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38 What’s going viral on #Nantucket.

N NGREDIENTS

A numerical snapshot of Nantucket in July.

N NEAT STUFF 30

How A Salty Soul brings comfort in more ways than one.

N TOP TEN 32

A rundown of rescheduled and reimagined summer events in the wake of the coronavirus.

KIDDIN’ N AROUND 34

Wendy Rouillard helps keep your kiddos busy this July.

Proprietors owner and chef Michael LaScola gives his secret recipe for red lentil falafel.

HEALTHNWELLNESS N 42

Wellness expert Joanna Roche shares her top tips for feeling your best this summer.

NBUZZ 44

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NSPIRE 51 SOUND STRATEGY

After defeating Cape Wind, a coalition now seeks to protect Nantucket Sound for eternity.

55 GIFT OF GAM

Egan Maritime brings history to life with a new podcast called “Time and Tide.”

NVESTIGATE 61 NONPROFITS REIMAGINED

With summer galas canceled and many of their doors temporarily shuttered, Nantucket’s nonprofits are reinventing themselves this season.

68 PROFILES IN COURAGE

An exclusive look inside Nantucket Cottage Hospital during the coronavirus pandemic.

N NDEPTH 82 GONE WITH THE WIND

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N NQUIRY 100 THE FALL & RISE OF DENNIS KOZLOWSKI An exclusive interview with the former Tyco CEO.

112 KING OF POLITICS

CNN’s John King maps out 2020’s presidential politics.

118 THE RIGHT VOICE

Conservative pundit Adriana Cohen shares her thoughts on the president, the pandemic and the future of the Republican party.

NVOGUE 124 FIELD OF DREAMS

Summertime fashion hits the coast.

141 HIGH TRASHION

With the Cisco Brewers Trashion Show taking a hiatus this July, we celebrate the lessons and looks of last year’s show.

NHA 149 BACK IN BUSINESS

Shops, restaurants, and business owners of yesteryear.

N NUPTIALS 154

Jenna Larocco and Brandon McFarlane tied the knot on Nantucket.

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It is hard to imagine a more tumultuous time than now. Between the coronavirus pandemic and the racial justice issues facing our country, the world is being altered before our very eyes. While Nantucket is an island, it is not an island unto itself. What affects others, affects us. While the fate of a legendary corporate executive may not seem highly topical, the story of Dennis Kozlowski actually has significant relevance to this moment. Once lionized as America’s top CEO for his spectacular success leading Tyco International, Kozlowski became America’s poster child for greed and avarice when his lavish compensation and excessive lifestyle became national news and ultimately led to a lengthy prison sentence. N Magazine decided to take a deeper look into whether the punishment fit the crime and whether our social justice system worked or failed. After a deep dive into the substance and process of the Kozlowski case, serious and disturbing questions emerge as to whether justice was served. Kozlowski and his wife Kim have returned to Nantucket and are applying their experience to help others who have been unfairly treated by the justice system. In this issue, N Magazine interviewed longtime CNN anchor and summer visitor John King, whose network has achieved some of the highest ratings among cable news organizations. King, who has become a familiar face on election nights and has found himself reporting during the most chaotic times in this country, shared his thoughts on the political landscape heading into the presidential election. Keeping things fair and balanced, N Magazine also interviewed columnist, radio host and frequent Fox News commentator Adriana Cohen, who comes at reporting the day’s events through a different set of eyes. Cohen has emerged as a prominent conservative voice through her work at the Boston Herald and various media outlets across the country. After Cohen’s articles caught the attention of President Trump, she was invited to the White House and has become one of the president’s media allies. Among the many challenges created by COVID-19, Nantucket’s nonprofit community has been forced to reinvent itself this summer to provide services and fundraise amid new social distancing requirements. N Magazine spoke to a number of these organizations to learn how they have bound together to transform how they operate. In times like these, nonprofits need island support more than ever. In what was perhaps N Magazine’s most ambitious photo shoot, chief photographer Kit Noble documented this historic moment at the Nantucket Cottage Hospital by photographing virtually every doctor, nurse, administrator and staff member. Accompanied with a behind-the-scenes story written by Jason Graziadei, these hundreds of portraits appear in a special pullout spread in this issue designed to honor the many heroes who are guiding us through these toughest of times. Finally, our cover story featuring the classic wooden racing yacht Outlier reminds us that Nantucket is still a calm port in the storm. Owned by island summer resident Harvey Jones, Outlier has an outward beauty that belies the fact that it is equipped with more sophisticated electronics and technology than some early spacecraft. Indeed, Outlier is the nautical equivalent of putting a Tesla motor into a Duesenberg—an extraordinary combination of the past and the future. We are living through a perfect storm of political, social and health issues, which will make this summer unlike any other we have experienced. Nantucketers have proven themselves to be incredibly adaptive over the course of time. When we look back at this period, we will undoubtedly reflect on how once again the island has managed change. We should take this summer as a way to enjoy our families, the natural beauty of the island and the many gifts of the Nantucket community. Sincerely,

CONTRIBUTORS ALEXANDER AGUIAR Alexander Aguiar is a commercial and editorial photographer based out of Miami, FL. With a career originally rooted in athletics, some of his favorite work in the last few years has come from personal projects that intersect sport and culture: stories on bullfighting in Mexico, sumo wrestling in Japan, and the Tour de France. After spending four years in-house at Under Armour as a senior photographer, Aguiar is now an independent photographer aiming to shoot a more diverse body of commercial and editorial work in 2020 and beyond. For this July issue, Aguiar photographed Dennis Kozlowski at his home in Florida.

JASON GRAZIADEI Jason Graziadei is the public information officer at Nantucket Cottage Hospital, and has been a year-round island resident since 2004. Graziadei previously wrote for The Inquirer and Mirror, as a reporter and has also contributed to Nantucket Magazine and WCAI public radio. He serves on the board of directors at the

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July issue, Graziadei took readers behind the scenes at the Nantucket Cottage Hospital amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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One of Nantucket’s favorite downtown shops serves up much more than sandwiches

“We have always done business with a smile, a positive attitude, and an emphasis on hospitality.” — Charlie Merritt

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harlie Merritt knows a thing or two about baptism under fire. When he bought an ownership stake in Fresh Nantucket back in 2016, the then twenty-sixyear-old had to hit the ground running learning how to operate a popular deli in the bustling heart of downtown Nantucket. Now a bit older and wiser, Merritt has used his experience to effectively pivot his business amid this summer’s new normal. To start, Merritt hustled throughout the spring to launch a new website that made every item in Fresh—from sandwiches to salads, sweets, alcohol, merchandise and so much more—available on-demand for delivery or curbside pickup. Beyond singlehandedly designing the site and uploading hundreds of products, the biggest challenge Merritt faced this summer has been far more philosophical. “We have always done business with a smile, a positive attitude and an emphasis on hospitality,” Merritt explained. “COVID-19 has made it much more difficult for us to communicate that hospitality, so we’ve had to create new ways to connect with our customers.” In an effort to serve up the same carefree vibe folks have enjoyed when walking into Fresh in the past, Merritt has loaded freshnantucket.com with a daily music playlist as well as a “Fresh Feed” blog that dishes out laughs and updates. While these new digital offerings might be Fresh’s philosophical special

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“You can order it up on the ferry and we’ll have a charcuterie board delivered to you the next day for your sunset cocktails.”

sauce, there’s still plenty of meat to the operation. New this season, Merritt has brought on Chef Michelle Padovano to his team. Trained at the Institute of Culinary Education, Chef Padovano worked at a number of premiere restaurants in Boston and New York before coming to Nantucket to become an executive pastry chef. “She has the most culinary prowess in the shop by a mile,” said Merritt. “Part of her interest in working with Fresh was for us to create a brand around her pastries.” So this summer, Fresh will be serving up #SweetsbyMichelle, a line of finger-licking good pastries like doublefudge brownies and brown-butter cookies with sea salt. Having formerly worked

said. “We can deliver that quality of wine directly to wherever you are on the island.” Meanwhile on the food front, Merritt has partnered with Sid Wainer & Son, a specialty grocer that enables Fresh to deliver high-quality fruits, veggies and artisanal meats and cheeses. “You can order it up on the ferry and we’ll have a charcuterie board delivered to you the next day for your sunset cocktails.” Complementing Merritt’s creative entrepreneurial mind is an eye for branding that has made Fresh’s merchandise an industry all its own. With the help of so-

under the likes of Michael Schlow at Radius in Boston as well as at the Mandarin Oriental in both Boston and New York City, Chef Padovano has also unleashed her culinary skills with new offerings like overnight oats, granola and bake-at-home-cookie-dough kits while also whipping up Fresh’s staples like sandwiches, salads and smoothies. In addition to bringing on Chef Padovano, Merritt has locked in two strategic partnerships that should prove fruitful this summer. On the alcohol front, he teamed up with ACK EATS to make Fresh the exclusive alcohol provider for all of its at-home deliveries. “We have a truly vast wine selection, made up of both high-end wines as well as more casual-drinking bottles,” Merritt

cial media superstars like Barstool Sports’ Dave Portnoy wearing their designs on Instagram, Fresh Nantucket’s hats, T-shirts and sweatshirts sell like hotcakes the moment they hit the internet. “People from as far away as San Francisco are buying our merch,” Merritt said. “Sometimes I wonder if they even know we’re a deli.” And that’s really the magic behind this local business. While on paper Fresh might appear to be just another deli or liquor store, Merritt and his team are committed to serving up the fun-loving flavors of island living. And in a year like this one, this spirit might just be the most important item on their menu.

— Charlie Merritt

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After defeating Cape Wind, a coalition now seeks to protect Nantucket Sound for eternity

or well over a decade, Nantucket Sound was embroiled in a contentious environmental tug of war. On one side was Cape Wind, a $2.6 billion project to erect a sprawling wind farm dotting twenty-five miles of Nantucket Sound. On the other was the Alliance to Protect Our Sound, a nonprofit organization fighting to thwart this project and preserve Nantucket Soundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural environment. The debate presented an identity crisis of sorts for the environmental movement. Cape Wind claimed to be heralding in the future of green energy, while the Alliance, which garnered powerful support from the likes of the late Senator Ted Kennedy and Secretary of State John Kerry, argued that the wind farm would come at the cost of an entire marine ecosystem.

