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Knut Fenner’s Sconset Chair gives a whole new meaning to sitting pretty.
N TOPTEN 26
A guide to all the top events this month on Nantucket.
N TRENDING 28 What’s going viral on #Nantucket.
N DULGE 30 Not since Sam Adams galloped onto the
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10 Mike Minarik, UPS driver
Local boxing coach and fitness guru Lorna Dollery kicks some serious ACK.
Joseph Olson Interiors shares some shop secrets to creating a sophisticated space on island.
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All the news, tidbits and scuttlebutt that’s fit to print.
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Our in-house book critic Tim Ehrenberg gives his top reading recommendations going into the Nantucket Book Festival.
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Lemon Press begins a juicy new chapter in its renovated space on Main Street.
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47 SOLVING AN AGE-OLD PROBLEM
72 THE PASSION & PURPOSE OF SUZY WELCH
How Erin Kopecki is changing the lives of many elderly islanders.
51 TAKE TWO
Lifelong summer residents Thomas and Michael Matthews return to the Nantucket Film Festival with their own feature production.
NVESTIGATE 57 SPECIAL DELIVERY
Longtime UPS driver Mike Minarik truly thinks outside the box.
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Scandal-plagued developer Bob Matthews faces a lengthy prison sentence.
DRESS, BRACELET: CURRENT VINTAGE EARRINGS, SHOES: MILLY & GRACE TOTE: 12 CJ LAING RING: JEWEL IN THE SEA
A conversation with journalist, entrepreneur, activist and longtime Nantucket summer resident Suzy Welch.
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As a preview to his appearance at the Nantucket Book Festival, Charlie Graeber discusses his latest bestseller, The Breakthrough.
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Nantucket is a study in contrasts: bleak winters against glorious summers, the hustle-and-bustle of the high season against the serene silence of the off-season, extreme wealth against those who struggle. This June issue centers on two headlining stories that illustrate a different kind of contrast relating to Nantucket. On one end of the spectrum, we feature Suzy Welch, a business journalist, bestselling author and vegan activist driven by deepseated moral beliefs. N Magazine’s cover story on Welch paints a picture of a highly-focused and energetic woman whose wideranging interests circle back to her goal of helping make the world a better place. She and her husband Jack Welch have mastered the art of doing well by doing good and are exemplary members of the summer community. On the other end of the spectrum, we profile developer Bob Matthews whose thirtyyear reign of questionable business dealings have recently come to a final inglorious end with his arrest. Matthews was best known on the island for his lavish and colorful lifestyle as well as his failed Point Breeze development, which cost his lender nearly $40 million. He and his wife Mia have long since pulled up stakes on Nantucket and exported their life of luxury to Palm Beach. But this April, Matthews’ real-life version of Catch Me If You Can came to an abrupt end when he was arrested on federal charges surrounding another failed hotel project in which he misappropriated funds from Chinese investors. Matthews and his wife Mia were awaiting sentencing at press time. While Matthews’ pending imprisonment appears to bring closure to his saga, the question remains as to why a person with his considerable charm and apparent intelligence would choose the path he has taken. This is an answer we may never know. While the Bob Matthews’ story is almost more dramatic than fiction, we feature another pair of Matthews—no relation to Bob—who have turned their love of crime noir into a film showing at the Nantucket Film Festival this June. Thomas and Michael Matthews—the sons of summer residents and journalists Kathleen and Chris Matthews—grew up watching classic crime movies. After summers interning at the Film Festival, they both entered the movie industry. Now they’re returning to the festival with a quirky film about a grad student who unwittingly ends up investigating the disappearance of woman in Washington D.C. Another person who has taken a distinctly positive route on Nantucket is UPS driver Mike Minarik whose random acts of kindness have made him an unlikely island hero. Devoting his personal time and money to helping perfect strangers, Minarik reflects well on his employer, UPS, and his story in N Magazine is heartwarming. From heart to mind, this issue also picks the brain of author Charles Graeber, a featured author at this month’s Nantucket Book Festival whose latest bestseller The Breakthrough sheds light on the revolutionary cancer treatments emerging in the realm of immunotherapy. This issue of N Magazine provides an opportunity to compare and contrast a number of intriguing stories on the island which keep life on Nantucket anything but dull. We hope you enjoy both reading this issue and the beginning of the summer season.
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CONTRIBUTORS BARBARA CLARKE Barbara Clarke is a local photographer specializing in portraits, weddings and commercial advertising. She is largely responsible for the Nantucket Looms’ product and lifestyle imagery. Landscape photography is another passion, the surrounding ocean being a constant source of inspiration. Clarke became a member of the Artists Association in 2018, winning their prestigious annual award for Excellence in Photography. Her work can be seen at the Artists Association’s gallery on Washington Street. Born and raised in Skerries, Ireland, Clarke has called Nantucket her home since 1991. She lives on island with her husband Carl and three boys, Emmet, Charlie and CJ. For this June issue, Clarke photographed local boxing coach Lorna Dollery.
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EMILY DENNY Emily is a graduate of the Make-up Designory in Soho, New York City. With an appetite for beauty, studying make-up was the perfect opportunity for her passion to come to life. Her curriculum included character make-up, from bald caps to prosthetics. After graduating, Denny became a lead makeup artist for a private label on the coast of Connecticut. She has had the chance to work on numerous commercial shoots and has branched into wardrobe and set design. Denny moved to Nantucket a decade ago and has been N Magazine’s in-house hair and makeup artist for the last three years. For this June issue, Denny worked on the cover shoot with Suzy Welch as well as the fashion shoot “Ferry Tale.” ROBERT KRIVICICH Robert Krivicich is a partner, creative director, designer, and photographer at Quiver Design Group. Before starting Quiver, Krivicich spent thirty years working in the design and advertising field, first as a designer, then as a creative director. He later became a partner at a Bostonbased annual report design firm where he was exposed to, and worked with, nationally known photographers. In early 2016, he started Quiver, his boutique firm in Boston — specializing in books, logos and websites. Now he splits his time between Boston and Dorset, Vermont. Krivicich’s photography work includes landscapes and seascapes (Nantucket, Iceland, Uruguay), which are hanging in the homes and offices of private collectors and corporations in Boston, Manhattan, Nantucket, Vermont, and Sweden. For this June issue, Krivicich photographed New York Times best-selling author Charlie Graeber.
