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Allied Marine is proud to be Ferretti Group’s exclusive dealer for the U.S., including the entire Northeast region, with two representatives on the island of Nantucket. As stewards of Italy’s centuries-old yachting tradition, the Ferretti Group is a world leader in the design and construction of luxury yachts, with a prestigious brand portfolio that includes Ferretti Yachts, Riva, Pershing, Itama, CRN, Custom Line, and Wally. Today, Ferretti Group operates six shipyards across Italy and continues to innovate, offering the most luxurious and technologically advanced motor yachts on the water.
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88’ FOLGORE Built on a reputation of unique savoir-faire, Riva’s winning beauty and style carry on today in the brilliant new Riva 88’ Folgore – heir to one of the brand’s most desirable yachts. It features an alluring design that blends the best of past and present. Discover novel design touches, advanced ergonomics and innovative materials that merge seamlessly with classic Riva touches, such as mahogany inlays and decorative steelwork.
FERRET TI YACHTS 1000 The chic new Ferretti Yachts 1000 is the first 100 percent wide-body vessel, featuring clean-cut forms that are crafted for comfort. The designers made “comfort” the yacht’s mantra, expanding the interior and exterior social spaces to create a home on the water. Majestic, versatile and suited to all markets, the Ferretti Yachts 1000 features a stunning blend of sharp lines, classic styling and sophisticated materials.
NAVETTA 30 Individually designed and built for highly demanding owners, Custom Line yachts are synonymous of excellence and timeless yachts with a special focus on the bespoke and tailormade interiors. An exquisite combination of cutting-edge technology, ingenious innovations and unmistakable design, every Custom Line creation is a unique work of art. The stylish Custom Line Navetta 30 is a symphony of graceful exterior lines, spacious interior and guest areas and innovative architectural solutions. The highly customizable interior features a family-friendly layout at its core with large social areas integrated into five generous outside chill areas.
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RELIEF FOR IRRITATED EYES IPL treatment for Ocular Surface Disease is now available on-island
At ACK Eye, we work diligently to evaluate innovative technologies in eyecare that might have potential benefits to our island community. Investing in beneficial technologies is a primary reason why ACK Eye is able to offer eyecare of preeminent quality. Earlier disease diagnosis, expanded treatment options, the ability to monitor clinical outcomes, and implementation of improved clinical protocols are all secondary benefits of technologic advancement. We love our island community and will continue to improve eyecare for it. It’s our vision for your sight. Michael Ruby, O.D.
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Dermatologic inflammation of the face from conditions such as Rosacea cause inflammation around, and congestion within the meibomian glands in our eyelids, leading to one of the most common causes of Ocular Surface Disease & Dry Eye Disease. Dermatologists have been performing Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) treatments for Rosacea and other facial skin concerns for decades. A few years ago, observant physicians realized the secondary benefit to patients with dry & irritated eyes. This remarkable light therapy is the single most helpful advancement in the treatment of dry eye disease, without drugs, without down-time, and has the added secondary benefits of collagen stimulation, improved facial skin tone, and reduction of unsightly spider vessels. ACK Eye is pleased to add Lumenis M22 IPL treatment to our armament of options in the battle against the underlying causes of Ocular Surface Disease and Dry Eye Disease. We invite you to call to schedule a consultation to determine if IPL would be helpful for you.
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This gracious, shingle style home was built in 1900, totally renovated by the present owner in 1998 and has been meticulously maintained. Expert craftsmanship went into the renovation, blending the old and new. Multi leveled decks provide private outdoor enjoyment on over one half acre of land. There are water views from many rooms and the sound and harbor views from the third floor deck and the roof walk are panoramic. It is a short walk to Steps Beach and close to Jetties Beach and town as well.
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Discover the magic of The Nantucket Club. In the heart of downtown
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CONTENTS /
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58 NDULGE Nantucket Wine and Spirits owner Alanna Lucas pulls some selections for summer sipping.
Elizabeth Smart champions A Safe Place
60 NGREDIENTS Chef Dan Shaw shares his top fish dish recipe. 62 KID’N AROUND Looking to keep your kiddos entertained this month? Look no further. 64 NTERIORS A kitchen designed by Susan Masterman Architects exemplifies classic New England. 66 HEALTH N WELLNESS Experience the healing touch of Priscilla Ryan Graham. 68 NBUZZ Get up to date with the island’s top headlines courtesy of Nantucket Current.
46 CONTRIBUTORS Meet some of the talented writers and photographers who made this issue possible. 48 NUMBERS A numerical snapshot of Nantucket in July. 50 NEAT STUFF Icarus + Co. transforms Nantucket beach stones into wearable art.
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70 NEED TO READ N Magazine’s resident bookworm Tim Ehrenberg has your ultimate summer reading list. 72 NOSH NEWS A special tribute to one of the island’s true icons, Stephen “Spanky” Kania.
NSPIRE 76 REACHING THE PROMISED LAND How Dipak Thapaus braved untold hardships to find Nantucket. 82 ON POINT Artist Carly Berlin draws her line in Nantucket’s sand. 88 THE BRILLANT MR. READE Learn about the rare genius of Nantucket lawyer Arthur Reade.
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Gifted artist Carly Berlin brings her art to Nantucket.
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NQUIRY 128 GLOBAL CHANGEMAKERS A conversation with philanthropists Eric and Wendy Schmidt. 140 SURVIVOR Author, speaker and survivor Elizabeth Smart shares her story with A Safe Place. 148 INSIDE EDITION Famed interior designer Nate Berkus shares his tips as a preview to headlining the NHA’s Nantucket by Design Luncheon next month.
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NDEPTH 156 JUST HISTORY The Museum of African American History champions critical chapters of the island’s past. 164 PARADISE IN POLPIS A historic property in Polpis is an island unto itself. 176 LIGHT CONSTRUCTION A group of Nantucket craftsmen help give new life to a historic lighthouse in Boston Harbor.
2021 SpeciaL exhibition
D uty & Diligence: Station Life in the U.S. Life-Saving Service A Nantucket story of routine, readiness, and rescue.
NaNtucket Shipwreck & LifeSaviNg MuSeuM 158 Polpis Rd • 508-228-1885
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We will be open from Fri, May 28 – Mon, Oct 11, Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-4pm. Adults $10, Children $5, members free.
Immerse yourself in a re-creation of a Lifesaving Station’s environment at the turn of the 20th century.
July 2021
You’ll find unique displays of rarely seen objects related to Surfmen’s daily lives. Regular admission fees include Duty & Diligence and new outdoor activities created especially for this year’s exhibit. Sponsored by Novation Media. Open from Fri, May 28 – Mon, Oct 11, Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-4pm. Adults $10, Children $5, members free.
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An Exceptional If I had to choose one word to describe Nantucket, it would be exceptional—but not in the traditional Chamber of Commerce sense. Clearly, we are surrounded by exceptional beaches, architecture and natural beauty. However, what is truly exceptional about Nantucket are the year-round and summer residents who make up the island. Our cover story on Wendy and Eric Schmidt is a perfect example of people who have done exceptional things for both Nantucket and the world at large. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Wendy and Eric to talk about their philanthropic initiatives, which could have a far-reaching effect in terms of human longevity, planetary health and the overall quality of our lives. Wendy, who has already made her mark on Nantucket through her creation of ReMain Nantucket, is now working with Eric in setting their sights toward efforts that could positively impact us all. Another example of exceptionalism is local attorney Arthur Reade who is generally known as one of the island’s most prominent real estate attorneys. Less known about Reade is that at an early age his intellectual capabilities proved far beyond those of most mortals. From reading The Wall Street Journal at the age of three, to leapfrogging grades through Weymouth’s public schools, to being accepted to Harvard at the age of thirteen,
PLACE Reade is truly gifted and is the ultimate example of a Renaissance man. The story of this unassuming local attorney is surprising and captivating. Exceptional people are sometimes molded by adversity and Elizabeth Smart would be one such person. The subject of a national drama involving her kidnapping and abuse, Smart has emerged as a compelling advocate for survivors and is coming to Nantucket through A Safe Place to tell her story. A Safe Place is the island’s only resource dedicated to victims of abuse and is worthy of all our support. Nantucket has some of the most exceptional craftsmen anywhere and the work of Driftwood Construction’s Karl Phillips among others on Graves Light Station, which sits outside of Boston Harbor, is a showcase for ingenuity and creativity. Purchased by Boston area resident Dave Waller, one of the most creative people I have ever met, the lighthouse has been transformed into a home nine miles out to sea. I visited Graves Light with my wife and two children and we braved climbing a thirty-foot ladder over the rocks to see this work of art. We entered a fantastic world shaped by the hands of island talent. As COVID-19 begins to fade from our memory, we cannot forget to salute Nantucket Cottage Hospital and their incredible staff for their exceptional work in managing the pandemic. There are few words that can be used to express our gratitude for their work other than thank you. With a new spirit of optimism in the air, I wish all of you a wonderful Fourth of July and an exceptional summer to come.
The Percelay family at the Graves Light Station
THANK YOU, NANTUCKET! This edition of N Magazine represents our largest issue in nineteen years of publishing. As a result of your support we have a total of two hundred and twenty pages, more subscribers, more online viewers and a larger circulation than ever before. We are truly grateful for the island’s confidence in us. We look forward to continuing to report on the people, places and events that make Nantucket exceptional and we look forward to serving the island for many years to come.
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Jay CONNOR Jay Connor began taking photos when he was in college, until his Nikon film camera was stolen during his senior year. A few years later, he ventured into medicine, becoming an orthopedic hand surgeon. While continuing to practice medicine, Connor renewed his interest in photography fifteen years ago. Since then, he’s shot for The Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Harvard Magazine. He covers all the major events around Boston, including the Boston Marathon, the Fourth of July celebration, the Head of the Charles and Hasty Pudding. Whether turning his lens on people, events, weddings, food or aerial photography, he enjoys taking photos of everything and anything.
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Larry LINDNER Larry Lindner is a New York Times bestselling writer who also penned a nationally syndicated column for The Washington Post for several years. His work has appeared in publications ranging from The Los Angeles Times to The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler and O, the Oprah Magazine. Currently, he serves as executive editor of Your Dog and Catnip, monthlies put out by the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. Favorite pastimes: watching the sunrise at Sconset Beach, quesadillas at Millie’s and being asked if he needs a ride on Milestone Road while getting to Sconset on foot.
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Jonathan SOROFF After growing up in Newton and graduating from Duke University, Jonathan Soroff began his journalism career at the Boston Herald. For 28 years, he was the lead columnist for The Improper Bostonian Magazine, writing the social column and a celebrity interview in each issue and contributing numerous features. He’s written for a variety of publications, including People, London’s Royal Academy Magazine, the South China Morning Post, Modern Luxury, DuJour, The National and the South African editions of Elle and Elle Decor. He is currently a contributing editor at Boston Magazine, writing the Person of Interest interview, a quarterly column and travel content, and he produces travel stories for numerous national and international publications.
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Loves Nantucket If you haven’t tried our 92+ rated wines yetyou can find them at: Brant Point Grill at the White Elephant Epernay Wine and Spirits The Galley Nantucket Wine and Spirits Topper’s at the Wauwinet W E N T W O R T H V I N E YA R D . C O M @ W E N T W O R T H V I N E YA R D S
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Visit Caroline and Krys at their Icarus + Co. studio on 19 Old South Wharf where in addition to shopping their extensive creations, you can also watch them crafting their one-of-a-kind pieces at their workbench. You can also peruse their collections online at icarusandco.com.
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Walking the beaches of Nantucket with their puppies, the two friends search for the perfect stones to elevate into necklaces, earrings and bracelets. “We select each stone, searching for just the right shape, feel and energy,” explains DeMauro. From the beach, they return to their studio workshop on 19 Old South Wharf where they handcraft one-of-a-kind designs in wax, which they then replace with molten metal. The finished products are simply exquisite, all at once imbued with the organic essence of the beach and the refined beauty of high-end jewelry. Indeed, Mullen and DeMauro breathe new life into these stones, which have journeyed perhaps thousands of years to adorn their recipients. Thanks to these pieces of wearable art, no matter how far you stray from Nantucket, you’ll always have your very own piece of the rock.
Your Palm Beach dream is closer than you think. Wishing all a great July 4th weekend and Summer 2021!
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RAFAEL OSONA AUCTION PREVIEW
PREVIEW JUNE 30 – JULY 2 10 AM TO 5 PM, AUCTION JULY 3 AT 9:30 AM
Online & the American Legion Hall, 21 Washington Street For anyone who’s made a move in the past year and is looking to add a little something special to their new space, Rafael Osona Auctions is the place to go. This Fourth of July weekend you can bid live, by telephone or online for a one-ofa-kind vintage piece to complete your home. Be sure to preregister 24 hours in advance of the auction to bid live. For more information, visit rafaelosonaauction.com.
Online Anthony Anderson, star and executive producer of ABC’s black-ish, will return as host this year for the “Night in White” event to benefit the Museum of African American History on Nantucket. The event’s theme, where cinema meets history and culture, provides the lens for showing how African Americans have shaped American life through TV and film. For more information, visit maah.org.
3 Nantucket High School Author, kidnapping survivor, founder of the Elizabeth Smart Foundation and advocate for women’s safety Elizabeth Smart will come to Nantucket this July to discuss her life, her abilities to survive and her work to embolden others who have had similar experiences. For more information, visit asafeplacenantucket.org.
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Location TBA This July, the Nantucket Dreamland is putting a whole new spin on a midsummer night’s dream with their inaugural DREAMBIG fundraiser. To be held outdoors at an undisclosed Nantucket estate, the event offers an evening of fun, food, cocktails, music, dancing and so much more (along with some very special surprises). For more information, visit nantucketdreamland.org.
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Q&A WITH ELIZABETH SMART
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Bartlett’s Farm Mamma Mia! TWN’s live theatre productions are back in a big way. ABBA’s Mamma Mia and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing will open at Bartlett’s Farm on July 7 and July 21, respectively. Be the first to see the curtain rise on a whole new kind of theatre on Nantucket. For tickets and more information, visit theatrenantucket.org
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SWIM ACROSS AMERICA
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NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION VIRTUAL RACE FOR OPEN SPACE
JULY 9 - 11 Online JULY 10 at Milestone Cranberry Bog
Hanging on the couch? So 2020. Grab your running shoes and get outside with the NCF’s annual 2 mile / 5k / 10k run. Participate from anywhere in the world or take part in person at the Milestone Cranberry Bog on July 10. To register and find more information, visit nantucketconservation.org.
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Online & Various Locations The NGF is turning over a new leaf in 2021 by bringing back in-person events to celebrate its 12th year. The festival and fundraiser for the Nantucket Lighthouse School celebrates island gardening through creative in-person and virtual lectures and workshops, exquisite garden tours, and children’s activities. For more information visit ackgardenfestival.org.
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SMALL FRIENDS ART & ARTISAN SHOW JULY 15 – JULY 18
Online Showcasing some of the finest artisans from across the country, the Nantucket Art & Artisan Show will celebrate its 30th year with a specially curated online show of incredible and unique works of art. Plus, 25 percent of all show sales will go to support Small Friends, the year-round full day early education and care center serving working families of the island. For more information, visit nantucketartandartisanshow.org.