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ltimately, after sixteen years of lawsuits, protests, EPA studies, town hall meetings and even a Supreme Court case, Cape Wind terminated its wind farm before it got up and spinning. As for the Alliance to Protect Our Sound, they only became more energized. “Our mission has always been longterm preservation of Nantucket Sound,” said Audra Parker, who has served as the president and CEO of the Alliance to Pro-

tect Our Sound since 2003. “After Cape Wind, we were able to devote all of our resources to permanent protection.” With a Master’s in Science from MIT and a bachelor's in applied mathematics and economics from Brown, Parker was the mastermind behind the campaign against Cape Wind. “Nantucket Sound is unique from an economic, historic and environmental standpoint,” Parker said. “It is worthy of recognition and permanent protection.” To

that end, Parker now leads a coalition of environmentalists, lawmakers, fishermen, indigenous people, and hundreds of stakeholders in seeking to protect Nantucket Sound indefinitely by establishing the body of water as a National Historic Landmark. This idea first took root back in 2010, some seven years into the battle with Cape Wind, when the National Park Service deemed that Nantucket Sound was eligible to be listed as a Traditional Cultural Prop-

more than met the criteria as a Traditional Cultural Property. “Nantucket Sound is the only ocean-based Traditional Cultural Property recognized by the Keeper of the National Register,” explained Parker. “Designation as a National Historic Landmark and further protection through federal legislation would make the Sound permaAudra Parker nently off-limits to development.” Key to this designation is that it would encompass federal waters that fall outside the protection of the state. While Massachusetts’ jurisdiction extends three miles out from its shoreline, Nantucket Sound is also made up of miles of federal water outside of the state’s control. As was the case with Cape Wind, these federal waters are vulnerable for energy contracts negotiated by the Federal Government. With a growing appetite for rolling back environmental protections by the current administration, the Alliance’s campaign might be as important now as it was when facing Cape Wind. Last month, President Trump pledged to lift protections on the Atlantic Ocean’s only national monument. While opening up these five thousand miles of conservation water to commercial fishing will not directly impact the Alliance’s campaign to protect Nantucket Sound, it illustrates the tumultuous waters many green initiatives are navigating today. The AlliNantucket Sounds Boundaries ance’s campaign has earned support from Governor Charlie Baker, who in a letter to Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Ed Markey and Congressman Bill Keating, urged for “legislative action to protect this unique and deserving marine environment.” However, with that letter sent exactly two years ago this July, the Alliance has needed to continue to grow its coalition of stakeholders, and lobby for Congress to introduce this legislation. “We are hopeful that this will happen soon,” said Parker. “Once federal legislation is enacted, we will have protected Nantucket Sound forever.”

erty in the National Register of Historic Places. Nantucket Sound was once exposed grounds upon which indigenous people traveled, hunted and lived. Indeed, the Aquinnah Wampanoag and Mashpee Wampanoag Tribes, who originally pushed for this federal designation, continue to regard Nantucket Sound as hallowed religious ground. The 750 square miles of water and seabed are now home to a vibrant marine ecosystem. Add the hundreds of historic properties and landmarks that line Nantucket Sound's shorelines, from the Kennedy Compound to Nantucket’s Historic District, and the National Park Service agreed that the body of water

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ack in the whaling days, ships would often meet in the middle of the ocean for what was known as a “gam.” Captains and crew would exchange stories from their long days offshore before setting sail in their separate directions. Hundreds of years later, Evan Schwanfelder is bringing back the gam—except he’s doing it in the form of a podcast. As the manager of Maritime Education at Egan Maritime’s Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum, he always wanted to produce a podcast that told the highseas stories of shipwrecks and heroic rescues that took place throughout history just off our island’s shores—but

he never could find the time. All that changed when the coronavirus hit. “Our executive director Pauline Proch asked if we had any ideas we could work on from home,” Schwanfelder says, “and I pitched the podcast.” So began “Time and Tide,” a podcast dedicated to Nantucket’s Maritime history that Schwanfelder writes, produces and performs from his attic on Nantucket. Although Schwanfelder only moved full-time to the island four years ago, he has quickly earned the local cred to tell the stories of Nantucket’s seafaring past. Complementing his

position at Egan Maritime, Schwanfelder joined one of Nantucket’s most fabled fishing families by marrying Katie Kaizer, daughter of the legendary island captain, Pete Kaizer. And if there was any doubt about the young couple’s commitment to continuing the nautical tradition on Nantucket, the recent arrival of their daughter this May threw that overboard when they named her Millie—a nod to the legendary Coast Guardswoman, Madaket Millie. As a historian first and foremost, Schwanfelder says he’s always been an admirer of old wooden sailing ships and waxes poetically about the seafaring days of yore. “In the early 1800s, there were tens of thousands of sailing vessels that went through Nantucket Sound every year,” he muses. “You can just imagine seeing all these beautiful ships. It must have been an amazing sight.” Sourcing a collection of historical texts and accessing old issues of The Inquirer and Mirror, Schwanfelder pieced together a collection of stories for “Time and Tide” that delve into the miraculous tales of Nantucket’s

“These shipwrecks were situations where people were in their darkest hours, but others took it upon themselves to go out and save them. So the message is that even in the toughest of times, things will get better.” — Evan Schwanfelder

Nantucket that aided ships in peril. “It was terrifying,” Schwanfelder insists. “Imagine being thirty miles out to sea in the middle of the winter, anchored up during a massive Nor’easter with thirty-foot waves—and you have to do your job. These were ordinary people doing an extraordinary service.” As for future subjects he hopes to dive into, Schwanfelder says, “I’d love to get into modern shipwrecks and hear stories from the salty guys on the island today like my father-in-law…there’s just a depth of stories here.” Above all, Schwanfelder hopes “Time and Tide” will bring a ray of hope during these troubling days. “These shipwrecks were situations where people were in their darkest hours,” he says, “but others took it upon themselves to go out and save them. So the message is that even in the toughest of times, things will get better.”

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lifesavers. “It wasn’t terribly uncommon to have shipwrecks around here, especially in winter storms,” Schwanfelder explains. “With all the shallow, shifting water, and fog, it’s really amazing that so many ships made it through safely at a time when they didn’t have radar or modern weather forecasting.” Indeed, often referred to as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic,” Nantucket’s shifting shoals were widely considered some of the most treacherous in the world. “The more you read about this history, the more you learn about these lifesaving crews,” Schwanfelder says. “You hear a lot of these lifesavers' names over and over—often there’s multiple lifesavers in the same family.” In one of his first episodes of “Time and Tide,” Schwanfelder told the story of the South Shore Lightship, an anchored vessel thirty miles off the coast of

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n these times of uncertainty, it is clear that

welcomed three of our four children into

get the process started. How grateful we

Nantucket Cottage Hospital is not only an

the world, most recently our son Charles on

were to have such individualized attention,

January 10, 2020.

knowing that is not the norm in most all other

integral part of the island community, but it is

hospitals. They respected our wishes the

an equally integral part of our family as well. We had a pretty good idea of what to expect,

entire way.

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the tremendous care our family received

supporting The NCH Fund and help sustain

receiving attentive and comprehensive care.

by the nursing staff and just how much they

our hospital and the extraordinary care it

But the hospital hasn’t just been there for our

would contribute to our overall experience.

provides. Let’s show our appreciation for these incredible healthcare workers.

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It felt as though the whole nursing staff was

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While the Dreamland's movie theater is temporarily closed this summer, the Dreamland Drive-In will welcome movie goers. (Photo is not of the actual drive-in, which was still being constructed at press time.)

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With in-person galas canceled and their doors temporarily shuttered, Nantucket's nonprofits are reinventing themselves this season.

creative solutions to meeting the challenges presented by the pandemic.” The Dreamland is a fitting example of that. As a cultural arts center and theater that is unable to admit moviegoers for the foreseeable future, the Dreamland was quick to pivot by planning a drive-in theater. Five days after Hale and his team launched a GoFundMe to build the Dreamland Drive-In, enthusiastic donors exceeded their target goal by giving more than $150,000. At press time, the Dreamland Drive-In was being constructed in the fields on 7 Nobadeer Farm Road where it was slated to host its annual gala on July 16th. Hale and his team were also exploring the possibility of creating an outdoor cocktail lounge on their Harborview Terrace where people could safely enjoy a drink on the Dreamland’s second-story deck overlooking the water.

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antucket is home to over a hundred nonprofits, the majority of which depend on annual summer galas and events to keep their doors open, pay their staff and maintain their important stitch in the rich cultural fabric of the island. Every Monday since the coronavirus pandemic struck, a contingent of the island’s nonprofit leaders has met virtually to strategize about the summer season. With each grappling with the dual challenge of providing their services while also fundraising in a vastly different set of circumstances, these executive directors have been collaborating more closely than ever before. “Believe me,” said Joe Hale, the executive director of the Dreamland who has helped quarterback this nonprofit think-tank, “Nantucket’s nonprofit community is busy brainstorming some of the most innovative and

“Believe me, Nantucket’s nonprofit community is busy brainstorming some of the most innovative and creative solutions to meeting the challenges presented by the pandemic.” — Joe Hale, the executive director of The Dreamland

ther island institutions also acted quickly to reimagine how their patrons could still enjoy their offerings while maintaining strict social distancing requirements. “The Whaling Museum is installing a yellow ‘Cobblestone’ Road à la The Wizard of Oz,” described James Russell, the executive director of the Nantucket Historical Association. “The visitor can walk this ‘road,’ enter all the galleries, including the roof deck, without touching anything.” Instead of in-person guides, the NHA has created new audio and video tours for visitors to follow along as they walk the Cobblestone Road. “New exhibitions abound,” said Russell, “and a brand-new Discovery Center designed for kids will definitely make you want to tap your heels three times and say there is no place like the NHA.”

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Joe Hale, the executive director of the Dreamland

A scene from a past summer gala at Egan Maritime Institute

“New exhibitions abound and a brand-new Discovery Center designed for kids will definitely make you want to tap your heels three times and say there is no place like the NHA.” — James Russell, the executive director of the Nantucket Historical Association

wealth of their historical resources. This spring, Egan launched a podcast called Time & Tide, hosted by Egan’s manager of maritime education Evan Schwanfelder, that teaches listeners about the dramatic shipwrecks and high seas rescues of Nantucket’s past. “We have all become more tech savvy and have had to reinvent how we share our stories,” said Pauline Proch, Egan’s executive director. “In addition to the podcast, we also released a virtual tour of the museum accessible through the Lingar app available for Android and iPhone.” The Boston-based Lingar app enables patrons to point their phones at items in the museum, which then prompts text, audio, video and other forms of augmented reality to pop up on their screens. While Egan will have to wait until their physical doors reopen to realize the full potential

of this sophisticated technology, guests can now use the Lingar app to enjoy virtual tours of the museum. The Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (TWN) has also taken this all-virtual approach to their theatrical productions. As the coronavirus descended on the country, TWN was in the midst of their staged reading series. “We continued with the remainder of our series online live via Zoom,” said TWN’s managing director Bethany Oliver. “We also created our first-ever vir-

The Egan Maritime's Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum will be available virtually this summer through a new app.

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Each of these visits to the Whaling Museum will now be scheduled and timed, with guests booking their slots in advance online. Morning appointments will be reserved for the elderly while evening hours will be allotted exclusively for NHA members. The museum has also upgraded its HVAC system and installed multiple sanitation stations. Beyond the Whaling Museum, the NHA’s historic sites will include what Russell described as “old-fashioned ‘bullhorn’ lectures, plays, performances and games.” As for its major annual fundraiser, Nantucket by Design, the NHA will host the event online beginning July 30th. Meanwhile, the Egan Maritime Institute’s Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum has turned to other digital mediums to stay connected with their supporters and share the

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The Jen Waldman acting studio is one of the most highly regarded in New York City and will now be accessible on Nantucket virtually. Students will learn how to prepare for auditions and how to write original songs. The classes will culminate in the White Heron’s Cyber-Cabaret showcased online this summer. Using this all-virtual approach has proven instrumental for other educational nonprofits like the Nantucket Book

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tual production number called ‘On With the Show,’ in which forty actors of all ages who have worked with us over the years came together from Nantucket, New York, Los Angeles and points in between to create this virtual message of hope for the future of live theater.” Not only have these virtual performances enabled TWN to enlist actors from places as remote as Idaho, they’ve also reached viewers who would not normally file into the seats at Bennett Hall. “Our audience has come from even further afield with people tuning in from Europe, South America and as far away as New Zealand,” said Oliver. “They’re all coming together even though we are apart to be part of something authentic and live.” On July 26th, TWN will broadcast a live telethon variety show on NCTV titled “On With the Show: A Spotlight on the Future” in an effort to boost financial support for this sixty-fouryear-old island institution. The White Heron Theatre has taken a similar cue by moving their educational classes online. What is being billed as the Broadway Master Class, White Heron’s Student Company will follow the direction of some top Broadway stars. Taking the lead role as director is Jen Waldman, who has appeared in nearly thirty shows on Broadway.

In lieu of their annual gala, The Artist Association of Nantucket will hold a live online auction event to celebrate their 75th Anniversary.

