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May 2018

N HEATHER UNRUH Demanding Justice

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CARLOS CASTRELLO Coming to Puerto Rico’s Aid Donelan Family Wines

AFTER THE FIRE Fighting the Tide of

CLIMATE CHANGE

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AFRICAN MEETING HOUSE’S Charity-Grace Mofsen

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Welcome Frank O’Connor, MD New Full-Time, Year-Round Surgeon Nantucket Cottage Hospital has welcomed a new full-time, year-round surgeon, Frank O’Connor, MD, to the medical staff and the NCH surgical team.

A native New Englander, Dr. O’Connor grew up in Woburn, Massachusetts and lived for many years in Newport, Rhode Island. He attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, and completed his residency at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield.

Dr. O’Connor is a former captain in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps. During his 26 years in the military, he was deployed to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom, he was aboard the USNS Comfort in support of Hurricane Katrina relief in 2005, and was also deployed to Kuwait, and Djibouti, Africa.

Dr. O’Connor brings vast general surgery experience and laparoscopic surgical skills to Nantucket Cottage Hospital and will be an important part of the team that will maximize the capabilities of an expanded surgical suite within the new hospital.

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The addition of Dr. O’Connor complements the hospital’s current full-time surgeons, including longtime island general surgeon Dr. Tim Lepore and orthopedic surgeon Dr. Rocco Monto, and allows more patients to stay on-island for emergency and elective procedures.

Please ask your physician for a referral to see Dr. O’Connor for your elective procedures.

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2018 N NUMBERS 26

A statistical snapshot of Nantucket in the early spring.

NTOP TEN 30 A special Wine and Food

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Festival edition of N Top Ten, featuring the tastiest events coming to the island this May.

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BIKINI: THE SKINNY DIP SWEATER: MILLY & GRACE RUG: MILLY & GRACE EARRINGS: MILLY & GRACE

NEED2READ N 32

Nantucket’s beloved bookworm Tim Ehernberg breaks down the best reads for spring.

HEALTHNWELLNESS N 34

All this season, N will be checking in with some of the island’s top fitness, nutrition and wellness experts for tips for living our best lives.

TRENDING N 36

Do you know what’s going viral on #Nantucket?

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47 AN ARTIST’S TOUCH

What’s hip, hot and happening on Nantucket.

All the news, gossip and tidbits that’s fit to print.

NOSH NEWS 42

The Nantucket Hotel’s Breeze Restaurant launches the island’s one and only weekly clambake. This is just one of the new offerings that are making this one of the top spots on the island.

NTERIORS 44

Jordan Real Estate and Nantucket Looms team up on a spectacular property on Pippins Way.

Longtime Nantucket resident Melissa Macleod has reemerged on the island’s abstract art scene.

52 RISING FROM RUBBLE

Carlos Castrello rallies the Nantucket community to come to the aid of his Puerto Rican countrymen in the wake of a devastating hurricane last fall.

NDEPTH 58 GRACE UNDER FIRE

The African Meeting House’s Charity-Grace Mofsen stands up for the best of Nantucket at one of its ugliest moments.

64 A MOTHER’S MISSION

Former Boston news anchor Heather Unruh fights for justice after the wave of high-profile sexual assault cases crashes on Nantucket.

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AFRICAN MEETING HOUSE’S Charity-Grace Mofsen

HEATHER UNRUH Demanding Justice

The Local Magazine Read Worldwide

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Coming to Puerto Rico’s Aid Donelan Family Wines

AFTER THE FIRE Fighting the Tide of

CLIMATE CHANGE

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93 RENAISSANCE WOMAN

76 AGAINST THE TIDE

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Longtime summer resident Joe Donelan is rebuilding his winery in the wake of California’s deadly fires last fall.

This past winter saw some of the worst flooding events in Nantucket history, raising the question: How long can the island keep treading water?

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N Magazine’s fashion squad is back at it with a stylish shoot way off the beaten path.

Gabrielle Gould takes over the helm of the Nantucket Music Center.

98 PICNICKING IN THE PAST Scrolling through the NHA’s rich image archives, we see that life has always been a picnic on Nantucket.

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Kyle and Doug Karp’s storybook wedding on Nantucket.

NOT SO FAST

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A quick chat with Nantucket’s geography bee champion, Clyde Kelly.

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CALM

After the

STORM

In many parts of the country, the word “stormy” evokes images of a central figure in a drama playing out in Washington D.C. But for Nantucket this winter, the word took on a far more literal meaning. From the nor’easters that pounded the island to flooding that took out the main sewer line on North Beach Street to an inexcusable act of racism directed toward the African Meeting House—there was little calm in the island’s winter months.

With respect to the African Meeting House, N Magazine has chosen its director, Charity-Grace Mofsen, to appear on our first cover of the season. In a candid interview, Mofsen shares her thoughts about the hate crime that brought unwanted attention to the island on a national level. The way in which Mofsen has chosen to handle this matter and to face it head-on gives new meaning to the phrase grace under fire and is both a testimony to her leadership and the strength of the Nantucket community as a whole.

In another story about a woman willing to face difficult and unspeakable events, Heather Unruh has emerged as an unshakable voice against sexual predators. Unruh’s son was allegedly sexually assaulted by actor Kevin Spacey, who has since been accused of similar abuses by others and whose career has come to a standstill as a result. Unruh’s

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pursuit of justice and some of the surprising headwinds she has faced by trying to right a wrong, are both disturbing and heartbreaking.

In yet another story about a person facing the aftermath of a storm, Nantucket resident Carlos Castrello graphically details the devastation that has occurred on his native Puerto Rico and talks about a nonprofit he started called Nantucket Cares.

Nearly a year later, hundreds of thousands of homes are without power on Puerto Rico, and the island’s infrastructure is still badly damaged. Most recently, hundreds of schools were permanently closed due to out-migration to states like Florida, which make the resuscitation of this island a daunting task.

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How a person faces adversity says a lot about who they are, and Nantucket summer resident Joe Donelan has shown a level of resilience that is inspiring in light of the devastating fire that destroyed his family’s Sonoma vineyard. Sipping Donelan’s wine at the upcoming Nantucket Wine Festival will be all the more flavorful given what it has taken him to resurrect his fabled vineyards.

Celebrating the arrival of spring, in light of the challenges the island and many of its residents faced this winter, will be that much sweeter this season and will give us all a time to be thankful for smoother sailing ahead. To paraphrase Louisa May Alcott, the best way to learn how to sail is to sail through a storm. Here’s to fair winds and following seas this summer.

Sincerely,

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NUMBERS NANTUCKET BY THE

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Resident in Sherburne Commons is over the age of 100

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$63 Million Assessed value of loss due to erosion on Nantucket.

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Length of new Seastreak ferry running from Nantucket to New Bedford.

$100-$175 Million Potential cost to local ratepayers to install 3rd undersea power cable from the mainland

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Age of Maria Mitchell this year.

(MPH) Top wind gusts to hit Nantucket in March nor’easter.

109,507 People flew commercially to the island last year.

$4 Million Projected revenue from excise tax on rooms and meals in 2018.

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Days the Sagamore Bridge will be restricted to one lane until Memorial Day Weekend.

5.5% Alcohol by volume in Cisco’s re-released Gripah IPA, launching Daffodil Festival weekend.

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Former Nantucket Highschool students will be playing on Jamaica’s national lacrosse team at the World Lacrosse Championship in Israel this July.

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The width of the trench that was mysteriously dug to open Miacomet Pond to the Atlantic.

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Gallons of sewage were dumped in Nantucket Harbor after sewer line burst in January winter storm.

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N TOP TEN WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL EDITION

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SIPPING INTO THE FUTURE

BORDEAUX MEETS BOSTON

SHAKE & BAKE

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Clambake. Dancing. Rosé. Sunset. Jetties Beach. Need we say more? Come toast the 200th anniversary of Veuve Clicquot Rosé over lobsters, mussels, clams and corn on the cob on the shores of Jetties Beach. When the sun starts going down, the DJ starts turning up the jams for a beach bash that will ring in the Wine and Food Festival.

FRIDAY MAY 18TH @ 7 PM

THURSDAY MAY 17TH @ 2-3:30 PM

Join this year’s Nantucket Wine & Food Luminary of the Year, Bruno Borie, at an intimate Great Wines in Grand Houses dinner where he’ll be pouring extraordinary selections of his Château Ducru-Beaucaillou to accompany the cuisine of Boston-based executive chef Jeremy Sewall.

Featured wines will include a 1982 Château DucruBeaucaillou, SaintJulien, which alone is worth the $750 price of admission.

Three of the top wine minds in all the land grapple with this question: What is next in the world of wine? Join oenophile experts Kevin Zraly of the Windows on the World Wine School, Eric Asimov of The New York Times and Ray Isle of Food & Wine for a round table discussion that’s sure to get juicy.

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ITALIAN JOB

8 GRAND SLAM

SATURDAY MAY 19TH & SUNDAY MAY 20TH

In the realm of extraordinary indulgences, caviar and champagne go together like a horse and carriage. Taste and learn more about these delicacies at “Champagne Wishes, Caviar Dreams,” an event pairing one of the finest caviar producers in Italy—Calvisius Caviar— with Champagne Taittinger.