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Great Harbor Yacht Club If a picture’s worth a thousand words, then the scene at this year’s Art Auction & Gala will be worth a million. This year’s special event will include a speaker on NFTs, a live auction of select Nantucket masterpiece artworks, artist demonstrations and a tribute to treasured artist Lynn Nicholas. Grab your tickets early, as tables will be limited and will surely sell out. For tickets and more information, visit nantucketarts.org/ special-events.
Make waves to fight cancer at Swim Across America’s annual swim at Jetties Beach. SAA Nantucket has raised over $3 million over the past eight years for Nantucket Cottage Hospital and PASCON, and annually welcomes over 400 swimmers, volunteers, spectators and supporters. To register, donate and find more information, visit swimacrossamerica.org.
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The debut season of Nantucket Sound continues to cast a wide net, pulling in fascinating guests of both year-round and seasonal residents. Last month, host Robert Cocuzzo interviewed entrepreneur and Spindrift founder Bill Creelman and then commemorated Juneteenth with an important conversation about social justice and race on Nantucket with island resident Charity Grace Mofsen. This month, Nantucket Sound amplifies more riveting local stories, beginning with a conversation with charter fisherman Captain Jason Mleczko who shared his terrifying account of survival after a wave flipped his boat eight years ago. For something a little
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STEELETEX BEACH TOTE Steeletex Beach Totes are the perfect carryall bag heading into summer. The tear-resistant vinyl body is a cinch to wipe clean or hose off and the 10” handle drop makes it easy to throw over your shoulder and head to the sand! STEELE CANVAS BASKET • @steelecanvas • steelecanvas.com
SUMMER WISH LIST TATA HARPER SKINCARE A pioneer in natural luxury skincare, the Tata Harper line is 100% natural while still meeting impeccable standards of efficacy and quality. And as just one of the many clean beauty brands carried at Milly & Grace, healthy skin both inside and out has never been easier! MILLY & GRACE @shopmillyandgrace • shop.millyandgrace.com
CISCO BREWERS HARD TEA Cisco Brewers Hard Tea puts a twist on a New England favorite. Featuring four delicious varieties, these teas are fruit-forward and super refreshing, the perfect companion for all of your summer fun! CISCO BREWERS @ciscobrewers • ciscobrewers.com
RESPOKE ANNITA MULE ESPADRILLES Respoke repurposes iconic designer scarves into a curated collection of one-of-a-kind products, like the Annita mule espadrille, handmade with an authentic Hermès silk scarf, jute footbed and natural rubber sole, perfect for those Nantucket cobblestones! RESPOKE • @respokeofficial • respoke.com
LARGE BIG GREEN EGG Just in time for those summer BBQs, Big Green Egg is the ideal all-in-one grill. Available in seven sizes and with a variety of stands, tables and cooking islands, hosting the perfect backyard cookout has never been easier! BIG GREEN EGG • @biggreenegg • biggreenegg.com
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HALIBUT & VEGETABLES INGREDIENTS 4 (6-8 ounce) portions halibut (skin off) 1 leek 1 zucchini 1 summer squash 2 cloves garlic 1 fresh lemon for juice Za’atar spice blend Spinach
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After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park campus in 2014, Chef Dan Shaw came straight to Nantucket and worked his way around some of the island’s finest restaurants including Topper’s at the Wauwinet, Oran Mor Bistro and the Club Car. With experience ranging from bakeries in Italy to the Michelin-starred restaurant Le Gavroche in London, Chef Dan now offers private chef and catering services. Learn more at chefdanshaw.com.
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Kid' N AROUND LIVE WITH THE DREAMLAND STAGE COMPANY There is so much happening at 17 South Water Street this summer. Registration for Dreamland’s LIVE Summer Theatre Camps & Productions is open! Dreamland is excited to offer Dreamland Kids for children ages 4-7 and Dreamland Youth for ages 8-18. Don't miss these in-person programs that will educate and entertain your kids all summer long. To register and for more information, please visit nantucketdreamland.org. THE ARTISTS ASSOCIATION SIDEWALK ART SHOWS Browse, shop and create with the Artists Association this summer. Stop by 24 Amelia Drive on July 3rd and August 13th for its annual sidewalk art shows, the oldest in the nation. This year, the AAN has added a free collaborative youth project. Children of all ages will have a chance to contribute and together will create a work of art (all materials will be provided). For more information, please visit nantucketarts.org and be sure to follow them on Instagram @ackartists for up-to-date information.
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PEACHTREE KIDS Peachtree Kids, located at 19 Main Street, carries the only selection of shoes for kids on the island as well as timeless, classic clothing and accessories for both everyday wear and special occasions. Their store is filled to the brim with lines such as Sperry, Merrill, Saucony, See Kai Run and much more for children ages 0-12 years. Peachtree Kids is open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, please visit peachtreekidsnantucket.com or call 508-228-8555. Please also visit nicervacations.com for all of your traveling needs including high chairs, car seats and strollers. BASKET WEAVING WITH THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Join the NHA this summer for its Lightship Basket Weaving classes for all ages. Adults and children will have the opportunity to learn the skills to create this true Nantucket craft. Classes will be held at the NHA’s historic property, Greater Light, as part of the new affiliation with the Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum. To learn more and to register, please visit nha.org. GROOVIN’ THIS SUMMER AT THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB It’s time to dance! The Boys & Girls Club is known for its amazing Dance Club, encouraging kids to dance and move when given every opportunity. The Boys & Girls Club kids practice all year and will be performing at the Tim Russert Summer Groove this summer. Please show your support by attending this special event on August 21st and by donating to this fundraiser. Please also consider making a donation to support the Boys & Girls Club by visiting nantucketboysandgirlsclub.org. THE NEW BARNABY’S TOY & ART SHACK Summer fun at Barnaby’s has begun! We are excited to offer a downtown community space just for kids. Our daily classes are in full swing and our doors are always open to drop in, creating great things any time of day. Our toys are sure to entertain and have been carefully selection for their functionality and to provide hands-on interactive play. Also, don’t miss our Barnaby’s Art Kits to Go! Please visit our full calendar of programs at barnabysnantucket.com, call us at 508-680-1553, or email at barnabyack@gmail.com. Be sure to follow @barnabystoyartshack!
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sland resident Priscilla Ryan Graham specializes in NeuroMovement, a science-based approach that uses neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to change and adapt—to promote healing, rehabilitation and development. Emphasizing that movement is the language of the brain, Graham guides students through physical movements to form new patterns and neural connections. NeuroMovement can lead to an elimination of aches and pains, increased strength and flexibility, and even improved cognition. The purpose is helping adults and children move beyond pain and limitations by achieving higher levels of differentiated movement.
How did you discover NeuroMovement?
I first came across NeuroMovement in 2007 while living in Switzerland. This modality was an absolute game changer for my oldest daughter who has Down syndrome. I initially began the training because of the remarkable impact it had on her, but I also saw how NeuroMovement alleviated my chronic shoulder pain that I had suffered from since I was a teenager due to a serious injury. That really changed my perspective on the possibilities of this work, who it could help and who I wanted to work with.
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Who do you typically work with?
I can really work with anyone, from infants all the way to people in their eighties and beyond. Whether you are in good health or have a limiting diagnosis, this method can improve the quality of your life. The majority of my adult clients suffer from chronic pain, or are recovering from a sports injury or a stroke, or have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s or multiple sclerosis. My younger clients are either children with special needs and learning differences or adolescents and teens who are looking to address a repetitive sports injury.
How does NeuroMovement work?
I use gentle, slow variations of movement to help a client find more optimal ways to move or hold their body. It’s about moving with the least amount of effort. NeuroMovement helps lead your brain to reorganize your skeletal system and movements, bringing your body to a more organized state. It also shifts the paradigm from fixing to connecting. How does NeuroMovement promote overall wellness?
We feel better when we move better. When we move with greater ease and higher levels of differentiation, it upgrades our brains while also improving our balance and the quality of what we do. When our balance is better, we are less likely to get injured and become better at doing things we love. What we put into our bodies matters. We often think about that in terms of the food we eat, but it is also the quality of the information we ingest. I think of NeuroMovement as being the quality of the information we provide our brain to help us move, function and think as easily and clearly as we can. Priscilla Ryan Graham trained at the Anat Baniel Method NeuroMovement Center in San Rafael, California, and went on to complete higher levels of certifications specializing in children with special needs, vitality and anti-aging, and high performers. She opened her practice in 2015. Book an appointment with Priscilla at www.proteamovement.com.
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SLAM DOOR ON ACK NOW ACK Now’s controversial proposed bylaw to restrict and regulate short-term rentals on Nantucket was overwhelmingly defeated on Saturday, June 5 at the island’s 2021 Annual Town Meeting. The final vote on Article 90 was 297 in favor of the proposal and 625 opposed. Gathering outdoors and under tents at the playing fields off Backus Lane, voters sent a strong message to ACK Now, voting down the bylaw even after the group amended its original proposal by exempting year-round residents from any potential restrictions. The highly anticipated vote was the culmination of the most talked about and controversial warrant article on Nantucket in years. But it’s likely not the final chapter in this debate. Just hours after the vote at Town meeting, the group vowed to bring back a similar proposal at next year’s Town Meeting, and placed blame for its defeat squarely on the island real estate community. ACK Now Executive Director Julia Lindner claimed the group’s proposal was facing “a real estate industry in control of local government” and the subject line of the e-mail communication sent the day after the vote was “Will the real
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estate community take the step toward the island’s survival?” Judging by Town Meeting’s vote and the sentiment expressed by the more than 600 island residents who voted against Article 90, ACK Now may have a difficult road ahead in finding a middle ground on short-term rentals. “The people who try to make Nantucket even more elitist than it is now don’t seem to understand that part of what they love about the island is created by the people they don’t see: the housekeepers, the repair men, the landscapers, many of whom would lose their livelihood if Article 90 was passed,” said Rebecca Settar, who was one of those “No” votes on Saturday. “There would surely have been a devastating trickle-down effect, and I’m so glad the buck stopped where it did.” Funded by summer resident Peter McCausland, of Philadelphia and Florida, ACK Now was formerly run by David Worth up until his purchase of The Inquirer and Mirror in late 2020 with a group of investors known as 41 North Media LLC. The newspaper covered the proposal to restrict short-term rentals extensively in recent months. But on May 20, the Inky ran an editorial urging island residents to vote against Article 90, at the same time calling for a group to convene and craft “sensible regulations” to stop investors from buying and renting Nantucket properties. At press time, the short-term rental debate drew national attention in a Wall Street Journal story titled "Nantucket's Short-Term Rental War Is Pitting 'Neighbors Against Neighbors.'"
CRACK DOWN ON UNLEASHED DOGS
Nantucket Police Chief Bill Pittman said last month that his department will be cracking down on unleashed dogs on island beaches this summer after a spike in complaints in 2020. The department’s community service officers (CSOs) will receive additional training to focus on the issue, and while they do not have enforcement authority, Pittman said the goal will be “to educate, and if the people don’t pay attention or don’t do what they’re asked, they [CSOs] will work with on-duty patrol officers to take enforcement action for unleashed dogs on beaches.” The town’s leash law requires dogs to be leashed at all times when they are not on the owner’s property, but has rarely been enforced.
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LAND BANK PRESERVED At the June 5 Annual Town Meeting, island voters rejected an effort by housing advocates to reallocate a portion of the Nantucket Land Bank’s annual revenue from real estate transfers for affordable housing projects. Even after an amendment to reduce the potential financial hit to the Land Bank, Article 97 was defeated with 572 votes in opposition and 205 votes in favor. The sponsor of the petition, Brooke Mohr, had sought to reallocate 25 percent of the Land Bank’s annual funding— which comes from a 2 percent tax on most real estate sales—over a twenty-year period to help address Nantucket’s affordable housing crisis. “Nantucket has a severe shortage of housing for year-round residents and the problem is getting worse,” Mohr said during the morning’s debate at Town Meeting. “Conservation is no longer the most pressing issue we face. Housing is.” But Land Bank supporters said that the petition presented voters with a false choice, and while acknowledging the worthiness of the affordable housing cause, said funding should not come at the expense of the Land Bank. “We shouldn’t damage one important public cause to help solve another,” outgoing Land Bank Executive Director Eric Savetsky said. “We can do both. As a community we can address both conservation challenges and our affordable housing challenges without attacking each other.”
THE RUSSIANS AREN’T COMING, THE RUSSIANS AREN’T COMING In the days after the Steamship Authority was victimized by a ransomware attack that crippled its computer systems, Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey accused “the Russians” for being behind the attack. But within hours, Markey’s chief of staff was backing away from those comments, saying the senator actually did not confirm Russians were responsible, and that he “does not have that intelligence.” At press time, the ransomware attack was ongoing, with the Steamship Authority still unable to regain control of its hijacked computer systems. While ferries continued to operate with no canceled trips, the Steamship Authority’s reservation and payment systems remained unusable, with travelers advised to bring cash to the terminals. Steamship Authority officials would not disclose the dollar amount of the ransom demand made by those responsible for the attack. Ransomware is malware that utilizes encryption to hold information hostage until a ransom is paid. The attack on the Steamship Authority is the latest in several high-profile ransomware incidents, including attacks on the Colonial Pipeline, the largest refined products pipeline network in the United States, and the JBS SA meatpacking plants.
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Nantucket Cottage Hospital reopened the doors of its main entrance to the public for the first time in more than a year after shutting down its drive-through COVID-19 testing site that had been located in the main entrance portico. To celebrate the occasion, hospital president and CEO Gary Shaw, along with Bruce Percelay, major hospital supporter and former head of its capital campaign, dressed up and served more than two hundred ice cream treats to hospital staff from Percelay’s vintage restored 1966 Good Humor Ice Cream Truck. “We wanted to do something fun to let our team know how much we appreciated all their efforts,” Shaw said. Percelay added that “anything we can do to put a smile on the faces of those who sacrificed so much for this island is our pleasure.” NCH closed its main entrance to limit unmonitored access during the COVID-19 pandemic and to launch one of the first drive-through COVID-19 testing sites in the state. Now, over a year and 33,000 COVID-19 tests later, the hospital has taken down the tents that provided testers protection from the elements and reopened the doors to patients. COVID-19 testing will continue to take place on an appointment basis inside the hospital. According to Percelay, “Seeing the hospital staff enjoying themselves outside and socializing was indeed a breath of fresh air.”
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Daniel James Brown’s The Boys in the Boat is a bestselling book in our Nantucket bookstores. Brown is back with Facing the Mountain, which is a true testament to storytelling, history and rising up under unprecedented strain. It may just change the way you think about World War II. It’s the story of the special Japanese American army unit that overcame brutal odds in Europe while their families were incarcerated back home. This project, spearheaded by Tom Ikeda, and described in this book by Brown, was nicknamed Densho, a Japanese term meaning “to leave a legacy for future generations.” Join me, Tim Talks Books, with these five authors for a fun virtual event on Tuesday, July 20th at 7 p.m. ET as part of Nantucket Book Festival’s 2021 program. I will interview the authors, engage in a fast-paced Q+A game show, and then have each writer pen a quick short story about Nantucket. Register for the event at nantucketbookfestival.org.
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MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS BY JOSHUA HENKIN Morningside Heights is a novel that reminds me of why I love books so much. It’s that story that you put down for a little while because you don’t want to say goodbye to the people in its pages, but then immediately pick it back up. Joshua Henkin’s emotional saga is about everything: marriage, parenthood, grief, love, loss and everything in between. Most notably, it’s about how to survive when life turns out differently than you expected.