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CALIFORNIA SUITE AT TWN FRIDAY, MAY 24 – SATURDAY, JUNE 15 BENNETT HALL
Neil Simon’s 1976 comedy California Suite will bring a touch of West Coast charm and a lot of laughs to Bennett Hall this June. The play, composed of four playlets set in the Beverly Hills Hotel, takes the audience through the lives of visiting tourists, each with a more hilarious set of circumstances than the last. For tickets and more information, visit www.theatrenantucket.org
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MONDAY, JUNE 3 – SUNDAY, JUNE 9
Seven days, 28 participating restaurants, and three meals a day add up to endless possibilities for delicious dining during Nantucket Restaurant Week. Be sure to book your reservations early, as availability for popular restaurants will be scooped up quickly. For more information and up-to-the-minute restaurant additions, visit www.nantucketrestaurantweek.com
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Save the date! The 26th annual Dreamcatcher Dinner and Auction will offer incredible auction items to benefit the Palliative & Supportive Care of Nantucket program. Top of the list is the Dream Ticket: a raffle to send one winner to any concert, anywhere, anytime. For tickets and more information, visit www.pascon.org
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SUNDAY, JUNE 9 – MONDAY, JUNE 10 SANKATY HEAD GOLF CLUB
On the heels of Tiger Woods’ big Masters win, professional and amateur golfers alike have been reinvigorated to hit the links in pursuit of a perfect par. Feel the excitement in person at the Sam Sylvia Pro-Am Golf Tournament, a summer favorite benefiting the Nantucket Boys and Girls Club. For more information, visit www.nantucketboysandgirlsclub.org
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A STARRY NIGHT CELEBRATING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HOMESTEAD OF NANTUCKET FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 5:30PM
THE NANTUCKET YACHT CLUB
Toast to The Homestead’s centennial year with a night of merriment! Enjoy a delicious dinner, silent auction, cash bar, and live music from ECliff & The Swingdogs. Attendees are sure to dance the night away and leave with stars in their eyes. For tickets and more information, visit www.thehomesteadofnantucket.com
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THURSDAY, JUNE 13 – SUNDAY, JUNE 16
With over 50 exceptional authors slated to present this year, the 8th annual Nantucket Book Festival is shaping up to be one for the history books. Bookworms can look forward to interviews with their favorite authors, book signings and special events to chat one-on-one with award-winning writers. For more information, visit www.nantucketbookfestival.org
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NANTUCKET FILM FESTIVAL
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 – MONDAY, JUNE 24
Film buffs, grab your popcorn: the 24th Annual Nantucket Film Festival is coming to an island theater near you. Highlights include centerpiece film The Farewell, Danny Boyle’s Yesterday and the crowd favorite AllStar Comedy Roundtable, hosted by Ben Stiller. For showtimes and more information, visit www.nantucketfilmfestival.org
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The Nantucket Preservation Trust is known for their thought-provoking annual Symposium, but this year, they are taking it to the next level. In partnership with the Newport Restoration Foundation, this year’s Symposium focuses on the threat of sea level rise to our community and is part of a larger group of five conferences around the country. For more information, visit www.nantucketpreservation.org
10 ANDY FRASCO AND THE U.N. SUNDAY, JUNE 30 – WEDNESDAY, JULY 3 CHICKEN BOX
This beloved blues rock band will make their way back to the Box this summer after releasing their latest album Change of Pace. The upbeat title track will surely have concert-goers up on their feet and asking for an encore. For tickets and more information, visit www.thechickenbox.com
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Longtime Nantucket resident and former Vice President Joe Biden is taking a step away from the Nantucket bike trails to hit the campaign trail. The beloved senator from Delaware announced his run for president on April 25 with a video that garnered over 500,000 views in its first week on YouTube. At press time, he had also racked up 875,000 combined likes on his multi-post Instagram announcement.
N Magazine and the Nantucket Historical Association’s 2nd annual Flower Power Party planted the seeds for a social media takeover this past Daffodil Weekend. Between the Instagramworthy whale flower crown and @zofiaphoto’s photo booth with a @_dunlovely_ flower wall, attendees had plenty to post about. Throughout the night and for days after, photos of the event sprouted up all over social media tagged with the hashtag #FlowerPowerACK.
Shark tracker and fishing aficionado Elliot Sudal (@acksharks) reeled in his biggest catch to date this spring: a whopping 158” male tiger shark. The beast of the deep had an 81” girth and was quickly released back into the wild, but not before Sudal caught a quick pic for the ‘gram, drawing in over 15,000 likes. The good news for Nantucketers? You don’t have to stay out of the water – this famous fish was caught way down south in Captiva, Florida.
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Not since Sam Adams trotted onto the suds scene thirty years ago has a Boston-brewed craft beer exploded in popularity quite like Lord Hobo. Now you’ll see Boomsauce all throughout Nantucket this summer. Brewed in Woburn, Massachusetts, Lord Hobo is touting its Boomsauce as the unofficial boating beer of summer. With its high alcohol by volume (7.8%), “tall-boy” cans and tropical, juicy flavor, Boomsauce also pairs well with beachside barbecues. As Lord Hobo’s logo suggests, every sip reminds you that you are royalty, that you deserve the best of the best and that New England really does embody the essence of perfection when it comes to craft beer.
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MAKE IT FUN If you wake up every morning blessed with the ability to move your body, you are luckier than many. Make exercise a celebration of that ability by finding a way to move that brings you joy. You are more likely to stick to a routine if you are doing something you like. For you, it could be any number of things—hiking, a fitness class, martial arts, lifting, yoga, riding your bike, dancing…the options are endless! DITCH THE SCALES Weight is nothing more than a measure of your gravitational force upon the earth. It has no place in your everyday life. If your main motivation for working out is losing weight, you are denying yourself so many of the wonderful benefits of exercise. As soon as we free ourselves from the number on the scale, we create space to notice how much progress we can make in other ways—running faster, lifting heavier, punching harder, getting stronger. LIFT HEAVY There is a common misconception, particularly among women, that lifting weights makes us bulky. This is a myth. Lifting heavy weights has many wonderful benefits including building muscular strength, increasing bone density, decreasing risk of injury, changing body composition and improving balance and posture. To truly reap the benefits of lifting we must progressively lift heavier weight, but it is very important to slowly build up to this. If you are new to lifting, I highly recommend hiring a qualified professional to teach you to do this safely and with the correct form.
UP 4 BUDDY Research shows that working out with a partner increases exercise frequency, performance and consistency. We are more likely to adhere to something when we have an encouraging 6partner to help us stay accountable. Choosing the right person is important. Find someone with similar goals and whom you respect and don’t want to let down. This person should have a positive, uplifting attitude, and it works best when they have a similar fitness level and goal.
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Lorna Dollery offers one-on-one and small group personal training and fitness boxing at her studio on Old South Road. Private sessions can be booked via email and public small group classes, including a weekly community donation class, can be booked online at LornaDollery.com.
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When a family of six turned to Joe Olson of Joseph Olson Interiors to create a comfortable, inviting beach home where they could entertain and host friends and extended family, he set out to fuse classic Nantucket staples with modern decorative elements. Decoratively, color was the first building block to his approach. “Blue was a must for the client and the range of hues further underscores a relaxing getaway on Nantucket,” described Olson. He began creating relationships between some of the structural elements of the room with their choice of decor. “The geometric pattern of the rug was meant to reflect the combination coffer and bead board ceiling,” described Clay Twombly, Olson’s husband and now business partner, “together creating a beach-house warmth to the family living room.” Although traditional at its core, the decorative elements bring a modern, up-to-date bent to the classic Nantucket architecture of this airy space.
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A little over a year since the African Meeting House was horrifically vandalized, the Museum of African American History is continuing to double down on its commitment to preserving and celebrating the island’s rich history of diversity. “This small post-andbeam structure stands as a vivid reminder of a thriving black maritime community, having served as the school and church central to the island’s early Civil Rights activists,” says Marita Rivero, the museum’s executive director. On June 30, the museum will host its first major fundraising gala at the Dreamland Theater to benefit a number of projects underway on the 240-year-old property at Five Corners. Headlining the evening is the Emmy Award-nominated star of ABC’s hit sitcom Black-ish, Anthony Anderson. On top of his many roles in television series such as NYPD Blue and Law & Order, Anderson has performed in over twenty films, including Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award winning blockbuster, The Departed. Now serving as executive producer and lead actor of ABC’s critically acclaimed series Black-ish, Anderson has won a slew of awards for creating a show un-
afraid to tackle controversial topics surrounding being black in America today. Most recently, the Museum of African American History recognized Anderson’s contribution with its Living Legend Award. Bringing actors like Anderson to headline its first major gala on the island signals a strategic move by the Museum of African American History. The museum is in the midst of a $4 million fundraising campaign to continue restoring its campus, developing educational programs, offering tours and supporting new scholars to study this vital past. “Restoration of this historic building was the beginning of a near $4 million project that extended also to the acquisition of the 1774 home of the original owners of the extensive property, Seneca Boston and his wife Thankful Micah,” said Rivero. “The project now draws very close to completion of the major work. We are reaching out to the larger community to join us in getting over the finish line. This will take an investment of close to $300,000.” For tickets to the “Night in White” event on Sunday, June 30th, visit on.spingo.com/e/MAAHACK.