It’s safe to say that Marchese Lodovico Antinori has Italian winemaking in his DNA. As a 26th generation winemaker, Lodovico Antinori is responsible for creating two of Italy’s most celebrated wines: Ornellaia and Masseto. Spend an evening with this Italian master and taste through selections of his exquisite Tuscan wines of Tenuta di Biserno at an exclusive Great Wines in Grand Houses dinner.

Whether you’re a twenty-year veteran to the Wine Festival or a first-year rookie, attending one (or all!) of the Grand Tastings is an absolute must. Rarely are so many renowned talents in the food and wine world found under one tent.

There are three Grand Tasting sessions taking place over the course of Saturday and Sunday.

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WINEMAKER TO THE STARS

THE GALA

FRIDAY MAY 18TH @ 7 PM

THURSDAY MAY 17TH @ 6-9 PM

LOCATION TBA

WHITE ELEPHANT

Marc Perrin grabbed Hollywood headlines two years ago when he teamed up with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to create Miraval wine. But Perrin is a rock star in his own right, steering Miraval and his family’s Château de Beaucastel to greater and greater esteem. Now Perrin is teaming up with Tyler Kinnett, executive chef at Harvest for some star-studded pairings at a Great Wines in Grand Houses dinner.

If there is one event that almost all islanders pine for in the early spring, it’s the Thursday night Harbor Gala. Once those White Elephant doors open to this food and wine extravaganza, the summer season has officially begun.

There’s plenty to toast to!

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SATURDAY, MAY 19TH @ 7 PM

NANTUCKET YACHT CLUB

There is no shortage of dinners to attend at the Wine and Food Festival, but few if any pack the punch of La Fête. La Fête brings guests together with winemakers, chefs and sommeliers to taste and celebrate some of the world’s greatest wines and world-class cuisine. Each guest is invited to bring special bottles from their cellars to share alongside those of the winemakers and La Fête guests.

COL The Lone Star State will be well represented on the island this year at a BBQ extravaganza, taking place in the Culinary Village. With Titos Vodka slinging cocktails, and some of the most gifted grill masters firing up great plates, this will be a way to close out the festival.

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READ ONE OF THE ISLAND’S BELOVED BOOKWORMS TIM EHRENBERG GIVES HIS REQUIRED READING FOR SPRING.

THE IMMORTALISTS

BY CHLOE BENJAMIN

SPEAK NO EVIL

BY UZODINMA IWEALA

My reading this year

This book, published in

started with January’s

March, speaks to our im-

bestseller, The Immor-

mediate cultural reality

talists, which is perfect

as the country grapples

for book clubs. Author

with immigration, race,

Chloe Benjamin asks the question, “If you knew the date of your death,

policing and sexual identity. Written by the author of Beasts of No Na-

how would you live your life?” The book follows four siblings as they

tion, Speak No Evil is a coming of age story told from an African per-

probe the line between destiny and choice from the 1970s to today.

spective. The story will resonate with all people who experience the

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emotions that come with self-discovery, joy, sadness, love and fear.

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AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE

BY TAYARI JONES

CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE BY TOMI ADEYEMI

This book snuck up on

Praised as “the next big thing” and “a phe-

me in February. I didn’t

nomenon” in young adult literature, Children

expect to read it all in

of Blood and Bone is the first in the Orïsha

one sitting—but I did.

Trilogy. It’s a story about a land where magic

It’s a complex, charac-

was wiped from existence by an evil monarch

ter-driven suspense story in which “nobody’s wrong and everybody’s

and about those who rise up to bring magic

wounded.” The book makes you examine injustice, betrayal, loyalty,

back. The author’s epic worldbuilding is steeped in African culture,

racism and marriage. An American Marriage deserves all of the at-

history and tradition and includes everything that makes a fantasy

tention it has received from being Oprah’s Book Club pick this year.

series worth binge-reading.

EDUCATED BY TARA WESTOVER

THE FEMALE PERSUASION BY MEG WOLITZER

This book is an inspira-

April showers brought May flowers, bright

tional memoir about a

colors and this anticipated release being

young girl who leaves

hailed as “the perfect feminist blockbuster of

her survivalist family

our times!” It’s first and foremost a relatable

and goes on to earn a

story with memorable characters, but more

PHD from Cambridge

than that it gives us a modern text to examine

University. It’s a powerful true story of self-invention by someone

female ambition, mentorship, friendship and

who was isolated from mainstream society in her youth and left ev-

gender struggles.

erything she knew behind on her quest to be Educated.

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LOCAL YOGI EVIE-MARIE O’CONNOR GIVES HER TOP TIPS FOR LIVING A BALANCED LIFE

SPRING FORWARD PHOTOGRAPHY BY VANESSA CHERNER

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In this day and age, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by the inundation of health and wellness trends. Instead of feeling empowered by access to knowledge, people can often feel paralyzed by the amount of seemingly complicated and contradictory information. Before you dive into the next health and fitness trend, check in with these five tried-and-true ways to optimize your own well-being.

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WHEN IT COMES TO FOOD, LET YOUR BODY BE YOUR GUIDE, NOT YOUR MIND:

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DIVERSIFY YOUR DE-STRESS TOOLBOX:

Generally speaking, you can sort out a lot about your nutrition

How you manage your stress is one of the biggest

by listening to your body and quieting your mind. Tap into your

indicators of your long-term health. Our nervous

own ability to figure out what foods make you feel energized,

systems are not designed to be chronically stressed,

and which ones make you feel depleted. Be present with yourself

yet due to the demands of modern living, they often

as you eat; notice how you feel before, during and after meals.

are. Explore different techniques until you find a

Under

few that suit you, whether they are yoga, guided

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MOVE YOUR BODY ON THE DAILY: Our bodies thrive with regular movement, while our

relaxation, technology detox, meditation,

Polpis

writing, therapy, massage, acupuncture,

lifestyles often require stagnation. Commit to moving

time in nature, self-care. Bottom line: Find

your body on a regular basis in ways that you truly

ways to process and release your stress on

enjoy. Movement doesn’t always need to mean a vig-

the regular.

orous workout. Instead, balance intensities and styles of movement for longevity and sustainability.

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HEALTH IS A PRIVILEGE NOT A PUNISHMENT: Your mindset matters a lot. However you’re optimizing your health or healing past pain, be sure it doesn’t become so restrictive that you bring more stress into your life. Skip the obsessions and stick with moderate, sustainable practices that can support you for a lifetime. The guilt and shame about what you ate or what exercise class you missed are way more toxic than the initial action itself. Drop the excessive criticism and try to find more ways to enjoy the privilege

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STEP UP YOUR WATER GAME: Make drinking water your priority and focus throughout your day.

Add fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs to your water to give it a little extra interest. When you drink caffeine or alcohol, be sure to drink even more water to balance out the associated dehydration.

Evie-Marie O’Connor splits her time between teaching yoga and working as a mental health counselor at Fairwinds Counseling Center.

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When the African Meeting House was vandalized with a racist slur earlier this spring, photos of the hate crime spread across social media. Adam Foss, a former Assistant District Attorney and speaker at The Nantucket Project, reposted the photo and invited the perpetrator to meet him for an open dialogue. While the vandal didn’t come forward, Foss did come to the island for a special Nantucket Project event to discuss the incident with community members.

TAKING DOWN A POST The iconic Stilt House on Madaket Beach was one of the most photographed properties on the island.

But when winter storms came knocking on its doorstep and the homeowners couldn’t find a place to move it, demo crews were forced to raze the beloved building. Sallyanne Austin filmed the destruction in a video that received over 35,000 views on @TownPool’s Instagram account. The Stilt House will be missed.

FLOODING THE WEB Of all the photos and videos that flooded the web during the devastating nor’easters and winter storms, few had the vantage point of the Dreamland. Filming from its second-story Harborview terrace, the Dreamland captured the dramatic flooding in daily videos that were viewed by thousands.

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Earlier this spring, Topper’s joined only four other restaurants in Massachusetts to be awarded the American Auto Association’s highest distinction of Five Diamonds. “Just 0.2 percent of the 31,000 AAA inspected and approved restaurants receive the Five Diamond designation,” says Mary Maguire, director of public and legislative affairs for AAA Northeast. “These Diamond ratings are used by Massachusetts residents as well as travelers across the country to find the best places to dine in our state.” AAA has been inspecting and rating restaurants for more than eighty years, and yet Topper’s is the only restaurant on Nantucket to ever

receive Five Diamonds. “It is no small feat to be named a AAA Five Diamond restaurant,” says Michael Petrone, AAA’s director of inspections and Diamond Ratings. “Receiving this rating is a rare honor that signifies the highest-quality flavors and innovative presentations, with personalized service in memorable surroundings.”

The Steamship Authority has had a bumpy ride recently.

Less than a year ago, its fast ferry Iyanough collided into a jetty in Hyannis, which required airlifting passengers off its decks. Since then, the Steamship’s fleet of slow ferries has been plagued by mechanical problems that have led to many cancelled trips early this spring. On March 15th, the slow ferry headed to Vineyard Haven ran aground, seemingly triggering a domino effect of problems that has riddled the entire fleet.

