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JOE PANTORNO Marijuana Dispensaries
HIGH DEMAND The Ring Master
JAMIE SIMINOFF The People vs.
KEVIN SPACEY
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2019 CONTRIBUTORS N 20 Meet the talented folks who helped make this issue possible.
NUMBERS N 22 A statistical snapshot of Nantucket in the spring.
N NEAT STUFF 24
Move over Nantucket Reds, there’s a new shade of pink in town—ACK Rosé.
N TOPTEN 26
The ultimate guide to this year’s Nantucket Wine and Food Festival.
N TRENDING 28 What’s going viral on
#Nantucket this spring?
HEALTHNWELLNESS N 30
Courtney McKechnie of CORE gives her top tips for living your best life.
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The newest hotel on Nantucket, Hotel Pippa, masters the master bedroom and beyond.
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All the news, tidbits and scuttlebutt that’s fit to print.
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A new restaurant—or, The Whale—will be making a splash on Main Street.
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42 PUERTO RICAN PROMISE
51 HIGH DEMAND
Carlos Castrello and Nantucket Cares follow through with their commitment to rebuilding Puerto Rico.
47 THE LAST CALL
Remembering Nantucket’s legendary restaurateur Joe Pantorno.
Nantucket’s first two marijuana dispensaries get the green light.
56 THE PEOPLE VS. KEVIN SPACEY
A real-world Hollywood courtroom drama is unfolding on the island.
NDEPTH NDEPTH 64 NEW HOSPITAL DELIVERS
Five years in the making, the new Nantucket Cottage Hospital opens its doors to patients.
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Jamie Siminoff sounds off after selling his company, Ring, to Amazon for $1 billion.
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Remembering
JOE PANTORNO The Local Magazine Read Worldwide
Marijuana Dispensaries
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The Ring Master
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KEVIN SPACEY
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In honor of the new Nantucket Cottage Hospital, take a look back at the island’s health care of yesteryear.
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The May issue commemorates the opening of the new Nantucket Cottage Hospital with an aerial photograph by Chief Photographer Brian Sager and a little creative magic by N’s Artistic Director, Paulette Chevalier.
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Blair Mack and Bentsen Falb tied the knot in a ravishingly beautiful wedding on Nantucket.
A quick chat with local poetry performer Phaedra Plank.
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DELIVERY If a healthy island is a happy island, Nantucket should be smiling a lot more these days. Our brand-new hospital is now open and advances the level of care on the island by leaps and bounds. For those that have not yet seen it, it’s worth a special visit. Our cover story on the Nantucket Cottage Hospital details many subtle aspects of the facility that make this an exceptional healing environment. Regarding a more controversial form of treatment, medical and recreational marijuana has come to Nantucket. We met with the ownership teams of The Green Lady and ACK Natural to learn about the many highs and lows—and in some cases, heady competition—of opening a dispensary on the island. The weather this past winter was far calmer than in previous years, but a huge media storm hit Nantucket in January when Kevin Spacey was forced to appear in court to face charges of assault leveled against him by the Cape and Islands District Attorney. We take a look at this real-life Hollywood drama, as media from around
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the globe descended on Nantucket to begin their coverage of what could be a long and drawn out court case. Closer to home, N Magazine interviews summer resident Jamie Siminoff in our NBIZZ feature regarding his wildly successful company Ring, which he recently sold to Jeff Bezos and Amazon. The billion-dollar price tag caught the attention of the business world and landed Siminoff in the judge’s seat on Shark Tank where his concept was originally rejected when he presented it a few years earlier. On a sad note, Nantucket resident and longtime owner of the Club Car Restau-
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rant, Joe Pantorno, unexpectedly passed away in recent months, leaving friends and family in a state of disbelief. Pantorno’s adventurous nature, magnetic personality and storytelling skills won him friends in high places, but he never forgot from where he came. For those who knew him, he will be missed. The only true wealth on Nantucket is health, and the new hospital will hopefully help both islanders and summer residents for many years to come. The hospital was a gift from the island to itself and is a shining example of the strength of the Nantucket community. Enjoy spring and be well. Sincerely,
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CONTRIBUTORS BILL HOENK Bill Hoenk is a full-time freelance photographer and offers personalized photography tours and workshops through Capture Nantucket. His photography has graced the pages of many local, national and international publications including a photo on the cover of a special edition of Time. For this issue, Bill photographed Kevin Spacey and the media circus surrounding his arraignment this winter.
SARA GRAYSON Sara Grayson is a Boston-based photographer who seeks to capture genuine emotions and connections in beautiful light. Sara’s work has appeared on Cosmopolitan.com and in N Magazine. Sara received her undergraduate degree from Colby College and her master’s degree from Boston College. She currently lives in a suburb of Boston with her husband, two young sons, daughter, and yellow lab. For this May issue, Sara photographed the team behind Nantucket’s newest marijuana dispensary, ACK Natural.
JOSHUA GRAY A native of Massachusetts, Joshua Bradford Gray is a former newspaper journalist, a freelance writer and landscape, lifestyle and travel photographer. Having traveled to dozens of countries while calling Nantucket his year-round home, Josh’s portfolio of work, both in writing and photography, reflects his wide range of interests, but none more so than his love for Nantucket. An active member of the community, Josh is also the director of Marketing & Communications and the Film Programmer for the Nantucket Dreamland. For this N magazine
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million Flowers bloom on the island in April.
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Tenure of Atheneum executive director, Molly Anderson, who will retire at the end of this year.
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The year Nantucket lifted the ban on automobiles, the last community to do so in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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SPECIAL WINE FEST EDITION
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WELCOME RECEPTION
PROVENÇAL ROSÉ BRUNCH
NAMASTE THEN ROSÉ
Cheers to the opening of the 23rd annual Nantucket Wine and Food Festival. Clink your glasses with luminaries of the wine world and get a chance to chat with them before they hit the festival scene. Enjoy cocktails by Woodford Reserve Bourbon and a fun photo booth from N Magazine.
Delight in the wine world’s trendiest beverage while dining on delicious dishes prepared by Chefs Brian Alberg of Red Lion Inn and Terence Feury of Forty 1º North. Côtes de Provence will be the star of the show as winemakers from Hecht & Bannier, Château d’Esclans, Château Minuty and Miraval pour glasses of the region’s famous pink drink.
Talk terroir in tree pose during this class for wine-loving yogis. Winemaker Susana Balbo will be on hand to stretch your palate while celebrity chef Elizabeth Falkner will expand your knowledge of mindful cooking with a live demonstration. A perfect start to your Saturday!
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 5:00 – 7:30 PM WHITE ELEPHANT
FRIDAY, MAY 17 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM WHITE ELEPHANT
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Treat yourself to two of the world’s finest luxuries at “Bubbles & Caviar.” Indulge in Italian sparkling wines from Ca’ del Bosco of the Lombardy region and Calvisius caviar as you learn why these two treats are a match made in culinary heaven.
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THURSDAY, MAY 16 6:00 – 8:30 PM WHITE ELEPHANT
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This party is always the talk and the toast of the town! Celebrate the start of the festival and the 2019 season at the Harbor Gala under the big-top tent. Chefs from around the country will pair their dishes with wines from around the world. VIP guests will gain early access to the event and be welcomed with a glass of champagne.
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Bring your appetite to any of the three Culinary Tent sessions. Savor a glass of Santa Margherita Rosé as you watch cooking demos, sample food and shop your way through a culinary wonderland. Cap off the session with a refreshing signature cock-tail from the Tito’s Hand-made Vodka bar.
SATURDAY, MAY 18 – SUNDAY, MAY 19 WHITE ELEPHANT
The Grand Tastings are the festival centerpieces and provide the perfect opportunity to tickle your taste buds. With over 600 wines from 150 wineries around the world, there’s something everyone will love. Three Grand Tastings will take place during Saturday and Sunday.
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BY THE SEASHORE: CHAMPAGNE AND SHELLS
TITO’S YAPPY HOUR WITH NISHA
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Champagne and seafood make a perfectly quintessential Nantucket meal. Enjoy both at “By the Seashore” with three award-winning producers of Champagne and top chefs from Newport, Naples and Nantucket. The views of the ocean from the White Elephant are sure to delight, too.