The secret to reading more is finding books that interest you. It seems obvious, but all too often people get deterred by reading when they end up with books they can’t relate to or feel engaged with. That’s why a good book recommendation can go a long way. With this in mind, N Magazine’s resident book critic Tim Ehrenberg (check out his monthly column “Need to Read” on page 40) recently helped launch the Author Advocate Project. “All of us at the Nantucket Book Foundation hope to connect readers with authors and subjects that make a difference in their lives, opening minds for a better tomorrow,” he says. “The Author Advocate Project is a community campaign to introduce people to their new favorite books.” The project brings authors to the island for intimate meet and greet events where readers can be turned on to new books that will hopefully broaden their horizons and inspire their imaginations year after year.
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Last June, news broke that Cisco Brewers and their partner Craft Brew Alliance were taking over the longtime pub location of Redhook in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. “Portsmouth is the perfect New England coastal town for us,” said Cisco’s CEO Jay Harman. “The Redhook Portsmouth pub and grounds have been a great destination for craft beer fans and music lovers for over two decades, and our long-term plan is to gradually upgrade the indoor and outdoor space to recreate a little slice of Nantucket Island right here in Portsmouth.” Since making the announcement, the Cisco team has been putting their own island spin on the pub through an extensive renovation. The new and improved pub reopened this April touting an outdoor patio event space, fresh island-inspired interior and the same delicious lineup of Cisco suds. Cheers to the opening!
ROBERTS COLLECTION GETS COLLECTED This spring, the real estate development firm Blue Flag Partners purchased the Roberts Collection on India Street for $25.1 million. Made up of four historic manor houses, the Roberts Collection dates back to 1848. In 2013, three of the buildings received a significant update. This summer, the fifty-eight room hotel will be managed by Life House, a hotel management firm based in New York City and Montreal. Over the course of the next two years, Life House will be transforming the collection into what it describes as a “lifestyle hotel” with
multiple dining and drink options. “Life House creates projects that are truly responsive to each locale, while bringing their eternal beliefs in authenticity and connection to each other, to each project and to the universe, which makes this partnership feel like a breath of fresh air to Nantucket,” a spokesperson for the two groups said. “Historic elements of the property will be carefully restored or preserved during the renovation, with Life House honoring a responsive and contextual design rooted in respect for the historic property.”
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Housing is perhaps the most confounding issue facing Nantucket today. Part of the challenge is understanding the true gravity of the situation. How many people are actually affected? How many houses are needed? When it comes to finding these numbers, no organization is better equipped than the Nantucket Data Platform. This spring, the Data Platform launched a new initiative to generate the most accurate picture of the housing crisis on the island. The first step they’ve taken is to invite islanders to participate in a specially designed survey. “The survey was developed by a nationally respected team of demographers, data scientists and social scientists,” says Data Platform founder Alan Worden. “It was also vetted by island residents who gave invaluable feedback during a testing process. With their help, we have created a survey instrument that should yield reliable data to support smart decision making.” After the information is collected, the Data Platform will publish its findings, enabling local organizations to make more evidence-based decisions on addressing the housing problem. To participate in the survey, visit nantucketdataplatform.com/survey.
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THE GREAT BELIEVERS BY REBECCA MAKKAI
PARKLAND BY DAVE CULLEN
THE LIBRARY BOOK BY SUSAN ORLEAN
I’m a great believer in the power of fiction to tell the truth. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.” Rebecca Makkai’s novel left me stunned by its ability to tell the truth about a time so rarely spoken, written or read about. As a gay man in 2019, I have lived a much different life than the gay characters in 1980s Chicago, but this book resonated with me in a personal way. The Great Believers is a dazzling story of friendship and redemption in the face of the AIDS tragedy and this extreme loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris. Join me as I chat with Rebecca Makkai on Saturday, June 15th, at 12 p.m. at the Methodist Church.
Dave Cullen’s newest book Parkland is not about a school shooting so much as the movement that followed. It’s an inspirational account of the extraordinary teenage survivors from Parkland who pushed back against the NRA and congressional leaders and launched the singular grassroots March for Our Lives movement. Cullen writes of hope, of empowerment and of change. He inspires students, groups and communities everywhere to make a stand. This book, along with the story Cullen has to tell, will inspire anyone who wants to see change. March over to see Dave Cullen speak at the book festival on Friday, June 14th, at 2 p.m. at the Methodist Church and also at our Opening Night Celebration on Friday at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House. Cullen will also be speaking and inspiring Nantucket students at a private event on Monday, June 17th.
Remember the joy you felt as a young child getting your first library card? Susan Orlean’s true-crime “love letter to libraries” is a thrilling journey through the stacks, from the first libraries to the beloved institutions they are today, and also an investigation into the 1986 fire at the Los Angeles Public Library. You don’t need your library card to check out Susan Orlean discussing The Library Book on Saturday, June 15th, at 2 p.m. at the Methodist Church.
WASHINGTON BLACK BY ESI EDUGYAN
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SUMMER OF ‘69 BY ELIN HILDERBRAND
On pretty much every “best of” list in 2018 and short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, Washington Black is an adventure story that asks the question, “What is true freedom?” We fall in love with the characters in this one as we follow George Washington Black, or Wash, as he is chosen by his master’s brother as his manservant. To his surprise, his new master is an abolitionist and these two people, separated by an impossible divide, begin to see each other as human. The story examines art, friendship, betrayal, love and redemption. Experience the adventure of Washington Black on Saturday, June 15th, at 1 p.m. at the Methodist Church with Esi Edugyan in conversation with Heather Reisman.
“When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist.” And so begins this magical retelling of the daughter of the sun god, Helios. You may remember the main character from studying The Odyssey in school, but this is not the Circe from your Greek mythology class. We see her as a determined and mischaracterized soul in a world dominated by powerful men. Homer’s The Odyssey may be a book of the past, but Circe is a story of today and for all of the women (and nymphs) still fighting for a voice. All mortals should make their own odyssey to the Methodist Church on Friday, June 14th, at 10 a.m. to fall under the spell of Madeline Miller’s story.
Let me give you the skinny. Elin Hilderbrand’s new book is far out! In her first historical novel, she takes us back to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century—1969—as four siblings are about to experience the drama, the intrigue and the upheaval of a summer when everything changed. It’s all in here—Vietnam, civil rights protests, Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick, man on the moon, Woodstock and much more. We also see Nantucket in that year, which, while a much different place than it is in 2019, held all of the beauty, community and charm that it still retains today. Book it down to Cisco Brewers on Sunday, June 16th, at 12 p.m. where Elin Hilderbrand will be signing advanced copies of Summer of ’69.
Events are subject to change. Check nantucketbookfestival.org for the most up-to-date schedule. Support your Island Indies! All books are available at Mitchell’s Book Corner and Nantucket Bookworks.
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Lemon Press seemed like something Nantucket needed.” The freshly renovated restaurant on 41 Main Street features full-service seating for all meals and is open daily for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night cocktails. Working with designers Rebecca Atwood and Melanie Gowan, the Afsharis have put an entirely new look, feel and flavor on the former longtime location of Arno’s. Authentic totem poles, tie-dyed motifs, brick, grass and an overall bohemian feel define the space, while the Lemon Press menu doubles down on the flavors that originally drew many of their loyal patrons. “We have a lot of small, mezzePhoto courtesy of Nantucket Chamber of Commerce and Emily Elisabeth Photography
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style plates with dips and spreads, fresh pita made in-house and entrees full of fresh, thoughtful ingredients with flavorful and zesty herbs,” describes co-owner Rachel Afshari, who remembers the days of running their former kitchen almost single-handedly. Now, in addition to their longtime manager Taylor Minore and almost forty summertime employees, the Afsharis have brought in chefs Alex Howard and Soni Akshay to orchestrate their lunch and dinner menus. “I want to try to bring people under one roof and have them experience the soul of the world,” says Chef Akshay. “With the menu, my main vision is to try to bring the east, center and the west of the world together. The medium that I found to connect them is the ancient method of cooking directly on fire.” With the help of a traditional Japanese robata grill, Chef Akshay creates flavors diners simply can’t find elsewhere on the island. New additions to the dinner menu include octopus accented by saffron, cumin, honey and crudités vegetables; a kebab with
stomachs) of the community. As Chef Akshay put it, “I want people to experience our mind and heart on a plate at Lemon Press.” This month, they will be hosting a special event for the Nantucket Book Festival on the evening of June 14th. From there, Lemon Press will continue to write the next chapter in their own juicy story.