BRIDGE TOO FAR?

Cape Air might be seeing a nice boost to business this spring from Bostonians who just can’t bear the drive to Hyannis due to ongoing work on the Sagamore Bridge.

Torturous two-and a half hour backups were reported at the bridge, which is undergoing repairs from years of wear and tear. An estimated eighteen million vehicles pass over the Sagamore during the course of the year. Now, that traffic is being

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fic caused by the old rotary before the bridge. Crews are working around the clock, seven days a week to have the work completed by Memorial Day weekend. Until then, set your GPS to the Bourne Bridge.

MAIN SQUEEZE For nearly sixty years, Arno’s stood as a staple on Main Street. But last summer, the space was taken over by a real estate firm, whose owners sublet the bottom floor to a short-lived, fast-casual restaurant called The Lobby. This summer, the

MIACOMET

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former space of Arno’s has evolved once more, but this recipe should have much more staying power. The hugely successful Lemon Press has moved from its former digs on Centre Street to the top of Main. Boasting delicious acai bowls, specialty baked goods and fresh press juices, the Lemon Press is going to be many people’s main squeeze come summer.

This past March, island residents and local authorities were stunned to find Miacomet Pond had been ille-

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gally opened to the ocean. With no tracks left from the machinery typically used to open the ponds, authori-

STUFF

ties concluded that the breach must have been accom-

Some of the most endangered marine mammals in the world were spotted off

feet as the water poured out into the ocean. Beyond the

the coast of Nantucket earlier this spring. A pod of eight right whales was seen

efforts of an unknown few, some attributed the ease

twenty miles from the island, prompting NOAA to extend a voluntary speed re-

of opening the pond to recent flooding and increased

striction zone off the south

levels of ground water. Miacomet Pond ultimately

shore. With only about 450

closed on its own, but the case on who dug the trench

right whales still in exis-

remains very much open.

THE

plished with shovels by a team of unknown assailants.

The opening quickly expanded from five feet to thirty

tence, these giant mammals are staunchly protected. If a boater is caught coming within 500 feet of them, they can be fined up to The Nantucket

$100,000.

Wine and Food Festival celebrates its 22nd year this May, and owner Mark Goldweitz and executive director Nancy Bean The Inquirer & Mirror reported on an interest-

are continuing to raise the bar in wining and dining

ing court case this spring regarding a neigh-

their sell-out crowds. New this season, the Culinary

borly dispute over a Confederate flag being

Village will be pitched on Jetties Beach throughout

flown on Tuckernuck Island. On July 3rd, Oli-

the festival. Signature culinary events will include the

ver La Farge cut down a Confederate flag be-

Bluegrass Brunch on Friday morning, the Rosé Sun-

ing flown by Henry Vartas, the husband of Diana Coffin, the I&M reported.

set Clambake Friday night, and the Junior Top Chef

“This flag will never fly on this island,” La Farge reportedly said, before

Competition on Sunday. Among their roster of world-

using a penknife to cut the line. Oliver La Farge is

class chefs, the Wine & Food Festival is particularly

the son of Bam La Farge, who was a lifelong

excited for a group of grilling gurus from Texas who

protector of Tuckernuck before passing

will close out the events at the Culinary Village with a

away two years ago at the age of 65. In

beach barbecue for the ages. For more information on

Nantucket District Court, La Farge said

tickets, visit nantucketwinefestival.com.

that the flag was a racist symbol that close to the Fourth of July. The court ordered that he pay $75 restitution.

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THE NANTUCKET HOTEL’S BREEZE RESTAURANT FIRES UP A SPRING MENU THAT MIGHT MAKE YOU WANT TO STAY AWHILE.

ew dinners are more delightfully New England than a good, ol’-fashioned clambake.

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The reimagining of the Breeze’s menu comes at the hands of one of the more fascinating chefs to have stepped foot on the island. Chef Pedro Alaniz grew up in Jalisco, Mexico. He left his family at the age of fifteen in search of a better life in the United States. For months, he lived alone in the mountains of California, sleeping under tarps and fending for himself. He eventually began his career in restaurants as a N magazine

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and Chef Alaniz has cooked for President Bush, opened multiple restaurants and even stars in his own cooking shows shown in 150 countries. From cooking in Dubai to cooking for Dubya, Chef Alaniz has developed an international cuisine that comes to life at the Breeze.

A quintessential meal at the Breeze could

swims. “You always have to have some drama on—or under—your plate,” Chef

begin with Chef Alaniz’s zesty ceviche of cod,

Cedric laughs. The Spartan salad is sure to be a kids’ favorite that might actually

corn, onions, peppers and crisp apple slices. But

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if you’d rather admire a fish than eat one, pastry

The entrée specials at the Breeze span the globe, with Italian, French and Indian

chef Cedric Beguim suggests his Spartan salad,

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a traditional Greek salad presented over a clear

Chef Alaniz. He especially loves reaching back to his Mexican roots with shrimp

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and lobster tacos accompanied by pickled jalapeños and mole sauce that calls for forty ingredients.

When it comes time for dessert, pastry chef Cedric sends out a mean blueberry crème brulée with puffed pastry. Chef Cedric was born in Versailles and grew up in the heart of French cuisine, which helps him give his crème brulée a touch of true Parisian delicacy.

Beyond the cuisine, the Breeze offers one of downtown Nantucket’s most relaxed dining experiences. Even before you sit for dinner, the Nantucket Hotel welcomes you to lounge on its wraparound deck where lite bites are served with live music. And if you can’t make it for dinner, the hotel will pick you up at the visitor’s center downtown in its classic fire truck and bring you in for lunch. Perhaps it should come as no surprise that the Nantucket Hotel was just voted the number one hotel in the country and the 16th best hotel in the world by Trip Advisor. Simply put, they make it a breeze.

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MELISSA MACLEOD RE-EMERGES ON NANTUCKET’S ABSTRACT ART SCENE Melissa MacLeod has always loved to work with her hands. The daughter of an accomplished painter with generations of artistic discipline woven into her DNA, she remembers the hours she spent painting and sculpting as a young girl, watching her mother work and admiring the paintings made by her ancestors that lined the walls of her childhood home.

MacLeod’s mother, Rowena Hambly, was a painter who showed her work on Nantucket for many years. Her grandfather, Edgar Hambly’s, paintings adorn the walls of the Smithsonian and those of collectors around the globe. And her distant grandfather, Sir Joshua Reynolds, founded the world-renowned Royal Academy of Arts in London. Some of their works hang in the bright, tucked-away Sconset home where MacLeod has been sculpting a new chapter in her own history as an artist.

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his lineage, and the constant desire to

create, has led MacLeod to a resurgence and renewed focus on her artistic career, which she juggled for many years with the duties of motherhood. She also moved around a

great deal due to her husband John’s demanding acting commitments. But with her children getting older, MacLeod has refocused her artistic energies into sculpting, and that fire has attracted the notice of Nantucket’s Samuel Owen Gallery.

“I saw she makes beautiful, contemporary art that really feels like the island,” says Lee Milazzo, who owns

the Samuel Owen Gallery with his wife Cindy. “As with our other Nantucket artists, her work has that feel without shoving it down your throat. We had been searching for work with a little more texture to compliment the existing pieces in the gallery, and she was really just what we were looking for.”

Milazzo allows his buyers at the Samuel Owen Gallery to interpret MacLeod’s pieces themselves.

Some see nautical themes, while others may see a study in light, texture or form. “It’s really enjoyable to watch people discover and appreciate her work,”

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MacLeod’s collection sold out last year. Her work will be displayed at Samuel Owen throughout the season in a show that is yet to be announced.

Macleod’s journey to selling out shows at the Samuel Owen Gallery has hardly been linear. She began art school in her teens, but her adventurous spirit made it hard to stay in the confines of a classroom. She ended up dropping out to travel, which led her to Nantucket in 1986 aboard a double-masted schooner that she spent twoand-a-half years restoring with her boyfriend at the time and his father. But when the schooner pulled anchor to move on to the next port, the allure of Nantucket proved too strong to leave and MacLeod stayed behind to begin a new adventure.

She painted houses to earn money and discovered a community of artists on the island who captured her imagination and inspired her creativity. Not too long thereafter, MacLeod co-founded the well-known X Gallery on Orange Street where she showed her representational and abstract art for a decade. While running the X Gallery, MacLeod finished art school, earning a bachelor’s of fine arts degree from

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College of Art just north of Boston.

For many years, her artistic direction was pulled toward representational and still life pieces. She often painted still lifes of simple bowls, focusing on the lines and how the light created shadows. And then at some point, in a moment she can’t quite recall, she found herself pulled toward something different. Sculpture became her muse, but the themes from her previous work remained constant. She began sculpting with Hydrocal Gypsum Cement, a highly textured and naturally bright white material that is often used by Jeff Koons. MacLeod labored for hours, sometimes days, on the curves of her pieces, shaping and shaping until they were just right.

MacLeod says there’s a lot more to explore, and her creativity within the medium is still abundant. When mounted on the walls of a home or in the gallery, the time of day affects the perception of her art, as shadows move and light bursts takes on new dimensions constantly, and of course I’m inspired by the bravery she has to survive on this island as an artist, to commit herself to this profession with no guarantee of anything. She puts it out there on the gallery walls and you hope against hope that people respond to this thing she was born to do.”

