise you won’t be disappointed.
new bubbles throughout the festival.
“Every year we are graced with the presence of wineries and winemakers from around the world, but there is something magical about our California vintners,” says Nancy Bean. “California is young compared to the old world regions of Bordeaux, Burgundy, Piedmont, and Tuscany, so we keep discovering West Coast producers who are pushing the limits, continuing to perfect their approach to growing, harvesting, crushing, and blending.” Indeed, the wineries and vineyards I visited make up only a fraction of the Californian showstoppers strutting their stuff at this year’s festival—which really illustrates what a remarkable festival it is. Within the confines of the White Elephant and other venues around the island, you can go on a tasting tour that would be otherwise impossible to pack into a month or year, let alone three days. And as I learned, it’s meeting the people behind the wines that makes the experience all the more delicious.
where to stay in sonoma? If you’re looking to visit these wineries for yourself, make the Healdsburg Hotel your base of operations. Located on the corner of Healdsburg Square, the hotel marries exquisite amenities with impeccable hospitality. Bonus tip: Finish a long day of tasting by dining at their adjoining restaurant, The Dry Creek Kitchen. To make reservations, log on to www.hotelhealdsburg.com.
Who else is coming from California to this year’s festival? Cain Vineyard and Winery Chappellet Vineyard Hourglass Wines Pride Mountain Vineyards Realm Cellars Staglin Family Vineyard Tom Eddy Winery Larkin Wines Lede Family Wines Long Meadow Ranch Winery Chateau St. Jean Donelan Family Wines Flanagan Vineyards Flowers Vineyards and Winery Hirsch Vineyards Kosta Browne Winery Paul Hobbs DAOU Vineyards, Paso Robles Peay Vineyards, Cloverdale Vérité
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If the Wine Festival really gets your juices flowing this year, why not start a winery of your own right here on Nantucket? hether it’s the FAA-approved helipad, the sunken croquet court, or the fully-stocked koi pond, Three Dunes Estate is the toast of Almanack Pond Road. But perhaps the finest feature of this lavish property out in Polpis N magazine
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were transported from St. Helena, California and planted around the sevenacre estate. Growing grapes in Nantucket’s sandy soil might seem a daunting proposition, but for Three Dunes’ owner Tyler Olbres it’s the only way to truly savor island living.
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here were many doubters early on,” says Olbres, who also owns Nellcôte Winery in Napa Valley and is returning to this year’s Nantucket Wine Festival as a luminary. “But the mildness of the island and especially the protected micro-climate of Polpis, allowed us to ripen the grapes sufficiently to produce a good wine.” Fending off pesky deer and rabbits, Olbres succeeded in setting deep roots that now yield grapes for a homemade Bordeaux blend. “There is nothing more rewarding than making a wine from vine to bottle,” he says, “especially when extended family is invited to participate in the harvest, crushing and finally bottling the wine.” Keeping his operation entirely in-house, Olbres installed a sophisticated enology lab, micro-winery, and barrel cellar beneath his estate’s octagonal pool pavilion, which can produce 225 gallons of wine per harvest. His eighty-eight vines are watered by a selfregulating irrigation system and require little more manpower than his extended family to pick for harvest. Yet despite fully enjoying the fruits of his labors each season, Olbres has decided to put his Three Dunes Estate on the market this spring—vines and all. “It has been a bittersweet decision to sell Three Dunes, as our family has thoroughly enjoyed every single day there,” he explained. “However, it is time to let another person or family treasure the home, and make their own memories here.” If your idea of memory making doesn’t include donning the
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Three Dunes can be easily outsourced, and there are plenty of other unique features to the property to relish. Before even stepping foot in the 4,500-square-foot home, one marvels at Three Dunes’ ornate, award-winning gardens, sections of which have been docu-
mented by the Smithsonian Institute. After purchasing the property, Olbres put his own spin on the gardens by converting them to a “more elegant French parterre style.” This French flair is complemented by Asian influences seen in the koi pond that wraps around the back half of the main house like a moat and comes complete with a Japanese bridge. Add a pool, sprawling views of the Windswept Bogs, and 500 acres of conservation land that the property abuts, and Three Dunes is truly a world apart. “The most unique aspect of the estate cannot easily be put into words,” says Olbres. “It’s a feeling of calm and serenity.” Indeed, come the hustle and bustle of summer on Nantucket, we can all toast to a little more calm and serenity. N magazine
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Nellcôte Central to Tyler Olbres’s motivation for selling his Three Dunes Estate is to focus more on Nellcôte Winery in Napa Valley. “We craft limited production Cabernet Sauvignons of distinction from legendary Napa Valley vineyards,” says Olbres. “Crafted by master winemaker Phillip Corallo-Titus and inspired by a passion for the very best, Nellcôte makes wines for the life well lived.” At this year’s Nantucket Wine Festival, Olbres will be showcasing two distinct styles of wine from his Cabernet program: the 500 Chevaux, a 100% Cabernet; and the Rallye 76, a Cabernet blend enhanced with Petit Verdot, Merlot and Malbec. “Of course we will also have on hand our unique rosé, which has been a sensation at the festival since its introduction in 2014.”