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gist, certified Care Manager, licensed Nursing Home Administrator, and Alzheimer’s Association Family Support Volunteer. Shortly after receiving her master’s degree, Kopecki took a job at Our Island Home. During her two and a half years serving as an assistant administrator, she recognized that there was a dire need for a “middle person” to help transition patients into their elderly life. “When someone is discharged home from the nursing home or the hospital, there needs to be that middle person to set up the services they need, make sure there’s a smooth transition and ensure that they
will be successful in their home,” she explains. “That’s when I decided to start this care management business.” And it’s not just year-round residents that she helps; those vacationing on Nantucket also benefit from her services. “I think for the people who see Nantucket as their home in any sense, whether they live here fulltime or have had memories and experiences here, it’s important to give our elders the experience of remain-
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“I wake up every day excited to spend time with clients and their families, with the goal of putting a smile on their face by bringing encouragement, passion and meaning.”
ing in a place they love and call home.” In this way, Kopecki can serve as a summer caregiver for elderly visitors to the island. “I wake up every day excited to spend time with clients and their families, with the goal of putting a smile on their face by bringing encouragement, passion and meaning. I feel so fortunate to have a career that doesn’t feel like work, on an island that means so much to me.”
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homas and Michael Matthews grew up making movies. The sons of journalists Kathleen and Chris Matthews, the brothers learned how to tell stories by hanging around newsrooms as kids. Wielding clunky camcorders, they unwittingly taped over their mother’s archived newscasts to shoot their own homemade movies with dubious titles such as “The Call of Doody.” Fast-forward a couple of decades and the Matthews brothers have each earned credits in a number of films, the most recent of which—their directorial debut called Lost Holiday—will be playing at the Nantucket Film Festival this June.
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he Matthews brothers have been touring Lost Holiday around the international film festival circuit, but the showing on Nantucket is a blockbuster in their books. Summering on the island with their parents since the nineties, they remember the early grassroots days of the film festival back when black-and-white indie films were projected onto a bedsheet hung in an alleyway downtown. “It was a great time for our family and a great time in independent film,” Michael says. “It felt like making movies was actually something we could do.” The brothers began interning at the Nantucket Film Festival every summer from the age of sixteen. When they applied to film school at New York University, the festival’s founder Jona-
than Burkhart wrote their letters of recommendation that helped them get accepted. “Jonathan and [executive director] Mystelle [Brabbée] have really been mentors to us over the years,” Michael says. “So while this won’t be the film’s premiere, it’s certainly a homecoming for us.” Their film Lost Holiday is a nod to the early influences in their lives. “Our parents never let us rent the movies we wanted,” Thomas says. “So we grew up watching Audrey Hepburn and Spencer Tracy movies.” They came to love the old crime noir genre, so while at NYU, the brothers started penning a script for their own murder mystery. Five years later, they shot Lost Holiday as a short film. “It was hell,” Michael says. “We
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had never directed together and almost killed each other making that film.” Thomas was fresh out of acting school, while Michael had been trained as a director, so the brothers battled over who knew best about making a movie. “The good thing about being brothers is that you’re never really going to kill each other,” Michael laughs. “So given the fact that we were still talking after that, we figured we could probably make a feature film together.” Lost Holiday is a mystery comedy. Thomas—who has acted in films like American Hustle and Joy as well as in the HBO series The Newsroom—plays the lead alongside House of Cards actress Kate Lyn Sheil. “It’s a different movie,” Thomas says. “It’s a little weird and a little offbeat.” Lost Holiday tells the story of a grad student played by Sheil who comes home for the holi-
days in Washington, D.C., and gets wrapped up in investigating the kidnapping of a young socialite. Thomas plays Sheil’s sidekick of sorts as they embark on many misadventures in the D.C. area. Based on the trailer and a few select scenes, the film has a subtle Wes Anderson feel with quirky dialogue and understated humor. Thomas performs his own stunts, which the brothers agree are sometimes delightfully over-the-top. Lost Holiday was shot in just fifteen days on 16 mm film, giving the final product a grainy, indie look that Michael says is a nod to the seventies-style films they enjoyed watching as kids. The brothers bootstrapped the seventy-five-minute film. “Tom was really the producer and cheerleader in chief,” Michael says. “His job was just getting people excited about making a movie—because nobody was going to make any money.” They received vital support from Nantucket summer residents Mary Haft and her son Michael, as well as Ginny Grenham, who hosted a number of the film’s crew members at her home during the shoot in D.C. The wardrobe was provided by Tuckernuck Clothing Co. Even their mother had a role, as Kathleen Matthews plays a television news anchor. “It was hell. We had While Lost Holiday will be the brothers’ first film shown on Nannever directed together tucket, it won’t be their first one shot and almost killed each on the island. Earlier this spring, other making that film.” they reconvened their team to pro— Michael Matthews duce an island-inspired feature. “It’s an oddball ghost thriller about a one-hit novelist who is way out of his depth on winter residency,” Thomas describes. “We shot in partnership with the Nantucket Historical Association, Cape Air, the Atheneum, Compass Coffee (and Handlebar), the Greydon House and a ton of folks on island who pretty much became producers because of how much they stepped up…with movies this tiny it for sure takes a village!” At the center of that village are Thomas and Michael Matthews, whose rise in the film industry continues to be a love story—brotherly love, that is.
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Of the many characters on Nantucket, few year-rounders deliver quite like Mike Minarik. The longtime UPS driver is known around town for his aviator shades, slicked-back greaser hairdo and rockabilly style as he makes his rounds delivering packages each day. Indeed, Minarik manages to make the pedestrian UPS uniform actually look pretty cool. But as Minarik himself insists, there’s a whole lot more going on behind his sunglasses than most people think.
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hoever came up with UPS’s tagline “What can brown do for you,” never met the likes of Minarik, who strives for his own level of service. “Your work, your passions and your interests are your signature,” he says. “So I autograph them with the utmost excellence.” He has been delivering for UPS since he was nineteen years old and has worked out of nearly every major location on the Cape and the Islands.