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and fades. “It’s really amazing,” says MacLeod’s husband, John Shea. “Her work

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“OUR GOAL IS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE MOST PRESSING NEEDS ARE AND BRING THEM TO THE FOREFRONT, THE CRISIS IS NOT NEARLY OVER. THESE TOWNS NEED HELP.” — Carlos Castrello

This winter, he launched Nantucket Cares, a nonprofit under the umbrella of the Nantucket Community Foundation that’s dedicated to aiding Puerto Rico through fundrais-

ore than six months after category five Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico, over 900,000 US citizens are still without power on the island. The tenth most intense hurricane in recorded history, Maria’s 200-mile-per-hour winds ripped highways from the ground, shredded homes and reduced entire communities to piles of rubble.

The massive destruction caused hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans to immigrate to the mainland United States, creating a desperate need for engineers, construction workers and many other professionals to bring the island back from the brink. While many are fleeing, other Puerto Ricans, like Nantucket resident Carlos Castrello, are rushing back into the destruction.

“The day after the hurricane, I felt hopeless,” says Castrello, who moved to Nantucket

ing and organizing volunteers. “Our

six years ago and serves as assistant general manager at The Nantucket Hotel. “I always had it

goal is to figure out what the most

in my DNA to help people who could not help themselves, and I thought we could do some-

pressing needs are and bring them

thing here on Nantucket.” Raised by his mother, who worked for the Red Cross for more than

to the forefront,” Castrello explains.

forty years, Castrello’s earliest memories were of helping people by his mother’s side. Now

“The crisis is not nearly over. These

a world away from his hurting countrymen, Castrello needed to come up with a way to come

towns need help.”

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Reflecting on two relief trips he made to Puerto Rico, Castrello describes

hot inside the house,” he says. “Once summer starts, it will be 100 degrees in some of these homes. And the clock is ticking—hurricane season will again be upon us soon.”

“forgotten towns” beyond the reach of

Depression is an insidious consequence suffered by many of the Puerto Rican residents left

San Juan that are utterly destitute. People

behind. “These people feel they have been forgotten by their own country, their own govern-

in these towns have no jobs, no electric-

ment,” Castrello says. Since the storm, reports have shown an increase in suicide attempts by a

ity and no roofs on their homes. Instead,

staggering 246 percent. “They are malnourished and depressed,” he says. “The hurricane is still

government-supplied tarps keep the rain

very much entrenched in everyone’s minds. Every time it rains and the wind blows really hard,

out. “But the tarps make it so infernally

the children start shaking.”

With the number of teachers dwindling, schools are closing.

Parks, basketball courts and baseball diamonds are all shuttered.

“The kids have nowhere to play,” he says. “That’s one of the hardest parts. Any money that we raise, we are going to coordinate with these towns and get behind that mission of reopening parks.”

The Nantucket community has responded to Castrello’s calls for action. “This cause hits pretty close to home,” says Nantucket Intermediate School’s Jennifer Lewis. “There are so many students that are connected to the islands and the Caribbean, or still have family there.” This past October, Lewis organized a oneday dance-a-thon for students in third, fourth and fifth grade that raised $15,000 for Nantucket Cares. “The entire school loved the dancing,” she says, “but aside from that, these kids love to

“THE HURRICANE IS STILL VERY MUCH ENTRENCHED IN EVERYONE’S MINDS. EVERY TIME IT RAINS AND THE WIND BLOWS REALLY HARD, THE CHILDREN START SHAKING.” — Carlos Castrello

help other people, and they were so proud when they came into the classroom, telling me how much money they raised.”

“I couldn’t tell you how many people have volunteered to help,” Castrello says. “That’s why our foundation is called Nantucket Cares, because we truly believe people on Nantucket care.” To help raise more awareness, Castrello has teamed up with local filmmaker John Stanton to create a film tentatively titled Nantucket Cares, Mission of Hope for Puerto Rico. Additionally, Castrello is scouting volunteers interested in offering their time to help establish the fledgling foundation. “I wish I could do this seven days a week, 24 hours a day,” he says. “I feel like if everybody does what we are doing just a little bit, this country will be back up and running in no time…Even if we help one single person and we give them hope for the future, I will be happy.” Carlos Castrello pauses: “But I want to help more.”

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The African Meeting House’s CHARITY-GRACE MOFSEN stands for the best of Nantucket in the face of one of the island’s ugliest moments.

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harity-Grace Mofsen hadn’t

need to look at it. We need to see it.”

some grand demonstration. You don’t

even reached the five cor-

By the early afternoon, the Meet-

always have to march. You don’t al-

ners intersection yet when

ing House’s doors were repainted and

ways have to start a new hashtag.

she spotted the horrifying graffiti.

its shingles power-washed, but the

Creating new committees and yell-

“N----R LEAVE!” was spray-painted

image was far from erased. Photos

ing from the rooftops is nice, but you

in big, black letters across the African

of the vandalism tore through social

don’t have to do these things to make

Meeting House’s white double doors.

media and were picked up by major

a difference.”

She sprang from her car, leaving her

news outlets across the country. Sena-

Nearly a week after the incident,

husband, Michael, at the wheel. She

tors Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren

Mofsen is sitting in one of the pews

stumbled to the doors in a daze. A

released statements condemning the

in the African Meeting House. Every

vulgar drawing was scrawled next

incident. The Nantucket Police de-

few minutes, someone comes knock-

to the racist slur. Mofsen began to

clared the vandalism a hate crime and

ing to share a word of support or con-

tremble, stricken with anger, fear

opened an investigation. Community

dolences with her. Tonight, Mofsen is

and deep sadness. Even before she

members left flowers on the Meeting

hosting a community concert at the Meeting House that was

became the Meeting House’s director two years ago, Mofsen loved this building and everything it represented, not just for Nantucket—but for all Americans. The graffiti felt like a stab in

“This is something that happened, and I refuse to sweep it under the rug...This is a problem, and it’s not new.

We need to talk about it. We need to look at it. We need to see it.”

the heart.

— Charity-Grace Mofsen

already on the schedule but has since taken on a whole new meaning in light of the vandalism. “I know people want me to say something tonight, but I’m not going to talk for long,” she says.

“Whatever goes unsaid, I hope the music will fill in.”

When word spread of the vandalism, the community closed

House lawn and decried the shocking

Over her shoulder is a large

like a fist on the Meeting House. Peo-

crime on Facebook. At the center of it

portrait of Florence Higginbotham,

ple rushed in with pails of soapy water

all, Mofsen quietly struggled to come

who purchased the Meeting House

and buckets of paint. Some immedi-

to grips with the attack.

back in 1933. Higginbotham was a

ately wanted to be rid of this blemish

“There has been a lot of pres-

single black mother who went from

on the face of Nantucket as if it were a

sure from a lot of well meaning people

working as a housekeeper for a fam-

cancerous lesion. But Mofsen insisted

for me to do something (or let them

ily in Sconset to owning five of her

that they wait. This was a crime scene

do something) in the wake of the

own properties on the island. In a

after all, and the police were just be-

vandalism of the African Meeting

miraculous turn of fate, when Hig-

ginning to canvas the neighborhood.

House,” Mofsen wrote on Facebook,

ginbotham’s employer in Sconset,

More philosophically, though, she

a couple days after the incident. “We

Evelyn Underhill, fell on hard times

felt that the words needed to be seen.

are so appreciative, but we are asking

at the end of her life, Higginbotham

“This is something that happened, and

for patience right now. I know many

moved the old woman into one of

I refuse to sweep it under the rug,” she

of you have asked how you can help,

her homes for the rest of her days.

thought. “This is a problem, and it’s

what you can do. Know this: standing

This is the communal vision of Nan-

not new. We need to talk about it. We

against hate does not always require

tucket that Mofsen believes in.

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“W

e’ve got these two women from differ-

erty owners in the 1700s, or black whaling captains,

ent races, different ages, different back-

or flourishing black neighborhoods in the 1700s and

grounds, different economic statuses com-

1800s. When she first encountered this history at the

ing together and being able to find such common

African Meeting House during a trip to Nantucket

ground and develop such a strong bond that transcend-

four years ago, Mofsen was deeply moved. “If this

ed all of their differences,” Mofsen says. “Maybe I’m

is affecting me in this way at thirty years old, what if

naïve, but that’s what I think of when I think about the

we started teaching our babies this?” she says. “And

true Nantucket. That’s Nantucket history.”

I’m not talking about just black babies. I’m talking

Many years before Florence Higginbotham, this

about all of our children.”

Mofsen believes that institutions like the Mu-

property was first purchased by Seneca Boston, a

seum of African American History, which acquired

“Know this: standing against hate does not always require some grand demonstration.

You don’t always have to march... yelling from the rooftops is nice, but you don’t have to do these things to make a difference.”

— Charity-Grace Mofsen

the Meeting House in 1989, can not only broaden our understanding of American history, but reshape the narratives society has created around race. Even on Nantucket—where Frederick Douglas first spoke publically exactly 177 years ago, where slavery was abolished a decade before

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it was in the rest of Massachusetts, and

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former slave who bought his own freedom in 1772.

where an all black neighborhood called New Guinea

Two years later, Boston purchased a huge swath of

flourished before the founding of the country—this

land stretching from this corner of York Street to

history gets overshadowed.