Foundation, which quickly made their annual book festival entirely virtual early on in the pandemic. With the help of former CNN senior executive producer Michael Schulder, the Book Festival launched a series of highly produced At Home With Authors presentations. “Almost all of our 2020 author lineup has agreed to participate, and the response so far has been incredibly gratifying,” said Maddie Hjulstrom, the foundation’s executive director. “Our analytics show viewers as far away as India and China.” Most recently, the Book Festival distilled its hour-long interviews into Tiny Takes, what Schulder described as “entertaining and perspective-changing

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“We at A Safe Place have received increased reports of domestic violence incidents in particular and have seen a small increase in the number of people that we are serving already,” said executive director Jennifer Frazee, who has been on-call with her team twenty-four hours a day throughout the pandemic. “We anticipate this number increasing significantly as our community reopens, and survivors and their children are able to have their voices heard again.” As these health and human service providers serve the well-being of islanders, the cultural arts nonprofits support the way of life that so many have come to love on Nantucket. “The economic vitality of Nantucket is ultimately at stake here,” concluded Joe Hale. “You could argue that the arts—along with hospitality—are the economic

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drivers for Nantucket. I’m not saying the arts are more important than health care or education or civic engagement, but they’re an important leg to the table that supports society.”

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excerpts—in two minutes or less.” Despite these new, enlightening virtual offerings, Hjulstrom admitted that there was a deep sense of disappointment in having to cancel their popular in-person festival. Canceling events presents one of the biggest challenges to the nonprofit community. “Our summer gala raises almost half of our annual operating budget each year, so canceling the event was a tough decision,” said Jessica Sosebee, the executive director of NiSHA, which has seen an uptick in pet adoption amid the pandemic. “NiSHA relies on donations and grants to operate, so reinventing our development plan for 2020 has been the most challenging. We need to be available every day of the year in case there is an animal in need at our door.” This summer, instead of their wildly popular UnLeashed pet fashion show, NiSHA will host a livestream event on July 29th featuring interviews with pet parents and other forms of digital entertainment. Among the many lessons that the pandemic has illuminated in the nonprofit community, the vital role of health and human service providers has been undeniable. Nonprofits like the Food, Fuel, and Rental Assistance Program, A Safe Place, Fairwinds, Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention, Meals on Wheels and, most obviously, the Nantucket Cottage Hospital have been operating at full-tilt to meet the critical needs of the community emerging every day.

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ix months ago, most of us had never heard the term “coronavirus.” Now the word is ingrained in our collective conscience. More than 100,000 people in the U.S. have died due to the novel coronavirus, and 40 million Americans are unemployed as a result of the restrictions put in place to slow its spread across the country.

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t’s unclear how this will all end, or when. But for now at least, Nantucket has emerged from the initial wave of coronavirus as an improbable public health success story. Lodged between two of the epicenters of the pandemic – New York City and Boston – the island has so far largely escaped the tragedies that have unfolded in those cities. Nantucket’s geographic isolation, along with early and decisive action by town leaders and the collective willpower of the community to adhere to prevention guidelines, have resulted in an incredibly low infection rate — just fourteen confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of June 1 — and one death. With the summer looming as a great unknown, Nantucket is grasping to strike the right balance between public health measures to keep the virus at bay and accommodating the reopening of the economy

to preserve the livelihoods of thousands of island residents. For Nantucket Cottage Hospital (NCH), where I serve as public information officer, it’s not an exaggeration to say the past six months have changed just about everything. While we gratefully have not yet faced the surge of COVID-19 patients that larger hospitals did on the mainland, the pandemic required NCH to transform itself in order to properly protect patients and staff, actively test for the virus, and plan for the worst case

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Caitlin Kaplan echoed the Cottage Hospital's plea for social distancing and quarantining with a handdrawn sign.

“Every day I was reassured to be part of such an energetic, focused and committed team at NCH that I knew we could do this work well.”

before the pandemic arrived. Shaw’s background included twenty years of service in the U.S. Navy as an Environmental Health Officer with a focus on public health and communicable disease. Somehow, it seemed, NCH had found the right leader with a skillset and experience perfectly aligned for the moment and the challenges we faced. Shaw encouraged us on a

than thirty years. Her decades of experience, clinical skills, and perhaps most of all, her local knowledge of the island and its population, were invaluable in planning and communicating the hospital’s response. “Sometimes the responsibility was daunting to keep up with all the information about this new disease, the recommendations to protect pa-

— Dr. Diane Pearl

the past six months have been draining for the hospital’s workforce, but in many ways it has brought the staff together, and prompted an outpouring of love and support from the community that has lifted spirits more than we could have imagined. Preparations at NCH got underway in mid-January as we all digested the news of the outbreak in Wuhan, China, and began taking stock of the personal protective equipment (PPE) we had available and doing what we could to obtain more. In late-January, NCH activated its Hospital Incident Command Structure, which brings together staff from across NCH to improve our emergency management planning and response. We were immediately looped into Massachusetts General Hospital’s Incident Command and the broader Partners HealthCare system, a line of communication and coordination that would prove invaluable throughout the crisis. Readying our response was NCH’s new president and CEO Gary Shaw, who had been appointed by the Board of Trustees just two months

CEO Gary Shaw with Dr. Diane Pearl at NCH's drive-through COVID-19 testing site. Photo by Brian Sager.

tients and staff, to diagnose and follow near daily basis to “lean into” the rethese patients properly,” Dr. Pearl said. sponse effort and the task of preparing “But every day I was a small community reassured to be part hospital for a global “You could just feel the of such an energetic, pandemic. The staff momentum of the focused and commitresponded well to COVID-19 wave ted team at NCH that his leadership. approaching the I knew we could do One of Shaw’s island...No one could this work well.” first important predict when, In early March, moves as CEO was but we were ready.” we watched the reto ask Dr. Diane — Gloria Gasnarez, ports coming out of Pearl to step in as ER charge nurse northern Italy with interim Chief Medigrowing alarm – cal Officer for the hospitals overflowing, ICUs reaching hospital. Dr. Pearl, an island native, has capacity, and patients dying in the hallbeen a physician on Nantucket for more

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scenario. As the sole medical facility on the island, the community turned to NCH for guidance, reassurance, and answers amid the uncertainty caused by the virus. The relentless speed and intensity of the pandemic response over

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as we called them internally, where patients who were positive for COVID-19 or under investigation for the disease would be cared for, preventing any cross-contamination with patients needing care for non-COVID-19 medical issues. Over the next two weeks, NCH would acquire additional ventilators and hired a new, temporary respiratory therapist who stayed on to enhance the training of staff members on the equipment they would need in the event of a surge. From the start, every department stepped up in meaningful ways. The doctors, nurses, and frontline staff were all very visible to the community, but behind the scenes we all saw the teamwork that made the response effort so effective. Many staff members were reCaitlin Kaplan assigned to completely new roles, such as screening and testing. Yet whether it was ways or not even making it to the hospital. While the information about the environmental services, facilities, dining virus was constantly evolving, we understood at the time that 20 percent of services, materials management, the IT dethose infected required hospitalization, and 5 percent would need ICU-level partment, social services, or the patient sercare. So we did the math for Nantucket, assuming 15 percent of the island vices coordinators — everyone played a part. would become infected, and saw we could be facing more than 500 hospital“You could just feel the momentum of izations and 125 patients needing an ICU bed. With fourteen licensed inpatient the COVID-19 wave approaching the island, beds, a twelve-room emergency department, and no ICU beds, the possibility and it was like everyone just knew this one that our hospital could become overwhelmed seemed very real. would reach us,” said Gloria Gasnarez, the Our communications to the community reflected that potential charge nurse of the Emergency Department. scenario. Well before the island’s first con“No one could firmed case of COVID-19, we were urging predict when, but “In the beginning, I was terrified and residents to act as if the virus was already on we were ready. I had low-level anxiety twenty-fourNantucket, to take the threat extremely serifeel very proud hours per day...I hoped that, as an ously, and adhere to all the recommended of how quickly asthmatic, I would be lucky enough precautions. We also requested that those NCH actively to get a mild case and I wouldn’t end who were considering taking refuge on the initiated a plan to up on a ventilator or dead.” island from elsewhere stay home. It was a protect our comstrategic yet controversial stance, and there munity. After — Caitlin Kaplan, physician assistant was no shortage of praise or criticism of speaking to othNCH for voicing it. ers off-island, By March 15th, Nantucket Cottage Hospital was completely transNCH and Nantucket were so much farther formed, significantly altering our entire operation in preparation for the ahead in trying to flatten the curve than pandemic to hit. Access to the hospital was restricted to the ER entrance most.” Still, the rapidly evolving nature of only, allowing us to screen everyone who came through the door: patients, the epidemic and the appropriate response visitors and staff. All elective surgeries, procedures, and routine care visits posed challenges. “There were so many were cancelled to reduce the traffic through the hospital and the potential unknowns and the information we were for transmission. Our 24/7 clinical departments – the ER, the inpatient floor, taught one day could be totally different and the Birthplace – were divided to create “high risk zones” or “hot zones” the next day,” she said. “Though that was

frustrating, it became more of an education race for us. The more we understood, the more we changed things in the ER to accommodate for what we had learned.” On Monday, March 16th, NCH opened one of the first drive-through COVID-19 testing sites in the state of Massachusetts

“I am just so proud of how the staff responded... Everyone has been focused on ‘what can I do?' So many people took on new roles and responsibilities.” — Katie Taylor, RN

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tients. The med/surg team cared for the one island patient who ultimately succumbed to COVID-19 on April 5th, the only death attributed to the disease on Nantucket to date. Nonetheless, the team has been and continues to be united in its mission. “I am just so proud of how the staff responded,” said Katie Taylor, RN, the charge nurse for the med/surge floor. “Everyone has been focused on ‘what can I do?’ So many people took on new roles and responsibilities;

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at the main entrance portico of the hospital. We all wanted to move as fast as possible to get it set up for the community, and I can remember that Monday we talked about how to make it operational in the morning, then looked out the window of the hospital before noon and there was already a small line of cars backed up at the portico with patients waiting to be tested. The word had gotten out even before we had announced it publicly. The drive-through is staffed by teams made up of a provider, a nurse, and a patient services coordinator, all reassigned from the physicians practice at Nantucket Cottage Hospital, which is known as the Nantucket Cottage Medical Group. Overseen by Dr. Pearl, these teams are led by the group’s physician assistants, or PAs, who normally might be seeing walk-in patients in the clinic. They have kept the drive-through open daily, and have tested more than 1,000 patients for COVID-19. Caitlin Kaplan is one of the physician assistants who has been working exclusively at the testing drive-through since the hospital’s coronavirus response began. “In the beginning, I was terrified and had low-level anxiety 24-hours per day,” Caitlin told me. “I assumed, as did most of the people I’ve spoken to who are on the front lines, that despite our meticulous hy-

giene and all of the proper PPE, there would be no way to escape getting sick. It seemed like a foregone conclusion and I hoped that, as an asthmatic, I would be lucky enough to get a mild case and I wouldn’t end up on a ventilator or dead.” I thought of Caitlin often in those first weeks of testing, not only because I had known her for many years, but because she was a new mom with a one-year-old baby boy at home. I had my own anxieties about simply coming into the hospital at that time, so I could only imagine her fears as she was testing patients and coming into close contact with so many who could be infected. About a week after the drive-through opened, we featured a photo of Caitlin on the hospital’s social media pages. Similar to many of the other photos you probably saw of healthcare workers around that time, Caitlin was dressed in PPE holding a handmade sign that read “Stay Home!!!” There was an intense look in her eyes that prompted Cape Cod Times reporter Ethan Genter to give the photo a fitting caption on Twitter: “Look into Caitlin’s eyes,” Genter wrote. “She is not here for your sh*t.” The inpatient floor at the hospital, known internally as “med/surg,” was another department that got split into a high-risk zone for COVID-19 patients and those under investigation, and another area for all other pa-