SUNDAY, MAY 19 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM LOCATION TBA
This event is going to the dogs! Bring your furry best friend to Tito’s Yappy Hour for a tail-wagging good time. Enjoy a “Hair of the Dog” Bloody Mary while Fido devours artisan dog treats. All ticket sales and donations will go to Nantucket Island Safe Harbor for Animals, and Tito’s Handmade Vodka will match funds.
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Though they be but little, their cooking skills are fierce. At Junior Top Chef, four teams of culinary students will go head-to-head in a cooking contest benefiting the Nantucket High School Culinary Arts Program. Teams will receive a mystery basket of ingredients and have only one hour to cook their dishes. Proceeds from this event will be donated to the Nantucket Food Pantry.
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BOSTON’S OWN BRYNN
FASHION IN ACKTION
ALL ABOARD THE LOVE TRAIN
They say go big or go home, but our August 2018 cover star, Brynn Cartelli, managed to do both at once this past spring. Playing to a packed audience at TD Garden, Cartelli sang to her hometown crowd as part of her Voice mentor Kelly Clarkson’s national tour. The budding songstress donned a custom Bruins jersey for the occasion and her concert post on Instagram garnered over 20,000 likes.
Nantucket weekend warriors: meet Weekend Max Mara. The high fashion offshoot of couture brand Max Mara unveiled a new collection this spring titled “Nantucket” with millennial model Hailey Bieber as its face. Dressed in a variety of ginghams and bold prints, Bieber (née Baldwin, and married to yes, that Bieber) looked ready to hit the town — or in our case, just “Town.”
Local legends Meghan and Gary Trainor led the train to the dance floor at her recent wedding to Daryl Sabara. The former island singer wed the Spy Kids actor in a lavish ceremony in Los Angeles this past December, and photos of the nuptials went viral. People magazine posted a pic of the newlyweds that picked up 129,800 likes, but it was this shot of her dancing with her dad that captured our hearts (and 184,000 likes to boot).
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COURTNEY MCKECHNIE OF CORE GIVES HER TOP TIPS TO LIVING YOUR BEST LIFE I don’t believe in refraining from the good things in life. Instead, I believe in working hard and then enjoying the rewards. My idea of a healthy life is trying to find the balance between consistent exercise, clean eating and rest. Over the years, I have learned that each body has its own formula, but some basic rules apply.
EVERYTHING IN MODERATION. Too much of anything is not good for you. Too much food, drink, sleep, even exercise can offset the balance of a healthy lifestyle.
2 VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE. Sticking to only one form of exercise all the time can cause injury, an unbalanced body and boredom. Switch up your routine to activate your mind and a variety of muscle groups.
3 DON’T PUT OFF UNTIL TOMORROW, WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY. No excuses. Exercise just has to be part of your essential daily routine. We all have commitments and time constraints, but your well-being has to be a priority.
4 HYDRATION IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS. The average body is made up of 60 percent water. Every cell in your body needs it to function properly. Keep the tank replenished before, during and after exercise.
5 IT’S THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE. Take note of small physical changes and successes and use them as motivation. A healthy life is more of a marathon than a sprint.
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MOVEMENT HEALS. This is one of the basic tenets of Pilates. Whether you are recovering from injury or any form of weakness, movement is essential for the healing process.
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BOTTOM LINE: You want to feel better in body and mind? Find the methods that are right for you and get moving.
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Courtney McKechnie is entering her 12th summer season at Core, offering private and semi-private Pilates lessons for all levels. Core believes in developing core strength and longer and stronger muscles, and increasing flexibility to promote a well-balanced, healthy body. In addition, Core’s boutique offers hip workout and leisure clothing for every activity.
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After all the empty bottles are hauled away and the tents at the White Elephant are taken down, Nantucket Wine & Food Festival’s executive director Nancy Bean will be switching her attention to a new venture on the mainland. Bean will be commandeering EAT DRINK BOSTON!, a new festival presented in partnership with Food & Wine magazine.
Held in iconic locations throughout the city, such as Faneuil Hall and the Park Plaza Castle, EAT DRINK BOSTON! will take place November 1st–3rd. Pulling in some of her team from the Nantucket Wine Festival, Bean will be throwing signature events such as the Beantown Ball, where guests will wear formal and other fancy attire. That’s not to say that EAT DRINK BOSTON! will just be for the upper crust. “This is really for the masses,” Bean says. “There will be so many wonderful events.”
WHOA, ELLIE Actress, artist, innkeeper, philanthropist and longtime Nantucket resident, Ellie Gottwald, will be bringing the island yet another reason to love her. Gottwald recently took over the space of the late great William Welch on Old North Wharf. Front Porch Studio will showcase Gottwald’s island-inspired watercolor paintings as well as a handcrafted line of home goods and paper goods. Front Porch Studio will also feature the work of a local artist one week each month. “I’m all about encouraging and supporting a creative life,” Gottwald says, “whether it means sharing my space, offering wine and watercolor classes to wannabe artists, or selling travel watercolor sets with everything you’d need. It’s a joyful journey, I’m here to tell you.”
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At press time, news broke that Gwyneth Paltrow’s wildly successful (sometimes controversial) lifestyle company Goop was preparing to open a pop-up location on Centre Street on May 10th. Goop began as an e-newsletter that Paltrow sent out from her kitchen providing recipes and restaurant recommendations that morphed into an e-commerce giant valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. The company now produces everything from clothes, content and cosmetics, and has since opened brickand-mortar retail locations in New York, Tokyo and London. “Goop MRKT Nantucket will take shape as a summertime-themed general store reimagined as Goop’s summer beach residence with quintessential New England charm,” said communications director Jacqueline Weitzen. “The space will be stocked with goods across home, fashion, beauty, wellness and specialty, focusing on items to complete those quintessential summer moments at the beach, in the garden and entertaining outside.”
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When the commercial scalloping season drew to a close earlier this spring, Nantucketers were stunned by the final tally. According to the Inquirer and Mirror, commercial fishermen only pulled about 3,000 bushels of Nantucket Bay scallops this season. That number is down by a staggering 10,000 bushels. While many have worried that the scalloping industry might become a thing of the past, these numbers are starting to confirm the fears.
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The Dreamland’s summer speaker series is stacked with big names this year. Thanks in large part to former Meet the Press host and Dreamland board member, David Gregory, this summer’s Dreamland Conversations will showcase pundits and thought leaders from both sides of the aisle. July will feature Fox News anchor Bret Baier as well as George W. Bush’s former press secretary Ari Fleischer, while August will include CNN’s legal master Jeffrey Toobin and President Trump’s arch nemesis, Jim Acosta. Outside of politics, the summer Dreamland Conversations will also include a mother-son discussion between Maureen Orth and Luke Russert, a sneak peek at Nathaniel Philbrick’s latest book project and a presentation by astronaut Drew Feustel, who recently returned from the International Space Station. Suffice it to say, the entertainment will be out of this world.
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Recognizing that doing business on Nantucket is far different than anywhere else in the world, the Chamber of Commerce launched the Nantucket Island Center for Entrepreneurship (NICE) in January. Located at Zero Main Street, NICE is a centralized place for business owners and entrepreneurs to learn how to navigate and troubleshoot the many complexities of the island economy. “Research has proven that access to local resources is critical to the success of any entrepreneurial venture,” said David Martin, CEO of the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce. “With the generous support of ReMain Ventures, the Chamber can now offer these much needed resources, so island entrepreneurs will have the same support as their mainland counterparts.” Through this partnership with ReMain Ventures, NICE offers free oneon-one business consulting services as well as a number of free or affordable workshops covering everything from developing a business plan to advertising the business.
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Sushi by Yoshi has closed its doors, making way for Nantucket’s newest pizza joint. Pizzeria Gemelle was opened by the team at Ventuno, located just across the street. Chef Andrea Solimeo’s hand-tossed pies will pack fresh local ingredients and will be offered all day.