Yet what makes Minarik special is not the fact that he’s been awarded employee of the month enough times to have the distinction discontinued at one of his UPS offices. Rather, it’s the many quiet deliveries that he makes while off the clock that have changed the lives of a number of Nantucket residents in small but important ways. “Really good people can get knocked down out here,” he says reluctantly. “And
it bothers me, so I try to help them in any way that I can. Sometimes doing something out of the ordinary, as far as acts of kindness, might take the edge off a little bit for them.” Minarik’s contributions to the lives of the people on his delivery route aren’t the grand philanthropic displays we often see on the island. Instead, he quietly spends his own money and time helping people struggling to meet their most essen-
tial needs. He’s purchased refrigerators for to the head. And customers, replaced old mattresses and box the older I get, the springs, paid for a pet’s surgery and helped stronger the intumove furniture. When one of his customers ition becomes.” lost his job due to a serious injury, Minarik He adds cautiouspaid for the oil to heat his house and regu- ly, “Spirit guides larly bought his family’s weekly groceries. or angels talk to When he discovered another local Nan- me all the time… tucketer was living in a dangerous domes- I don’t want to tic situation, he welcomed the person into sound like I’m his home to stay for a number of months— terminally psychotic, but it’s true.” rent-free. Minarik says he sees “signs” every During the holidays, Minarik fills his day and claims to receive messages in his truck with toys he’s purchased for all of the dreams. One night, he vividly dreamed that children on his route and delivers them in a one of his customers—the president of the Santa-style tuxedo. Summertime, he regu- Nantucket Chamber of Commerce, Dalarly spends his twenty-minute lunch break vid Martin—died of a heart attack. “I was handing out ice cream. cautious on how to ap“People look at me like proach him on the mat“Your work, your I have three heads,” he ter and finally expressed passions and says. “‘What the hell my concerns,” he says. your interests are are you doing this for?’ “He got checked by their your signature... they’ll ask. ‘Why are you doctor and it turned out so I autograph spending your own monthat one of his meds was them with the ey?’ But I feel like I’m causing an erratic heart utmost excellence.” putting it back into the rate.” The drug was ad— Mike Minarik community. I’m trying to justed and Martin has pay it forward.” been well ever since. Minarik says his penchant for performFor most people, such stories are hard ing random acts of kindness is not so much to believe, but if you ask Danica Connors, a a choice as a compulsion. He claims to local shamanic practitioner, Minarik’s abilihave a sixth sense for people in need, an ties are not unheard of. “I feel that everyone almost telepathic ability he says he’s had inherently has these kinds of ‘gifts’ at one since childhood. “If you’re going through level or another,” Connors explains. “But personal struggles, I’ll pick up on it,” he ex- they are kind of like muscles. If you don’t plains. “It comes to me like a two-by-four use them, they atrophy… I believe there are
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helping spirits around us at all times, and it is up to us to access them. Mike has a propensity for opening up and trusting this type of communication.” Minarik has met with Connors on a number of occasions to try and better understand his abilities. “She’s much more knowledgeable than I am,” he says. “I embrace it because it works for me, but I don’t want to channel it too much.” When he’s not delivering packages or lending a helping hand to his customers, Minarik channels his energy into music. Contrary to popular belief, his rock and roll style is not Elvis-inspired, but rather stems from a love of Johnny Cash. And just like the rest of his life, Minarik’s passion for music also drifts into the realm of mysticism. He claims to have learned to play Johnny Cash riffs after he was visited in a dream by Cash’s rhythm guitarist. “I walk
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up to Luther Perkins of the Tennessee Two sitting there with his American Telecaster and I remember watching his fret work, his finger work,” Minarik says. “When I woke up, I could play it perfectly.” Minarik shares his tales without a hint of sarcasm. The dreams and the spirit guides are as real to him as the hundreds of packages he delivers each day. “It’s something that you’re receptive to or not,” he says when asked about those who might doubt his spiritual abilities. “People who are well grounded are generally more receptive…those who aren’t, won’t get it— and it’s their loss.” Whether you get it or not, most will agree that Mike Minarik has made a lasting impact on the lives of many Nantucketers. And, if nothing else, he can deliver a story like no other.
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Back in 2016, the Matthews’ lavish Palm Beach mansion was featured in a splashy photo spread in Traditional Home magazine, which called the property “bits of Venice, Versailles, Corinth and Casablanca.” Two years later, the home was on the bankruptcy auction block.
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ob Matthews always fancied himself as a magithews’ fraud and future cian. He would delight in showing people how in prison is shocking, for through the force of the kinetic energy in his those who know the lore hands, he could bend spoons without touching them. of Bob Matthews, this is He enthralled his guests with his dazzling card tricks, but a final chapter in a all the while wearing his Cheshire cat grin. But Bob long saga of deceit and Matthews’ most enduring magical skill was his ability playing cat and mouse to make people’s money disappear, a craft he honed with legal authorities. during his thirty-year business career. It all started when From his imposing mansion on Cliff Road, Bob Matthews reportedly Matthews was Nantucket’s Jay Gatsby. He and his acpurloined an alleged $5 million from tress wife, Mia—who happened to grace the first cover his then-fiancée, the daughter of the inventor of Rollof this publication—lived as high a profile existence as erblades. Matthews parlayed his ill-gotten gains into a one could on this otherwise restrained island. Today, real estate empire that would ultimately enrich him while Nantucket’s ultimate raconteur is now facing federal causing financial and personal disaster to those around prison more as a racketeer. For as long as people have him. Style and a flair for the dramatic were Matthews’ known Matthews, he was always one step ahead of stock and trade, and he would leave those who were not either the authorities or some legal entanglement, but wise to his ways often breathless and in awe. he was finally tripped up by a consortium of Chinese As a young real estate developer, he once rented investors who put up $50 million to finance his failed a helicopter and landed on the lawn of the city hall in hotel venture in Palm Beach. It was reported that MatWaterbury, Connecticut, to meet the mayor and discuss thews used proceeds ways in which he could from the investment help revitalize the small Bob Matthews’ most enduring to fund a yacht and town. Mayor Joseph Sanmagical skill was to make further gild his lavish topietro would ultimately lifestyle. be imprisoned on corruppeoples’ money disappear, In late April, the tion charges, a fate other a craft he honed during U.S. Attorney for the politicians met after their his thirty-year business career. District of Connecticut dealings with Matthews. John H. Durham anWith his firm handshake, nounced that Matthews pleaded hand-tailored suits and Tony Robbinsguilty “to conspiracy, money launlike energy, Matthews had a personality dering and tax evasion offenses that could fill a room and mesmerize a related to multiple schemes to decrowd. Having worked his way up from fraud foreign investors and finana small-town mayor to the governor of cial institutions.” Those charges Connecticut, Matthews became a maalone could land him behind bars jor landlord to the state with sweetheart for forty-three years. Prior to strikdeals that defied economic reason. His ing a plea deal with the DA, Matnewly found wealth put him in large thews was facing a total of 325 homes but also put the Connecticut years in jail. His glamorous wife, governor in the “big house” in which Mia, was also arrested on charges he served time in federal prison for his of income tax evasion and was questionable dealings with Matthews. awaiting her fate at press time, but But Matthews’ impact on the lives of she could also be eligible for time those who became entangled in his away. Though the story of Matworld would only worsen. N magazine
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n an audacious and spectacular attempt to score big, Matthews bought a stolen copy of the Bill of Rights for $200,000 and then tried to flip it for a $5 million profit. After being hounded by the FBI, Matthews had to give up his dream of converting the document into fast cash, but according to those in the know, he ended up causing the heart attack death of his partner and well-known Nantucket art dealer, Wayne Pratt. The details surrounding Matthews’ purchase and ultimate sale of the document to a Washington museum read like a John le Carré novel and painted a picture of a person whose fearless brashness knew no limits. Matthews and his wife, Mia, became high-profile summer residents of Nantucket, where he lived in a Cliff Road mansion that became synonymous with lavish parties and A-list guests. After a particular dinner where he hosted Bill and Hillary Clinton, Matthews mysteriously became ill and went into a coma for more than a week. Rumors swirled that he had been poisoned, but the exact cause of his illness, like many aspects of Matthews’ life, remains a mystery. After surviving his near brush with death, he once brought a group of Tibetan monks to his home, so he might seek some type of cosmic redemption. The monks performed their ritual sand mandala, whereby they create magnificent designs out of sand, and proceeded to take
the finished work of art and empty it into the sea in a statement that life is about the experience and not the material. Having totally missed their message, Matthews took out a wad of cash from his pocket and begged the monks to have their creation sealed in polyurethane instead so he could permanently hang it on the wall. The juxtaposition of the spiritual monks sitting in Matthews’ lavish living room was striking, and one could only wonder what went through their minds as they pulled away from his highly leveraged home. One of Matthews’ most spectacular acts of deception on Nantucket was his $40 million loan from Deutsche Bank to develop his Point Breeze Hotel and Club, which was to feature internationally known singing artists to entertain his members as they would dine on lobster tails and oysters. Having sold memberships in the hotel by telling prospects he had secured commitments from Google chair Eric Schmidt and then-Senator John Kerry as well as corporate titans who Bob & Mia Matthews with the Clintons. dot the island, Matthews began to believe in his own dreams. The hotel was never finished, and the $40 million bank investment largely vanished into a $2.8 million foreclosure sale to the owners of the new Nantucket Hotel. The Point Breeze collapse did not stop Matthews but instead seemed to motivate him to show the world that he was unaffected by the financial loss associated with his latest questionable venture. He decided to throw a fiftieth birthday party for himself at his Palm Beach home, Casa Bendita, with the theme of “Arabian Nights.” Arriving at the door of his 20,000 square-foot oceanfront villa, guests were greeted by belly dancers sitting atop live camels flanked on either side of a six-foot-
wide, hand-carved mahogany door. Entering the resplendent home, guests were ushered to the backyard and into a 5,000 square-foot maroon tent replete with oriental rugs, velvet sofas, hookah bars and exotic food stations. Entertainer Jim Belushi performed on stage in front of 350 of Matthews’ closest friends. The only people who were disgruntled over the spectacular $500,000 event were the caterers, bartenders and animal handlers, who according to reports in the Palm Beach Post, sued Matthews for nonpayment. Matthews’ Cliff Road estate at a public auction.