THE PREMONITION BY MICHAEL LEWIS
FALLING BY T.J. NEWMAN You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three passengers on board. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on the plane must die. And so is the premise for 2021’s summer blockbuster beach thriller, Falling by T.J. Newman. Written by a former flight attendant during crosscountry red-eye flights, Falling is one of those hypothetical stories that hits the ground running and never lets up until you reach the last page. Don Winslow says, “This is Jaws at 35,000 feet.”
I’m the type of reader who loves to read books that tackle what I am currently experiencing for insight and reflection. As we emerge from quarantine and take our masks off, we are all asking ourselves: What just happened? The Premonition by Michael Lewis is a pandemic story, a nonfiction thriller about a group of fascinating real-life people, medical visionaries, who saw what was coming. Lewis is a brilliant writer who offers some much-needed insight.
MALIBU RISING BY TAYLOR JENKINS REID I’m obsessed with Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books. She creates these stories with celebrity characters that feel so real you want to Google their movies, songs, lives and dramas. Alas, these are all madeup characters that provide the most perfect “one-sitting” summer beach read. Malibu Rising is set in 1983 Malibu, where four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate summer.
FRIENDS + FICTION FAVORITES Grab your favorite beach chair and fill your biggest tote bag with these five fabulous reads from the “Friends and Fiction” authors. Mary Kay Andrews’ The Newcomer is just as fun as she is. Patti Callahan’s Surviving Savannah is one of my favorite historical novels. The Summer of Lost and Found by Mary Alice Monroe is a beach read with so much heart. Under the Southern Sky by Kristy Woodson Harvey tackles relationships and newsworthy issues in this charming southern novel. Finally Kristin Harmel is back with another WWII story inspired by actual events, The Forest of Vanishing Stars. N - M A G A Z I N E . C O M
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Nantucket celebrates the life of a true original, Stephen “Spanky” Kania
“I’ve always considered him to be the godfather of the raw bar scene.” — PJ Kaizer
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uncle Stephen “Spanky” Kania, who passed away last November at the age of sixty-nine. “From what I’ve been told, there wasn’t any catered raw bar service before him.” A second generation Nantucketer, Spanky was a true island original, a salty yet affable figure who carved out an entire industry with his bare hands. He got his start back in the eighties when Lizzy Sanford asked if he’d be willing to shuck some clams for a group of ladies playing bridge at her home. Happy to oblige, Spanky set up a nice raw bar spread for them. But as the story goes, when he
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“We are some kind of lucky.” — Stephen “Spanky” Kania
went inside to grab something, Spanky returned to find a swarm of seagulls feeding away at his creation. Nevertheless, so began Spanky’s Raw Bar, a catering company that flourished by word of mouth and paved the way for many others to make a living on the island. It’s hard not to feel nostalgic thinking about the early days of Spanky’s operation when he and his crew would spend the mornings digging clams that they would shuck at parties later that evening. Oysters, which are not native to Nantucket, were always sourced by local purveyors. “He took extremely good care of his shellfish,” said his wife, Kitty Wilson Kania. “He woke up early every morning to ice each individual piece.” Yet beyond the shellfish, what set Spanky apart was his personality. “He had a sense of humor, a congeniality, a character about him that just drew people in,” remembered Kaizer, Spanky with his wife Kitty
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ties until his untimely passing last November. His life was celebrated this past Memorial Day weekend at a party hosted at Fairgrounds Restaurant. “Three hundred fifty people showed up, but I can think of another 150 who wanted to be there,” said Kitty who hosted the affair. With Kaizer shucking oysters through his aptly named LegaSea Raw Bar—a business that his who spent his summers growing up working Spanky, Kitty, PJ Kaizer, Katie Kaizer and her husband Evan, and Thea and Pete Kaizer (Theilen Photography) as a member of his uncle’s crew. “Spanky was fun-loving. He was every guy’s best friend. And that’s the hardest thing to replicate—it’s a lost personality.” Manning his raw bar boat, Spanky was a master at reading the scene, seamlessly connecting with well-heeled summer visitors and bluecollar locals alike with his witty banter, fun sense of humor and live-in-the-moment attitude. “Spanky was a global ambassador for Nantucket,” said his brother-in-law Pete Kaizer. “There was something magical about him, how he connected with people from all different places and made them smile.” Over time Spanky emerged as an icon in his own right late uncle inspired and help him launch—the party and his business became a must-have for family celebrations. took on the fun, festive air that defined the countless Through the decades, he and his team shucked at baby showers, celebrations where Spanky docked his raw bar boat galas, graduations and weddings. Time and time again, he do- for decades. So the next time you belly up to that icenated raw bars to local nonprofits and remained committed to the filled dinghy and slurp down a salty clam or oyster, remember the words Spanky so often uttered during island he so loved. Spanky continued running his business well into his late six- his life: “We are some kind of lucky.”
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How Dipak Thapaus braved untold hardships to find Nantucket
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ipak Thapaus is known to many on Nantries under the cover of darkness, until they reached tucket as the smiling face behind the the promised land. He demanded their passports counter at Walter’s Deli on Broad Street, along with all their money. With a thirty-day visa but most of his customers have absolutely and no other options, Thapaus handed everything no idea of the incredible journey that delivered over. him to this spot on the island. A native of Nepal, After seventeen days of trekking through the Thapaus was the son of an Indian military officer Costa Rican jungle, Thapaus crossed the border and grew up in an agrarian village called Simpani, into Nicaragua and then continued through Honduwhere most of his countrymen worked on farms ras and Guatemala before reaching the Mexico boror in service to the government—but neither was der four months later—entirely by foot. He entered his calling. Instead, for Mexico with only the most of his life, Thapaus filthy clothes on his back. “I WAS ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT AMERICA. I had one simple goal: His hair and beard were KNEW IT WAS WHERE I WAS SUPPOSED TO GO move to America. long and grimy from the BECAUSE I KNEW I WOULD HAVE MORE FREEDOM, At a young age grueling and treacherous HUMAN RIGHTS AND A BETTER WAY OF LIFE.” he became involved in walk. At each border — Dipak Thapaus Nepalese politics and crossing along the way, soon his opposition to the coyote demanded the government in power put him in grave danger. more and more money, which Thapaus’ family was “I was scared for my life in Nepal,” Thapaus said. thankfully able to wire him. However, for this last As a dissident in his own country, he was denied stretch into the United States, the coyote demanded travel visas but escaped Nepal by working in other $3,000—a sum Thapaus simply couldn’t pay. countries around Southeast Asia and even Dubai. Hungry and alone, he begged for money in All the while, he tried to figure out how to reach the the Mexican streets. Due to his disheveled appearUnited States, where he planned to apply for politiance, long beard and dark Asian complexion, some cal asylum. “I was always thinking about America,” Mexicans suspected that he was affiliated with the he said. “I knew it was where I was supposed to go Taliban and reported him to the corrupt local police. because I knew I would have more freedom, human Before turning him over to the Mexican federal rights and a better way of life.” authorities, the police robbed Thapaus of what little After years of failed attempts and now in his he had left. For nearly three weeks, the federal mid-twenties, Thapaus made one final desperate authorities interrogated him day and night. Thapaus gambit in 2006 by traveling to Costa Rica. There he kept his composure until they threatened to send joined a half-dozen other would-be asylum seekers him back to Nepal. “Then I just broke down crying headed to the U.S.-Mexico border. The group enand begged them not to send me back,” he recalled. listed a “coyote” (human smuggler) to guide them “I told them I was scared for my life, and I needed on foot through a series of Central American counto get to America.”
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him into the United States as an asylum seeker. “I left there with only two dollars in my pocket and used it to try and reach my cousin in Baltimore,” he said. “I reached him, but the time ran out before we had really talked about anything, and I realized I had nothing left and got really scared.” He then sat down to contemplate his circumstances, knowing he had no money left. Yet out of the silence, the pay phone started to ring. It was his cousin. Thapaus made his way to Baltimore, Maryland, where after months of searching he found his first job in a Subway sandwich shop and finally began to make a living. Content
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to work and save what he could, Thapaus was surprised when one day a friend of his sister’s invited him to Nantucket. “I got here and said to myself, ‘This is what I’ve been looking for,’” he recalled of his arrival to the island in 2010. “I knew then that Nantucket would be my home. I never want to leave here.” Initially working at a landscape company, Thapaus got a new opportunity a couple years later when a new sandwich shop opened its doors and needed someone to run it. Using the skills learned from his time at Subway, Thapaus started down the path that he’s still on to this day, running the corner deli for his boss and mentor Scott Kopp, who also owns two other eateries on the Strip, Stubbys and Island Coffee Roasters. Years after his ordeal, Thapaus now looks back at it with even more appreciation. His endearing smile and dark, knowing eyes speak to a life hard fought and won. Now married to his wife Milan, with whom he shares their son Dylan, he considers his dream fulfilled and fully realized—he became a U.S. citizen in 2016. “This is the place I’ve been looking for all my life.”
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atching artist Carly Berlin create her pen-and-ink drawings has a mesmerizing, almost intoxicating, effect. Even in her one-minute YouTube video, the careful way she turns the paper, the sureness but sensitivity with which she applies the ink, makes you feel as if you’re falling gently into a safer, calmer state of mind. It’s no accident. “I’ve struggled with anxiety throughout my life,” Berlin says. “When I’ve felt particularly anxious or depressed, art has always been the one place where I can take control and organize all of the chaos around me. Every piece is done very intentionally.”
“I’ve always been very inspired by the island, and the island has always been such a happy place for me. I reach a state of calm whenever I touch down.” — Carly Berlin
The artist’s work, which will be on display from August 24th through September 4th in the public spaces of the newly opened boutique hotel Faraway on India Street, embodies a theme of holding on and letting go. The dark sections of her abstracts represent holding on, while the lighter ones suggest letting go. Her drawings are all about finding the right balance between the two—the part of our journey that has to do with deciding what to
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continue to carry and what is excess baggage. “There’s a healthy amount of holding on to things and keeping them in the right place, and it’s also very important to let certain things go,” Berlin says, “because you can only progress in life if you do.” A post-modernist Seurat, Berlin creates the gradients in her shading via Pointillism. Her work is born of dots that she executes in varying densities to reach a final balance. Berlin’s drawings can be found in all 266 rooms of musician Pharrell Williams’ The Goodtime Hotel in Miami Beach, and she has collaborated with the likes of Alexandra Kaehler Design, Stacy London, Ashley Avignone and Henry Hargreaves, among others. While in most of her art you will see a deliberately placed combination of shaded bars, circles, curves resembling Moorish arches, triangles and lines, her work gracing Faraway will be more
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ACK-centric. Having been coming to her family’s home on Nantucket since she was a child, she says that “I’ve always been very inspired by the island, and the island has always been such a happy place for me. I reach a state of calm whenever I touch down.” With that approach to calm in mind, her latest creations include images inspired by such Grey Lady mainstays as beaches, lighthouses and even the shape of the island on a map. Her Nantucketinspired series contains more colors, too. Historically she has worked with black and white, but for this collection she also used neutral shades that reflect the hues of the island’s homes and the sand. The exhibited art will be available for purchase, and the profits from the sale of two of the drawings will go to the Nantucket Healing Fund and Fairwinds, Nantucket’s Counseling Center. The Nantucket Healing Fund grants annual scholarships to Nantucket community members pursuing an education in the field of mental health, while Fairwinds provides professional care to adults and youth who seek mental health and addiction services regardless of whether they can afford to pay. “I’ve been in therapy since I was young,” Berlin says, “and so appreciate the importance of being open about one’s feelings whether in difficult times or good times. I’m pretty communicative about emotions, and I’ve seen how difficult it is for so many people to receive that same level of care. This past year in particular we’ve all seen ourselves tested mentally in so many different ways.” She speaks with admi-
ration of the Healing Fund’s aim of giving a leg up to people with a passion for helping others achieve mental balance, especially if they come back to the island to assist the community. Likewise, she loves that Fairwinds has a sliding scale for mental health services “that goes all the way down to zero.” Brad Guidi, a principal of Blue Flag Partners, which owns Faraway, is happy to help the two organizations by exhibiting Berlin’s drawings. He is also glad to have the work of a semi-resident artist enliven the hotel. “I think her art is unique,” he says. “The hotel is super eclectic with treasures collected from
all over the world. Carly’s art fits this mold.” He acknowledges that her creations are more contemporary than most of what the hotel showcases but says that “we like the juxtaposition. Having a splash of modern art in this eclectic space fits with us and our clientele.” If you’d like to meet Carly Berlin in person and watch while she creates, she will be drawing in Faraway’s courtyard on Saturday, August 28th, from 4 p.m. till 7 p.m. It’s a unique opportunity to chat with her in person and see her sure, steady, calming hand create order out of chaos right up close.
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The rare genius of Nantucket lawyer Arthur Reade
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he story of local attorney Arthur Reade is of a man both blessed and cursed with intellectual capabilities far beyond those of most mortal men. A respected pillar of Nantucket’s legal world, Reade is known for his wit and wisdom; however, there is far more to his story than people know. Accepted to Harvard College at the age of thirteen, Reade was the youngest member of his class and then went on to graduate from George Washington University Law School at the age of nineteen. Modest and unassuming, Reade had an unconventional childhood of which few on Nantucket are aware. Reade was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, to a Swiss mother and American father, and it became very clear at an early age that he was no ordinary child. At the age of three, he would sit on his grandfather’s lap as they read The Wall Street Journal together. By the time he was school-age, Reade was already a voracious reader and could be seen in kindergarten perusing the Christian Science Monitor at recess. It was at this point the school decided he belonged in a higher grade.
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Reade recalls with dry sarcasm, “My mother, observing this situation correctly or incorrectly, determined that I was obviously the most intelligent human being that ever lived, and met with the director of instruction at the Weymouth Public Schools.” Reade was put in first grade for a week, then second grade for a week, and finally settled in third grade at the age of six. From there he skipped sixth grade and ultimately completed four years of high school in three. Reade applied to Harvard College and was accepted at the tender age of thirteen. Reade’s mother steered her son away from sports and other conventional childhood activities in favor of academics, an approach that perhaps denied him some of childhood’s more special moments. When asked how he had fit in both emotionally and physically with students significantly older than he was, Reade looked back fondly on the friends he had made during his four years at Harvard. As gifted as he was, he did acknowledge that Harvard was a lot tougher than Weymouth High School and his routine of getting all A’s in all grades came to an end during his college years.
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A true Renaissance man, Reade became fascinated with fine wine in the eighties
Despite having to work for his grades for the first time in his life, he became very active in college life, most notably in the Harvard Young Republican Club where he was secretary. For all his positive experiences in college, Reade wistfully acknowledged that sending a boy to college at an early age perhaps deprived him of benefits that maturity can provide. In 1959 at the age of seventeen, Reade graduated cum laude from Harvard College but was denied access to Harvard Law School because of his youth. Initially, Reade attended Boston University Law School but his interest in politics drew him to George Washington University Law School, where he also spent time working on Capitol Hill. Not surprisingly, when it came time for Reade to take the bar exam, not
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only did he pass but the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers sent him a letter saying that he had tied with another test taker for the highest score at that time. A man with a galloping curiosity, Reade found himself bored in the last two years of law school and became fascinated with horse racing. His biggest interest was in breeding. “I can tell you the pedigrees of many horses, including a lot that were active back in the late sixties and seventies. I was always interested in buying fillies and improving their catalog page and then reselling them.” Reade put together a number of small syndicates and won a stakes race at Hollywood Park in California, as well as several other minor stakes races.