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It’s hardly breaking news that Heather Unruh loves Nantucket. The four-time Emmy Award-winning news anchor has been summering on the island since she was a little girl. Now with a family of her own, Unruh continues to enjoy her off-air time on the island. N Magazine caught up with the newswoman in her WCVB studios in Boston before she came out to the island for Daffodil Festival.
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N MAGAZINE: How does your story on the island begin?
UNRUH: My love affair with Nantucket began almost forty years ago when we took a family trip and felt an immediate calling. My parents made many sacrifices for us to be able to summer here. When Dad was alive he used to joke that buying a home on the island back in the seventies was the only good investment
you can be and the rest will follow.” He was
he ever made…I don’t know about that, but
absolutely right. To that advice I would add
it was certainly his best investment! I like to
that you should stay true to who you are, and
say it’s a place where time stands still. Nan-
let your personality shine through—that’s what
tucket is the one place where I feel most like
viewers are looking for and what will ultimate-
myself and can completely decompress.
ly help you to make a lasting connection.
N MAGAZINE: Legendary newswoman Natalie
N MAGAZINE: What’s the biggest story you’ve
Jacobson is a longtime Nantucket resident.
covered?
Do you feel a certain kinship with her? How
UNRUH: In my twenty-six-plus years as a jour-
did she help pave the way for women in the
nalist I have covered plenty of big stories,
industry?
from the Papal Conclave in Rome to the af-
UNRUH: My admiration for Nat goes back to
termath of the Oklahoma City bombing and
1988 when I interned at WCVB, but she and
9/11. Sadly, stories rooted in terrorism tend
I have always had a special connection be-
to be the biggest and most impactful. The
shapes how we deliver the news. Our viewers
cause of our love for Nantucket. As a jour-
Boston Marathon bombing haunts me to this
have no doubt noticed us picking up the pace
nalist, Natalie was a groundbreaker. She was
day and deepened my commitment to my
of storytelling. There is tremendous pressure
one of the first authoritative newswomen,
profession. It’s an honor and a privilege to be
to be first on the air, but for me, content and
and she was the best. I feel so fortunate to
welcomed into people’s homes during such
accuracy are most important. Fortunately,
have learned from her and even luckier to re-
uncertain times…times that call for calm,
WCVB hasn’t wavered on its belief that it’s
connect with her regularly on the island. We
reassuring and accurate information. Cover-
better to be right than to be first.
often bump into each other at the Angler’s
ing stories that sparked such a seismic shift
Club and share a few good stories.
in public safety have deepened my resolve
N MAGAZINE: Now that you’re in Natalie’s po-
to be more compassionate, accountable and
N MAGAZINE: Describe a typical day in your life. UNRUH: My day is a juggling act. I open my
trustworthy.