elaborate fraud emerged in the press, revealing that the investors were told that Donald Trump and Bill Clinton were advisors on the project, though that too was a lie. Ironically, those who invested in Matthews in search of economic freedom may have been the final straw in Matthews losing his. There are those who have followed Matthews’ career who are convinced that he will once again escape prosecution in his Houdini-like tradition and yet again perform his special magic on federal authorities. But this time, he may have indeed pulled the last rabbit out of his hat, the final act in one of the most colorful white-collar criminal careers Nantucket has ever seen. Bob Matthews inside the Point Breeze during construction.
On a glorious sunny Palm Beach day, federal authorities converged on Casa Bendita and arrested Matthews, who might soon be exchanging his fine-tailored clothing for an orange jumpsuit and an ankle bracelet. The 151-foot yacht he allegedly purchased courtesy of the Chinese investors and the collection of Rolls-Royces in his garage became instantly irrelevant.
There are those who have followed Matthews’ career who are convinced that he will once again escape prosecution in his Houdini-like tradition and perform his special magic on federal authorities.
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On April 25th, Matthews pleaded guilty to conspiracy, money laundering and tax evasion. He was charged with twentyone counts in an indictment that also brought charges against his wife and his business partners. In part, Matthews was charged with defrauding at least sixty foreign investors from China and Iran by way of the Federal EB-5 Visa program that he promised would provide them with a path to a Green Card. Additional details about the The Point Breeze sat boarded up for years.
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uzy Welch could be conveniently described as a business journalist, author, television host and wife of legendary General Electric chairman Jack Welch. But the deeper one probes into who Suzy Welch actually is, the more complex and intriguing she becomes. A Baker Scholar at Harvard Business School, a former Bain & Company management consultant, the author of three best-selling books, and the host of a top-rated CNBC. com series, Welch exudes the kind of facile intelligence one would expect from a hyper achiever. There is, however, a deeper purpose to Welch that explains the intensity of her focus and her passion for success. At a time when deep commitment to religion is often viewed with skepticism or even discomfort, Welch is sincere and unreserved about her Christian faith. She frames almost everything she does in terms of discipleship, whether that’s creating jobs, writing books that help people, or advocating for the rights of animals. Indeed, animal rights are a major fo-
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cal point of her life’s work. Welch and her husband Jack were early investors in Beyond Meat, a company producing an extremely convincing meat substitute made from plant-based protein that recently went public in a wildly successful IPO. Welch’s own commitment to a vegan diet is an outgrowth of her belief that God calls for mercy toward all living creatures. As much visibility as Suzy Welch generates, she also works in quiet ways. In the early 2000s, when she and Jack lived in Boston — they now live in New York — they almost single-handedly raised the $42 million for the new Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program facility. Those at the hospital describe Suzy Welch in almost saint-like terms and credit her with the miracle of a new facility for Boston’s neediest population. N Magazine sat down with Suzy Welch in a broad-ranging interview that revealed a person who is at once idealistic and pragmatic, but who also possesses a youthful energy that could best be described as rational exuberance.
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N MAGAZINE: You now have a top-rated show on CNBC.com. what is your connection to the island? WELCH: I was a Wellfleet girl through and through. WELCH: Yeah, it’s called “Get to Work,” and it’s a Then, in 2001, I met Jack and he said, “We’re go- career advice show. I adore it because I’m talking ing to Nantucket.” I said, “Well, Wellfleet’s pretty to people just launching their lives, and the feedback can be wonderful. grand, and I love WellPeople will say, “Oh, fleet,” and he said, I was at a crossroads, “Come try Nantucket.” “The center of my life is my and I saw your video The rest is history. faith, which is, of course, totally and I changed what I entwined with my family, was going to do, thank N MAGAZINE: You have my friends, and my work.” goodness!” The show an incredibly diverse — Suzy Welch also runs in New York resume. You have City cabs, so I always been a journalist, an author, an educator, an entrepreneur…how do you joke with Jack that I’m famous in taxis. see yourself? WELCH: I’m a journalist, primarily. I started off as a N MAGAZINE: You have interviewed countless people, crime reporter at the Miami Herald in 1981, and and in so doing, you observe the traits of those who eventually ended up editing a business magazine, are successful. Have you been able to distill that success trait or gene into a common thread? and then transitioned over to TV journalism.
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WELCH: People can be successful in so many ways. But I’d say there’re two common threads. The first is intelligence. Sometimes these days, IQ can get a bad rap, in favor of what’s called EQ, emotional intelligence. But I have to gently push back and say, most of the really successful leaders I’ve met have incredibly original and incisive minds. The second quality I’d identify is an extraordinary feel for people – that is, an almost visceral understanding of human nature.
N MAGAZINE: I assume you’re saying you can’t have the success without both of these components, but the world is filled with plenty of highly intelligent unsuccessful people. WELCH: High IQ doesn’t guarantee success, you’re certainly right
about that. In the tech world, if you have a fantastic, spectacular, disruptive idea, it can cover a multitude of sins, for instance, like not having a lot of personal humanity.
N MAGAZINE: Who is someone you’ve interviewed that has really impressed you? WELCH: Eight years ago, I was moderating a panel at the Microsoft summit and Jeff Bezos said something that everybody talked about for the rest of the conference. I had asked him what traits he looked for in his team, and he said, “I want to be surrounded by people who are right.” And I said, “OK, so you look to hire very smart people?” And he said, “No, I said I want people who are right a lot.” Basically, his assertion was, “Forget education. Forget creden-
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tials. Focus on outcomes.” I recall thinking, “This guy is blunt, and kind of rebellious, and I wonder what’s going to happen with him.”
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N MAGAZINE: What is the essence of your husband Jack’s philosophy of leadership? WELCH: In a word, empowerment. Jack’s greatest gift is that he inspires people to do things that they never dreamed they could do, me included. He wants people to grow and thrive. Nothing delights him more than someone chasing a dream and catching it. But the interesting thing about Jack is that there’s a lot of discipline and rigor mixed in with his positivity. One of his most famous quotes is “Face reality the way it is and not the way you want it to be.” He has a curious combination of optimism and realism. He sees the world as it is and then asks, “What can I do to make it better?”
I actually have a funny example of this. Right now, I’m helping run a startup, a music streaming platform called Quadio, that my son and Jack’s grandson started together. The company has taken off in ways we could have never ever imagined, but recently, there’s been
“Jack’s greatest gift is that he inspires people to do things that they never dreamed they could do, me included. He wants people to grow and thrive. Nothing delights him more than someone chasing a dream and catching it.” — Suzy Welch
N MAGAZINE: Have you ever known Jack not to be optimistic about anything? WELCH: Never.
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a healthy tension between engineering and marketing. I remember thinking to myself, “Oh yeah, they tried to teach me about this at Harvard Business School,” — which was for me thirty-five years ago! In a way, it’s like that famous quote, “Youth is wasted on youth.” You know, school can be wasted on youth.