Reade’s segue to Nantucket came while working at a small law office outside of Boston in the early seventies. He became involved in litigation related to the Windswept Cranberry Bog, which was being litigated in probate court in Nantucket. Reade’s colleague became familiar with several people on Nantucket and asked if he would come down to meet them for legal representation. “I had never been on Nantucket before and arrived on the island in early spring of 1973,” he said. “One thing led to another and I started picking up more and more clients until 1982 when I became involved in a real estate matter that consumed a significant amount of my time. I moved to Nantucket full time in 1985 and here I sit.” A true Renaissance man with no limits in terms of the breadth of his interests, Reade developed a fascination with fine wines. “I was buying wine faster than I could drink it, which is the definition of a collector. I started buying a lot of Bordeaux back in the eighties and there were some very good vintages then.” Reade added, “Nowadays, I just buy wine that I want to drink in the relatively near future.” From horse racing to oenology, Reade also developed a fascination with ornithology. He would go on expeditions in search of specific species and on Nantucket would enjoy bird life in his own backyard. Reade also developed a taste for German and Italian baroque choral music among his many pursuits. “I can’t read a note and I certainly can’t sing a note, but I spend a great deal of time going to concerts, particularly those of early baroque music,” he said.
When asked for his observations regarding changes on Nantucket and the explosion of wealth on the island, Reade posed his own questions: “Was the quality of life better in the good old days than it is today? Were the good old days the good old days or just the old days?”
“I’m definitely an optimist. People are always saying how bad things are on the island. Nantucket is always a better place than anywhere else and I think that situation will continue.” — Arthur Reade
He added, “None of us were around when Nantucket was impoverished, which was the latter part of the 19th century which is when tourism took hold on the island. I think that the quality of life on Nantucket, by and large, is high; however, people at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale here really do have a hard time.”
When asked whether he is an optimist about Nantucket’s future, Reade said, “I’m definitely an optimist. People are always saying how bad things are on the island. Nantucket is always a better place than anywhere else and I think that situation will continue.”
Among his many passions, Reade is an avid birder.
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he pandemic has popularized a lot of new phrases. “Reimagined events.” “Virtual learning.” “Social distancing.” Yet in the post-pandemic retail economy, perhaps the most common phrase is “back order.” Everything from bicycles to kitchen appliances to hot tubs has seen a surge in demand over the last year and a half, clearing out inventories and extending wait times for months, sometimes even years. One industry that has been particularly impacted is boating, which has left a distinct sinking feeling for many people looking to get out on the water this summer. According to the National Marine Manufacturers Association, sales of boats, marine products and services saw a thirteen-year high in 2020, exploding by 9 percent and netting $46 billion nationwide. This February alone saw a 34 percent increase in powerboat sales, with other personal watercraft such as Jet Skis, pontoon boats and wakeboard boats increasing by double-digits. Entering the summer, the boating trend showed no signs of running aground—but is there enough supply to keep the market afloat?
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Mike Allen, the owner of Tidal Creek Boatworks, “with lean manufacturing and high demand.” As one of the most prominent boat builders on the island, Allen already had a two-year waiting list for his boats, but the pandemic has made completing those already in production a challenge. “The biggest issue is getting engines,” he said. “The next biggest is getting electronics. You have to be really creative in sourcing parts.” Components that used to take Allen five minutes to order can now keep him on the phone for two hours, sometimes just to end up on a back order list. At press time, Allen was about to complete three boats that were all missing arguably the most important part. “We’re on pins and needles waiting for engines,” he said. “We have boats that are going to be done without engines…and that never happens.”
s with nearly all segments of the economy, boat sales and production screeched to a halt when the pandemic first hit. Many boat manufacturers furloughed workers as they waited to see what was to come. Giant motor companies like Yamaha took a similar tack, shutting down their factories across the country “for as long as deemed necessary.” But then the warm weather came and throngs of people rushed outdoors to escape their quarantine fatigue. First-time boat buyers entered the market in historic numbers. Marinas bustled and boatyards became essential businesses. Despite boat shows being canceled across the country, orders for new boats pow“It’s really been the perfect ered on. storm disaster for consumers All of a sudden, the boat economy was riding an unwith lean manufacturing precedented wave of demand that boat builders couldn’t and high demand.” keep up with. As more orders piled up, supply chain in— Mike Allen, owner of Tidal Creek Boatworks terruptions due to COVID-related factory closures sent shockwaves through the industry. Any time a factory worker tested positive for the coronavirus, the plant closed for at least This past winter, Allen extwo weeks. More recently, freak events have only heightened the wave panded his operation by purof demand. In February, Texas’ hundred-year deep freeze shuttered facchasing Brant Point Marine on tories responsible for creating the chemicals for seat cushions in boats. 32 Washington Street where he When the 220,000-ton tanker Ever Given ran aground in the Suez Canal opened Tidal Creeks Ship Store. this March, critical components such as flooring, electronics and handles Along with selling electronics, were stuck behind it. The result has been a boat production bottleneck fishing gear, safety equipment with no end in sight. and other nautical supplies, Tidal “It’s really been the perfect storm disaster for consumers,” said Creeks Ship Store is a Zodiac
dealer; however, these days you’d be hard-pressed to find a Zodiac on Nantucket. “Zodiac is completely sold out,” Allen said. “They’ve been sold out since January.” For one desperate Zodiac buyer, who purchased his boat directly from the manufacturer, he was told that the boat originally scheduled for last February would not be available until this coming fall. Not to be denied, he sourced his own engine in Florida, had it shipped up to the dealer in the Northeast, and instructed Zodiac to ship the boat in pieces to an on-island boatyard that proceeded to assemble it by hand. Roger Stolte, the owner of Glyn’s Marine on Arrowhead Drive, echoed Allen’s lament over the
lack of engines. “Repower is a large part of my business—putting new engines on older boats,” Stolte said. “But we’re completely unable to get outboards. I placed an order last July and I’ve only seen a third of that order.” He’s not expecting to receive his more recent orders until the spring of 2022. And yet despite this lack of inventory, Stolte and his team are as busy as ever servicing boats gearing up for the season. In fact, he doesn’t believe the regular boating public on Nantucket will experience any noticeable changes this season compared to last. The harbor and moorings are already maxed out. “Even if everyone who wanted a boat on the island could
“We’re completely unable to get outboards. I placed an order last July and I’ve only see a third of that order.” — Roger Stolte, owner of Glynʼs Marine
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get a boat, we’re dealing some cases may not before “Even if everyone who with a limited area to put the season ends,” she exwanted a boat on the island them,” he said. “The proplained. “Now, these owncould get a boat, we’re verbial five-gallon bucket ers are looking to get out dealing with a limited area is full.” on the water while they are to put them. The proverbial For those unable to buy waiting on their new boat, five-gallon bucket is full.” a boat—new or old—the and guest demand is higher — Roger Stolte next best thing is renting than ever with the end one. KellyBoat is a New of COVID restrictions.” England-based company that helps yacht owners Waiting on their new boats, yacht owners are not rent out their vessels when they’re not being used. only missing a season on the water, but also the “Think luxury Airbnb for lonely yachts,” described potential of earning some money by renting out KellyBoat’s founder Kelly Shea, a former lawyer their yachts through services like KellyBoat. who hatched the idea for her business when a friend As with all booms, the supply/demand imbalance asked how they could gain access to some of the should correct itself over time, but it may take sevyachts they were admiring in Nantucket Harbor. The eral seasons for the market to normalize. For those inventory collapse has ignited incredible demand who dream of hopping on a new boat and sailing for these rental boat brokerage services. “Several off into the sunset, they’re realizing that their dream owners sold their vessels last year and ordered a may be anchored in the reality that they will have to new one [but] the new boats have not arrived and in wait until the tides change once again.
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THE EVOLVING FACE OF NANTUCKET’S STUDENT BODY
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ust over twenty years ago, the student body of Nantucket’s public schools was 95 percent white. This year, for the first time, the island school system became majority-minority, continuing a dramatic demographic shift within Nantucket’s year-round population over the span of those two decades. The transformation has been driven largely by families arriving on the island from Central America, in particular El Salvador, but Nantucket’s public schools now have students from all over
the world, including Caribbean countries like Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, as well as Eastern European and South Asian countries. Today, more than eleven different languages and seventeen different countries are represented within Nantucket’s public schools. Population trends have led demographers to project that the United States as a whole will become majority-minority—when the non-white population eclipses 50 percent—at some point between 2040 and 2050. In Nantucket Public Schools, that threshold was crossed in the 2020–21 school year. “Within the administration, we’ve talked a lot about that,” said Superintendent Beth Hallett of the school system becoming majority-minority. “We’ve seen a massive shift.” There was of course no formal recognition or observance of this milestone. Indeed, it’s mostly symbolic and a concept that is primarily within the realm of demographers who track these types of societal changes. But within the school, the shift has been ongoing and the adaptations necessary to serve the student body are already underway. The school system’s English Learner, or EL, program has grown significantly over the past decade. There are now two to three EL teachers in each school within the district, and several hundred students who utilize the program. But the needs of students arriving on the island from El Salvador and other Central American countries go far beyond language services in some cases. Nicoy Williams was born in Kingston, Jamaica.
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This year, for the first time, the island school system became majorityminority, continuing a dramatic demographic shift within Nantucket’s year-round population over the span of those two decades.
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e have students at the high school now that are still paying their coyotes,” said KellyAnn Cooney, director of Nantucket’s EL program, referring to people who are paid to smuggle immigrants into the United States. “They may not have relationships with all the teachers and feel comfortable telling their teachers that. If you don’t pay your coyote, they will hurt your family.” The increasing diversity of the student body has prompted the school system to rethink the way instruction “My personal experience here is happens, how guidance services are provided and espethat the school has done everything cially the ways it communicates to students and their famit can to support me and build my ilies. “In some cases, we have to catch up when it comes education for the future.” to instruction and working with the social-emotional — Brian Nolasco Ramirez needs of the students we have,” Hallett said. “We can’t teach the way we were taught back in the day. A lot of it is learning about culturally responsive teaching, so we understand our students and where they’re coming from, and the education experiences they and their parents have.” Nantucket High School senior Brian Nolasco Ramirez is part of the school system’s growing Hispanic population, which is now more than 36 percent of the student body. His
Caroline Harding's family is from Colombia Brian Nolasco Ramirez and parents
parents, both immigrants from El Salvador, arrived on the island twenty-two years ago. “They came here because they wanted us to have a better life than they did, and they’ve done a pretty damn good job at that,” Nolasco Ramirez said. His father now owns a construction company, and his mother works as a landscaper. Nolasco Ramirez is bilingual, was a finalist in the prestigious Nantucket Scholar program this year and is headed off to the Wentworth Institute of Technology this fall to study electrical engineering. “My personal experience here is that the school has done everything it can to support me and build my education for the future,” he said. But he’s also keenly aware that his experience in the school system is vastly different from some of his Hispanic peers. “There are plenty of other people who don’t feel that, because there is a language barrier between us and the teachers.”
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Kamoy Barnett was born in Jamaica.
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Nolasco Ramirez was born at Nantucket Cottage Hospital and raised on the island speaking both English and Spanish. Many other students, however, have just arrived as children or teenagers and speak limited or no English whatsoever. “I’ve lived here my whole life so I can speak both languages, and being able to communicate with my parents and the school—the language is a big thing,” Nolasco Ramirez said. “A lot of people who aren’t born here, they feel separated because they don’t speak the language. The English Learner classes separate them from the entire school body. It’s one class they’re all forced to take together to improve their language. You see it in the cafeteria, the people in EL all sit together in their own corner and all sit separated.”
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olasco Ramirez also noted that he is one of the few Hispanic students engaged in advanced coursework, typically known as AP classes, at the high school. Indeed, a recent presentation by the school’s Anti-Racism Instructional Leadership Team showed that just 28.1 percent of Hispanic/ Latino students are engaged in advanced coursework compared to 84 percent of white students in the high school. “I was surprised, almost shocked, at the low percentage of our students of color who are taking advanced courses,” said Nantucket School Committee member Steven Sortevik,
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a former teacher in the island’s public schools. “We’ve made progress, but nowhere near the progress that needs to be made in helping these kids. It’s my number one priority for the coming term, if I can manage to get reelected, to get more human beings working directly with kids. Magical software programs are not going to do the trick.” Cooney, through her work with the EL program, has spent the last four years trying to break down barriers with both students and their parents. There is now a thriving Multilingual Parent Advisory Council, more professional development for EL teachers and greater outreach in Spanish and other languages. “A lot of our families live in absolute fear,” Cooney said, referring to the former Trump administration’s rhetoric and bid to end temporary protected status for Salvadorans. “So that’s how I started to build bridges and get to know the community and gain trust.” But Cooney would like to see the district go further and implement a dual language program, while hiring bilingual counselors at the high school. “Bilingualism is the present,” she said. “It’s not the future anymore. Most of the planet is bilingual.”
Cooney was moving on from her position at the end of this school year, but having worked for years in Boston Public Schools before coming to Nantucket, she has a unique perspective on the island’s true demographics versus the perception of Nantucket. “The biggest difference between an urban district and Nantucket, it’s not the population,” she said. “Nantucket is a mini-gateway place. It’s not a city; it’s not the countryside. Our percentage of EL students is similar to other gateway cities. People think of the rich white people who fly in during the summer. They don’t think that this is our year-round community.” Island resident Peter Morrison isn’t involved with the public schools, but he’s been closely tracking the demographic transformation that is underway across the island. Morrison spent more than four decades analyzing population trends as a demographer for the Rand Corporation. The demographic data from the schools, he said, is among the best tools available to get a better picture of how the island population is changing. Morrison has studied school segregation patterns across the country and said Nantucket is unique in that there is just one public school Carlos Pena was born in El Salvador system for the entire county, so there is greater integration than you might find elsewhere. “There’s no question Nantucket stands out as being uniquely well integrated along racial and ethnic lines, and I would add to that, another remarkable aspect of this is the number of different country-of-origin communities we have in a population as small as Nantucket,” Morrison said. “There’s hardly any school system in the nation of our size that has as many different countries of origin.”
Roy Ryder was born on Nantucket
“There’s no question Nantucket stands out as being uniquely well integrated along racial and ethnic lines... There’s hardly any school system in the nation of our size that has as many different countries of origin.” — Peter Morrison, former demographer for the Rand Corporation
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Born on Nantucket, Janci Merlos’ family is from El Salvador
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Tony Shepley, the owner of Shepley Wood Products on Lovers Lane
“It’s been a wild ride. I’ve been doing this for forty-three years, and this particular cycle over the last year is something different than any other cycle we’ve ever seen.” — Tony Shepley, the owner of Shepley Wood Products
Despite soaring lumber prices, Nantucket’s construction industry continues to surge
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little more than a year after the pandemic brought Nantucket’s construction industry to a screeching halt, building activity on the island has come roaring back despite a nationwide lumber shortage that has sent prices skyrocketing. In early June, the island quite literally ran out of white cedar shingles. There were simply none to be had. Local builders and lumberyards are navigating the current climate of seemingly unquenchable demand and runaway material costs by passing expenses on to buyers. Their clients and homeowners are absorbing the sticker shock with little hesitation. “It’s been a wild ride,” said Tony Shepley, the owner of Shepley Wood Products on Lovers Lane. “I’ve been doing this for forty-three years, and this particular cycle over the last year is something different than any other cycle we’ve ever seen. It’s lasted longer and been way stronger. It’s all about supply and demand.”