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After years on South Water Street, Fog Island Café has drifted from its downtown digs and consolidated their beloved breakfast and lunch joint into their mid-island sister restaurant, Keepers. While many are sad to see the Fog drift away to another location, they can take comfort in knowing that the restaurant will continue to serve up the classic plates and soups. Meanwhile, a new healthyeating option called The Beet is opening this May in Fog’s former space, offering breakfast and made-to-order salads and sandwiches.
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Back by popular demand, the Flower Power Party will kick off Daffodil Festival Weekend at the Nantucket Whaling Museum on Friday, April 26th. Benefiting the Nantucket Historical Association, the party was made possible through a partnership with the Nantucket Chamber of Commerce and N Magazine. “This is a perfect way for the public to jump-start and enhance their Daffy Weekend experience,” says NHA Events Manager Shantaw Bloise-Murphy. The rock band Bearstronaut is also returning to the Whaling Museum’s makeshift stage, while Island Kitchen will be serving up hors d’oeuvres. Prizes will be awarded for the best blooming outfit.
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N’s resident bookworm Tim Ehrenberg shares six of his favorite reads
THE CURRENT BY TIM JOHNSTON Perfect for an evening by the fire, The Current absolutely whisked me away to a cold Minnesota town. This wonderfully written mystery flows as intensely as the title suggests, diving into the indelible impact two crimes have on the innocent and the guilty and everyone in between.
LEADING MEN BY CHRISTOPHER CASTELLANI Christopher Castellani pulls you into the glamorous literary and film circles of 1950s Italy in telling the intimate story of Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo. Book clubs will enjoy unpacking Leading Men’s themes of desire, artistic ambition, fidelity, fame and all of the emotions that come with a great love.
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DAISY JONES & THE SIX BY TAYLOR JENKINS REID
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My bookshelf was rockin’ and rollin’ thanks to Daisy Jones & The Six. Read one page and you’ll be trying to buy this fictional band’s top hits. While The Six does not exist, they are wonderfully alive and jamming out in this new novel—written in the style of an “as-told-to” rock autobiography—that transports us to the seventies music scene.
THE ISLAND OF SEA WOMEN BY LISA SEE I was delightfully lost from the very first sentence of The Island of Sea Women, swimming in its vivid prose: “An old woman sits on the beach, a cushion strapped to her bottom, sorting algae that’s washed ashore.” What follows is a story of female divers on the island of Jeju who are known for their independent spirit and iron will. This novel illuminates a unique and unforgettable culture where the women are in charge and engaging in dangerous physical work.
FALL AND RISE: THE STORY OF 9/11 BY MITCHELL ZUCKOFF (APRIL 30TH) September 11th is a watershed moment in modern history, forever dividing time into pre- and post-9/11. Fall and Rise, years in the making by a talented journalist, is a definitive, minute-by-minute account of that day, told by the people who lived it and giving voice to those who lost their lives to it.
FURIOUS HOURS: MURDER, FRAUD, AND THE LAST TRIAL OF HARPER LEE BY CASEY CEP
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Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is many people’s favorite book ever. However, have you ever heard of the true crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after her award-winning novel, but never published? In Furious Hours, we learn of the shocking crimes by Reverend Willie Maxwell in 1970s Alabama, the courtroom drama at his trial and Harper Lee’s struggle with fame, success and the mystery of artistic creativity. What happened to this true crime story she researched and wrote? You’ll have to read to find out.
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ain Street’s newest dining destination has the Whaling Museum to thank for its name. George Kelly and his partners Nicholas Nass, Jamie Lee Nass, Emily Berger and Chef Emmanuel “Manny” Rojas were searching for something to call their new restaurant that connected to old Nantucket. Trawling the museum’s halls over the winter, they learned that Herman Melville originally titled his literary
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masterpiece The Whale and not MobyDick. The five partners were intrigued. Or, The Whale—as it appears as the subtitle to Moby-Dick—would not only be a unique nod to the island of yore, but it also spoke to the good old bones of their space on 38 Main Street. So it was that on Herman Melville’s 200th birthday, or, The Whale Bistro Bar Patio became downtown’s newest dining destination. Many will remember 38 Main Street as the former digs of the Even Keel and, more recently, MET on Main. The space is a restaurateur’s dream, with a long bar, open air kitchen, elegant dining room and a sprawling back patio that’s rare on Nantucket. Or, The Whale’s team—let’s just call them “the Whalers” for short— fawned over the space for years. When it suddenly became available late last fall, they jumped at the opportunity to take it over and put their own spin on the historic space.
The Whalers aren’t new to Nantucket’s restaurant scene. Nantucket native George Kelly and longtime washashore Nicholas Nass worked at some of the hottest island restaurants—Corazon del Mar, the Boarding House, Nautilus, the Rope Walk, Cru—before opening their own restaurant, the Sandbar at Jetties Beach, two summers ago. Joined by
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Nass’s sister, Jamie, who helped open and manage the Sandbar, as well as Emily Berger, who bartended at Cru for six years, the Whalers are rolling deep in experience. Helming their kitchen is Chef Manny Rojas, who cut his teeth on Nantucket working alongside Chef Seth Raynor at The Pearl before serving as the chef de cuisine at Nautilus and then the executive chef at the Sandbar. Suffice it to say, the Whalers have picked up many ingredients along the way that they’ll be throwing into the mix at 38 Main Street. Or, The Whale will be open year-round, serving brunch, dinner and late-night cocktails. The brunch menu is delightfully hearty, featuring scrumptious plates of buttermilk pancakes, brioche French toast and specialty donuts baked fresh every morning. For those in the mood for lunch, there’s an extensive sandwich menu with such standouts as blackened swordfish on a baguette and open-faced ham and brie on brioche. When dinner rolls around, the quintessential meal might begin with the fluke crudo with jalapeño, celery and coconut foam or the octopus a la plancha with chickpea stew and the mysterious “mojo sauce.” The main courses have a nice mix of surf and turf, ranging from lobster cavatelli to braised short ribs served with hen-of-the-woods mushrooms and Brussels sprouts. All of these dishes can be enjoyed in the dining room, at the forty-five-foot bar, at the many high tops and on the patio where acoustic acts will regularly
perform. The Whalers will complement their cuisine with local staff whom they’ve vigorously recruited throughout the winter and shared the positive attitude they wish to promote in their restaurant. They want or, The Whale to become a regular hangout for locals and tourists alike, and eventually one of those island institutions like they helped build elsewhere. The Whalers know that it will take time, but as their name suggests, or, The Whale is in it for the long haul.
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A mural commemorating the connection between Nantucket and Puerto Rico.
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urricane Maria killed nearly as many people as the September 11th attacks. To date, the official death toll in Puerto Rico is 2,975 people—twenty-one fewer than 9/11—but that number continues to climb. Although the category five hurricane has long since passed, the repercussions of its devastating wrath continue to rock the island now more than a year since the storm made landfall. And yet with the breakneck speed of today’s news cycle, many forget that Puerto Rico—a territory of the United States—is still clawing its way back to some semblance of normalcy. One person who has not forgotten is Nantucket resident and Puerto Rican native, Carlos Castrello. In February, Castrello’s nonprofit Nantucket Cares returned to the Caribbean island with fourteen Nantucket High School students dedicated to the rebuilding effort and bearing the message that Puerto Rico will not be forgotten. While others might have gone on ski vacations or to beach resorts with their families, these students spent their winter break visiting three of the most devastated areas of Puerto Rico. They met Puerto Rican students their age and got their hands dirty, helping them piece their school campuses back together. The trip marked the third mission of Nantucket Cares, which Castrello founded in the wake of Hurricane Maria in 2017. Through donations made by generous Nantucket residents, Castrello and his team have focused their
Students and volunteers from Nantucket helped clean up school grounds in some of Puerto Rico’s most devastated areas.
dents’ travel and room and board, the students of Nantucket Intermediate School raised $13,000 and the Rotary Club of Nantucket made a $10,000 matching gift. On the first day, the students visited a science and math school in one of the most gravely impacted towns, Guayama. “We were greeted like royalty,” Castrello says, recalling the welcome ceremony led by Senator Cirilo Tirado Rivera and complete with traditionally dressed dancers and musicians performing in the exact location where the eye of the hurricane made landfall.