N MAGAZINE: We are seeing a lot of people who have succeeded at the highest levels after dropping out of business school, or out of Harvard. It’s almost become a badge of honor. Is formal education constricting in terms of people’s creativity and willingness to take risks, and are we seeing something that is suggesting that the business school disciplines can work against you? WELCH: My general observation is that much of formal education has still not caught up with the reality. The “four years on a leafy campus” model, where you can study all sorts of things just because of intellectual curiosity – that worked in a different time and place in our economy. This topic is actually very close to home for me, because one of the main reasons why Jack started his online MBA program was because he felt that you needed to be working while you were going to business school, so you could take your learning in the classroom and try it out at work the next day. He thought business school should be like a laboratory for managers. Ten years ago, when we launched JWMI [Jack Welch Management Institute], not a lot of people bought into it, but we’re now at 2,500 students, and one of the top-ranked online business schools in the world. And the reason is because Jack’s idea makes a ton of sense in today’s world.
N MAGAZINE: Let’s shift to your own personal and business interests. You’re are a vegan. Why is that? WELCH: Look, there are all different types of vegans, and I support them all. Some people become plant-based for their health, others for climate change. But for me, it was about my love for animals as part of God’s creation, and my sadness especially for the agonizing existence of farmed animals, which is in such stark contrast to the Biblical imperative for loving dominion. Because of my non-profit work, I came to see all those videos that nobody wants to see – you know, the ones that you see a little bit of and then click away. And at a certain point, I just thought, I can’t walk around claiming I love mercy and compassion and participate in this anymore; I just can’t. So I stopped eating animals.
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N MAGAZINE: Can you talk about how you translated that into business ventures? WELCH: A few years ago, Jack and I became excited about the growing movement of food tech companies with ever-better plant-based options. Our thinking was, “What if vegan food was just so delicious that people wanted to eat it?” Right around that time, working with Humane Society, I held a function at my house, bringing together New York’s Christian, Jewish, and Muslim leaders and vegan activists to talk about the faith-based case for compassion toward animals. Ethan Brown, the CEO of Beyond Meat, heard about the party, and he sent us a box of his new burgers to serve. I had my first Beyond Burger that night and I said, “Jack, the
future is here.” I flew to the factory in California, met Ethan, and we became early and enthusiastic investors. Of course, we could have never imagined this little
venture would someday have the most successful IPO in nearly a decade.
N MAGAZINE: If you were to pick a single passion, what is it? WELCH: The center of my life is my faith, which is, of course, totally entwined with my family, my friends, and my work. The faith part – I get that that can sound so preachy – pardon the pun – but it’s really just an effort, day by day, minute by minute, with some successes, but also plenty of failures and mistakes, to bring glory to God by making the world a place with less hurt and more love.
N MAGAZINE: How does your faith fit in your marriage?
WELCH: Very early on, Jack was curious about how much I talked about the Bible. He said, “Can you explain this to me more?” So we started a conversation with each other and our pastor, and we took two years to read the Bible together from the first page to the last. It was a great journey of learning for both of us. Lots and lots of debates and discussions about what it meant. We haven’t stopped talking about it yet. N magazine
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“The stillness of Nantucket allows you to reflect on who you are, who you’ve been, and who you’re becoming. What a gift.” — Suzy Welch
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CHARLES GRAEBER’S LATEST BOOK THE BREAKTHROUGH ON IMMUNOTHERAPY More than 1.7 million people are diagnosed with cancer each year in the United States. Of those diagnoses, half will respond to traditional treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy or radiation. The other half won’t. For decades, that “other half” has claimed millions of lives and confounded doctors and scientists. But now, as bestselling author Charles Graeber details in his latest book The Breakthrough, there’s new hope for cancer patients thanks to cutting-edge immunotherapy. Graeber began researching immunotherapy long before the treatment became a buzzword at medical conferences and cancer wards around the country. In fact, when he was trying to get his book published, one skeptical publisher scoffed: “If this immunotherapy was such a big deal, wouldn’t we have heard about it already?” But Graeber was on to something, and the month before his book hit the shelves, the immunotherapy scientists profiled in The Breakthrough received the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Based primarily in New York City, Graeber also routinely writes from his family’s summer home on Nantucket. He will be returning to the island this month as a featured author at the Nantucket Book Festival. As a preview to their discussion on stage at the Book Festival, N Magazine’s Robert Cocuzzo spoke with Graeber about immunotherapy, the future of cancer and how he came to understand this new frontier in medical science.
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N MAGAZINE: When did you realize you wanted to write about cancer? GRAEBER: I definitely didn’t want to write about cancer, never, no way, not interested. Nor did I want to read about it. My take was I’ll deal with cancer when I have to. The treatment options had been the same for a generation pretty much, in some cases the same for a hundred years: Cut, poison or burn. You had to be hopeful, but ultimately it was depressing. If I wasn’t going to cure cancer, and didn’t at that moment have it, all I wanted to know were the options for my friends and family members who had been diagnosed.
Graeber notes that, “Right now the available immunotherapies do not work on every patient or cancer type, but what has been found strongly suggests we can continue to widen the circle.”
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cancer, no matter what. I’m writing about a turning point in history, about people, discoveries, rule breakers, survivors, a hopeful new chapter in human history. And I’m writing about ideas, faith, belief, science and about the fact that we didn’t understand cancer, or our own bodies. We believed and science taught that the immune system couldn’t see or kill cancer. We had to poison cancer, bomb cancer, cut it out. We had to treat it like a monster. We couldn’t treat it like any other disease, because unlike every other disease, our immune systems couldn’t see it or kill it. That was the belief. That was dogma. And all that turns out to be dead wrong.
N MAGAZINE: How so? GRAEBER: Turns out, cancer has been tricking our immune system, using a sort of secret handshake to tell it, “Hey, don’t attack me, I’m one of you.” We didn’t know that before, but now we do. Now, we can block the secret handshake and let the immune system treat cancer like the common cold, or any other disease.
“It’s important for potential readers to know that I wouldn’t just be writing about cancer, no matter what. I’m writing about a turning point in history, about people, discoveries, rule breakers, survivors, a hopeful new chapter in human history.” — Charlie Graeber
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We had to poison cancer, bomb cancer, cut it out... We couldn’t treat it like any other disease, because unlike every other disease, our immune systems couldn’t see it or kill it. That was the belief. That was dogma. And all that turns out to be dead wrong. — Charlie Graeber
N MAGAZINE: If you were diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer, what would be the first three things you would do in light of all you’ve learned in researching The Breakthrough? GRAEBER: The doctors I speak to tell me that if they can’t cure their patient today, plan B is to keep them around long enough to take advantage of the newest immunotherapy advances as they arrive. So the first thing is hope. If your doctor tells you there’s nothing they can do, you should seek other opinions. Most doctors were trained before the immunotherapy
breakthrough, when immunotherapy was widely considered impossible. So find an anchor of realistic hope—I wrote The Breakthrough to be that. I’d also make sure I was in a comprehensive cancer center, a place where you have options. Teaching hospitals, uni-
versity affiliates, those attached in some way to the National Cancer Institute. You want to have every option and an understanding of clinical trials, if it comes to that. And I’d start asking about clinical trials. That’s not guinea pig stuff anymore; that’s where the good new options are, and there are no placebo arms in those trials. Dr. James Allison, a main focus of Graeber’s book, received the Nobel Prize in Science for his work on immunotherapy.
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takeaways in The Breakthrough. What was one discovery that struck you most during your research? GRAEBER: The basic idea that cancer is a mutating problem—that cancer dances. And we’ve been throwing drugs at it, which kill the cancer, or most of it. But what the drugs don’t kill always dances away—changing, mutating and ultimately coming roaring back. Drugs don’t dance. Chemo, radiation—they don’t dance. We were never going to cure cancer that way, not completely. But we have a built-in system de-
signed to dance with disease. It wasn’t designed in a lab recently, but over the course of 500 million years of brutal trial and error. That’s the immune system. Finally, we have a mutating solution to a mutating problem. That’s the only kind that will work. Cancer has evolved to trick the things that kill it, to avoid the immune system. Now that we know those tricks exist, we can block them, look for more tricks. This is the new age we live in. And most folks don’t know about it because it’s that new.