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hen construction ground to a halt in the spring of 2020 as the pandemic began, sawmills responded by shutting down and furloughing workers. But the rapid resurgence of the housing market has the industry scrambling and has sent prices soaring. Random-length lumber futures hit a record high of $1,615 in April, up sevenfold from early April 2020. Nationwide, the lumber shortage and high prices are delaying new construction starts, and new single family homes are costing $36,000 more on average as a result. “I’ve never seen a spike like this,” said Stephen Cheney of Cheney Custom Homes on Nantucket. The high prices are being passed on to consumers, Cheney said, but that has definitely not been a deterrent. “If this was a different time, and the price of materials was spiking and the stock market was on the decline, people would be saying let’s pause,” he said. “Now they’re just saying, well that’s unfortunate, but we understand the current market.”
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uilding activity around the island continues to be fueled by a record $1.85 billion in real estate transactions last year, and the market has continued to be white-hot into the first half of 2021. Data from the Nantucket Planning & Land Use Services Department, which tracks building permits by fiscal year (July 1 to June 30), reveals the resulting building boom. Through just two-thirds of the 2021 Walt Spokowski, president of Marine Lumber on Orange Street fiscal year, the estimated dollar value of new permitted building projects is $242.1 million, already matching the previous fiscal year and on pace to be the biggest year for island construction in at least five years. In fact, since 2017, two of the four biggest months for the estimated dollar value of new permitted projects happened in the current fiscal year— February 2021 ($53.6 million) and December 2020 ($47.4 million). Compare that to the low in April 2020 of just $1.4 million. “There are many variables at play, in my opinion, including pandemic-related delays in design and permitting, increased— and rising—construction costs, increased use of seasonal properties leading to changes being made by the owner, low mortgage rates, soaring property values, providing equity to current owners for property improvements, incentive to sell, panic to buy, etcetera, and changes in ownership leading to new construction and/or renovation,” said Leslie Woodson Snell, Nantucket’s deputy director of Planning. “A year ago, if you had told me what Walt Spokowski, president we’d be selling lumber for now, I’d say of Marine Lumber on Orange that’s not going to happen. These are Street, said the lumber shortconditions we’ve never seen.” age has been a struggle, but for — Walt Spokowski, president of Marine Lumber the most part, the company has managed to stay ahead of the situation. Marine’s lumberyard is generally well stocked, he said, but the conditions are extreme and in some cases, Marine is buying product without even knowing the price in advance because they know it will sell given the current island market. “A year ago, if you had told me what we’d be selling lumber for now, I’d say that’s not going to happen. These are conditions we’ve never seen,” Spokowski said. “We’ve taken the long view to support
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the island economy. The demand is there, and we’ve gotten better at maneuvering through it. In some cases we’re buying product without knowing the prices of the product. It’s an extreme case, but we might have to do that.” The effects of the lumber shortage and price spikes for construction materials in general have now begun to impact municipal building projects, includ“It’s like a gold rush ing the proposed mentality—no one new Harbormaswants to be last in line. ter building on We sell more white Washington Street cedar shingles than any company on the planet.” and the planned field house at the — Tony Shepley Nobadeer Farm Road playing fields. When construction bids were opened in May, the low bid for the Harbormaster building was $1.7 million more than the current funding available for the project. The low bid for the field house was more than $850,000 above the available funding appropriation. In another sign of the times, Island Lumber Company recently posted to Instagram (and later deleted) that it “has had so many calls for deliveries lately that we currently have a wait time of about a week. Please leave enough time when placing your order for our guys to deliver!” The National Association of Home Builders is now calling on the Biden administration to “temporarily remove” the 9 percent tariff on Canadian lumber imposed by former President Trump’s administration. Canada is one of the primary sources of Nantucket’s white cedar shingles that adorn most houses on the island. “It’s like a gold rush mentality—no one wants to be last in line,” Shepley said. “We sell more white cedar shingles than any company on the planet. Demand is far greater than supply. People are literally following trucks around. They say ‘I saw some cedar shingles.’ We worry about theft now.” Indeed, lumber theft is being reported in Canada and the United States. On the island, however, Nantucket Police Department Lieutenant Angus MacVicar said reports of theft from job sites have so far been minimal. “I’m happy to report that we have not had a lot of construction material theft,” he said. Looking ahead, Nantucket’s lumberyards and builders say they are unsure what to expect in the future. A positive sign for consumers is that lumber futures are starting to decline, which may signal the peak of the market. While there are reasons for optimism, it will take time for any reductions in commodity prices to show up at the retail level, so homebuyers should be prepared to open up their wallets.
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THE DAY THE MUSIC (ALMOST) DIED ON NANTUCKET
At The Chicken Box, Nantucket’s premiere location for both local and national music acts, co-owner Packy Norton described a 2021 Memorial Day like no other. With the venue fully reopened and a live DJ primed to play, music fans flooded in after a long and difficult year. “People went absolutely ballistic,” he said. “I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t know if people were going to come out, but it was crazy…good crazy. We ripped the Band-Aid off. We had three hundred people standing on line in the pouring rain for five hours.”
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hile many festivals remain canceled, postponed, suspended or virtual at least as far out as August, music venues on Nantucket have opened their doors and cranked up the volume to the delight of owners and music-lovers alike. Recent conversations with ownership and management teams from some of the island’s beloved music venues brought to life pandemic stories of survival, adaptation and resiliency, along with a sense of buoyant optimism about the “Roaring Twenties” on Nantucket.
(Above and below) The Revivalists rocking The Box (photos by Hunter Holder)
“People went absolutely ballistic... I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t know if people were going to come out, but it was crazy…good crazy. We ripped the Band-Aid off. We had three hundred people standing on line in the pouring rain for five hours.” — Packy Norton, Chicken Box co-owner
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Last year, The Box suffered a brutal 97 percent decrease in revenue. Islanders may deem The Box essential, but the state and federal governments did not. Norton recounted his business strategy to keep The Box safe: “We followed the rules to a T. We believe in science. We never pushed the rules. Not once. For the safety of the staff—for everybody.” The Box had already been closed down for months to renovate the dance floor “all the way down to the dirt” when word came that Norton had to remain closed indefinitely. “It was unbelievably scary,” he said. “We had a whole summer of bookings. We weren’t essential, and there was no other business to switch to.” The Box was eligible for PPP loans, but only based on winter payroll. “We run a lean operation in the winter. We
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count on that volume in the summer.” Norton and his fellow co-owners John Jordin and Rocky Fox were forced to adapt. “We couldn’t call ourselves a restaurant, so we bought a food truck,” he said. “We built a beer garden outside in the parking lot.” So far, 2021 at The Box is looking as good as 2020 was bad. The first national show featuring singer-songwriter David Shaw “sold out in under a minute,” with upcoming performances by visiting acts like Ripe, The Beat Drops, Joshua Tree and Marc Roberge of O.A.R., as well as familiar favorites like Foggy Roots. Norton plans to keep the beer garden, which is now run by B-ACK Yard BBQ and offers an expanded menu. He describes the pandemic experience and his employees with deep emotion. “The staff hung in there with us,” he said. “They were right there for us. We have at least six who have been with us for fifteen years or more—we are a family.”
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“We were concerned about loneliness and the mental health of our staff, but we were able to see each other, and we took care of each other. Cisco is very family-oriented.” — Bryan Jennings, Cisco’s chief distiller
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Meanwhile, Cisco Brewers, one of the island’s favorite open-air music venues, met the challenges of the pandemic head-on, becoming a leader in the community-wide effort to keep people safe and employed. Bryan Jennings, Cisco’s chief distiller, described how the owners, management team and staff rose to the occasion. “We are an essential business, a core group that never stopped,” Jennings said. “We were wearing masks and were socially distanced, but we were together. We were concerned about loneliness and the mental health of our staff, but we were able to see each other, and we took care of
each other. Cisco is very family-oriented.” After spending the late winter and early spring making hand sanitizer for front-line workers, the Cisco team overhauled their operations for a partial reopening during the summer of 2020. As local, state and federal regulations continuously flowed in, “changing by the minute,” staff and customers adapted to strict distancing rules and a new point of sale system, while bartenders worked as servers and drink runners, all without live music. “It was a big change in culture,” Jennings said. “If you came to the
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“but there were plenty of obstacles. It gets really hot down here. Jetties Beach is the most volatile weather venue on the island. We just had a hurricane for Figawi.” Thankfully, this summer, the Sandbar will see the return of audience favorites Jimmy Denny, Cranberry Alarm Clock and Jeff Ross, who, according to Nass, “has been here since day one.” With a regular, seven-day weekly lineup, Sandbar likes to facilitate relationships between musicians and fans. “We Sean Lee playing at The Rose & Crown would like to have them all back,” he said. “We have a special bond brewery previously, there with them. They are all part of the community.” was live music, people Also in town, teamwork and imagination delivered The milling around, and dogs Rose and Crown through the toughest moments of the panand kids. So when things demic. For more than forty years, “the Crown” has transwere opening, there were a lot of eyes on us. In that formed itself from a family-friendly pub into a downtown respect it could be a point of problem in transmission. nightclub on a daily basis, attracting locals and visitors with We worked with the local board of health, and they all a combination of live music acts, DJs and dancing. But with designed the guidelines.” popular events like the weekly karaoke competition nixed This May, when restrictions were suddenly lifted, by COVID regulations last year, staff and ownership had to Cisco brought in the local band Buckle and Shake to invent new ways to engage. perform for a throng of happy fans, signaling the return of Debba Pitcock, The Rose and Crown’s general manager, live music and a newer, safer way of mingling. According recalls initially being short-staffed. “We were blindsided by to Jennings, some of the adaptations may stay in place, the outside dining at first, because we kind of got thrown into providing customers with more options. “We have lots that,” she said. “Everyone found out how to work together in of tables, but people can mix amongst themselves now.” a new way—everyone had to be a team and do everything. With an exciting lineup of local and visiting musicians Bartenders had to wait tables. Servers had to mix drinks. I, quickly falling into place, the summer 2021 experience at as a manager-owner, was doing dishes and cooking.” Cisco Brewers is shaping up to be a memorable one. Sean Without a nightly DJ and dancing as a draw, Pitcock deLee and Perfect Day will be joined by bands culled from scribes how her charismatic staff helped her write questions “a huge bottleneck of acts lined up to perform.” Potential for the “Adult Trivia Night” that replaced the Crown’s usual plans include a festival with the clothing brand Levitate Halloween festivities in 2020. “The staff kind of became and a multitiered Cisco Brewers tour for musicians who the entertainment in a way, and we made even more friendwant to perform at all four business locations. ships with people than in the past.” When restrictions were Back in town, Nick Nass, co-owner of Sandbar at lifted in May, fans turned out en masse for the first karaoke Jetties Beach and or, The Whale, reflected on the strong competition, and The Rose and Crown will now resume its bonds in the Nantucket restaurant industry made appartradition of presenting a steady stream of quality musical enent throughout the course of the pandemic. “The restautertainment, including solo acoustic artist Julia Newman and rant community on Nantucket really has each other’s the return of DJ Bri Guy. back,” he said. Like so many other businesses during After a year of so much stress, anxiety and uncerthe pandemic, Nass and his team had to adapt their busitainty, the 2021 season on Nantucket is shaping up to be ness model to keep staff and customers safe. They faced an epic one, with great music bringing friends and family a slew of challenges, even for a breezy, indoor-outdoor together to heal as a community that now holds a greater venue like Sandbar. “We are very lucky that we are outappreciation for these things, having heard the deafening doors, because people felt safe out here,” Nass recalled, sound of silence.
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An exclusive conversation with Wendy and Eric Schmidt “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
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an one person change the world? The answer is unlikely; however, when you put two of the right people together, the odds increase dramatically. Enter Wendy and Eric Schmidt, whose portfolio of philanthropies are strategically positioned to help change the planet. The former chairman of Alphabet Inc. and CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt has helped revolutionize global interactions by putting the internet on a new trajectory. Advisor to three U.S. presidents, Schmidt is on every list of the world’s most influential people and is now turning his sights from the private sector to a dizzying array of nonprofit initiatives. His essential partner in the family’s philanthropic ambition is his wife, Wendy, who since 2006 has served as president of their $1 billion Schmidt Family Foundation. Together, they’ve also founded Schmidt Ocean Institute and Schmidt Futures. After the Schmidts came to Nantucket twenty years ago, the couple’s impact on the island—largely driven by Wendy—has been as significant as any individual’s since Walter Beinecke. The creator of ReMain Nantucket and the force behind renovations at Mitchell’s Book Corner, Greenhound, 56 Center Street (home to the Community Music Center and Nantucket Community School), 22 Federal (home to The Corner Table and the Nantucket Culinary Center), the Dreamland Theater and a wide range of other activities on the island, Wendy has consistently viewed Nantucket as a place for test driving new ideas that could have global implications. From innovative concepts on resilience, to energy efficiency and beyond, she is elevating Nantucket’s role as an incubator for creating environmental solutions. N Magazine sat down with the Schmidts to learn about their various philanthropic initiatives, their goals and their view of the future.
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When you first came to Nantucket, did you view it as a place to relax or did you have a larger vision at the outset? WENDY: Although we grew up on the East Coast, we are Californians, since meeting in graduate school at Berkeley in 1978. When our children were growing up, we had a house on Cape Cod where my mother was spending her summers. It was a friend’s anniversary party held on Nantucket in the summer of 1999 that brought us to the island. We were walking up Main Street, looking at each other, and we said, “What are we doing on the Cape?” This is what we thought we were coming to experience. We bought our first house three days later and visited the island as summer people do—enjoying what the island has to offer, until I started sailing in 2007. Google had gone public. We’d started our foundation and I had been meeting lots of people who grew up on Nantucket, particularly when I spent time sailing around the island. We began to think deeply, “What is it like for people who live on Nantucket yearround and raise their families and work here? Could our philanthropy, in fact, do something with the infrastructure and try to create better opportunities for people in the digital age? Is it possible to create a thriving, year-round downtown for people in a place that has this great history of independence and innovation? And, of course, could we look at its future resilience in the face of climate change?” So we’ve been connected to the island for more than twenty years, and ReMain has been at its task since 2008. ERIC: There was a point in which Wendy decided that Nantucket was a
good place for trying to help a historic American community involve its historically diverse population in building its future, both technologically and in facing climate and environmental issues. The beauty of Nantucket is that it’s small enough that everybody knows each other. You have local politics, obviously, but fundamentally everybody cares deeply about the island. So, an island is not a bad place to see if you can scale the vision of sustainability as Wendy did with ReMain.
that we have a very venture-based and investment-oriented approach to philanthropy. Philanthropy can be very important as a palliative tool— for institutional support, the arts and so on—but there’s another kind of philanthropy that we’re interested in that’s transformative. We try to look at what’s broken and see if we can use the power of this energy of philanthropy to help things that are underway to change for the better. To use Eric’s phrase from his podcast during the pandemic—to
“Wendy decided that Nantucket was a good place for trying to help a historic American community involve its historically diverse population in building its future, both technologically and in facing climate and environmental issues.” — Eric Schmidt
Your philanthropy ranges from improving and extending human life, to identifying young people who have the potential to solve global problems, to advancing ocean science and beyond. What is the theme of your philanthropic efforts? WENDY: We were baked in the Silicon Valley culture. We have lived through very rapid change since we left graduate school to address systemic problems. The culture itself is one that believes in the power of individuals to innovate and to think differently. It’s made us into systems thinkers, so the problems that we look at are all connected. The other unique thing about us is
reimagine the world. With the tools we have today, we can solve so many problems because we can see the world more accurately than we ever could before and we can communicate quickly. Explain your interdisciplinary approach to recruiting talent. ERIC: What I realized was that we care uniquely about people. At the end of the day, it’s high-skills people who change the world. They’re the entrepreneurs, they’re the leaders. Wendy and I discussed this and we built a set of programs through our philanthropic initiative Schmidt Futures. First was the Schmidt Science Fellows, which is where we look for people who are getting Ph.D.s that want a multidisciplinary change.