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Nantucket student Nathan Maurer with students in Puerto Rico.
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The students then visited a middle school in the town of Loíza, one of the poorest municipalities on the island, where they handed out computer equipment and sporting goods such as baseballs, basketballs and volleyballs. On their final stop, the group visited an elementary school in the town of Río Grande where they cleaned up the school grounds and planted a flower garden. “We built something together that hopefully will show them that we care and that they’re not alone,” Castrello said. “Some of the kids from Nantucket had never worked with their hands before, but they worked so hard and did an amazing job.” And with that, the seeds of new friendships and perspectives were also sewn in the students. Returning to Nantucket, they had a greater appreciation for their own island community and the importance of caring for one another, especially when no one is watching.
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overcame throat cancer and sold his beloved Club Car Restaurant, which had been more than four decades in his care. Two weeks before his death, his doctors gave him the “I-don’t-want-to-see-you-for-another-year” cancer clearance. Apart from some consulting he was doing off island, Pantorno had slipped into a welcomed retirement. He was planning on purchasing a property in Sedona, Arizona, where he could spend his winter months in the dry heat honing his latest obsession: golf. His summers remained on Nantucket, fishing in the morning, playing at Skinner’s in the afternoon and sipping on Yuengling Lager and a shot of Patrón at the Chicken Box before dinner. But just after Valentine’s Day, a heart attack ended his life in Hypoluxo, Florida, leaving legions of friends and family reeling from the loss.
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n some salty circles, they called him “Bone Fish Joe.” He was absolutely lethal with a fly rod, earning himself a reputation for pulling trophy catches from skinny waters. He lived a life of adventure, ever ready to drop everything to hop on a seaplane destined for some undisclosed atoll where the fish were said to be biting. He was a gifted storyteller, a cancer survivor and a swashbuckling sportsman. He was well-read, well-traveled and greatly well-liked by celebrities and dishwashers alike. But when it comes to his beloved Nantucket, Joe Pantorno will forever be the restaurateur extraordinaire, one of the island’s true originals who always remembered your name and what you were drinking. Pantorno passed away suddenly in February at the age of sixty-eight. His death came two years after he
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(Left to Right) Pantorno fly fishing in Aspen; Pantorno and “Cupcake” in the early days of The Club Car; Pantorno on the flats with friend Bill.
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taurant, the Harbor House, Panantorno grew up on Long Island where his father got him and his brother torno’s name came up. Joined by hooked on fishing. They went out every weekend, plying the waters of Long Chef Michael Shannon, Pantorno Island Sound and often sleeping aboard their boat. Pantorno and his brother and O’Mara turned the Harbor eventually started a clamming business in high school. When it came time for college, he traded his fishing rod for a lacrosse stick and “He was in the restaurant business earned a full scholarship playing midfield for the UConn Huskies. He was accepted into dental school after for forty years, which is like sixty graduation but postponed his enrollment to work on a years in any other business.” commercial salmon fishing boat off the coast of Alas— Michael O’Mara ka. Suffice it to say, the dental school is still awaiting his return. House around. Their recipe for “I met him in Stratton, Vermont, in 1973,” remembers Michael O’Mara, who success was then sprinkled onto was building houses up north at the time. “He was working at the Winhall River two other of Beinecke’s downYacht Club, this après-ski bar off the mountain.” After the two became quick friends, town restaurants: The Rope Walk and The Club Car, where they made the piano bar really sing. While O’Mara moved on from The Club Car three years later and Shannon a few decades after that, Pantorno stayed onboard for the long haul. “He was in the restaurant business for forty years,” O’Mara says, “which is like sixty years in any other business.” Over that time, O’Mara said Pantorno employed around two thousand people on the island, many of whom would go on to have their own careers in the island’s restaurant scene. “He will forever be my first boss in the industry,” says Orla MurphyO’Mara asked Pantorno if he’d ever been to Nantucket. “I told him he’d have the Lorem ipsum Dolorem LaScola, who went from working time of his life there,” O’Mara recalls, “and I was right … Joe never left.” as a cocktail waitress at The Club Pantorno’s first job on the island was in the mid seventies at Preston’s Airport Car to later owning and operatLounge, an old hotspot where locals shot pool and listened to live music. Meanwhile, ing American Seasons and then O’Mara banged nails and bartended on the island. When legendary developer WalProprietors with her husband ter Beinecke approached O’Mara about needing someone to run his struggling res-
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(Left to right) Pantorno and his longtime fishing partner Paul Bruno with friends; Pantorno at the Club Car.
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Michael. “I will never pop a bottle of asking, “Do you know how to fly fish?” torno would begin working the weighted bubbles without thinking of him,” she Pantorno nodded and said if the musi- line of his fly rod through the air, until he says. “Joe is a testament to living life cian wanted to learn, he’d be happy to had the right distance to present the fly to to its very fullest with only the people introduce him to the master caster who the unsuspecting fish—like shooting an who truly appreciate you by your side.” taught him. The very next morning, the arrow at a moving bull’s-eye. Pantorno At the helm of The Club Car, two men found themselves wading into became revered as one of the greatest fly Pantorno was the consummate host. Colorado’s Frying Pan River with Pan- casters in New England, a legend that He had a gift for remembering peo- torno’s trusty guide by their side. The began when he landed a world-record ple’s names and faces. “He devel- musician turned out to be Jimmy Buffett. bonefish in the 1970s. With his friend oped a great sense of hospitality that “That’s how they met forty plus and longtime fishing partner, Paul Bruno, worked from the top down, through years ago,” Schaffer says. “They re- Pantorno chased the most elusive fish in his employees who he treated great,” mained fast friends forever.” Buf- what many fishermen regarded as the says Jim Annese, who helped manage fett dined at least twice a summer at purest form of the hunt. the restaurant Pantorno lived much until Pantorno like he fished—quietly. retired in 2017. He never boasted about “He was completely present in every “He knew the many celebrities he aspect of his life…whether he was with how to work a kept in his company. room, always his family, or fishing, or at the restaurant, He never uttered a word making people about the countless door enjoying a great bottle of wine.” feel welcome nations he made to local — Lauren McKenna and at home.” nonprofits. He only told Paul Schaffer his family about his fight worked alongside Pantorno as The The Club Car, putting his reservation with cancer after he’d already beaten Club Car’s maître d’ for six years. under the name “Av Ocado.” They it. Whether on the water or behind the “In those six years, I think I dined were lifelong fishing buddies, travel- bar, those who came into his orbit rewith him a thousand times,” Schaffer ing around the world in search of the member Pantorno’s warmth, charm says. “And over those thousand din- ultimate catch. So when he wasn’t and the unquestionable zeal he brought ners, I don’t remember him repeating floating around The Club Car’s classic to each day. “He was completely presa single story—and the stories com- dining room, Pantorno was most read- ent in every aspect of his life,” says his ing out of his mouth were always un- ily found floating across the sandbars niece Lauren McKenna, who regularly believable.” around Tuckernuck and Muskeget. spent summers with her favorite “Uncle One of the earliest tales Schaffer Though he grew up a spin fisherman Joey” on the island. “Whether he was remembers Pantorno telling was of an on Long Island, after he learned to cast a with his family, or fishing, or at the early winter in Aspen where he worked fly in the streams of Colorado, Pantorno restaurant, or enjoying a great bottle of seasonally for four decades. After bar- gave away all of his traditional rods and wine—he lived in the present.” As his tending the evening shift, Pantorno reels and specialized in sight-fishing, many friends prepare to honor his life went to another after-hours bar where a standing on the end of a small, shallow- at a ceremony on the island this June, man was strumming an acoustic guitar water skiff waiting for a shadow of a Joe Pantorno’s many tales continue to and singing. The musician eventually striper or bonefish to slink into the sandy be told, keeping him hooked into the struck up a conversation with Pantorno, flats. Once the fish was in his range, Pan- island he loved.