Orange Street. So it was that African Americans

That shadow of ignorance stretches even longer

owned property on Nantucket before the United

and darker off Nantucket, where many people think

States was even founded.

the island is totally devoid of diversity. “That’s a com-

“This history is a total game-changer,” Mofsen

mon misconception. People think that there’s nothing

says. Growing up in the south, the scope of African

black here, ” Mofsen says. “That it’s not diverse here,

American history she learned in class was limited to

period. That it’s the stereotypical Nantucket that you

slavery and a “handful of greats” during Black His-

see in August… But people of color have been here

tory Month. She didn’t learn stories of black prop-

free before the country was founded.”

“If you talk to a lot of people of color on the island…nobody was really surprised [by the vandalism]. Nobody was really surprised at all.”

— Charity-Grace Mofsen

Though she is swift to defend Nantucket’s deep history of tolerance, Mofsen doesn’t claim that the island is free of racism. “People want to say that this is not our Nantucket—but it is,” she insists. “This is a part of our Nantucket, and we have to deal with it.” Mofsen was disheartened that many on Nantucket quickly concluded that the vandal was probably just some kid acting out or looking for attention.

Yes, it could very well have been a young person, she says, but to assume that is not only unfair to the island’s youth, but also it diminishes the seriousness of this hate crime and undermines the reality that racism exists on the island today.

“If you talk to a lot of people of color on the island—and I say ‘people of color,’ because it’s not just black folks—nobody was really surprised [by the vandalism].

Nobody was really surprised at all,” she says. “Because we’re used to the subtle things that happen. The subtle things that nobody will ever talk about, things that the average person who hasn’t experienced it first-hand wouldn’t even necessarily pick up on. Those are the things that dialogue will be open to now. People can start to talk about those things and work through them. but we have to be better.”

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Not only do I know that we can be better—

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“People want to say that this is not our Nantucket—but it is...This is a part of our Nantucket, and we have to deal with it.”

— Charity-Grace Mofsen

The African Meeting House is one of ten properties on the Black Heritage Trail on Nantucket. In partnership with the Museum of African American History in Boston and the Friends of the African Meeting House on Nantucket, the trail begins at the Whaling Museum, continues through New Guinea neighborhoods where blacks lived in the 18th and 19th centuries, and culminates at the African Meeting House. Since 1999, the Museum of African American

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ater that evening, Charity-Grace Mofsen is standing center stage in front of a microphone singing with her band.

The Meeting House is packed with people from wall to

wall—young and old, men and women, black, white and brown.

The audience is a microcosm of the diverse community that’s taken shape on Nantucket over hundreds of years. Outside these

including Florence Higginbotham’s home, which will be completed this year. Critical fundraising is required to complete these projects.

post-and-beam building. But Mofsen insists that combatting rac-

For more information on how to support

tending a concert. “The potential for hate is everywhere,” she says. “It is how we deal with it that’s important.”

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the historic properties on York Street,

walls, the island has turned its full attention to this 191-year-old ism on Nantucket must go beyond repainting a building, or at-

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History has been painstakingly restoring

the efforts of the African Meeting House or to book a guided tour of the Black Heritage Trail, visit maah.org.

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HEATHER UNRUH FIGHTS TO BRING ACTOR KEVIN SPACEY TO JUSTICE.

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night inside the Club Car Restaurant and Bar on Nantucket Island. The victim, my son, was a star-struck, straight, eighteen-year-old young man who had no idea that the famous actor was an alleged sexual predator or that he was about to become his next victim.”

Unruh went on to describe how Spacey bought her son—who had lied to the actor about his age— “drink after drink after drink” before forcibly groping him repeatedly in the dark and crowded piano bar. When Spacey went to use the restroom, a witness

nearby

approached

the shaken young man and told him to run. He ran to Unruh’s mother’s home, woke up his sister, and then called his mother to tell her what happened. For the rest of the night, Unruh’s son Heather Unruh with lawyer Mitch Garabedian.

eather Unruh’s tweet did not go unnoticed. “The #weinsteinscandal has emboldened me-- #truth time,” she wrote on October 13, 2017. “I was a Kevin Spacey fan until he assaulted a loved one. Time the dominoes fall.”

Almost immediately after sending that tweet, Unruh, a former Boston news anchor and lifelong Nantucket summer resident, started getting calls from around the world.

“People were calling from every major television network, every tabloid newspaper and magazine,” she says. “Even as a former journalist, I was terrified. I barricaded myself into the house and thought, ‘What the hell have I done?’”

Soon reporters came knocking at her door in Dover, Massachusetts wanting to know the story behind the tweet. Who had Kevin Spacey assaulted? Who was the “loved one” she was referring to in the tweet? “I was bombarded,” she says. “I had to put signs in my window: Beware of Dog. Private Property. Keep off.”

Two weeks later, Hollywood actor Anthony Rapp came forward in a story published

by BuzzFeed, alleging that Spacey had sexually assaulted him thirty-one years ago when he was only fourteen. The shocking story prompted a flimsy apology from Spacey, who claimed to not remember the encounter and diminished the alleged incident as “drunken

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behavior.” But Unruh knew that Anthony Rapp wasn’t Spacey’s only victim. There were

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others out there—including her own son.

In November, Unruh appeared in a conference room in Boston, dressed in black and flanked by her daughter Kylie and lawyer Mitch Garabedian, the attorney who represented victims in the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal. “In July 2016, actor Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted my son,” Unruh began tearfully, amidst the chatter of cameras. “It happened late

paced the room restlessly, trying to unravel the night’s events and decide what to do next.

“He always wanted to speak out,” Unruh said, three months after the press conference. “From the very next day, he wanted to stop him. But he was really afraid and really embarrassed. He was afraid of taking on such a big prominent celebrity. He was also really worried about what would happen to The Club Car and the bartenders.”

At the time, Unruh’s son was working as a busboy at The Club Car, which was then under the ownership of Joe Pantorno. The restaurant had been a family favorite for years. “It’s a place where we celebrated life’s moments,” Unruh says. “Even back when I was working in restaurants, that’s the place we went for last call.” Unruh’s son continued to work at The Club Car, and the family only told a handful of friends on the island about the incident. It wasn’t until more than a year later, emboldened by the rise of the #MeToo movement, that Unruh’s son filed a police report on Nantucket.

“It still feels very much like an open wound,” Unruh says. “I don’t even know where Kevin Spacey is. Nobody seems to know.

He could be in another country and never coming back.” As long as Spacey is still out there, Unruh and her family can’t really begin to heal. As with other celebrity sexual assault cases such as those involving Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey hasn’t been brought before a court or had any formal charges filed against him. This despite the fact that fifteen other men have since come out alleging that he assaulted them, including at least five who were in their teens at the time of the alleged Eight of the fifteen men who have accused Kevin Spacey of inappropriate behavior, abuse, or sexual assault.

incidents.

“It still feels very much like an open wound…I don’t even know where Kevin Spacey is.

Nobody seems to know.”

— Heather Unruh

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ccording to Nantucket Police

derstand that she may not want to get in-

Rape—is dedicated to raising awareness

Chief Bill Pittman, the in-

volved. I understand it’s frightening and

about sexual violence through peer-to-peer

vestigation into the alleged

it’s a distraction from her life,” she says.

programs. Unruh’s daughter now runs the

incident on Nantucket was swiftly taken

“But here’s a young man who has showed

organization, which has since launched a

over by the Cape and the Islands dis-

so much courage to come forward and

chapter on Martha’s Vineyard. Unruh hopes

trict attorney. “The DA arranged to do

take on this person. Surely, she can show a

organizations like SWEAR and examples of

the interviews over on the Cape with their

little of that courage too and stand up and

courage like her son will help empower oth-

investigators,” Chief Pittman indicated

support him.”

er male victims to come out of the shadows.

by email. “We sent a detective over to sit

As for her son, Unruh says he checks

Waiting for the slow wheels of justice

in, but to my knowledge we have had no

in with her a couple times a week for up-

has taken a toll on the family. Unruh has endured

involvement since.” The Cape and the Is-

dates on the case. Now a sophomore in

vulgar trolling online by “keyword cowards,” as

land District Attorney’s office declined to

college, he cannot speak publically while

she calls them. “I was accused of going for an

answer questions regarding the case, only

the investigation is underway. “Most men

attention grab or that we must be moneygrub-

commenting that it was still an open in-

who come forward aren’t nineteen years

bers,” she says. “When they started coming out,

vestigation.

One person who could break this case wide open is the unknown woman who witnessed Spacey assaulting Unruh’s son before telling him to run. Despite publically thanking the woman and beseeching her to come forward, Unruh says she

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hasn’t heard from the unknown

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they were incredibly hurtful. There were

“Most men who come forward aren’t nineteen years old; my son is an exception... Most men live with a dark secret for a long time. One in six men are sexually assaulted by the time they’re eighteen.”