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So they are an astrophysicist who wants to work on cancer, or a mathematician who wants to solve an environmental problem. People who are at that level of ability that want to move to an adjacent field have the highest potential of all. So we set up a program to enable them to do that. That seems to have been enormously successful. WENDY: The interdisciplinary approach is fundamental to almost everything we do. Those interesting things happen at the edges. We grew up in a world of silos. If you were an astrophysicist, you didn’t do cancer research. It’s really interesting when you apply the knowledge and learning from one field to another. Secondly, when you listen to people in their communities, they’re responsible for their own future. Whether you’re on an island with a growing infrastructure or whether you’re a small village in Ghana where you’re being displaced by foreign mining interests, the human rights component is core. And you’ve got to come out of your silo and listen to your community. You made a recent gift of $150 million to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard focusing on improving human life and, I presume, lifespans. The recent Moderna experience suggests that science is almost unlimited in what it can do. In terms of longevity alone, how do you see your ability to influence lifespan? ERIC: At the Broad Institute, where I’ve now just become chairman, there was a proposal to work on the language of life. The problem is that cells communicate in ways we don’t fully understand. So the gift that we gave was to fund a ten-year program to try to use every conceivable digital technique to figure out the mechanisms of how the cells talk to each other. It’s pure science discovery. We obviously care about lifespan, and we care a lot about human health, but it’s really about understanding the underlying biological mechanism. It’s probably the highest leverage enterprise that we, as non-scientists, could fund. WENDY: With respect to your question about lifespan, we’re not going to live longer as a species in the face of higher global temperatures and the geopolitical chaos this can engender. We face new vectors of disease, including viral spread; loss of biodiversity, forests and topsoil; and destruction of habitats, including our life support system in the ocean. Our planetary systems have evolved for
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more than 4.5 billion years, while the reign of humans on the Earth has lasted for only about 200,000 years. Under current models of climate change, there will be places on Earth that are destined to become uninhabitable deserts, as is already occurring in the Sahel in Africa. Climate change threatens to overheat many cities in the Southern Hemisphere, and we know that temperatures that reach 150 degrees Fahrenheit begin to cook our internal organs, so are unsuitable for human life.
“...we’re not going to live longer as a species in the face of higher global temperatures and the geopolitical chaos this can engender. We face new vectors of disease, including viral spread; loss of biodiversity, forests and topsoil; and destruction of habitats, including our life support system in the ocean.” — Wendy Schmidt
Tell us about the Rise program that you have created, which seeks out young individuals with extraordinary promise as potential problem solvers. When you distill it down, are you essentially global talent scouts? WENDY: The Rise program is so interesting because Eric always talks about all the talent in the world that nobody knows about. There’s never been anything like this program, which will offer young people in their teens from all around the world a path to being recognized, being educated, being connected. As this program continues, a cohort of people who are supported for their lifetimes will be turning their talents toward public service. How do you identify the talent? ERIC: We decided that we needed a partner and chose the Rhodes Trust. Because if you think about it, if you were me—a computer scientist—you would want to do the entire global selection digitally. You’d want to have a supercomputer algorithm that would say, “These are the smartest people in the world. Here are the tests. We know it. We
(Clockwise from top left) Wendy Schmidt addresses MIT students about the importance of the ocean to life on land and the potential for technology investments to restore ocean health; Eric Schmidt speaks to the Schmidt Science Fellows, a program of Schmidt Futures in partnership with the Rhodes Trust, during a Fellowship Global Meeting at Stanford University; Eric and Wendy Schmidt view a livestream of Schmidt Ocean Institute’s underwater robotic vehicle, SuBastian, in the control room of Falkor, their research vessel that is made available to the international science community at no cost; Wendy and Eric Schmidt with the inaugural 2018 cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows, a program of Schmidt Futures in partnership with the Rhodes Trust. Schmidt Science Fellows / Claudine Gosset
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can prove it.” But that’s not in fact how life works. You can use the computer to do a screening, but at the end of the day, all of these selections involve managing powerful sets of human judgments, which the Rhodes Trust does expertly. No one’s ever done anything like this before. WENDY: The projects are really interesting. This is a very early stage effort, but we had one of the finalists in the first Rise class develop a platform to track seismic vibrations across cities. Another one built a model to better predict climate change. Another made a biodegradable straw out of leaves and beeswax. So these young people are identified within their own community and if they want to be part of this program and join this community, then we should have this wonderful set of leaders coming into the world in the decades to come.
Let’s shift to a different geography. The Schmidt Ocean Institute, combined with your focus on ocean health, has done a tremendous amount of research and made some fascinating discoveries. What concerns you most about the future of our oceans and is there a path to recovery? WENDY: The biggest threat is invisible and that’s a problem. The changes in our atmosphere that have been occurring over the last hundred years have led to an increasing acidification in the ocean, as well as warming. This is extremely dangerous because it’s basically changing the chemistry that has supported life as we know it. The ocean is currently as acidic as it was fifty million years ago. That happened over millennia when it changed before, and now we’re changing ocean chemistry over decades. This is very dangerous. We’re actually tinkering with our life
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support system, where half of all the life on Earth resides. Almost half of humanity gets its primary protein from the oceans. Two billion people make their livelihoods on the ocean—a quarter of humanity. The oceans are under attack from not only pollution, but overfishing, noise, fifty thousand oil tankers crisscrossing the ocean every
ect along Nantucket’s waterfront to be studied for them to give us their idea of what is going to happen. Nantucket has this history of continual adaptation. So what would that vision look like in the eyes of these students? Because of the pandemic, all their work was all done remotely, with an extraordinary deep dive into the geologic, environmental and social aspects of sea level rise. Their designs are “I think that the most likely scenario for Nantucket is on display at the Macy Warehouse more flooding. The danger is with high tide when you through December. We would love have a big storm—water is what does all the damage. Nantucket to be the model for how That is inexorably going to get worse at some rate.” other coastal communities could — Eric Schmidt approach their own future.
day before COVID. It’s really a problem of our activity at scale. It probably didn’t matter when my mother was born in 1931. You could probably burn all the fossil fuels you wanted and it wouldn’t make an impact. But now we have to change the way we live because our activity is threatening the ocean. So I would say the biggest threat to the ocean, to borrow from [renowned marine biologist] Sylvia Earle, is ignorance—that is what has to change. Let’s draw this closer to Nantucket. Eric mentioned using Nantucket as a model, and the Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge that you have created is designed to find solutions that have global applications. Tell us about Nantucket’s role in solving problems far beyond our shores. WENDY: Envision Resilience was a project that we thought about in 2019, before the pandemic. The idea was to involve graduate students—people from offisland, people from on-island—in a project that would help jump-start the vision for the future, to come up with an adaptive approach for how residents and businesses could live with rising water. We approached major universities and ended up with five, including Harvard, Yale, Northeastern, the University of Miami and the University of Florida. They created a studio design project. We had twenty on-island advisors as well as off-island guest speakers representing a wide variety of professions doing weekly talks. We had this entire scope of the proj-
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People on Nantucket always ask how long Nantucket is going to be viable. Based on our current trajectory, how long will Nantucket be above water? ERIC: A lot of it depends on the rate of warming in Greenland and the western Antarctic ice sheet. A true collapse of those, which is possible, would be a real emergency for Nantucket. That’s the less likely scenario. The more likely scenario is this gradual and unstoppable rise in oceans, which is also due to both heating— because as the water gets hotter, it gets bigger—as well as the addition of ice into the water. The modeling indicates that we have a hundred years kind of number—it’s more than ten. The alarmists will say it’s unstoppable, but that doesn’t mean that it happens immediately. I think that the most likely scenario for Nantucket is more flooding. The danger is with high tide when you have a big storm— water is what does all the damage. That is inexorably going to get worse at some rate. It sounds like a race against time. How quickly can you help develop solutions, implement the solutions and have the solutions work before irreparable damage is done? And is it realistic that we can stop the clock or reverse the damage? WENDY: I don’t think the problem is technical, so much as political. The political will is lacking to make these changes. We know how to do it. We need to do it.
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Will we do it? I hope so. We come from a background of optimism, and we know the world has changed the way we do everything in the last forty years thanks to computers. And even my little iPhone here, this didn’t exist before 2007. We have all the tools to change human behavior. The challenge is how do you make that happen? And what are the right incentives?
misinformation? Are they going to be human advisors? All is up for grabs. And that’s probably the sexiest part of the tech industries’ investment. There’s an enormous amount of money going into these. Part of the reason that I’m not giving you a very precise answer is that the computation required to build these supercomputers with this kind of knowl-
“We feel lucky every day to be able to do what we’re doing. We get to learn something every day. Something we don’t know anything about. So it’s just enormously interesting...Every day, we get to engage with these committed, passionate people who want to change the world for the better. I mean, that’s just very satisfying, like watching your own children grow up. We have the most fun just talking together, really.” — Wendy Schmidt
Speaking of devices, we have technology today that we didn’t have ten years ago. Ten years ago, we had technology that we didn't have twenty years earlier. What type of technology do you envision us having twenty years from now that will be the iPhone revolution of tomorrow? ERIC: At the moment, the answer in the industry is more powerful phones and much more powerful apps. That’s a safe bet. What is not clear is what happens in addition to that, because the phones are so defining now. The fact that you can talk to each and every human on a supercomputer that’s in their hand is a very sexy thing. If you were to ask me to speculate, I would say that the biggest change will come from an artificial intelligence ability to converse in a human-like way. I’ve written a book with [former U.S. Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger on the future of AI, which comes out in October. We talk about what are called universal models of knowledge. These computers are going to be aggregating an enormous amount of knowledge inside of them. And no one knows quite how they’re going to be used. Are they going to solve problems? Are they going to generate 1 3 6
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edge is not known, but thought to be in the billions and billions of dollars. It’s very different from an iPhone. The speed with which technology has advanced is geometric. What are your greatest fears of what could happen if technology goes the wrong way? ERIC: We all see many good movies that have elements of these stories in them. Whatever that scenario is, it’s not true today. Where we are today is that these tools are enormously powerful for discovery, for monitoring, for science, for invention and so forth. It’s going to be a fairly long time before they’re in live critical situations, like the robot is driving me or the robot is operating on me. Because we won’t tolerate failure. People have been working on selfdriving cars since 1997. You did not drive a self-driving car today in Boston. Why? It’s a really hard problem, because we can’t tolerate failures. There was a self-driving car crash involving a Tesla into the back of a
truck. It was front-page news in all the newspapers. On that same day, there were roughly ninety other terrible car accidents driven by humans, caused by humans, that did not get on the front page. So I think we need to put these things into perspective. These tools are enormously powerful. They have downsides, but would I prefer to have the smartphone, the AI system, the knowledge network and all that intelligence at our disposal as humans? Yes. But I want us to be in charge of it. You both live very purposeful lives, and it’s hard to imagine what Eric and Wendy Schmidt do that is just purely fun. What are the things that you do that are outside of the realm of doing, creating and planning the type of work that we associate with both of you? What is the other side? WENDY: I don’t know if there is another side. I honestly think we feel lucky every day to be able to do what we’re doing. We get to learn something every day. Something we don’t know anything about. So it’s just enormously interesting. For Eric, I think it’s learning quantum physics. For me, lately it’s been trying to understand microbial life. Every day, we get to engage with these committed, passionate people who want to change the world for the better. I mean, that’s just very satisfying, like watching your own children grow up. We have the most fun just talking together, really. ERIC: Curiosity is very powerful as an entertainment device. We’re in a position now where every day is full of new things, some of which are really interesting, some of which are really important. It’s not possible to know exactly which, because sometimes they work out and sometimes they don’t. But they’re all fascinating. If you’re driven by curiosity, right, then everything else works itself out just great.
I assume that your philanthropies are now your life’s work. At the end of the day, what would you both deem as collective success of your efforts? WENDY: I have an incentive I use to describe how we can measure the success of our work. It’s called the 10 percent rule. According to a 2010 study that came out of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, you only need a committed group that is 10 percent of any population to shift everyone else to their goals—whether this is a religious belief, or a fashion trend, a political goal or a behavior. We can get to that 10 percent in our lifetimes—to rebuild an industrial sector that is circular by design and eliminates waste and results in a far more sustainable human footprint on Earth’s planetary systems: air, ocean and soil. We can already see the commitment in many industries to decarbonizing, to reducing waste or eliminating it by design. We’re seeing investment in agriculture to bring ocean plants into our diets as primary proteins, and in the ocean to rebuild coral reefs. We have just entered the UN Decade of Ocean Health, and we’re going to find, a decade from now, far more effective international ocean protection policies than we have today that will preserve our life support system for future generations. We hope to have a full map of the ocean floor by then, as full a map as we have right now of the surface of Mars. ERIC: We believe the pairing of life sciences with data science at the Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute will yield breakthroughs we all hope for— better diagnostics, treatments and even cures for killers like cancer, heart disease and neurodegenerative conditions. And with our work to lift up talent, we hope to create the largest and most persistent network of exceptional people worldwide. If we can match those people to opportunities to serve others—for life—we can build knowledge and solve hard problems that everyone faces, like wiring the world or defeating COVID-19. Thank you both for your time and sharing your insights with us.
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SURVIVOR INTERVIEW BY ROBERT COCUZZO
Author, speaker and advocate Elizabeth Smart shares her story with A Safe Place
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out to a movie. If it is right fresh after something’s happened, offer to go to the police with them if they want that extra support. Offer to go to therapy for the first time with them if they want that extra support. Help them understand that you are there for them and this isn’t just a momentary thing—that you are there for them and that you will continue to be there for them. Another person recently told me to “love them and treat them as their best selves.” You can’t just “magic” someone better overnight, no matter how hard you want to. So even if they’re struggling, that’s OK. Love them as their best selves. You write about the power of hope. What would you say to someone who can’t find hope in the state that Elizabeth Smart has become a highly sought-after speaker across the country.