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hen the first two recreational marijuana dispensaries opened in Massachusetts last November, customers from across the state descended upon them in droves. The wait lasted hours, causing traffic backups and requiring additional police detail. By three in the afternoon, the dispensaries started turning customers away because they were running out of products. Since then, the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission has approved more than a dozen new pot shops around the state, including Nantucket’s first dispensary called The Green Lady. Preparing to open its doors next month on Amelia Drive, The Green Lady is up against a unique set of obstacles in meeting what will undoubtedly be some pretty high demand. The Green Lady was the first dispensary to earn the Nantucket Select Board’s approval after a tedious twoyear application process. “They had all of their ducks in a row,” said Rita Higgins, the Select Board member who sat on the seven-member committee
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Rupert and Nicole Campbell with their daughter Corbet in their new dispensary space on Amelia Drive.
to safely and cleanly glean THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) and CBD (cannabidiol) from their cannabis plants for oils and other products. “We’re totally vertically integrated,” Campbell says. The Green Lady will not be the only dispen- Not actual Lady sary on the island. While Campbell and her team Green products. began planting their first crops, a heated debate raged over who should be awarded the remaining dispensary permit on Nantucket. The Select Board was torn between ACK Natural, a dispensary led by islander Mike Sullivan and Boston hedge fund manager Doug Leighton, and Mass Medi-Spa, an independent nonprofit backed by the cannabis conglomerate Acreage Holdings. In early March, the Select Board’s special seven-person cannabis committee deemed both applicants equally qualified for the permit after a Request for Qualifications process. This kicked the decision back to the rest of the board, which ultimately decided to award the permit to ACK Natural on March 20th. The next day, the Boston Globe published a Spotlight investigation revealing that Acreage had been trying to circumvent the Massachusetts mandate limiting companies from owning more than three dispensaries “It’s like if you were through highgoing to be a wine interest loans producer and had to and management grow your own grapes, contracts with harvest your own grapes, nonprofits like produce your own Mass Medi-Spa. wine, and then have a As the story destore to sell it.” scribed, “Docu— Nicole Campbell ments reviewed by the Globe show a loan of up to $8 million from an Acreage subsidiary to the [Mass Medi-Spa], at a 15 percent interest rate, and involvement in virtually every aspect of the dispensary’s operation, from construction and hiring to public relations.” Led by Kevin Murphy and high-profile directors such as former Speaker of the House John Boehner and former Massachusetts Governor William Weld, Acreage appears to be on a mission to become the “Coca-Cola of cannabis,” as Murphy is quoted as saying in the Globe.
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“We have to create everything we offer inhouse,” says Nicole Campbell, who owns and operates The Green Lady with her husband, Rupert. This is one of the major hurdles of doing business as a dispensary on Nantucket. Although recreational marijuana has been legalized on the state level, federal law prohibits cannabis from being shipped or flown over “It’s quite a feat... federal waters. We have to be totally So The Green self-sufficient, while Lady must nobody else in the grow, manuCommonwealth of facture, packMassachusetts age and sell all has to do that.” of its cannabis — Nicole Campbell, products on Owner of the Green Lady the island. “It’s quite a feat,” says Campbell, who has been coming to Nantucket for more than thirty years and now lives here year-round. “We have to be totally self-sufficient, while nobody else in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has to do that.” The Campbells operate The Green Lady with help from their two daughters and chief grower Mike Grasso. “We’re a true mom-and-popstyle family business,” Grasso says. “Nantucket is known for its small-town charm and we’re excited to participate in the local economy and contribute to the creation of a uniquely local cannabis industry.” Together, they’re creating their own lines of flower, edibles, concentrates, oils, vape cartridges and pre-rolled joints. If the $15 million in sales netted by the first two dispensaries in the first seven weeks of being open in Massachusetts are any indication, The Green Lady will have a lot of growing to do this spring and summer. Their team will have to harvest the plants and then manufacture and package all of their various offerings. “It’s like if you were going to be a wine producer and had to grow your own grapes, harvest your own grapes, produce your own wine and then have a store to sell it,” Campbell says. Connected to their retail space on Amelia Drive is a sophisticated cultivation facility, an extraction lab and a commercial kitchen. Their indoor growing facility is powered by energyefficient LED lights, and they’ve invested in a cutting-edge Supercritical CO2 Extractor
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Instead, Nantucket’s second dispensary, ACK Natural, will be entirely homegrown, so to speak. A former teacher, Sullivan lives on Nantucket with his family. He first became interested in the cannabis industry after learning about the healing powers of CBD in treating patients with epilepsy. More than two years ago, Sullivan joined forces with Leighton, a longtime friend on the island, to begin the application process of opening a dispensary on Nantucket. Since 2013 Leighton and Examples of ACK Natural’s product line, Altar. his Boston-based hedge fund Dutchess Capital have invested heavily in the cannabis industry, appointment only, booked onbacking more than a dozen companies. But with ACK Natural, line, which should alleviate trafLeighton saw a different opportunity. “This one is personal,” he fic. However, medical patients says. “I want to ensure that ACK Natural mirrors the look and will always be given priority.” feel of Nantucket and its people. Our goal is to be a stellar corUnlike The Green Lady, porate citizen by giving back to the community while operating ACK Natural will not be offering a best-in-breed retail cannabis experience.” Rounding out the baked goods. Instead, they will core ACK Natural team is Zach Harvey, a longtime Nantucket sell a line of flower, pre-rolled summer resident who has served as a consultant in the cannabis space and became an ex- joints, oils and other products pert in the complex science of extraction. “Being in the cannabis space in Massachusetts under their brand, Altar. “We feel since 2014, Doug and I have cultivated exceptional design and operations teams,” says like we have a very good blueHarvey. “We will implement cutting-edge technology in both our cultivation footprint via print to get our dispensary up and two-tiered LED light fixtures, cannabis-specific HVAC, nutrient, and irrigation systems running and producing the bestand in our extraction and processing facility.” quality, highly tested, precisely “We hope to be up and running a year from now,” Sullivan says. “We’re going to build dosed products,” Sullivan says. a building that has everything vertically integrated, so we will do all our growing, extrac- ACK Natural will also have the tion and testing in there.” At press time, ACK Natural’s next hurdle was getting approval benefit of observing and learning from the Building Department from The Green Lady’s inaugural to break ground off Arrowhead year. But unlike their battle for Drive, out by the airport, for the final permit with Acreage, a facility that will include an Sullivan and his team view The eight-hundred-square-foot disGreen Lady as a partner, not a pensary. “It’s going to be like competitor. One thing’s for sure, the Genius Bar from Apple,” come summertime, there will be Sullivan describes. “It will be plenty of green to go around.
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THE PEOPLE VS. KEVIN SPACEY WRITTEN BY ROBERT COCUZZO
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL HOENK
The real-life Hollywood courtroom drama unfolding on Nantucket
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ast Christmas Eve, Kevin Spacey In his video, Spacey addresses the posted a bizarre video of himself camera in the voice of his House of Cards to Twitter. It had been more than character Frank Underwood. “Some … a year since anyone had heard a peep from have just been waiting with bated breath the disgraced Academy Award-winning to hear me confess it all,” he says. “But actor. His last statement came in October you wouldn’t believe the worst without 2017 when he tweeted an evidence, would you? apology to actor Anthony “But you wouldn’t You wouldn’t rush to Rapp who accused him judgment without facts, believe the worst of sexual assault when would you? Did you?” without evidence, Rapp was just fourteen The video received 8 would you? You years old. Thirty other acmillion views. Hours wouldn’t rush to cusers had come forward, later, formal charges judgment without including the teenage son were filed against the facts, would you? of longtime Nantucket actor by the Cape and Did you?” summer resident and forIslands District Attorney mer Boston news anchor for the alleged assault — Kevin Spacey Heather Unruh. Her son on Unruh’s son. As outreported to the island porage grew over Spacey’s lice that the actor had forcibly groped him video, the stage was set for a Hollywood while he was a busboy at The Club Car on courtroom drama to begin in the most unNantucket in 2016. likely of places.