“The community outreach part has been very rewarding in that people are grateful to have a connection and get answers to their questions.” — Elizabeth Harris, NCH's infectious control manager

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“The community outreach part has been very rewarding in that people are grateful to have a connection and get answers to their questions,” Harris said. “But it’s also frustrating because everyone, including reliable sources, has a different idea on the value of testing, the length of isolation and quarantine. And patients have varying levels of adherence to guidelines.” HarElizabeth Harris ris has been part of NCH for more than twenty years, and while the pandemic response has been challenging, it has also brought out some of the best qualities nurses offered to take a 12-hour shift in the hot zone if they of the hospital staff, she said. “The NCH team has really come knew their friend needed a break from it. [Medical] Techs retogether and buttoned down to get the job done,” Harris said. organized whole sections of the hospital at a moment’s notice, “Some may say that we can’t be that busy here on the island doctors spent any free time checking the latest COVID data since we have so few cases, but number one, we were prepared, to make sure they would be ready, and housekeeping made it which has taken enormous effort. And number two, that is part their mission to clean everything and then clean it again just to of the reason we have so few cases. Staff has been modeling be sure. Everyone really stepped up to the plate.” proper behaviors and bringing all kinds of questions that I think One of many unsung heroes at NCH during the coroin the past they may have been bashful about voicing.” navirus pandemic response has been the hospital’s only staff

member who is dedicated entirely to infection control. Elizabeth Harris is a registered nurse and the hospital’s infection control manager. She went from a part-time role in which she was primarily involved in infectious disease surveillance, reporting and policy development, to a full-time assignment leading our internal infection control strategy to keep the virus at bay, while also spearheading the hospital’s contact tracing efforts to contain the transmission of the virus in the community. Or, what Elizabeth affectionately called it: “bug chasing.” The hospital trained twenty-six staff members and volunteers in contact tracing protocols, but it is Harris who has done the vast majority of this work. The relatively low volume of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases meant that these patients got a lot of personal attention and guidance from Harris and the medical staff as they navigated the challenges and complexities of a disease that was unheard of just a few short months ago.

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a limited number of staff members have access to the maternity department, and they are vigilant about who is allowed in and when. But the pandemic has still had a significant impact on operations within the Birthplace, as strict measures were implemented to keep patients and staff members safe from the virus. Infection control protocols and new requirements to test all patients coming into the unit for COVID-19 were implemented, but perhaps the most difficult adjustment was a new policy that limited patients to one visitor throughout their stay. “That made it very challenging on the patient and their families – whether they had to go back to Emily Wendelken work after the delivery or leave to go home to take care of another child,” said Emily Wendelken, one of the labor and delivery nurses at the Birthplace. The other big change for both patients and staff at the Birthplace has been the necessity for PPE during active labor, when staff must wear a hair net, shield, goggles, N95 mask, gloves and gown, while the patients must wear a surgical mask while pushing and during delivery. “That’s like running a marathon with the thing on,” Wendelken said. “Pushing can be only a few minutes or last hours. In the short deliveries we have found it challenging to get into our PPE and in the longer ones we have found it exhausting and very sweaty to wear all that.” To their credit, the Birthplace team has helped safely deliver more than two dozen new Nantucket natives since the pandemic response began. Between the efforts of NCH staff and the collective sacrifices of the community, it’s probably fair to say Nantucket has met the first true test from the coronavirus, and passed with flying colors. I think we all fully expected a surge of COVID19 patients and have been relived that it never came – at least not yet. Now comes the summer season, and with it an influx of people from all over the world, and perhaps, an even greater challenge. NCH and the island community are ready.

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About one month before the hospital’s coronavirus response kicked into high gear, NCH lost one of its longest serving employees when Martha Lake-Greenfield retired from her post as nurse manager of the emergency department and leader of our emergency management committee. At her retirement party in February, no one quite knew what we would be facing in a few short weeks, but it soon became clear we had parted ways at a time when we needed her most. I wasn’t the only one breathing a sigh of relief when we found out in early March that Martha would be returning to the hospital to spearhead emergency management again. She immediately brought her steady, confident leadership to the hospital’s incident command structure, and was instrumental in our planning for a surge of COVID-19 patients. “From the very beginning there was a drive from senior leadership to establish an incident command structure that was based on the needs of the growing concern and management practices related to the COVID-19 pandemic,” Lake-Greenfield said. “That structure provided the framework for the development of an organized response plan. We also created a plan for the management of a surge in patient volume by identifying patient care areas on the second floor allowing us to potentially care for an additional twelve patients if necessary.” Upstairs on the second floor of the hospital, the Birthplace is one of the most safe and secure areas of the facility. As a locked unit for the protection of moms and babies, only

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o the untrained eye, Outlier might appear to be just another pretty sailboat cruising around Nantucket Harbor. But ask just about any knowledgeable sailor and they’ll tell you that this fifty-five-foot yacht is more akin to a spaceship than a watercraft. Packed with more sophisticated electronics and sleek customizations than the Apollo 11 lunar module, Outlier is designed to sail as fast as possible while still adhering to the classic wooden yacht racing tradition. And therein lies the inspiration for its name—Outlier might sail on the same waters as other yachts, but it’s truly in a league of its own. “There is really no equivalent boat,” says Outlier’s owner Harvey Jones, a Silicon Valley titan and longtime summer resident. Growing up summering on the Jersey Shore, Jones first learned to sail on a Sunfish that he and his father built together from a kit. “I

Outlier's captain, Chad Hudnut

was much more of a surfer than a sailor back then,” Jones says, “but when I arrived on Nantucket [thirty years ago], I bought a sailboat to teach my kids.” From chartering 12 Meters to race in the Opera House Cup in the midnineties, Jones eventually purchased Piera, a renowned 1955 sloop with which he won two Opera House Cups.

He continued to expand his fleet from Piera to a W-46 Class yacht named Mustang and to a Nantucket Alerion named Java. “I love wooden boats,” Jones says. “They’re fun to be around, the people who build them are cool and the people who sail them appreciate the aesthetic of wooden boats.” But when the Opera House Cup began changing its handicapping rules and the rating system, Jones decided that he wanted to build a boat that would set a new standard in wooden yacht racing. “How do you innovate in this area of wooden boats, to really think outside of the box while still being suited for the new racing rules?” Jones recalls thinking.

“How do you innovate in this area of wooden boats, to really think outside of the box while still being suited for the new racing rules?” — Harvey Jones

Created by North Sails, some of Outlier's sails cost upward of $100,000 each.

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“Moreover, the wooden boat industry is going to die out if all it is doing is maintaining old boats, so how do we also innovate a wooden boat so that the industry can still prosper?” So began a year and a half adventure designing and building a boat like no other. Outlier was designed by Botin Partners Naval Architecture in Spain. The highly sought-after design team is responsible for some of the most successful professional, high-budget sailing yachts in the world. The racing yachts sketched on their draft boards have gone on to amass an unprecedented string of world championships. So when Jones was looking to build a custom wooden sloop to compete in Nantucket’s Opera House Cup and other classic regattas, en-

“Outlier is an incredible marriage of modern engineering and traditional styling. She exemplifies the continuing evolution of the Spirit of Tradition Class.”

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— Steve White, president of Brooklin Boat Yard

listing Botin Partners was the equivalent of recruiting the 1992 Olympic Dream Team for a game of pickup basketball. The Botin Partners’ custom design was built in Maine over ten months by Brooklin Boat Yard. “Outlier is an incredible marriage of modern engineering and traditional styling,” said Steve White, the president of Brooklin Boat Yard. “She exemplifies the continuing evolution of the Spirit of Tradition Class. She’ll perform well on the racing circuit while carrying on the classic aesthetic for which wooden boats are well known.” Every detail is cutting-edge: 3D-printed titanium parts, powerful electronic winches

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“You still have to be humble; the forces involved to move the boat through the water at that speed are incredible...She sails faster than the wind.” — Harvey Jones

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and top-of-the-line navigation software. As for arguably the most critical part of Outlier—her sails— Jones enlisted industry-leader North Sails. A single main sail costs upward of $100,000. Depending on conditions, Outlier carries between seven and ten sails. Part of what makes

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Outlier such a feat of craftsmanship is this balance between modern engineering and the wooden sailboat tradition. While wood is much heavier, costlier and more difficult to work with, Jones wanted to be able to race Outlier in the Opera House Cup and other classic yacht regattas, which have strict rules for entry. If Outlier did not have to adhere to these rigid parameters, designers would have likely employed 100 percent carbon fiber as well as a movable “canting keel” and water ballast tanks.

“We hadn’t even sailed the boat more than a few days, let alone raced it, and we won the New York Yacht Club Regatta in the Spirit of Tradition Class.” — Harvey Jones

“I love wooden boats. They’re fun to be around, the people who build them are cool and the people who sail them appreciate the aesthetic of wooden boats.” — Harvey Jones

To compensate for the lack of these, Outlier relies on its crew as “moveable ballast.” Of the eighteen people required to race her, ten of those crewmembers are used mostly for ballast. “When I first got on her, I was pretty intimidated,” Jones recalls. “But once we came off the dock and set sail, it took all of fifteen minutes to feel comfortable. But you still have to be humble; the forces involved to move the boat through the water at that speed are incredible.” From the moment Outlier hit the water last year, she has been winning races and setting course records. “We hadn’t even sailed the boat more than a few days, let alone raced it, and we won the New York Yacht Club

Regatta in the Spirit of Tradition Class,” Jones says. Three months after leaving Brooklin Boat Yard, Outlier returned to Maine to compete in the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta—where she set a course record. With Jones at the helm and his longtime captain Chad Hudnut on deck, Outlier went on to win the Nantucket Regatta. “She sails faster than the wind,” Jones says. Before the coronavirus threw everyone’s summer plans overboard, Outlier was planning on sailing in the fabled Newport Bermuda Regatta. While she waits for the COVID-19 seas to calm, Outlier will continue to call Nantucket her home port—adding yet another claim to fame for the island’s storied sailing tradition.

Outlier's owner Harvey Jones at the helm of his pride and joy.

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The fast and furious life of race car driver Philip Bloom

uarantining was hardly boring for Philip Bloom. While others on Nantucket put together puzzles and binge-watched Tiger King, Bloom spent his days behind the wheel of a stateof-the-art race car simulator in the back room of his real estate office on Centre Street. Equipped with three flat-screen monitors, hydraulic-powered pedals and a steering wheel, the simulator is connected to an online network that had Bloom racing virtually against Formula 1 professionals. While the simulator might seem like a gadget out of a little kid’s wildest dream—it’s hardly a toy. After Bloom was nearly killed on the racecourse three years ago, this simulator played a critical role in getting his life back on track—quite literally. “I like to joke that my passion for racing all started because my parents wouldn’t allow

me to get a go-kart when I was a kid,” Bloom said. In reality, racing came into Bloom’s life after he returned from three years working overseas as a government contractor in Baghdad during the throes of the Iraq War. “I hadn’t really driven a car during those years abroad, so when I got back to the states I decided to buy a used Porsche,” he recalled. The very weekend he bought his Boxster, Bloom attended a Porsche club driving event and got introduced to the amateur race circuit at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut. “Being on good ol’ Paul Newman’s home track, I just fell in love with racing,” Bloom said, “and it has been my passion ever since.”

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B “Being on good ol’ Paul Newman’s home track, I just fell in love with racing and it has been my passion ever since.”