eyes with device in hand and start scanning what’s happened in the world overnight
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would you give the next generation of news-
N MAGAZINE: How have you seen the news in-
while I slept. Then it’s coffee, laundry, a two-
women?
dustry change?
mile hike in the woods with my dogs, half
UNRUH: Reporter Ron Gollobin was an award-
UNRUH: Talk about a seismic shift. Television
an hour on the treadmill (if I’m really moti-
winning investigator when I interned at
news has had to evolve in the wake of the
vated), quick shower and off to work. These
WCVB, and he gave me stellar advice. He
digital age. People’s habits have drastically
days I’m either shooting a medical report or
said, “Get your first job reporting, not an-
changed with information available at their
a segment for Chronicle and writing until my
choring. Be the best writer and storyteller
fingertips in real time, now. That definitely
anchoring duties start at 4:30 and 6pm.
months. I’m looking forward to smelling the flowers, laughing, tailgating and reconnecting.
N MAGAZINE: What’s an ideal day on the island consist of for you?
UNRUH: My day starts and is never complete without a sunrise beach walk with my good friend Beth Hanlon and our pack of border collies. The whole family lingers on the patio with Downeyflake donuts and coffee. Nick and I love to stroll downtown mid-morning
N MAGAZINE: Do you have any rituals for pre-
spirational attitudes: Celeste Corcoran, who
and admire the boats…sometimes popping in
paring for a newscast?
lost both legs in the marathon bombing, and
to the Wharf Rat Club for stories from the
UNRUH: I drink hot water and then warm up
Diane Legg, who has stage IV lung cancer
good old days. Then it’s off to the beach with
my mouth by making sounds like a horse. It’s
and continues to raise funds by riding the Pan
the kids if we’re lucky (they’re teenagers)
basically blowing air through my lips. I’m
Mass Challenge each year. These women set
and later a spirited game of cards after mom’s
sure it sounds strange, and I wouldn’t want
the bar so high and continue to inspire every-
amazing home cooking.
to be caught on camera in action, but I’m told
one who is lucky enough to know them.
N MAGAZINE: You’re attending this year’s Daf-
N MAGAZINE: Any favorite restaurants? UNRUH: We are very casual when on Nantuck-
N MAGAZINE: What’s happening behind the
fodil Festival. What are you most excited for?
et. I love burgers and chowder at The Broth-
scenes of a typical newscast that most people
UNRUH: Daffodil weekend inspires creativity
erhood, fresh seafood on the patio at Sayles
don’t know about?
in our home and reunites us with friends we
and lobster rolls at the Anglers Club.
UNRUH: A lot of running around. Gone are the
haven’t seen enough of over the long winter
opera singers do the same.
days when anchors sit behind the desk for the
N MAGAZINE: If you could change one thing
entire newscast. I wish I had a fit bit to count
about Nantucket, what would it be?
the steps, because we are constantly moving
UNRUH: I’m nostalgic for yesterday’s Nantuck-
from set to set.
et…the island most people in the world had never heard of. I miss the days of no traffic jams…when Wagoneers, not Bentleys filled
among the people you’ve covered over the
the streets. Willy played the guitar and hitch-
course of your career?
hiking was how most of us got to town. It’s
UNRUH: I interview many people who have had
a wonderful thing to be dubbed the world’s
to overcome incredible odds, but a couple
best island, but I really wish fewer people
deserve huge praise for their unstoppable, in-
knew our secret.