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I was actually interviewing a woman who said it so perfectly: She had to put purpose to her pain. I think back on my own experience and feel ultimately that’s what I had to do. Because I understood the pain of being kidnapped out of my bed in the middle of the night at knife point, of being taken away from my family for nine months, of being raped and of everything else that I experienced. Now, that [pain] makes me want to try to prevent that from happening to anyone else because nobody should go through that. So for me, it was realizing that I had the opportunity to really make a difference. To be able to share my story and also to help educate people. How do you react when someone discloses abuse to you? How do you support survivors? How do you help them move forward? I’m using my own experience as motivation to move forward.
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they’re in? Are there any strategies for reclaiming that kind of glimmer of light that you write about?
There is nothing more powerful than the resiliency within the human spirit. Sometimes you have to dig deeper than you ever imagined to find the smallest glimmer, but I do absolutely believe that it is there. The day after I was rescued, my mom said to me, “Elizabeth, what these people have done to you is terrible
“There is nothing more powerful than the resiliency within the human spirit. Sometimes you have to dig deeper than you ever imagined to find the smallest glimmer, but I do absolutely believe that it is there.” — Elizabeth Smart
very, very early on. The next thing is to be a friend. Don’t just sit and question them. That’s not your job to interrogate them on what happened. Just be their friend. Be the person that they know they can turn to as a safe place to go to. You should continue to treat them like you would any other person. Call them, check on them, invite them
and there are no words strong enough to describe how wicked and evil they are. They’ve stolen nine months of your life that you’ll never get back. But the best punishment you could ever give them is to be happy.” Initially, when I first heard that from my mom, I thought, Well, that’s not really fair. Just be happy? That’s a
punishment for them? That’s not a punishment for think a lot of it is trial and error. Be patient them. My mom went on to say, “Feeling sorry for with yourself. Learn to love yourself because yourself is only allowing them to steal more of your you are worthy and deserve to be loved. life away from you—and they don’t deserve that.” Build your relationship with yourself. Don’t I thought a lot about that. There’s the one perspective “I could never go back to the girl that I was that sounds rather harsh: before I was kidnapped. Too much had changed... Just get over it, move on, it’s a choice, be happy. But coming to terms with the fact that there was a new I don’t actually think that’s normal and learning to be OK with that I think what my mom meant. She was probably a pretty big moment for me.” wanted me to remember — Elizabeth Smart more than anything to not give up. Believe that happiness is possible. Believe that peace is possible. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. There are so many give up on having those in my life. Even in those dark people who want to help. It’s not your fault times, just believe that it’s possible. for whatever happened. It’s not your fault. For those who are just beginning their healing journey, are there stages that they should be aware of in terms of how one processes trauma?
I believe everyone is different. What works for one person might not necessarily work for another. So I
It’s never the victim’s fault. It doesn’t matter what you were doing, where you were or what you were wearing. It’s not your fault and you didn’t deserve for it to happen. Don’t give up on yourself. Healing, hope and happiness are all possible.
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What was a key breakthrough for you and reclaiming your own sense of self?
Finally recognizing the fact that I could never go back to being who I had once been. I could never go back to the girl that I was before I was kidnapped. Too much had changed. I couldn’t go to the grocery store anymore without people recognizing me and saying something to me. Just coming to terms with the fact that there was a new normal and learning to be OK with that I think was probably a pretty big moment for me. How do you protect yourself from being in
know if I ever say something that hurts someone else, I feel terrible about it. Not terrible for ten minutes, terrible for a long time. I suppose there’s no point for me to engage with them because anything I say won’t make a difference. If they already attacked me, I’m not going to be the one that changes their mind. I don’t think anyone’s going to change their mind. They’re the only ones that can change their own mind through education, understanding and compassion. But if they’re making that comment in the first place, then I just don’t know how much education, compassion and understanding they’ve experienced in their own lives. I feel sorry for them.
the public eye, with all the scrutiny of the media and social media?
I used to be so concerned about what was being said about me or the comments that people would make. I’d read the articles and then I’d read the comments. There would be a lot of nice comments, but then there would always be some pretty rude comments. And I would always feel terrible about it. It would break my heart. I just couldn’t understand why are these people so rude? They don’t know me; they’ve never spoken to me. It would get me really down. Finally, my older brother said, “Elizabeth, you have to stop reading the comments; they’re going to tear you apart.” Ever since then, I rarely read comments anymore. There have been so many wonderful, lovely, kind, caring people out there who have thought about me, prayed for me, searched for me, sacrificed for me. I don’t think I’ll ever lose my faith in the goodness of humanity because of those individuals. But because of the few trolls out there, I can’t afford to read those comments anymore. If you were sitting with one of those
Can you speak to how important organizations like A Safe Place are to communities and why folks should be supporting these organizations with their time and treasure?
Organizations like A Safe Place are essential. The vast majority of abuse that takes place—whether it’s kidnapping or sexual or physical abuse—comes from someone you know. So many survivors tell me how it was their dad, their brother, their stepbrother, an uncle or some other family member who’s been abusing them. I always tell them, “They’re not your family if they’re hurting you like this. You need to find your family.” Many times, these survivors find the individuals, advocates, therapists and organizations like A Safe Place—and they become their family. They become their first line of defense. Their first step forward into a new life, their first friend, their first confidant, their first breakthrough into an upward trajectory. And having that is so essential. I think every community needs an advocacy center, needs A Safe Place to go. And I’m just so honored to have been invited to come and speak.
trolls—someone who makes light of trauma or says offensive remarks—what would you say to them?
I can’t help but wonder, What has this person been through or what is this person going through that they feel like they have to be so negative and hurtful to others? Does that make them feel good? Because I
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Elizabeth Smart will be speaking at the Congregational Church on July 7th at 7:30 p.m. For more information, please visit www.asafeplacenantucket.org.
“Organizations like A Safe Place are essential…Many times, these survivors find the individuals, advocates, therapists and organizations like A Safe Place—and they become their family. They become their first line of defense. Their first step forward into a new life, their first friend, their first confidant, their first breakthrough into an upward trajectory.” —
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INSIDE EDITION Star interior designer Nate Berkus headlines the NHA’s Nantucket by Design luncheon next month
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n the world of interior design, few are more multitalented than Nate Berkus. The star of several popular home design television programs, Berkus has also flexed his creativity in bestselling books, lines of home décor products and even in an Oscar-winning film, The Help, on which he served as a producer. Above all, this father of two remains a dedicated interior designer, driven by the same passion that inspired him to begin his own design firm at the age of twenty-four and that later won him an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show, which catapulted him into pop culture stardom. Next month, the full range of Nate Berkus’ talents will be on display on Nantucket as he serves as the key-
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How would you breathe new life into the Nantucket design aesthetic? I think it’s time to focus on blending the timehonored coastal aesthetic with a slightly more international style—a few pieces of French or Italian mid-century paired with primitive American antique furniture and modern art is a very current and thoughtful direction. As it relates to antiques, how can pieces from the past be reimagined in today’s coastal spaces? The thing that has always compelled me to work with antique furniture is its inherent character and patina; I think the visual energy comes from pairing things from different eras and different places in a fearless, imaginative way. What new trends are you most excited about in today’s coastal homes? The movement toward a softer hand and less gloss. Paint for millwork shifting from bright, shinier whites to papery and chalky putty and off-white. Plaster-like finishes that make the
note speaker of the NHA’s Nantucket by Design luncheon. Held in person on August 5th, the luncheon can also be enjoyed from the comfort of your home via Zoom. As a preview to his appearance, N Magazine spoke to Nate Berkus about his thoughts on coastal design, new trends in home decor and what actually happens behind the scenes of his home makeover shows.
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walls feel warmer and architecture that respects history in a slightly more pared down way. Bronze instead of brasses, reclaimed stone floors instead of ceramics, etc. You have two children. What tips would you provide parents of young children in designing rooms that are both functional and thoughtful? My priorities of importance have always been as follows: people, pets, then things. An interior space where everyone doesn’t feel welcome is a colossal failure. We use outdoor textiles or patterns on highly used furniture, and a lot of vintage and antique furniture that already has the character and patina of years of use. Even our three-yearold son can’t do any damage…and he is a bit of an animal. Let’s say you were hired to design a home office located in a space with limited window light. What three elements would you immediately think to introduce to the space to make it unique? Reclaimed paneling for the walls, modified to fit the existing walls. Perhaps a series of small Josef Hoffmann lights in a grid and on dimmers in the ceiling, and some beautiful, well-chosen vintage pieces.
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When taking on a project with your husband, who is also an accomplished interior designer, how do you divide the responsibilities? We both work on an initial concept and then throw our individual ideas on the table to be discussed. With us, there is zero ego involved; the best idea always wins. Period. Okay, let’s enter the rapid fire round. You and your family spend a fair bit of time in the Hamptons. Is there anything design-wise that you think Nantucket could benefit from the Hamptons? I think Nantucket design tends to be more elegant than the Hamptons, so not really.
What’s one design element that you believe should be banned from homes for stylistic reasons? Reproductions. You are multitalented—between design, products, television, books, film—is there another industry you’d like to explore? Not at all, I remain so inspired every day by architecture and design and that I get to do what I love for a living. You’ve had a number of successful home design television programs. What happens behind the scenes that would surprise most people? Sometimes people don’t love the outcome, but feel obliged to pretend they do for the cameras. I always go back and make it right.
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The Museum of African American History champions critical chapters in Nantucket’s history
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ost know about the island’s Quaker founders, its whaling fame, its abolitionists and suffragists and its legendary astronomer Maria Mitchell—but what about the long and rich history of African Americans on the island? Years before Frederick Douglass famously delivered his first public address to an integrated audience on the steps of the Atheneum in August 1841, there was already a dynamic African American community on Nantucket that was unlike anything in the United States at that time. Indeed, the island itself emerged as a beacon of equality centuries before the rest of the country. Now, thanks to the Museum of African American History, which is celebrating its second annual Night in White fundraising gala this month, this lesser-known history is gaining a stronger foothold in the community. “Our mission aims at making certain that the untold stories of African Americans and enslaved persons who were freed or sought freedom are stories that don’t remain untold—and there is an immense amount of those stories on Nantucket,” explained Leon Wilson, the president of the Museum of African American History, whose central offices are based in Boston. “Historically, the citizens of Nantucket have been committed to freedom, not just freedom to some, but freedom to all. We’re talking about a 17th century and 18th century effort that has continued through the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.”
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In 1841, Frederick Douglass famously delivered his first public address to an integrated audience from the steps of the Atheneum. However, the roots of African American history on the island predate that watershed moment.
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he earliest records of African Americans on Nantucket stretch back to the 1650s when early Nantucket settlers owned slaves. Although forms of slavery persisted on the island until 1773, a neighborhood known as New Guinea began to emerge in the early 1700s where free African Americans owned homes, had two churches, shops, a school and even a dance hall. At a time when most African Americans across the country were still in bondage, residents of New Guinea operated their own economy. Later known as Newtown, this historic site today centers around the African Meeting House located at Five Corners. Outside of Newtown, the island as a whole served as a stop on the Underground Railroad for many African Americans fleeing slavery. “The island’s people protected them,” explained Wilson. “There are many stories of slave catchers coming to the island and being immediately removed by Nantucketers who were protecting people of color, hiding them and ensuring that they continued their lives of freedom.” One of the most famous of these stories is of
Arthur Cooper and his family who fled to the island in 1820. When an agent sent by the Coopers’ former slave master arrived on Nantucket searching for them, island residents, both in New Guinea and in the broader Quaker community, created an elaborate diversion while the family was rushed into hiding. Now some two hundred years later, the Museum of African American History is in the process of immortalizing this history on the island in the form of a monument to Arthur Cooper. (Top) Florence Higginbotham (Bottom) Boston-Higginbotham House circa 1920 (photos courtesy of the Museum of African American History)
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(Top and bottom) Photos of the African Meeting House from the early 1900s (photos courtesy of the Museum of African American History); (Middle) Arthur Cooper, a former slave who found refuge on Nantucket and became a respected member of the community
To emphasize stories like Cooper’s, the Museum of African American History, which acquired the African Meeting House and connected properties in 1999, established the Nantucket Black Heritage Trail. The self-guided tour begins at Nantucket’s historic “Colored” Cemetery where many of the headstones represent icons of Nantucket—and American—history. For instance, there is the grave of Eunice Ross, whose denial to attend Nantucket Public Schools in 1840 ultimately resulted in the first law to guarantee equal access to education in the United States. The gravity of the accomplishment is hard to fathom: a young Black girl living on a remote island sparking landmark racial legislation in the country some twenty years before the start of the Civil War. Similar feats are found along the ninestop tour. Walking from the cemetery on 9 Vesper Lane, the next stop is Five Corners, the historic heart of New Guinea. On the corner of York Street is the African Meeting House—one of the longest standing original African American churches in the country— followed by the Seneca Boston-Florence Higginbotham House nearby. After being freed in 1774, Seneca Boston bought the property where he and his Wampanoag wife, Thankful Micah, bore six children. One of their sons, Absalom Boston, became the first African American whaling captain on Nantucket. Boston helmed The Industry with an
all-Black crew that returned to the island after a six-month hunt with seventy barrels of whale oil. Thereafter, Boston became a prominent businessman and community leader on the island, even running for local office. In fact, Boston was the driving force behind Eunice Ross being admitted into Nantucket Public Schools. So it was that within a single generation, the Boston family went from being in bondage to being one of the most historic families on the island. The Museum of African American History is now creating yearround virtual programming as well as expanding its collaboration with Nantucket Public Schools so that, as Wilson explained, “students K through 12 have an early understanding of African American history.” The museum is also engaging the broader year-round population to cultivate conversation, using the African Meeting House
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The Night in White event this July is a driving force behind achieving these objectives on the island and beyond. Once again featuring actor Anthony Anderson as the evening’s emcee, the virtual event will honor fellow actor Hill Harper, who—in addition to his roles on shows like CSI: New York and movies like Limitless—served as the narrator of the museum’s documentary on Juneteenth that was released this summer and debuted at the Dreamland. Produced by Nantucket summer resident AJ Williams, the Night in White gala will have satellite parties at the African Meeting House and elsewhere on the museum’s Nantucket campus. Wilson and his team see the gala as a springboard to their many Nantucket initiatives. “We view Nantucket not just as a completion of the story of African American history, but a completion of the story of the Museum of African American History,” Wilson concluded. “It’s a place for discourse, dialogue and an execution of all initiatives around freedom and racial equity.” Absalom Boston
as a space to discuss racial equity and social justice. “The conversation is an early start of issues of social equity,” he said. “If you can’t talk about it openly, you’ll never get to talk about solutions. And we bring the history into it. Not much of what we are dealing with today hasn’t been in some way dealt with previously in history.” Earlier this spring, Wilson and his team held one of these open forums at the African Meeting House where they discussed the unsolved hate crime perpetrated on the historic building’s doors three years earlier. While reemphasizing the museum’s demand for justice in the case, Wilson and those gathered also discussed the relationship between island residents. Looking back to history, Wilson explained that the pursuit of true freedom and emancipation requires all ethnic groups coming together and demanding it. Here on Nantucket, the museum is on a mission to establish the African Meeting House as a venue that can bring the various year-round groups together for discourse that will hopefully lead to a more just and equitable island community.