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— Philip Bloom

loom went from racing his street-legal Porsche to buying a souped-up Porsche Boxster race car from New York Giants Super Bowl champion Amani Toomer. “He just had a baby and his wife said he had to quit racing,” Bloom said. “So I bought it in a fire sale.” Bloom spent two years racing in the Porsche Club of America, an amateur circuit where two thousand licensed racers face off in thirty-two races around the country. The club races honed Bloom’s driving ability and ultimately propelled him to the pro circuit. For three years, Bloom traveled around the country racing a 911 in the Porsche GT3 Cup series. In May 2017, the series brought him to the Circuit of the Americas’ Formula 1 track in Austin, Texas, for the very first race of the season. In the thirty-ninth min“I like to joke that my ute of the race, Bloom was screaming 160 miles passion for racing all started because my per hour down one of the straightaways of the parents wouldn’t allow 3.4-mile track. As he approached a turn, the rear me to get a go-kart aerofoil of his Porsche 911 ripped free from the when I was a kid.” back of the car, sending Bloom spinning wildly — Philip Bloom out of control. He careened down the track into racer Will Hardeman. Both cars were obliterated and Bloom was knocked unconscious. Although he would eventually walk away from the wreck, he suffered a traumatic brain injury that ended his season and put his racing future in jeopardy.

Bloom spent the next six months at NYU’s Rusk Rehabilitation Center where he underwent an extensive brain injury rehabilitation program. “They gave me a battery of tests and worked on just getting me back to normal,” Bloom said. “They think I have CTE [chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the brain injury commonly associated with football players].” As he fought to heal his brain, the thought of racing lingered in the back of Bloom’s mind. “Everybody around me didn’t want me to go back to racing,” he said, “but I wanted to get back in the car the very next day.” However, when he did finally get back behind the wheel, Bloom found it virtually impossible to drive fast. Cars were whizzing by him left and right. He wasn’t ready—and turned to the safety of a race car simulator. Bloom stayed off the track for two years after his crash. During that time, he spent serious sessions in the simulator. Apart from the pileups, just about every technical aspect of racing was felt through the simulator’s pedals and steering wheel. “It’s very realistic,” Bloom said. “About 75 percent of my training can happen in the simulator.” Bloom finally got “Everybody around me an opportunity to flex all that didn’t want me to go back training last spring when he was to racing, but I wanted to get back in the car the invited to compete in the Pikes very next day.” Peak International Hill Climb— — Philip Bloom but this was hardly the kind of race he could simulate.

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“It was really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I’m just glad I didn’t know anything about it before I went, because I never would have gone.”

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— Philip Bloom

Known as the “Race to the Clouds,” the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb was established in 1916. Cars and motorcycles race 12.42 miles to the summit of Colorado’s 14,115-foot Pikes Peak. With more than 156 turns, all without guard rails preventing cars from plummeting hundreds of feet into a pit of rocks below, the Hill Climb is widely regarded as one of the most dangerous races in the world. Since the course was fully paved in 2012, three drivers have been killed. “It was really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Bloom said. “I’m just glad I didn’t know anything about it before I went, because I never would have gone.” Amid rain that turned to snow as he climbed to the clouds, Bloom raced around the hairpin turns

snaking Pikes Peak. “It was all a bit of a shock,” he recalled. “I’m used to driving around in circles on a track as fast as I can—but this was mostly about endurance and trying not to go over the edge.” Despite having not competed in a race for more than two years, Bloom set a bewildering pace up Pikes Peak, reaching the summit in just eleven and a half minutes. With each car racing up the makeshift track individually, Bloom waited to see where he’d stand as more times came in. In the end, he missed coming in first place by just four seconds. “I lost to Travis Pastrana,” Bloom said. Coming in second in his class to a world-famous daredevil and race enthusiast, Philip Bloom was most definitely back on track.

"That’s what attracts me to racing...the camaraderie of the people who spend the time and money to show up to racetracks in the middle of nowhere. We’re an interesting breed.” — Philip Bloom

Before the coronavirus pandemic halted racing, Bloom had returned to the pro circuit, driving a BMW M240i race car in a new series called TC America. He placed seventh in the first race of the season. Off the track this winter, Bloom attempted to break the fabled Cannonball Run record, driving coast to coast as fast as possible. With his dog Coda, now nicknamed “Cannonball Coda,” sleeping in the back of his newly purchased Mercedes E60, Bloom made it across the country in under twenty-five hours, averaging 101 miles per hour. “I was driving criminally fast,” Bloom said. “I actually got pulled over in Arizona, but they let me go with just a warning because it was Christmas.” Had Bloom not been stopped, or had he not driven through a snowstorm, he might have beaten the record. At press time, Bloom was planning on attempting another run at the record. “It’s no joke,” he said. “It’s honestly the craziest thing I’ve done in a car.” When he’s not speeding across the country, Bloom can now most often be found behind the wheel of his simulator on Centre Street, waiting for the race season to recommence. Beyond the intoxicating smell of petrol and the lure of speed, it’s the race community that Bloom said he misses most. “That’s what attracts me to racing,” he said. “It’s not the speed and excitement of racing—it’s the camaraderie of the people who spend the time and money to show up to racetracks in the middle of nowhere. We’re an interesting breed.”

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Dennis Kozlowski in his home in Florida.

rom the classrooms of Harvard Business School to boardrooms across America, Dennis Kozlowski was long hailed as a corporate savant. Then, almost overnight, he became America’s poster child for greed, avarice and financial gluttony. As CEO of Tyco International, Kozlowski transformed a small obscure company into a wildly successful, multi-national conglomerate. But perhaps equally spectacular as the rise of Tyco itself is the story of how a confluence of events led to the prosecution of the person who created this legitimate and enduring enterprise. The case that ultimately brought down Kozlowski raises troubling questions about how our legal system may have delivered a gross injustice to an individual who was guilty more of bad optics rather than criminal behavior. Leo Dennis Kozlowski was raised in a three-family cold-water flat in a poor neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, and his upbringing was anything but lavish. The son of a po-

“I didn’t set out to become a person who built $150 billion of value. It just never occurred to me. But each step along the way, I saw opportunity.” — Dennis Kozlowski

have had a material effect on their guilty verdict, which at one point led to Kozlowski spending nearly a year in solitary confinement in a state prison. By his own admission, Kozlowski made mistakes both stylistically and otherwise. A closer examination of the facts suggests that bad optics

and the goals of the prosecution may have superseded the inherent tenet of the American justice system to provide an impartial trial. For a man who created enormous and enduring wealth for Tyco’s stockholders, Kozlowski’s fall from grace was legendary. N Magazine sat down with Kozlowski to talk about the experience, his passion for helping people unfairly convicted of crimes and his deep connection to Nantucket.

N Magazine's Bruce A. Percelay interviewed Dennis Kozlowski and his wife Kim in their home in Florida.

N MAGAZINE: How did you first start coming to Nantucket? KOZLOWSKI: In the mid-seventies, I went out there with some friends. I had a co-worker who had a home on Nantucket. I enjoyed everything about Nantucket. The sense of community. The feeling of being away from things while still having this vibrant group living there. I took every opportunity to go back out to Nantucket. I was drawn to the island in a big way. In the early nineties, I built a house out there.

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liceman, Kozlowski worked his way through Seton Hall and ultimately landed a job at a small industrial company in New Hampshire called Tyco International, which manufactured fire alarms and heating valves. Over a twenty-five-year period, Kozlowski methodically worked his way through the ranks, becoming chief operating officer and ultimately CEO. The company’s success under Kozlowski’s leadership was nothing

short of stunning. He took the company from $20 million in sales to $40 billion and built a conglomerate whose market cap exceeded Ford, GM and Chrysler combined. At one point, he was the highest paid CEO in America and his face graced the cover of virtually every major business magazine in the country. If ever there were a perfect storm that could have sunk the career of an enormously successful and talented corporate icon, Kozlowski managed to find it and sailed directly into the eye of the hurricane. At the time, fraudulent business activities being perpetrated by companies like Enron, WorldCom and Global Crossing were front and center, and the media, which had previously glorified the success of many business leaders, turned into prosecutors of anyone who appeared to be profiteering at the expense of the American public. Kozlowski’s widely publicized and nearly comic excesses through Tyco included his purchase of a $6,000 shower curtain and a multimillion-dollar birthday party in Sardinia. He became caught in the crosshairs of Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, who was running for reelection at the time. Kozlowski appeared to become a target to serve as an example to the would-be abusers of the system regarding the pitfalls of unethical business behavior. Even before his trial on a litany of charges, many of which were questionable, Kozlowski was convicted in the court of public opinion. Having already given up the bulk of his fortune in unprecedented fines, Kozlowski paid the price of losing his freedom for the next seven years as well as his reputation. The stories and videos detailing Kozlowski’s lavish spending were used to influence jurors and may

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Kozlowski with his wife Kim in Florida.

N MAGAZINE: You had modest beginnings, commuting from a small town in New Hampshire in a Volkswagen Beetle. What made you the ambitious person you were, and I presume still are? KOZLOWSKI: I didn’t set out to become a person who built $150 billion of value. It just never occurred to me. But each step along the way, I saw opportunity. Each step along the way, I had the ambition to achieve more than my predecessor did. And then once you hired your people that are a reflection of your own thinking, growth starts growing exponentially. The team that we put together was the driving force of what we did at Tyco.

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early on? KOZLOWSKI: My most significant mentor was a high school teacher who put me on the school debate team and worked with me a lot to be a straight-forward, logical thinker. In high school, I also worked in the

pharmacy in North New Jersey where there was pharmacist who encouraged me to be more ambitious.

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N MAGAZINE: It was once said you were married to Tyco. Was this type of devotion the key to your success, and did it also create a distortion for you as to your view of the company and whether you felt it was your company? KOZLOWSKI: Absolutely. When you spend as much time with the company as I did, you don’t know if you’re Tyco when you wake up in the morning or if you’re Dennis.

1975. The company had revenues of about $20 million. When you left, the revenues were $40 billion. Was the dramatic growth part of your initial vision, or did the expansion just kind “When you spend as much of happen time with the company as I did, N MAGAZINE: There organically? you don’t know if you’re was an evolution KOZLOWSKI: The Tyco when you wake up in the of Dennis first thing I did morning or if you’re Dennis.” Kozlowski, from was put togeth— Dennis Kozlowski a person of er a team of resimple beginally good peonings with ple. That team limited exposure to then having all was able to accelerate growth faster the trappings of success. As someone than anybody thought possible. Our who became viewed as one of the most stock was selling at high multiples. admired CEOs in the world, did you feel This gave us the ability to sell or use yourself becoming a different person? stocks to buy other companies.

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happen is that I wanted to show my success. So I acquired some homes, a boat and things that I had little time to use. I was probably on [my sailing yacht] Endeavour ten nights a year. I was probably at my ski house in Bachelor Gulch maybe five or six nights a year over the holidays. So I don’t know the exact numbers, but I never used any of these assets when I acquired them.

N MAGAZINE: So they were trophies? KOZLOWSKI:Strictly trophies. And trophies that I didn’t need, but it was kind of my way of keeping score.