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Revealing the SECRET life of late summer resident, Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. When Kermit “Kim” Roosevelt, Jr. was eulogized at Sias-
As chief of the CIA’s Near East and Africa Division,
conset Union Chapel sixteen years ago this June, few had any
Roosevelt became versed in black propaganda, bribery,
idea of the secrets he was taking to the grave. The grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, Kim, who would have turned one hundred this winter, had lived the real cloak-anddagger adventures
rickeys and tennis,” as Kinkead wrote. Roosevelt’s effectiveness was enhanced by how completely unassuming he was as a CIA agent. He was quiet, unremarkable in
tive. Only after
appearance, and, as a
his death in
British double agent
2000 did the
once noted, “the last
U.S. govern-
person you’d expect
ment reveal the
to be up to his neck in
true impact this
dirty tricks.” What’s
Nantucket sum-
more, he was armed
on the face of global politics. Born in Buenos Aires to Teddy Roosevelt’s second son Kermit, Kim Roosevelt followed the path of many American blue bloods before him, attending Groton School and then Harvard Univer-
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Middle East…plotting coups over lime
of a CIA opera-
mer resident had
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and misinformation, all the while “crisscrossing the
with the Roosevelt family name and that alone could carry as much clout as being the president himself. Communism was the enemy during Roosevelt’s reign, and Iran landed squarely in his crosshairs. Although certain intelligence at the time indicated otherwise, Roosevelt and the CIA
sity. He tried his hand at teaching after graduating
feared that Iran was going to fall to the Soviets, and with
Harvard, but World War II propelled him into the
it a billion-dollar trove of oil and Middle East influence.
military where he served in the Office of Strate-
“There was a grave danger that the Iranian prime minis-
gic Services, an agency that later became the CIA.
ter, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, would, for lack of other
Less is known of Roosevelt’s role during the Second
support in his struggle against the shah, rely on—and
World War, but reports show that he was involved in
ultimately surrender power to—the Iranian Tudeh Party
the Allied invasion in Italy and spent time in Egypt and
and its backer, the Soviet Union,” Roosevelt wrote in
Iran. The latter would serve as his entrée into a career
his 1979 memoir Counter Coup: The Struggle for the
as a Middle East expert. “He spoke neither Arabic nor
Control of Iran. As a result, President Eisenhower was
Farsi,” wrote Gwen Kinkead in Harvard Magazine,
convinced that Mossadegh needed to be replaced by the
“but Theodore Roosevelt’s 37-year-old grandson be-
shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who would show fa-
friended kings, tribal leaders and heads of state as
voritism to the United States. The coup would mark
easily as he dined at the White House with cousin
the first ever successfully orchestrated by the American
Franklin and Winston Churchill.”
government, with Kim Roosevelt as its chief architect.
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Kermit “Kim� Roosevelt, Jr. working on his book.
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fter sneaking into Iran in 1953, wearing a disguise and using a fake identity, Roosevelt launched an all out tactical assault to oust Mossadegh. Misinformation was leaked to newspapers, rioters were paid to protest, and the opposition to the prime minister was ratcheted up to pressure-cooker proportions. At secret midnight meetings, Roosevelt personally convinced the shah to call for the removal of Mossadegh. But when word of this got out, the shah spooked and fled the country. Fearing that the life of their own operative was equally in danger, the CIA pleaded that Roosevelt get out of Iran. But he refused to leave, and instead doubleddown on his efforts by paying off Iranian army officers to spread the story that the shah had fled because Mossadegh was threatening his throne. Violence soon ensued, and after hundreds were killed in the streets, Iranian army tanks rolled over Mossadegh’s security forces and ousted the prime minister. In his place came the pro-American shah, and as a result, nearly
seven generations ago, and today the family still owns property in ’Sconset where the late Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. enjoyed playing tennis and fishing for stripers off the beach. Although he spent his latter years penning a memoir of his adventures as a CIA agent, those on Nantucket knew little of his shadowy past—and that’s exactly how he liked it.
half of Iran’s oil production came under the control of the United States. The coup became the stuff of legend. Even President Eisenhower was astounded by Roosevelt’s efforts. “[O]ur agent there, a member of the CIA, worked intelligently, courageously and tirelessly,” President Eisenhower remarked in his diary in 1953. “I listened to his detailed report, and it seemed more like a dime novel than a historical fact.” A year later, the President quietly bestowed on Roosevelt the National Security Medal. Yet despite this recognition, the U.S. government did not claim responsibility for the coup itself until 2000, the same year Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. was laid to rest here on Nantucket at the age of 84. N magazine
“I didn’t know about it,” says Kim Roosevelt’s grandson, Kermit
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Roosevelt, III, who is an author and law professor at Penn State. “He didn’t really talk about it.” The Roosevelts began coming to Nantucket
(Clockwise from top) President Theodore Roosevelt holding his grandson Kermit; Kermit “Kim” Roosevelt, Jr.; Iranian army tanks ousting Mossadegh; Roosevelt shaking hands with Egyptian President Nasser.