— Heather Unruh

some that said, ‘Your son is gay and he loved every minute of it.’ One of them actually found a picture of my son and put a caption…” Unruh pauses, tears pooling in her eyes. “Anyone who thinks that because he wasn’t raped, he wasn’t hurt—is mistaken.”

As for her family’s feelings about Nantucket, Heather Unruh says noth-

hero. “I’m so grateful that

ing has changed. “Nantucket is my

she stopped it from becom-

home. It will always be my happy

ing something much worse,” she says.

old; my son is an exception,” Unruh says.

place,” she says. “I don’t feel any different-

“I will always be grateful. But I will be

“Most men live with a dark secret for a

ly about the island.” In fact, with her daugh-

very disappointed if she doesn’t come

long time. One in six men are sexually as-

ter graduating from high school and her son

forward and make a statement to inves-

saulted by the time they’re eighteen. Why

already away at college, Unruh and her hus-

tigators. She was a witness to a crime.

isn’t anyone talking about that?”

band are considering moving to Nantucket

Plain and simple.” At the end of Febru-

Unruh points to an organization her

year-round. In the meantime, they remain

ary, Unruh tweeted out another plea for

son founded as a junior at Dover Sherburn

fully committed to fighting for their son’s

the woman to come forward, but there’s

High School as a source of his courage.

justice and seeing to it that Kevin Spacey

been no word from her as of yet. “I un-

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Summer resident Joe Donelan’s winery emerges from the deadliest fire in California history.

Joe Donelan has always talked about his career in wine as a journey, but this fall it became more like a nightmare. On the evening of October 8th, a series of fires broke out in California’s wine country that engulfed hundreds of thousands of acres in Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino Counties. The blazes destroyed over eight thousand homes and claimed forty-four lives, making it the deadliest fire in California history. Winds gusted up to seventy miles per hour, spreading the flames across highways, up mountainsides and into residential communities. Amidst the 210,000 acres of scorched earth, Joe Donelan’s prized Obsidian vineyard was burned beyond recognition.

A San Diego Cal Fire firefighter monitors a flare up on a the head of the Nuns fire (the Southern LNU Complex), Wednesday Oct. 11, 2017 off of High Road above the Sonoma Valley. A wind shift caused flames to move quickly up hill and threaten homes in the area. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat)

An aerial view of the destruction in Coffey Park in Santa Rosa on Oct. 10, 2017. (John Burgess/The Press Democrat)

t was a war zone,” says Donelan, who has owned a home on Nantucket with his wife Chris since 1986. “Four hundred yards away from our winery looked like Germany after the Allied Forces bombed it in World War II.” The streets were strewn with burned cars. Homes were reduced to piles of ash and charred chimney stacks. The flames had fortuitously spared Donelan’s winery, which held the lion’s share of his inventory, but the vineyard where his grapes were sourced for his award-winning, flagship Syrah was destroyed.

“Honestly, it was probably one of the most difficult experiences I’ve encountered in my life,” says Donelan. Throughout Sonoma and Napa, tourists stopped visiting, and tasting room sales plummeted. “It’s been a huge kick in the teeth,” he says. Making matters worse, Donelan’s insurance company challenged their claim for the destruction of his six-acre Obsidian Vineyard. The insurance company argued that it covers buildings and equipment, but not plants. “All that I have is my vines—that’s my factory,” Donelan pleaded. But the insurance company held firm, reducing his 5,900 vines, what Donelan says are some of the oldest Syrah plantings in Northern California, to a total loss.

But Joe Donelan has never been one to roll over. A bulldog who made his career in the paper industry, Donelan doubled down on his pursuits in wine, beginning by helping rebuild the surrounding community in Sonoma. Almost immediately after the flames were extinguished, he pledged to donate 30 percent of his sales that month to the recovery effort. In November, he and his sons handed over a check for $32,000 to the Sonoma County Resilience Fund and United Way of Wine Country—this at a time when his tasting room sales were down 60 percent.

“There’s a esprit de corps out there, a camaraderie,” Donelan says. “The people of Sonoma have bonded together.

We all believe that we will come back stronger in more ways than one. There’s power in regeneration.”

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ritical to that recovery is for tourism to return. Wineries are back up and running and depend on visitors. “Come now,” Donelan says. “Don’t wait for the summer.” As for his burned vineyard, Donelan Family Wine started over—literally from the ground up.

With his lawyers still grappling with the insurance company, he refused to wait any longer to begin preparing the vineyard for new vines. After filing for a permit, his team began removing charred trees, ripping up the melted irrigation system and clearing other debris from the property.

“It’s an extraordinary site,” he says. “I put it in the top ten vineyard sites of all the places I’ve seen in the world.” Once the new vines are planted—they’re planting twice as many vines as were in the old vineyard—Donelan speculates that it will take between five to seven years before they can harvest grapes that will produce the quality wine in which he takes pride. “We won’t know that until we actually go through the process,” he says. It’s a heartbreaking amount of time to wait, but as Joe Donelan always says, “Wine is a journey, not a destination.”

A longtime participant in the Nantucket Wine Festival, Donelan Family Wines will be pouring their wines at the Harbor Gala and the Grand Tastings, as well as at sold-out Great Wines in Grand Homes event. Outside of the Wine Festival, the Donelans will be doing a tasting at Épernay on Friday, May 18th from 5-6.

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IN THE FACE OF MORE FREQUENT FLOODING EVENTS, MANY WONDER: HOW LONG NANTUCKET CAN CONTINUE TO TREAD WATER?

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ormer Nantucket Fire Chief Bruce Watts re- become known as the Perfect Storm drowned the members piloting a rescue boat during the No- Brant Point neighborhood between Galley Beach and

Name storm on October 30, 1991 in the Brant Point Easton Street and from The Cliff to the harbor chanarea when he hit something unexpected. “We heard nel. Flooding of a magnitude that devastating hadn’t a clunk, and the motor swung up, and I looked…and been seen again—until this winter. there was a Volkswagen that we hit with the prop,”

Winter storms Grayson and Riley have wrested

he says. “I mean, there was at least eight feet of wa- Nantucket back to the ominous reality of being ground

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ter [on Hulbert Ave.]” Floodwaters from what’s since zero for sea level rise. “[Riley] was the storm that had

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the most significant flooding that I’ve personally seen,” says Nantucket Natural Resources Coordinator Jeff Carlson. “I moved out here in 2000, and I wasn’t here for the No-Name Storm, but this is definitely the largest single amount of water that I’ve seen come into these areas.”

In the past, major flooding events from storms have occurred far enough apart to earn them the National Weather Service monikers of 50- or 100-year storms. However, with several nor’easters hitting in succession, this past winter is a portent that Nantucket is dangerously unprepared for sea level rise and inevitable future storms.

The devastation of this winter’s storms was unmistakable. Riley flooded the Brant Point area and the downtown blocks with several feet of water.

The storm pulverized the floating docks of the town pier, undermined Polpis Road near Sesachacha Pond, submerged finger piers and boat basin docks, and engulfed Straight Wharf and the nearby Stop & Shop parking lot. Meanwhile, Grayson’s arrival coincided with single-digit temperatures that, combined with flooding, ruptured downtown sewer lines, forcing the town to discharge

2.7

million gallons of sewage into the harbor.

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“The Dutch government has invested tens of billions of Euros into its water management programs. The country deploys a sophisticated system of dikes, dunes, dams, and mechanized surge barriers to resist and control the coastal rising sea levels.”

— Ambassador Timothy Broas

Weir called Algerakering, in river Hollandse IJssel to prevent flooding during high water standings.

After the flood of 1953, this was the first work of the deltawerken in Krimpen aan den IJssel

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think it’s very eye-opening to people to see just how vulnerable some of these resources are and how important this is to really pick up the pace and figure out how to bet-

ter protect our infrastructure,” says Carlson. Practical solutions

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are in the works. Already, some of the outfall pipes emptying into the harbor are fitted with outgoing, one-way only “duck bill” valves. In 2017, the town refortified the Easy Street Basin bulkhead, raising it by 18 inches.

As Nantucket’s sea-level-rise protocol evolves, the island may want to look to the sophisticated strategies employed in the Netherlands—where much of the country is near or below Aerial view of sluice Prinses Maxima in river Maas near the town of Lith, Holland. sea level—such as “controlled flooding.” Using a combination of dams, barriers, sluices and flood overflow containment areas, the Netherlands has learned to live with sea level rise.

Unfortunately, there’s no cheap or easy solution for Nantucket to adopt from the Netherlands, says Ambassador Timothy Broas, a Nantucket summer resident who served as ambassador to the Netherlands under the Obama Administration and who worked on the frontlines of Dutch climate change efforts.

“The Dutch government has invested tens of billions of Euros into its water management programs,” he explains. “The country deploys a sophisticated system of dikes, dunes, dams and mechanized surge barriers to resist and control the coastal rising sea levels.” With almost two-thirds of

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the Netherlands below sea level, Broas explains, the government regularly

Aerial picture of the Oosterscheldekering, a storm surge barrier which is part of the delta works to protect Holland 78 from high sea level

reclaims significant portions of land from the sea in order to redirect threatening levels of water and develop new land masses, known as polders.