N MAGAZINE: When you appeared on the covers of Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune and other business publications, did you feel that you were breeding jealousy among your peers or among people in the media who tend to want to knock people off when they’re at the top of their game? KOZLOWSKI: There’s no doubt about it. Not only people in the media, but a few people on my board, also.

years, the company grew exponentially. Seldom do people go after those who enrich them, but in your

N MAGAZINE: In the terms of your compensation, you were to receive a full $112 million golden parachute and you were granted 800,000 shares of the stock. The board obviously supported this compensation. But by most objective standards, even now, that was a huge payday. Was this just presented to you? Or did you negotiate it? KOZLOWSKI:I reached a point where I started to do well at Tyco. We completed a number of acquisitions, things were moving along and I thought it was time for me to go do something else. I was dealing with a number of private equity companies at the time. I went to the Tyco board and said, “I’ve been around here for over twenty years and it is really time to pass the baton.” The compensation committee got together and came back and said, “We really want you to stay. We’ll give you three times

your salary, stock and unlimited use of an airplane, an apartment and staff to take care of all this for the rest of your life.” So I went to our vice president of HR, and said, “The board offer is probably worth over $100 million dollars. Please go back to the board and tell them I want three times my annual compensation of the stock, the bonus and the salary.” I

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case, the board came out with steak knives. During your years at Tyco, you were both CEO and chairman. Did that type of control play into what many thought was your overreaching in compensation? KOZLOWSKI: You can debate chairman and CEO as one and the same forever. I could give perfectly good examples of where it works and when it doesn’t work. But chairman and CEO had nothing to do with my compensation. We had a separate compensation board—the compensation committee—who set the compensation. We had a senior executive, the head of human resources, who met with the compensation committee without me present. I did not attend compensation committee meetings. I never once calculated my own bonuses. Our finance group did the calculation, and the deal was that our outside auditors had to sign off on the compensation before I was paid. The amount of my compensation was a $1 million base. The remainder was variable and at risk. I was paid in stock by how well the company’s earnings were. I owned stock like any other shareholder. I had to achieve certain milestones to be paid cash bonuses. As I met those milestones, typically our earnings went up and the stock went up. The stock doubled a few times over a number of years. Anybody that invested alongside of me was going to earn the exact same amount of money.

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thought there was no way in hell that they would ever support that. To my surprise, they approved it. I thought that was bizarre but I was feeling like a pitcher for one of the top major league teams. I’m thirty-eight years old, my arm is wearing out, so now they give me this huge contract.

N MAGAZINE: So this was the true golden handcuffs. KOZLOWSKI:This was the true golden handcuffs. N MAGAZINE: Did it occur to you that it might come back and bite you? KOZLOWSKI: I did not know it was going to destroy me. I was 100 percent certain that there would be a lot of criticism. But at the same time, we’ve created so much value that I rationalized the compensation.

N MAGAZINE: Did you lose sight of the fact that this was not your company, that it was a shareholder-owned public enterprise? KOZLOWSKI: It was the ultimate retirement package. I don’t know how it compares to other CEOs, but we did use General Electric’s proxy as a template. Our numbers were bigger, but I’m not sure. As I said, I didn’t put this together; consultants put it together. But I was the one who said, “Let’s times everything by three—the stock and the cash bonuses and everything.” So did I feel guilty that it was a public company and it wasn’t my company? The answer to that was yes and no. These were heady times. CEOs were all being put on a pedestal. CNBC, Fox, Bloomberg and all these programs were fighting to have us on the air. It was a way different time than “I was a high-profile it is now.

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inmate at the time, and the concern was that one of the gang members would get some notoriety by taking me out.”

mind, if someone could be convicted of bad optics, you would be extremely vulnerable. — Dennis Kozlowski There were a series of purchases you made at the pinnacle of your career that turned people’s perceptions of you. Let’s talk about something that’s also probably not wildly comfortable, but one of the most legendary events that maybe shaped people’s view of you and generated an inordinate amount of press was the fortieth birthday party in Sardinia. KOZLOWSKI: The party was ridiculous. My daughters were there. Some Tyco directors were there. Some Nantucket friends were there with others. It was over the top. It was not tasteful at all. Other people put the party together and I was not involved. However, I did personally pay the cost of the party.

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$6,000 shower curtain heard around the world. How much influence do you think the shower curtain and these other symbols had on the outcome of your case? KOZLOWSKI: They had a significant influence because you could watch

these poor juries sit there for four or five months listening about compensation committee meetings and audit committee meetings and return on investment calculations. Some of the jurors were either asleep or had their eyes glassing over. But when you can pop in things like a $6,000 shower curtain, which is more than a lot of people’s rent, the prosecution was able to identify me as a bad guy.

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WorldCom and Adelphia filed for bankruptcy. And they were charged with allegations of Enron-like accounting issues. The Wall Street Journal led the charge, suggesting that Tyco should somehow be included in this same group. Was this just bad reporting on behalf of a singular reporter at The Wall Street Journal?

Street Journal spent ten years trying to find something wrong with Tyco. Mark was a bit of an unusual guy. We would have board meetings on Bermuda because Tyco was based there. Mark would sit outside of meetings in an effort to speak to directors afterwards. Mark spent a fair amount of time looking for

something wrong with Tyco. This seemed to be his personal ambition. There was nothing impartial about Mark Maremont. In fact, Mark came to the trial a few times and he identified a juror that he said had a hand signal to the defendants. No one else in the courtroom saw that, but Mark published

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that in The Wall Street Journal. So here is a reporter trying to influence the outcome of a trial by attending the trial and printing something that he thought he saw at the trial that really no one else saw at the time.

indicted me, and then I never heard or saw from him again. I didn’t even meet him at the indictment.

N MAGAZINE: But was he pulling the strings from behind the curtain? about this case? Why was he so aggressive in his pursuit of you? KOZLOWSKI: At the time, the federal government was prosecuting Enron, WorldCom, Mar- KOZLOWSKI: He had to be because he was tha Stewart. It was a time when the stock market crashed in 1989/90 and people had lost heading up the DA’s office. But where I think my rights money in the market. CEOs and companies had been put on were violated pedestals. Morgenthau was running for reelection and he was “If a CEO devastated a was Tyco had an facing his first real challenge at the time. He had been district company, employees would attorney named attorney for many years. He wanted to show that he was going stay away from him. But I David Boies who to prosecute white-collar crime as well as the day-to-day crimes had over a hundred employees was a big-time of New York. visit while I was in prison... celebrity lawyer. To this day, this group has He was the attorN MAGAZINE: In his zeal, can you cite specific instances where he been extremely supportive.” ney that the Uniteither tested the limits of the law or went over them? ed States governKOZLOWSKI: I never once met Morgenthau. I never saw him in the — Dennis Kozlowski ment hired when courtroom. Morgenthau had a big press conference when he they wanted to break up Microsoft. When Al Gore and Bush were battling it out for the votes in Florida to become president of the United States, Al Gore hired David Boies. David Boies was brought in by a couple of directors to investigate me. His job was to win. It wasn’t to find truth and justice. It was to win—as simple as that. He was paid to win, so I would not have to be paid my retention agreement, which was worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the company. David Boies handed the case over to Morgenthau, but then David Boies, who was being paid to find me guilty as a prosecutor, was allowed to testify in front of the jury as if he was an employee of Tyco or as if he had some kind of objective opinion about the case. Once Boies testified, my constitutional rights were violated. N MAGAZINE: Why was the Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau so enthusiastic

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apparent that a number of things you were accused of were not crimes at all. Instance after instance, you were charged with things that weren’t valid. How is it possible in our judicial system, and with I would presume, capable representation, that these things were able to happen?

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us three years in prison. We were thinking about asking for one year. I was cutor, David Boies was extremely good speaking to my lawyer in a pizza place in Greenwich Village trying to make with the media, extremely good in opinthat decision one January night before the second trial began. I spoke to my ion-making, and he fed all the information co-defendant and we both agreed that we were not guilty of anything. Our from Tyco to the prosecutor in a record third defendant, our chief legal officer, had been acquitted between our first couple of months. I left the company in and second trial. We felt that since he had been acquitted and we had done June, and I was not under any kind of innothing wrong, that we would go back to trial. We believed at the time that if vestigation for any spending or any issues at all. I was indicted in September. A normal prosecutor’s office takes years to do these kinds of things. In my opinion, they were handed a case by David Boies because of my retention agreement. That $300 million agreement was now coming back to bite me. My retention agreement was strongly worded. It said that the only time Tyco would not have to pay that retention agreement was if I was found guilty of a felony that was materially injurious to Tyco. So a couple directors got together and said, “We gotta find material injuries to Tyco because it’s embarrassing to show up at our counSince leaving prison, Kozlowski has been a champion for criminal justice reform. try clubs and say, ‘We’re gonna be paying this guy all this money.’” we negotiated, we could get it down to one to two years of prison time with I never once had one discussion with a small fine. None of that happened. We went back to trial. They were able a single director or anybody in that comto pick up on these issues—the shower curtain, the spending, the personal pany from the day that I left on a Sunday lifestyle—as opposed to the facts. and was indicted on Monday on sales taxes. I was never allowed back in the N MAGAZINE: When the sentence came down it was eight-and-a-half to company. I was never allowed back to twenty-five years? my notes, my records, my information, KOZLOWSKI: Yes. my personal belongings. On that N MAGAZINE: And you paid restitution? “The support from Nantucket has fine Monday, DaKOZLOWSKI: I was hit with two financial obligations. been overwhelming over the years. vid took over and One was a $100 million fine to the Manhattan totally locked me When the DA would not accept my DA’s office. I was also hit with full restitution to out from the office. Tyco for everything I was paid, which was about money for bail, the people on I was told that Daanother $100 million. Nantucket put up their homes, vid Boies hired a their boats, their businesses. PR firm to disparN MAGAZINE: So when this came down, what on Fortunately, it didn’t come to that, age me. Before earth was going through your mind when this but they were right there for me. that I was on the was delivered? Absolutely right there. I will never cover of business forget that and I am forever grateful.” KOZLOWSKI: I was shocked and I felt that an appeal magazines doing process would turn this around. — Dennis Kozlowski well, and now it came time to bring N MAGAZINE: What do you feel you were guilty of? me down. I was instructed by my lawyers Were you guilty of anything, legally? not to speak to the media. Our first trial KOZLOWSKI: If the board changed their mind about my compensation or felt was a hung jury and it was ultimately dethat I was overpaid, there was a civil process that should have resolved this clared a mistrial. – certainly not a criminal process. But nobody ever came to me and asked After the first trial, the DA offered me to give the money back or do anything.

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N MAGAZINE: In the broad sense, what were you guilty of? KOZLOWSKI: I did push the organization hard and we built

N MAGAZINE: Did they realize who was teaching them? KOZLOWSKI: To some extent. Someone might be reading a

up a large company from nothing very quickly. We went from infancy to adulthood without passing through adolescence. And in that process, we never built the infrastructure or the documentation that most companies have to support the kind of growth we had. We didn’t have the lawyers or financial people on staff to support the large businesses that we were running. I was guilty of not building a corporate staff that was comparable to the size of the organization we were running.

business book and one of the cases would be the Dennis Kozlowski Tyco case, and someone would surprisingly say, “This is you!”

N MAGAZINE: So ultimately, when you were sentenced, you spent eight and a half months in a maximum security prison. You were hardly viewed as dangerous. What was the justification? KOZLOWSKI: They just didn’t know what to do with me. I was a high-profile inmate at the time, and the concern was that one of the gang members would get some notoriety by taking me out. So that was what was explained to me. They said, “It’s for your own good, because you are high profile.” But at the same time, inmates are savvy people. They know everything that’s going on. So everybody would be looking for some kind of help while you’re there too, seeking money. So part of that justification, too, was to keep me from being taken advantage of.

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you ever develop relationships with any of the prisoners, so that you felt you were able to steer them in the right direction? KOZLOWSKI: Absolutely. I taught some people to get their high school equivalency in prison. And some of the books, the things they had were pretty archaic. And my brother-in-law was a special education teacher in New Jersey, so I had him send in all kinds of books and things they use, so we were able to have some better materials for some of the guys to use when they went for their exams.

N MAGAZINE: Were there any positive experiences in prison? KOZLOWSKI: I had many visits. These visits included [my now wife] Kim, who became very supportive. We met most Saturdays and Sundays and got to know one another over those years. We concluded that the criminal justice system is pretty screwed up and decided to do something about it when we had the opportunity. I came out and got involved with the Fortune Society of New York, which I now chair. We help thousands of former inmates transition into society every year. Kim is president of the Women’s Prison Association, and her group spends most of their time finding alternatives to incarceration for women. We have a passion for criminal justice reform and advocacy.