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noah’s ack The island’s love of animals is historic. t’s no secret that Nantucketers love
their four-legged friends. Between the
water bowls that sit outside many a Main
Street shop to the vast amount of outdoor
trails, life on the rock is not so “ruff” for our animal friends. This affinity for furry creatures is nothing new, as seen in these photos of past pet owners in Nantucket’s history. But it’s not just cats and dogs that hold a special spot in islanders’ hearts, with horses, birds, even goats appearing alongside their faithful companions. Take a peek into the past with some of the people and pets of Nantucket.
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A A. Pony cart and wee driver on Cliff Road, circa 1890s
B. Nancy Gardner with dog, Timmy, 1937
C. Backyard conversation, circa 1920s B D. Playwright Austin Strong and his dog in front of 5 Quince Street, circa 1930s
E. George Jones with his dog, “Jancho,� circa 1910s
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Mildred Burgess holding her baby brother Harrison Burgess, 1904
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NOT SO FAST
night cap A quick chat with WINE FEST founder, Denis Toner
N MagazinE: What was your inspiration behind N MagazinE: What advice did you give Mark Gold- N MagazinE: When did you take your first sip of wine? bringing a wine festival to Nantucket? weitz when passing the Wine Festival torch? Toner: It was Lancers Rosé at the Café Rouge in Toner: My twenty-five years of experience in the Toner: Be true to Nantucket. downtown Boston, served by my parents on the wine trade told me that Nantucket was a perfect site for a wine festival: great restaurants,
occasion of my high school graduation.
N MagazinE: What are your thoughts about the
culinary history, and a clientele with the where- festival as it exists today? withal and the passion for great wine.
N MagazinE: Do you know of any good hangover
Toner: I’m pleased with the emphasis that Mark cures? and Nancy Bean have put on programs to ben- Toner: Hangovers are caused by guilt. There is
N MagazinE: Do you have any secrets or funny sto- efit the young people of Nantucket.
no cure.
ries from Wine Festivals past?
Toner: The first year, we saved money by buy- N MagazinE: What’s the greatest sip of wine N MagazinE: Are there any wines out there that ing cardboard painter’s buckets at Marine Lum- you’ve ever taken at the festival? ber to use as spit buckets at the Grand Tastings
you’re still dying to try?
Toner: Easy: 1961 Château Latour en mag- Toner: Many. That’s what keeps me so enthralled
at the Sconset Casino. By the middle of the af- num. An unearthly pleasure.
by the wine game.
ternoon, they were decomposing, and none of the volunteers would touch them.
N MagazinE: What’s the biggest misconception N MagazinE: What wine regions should people people have about wine?
pay more attention to?
N MagazinE: If you were asked to put together a Toner: They over intellectualize it. Wine is sim- Toner: In France, I would look to the wines from time capsule so that people would be able to un- ply a great sensory adventure.
the Languedoc. In America, many good things
derstand what the Wine Festival is all about twen-
are happening on the Sonoma Coast.
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N MagazinE: What’s one thing most people don’t
Toner: A cocktail napkin with red wine stains— know about you? a scratch and sniff remembrance! (My wife Toner: That I was a single father.
N MagazinE: Do you have a philosophy behind
Susan’s idea is: The bodies of 25 over-worked
to you?
volunteers.)
how you live your life? What’s most important
N MagazinE: What meal would you request before Toner: I love people, and I love the fact that the electric chair?
wine can bring people together. It’s a very civi-
Toner: First of all, I’m not guilty. But why not lizing beverage. braised electric eel?
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