“A nationwide system of managed canals operates to control and measure outgoing and incoming water. Many of the Dutch provinces also flood designated parts of the country as a measure of control and flood plain maintenance, and to assist with agricultural and salinization demands.”

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land.

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Hazard Mitigation and Coastal Resiliency plans are discussed in terms of smart development, storm water system upgrades, flood storage capacity, forced sewer main relocation, bio-retention systems, best management practices and flood elevation construction. According to Carlson, these measures will have a long-term cost running into the millions of dollars because of needed upgrades to decades-old infrastructure, development of flood-centric design standards and employing new safeguards.

The Hazard Mitigation and Coastal Resiliency plans will help prepare for and protect the island from future storm events, while giving it the tools to quickly rebound and rebuild after the carnage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The town is understanding that these storms are not going to get less frequent and sea level is defi-

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on all these projects together, instead of planning for the next 10 years, we need to be planning for further out knowing that in 50 years, the sea is not going to

Because of upgrading decades-old infrastructure, development of flood-centric design standards and employing new safeguards, will run into the millions of dollars over the long haul.

be at the same level that it is today,” says Carlson.

At the homeowner’s level, the rising sea-level and flooding trends has given rise to new businesses on the island dedicated to protecting people’s properties. This April, John Kitchener sent out 350 direct mail pieces to a cross section of island homes that are at risk of flooding.

A former senior executive at Avon cosmetics, Kitchener moved to the island full-time in 2006 and is now launching Nantucket Property Protection, Inc., a caretaking operation that will deploy sophisticated monitoring technology in his clients’ homes to thwart destruction from future storms and flooding. “People who have never had water in their basement are getting water in their basement,” he explains.

“And it’s not flowing down from above; the water is coming up from ground.”

For $4,000 to $6,000 a year, Kitchener’s Nantucket-

you need to resolve the situation quickly,” he says. “This is our

based team will not only monitor a property through digital

only business: looking after people’s homes twenty-four hours a

devices and weekly visits, but they will create contingency

day, seven days a week.”

plans for when disaster strikes. “We’re going to have our

Steamboat Wharf’s tide gauge data reveals long-term aver-

own inventory of generators, pumps and all the equipment

age sea level rise around Nantucket is 3.6 millimeters annually.

From

1965

to

1999, it averaged 2.91mm and it doubled between 2000 to 2017 to 6.84mm. the

And

Intergovern-

mental Panel on Climate

Change

(IPCC)

predicts

the Northeast is likely to experience more rapid sea

level

rise

than much of the coastal areas on our planet predominantly to

a

due

“weaken-

ing Gulf Stream.” The current IPCC global sea level forecast is roughly three to 10 feet higher than present by 2100.

A locally popular estimate puts Nantucket on track to disappear in around 400 years, but Graham Giese, director of the Land & Sea Interaction Program at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Massachusetts has Nantucket losing six acres of upland annually to sea level rise. At roughly 30,000 acres and 112 feet above sea level, and erosion, Nantucket could hang around for much longer.

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WOMAN WRITTEN BY ROBERT COCUZZO

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Gabrielle Gould’s next overture as the executive director of Nantucket Music Center YOU’D BE HARD-PRESSED TO FIND A MORE DRIVEN PERSON ON NANTUCKET THAN GABRIELLE GOULD. Since moving to Nantucket full-time nearly twenty years ago, Gould has strung together a resume of accomplishments that defies rhyme or reason.

Just in the span of the last decade, she helped revitalize the Theatre Workshop as executive director, helmed the Nantucket Bank as vice president and opened a successful restaurant with her husband Brandt—all while raising two young boys. This spring, Gould has reinvented herself once again by taking over the role of executive director of Nantucket Music Center (NMC). N Magazine recently caught up with this Renaissance woman to see what inspired her to change her tune.

N MAGAZINE: You’ve worn so many hats on the island—restaurateur, bank VP, actress, fundraiser, mother—what motivates you to continually reinvent yourself?

GOULD: I do not see these as so many separate hats; they are each and every one a part of my greater whole. I think we, as human beings, are so multifaceted, with so many different aspects and skills. As we grow and age, we nurture parts of us that have been waiting patiently. Hopefully, we continue to learn, experience and, sure – reinvent. I am not a fan of stagnation.

Some say never go back to an old beau, and I say once your job is done and the challenges are no longer coming, it is time to move on. Also some “hats” do not fit right, no matter how hard you and the people who tossed the hat your way try. You come to a point where the hat is better suited for someone else, and you know it is for the best.

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N MAGAZINE: What was appealing about the NMC position?

GOULD: When a friend pulled me aside and asked if I was interested, my immediate response was: “No, I have a good thing going right now.” Then I came home and mentioned it to my husband, Brandt. I just got this feeling—this feeling that I wanted to do more. I seriously missed the arts, the running of “the show,” so to speak, and being the multi-faceted renaissance person one must be to run a nonprofit on Nantucket. As for returning to the arts, sometimes you just know where you belong, where you give back and where you are fueled.

N MAGAZINE: Do you have a background in music?

GOULD: I do. I briefly studied opera at Juilliard, but I realized my heart and talents were far more for theater. I took what was supposed to be a semester off, but it became a different school and life all together. I do not sing anymore, mainly due to time, but I have a huge love for music and all that it brings and gives. I feel this is a great opportunity for me on so many levels, none of them performing. My skills these days are far more suited to working with the faculty, staff, students and board to make sure NMC is its greatest self.

N MAGAZINE: Aside from your on-the-job experience, do you have an educational background in running nonprofits?

GOULD: Harvard Executive Business School. My studies were solely based on not-for-profit management. We worked on case studies spanning the globe.

It was amazing studying successful medical nonprofits in India, major US nonprofits, small nonprofits that defied all the odds. The brain food was staggering.

N MAGAZINE: What are your plans for the NMC’s future?

GOULD: I see a more streamlined organization. One of our first missions is to return Nantucket Music Center to Nantucket Community Music Center. There seemed to be a trend of negativity toward the word “community,” and as a member of this community, I think it was the wrong trend. This Community Music Center has been part of the remarkable careers of highly talented and successful musicians. We are proud of that. From what I have seen in terms of talent on faculty, I have a feeling there will be many more successful professional musicians who started their training with us as a part of our community.

N MAGAZINE: What are the inherent challenges facing NMC, and how do you plan on addressing them?

GOULD: Nonprofits are a constant challenge. They are businesses like any other with bills, rising costs, the need to remain relevant. Then add to that most of your budget is balanced not by the goods you provide, but by the foundations, businesses and individuals who believe in what you do. Therein lies the challenge. We have a stunning facility, great faculty, a dedicated board.

Now we just have to balance the budget, stay in the black, and make it look effortless! But seriously, my plan is to see what is working and what is not, and I am sure there will be some “who-does-she think-she-is?” moments, but at days end, we need to offer the best to our community, keep our faculty and staff fed and passionate, as well as keep the books balanced.

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N MAGAZINE: Can you talk a little bit about the

GOULD: We read regularly that funding is be-

atre Workshop was struggling, as were many

potential in the NMC’s facility and how you

ing taken away from our public schools

other nonprofits, to find stable grants on-is-

plan on maximizing it?

for arts. This is where we come in. Every

land. ReMain, along with other foundations

GOULD: One of the most exciting things I have

child deserves the opportunity to paint, act,

and grant givers, gave several organizations

seen is the recording studio. There’s so much

sing, dance, play an instrument and so on.

a little breathing room. So much of what our

potential. In the same way that Nantucket

So many adults find passions they never

community has to offer today was made pos-

Community Television is teaching editing and

knew they had later in life, and these com-

sible by ReMain. We have an actual cultural

filmmaking, we have the ability to turn kids

munity arts organizations are the place they

district now where our arts and culture is equal

into music producers, mixers and sound tech-

can come. The arts must be there to feed our

to our world-class restaurants, beaches, ac-

nicians. It is so cool! Then there is, from what

souls, to make us laugh, weep, feel. We all

commodations and sunsets. I do not think that

I understand, a very under-utilized and gor-

have a soundtrack to our lives. Those songs

is anything short of fantastic!

geous parlor for small gatherings and concerts.

and the players who play them started some-

Then, well, there are all these beyond-talented

where in some community, on some stage or

N MAGAZINE: Although you’ve just started this

musicians…the possibilities are endless. To-

in some small room or church. I think Nan-

new position, are there any dream jobs left on

day I say what can’t we do to maximize this

tucket’s community knows this.

your bucket list?

GOULD: I still hold fast to the dream that when

building and this organization?

N MAGAZINE: NMC is a ReMain project. Can

and if we leave Nantucket I will attend law

N MAGAZINE: The arts are an important compo-

you talk a little bit about the mission of Re-

school and start or join a family law prac-

nent of our island’s fabric. Can you speak a

Main and how it’s enriching the island?

tice. Separately, if I had it my way, I would

little as to why you think that is and how you

GOULD: ReMain has really changed the face

be working in a third world country bring-

see the arts growing and changing on Nan-

of the arts on Nantucket. If memory serves

ing lights, books, supplies. But with kids, I

tucket in the next decade?

me, Dreamland was a boarded up box. NMC

choose to stay safe and close to home. What

was upstairs in a drafty building. The The-

dreams may come…

“Hopefully, we continue to learn, experience and, sure – reinvent. I am not a fan of stagnation: some say never go back to an old beau and I say once your job is done and the challenges are no longer coming it is time to move on.”