N MAGAZINE: Do you have any other thoughts or reflections about this experience? KOZLOWSKI: If a CEO devastated a company, employees would stay away from him. But I had over a hundred employees visit while I was in prison. These were my senior staff, my secretaries, people up and down the organization. To this day, this group has been extremely supportive. That friendship and support has meant the world to me. I feel bad about what happened and the way it happened, but I feel good about the lasting relationships. N MAGAZINE: You’re going to be coming back to Nantucket? KOZLOWSKI: Yes.

N MAGAZINE: Is there any feeling of trepidation? KOZLOWSKI: It’s all very positive. The support from Nantucket has been overwhelming over the years. When the DA would not accept my money for bail, the people on Nantucket put up their homes, their boats, their businesses. Fortunately, it didn’t come to that, but they were right there for me. Absolutely right there. I will never forget that and I am forever grateful.

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PHOTOS COURTESY OF CNN

CNN’s John King maps out the upcoming election

ew people know the political landscape in the United States quite like John King. Come campaign and election time, the CNN host of Inside Politics can most often be found manning his “Magic Map” to break the electorate down to the finest detail. If you were to zoom in on King’s own geographic roots, you’d arrive to the top floor of a triple decker in Dorchester, Massachusetts where he grew up. For the last ten years, King has taken refuge on Nantucket where he spends a couple weeks each summer. During the first week of June, as the country was reeling from the killing of George Floyd amid the coronavirus pandemic, N Magazine spoke to John King to get his thoughts on the upcoming election, the role of cable news, and the future of politics during the most uncertain of times in modern American history.

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take away from Hillary Clinton in running against Trump? KING: One of the lessons that Joe Biden should take away from Hillary Clinton is to take nobody for granted. Hillary Clinton did not spend enough time in Detroit, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; the African American community; or the Democratic base community around the country. Because she thought “these voters don’t like Trump, therefore I’m good.” That doesn’t mean she didn’t campaign hard—she did—but she didn’t spend enough time in some places where she should have. We saw in Wayne County, Michigan; Milwaukee County, Wisconsin; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that she won the African American vote overwhelmingly by percentages, but the turnout wasn’t where it needed to be. So she narrowly lost these states. She wins the popular vote, but Donald Trump is still the President of the United States. So the lesson has

to be: take nothing for granted, take nobody for granted, especially in these volatile times. Times were volatile then, and look where we are now.

N MAGAZINE: Trump took an unexpected route to the presidency by way of the Rust Belt. Is that the most logical path again for him or is there another route that you foresee? KING: It’s very hard to see him turning other “big blue things.” If you go back to the 2016 map, it was Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin that made him the President of the United States. Plus Ohio, which is a more Republican state. As we enter the summer, Ohio is actually competitive. That’s a warning sign to Donald Trump. He has plenty of time and plenty of money to try and address it, but there are signs of weakness for Trump everywhere. If he loses a Michigan and/ or a Wisconsin, where would Donald Trump get [those votes]? That’s really hard to find on a map

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also work against you and be a disadvantage. So he needs to convince people that his experience should not disqualify him. I think this is particularly challenging with younger people, particularly with younger people of color as the country is going through this racial reckoning. Joe Biden has some substantial, decades-long positive relationships with the African American community. He was also chairman of the judiciary committee when they passed the crime bill that a lot of younger African Americans “Trump bends the rules and defied the laws N MAGAZINE: Do you think the electoral think was part of the problem…This of gravity of politics for most of the time college should be abolished? election to me is not a question of exthat he’s been in the national spotlight as KING: I have thought about this argument perience between Trump and Biden. a politician, but I do not think he can win a lot because I lived through Bush/Gore It’s going to be a question of whethwith his base alone as of today.” and I lived through 2016. In both cases er some people stay home because — John King you had a Republican become president, they think Biden is more of the same. so this argument mostly comes from leftDonald Trump is not going to win of-center people and progressives. And I get the argument: If you get over a lot of African American voters or Latino voters or youngthe most votes, you’re supposed to win. However, there is a reason er voters—but if they stay home, that subtraction from Biden for the electoral college. Would anybody care about North Dakocan serve as addition for Trump. ta or Idaho or Nebraska without it? They would get totally ignored N MAGAZINE: We’ve seen a number of big name defectors in presidential elections. Everybody would go to Texas and Califrom Trump’s camp in recent weeks. If that trend continues, fornia. You would find a strategy to run it up in New York, Texas, will Trump’s base begin to erode or will that always California. So I see both sides. When I get conflicted like this my remain unshakable ground? KING: Most of his base is unshakeable ground. There’s no question that there’s erosion as we enter the summer, with blue-collar workers punished by the coronavirus recession and with Evangelical Christians. That’s now, but when you have several months and almost unlimited resources to deal with your problems, seeing them is not a bad thing right now. He has time to fix these things. Most of his base is rock solid, but he cannot afford to lose much.

because those were traditional blue states. What other blue states could he possibly turn to get that kind of math? Donald Trump is not going to flip Maryland, New York, Massachusetts, or California. So he is wedded very much to his 2016 map. Now he can afford to lose a state or two and still win again, but he drew to an inside straight flush in 2016. He threaded the needle just the way he had to, and their campaign deserves credit for that. He has very little margin for error this time.

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well in the suburbs in 2016, but he has lost them since. The president needs to make up ground in the suburbs. If he doesn’t, he will not get reelected. He doesn’t have to get it all back, but he needs to get most of it back. If you’re thinking nationally, look general default is that the founders were "One of the lessons that Joe Biden at his approval rating throughout pretty damn smart. I tend to default to the should take away from Hillary Clinton his presidency. It goes from 38-39 guys in wigs. But is there a hybrid between is to take nobody for granted." percent to 45-46 percent, with one the electoral college and the popular vote? — John King or two blips above that. But he has Could there be a two- or three-step process? generally operated between a 42 I’m not smart enough to figure it out, but if and 45 line since day one of his presidency—and that’s his base. we could ever have conversations in America again and could put You can’t win with 40 percent of the vote. Trump bends the rules a bunch of smart people in a room, maybe they could find a new and has defied the laws of gravity of politics for most of the time way that honors both the popular vote and the design of the electoral that he’s been in the national spotlight as a politician, but I do not college. Until then, I don’t see it changing and we’re stuck with it. think he can win with his base alone as of today. N MAGAZINE: Looking at Biden, what are his greatest weaknesses N MAGAZINE: We’re all aware of Trump’s shortcomings, but as a candidate? KING: He’s a longtime politician and a longtime creature of Washwhat can we credit him for doing well as president? KING: He’s kept his party loyal. He’s proven that he can keep ington, D.C. Now experience can be an asset. But when people Republicans disciplined by and large. We’re beginning to see don’t trust Washington and don’t trust politicians, experience can

but the most valuable thing covering polisome potential cracks in that, but his abiltics is to get your ass in the car and go into ity to keep people in line has allowed him small-town America, suburban America to do the things that he wants to do. You and listen. Not talk—listen. can agree or disagree with what he’s doing, but the fact is he has done that. This town N MAGAZINE: Many criticize cable news for needed to be disrupted. Donald Trump is contributing to the polarization of the counthe great disrupter. I think you can make a try. Can cable news be used to bring us clospretty good argument that the way he diser together? rupted it—with KING: I hope so. the exception of I hope that both "Donald Trump did not start polarthe criminal jusization or Washington dysfunction and the coronavirus tice reform bill— bipartisanship—but it seems like he’s and the situation has not resulted in put everything on steroids." we're in with the any big bipartisan — John King George Floyd achievements of killing should the Trump presi-

preparations for mail-in balloting, what some people call absentee balloting. Come November, it’s a reasonable expectation that some people will still not want to go out and get in a line to vote. They want to vote from their home. The President of the United States thinks that’s an invitation for fraud. The President of the United States is wrong on that point. Mail-in voting has been done for a long time in a lot of places. The people there will tell you that it increases participation and it has very, very, very low instances of fraud. The president is going to rail against that until the last minute, but I do think you’re going to see almost every state take steps to increase mail-in voting.

dency and that’s a shame. Donald Trump did not start polarization or Washington dysfunction and bipartisanship—but it seems like he’s put everything on steroids, including the preexisting problem as it comes to politics. The President has changed the face and the course of the federal judiciary in a way we will see for twenty-five years or more. His critics don’t like it, but this is a giant legacy achievement far beyond the scope of what his recent predecessors were able to do.

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be examples of that. I am an old AP wire reporter. That’s my training. I’m an old, get-all-sides-of-the-story, just-get-the-facts kind of guy. I’m not perfect, but that’s my approach. I know what other networks do in prime time and that’s their business model and they have every right to the First Amendment. I’m not criticizing them; it’s just not for me. CNN is not perfect and I’m not claiming perfection for CNN, but if you look at the coronavirus coverage and you look at the coverage now of the reckoning in the wake of the George Floyd killing, I do think you are starting to see more conversation. I think it’s really important to just listen. To invite diverse guests on television, let them tell their stories, and just listen. Will this be a tipping point? I don’t know.

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a country today? KING: We are in the middle of constant change, which can be incredibly frustrating because it’s exhausting. Whether it’s the global economy, the polarization of our politics, the advances of technology—we’re at a time where it’s hard to find a North Star. And because our politics have become small, there’s not a lot of leaders out there who are pointing to a North Star. There’s so much change going on that people are understandably fascinated and understandably frightened all at the same moment. And then you throw a pandemic in the middle of it. So we’re living in the age of the great unknown. But we’re also living in an age of discovery.

like today, what are going to be some of the key systematic issues you see coming into play with the election? KING: There are going to be enormous

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people by surprise. What lessons did CNN learn from covering the last election that will be implemented this time around? KING: There are some urban legends or myths about 2016 where people think that the polling was wrong. The polling wasn’t wrong. The polling in the end got tighter in both the national polls and state polls. Donald Trump’s momentum in those states continued. The late national polls said that Hillary Clinton was going to win the election. She did win in the national polls— she won in the popular vote. So those polls weren’t wrong. If we learned anything from 2016 it’s to use national polls as a general benchmark of momentum—do not use them to say who is winning the election. That’s not how we pick a president. We have to spend more time state by state. We need to spend less time on polls and more time with people. For all the big data in the world, politics is still about people. As a reporter, I can sit here and read every poll, every piece of data, look at every ad,

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n a region known for leaning to the left, Adriana Cohen has emerged as a prominent voice for the political right. A syndicated columnist, radio host and frequent commentator on Fox News, Cohen has covered everything from politics to foreign policy to presidential elections. In 2016, Cohen’s work caught the attention of President Trump, who invited her to the White House for a private meeting in the Oval Office. The president has since become a frequent guest on Cohen’s radio broadcast and a central focus of her widely-read column. N Magazine spoke to Adriana Cohen about presidential politics, current events and the future of the Republican party.

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N MAGAZINE: Tell us how you came to know Nantucket and what role it plays in your family’s life? COHEN: I first discovered Nantucket when I was in college. I fell in love with the island immediately and have been back pretty much every summer since. I enjoy biking to Surfside, stopping by Cisco for some live music, visiting Bartlett Farm, and getting dressed up to go to Galley Beach for sunset. Our children have so many wonderful memories there. We’re just huge lovers of Nantucket and I would live there all summer if I could.