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n a gray January morning, news helicopters dotted the sky above Nantucket. Television trucks lined the streets, transmitting to outlets around the world. At nine o’clock, a blacked-out SUV pulled up to the Nantucket District Court and was immediately swarmed by cameramen. Spacey emerged, passing through the crowd with a faint smirk on his face. He shuffled into the packed courtroom where the arraignment was brief. Through his lawyers, Spacey pled not guilty to charges of felony indecent assault and battery.
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“All my life I thought I had protected Kevin from my father and it turns out it’s all for nothing because he’s worse than my father.” — Randy Fowler, Kevin Spacey’s brother
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is legal team is manned by one of the a motion, it “supports the defense’s position that the most powerful attorneys in Los Angecomplaining witness in this case has a substantial les. Alan Jackson’s resume of cases financial motivation to falsify his claims.” Interview reads like a season of Law and Order. In recent requests to the accuser’s family were politely deyears, he’s gotten high-profile clients off of chargclined in light of the case being ongoing. es for hit-and-run DUIs, sexual assault, child Shocking claims made by one of Spacey’s molestation, domestic violence and at least two family members add another dimension to the murders. In 2013 Jackson successfully defended case. Shortly after the actor posted his bizarre the son of a Middle Eastern sheikh charged with video on Twitter, his long-estranged older brother, assault, kidnapping and torture. He successfully Randy Fowler, emerged in the press with frightdefended an NBA star facing ening details about their father. domestic violence allegations Condemning the behavior of levied against him by a Playboy his younger brother, Fowler playmate and got a 23-year-old described how their father was acquitted of murder charges a Neo-Nazi who serially raped after the young man stabbed him throughout his childhood. his brother to death. Jackson’s When Fowler moved out of most famous case, however, the home, he says Spacey was was as lead prosecutor for the left defenseless to his father’s The accuser’s mother, Heather Unruh, Los Angeles County District wrath. The grim stories were with lawyer Mitch Garabedian at a Attorney’s Office in convicting captured in Fowler’s autobipress conference in 2017. musician Phil Spector for the ography, which he released at murder of actress Lana Clarkson in 2009. Next the end of last year. “All my life I thought I had on his docket: Kevin Spacey. protected Kevin from my father and it turns out As Jackson filed Spacey’s not guilty plea it’s all for nothing because he’s worse than my across from Cape and Islands Assistant District father,” Fowler said in an interview. Attorney Michael Giardino, a David vs. Goliath Spacey had quietly been coming to Nantucket court case commenced. Jackson succeeded in havduring the summer months for more than a deing the cell phone records of the accuser and his cade. While there have been no additional allegagirlfriend preserved from the date of the alleged tions levied against the actor by anyone else on assault all the way up to the present. The defense the island, other stories of his questionable behavargued that the cell phone data—specifically text ior on Nantucket do exist. To date, those stories messages and Snapchats sent between the accuser remain unconfirmed, but as the court case conand his girlfriend—would prove Spacey and the tinues to play out, new details of Spacey’s time accuser had a flirtatious, consensual exchange. on the island are likely to emerge. The actor has Moreover, the defense called into question the remained silent since the case began, leaving the accuser’s potential financial motivation and filed a closing words of his Christmas Eve video echomotion to see the family’s correspondences with ing out eerily: “I feel surprisingly good … My their civil attorney, Mitch Garabedian. If “evidence confidence grows each day that soon you will shows that the accuser’s family intends to pursue know the truth.” civil remedies against [Spacey],” Jackson argued in
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NEW HOSPITAL DELIVERS WRITTEN BY BRUCE A. PERCELAY
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN SAGER
Five years in the making, the new Nantucket Cottage Hospital opens its doors
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ven hospitals get sick and tired. After who are often enduring their most challenging days. more than sixty years, Nantucket Cottage Indeed, beyond the doctors inside, the building itHospital, which was built more as an infirmary self was designed to help people heal. than a full-service medical facility, had long since The process of building a new hospital is seen its best days. Like many things on Nan- about as complex as construction can be. Unlike tucket, there was conventional homes a great deal of or office buildings, sentimentality tohospitals require an ward the old gray enormous amount of structure, but the extra wiring for data reality was clear lines, internal comthat it was time munications systems to deliver a new and alarms. Miles of building. After wire run throughout five years of planthe hospital’s interior, ning, exhaustive each color-coded to fundraising and indicate suites, pafeedback from The official ribbon cutting of the Nantucket Cottage Hospital tient rooms, the emerthe community, gency department and Nantucket now has what is arguably the finest all other critical computers in the building. Not only rural hospital in America. is the new hospital LEED Gold v4 certified, but it The new facility wasn’t designed simply to was built to the rigid hurricane design specifications “fix” people, but rather to help them heal. Every outlined by Miami Dade County. The hospital’s detail—from the use of color to the lighting to mechanical systems are built on the roof to protect even the sounds within—was carefully contem- them from flooding and the walls can also withstand plated to create a soothing experience for people 185 mile per hour winds.
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espite its world-class construction, the new hospital hasn’t lost its island roots. From the moment one steps through the main entrance, the fingerprints of the community that made the facility possible can be seen—and heard— at every turn. Visitors’ attention is drawn down the undulating wooden walls of the lobby to a grand piano, which was a gift from Bruce and Marilou Sanford in memory of their daughter Ashley who passed away from a rare disease. In her waning days, Ashley benefited dearly from music therapy, so her parents honored her life by sharing that gift with everyone who walks through the doors. But this isn’t just any piano. The self-playing Steinway Spirio is programed with hundreds of hours of songs performed with the exact same key strikes and timing as the performers who composed them. The Spirio can be controlled by an iPhone or played manually. So before a patient even sees a caregiver, their stress and anxieties are already being treated with the sound of music. Equal thought was spent on creating tranquil spaces throughout the new hospital such as the Respite Room, which will look out to a meditation garden. Punctuating the immaculately manicured grounds will be striking sculptures created specifically for the hospital by local artist and renowned philanthropist Gordon Gund. Looking down upon the garden from the second floor, two sets of doors open to spacious porches where patients can lounge and enjoy some Vitamin D.
From the moment one steps through the main entrance, the fingerprints of the community that made the facility possible can be seen— and heard—at every turn.
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The emergency department, which expanded in size from 4,400 square feet to 7,340 square feet, inspires a sense of confidence. The central nursing station looks more like a set out of Star Trek than a rural emergency department. With twelve exam rooms, gone are the days of patients waiting on gurneys in the hallway. Whether it be the heavily equipped trauma rooms, the specialty room for OB/GYN procedures, or the be-
havioral health observation rooms, the emergency department appears fully equipped to handle just about any eventuality. Most people never realized that maintaining care in the old hospital with only one operating room was inefficient and not up to current standards. For instance, any time a mother was delivering a baby, the single operating room had to be shut down in case she needed an emergency C-section. If someone
was injured in an accident and required surgery while a mother was in labor, they might have had to be helicoptered off the island. The new hospital has two operating rooms in the expanded interventional services area, which allows for surgeries to happen simultaneously for the first time in the hospital’s history. Nantucket now has a facility with capabilities that most assumed were present in the old facility—but weren’t.
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If ever there were a place where telemedicine proved its utility, Nantucket is it. At thirty miles out to sea and often unreachable during storms or rough weather, Nantucket relies on the ability to connect virtually to Massachusetts General Hospital, considered one of the world’s best hospitals, through telemedicine. While the old hospital had telemedicine capabilities, the high-definition cameras and monitors of the new facility enable patients on Nantucket to be screened easily by doctors in Boston who are often at the top of their field in the world. For instance, the new imaging department is now equipped with the same CT scan model used at Mass General, providing a level of imaging detail that allows doctors in Boston to see precisely the nature of an injury or medical condition. While the maternity ward in the old hospital was more than adequate, the new maternity rooms are remarkably spacious and comfortable, allowing a spouse or friend to easily sleep in the room, pre- and post-delivery. With bright sun shining through windows and cutting-edge monitoring and security capabilities, the birthing process on Nantucket is now as sophisticated as any place you could find on the mainland. But there are still nods to the old facility. Arguably the most revered part of the old hospital was the brick Wall of Nantucket Natives bearing the names of hundreds of children born on the island. In response to the tremendous outcry from those who worried that the bricks might disappear along with the old hospital, each was taken down and made available as a keepsake. The new hospital will recreate the same wall, but with white porcelain tiles and black script reminiscent of scrimshaw, thus carrying on a cherished island tradition unique to this hospital.