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A view from the Unitarian Church looking south down Orange Street toward Newtown cemetery in the 1880s (Nantucket Historical Association)
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Paradise in Polpis WRITTEN BY ROBERT COCUZZO PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE
A historic estate becomes an island unto itself
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hen we first walked the property, I wasn’t quite sure about it,” said Henry, who recently retired from the credit card processing company he founded back in the late nineties. “It wasn’t until the next afternoon when a friend brought us to see it on his boat that our son Dax got off and just started running across the yard, screaming and being a kid, and I thought, ‘OK, we need to buy this house.’” The Helgesons enlisted architect Mark Cutone of Nantucket-based MCA Architecture for initial feasibility studies, town planning, structural and macro programming and to ensure that the property lived up to its full potential with open spaces and breathtaking views. However, the Helgesons wanted to put their own touch on it. Initially, Henry planned to move the main house back sixty feet, rotate it fifteen degrees, and raise it three feet to create a deep pour basement. “But once we lived here for a summer, we realized that’s not how this house is supposed to be,” Henry said. “Russell Dale Phelon, who built this place in 2000, put an amazing amount of thought into it.” From the sun rising perfectly through the master bedroom window, to the grand room facing dead north, to the living room looking out directly to the setting sun, the home’s dimensions and location, the Helgesons decided, were exactly right. “The bones were
The Helgesons purchased Swain's Neck in 2018.
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“Polpis Harbor has the most unique marine life I’ve ever seen...for the kids to be able to go out there and explore is so much fun.”
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Miroslava Ahern of Ahern LLC served as the project's landscape designer.
really good,” Savannah said. “It just needed some makeup.” However, instead of a little lipstick, the Helgesons went for the full facelift. To execute their vision, they enlisted designer Nicole Hogarty of Nicole Hogarty Designs and builder Steve Cheney of Cheney Custom Homes, both of whom they had worked with in the past. “The two of them together are a dream team,” Savannah said. Henry agreed: “Nicole and Savannah would start brainstorming and then Steve would come in with what’s possible from a construction standpoint and expand on the vision.” N - M A G A Z I N E . C O M
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Through this continual collaboration between owners, designer and builder, Swain’s Neck dramatically evolved over the course of fourteen months. “It was a massive project,” Henry said. “But they absolutely nailed it.” The home’s interior originally possessed a classic Colonial aesthetic with extensive crown molding and cherry wood that the Helgesons wanted to jettison. Collaborating with Savannah, Hogarty developed a modern East Coast/ West Coast vibe that would be inviting and comfortable but also durable. She and Cheney
Inside, the main living areas achieve a rare effect, feeling all at once grand and spacious while inviting and intimate. Deep, comfy couches made with indoor-outdoor fabrics were selected to withstand playing children, sleeping pets and the occasional splash of red wine. “Nicole was very conscious of making the space fit for our family so it feels like we can actually live here and be messy and dirty,” Savannah said. The Helgesons also love to entertain. “We’ve had everything from wine dinners to beer Olympics here,” Henry said. The inviting aura of the home is enhanced by thoughtfully curated details, many of which were sourced locally. “During the offseason, we
incorporated mixed materials of metal, wood, stone and leather, the latter of which was incorporated on everything from the bannisters leading up the staircase in the grand room to the hood of the kitchen’s oven. This organic feel was emphasized by blurring the lines between the indoors and outdoors. Walls of glass doors and windows open to an extended deck looking out to the harbor. If bugs start buzzing, electric screens slide into place with the flip of a switch.
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“The details that Steve and Nicole came up with together is nuts... I still walk around the house and find things that I didn’t notice.” — Henry Helgeson
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reached out to several local shops and asked the owners to send photos of their current inventory,” Hogarty said. “Savannah knew we would find a home for all of the pieces on the property.” Indeed, the home boasts pieces from Jessica Jenkins, Bodega, Nantucket Looms and N Magazine’s own chief photographer Kit Noble. On the construction side, Cheney not only led a small army to strip the entire home down to the studs and reimagine every detail—including relocating one of the three fireplaces—but he also renovated the gatehouse and separate office while building a brand-new gym with an adjoining suite, a guesthouse and what Henry described as a “bad-ass cabana.” “The detail to which Steve listens and delivers, I can’t say enough about,” said Savannah. “Whatever he says he’s going to do, he gets it done.” From the slab shower, to the hidden wine cellar, to the foot washing stations, every element was deliberate. “The details that Steve and Nicole came up with together are nuts,” Henry said. “I still walk around the house and find things that I didn’t notice.” Fun abounds outside with the newly installed pool, tennis courts, outdoor kitchen and fire pit. Henry’s “bad-ass cabana” feels plucked from a playboy’s dreams with a cool sunken lounge area, plush couches, wet bar and arcades. A
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fishermen’s shack at the water’s edge is another place to lounge while offering swift access to the Helgesons’ fleet of three fishing boats. “Polpis Harbor has the most unique marine life I’ve ever seen,” Henry said. “Fiddler crabs, spider crabs, horseshoe crabs, stripers, minnows—everything is in that harbor. And for the kids to be able to go out there and explore is so much fun.” Stepping away from the finely manicured lawn, there’s an elaborate trail system that snakes through the woods. “There’s so much wildlife,” Savannah said. “We’ll see ospreys flying with a fish in their mouth. The geese on the property just had their babies. There’s deer and rabbits.” This enchanting connection with the natural world begins the moment one drives through the gatehouse at the entrance of the property and takes the long dirt driveway past handsome trees, over a wooden bridge, and onto the main grounds. Now, with the help of Nicole Hogarty and Steve Cheney, the Helgesons’ summer home is a reflection of the extraordinary setting only found on Nantucket.
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LIGHT CONSTRUCTION WRITTEN BY JONATHAN SOROFF
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAY CONNOR
A group of Nantucket craftsmen help give new life to a historic lighthouse in Boston Harbor
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ou’ve just bought a decrepit lighthouse, nine miles out to sea, perched atop nothing more than an outcropping of rocks peeking out of the water at the entrance to Boston Harbor. Who do you turn to for help in refurbishing it, to transform it from a crumbling, hundred-foot ruin into a ship-shape weekend getaway? If you’re visionary businessman Dave Waller, who purchased Graves Light Station from the U.S. Coast Guard in 2013, you turn to your brother-in-law, Nantucket cabinetmaker and general contractor Karl Phillips of Driftwood Construction. “Karl opened the door for so much talent to come off the island and work on this thing,” Waller says. “Nantucketers are a hearty bunch, so that probably has something to do with it, and they knew how to do things the old way. Just look at the craftsmanship of the houses on Nantucket. That’s why Graves is almost a Nantucket-built lighthouse now.”
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have to be invested, and all these artisans from Nantucket are.” When the beacon was originally erected on Graves Ledge in 1903–05, it was one of a handful of “landfall lighthouses,” isolated out at sea. In its day, it was a marvel of engineering, requiring its builders to work below the waterline, erecting a coffer dam around the site to sink the footings into the basalt bedrock on which it stands. It was also widely considered to be the most beautifully appointed lighthouse on the East Coast, and Waller’s intention was
“Nantucketers are a hearty bunch, so that probably has something to do with it, and they knew how to do things the old way... That’s why Graves is almost a Nantucket-built lighthouse now.” — Dave Waller
Photos courtesy of Dave Waller
“Getting people to do this at all was maybe the biggest challenge... The people working on it have to be invested, and all these artisans from Nantucket are.” — Dave Waller
to return it to that status, and then some. The original Fresnel lens, which is now in the Smithsonian, will be replaced by an updated, solar-powered version, because, in addition to using the lighthouse as his second home, Waller is committed to keeping it operational. “The ledge is a hazard to navigation,” he says, “and the light is an important tool for mariners.” One need only look at the long list of shipwrecks over the centuries to appreciate the truth of that statement. The Coast Guard operated Graves until Waller and his wife, Lynn, a RISD-trained designer, bought it at auction for $933,888. They were eventually joined by partner Bobby Sager, the international philanthropist and lighthouse aficionado who also owns four other lighthouses, including the nearby Minot’s Ledge. But what would possess someone to take on such a daunting—some might even argue harebrained—project?
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“That’s the hardest question,” says Waller, who unlike Sager, harbored no particular passion for lighthouses, per se. “It’s not like I ever had a thing for them, but Lynn and I had done a bunch of adventurous things that were a bit similar, buying old buildings and fixing them up.” Their primary residence, in Malden, Massachusetts, is an old firehouse that (ironically) burned down before they converted its shell into the quirky, stylish home it is today. Earlier, they had restored an old wooden diner. “We like historic structures and the stories they tell. This was just such an extraordinary opportunity. It’s such a magnificent place, and it was in such terrible disrepair.”
(Above and right) Waller hosts the Percelay family at his lighthouse.
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“We like historic structures and the stories they tell. This was just such an extraordinary opportunity. It’s such a magnificent place, and it was in such terrible disrepair.” — Dave Waller
Waller in his neatly appointed kitchen, which craftsmen totally refurbished.
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“Why are these things so romantic? I think because they’re so steadfast against the elements. They withstand these terrible storms. It’s very reassuring. It’s very primal.” — Dave Waller
Waller’s brother-in-law and his crew had to employ arcane methods and even have blades custom made, to make things like the curved wooden desk and the stone kitchen counters. In addition, Graves Light is completely self-sustaining, relying on solar panels and a windmill for power and a desalination system for fresh water. “We’re here as often as possible,” Waller says, pointing out that there are a few coves with good swimming, superb fishing and lobstering, and wildlife ranging from seals and whales to sea turtles and migratory birds, as well as seasonal phosphorescence. “It’s a magical place. It gives you space to breathe, despite the close quarters. You have time to read books. Time moves more slowly. It always makes me sad to pack up and leave.” Even when Mother Nature loses her temper. “We’ve rode out three nor’easters with sixty-mile-an-hour winds. Everything just starts to moan, and it’s like the air becomes ionized. You can feel it to the bone. The magnificence of the fury of
the sea. The terror and majesty combined is just incredible.” The endless obstacles and difficulties Waller has had to face have only reinforced his love for the place, but the latest of these involves a dispute (and pending lawsuit) with the Town of Hull, whose manager decided that Waller owed the town property taxes. “I did my due diligence before we ever started this project, asking everyone who might have some sort of governmental oversight.” The site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and sits within the boundaries of the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park, but as Waller points out, “No one had ever asserted ownership of the property or wanted it. It’s an overlooked shoal. No town ever claimed it, because it had no value. We’re not even in the same county as Hull, and now they say we owe them money? It’s ridiculous.” If we had to bet on the outcome of the dispute, our money would be on Waller. Because like the lighthouse itself, Waller possesses the swashbuckling spirit to persevere through the storm. “Why are these things so romantic?” he asks. “I think because they’re so steadfast against the elements. They withstand these terrible storms. It’s very reassuring. It’s very primal.”
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Last May, the Dreamland hosted one of the island’s first in-person events with the Photographers Alliance of Nantucket (PAN) Opening & Exhibition. Held in the studio theater, a consortium of the island’s most gifted photographers showed their collections over the course of three days. The beauty of these photos were enhanced by the welcomed feeling of pre-pandemic normalcy that we have all been yearning for. (Photos by Bill Hoenk, contributing photographer to DayBreak Nantucket and Mahon About Town)
PAN OPENING EXHIBITION
BILL HOENK
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SUSAN LANDMANN
MARK & ZOFIA CROSBY
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GARTH GRIMMER BECKY HOLDGATE ZADROGA
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In celebration of the closing of the drive-through testing site at Nantucket Cottage Hospital (NCH) last month, NCH president and CEO Gary Shaw and major hospital supporter and former head of its capital campaign Bruce Percelay served up more than two hundred ice cream treats to hospital staff as a sweet thank you for their dedicated work through the pandemic. (Photography by Brian Sager.)
SWEET THANKS FOR THE HOSPITAL
BRUCE PERCELAY WITH NURSE EDUCATOR GEORGES BECKFORD
BRUCE PERCELAY HANDING AN ICE CREAM TO HEATHER NARDONE
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Among the best community events of the summer, the 9th annual Swim Across America Nantucket open water swim is happening in person, and a little early this year, at Jetties Beach on July 24. Swim Across America Nantucket raises funds for Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s oncology program, and Palliative and Supportive Care of Nantucket (PASCON). Over the past eight years, thanks to hundreds of swimmers, donors and volunteers including co-event directors Jill Roethke and Jim Pignato, SAA Nantucket has raised more than $3 million for on-island cancer treatment and patient care. In addition to the open water swim at Jetties Beach, this year’s event will also feature a virtual “SAA My Way” option, so you can participate whether you’re on-island or not. Anyone can register to swim, volunteer or just donate, at SwimAcrossAmerica.org/Nantucket. As a preview to this year's event, here's a selection of photos from last spring's SAA Solo Run for Hope, which illustrates the kind of commitment that has made Swim Across America Nantucket one of the most successful fundraising events on the island.
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Saturday, August 21, 2021 We hope you will join us as we reimagine the Groove into a series of mini events!
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SUMMER SCHOOL A quick chat with award-winning educational consultant Melinda Giampietro
You’re bringing your award-winning company, Options Solutions Educational Consultants, to Nantucket. How will the island be a strategic base for your operations? Like many others, the pandemic has changed the way I live and work. Before COVID, I traveled between Vancouver, British Columbia, and Nantucket every six to eight weeks, but for the last ten months, Nantucket has been my home base. Being here more consistently has allowed me to open a physical space, have dimensional discussions about the educational needs on-island and find nonprofit partners to contribute to the community in a meaningful way. Education has been put through the ringer by the pandemic. What’s one new development that students preparing to apply for college should bear in mind?
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If you had a magic wand and could change anything about the educational system, what would it be? We all instinctually follow our natural curiosities. I would integrate more self-directed learning and projects at all levels and in all academic subjects. When students get to follow their own interests to learn, they are more committed and willing to go deeper to understand something. While I agree there are basics in which we all need to be “educated,” in many instances, students would gain better skills, faster, by being allowed to direct their own curriculum. What is your opinion of students taking a gap year before applying to college?
I’m going to put a different spin on this, beyond the pandemic. The United States has also been through a period of racial and societal awareness in the last year. At competitive colleges, there was a significant increase of acceptances of first-generation and traditionally underrepresented populations. Colleges are places that celebrate diversity. All students preparing to apply need to demonstrate that they can get along with a wide range of other students and that, through their activities, they have meaningful experiences with diversity.
I’m pro gap year, but with goals. It is rare to have the gift of time, so I encourage students to use it as an opportunity to do something productive. Whether it is skiing a hundred days in a season, learning a trade or becoming fluent in a new language, taking a year to discover something new is positive and an opportunity for growth and maturity. We do, though, encourage students to apply their senior year and then potentially defer their admission. This way they don’t have to worry about the application process on their gap year!
How do you think the pandemic will change the college experience?
If you were going to teach a class about Nantucket history, which chapter would you want to spend the most time on?
The answer will be determined by the size and values of the institution. Big publics may stick with asynchronous lectures because they are cheaper yet serve many learning styles. Small liberal arts schools will recommit to interactive, small classrooms. One thing that the pandemic has highlighted across all campuses is the need for mental health support. Not all college kids have weathered this storm the same way. They need to be mentally and physically healthy in order to do well academically on campus. There are a lot of conversations oc-
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I am fascinated by the number of women entrepreneurs on Nantucket and how the island celebrates this as a unique part of its history. I would spend time on how this historically occurred with the women taking over the businesses while the men were on the whaling ships. This demonstrates that women are capable of thriving, contributing to their community, creating a support network and leaving a lasting impact on history when given an opportunity.
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