N MAGAZINE: You have clearly established yourself as a conservative voice in a state that is not known for being particularly conservative. How did your viewpoint develop? COHEN: I’ve always been socially liberal but fiscally conservative my whole life. Basically, I support gay marriage, I’m pro-choice, but I don’t like the idea of big government controlling every aspect of our life. I’m very much a free market capitalist that believes our country needs to protect its freedoms, because if you don’t protect them, someone will be happy to take those freedoms away

from you. That developed as I grew up. I got a political science degree in college, and I’ve worked on various political campaigns over the years. When Scott Brown was a senator running for reelection, I volunteered on his campaign. About ten years ago, I started going on Dan Rea’s radio show on WBZ and became a regular on his program covering elections and all kinds of political topics. Then I joined the Boston Herald as a columnist and a radio host. And that’s really where my career took off as a political commentator and analyst.

if they will survive. I certainly hope that they do because it’s so important for the public to hear balanced viewpoints. Let’s hear from liberals, let’s hear from conservatives and everyone in between. I want to hear from libertarians; every voice is important. I’m a strong supporter of the First Amendment and not censoring voices. That’s something that’s been really great to work for the Herald—they presented and allowed both sides of political issues that sometimes I don’t see in the Boston Globe.

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Herald for a moment. Like many newspapers, it is a struggling enterprise. Do you think the Herald has a chance for survival, and if not, what does it do to the landscape in Boston? COHEN: I don’t know if they have a chance of survival or not. I don’t have access to their financials. But I can say that newspapers in general have been struggling to survive for many years—that was even prior to the COVID crisis. So I don’t know

eye of the president. Explain your interaction with him and what your take is. COHEN: The president has seen me on Fox News over the years and other outlets. He also reads my column and has tweeted or re-tweeted me many times, as has the White House and members of the administration and President Trump’s family. During the 2016 campaign, I had the privilege of interviewing him. He came on my radio show and it went really well. We really clicked and it was a great interview. Of course, it went viral. And then I was invited to the White House last March to meet him in person. I met him in the Oval Office and spoke with him for probably about twenty, twenty-five minutes. It was really an honor and very special. Then I invited him back on my radio show and he did that just a few weeks later. He typically doesn’t do radio, but he told me he would make an exception for me because he really respects my work, and he said so when I interviewed him.

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in his support from the Republican side, most notably, Ann Coulter. What do you think about the Republican support, or perhaps breaking of ranks, for the president?

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N MAGAZINE: There’s a lot of questions right now about how an election will be conducted with COVID-19 still a looming threat toward the country. What is your view of how this election will happen and how it may influence the outcome? COHEN: I think it’s imperative that we maintain voter integrity with our election, and that should be done at the ballot box. Voters should go to the ballot box. If the issue or concern is about the risk of catching COVID-19, we wear masks, we wear gloves, we social distance and we vote traditionally. I share President Trump’s concerns about voter fraud, with having the entire country just mail in ballots. Jerry Nadler, the Democrat from New York, is on a video years ago warning that fraud would take place with mail-in voting. It’s interesting now that Democrats have no problem with that risk.

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to be a backlash from not only the president’s supporters, but also objective medical professionals, that the social distancing strategy—which has done enormous damage to Cohen during her 2019 visit to the Oval Office the economy—may COHEN: I’m not concerned about it at all. If you not have been the look at the polling, President Trump has 96 reason why case percent support of the Republican Party and numbers have gone that’s been consistent for over a year now. down. What is your Of course, there’s going to be some dissentview on how this has ers, some Never Trumpers, like Ann Coulter, been handled, and but his supporters don’t care what she thinks, whether indeed the to be honest. We know that the president, president may have prior to the COVID-19 crisis, led one of the been correct? strongest economies in decades. The unemCOHEN: There’s a lot ployment rate was historically low, and there of conflicting Cohen has interviewed President Trump on a number of occasions. have been so many achievements since he got information out elected. His supporters see that he’s done the best job that he could there. We were told to lock down and self-quarantine to navigate our country through this unprecedented crisis. So his originally to flatten the curve, to give the hospitals time so support remains strong. they could get personal protective equipment and all that they needed. We were all on board with that. However, there’s a N MAGAZINE: The COVID-19 crisis has been a test for everyone, big difference between quarantining for two weeks and severnot the least of which the president. Very few presidents get al months—losing so many of your freedoms and your rights reelected when an economy is damaged. What is your assesswhile we don’t even know for sure if quarantining is the best ment of how much of a risk that poses to his reelection? way to combat this disease. For example, there was a study in COHEN: It is a slight risk. However, the American people have seen New York a few weeks ago done by 113 hospitals that analyzed that part of the COVID-19 crisis President Trump led. He ushered their COVID-19 patients who had been hospitalized. The in one of the greatest financial comebacks since the financial majority of them were people who stayed home. So that’s crash. We went from high unemployment to virtually historically problematic. That conflicts with what we were told. Now low unemployment for all Americans: women, African Ameriwe’re learning that some of the things we were told to do did cans, Asian Americans. And he created tens of millions of jobs. not work; they might have had a counterproductive effect. All And so Americans have seen that he’s been able to do it once, he’ll I would say is practice common sense in terms of keeping your be able to do it again post-COVID crisis. Now that the economy is family safe, whether that’s wearing a mask or social distancing, reopening, we just need to give him time and the chance to do that. and keeping yourself as healthy as possible.

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While we all had our harebrained moments in quarantine, island resident Tucker Holland took it to a whole new extreme. Playing off his curly hair and bushy beard, Holland recreated iconic photos of musicians, athletes, comedians and other hairy Hollywood stars. What started off as a single post on his social media turned into a regular feature that gave islanders a reason to smile as the situation in the world got more and more hairy. At press time, a gallery showing of the photos was being organized for August by the Artists Association of Nantucket to benefit AANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programming.

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Trashion Show freshman Emmy is an employee at ROASTD General Store, which is known for eliminating plastic waste. She and her co-designer Jennifer spent hours scouring the island's dumpsters for plastics, bags and bubble wrap to create this look that's accentuated with a few eco-friendly straws.

ierce fashion with a low carbon footprint was what you could find at the annual Cisco Brewers Trashion Show for the last four summers. It has been my pleasure to produce this event over the past four years and a privilege to watch firsthand how a grassroots beach-clean fundraiser can evolve into the island's ultimate high-impact fashion show that's designed to educate while it entertains. Last year’s Trashion Show was dubbed “senior year” by our beloved emcee Uncle Ricky. With the Trashion Show taking a "gap year" this July due to COVID-19, we're taking a closer look at last year’s outfits and the lessons they taught. 141

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Every morning, Nantucket resident and self-love advocate Dorothy Stover walks the island and collects trash along the way. From plastic bottles to paper cups and cigarette butts, Dorothy has intimate knowledge of Nantucketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s litter. Her outfit was created from trash found on our beach cleanups and shares the message how loving oneself is a direct connection to how one cares for the planet.

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We even like to recycle with our outfits at Trashion Show. Devon McCready, a Trashion Show sophomore, created conversations around wristband waste with this outfit made by Lindsay Feller in 2017.

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Four-time Trashion Show model Lindsay Feller up-cycled an artistic look based around her Cisco winter art gatherings called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pints & Paintsâ&#x20AC;?. She highlighted firsthand how artists can do their 143 best to create zero waste with their programs.

No stranger to the catwalk, Trashion Show senior Nicole “RIO” DuPont took boxes from Amazon, Stitch Fix and Chewy to make a larger-than-life statement about the effects that “clicking and shipping” has on our environment. Her message was to shop local and think before you just fill up your online carts.

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Even the Trashion Show needs to learn its lessons! During the past three years, we created shirts to commemorate the event and decided in 2019, we would no longer be adding to the fashion industry's waste problem by creating annual tees. Freshman blACKbook intern Ryle Ferguson rocks a dress made out of upcycled shirts from the 2018 Trashion Show tees alongside various fabrics and materials found at the Hospital Thrift Store.

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Four-time Trashion Show all-star Katie Turnage rocked a dress created by designer Fraser Long. The duo have been creating conversations through high fashion since our event began. In 2019, they wanted to shed light on the landscaping industry and 146 created this stunning up-cycled look to remind us to be more conscious of nature as the materials needed to maintain gardens often create lots of waste and excess plastics.

Fashion student and Trashion Show freshman Melissa wants to create more sustainable fashion on Nantucket. Her dress was made from faux leather of a past fashion collection as well as from single use plastic, recycled glass, dental floss, to-go containers and trash bags.

Repping Levitate, Aria Dasbach is a beach bum model come to life rocking surf trash found on the shores and accessorizing with a broken surfboard.

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Shops, restaurants and business owners of Nantucket yesteryear

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A group of men and a dog stand outside of the J. W. Brady store on the Masonic Block. Goods in window include signs for musical instrument strings, banjos, tires, and music stands.

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A Mary H. Nye, Dry and Fancy Goods shop, on Centre Street, with Mary posed in the doorway.

B Hardy's hardware store and Cy's Green Coffee Pot Bar and Restaurant on South Water Street. The large building on the left is the Dreamland Theatre.

C Group portrait of the staff of the Inquirer and Mirror in the print shop.

C D A crowd in line at the Sweets Shop on Main Street.

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E Men voting at Young's Bicycle Shop while the Town building was closed.

F "Schmid Ladies and Children's Fashionable Hairdresser. A full line of human hair goods on hand and made to order." The Upper Deck Bosun's Locker bar and Charcoal Galley restaurant on the south side of Main Street. G Looking east on Dock Street towards Still Dock, a view of the rear entrance to Allen's Restaurant and Diner.

H H A sidewalk art show, in front of the Tavern Restaurant, at Harbor Square, on Straight Wharf.

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J Ye Olde Curiosity Shop on India Street.

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E Charlie Davis weighing fish on Main Street, in front of the Hub, with two young children watching.

F Blacksmith George Winslow at work in his shop. G Blacksmith Andrew Swain, in his shop on South Water Street.

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C The shop at the 33 Main Street, decorated with bunting and flags. D Folger's Restaurant, located on the south side of Main Street.

H Stephen Hussey, a shoemaker, in his shop on Union Street. I Shop on on south side of Main Street. J Bob Leske standing in front of his insurance business. K A barber shop. I

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don’t know about you? STERK: I’m a drummer in a rock band. It is a fun hobby and a good outlet to clear your mind. I remember the first time I went on stage—I was petrified.

information that summer visitors might appreciate? STERK: We have some pretty amazing mountain biking here. It’s a great way to access much of the landscape and explore the natural beauty of the island.

design hero and why? STERK: It is hard to narrow down, but my real-life Nantucket design hero is Vladimir Kagan. I adored that man and loved visiting with him and talking about the aspects of good design. He had a fond sensitivity and curiosity for nature and translating the essence into his furniture designs. It was a blessing to have known him and it shaped me as a designer.

N MAGAZINE: Where and when do you get your best ideas? STERK: Ideas come at unexpected times, which is why I love new experiences. But typically my clearest thinking time is the first couple of hours after waking up when the house is quiet. I keep a notebook next to me to stream thoughts, ideas, to-dos—whatever comes up. It is a way to clear the cobwebs. I am also a big fan of a comfortable garden spot with dappled sunlight—it is a simple pleasure.

N MAGAZINE: Tell us about one of your favorite design projects since starting your business in 1999? STERK: That is a tough one. There are so many that I would consider my favorite

N MAGAZINE: How can someone change the look and feel of an entire room for under $100? STERK: Change the wall color. A simple color shift can change the mood and look of a space with instant gratification. Try a color you might not try.

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N MAGAZINE: What three things can you never leave the house without? STERK: A cup of coffee. Our NiSHA rescue dog Jack. My black hardbound notebook.

N MAGAZINE: If you could change anything about the island, what would it be? STERK: It is pretty perfect to me. But being a night owl, it would be great to be able to get something you needed late at night.

N MAGAZINE: What did you want to for the time in my career. I am inspired and driven by the creative collaborative process and goals of the project. My favorite design projects are when the team of client, architect, builder and designer are working in synch and unison. My best day is to deliver a project with happy clients.

be when you grew up? STERK: When I was a child, my parents brought us to many theater performances, which is where my love of musicals was born. And I really thought I was going to be a Hollywood movie star!

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