Fundraising for the new hospital has been the most ambitious undertaking ever on the island, with a total campaign goal of $120 million. The hospital component of the campus is nearly complete thanks to more than fifteen hundred gifts representing over five thousand people on the island. The remaining dollars will be allocated to an on-campus housing initiative, which will be located on hospital-owned land behind Holdgates Laundry. As patients and caregivers continue to settle into the new facility, the old Nantucket Cottage Hospital is being fastidiously disassembled. Old medical equipment has been donated to a number of organizations around the island and around the world. Whatever couldn’t be repurposed on Nantucket is destined to Haiti, Peru, Si-
The first patients are transferred into the new hospital.
erra Leone and other developing countries by way of Build Health International, with which Nantucket Cottage Hospital has partnered. Once the former buildings are leveled, the surrounding gardens and main entrance pavilion will be finished. For those sad to see the old facility go, they can take solace in knowing that the essence of what made the old hospital part of the fabric of the community has been stitched into the very foundation of the new hospital. Now, it’s up to the hospital to take care of the community, and the community to take care of the hospital.
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Ring founder Jamie Siminoff sounds off on his billion-dollar deal with Amazon
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spiring entrepreneurs dream of having a success story like Jamie Siminoff’s. The Nantucket summer resident first came into the public eye in 2013 when he appeared on ABC’s Shark Tank, seeking investment in his fledgling video doorbell invention. After the Sharks turned his deal down, Siminoff landed an even bigger fish by gaining the backing of Sir Richard Branson. With the Virgin founder in his corner, Siminoff’s invention, renamed Ring, struck the right note and sent shock waves through the home security industry. A year ago, Siminoff completed his fairytale ascension by selling his company to Amazon for a billion dollars, the second largest purchase by the retail giant. The fait accompli came when he strolled back on Shark Tank, this time as a guest judge representing the most successful company to have ever appeared on the show. N Magazine recently met with Siminoff at his Ring headquarters in Santa Monica, California, to ask about his unprecedented success, his plans for Ring and what it’s like to go from shark bait to being a whale in his own right.
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“As with a lot of entrepreneurs, you’re at death’s door pretty frequently. I think you have to have this ability to compartmentalize the death part and keep going forward no matter what it looks like.” — Jamie Siminoff
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left Shark Tank, I needed that money and I didn’t know where I was going to get it. Things came together after that as we kept working toward it.
have been as successful had the Sharks not rejected your deal? SIMINOFF: It’s so hard to project what the cascading effect of a decision actually is. In truth, it probably wouldn’t “I wanted to succeed massively or fail— have made a difference but I didn’t want to be in the middle either way. Shark Tank ground of petering through and then would have helped us in letting someone else take my business.” certain ways, but who — Jamie Siminoff knows if it would have hurt us in other ways. You N MAGAZINE: After Shark Tank, you made just never know. a number of bold moves in developN MAGAZINE: What was your biggest ing your company, not least of which was purchasing the domain name takeaway from Shark Tank? SIMINOFF: As with a lot of entrepre- Ring.com for a million dollars. Why did you see that as a worthwhile inneurs, you’re at death’s door pretty vestment at a time when you were still frequently. I think you have to have struggling for funding? this ability to compartmentalize the SIMINOFF: I wanted to succeed masdeath part and keep going forward sively or fail—but I didn’t want to no matter what it looks like. When I
be in the middle ground of petering through and letting someone else take my business. So things like buying Ring.com—a four-letter domain name, a milliondollar buy—was crazy for where we were at the time, but the decision was made pretty clearly. I said, “If I’m going to take on the biggest companies in the world, I need to look like one, I have to act like one, I have to have the infrastructure of one and I have to have the name of one.”
N MAGAZINE: What have you learned working alongside Richard Branson? SIMINOFF: The first time I met him I thought he was going to talk about the business, but he never cared about talking about what we were doing that day or even that year. He
was always asking, “What are we going to do in five years? What are we going to do in ten years?” Richard is a true visionary and only wants to talk about the future. He expects you, as the person running a business, to run the day-to-day, but also to know what is the next big thing that we’re going to do.
N MAGAZINE: What helped Ring become a billion-dollar
N MAGAZINE: How did the Amazon deal first start taking shape? SIMINOFF: It started taking shape five years ago. We started to work with Amazon on little projects and kept in touch with them as we started working on integrating with Alexa. Through that, they not only saw our business growing, but they saw this long-lasting mission that we were inventing around. In the end, I think that’s what got them excited about the business. Amazon likes be-
business? SIMINOFF: I call myself the chief inventor here, but the most valuable invention in the company was not the doorbell—it was the mission of reducing crime in neighborhoods. If you look at our revenue, the doorbell is obviously a huge success, but we’re also super successful at other cameras and all these other products we’ve come out with. The real invention was a mission where you could then invent and launch other products that made a real difference. That’s what allowed us not to be another one-hit wonder, but rather to build something of meaning, scale and long-term value.
N MAGAZINE: On the marketing side of the business, you brought on basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal as your co-spokesman and you appear with him in the Ring television commercials. Why was he the right fit? SIMINOFF: I’d like to say it came from some great analysis we did, but we were talking to some local agents in Los Angeles about celebrity talent and it got back to Shaq. He had a Ring on his house and he wanted to meet us. When we met, I talked to him about our mission to reduce crime in neighborhoods and it aligns really well with Shaq’s mission. He’s a police officer in three states. He went through the police academy. He’s a true neighborhood person.
ing involved with things that will be around for a long time, and reducing crime in neighborhoods has a lot of longevity.
N MAGAZINE: How did you navigate Ring through a sea of N MAGAZINE: The deal went down as the second biggest Amazon has ever done. What was it like negotiating with the most powerful company on the planet? SIMINOFF: It’s the largest private company Amazon ever bought and the second largest deal they ever did. The truth is, now having seen other deals, the amount of work done on a deal this size is pretty much the same as any deal, no matter how small. A deal is a deal. The numbers at the end are just sort of a spreadsheet. The people problems and the social impact are all the same no matter the size of the deal.
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stiff competition in the home security space? SIMINOFF: My philosophy on competition has always been that the only way to compete is to serve your customer better than anyone else. Our competition is not the person making the XYZ anything. Our competition was the consumers’ perception of what a product can do for them. As long as we deliver the best products and services for our customers, they will reward us with their money. Once we stop doing that, they will stop buying our product. I always really tried not to focus on competition at all.
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N MAGAZINE: How has your life changed since this deal? SIMINOFF: I’ve tried to keep my life relatively the same. The best way to do that is to maintain the same job. I have the same routine of going to work every day and working on behalf of our customers to make their neighborhoods safer. As much as technically
N MAGAZINE: Did you have any behind-the-scenes interactions with the Sharks who passed on you? Did they express any regret? SIMINOFF: Being on the show as a judge, you see that you have a very short window to make a decision and you don’t have full knowledge of what’s really happening with the company. I think when you look at what happened from their side of things, as much as they’d love to be part of Ring, it’s not crazy that they missed the deal.
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“Sitting with [the Sharks] as a peer was truly surreal. It’s an overused word, but it’s so hard for me to process that that actually happened.” — Jamie Siminoff
things have changed, I kept all the physical things about the same. I forget that the deal happened most days in a good way. I’m still doing what I like doing.