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vaccine works, metaphorically, teaching the rest of the immune system what the enemy looks like. Meanwhile, immunotherapies allow the immune system to actually see those wanted posters, to muster into an army against them, to recognize the living version of that cancer enemy and to block that cancer’s tricks for hiding itself or shutting the T cells down. That’s how it’s working best, so far. The difference is, you don’t need to rely on the poisons as much—hoping to kill the cancer while you almost kill the patient. It’s likely that there will be a much reduced role for those specialties, and in fact, they won’t be siloed, as they are now, but rather packaged as a cancer solution.
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notherapy will someday completely replace chemotherapy, radiation and other traditional forms of cancer treatment? GRAEBER: What we’re seeing right now is that combinations of treatments work better than any one alone. Pretty much everything works much better when you take the brakes off the immune system. One way to think of this is like vaccines. Most of us have a general idea of how they work: You introduce a weak or dead version of the disease to the immune system so it can build up a ready army against it and recognize and defeat that
real. Bits of those weak or dead versions of the disease get distributed like wanted posters all throughout the body. So if you
miraculous cures talk about the mind-body connection. Do you think it’s possible to activate one’s immune system in fighting cancer through the power of one’s mind? GRAEBER: There absolutely is a mind-body connection. I believe it helps—just as depression and illness seem related and self-perpetuating. Just as grief is being looked at as a measurable immunosuppressant. But I don’t know to what extent it’s possible to “activate” a T cell against a specific antigen. I believe there are general factors related to this mind-body connection that we’ll better understand in the future. The immune system is us, but so is cancer. Which side are you trying to control and activate? I believe there are aspects important to immunity that are very much related to aspects of the mind. If the immunotherapy breakthrough has taught us anything, however, it’s that a phenomenon that is observed should not be
What we’re seeing right now is that combinations of treatments work better than any one alone. Pretty much everything works much better when you take the brakes off the immune system. — Charlie Graeber
blow up a tumor cell with radiation or chemo, or starve it out with targeted poisons, that dead cancer cell is now in the body as a sort of wanted poster, too. It works like a
discounted just because the science behind it is not truly understood. How can some yogis control their own heartbeat? It’s not magic. The world is interesting and we’ve barely scratched the surface of that fascinating truth.
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hen Jason Reynolds walked into Nantucket High School this past April, he was greeted like a rock star. The New York Times best-selling writer and Nantucket Book Foundation Visiting Author has reached countless young readers through raw, lyrical storytelling that transcends background and unites students around universal themes of growing up in the 21st century. “Doesn’t matter if they are black kids in Harlem or white kids on Nantucket,” Reynolds says. “Everybody knows what fear feels like, what loneliness feels like, knows the insecurities of trying to fit in. Those are the things that are universal.” Ten years ago, Reynolds was scrambling to make a life. Today, of all the stars in the literary universe that are lighting up skies for children, Reynolds is his own constellation. Growing up on the urban streets outside of Washington, D.C., Reynolds hit a rough patch at the age of ten when his family split up. He found refuge through an affinity for words—not reading exactly, but the words that came at him through rapper Queen Latifah. “Rap music saved my life,” he says. Rappers “looked like us, walked like us, told stories like us.” The power of poetry put to music became Reynolds’ armor and he started writing his own “Queen Latifah poems” based on experiences in his life. His other saving grace was his mother who taught him that “the only thing that can’t be taken from you is your education.” The problem was
that when Reynolds set off for college, he still hadn’t read a single book in his life. He did not connect with books because he could not connect with their subject matter. “Can’t be what you can’t see,” he said. “Judy Blume wasn’t coming to the hood; Dr. Seuss didn’t come to the hood. Read this book about this man chasing a whale!? Nah. I never met no whale before. I ain’t readin’ this.” Richard Wright’s Black Boy became the first book he identified with, where the “kid sets the curtains on fire and burns the house down.” Reynolds re-
alized that he didn’t hate reading; he hated being bored. That revelation inspired a writing career that has since turned countless kids on to reading. Reynolds began turning the “Queen Latifah poems” of his youth into stories for the youth. The story of who his brother became after losing an eye and a military career in a fight he still won’t talk about became When I Was the Greatest. So many funerals burying so many friends became The Boy in the Black Suit. The pain,
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never knew he could make a living as a writer. Now, he wants to be an example for children. “There’s something to that,” he says. “To tear down some of the mysticism of being an artist or of being a person who works in this world. You can do this, too.” “Excellence is a habit,” he told the students gathered at the auditorium at Nantucket High School. “You make hard decisions every day. Make excellence who you are.” He added, “The very thing that makes them mad is what makes you magic.” Write what’s real, he told them. “The greatest gift you can give yourself is yourself,” he said. “Wish somebody had told me that.”
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Join us for a weekend of great books and fascinating authors.
June 13 - 16, 2019
Jill Abramson
Elliot Ackerman
Steven Axelrod
Blue Balliett
Cherie Burns
Lea Carpenter
Dave Cullen
Sylvia Earle
Esi Edugyan
Ben Fountain
Charles Graeber
Elin Hilderbrand
Craig Johnson
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Corky Laing & Tuija Takala
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Neel Patel
Nathaniel Philbrick
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Ella Wall Prichard
John Burnham Schwartz
Sarah Sentilles
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Elaine Weiss
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growing up? BRABBÉE: 9 to 5, a brilliant proto-#MeToo comedy starring Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, and Lily Tomlin. In one of the major plot points, the three women take over the company from their misogynist boss and institute enlightened workplace.
a compelling documentary attends the festival—people who have either lived extraordinary lives or are extraordinary themselves. Darryl Hunt who was wrongly imprisoned for more than twenty-five years or the beloved Sam Berns who had progeria (the fatal genetic condition causing rapid aging).
N MAGAZINE: What’s one thing most people don’t know about you? BRABBÉE: Most people on Nantucket don’t know that I grew up a hippie kid.
N MAGAZINE: What’s one thing about the Film Festival that you think would surprise people? BRABBÉE: The film festival itself requires a full year to plan and execute.
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N MAGAZINE: If you were in charge of putting together a time capsule so that people would understand the Nantucket Film Festival two hundred years for now, what three items would you put in it? BRABBÉE: Photos of people sitting in a theater laughing and having a shared experience, with no one staring into or even holding a smartphone. A video of 2009’s Late Night Storytelling, featuring Tina Fey, Jim Carey, and Laird Hamilton telling stories, and hosted by Peter Farrelly and Anne Meara. And a montage of all the amazing writers who’ve passed across the stage of the Scionset Casino to receive our screenwriting awards. Together, they make for an interesting snapshot of Hollywood at the end of 1990s and first two decades of the 2000s.
N MAGAZINE: What was your most star-struck moment at the Nantucket Film Festival?
N MAGAZINE: What are you most excited for at this year’s festival? BRABBÉE: The ladies of Saturday Night Live! We have never given a group award before, but this summer we’re bringing together SNL’s funniest female writers and performers past and present. Some of them have never met each other before.
N MAGAZINE: What was one of your favorite movies to play at the Film Festival over the years? BRABBÉE: The wacky Run Lola Run…and my daughter the animal advocate would want me to mention The Cove, which uncovered the capture and slaughter of dolphins in Japan.
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movie adaptation of a book was better than the book itself? BRABBÉE: There are so many cases where we remember the film more than the book it was adapted from: The Graduate, The Princess Bride, The Godfather, Stand By Me, and Mrs. Doubtfire. Leslie Dixon, who wrote the screenplay for Mrs. Doubtfire— and will be our Screenwriting Tributee this summer—says the best books to adapt are not the great ones because you will inevitably fail. She prefers to adapt books that have memorable characters, but where there’s still room for some storytelling innovation.
N MAGAZINE: Who is your favorite actor? BRABBÉE: Impossible question! N MAGAZINE: If you could live one day as the main character in a film. What film would it be? BRABBÉE: None. Good characters in films generally have something horrible happen to them.
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