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PICNICKING in the

PAST

DAFFODIL FESTIVAL MARKS THE UNOFFICIAL BEGINNING OF PICNIC SEASON. With the classic car parade culminating on Milestone Road in Sconset with the annual tailgate picnic, Daffy enthusiasts roll out elaborate spreads that would make Martha Stewarts of the world gasp. But picnicking is nothing new on Nantucket. From clambakes to barbecues, Nantucketers have always taken dining out seriously. Courtesy of

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the NHA archives, hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a photographic smorgasbord of picnics from the past.

98 Doyle family picnic on the Sconset bluff, 1900s

Dionis beach picnic, 1935

Coatue clambake, 1915

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Ladies picnic in the moors, 1935

Diners on the deck of the Sail Loft restaurant, Straight Wharf, 1977

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Nantucket Yacht Club beach picnic, 1966

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Nantucket Yacht Club clambake, 1927

Coatue beach picnic at third bend, 1931

Wauwinet picnic, 1939

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Off-Season Adventures

FOGGYSHEET nantucket

TIM EHRENBERG & SANTI SCHEURELL IN GRAND CAYMAN, CARIBBEAN ISLANDS

GABRIELLE & BRANDT GOULD IN AMSTERDAM

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ZOFIA CROSBY IN TULUM, MEXICO

GAR IN D

GARY KOHNER IN COSTA RICA

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MARIE-CLAIRE ROCHAT & HER DAUGHTER MIA SILVERIO HIKING IN THE ANDES

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KIT NOBLE IN MACHU PICCHU, PERU

KATIE KAIZER & EVAN SCHWANFELDER IN IRELAND

JILL

DAM

CAROLINE OTT & COLIN SZABO IN KAUAI, HAWAII

GARY LANGELY & LINDA SIMMONS IN DARJEELING, INDIA

JENNY JOHNSON & ROBERT COCUZZO IN NEPAL

JOSH GRAY & SARAH HEARTFIELD IN PARIS

JOE HALE AT THE NORTH POLE

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JILLIAN DOWNEY & STEPHEN MANTIA, ARUBA

CHRIS WENDZICKI & LAURA CUNNINGHAM IN NORWAY

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Small Friends Hoedown

FOGGYSHEET nantucket

JENNIFER & ROB DUNBAR

JENNIFER & NEIL HUDSON

HOLLY WALL & BISY STANCHEVA

ETHAN GRIFFIN & BRIDGETTE HYNES

AMANDA LENDWAY & JACKIE MCGRADY

ASHLEY LAWSON & CAROL PILLION

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GARY PILLION & CAROL PILLION

HOPE GAGNON, JOANNE MCAVEETY & JACKIE MCGRADY

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DAVID SYLVIA

BISY STANCHEVA & CARA MARQUIS

AMY LEDOUX & MIKE CLAAR

LISA

RACHEL LARSON, HEATHER WOODBURY & NAOMI HARNISHFEGER

NATASHA WILLAUER & SUSAN MCCARTHY

NAOMI HARNISHFEGER & TJ GRANT

NORM & JENNIFER FRAZEE

NATALIE GONZALEZ

NIKKI SANTIAGO & HOPE GAGNON

KYLE PRINTZ & ASHLEY LAWSON

MARY MICHETTI, ALLY DIAMOND & JEANNE DIAMOND

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LISA PAONE & JEANNE DIAMOND

JOE & STACEY PERRY PHOTOGRAPHY BY LAURIE RICHARDS

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Maven Opening- Palm Beach

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STUART FREILICH, HENRY FONDU, DAVID SILVA, PHYLLIS FRIELICH & KAREN FONDU

KEVIN ANDERSON & BOB MOULDER

M CHARLIE & PAT MCGILL

BONNIE ROSEMAN & MARIE JACOBS

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FRIENDS OF MAVEN

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JOHN MANERA, JASMINE ALCANTARA & FRIEND

DOROTHY SLOVER & ALL KOVALENCIK

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DAVID & ELIZA SILVA

FELIX & OLIVIA CHARNEY, ELIZA SILVA, MICHAEL Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;MARA & ANTONIJA MULICHKOSKA

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Theatre Workshop Palm Beach “Friendraiser”

VIRGINIA & HUSBAND MARINA, EILEEN BERMAN & JAY BAUER

MICHAEL ATCHISON & JACKIE GONELLA

PHYLLIS & STUART FREILICH

MARIA ROACH, JEAN DOYEN DE MONTAILLOU & JILL KARP

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JOHN SHEA, MARIA ROACH, SUSAN LUCIER & JUSTIN CERNE

JEAN DOYEN DE MONTAILLOU & MICHAEL KOVNER

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ELLE FOLEY, MARK & NANCY KOZAK & FRIENDS

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Nantucket Comedy Festival - Palm Beach

FOGGYSHEET nantucket

SAR

GEORGEANNE & ROGER BALLOU, MARIA & GEORGE ROACH

JOHN J. BUCKEY & KEVIN FLYNN

JUL

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PAOLA GONFRADE, ROBERT SARKISIAN, SUSAN HANDY

JILL KARP, SANDY NORCROSS & ANNE MCCOLLUM

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SARAH SYLVIA, JESSE & HADLEY DUTRA

PAGE MARTINEAU & SARAH BROOKS

COURTNEY MCKECHNIE, JUSTIN BROOKS, GREG MCKECHNIE, LAURA GRAVES & ROB GRAVES

JULIE GAMMILL & KATE GARRETT

JANET FLANAGAN & TRACY ROBERTS

CAM GAMMILL & MIRKA AHERN

CHRIS & ANNA YOUNG

OLGA KAPTUR & EUGENE SHUBIN

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JEN & CORY GAMMILL

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NOT SO FAST

Boy Meets World A QUICK CHAT WITH GEOGRAPHY BEE CHAMP CLYDE KELLY

N MAGAZINE: Can you give us an example of a really hard

KELLY: Training for this competition has

so I would study for the geography bee

question you could get asked in the bee?

taught me about the cultures of many

right after school so I still had plenty of

KELLY: “What is the longest river in South Africa?” or

countries, so I would love to travel to

time to do homework in the evening.

“What is the largest city in Turkmenistan?”

all different parts of the world. I would love to check out places such as Japan

N MAGAZINE: What’s one thing you’ve

N MAGAZINE: When you’re answering a tough question

or the Scandinavian countries because

learned from this experience that sur-

like that, what’s going on in your mind? Are you visual-

they both have such different features

prised you?

izing the map?

from Nantucket.

KELLY: The thing that has surprised me

KELLY: I sometimes try to imagine a map, but not always.

most is the huge amount of content to

Trying to match names with specific places or trying to

N MAGAZINE: How do you train for a com-

learn. If you wanted, you could study for-

find context clues in more descriptive questions is also

petition like this?

ever and still have ground to cover. One

quite helpful.

KELLY: Most of my training for the state

surprising (and sad) fact I learned is that

bee has been with my teacher from fifth

since the late 70’s the Aral Sea has been

N MAGAZINE: Outside of the United States, what region of

grade, Mr. Lucas. He is currently the

steadily draining due to human activity,

the world are you most familiar with and why?

sixth grade geography teacher, so I am

and is now almost completely dry.

KELLY: I try to balance my knowledge of the world

able to go to his room and study with

throughout many regions, but I am most familiar with

him after school most days. We cover

N MAGAZINE: What advice would you give

European geography. Since it is the focus of a lot of

a broad variety of subjects, including

someone who is trying to get better at

wars and political revolutions, I have based a decent

bodies of water, mountain ranges, po-

geography?

amount of research around it.

litical divisions, and history of regions.

KELLY: One of the things that I have been

He quizzes me often, and working with

doing before I even knew about this

him has been massively helpful.

competition is simply reading about and

N MAGAZINE: Is there a part of the world that you really

researching the world, one region at a

want to visit after training for this competition? If so, where and why?

N MAGAZINE: And it’s not just about mem-

time. Following what you find inter-

orizing maps, right? You need to know

esting is bound to give you some good

all sorts of information, right?

knowledge if you dig around a bit.

KELLY: Studying maps is certainly beneficial, but there is a lot of content that

N MAGAZINE: What part of Nantucket’s

maps cannot provide. Knowing histori-

geography do you find most interesting

cal events and culture is just as impor-

and why?

tant as knowing physical features.

KELLY: I think the most interesting thing

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N MAGAZINE: Did you find it difficult train-

the effort to save it. Because so much of

ing for the competition while also jug-

the land on our island is conserved, we are

gling your school work? How did you

able to keep things such as our marshland

manage your time?

and animal life thriving and undisturbed.

KELLY: Studying for the competition has

There are not many communities that can

not affected my ability to handle school-

say that, so it just makes the island that

work. My schoolwork is my top priority,

much more special.

This past April, Clyde Kelly competed in the semifinals of the National Geographic state geography bee after winning the Cyrus Pierce Middle School bee and passing a written test. Kelly was one of only 100 kids to make it to the semifinals in the state.

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