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ing to Shark Tank as a guest judge? SIMINOFF: That was pretty incredible. I’m not a goal-based person, but getting on Shark Tank for me was a huge accomplishment. As an entrepreneur, that’s a pretty big deal. It was a goal that would have been unachievable. Sitting with them as a peer was truly surreal. It’s an overused word, but it’s so hard for me to process that that actually happened.
preneurs are looking to you to make or break their business. How do you see yourself in that role? SIMINOFF: I don’t fancy myself the Tony Robbins of entrepreneurship. I don’t think I am a good instructor. I think what I did worked for me. I’m not someone trying to give advice. I don’t fancy myself as a big investor or anything like that. I like the fact that I get to focus on inventing.
N MAGAZINE: What do you see as the next big frontier in the tech industry? SIMINOFF: I think we’re going to see less innovation in the underlying tech. What we’ve seen in the last twenty to thirty years is computer processors that have gone from 10 megahertz to 1000s. Storage has come down in size and price. Transport of the internet has increased. You’re seeing these massive changes in the underlying fundamentals of technology. We’re going to see how they’re used in the next ten to twenty years.
How will machine learning, artificial intelligence and cloud computing come together to be used? The biggest winners will create a positive impact in the world and I think a lot of that will be in medicine. There’s probably drugs out there today that could cure certain cancers, but we just haven’t figured out how to mathematically decide which drug will work with which cancer. So as more data gets ingested and we can do more complex computing, we’ll be able to see that across all businesses, but I think it will be biggest in medicine—sort of non-doctor-based medical breakthroughs coming from raw technology.
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or musicians in the late seventies the island’s only and eighties, Rolling Stone magarecord store, zine could make or break a career. A Nantucket Sound, favorable review of an album in their pagwhich was owned es could send record sales soaring, while by Gene Mahon. criticism might land a lead singer back in “Charley was the first his parents’ garage. So it was that RollShazam,” Mahon said. “Play a ing Stone’s music critics wielded a unique song and he knew who and power of the pen that could change the what it was—and he was raretrajectory of the music industry. As it haply wrong.” During that time, pened, one of these kingmakers penned his Walters sought opportunities to reviews from the shores of Nantucket durwrite record reviews. Through ing a golden era of rock ‘n’ roll. famed music critic Jon Landau, A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, whom he was introduced to Charley Walters summered with his family by islander George Frazier, on the island for the majority of his childWalters began writing reviews hood. He obsessed over music growing up, for Rolling Stone and the learning to play the guitar in high school Boston Phoenix. and following bands around the state. “I In the pages of Rolling remember hearing ‘Hound Dog’ [by Elvis Stone, his byline landed alongside the likes Presley] on the radio when of such literary legends as it was a new hit and really Hunter S. Thompson. Wal“PLAY A SONG AND HE liking it,” he said, “but I reters scrutinized albums like KNEW WHO AND WHAT ally didn’t take music seriBad Company’s Run with IT WAS—AND HE ously until The Beatles.” the Pack, Brian Eno’s AnWalters spent the next few WAS RARELY WRONG.” other Green World, Emyears going to every concert erson, Lake & Palmer’s — Gene Mahon he could, seeing The Beatles Works, Vol. 1, and Cat Stethree times when they came vens’ Izitso. Perhaps his to Boston. most widely read review came in 1976 After graduating from Boston Univerwith the release of the Eagles’ seminal sity and then completing an English degree album, Hotel California. Magazines and at Hellenic College in Brookline, Walters newspapers across the country and dotting made Nantucket his year-round home the globe wrote glowing reviews of what and eventually took a position managing would later become the second most successful album in history. But Walters had a different take in Rolling Stone that raised some eyebrows. “I gave it a mixed review, I guess you could say,” Walters remembered. “It was mostly a lot of ‘I did like this, I didn’t like that,’ but little did I know that a zillion people were going to buy it and I’d be hearing about that one for a while.”
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Walters continued writing his reviews in the hours when he wasn’t managing the music store, but the writing gig was beginning to wear on him. Reviewing albums robbed him of the joy he found in music as a kid. Listening to songs morphed into something of a chore, and being forced to constantly criticize the thing that made him happiest became a sacrifice he was no longer willing to make. So Walters stopped writing reviews and instead decided to buy the record store from Mahon. That was in 1982, which also happened to be the year he met his future wife, novelist Nancy Thayer. It wasn’t until the proliferation of the internet that Walters began to worry about the future of his small music shop. He saw the writing on the wall when murmurings
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about music piracy began, and Apple’s iPod hit the market. He made the hard decision to close the store in 2006 but had no intention of retiring. For years, he had enjoyed travel writing in the vein of Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck, and after doing some research on U.S. highways, he settled in on his own jour-
“I GAVE [HOTEL CALIFORNIA] A MIXED REVIEW…LITTLE DID I KNOW THAT A ZILLION PEOPLE WERE GOING TO BUY IT AND I’D BE HEARING ABOUT THAT ONE FOR A WHILE.” — Charlie Walters
ney down the country’s longest road, U.S. Route 20, which begins in Boston at Kenmore Square and doesn’t end until you hit the Oregon coast. The next year was spent writing and submitting manuscripts to publishers, receiving notes, editing and picking up other writing projects. He now spends the majority of his time engaged in the Nantucket community, teaching music education classes for the Atheneum, hosting jazz- and blues-focused radio programs for 97.7 ACK FM, hosting talk/interview programs for NCTV Channel 18 and serving on various boards and committees. Surrounded by a voluminous collection of records and CDs, Walters continues to work daily on these endeavors simply because they are meaningful to him and they support the community he’s always considered home.
The Power of Our Community The new Nantucket Cottage Hospital opened its doors for patient care on February 20th, 2019, marking an historic milestone for the island community. Thanks to an unprecedented fundraising campaign, the largest in Nantucket history, the new hospital was built entirely through private donations, debt-free, and with no taxpayer dollars. The new state-of-the-art hospital completely replaced Nantucket’s former aging facility, built in 1957, and expands capacity and services while enhancing access, safety and privacy for patients. The new facility sets a national standard for small community hospitals, with expanded outpatient services but also capacity for inpatient care and surgery, giving patients a central location for all their healthcare needs, including primary, emergency, and specialty care, as well as diagnostic testing. With the new facility now open, the final phase of the project is underway, including the demolition of the old hospital and the completion of the final site work, parking area, and landscaping. This phase is expected to be completed by June 2019.
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A quick chat with Phaedra Plank, a finalist in this year’s state Poetry Out Loud competition N MAGAZINE: What are your favorite lines of poetry? PLANK: It’s not the most academic poem, but I’m a big fan of local poet Chandler Travis’ “I Threw Some Meat into a Pond,” from which comes: “I threw a lamb chop in the ocean/With a swift, athletic motion/You can’t imagine how I’d wish/To know my meat had hit a fish.” It’s a great poem and makes absolutely no sense!
age helps, but it’s definitely something anyone can work on, especially if you’re willing to embarrass yourself now and then.
N MAGAZINE: How would you describe Nantucket in three words? PLANK: I would say close-knit, full-of-contrasts (I’m counting that as one word) and unique—but I’m sure that doesn’t cover it.
N MAGAZINE: If you had to create a time N MAGAZINE: How did you prepare for the Poetry Out Loud competition? PLANK: A lot of time and a lot of support from my parents, friends, school and community. Memorization is definitely key, but after that, I put a lot of work into understanding, personalizing and conveying a poem.
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capsule so that people would understand Nantucket two hundred years from now, what five items would you put into it? PLANK: Given Nantucket hasn’t sunk into the ocean yet (just kidding!), I think I would put in some sort of community yearbook with pictures of events and people from all over the island, maybe a lightship basket, an arrowhead, some modern artifacts (an iPhone, mementos of the current presidency/campaign, etc.), and a note telling the scientists of the future where and when to meet us with their time machine. I think these items (minus the note) will give future Nantucketers a sense of our tight-knit, unusual and diverse island’s past and present. Phaedra Plank placed third in this year’s Massachusetts Poetry Out Loud finals. Poetry Out Loud is a national recitation contest run by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation that celebrates the power of the spoken word and a mastery of public speaking skills while cultivating self-confidence and an appreciation of students’ literary heritage as they take poetry from the page to the stage.
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