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Town $3,495,000

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Two new spectacular homes within walking distance of Main Street. Open living spaces with fireplaces, top of the line appliances including Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Bosch, 5 or 6 bedrooms with en-suite baths, private pool areas and separate pool cabanas.

Town $7,850,000

Wauwinet $4,995,000

Brant Point $1,845,000

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Four-bedroom main house, three-bedroom guest house, salt-water pool, spa and cabana plus an oversized two-car garage.

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WATERFRONT DIONIS ESTATE Four Acres | $21,500,000

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TWO WATERFRONT HOMES - This property has two waterfront homes each on its own two acres creating together one incredible north shore estate. The main house, studio and cottage overlook four acres of ocean-front real estate on the north shore of Nantucket Island. From the deck surrounding the pool, the second floor balcony, and the manicured path that circumnavigates the property, you are always reminded that you are thirty miles out to sea on an oasis of warm sand, grass, and cool breezes.

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$5,100,000 Luxurious six-bedroom, six and one-half bath main house and a one-bedroom, one-bath guest cottage with a heated pool, an automatic pool cover, pool cabana, and two outdoor showers. This home features a custom kitchen with marble countertops, high-end appliances and will provide easy access to town, bike paths and Steps Beach.

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$6,995,000 Exquisite estate property featuring a fully furnished four bedroom, four and one-half bath main house and a three bedroom, two and one-half bath guest cottage with an oversized two-car garage, salt-water pool, spa and pool cabana. The high-end craftsmanship combines style with efficiency that include built-ins, vaulted ceilings and high-end appliances. The extensive stonework and professional landscaping add to the high quality of this special home.

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$2,595,000 This property is tucked in on a private lot abutting nearly 12 acres of walking trails owned by the Sconset Trust and features three bedrooms, two baths, a custom kitchen, a single car garage and several wonderful outdoor living areas. There is additional ground cover available for a second dwelling or expansion to the main house.

$5,395,000 This sought after location provides access to one of New England’s prettiest white-sand beaches. Main house features two spacious living rooms with wood burning fireplaces and four en suite bedrooms. Combined kitchen/living room/dining room have views of the Atlantic Ocean. Two bedroom cottage and single car garage.

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$4,995,000 Located on the Eastern side of the island, this rare offering exudes peace and tranquility. Gorgeous unobstructed first floor water views and stunning second floor views of the ocean and Sankaty Lighthouse. Deeded harbor access and easy access to one of the island’s most stunning beaches. The entire parcel consists of two conforming lots which totals 1.94 acres, allowing for a sizable main house, guest cottage, pool and pool cabana.

Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated. Equal Housing Opportunity.

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$2,995,000 Gorgeous views from this beautifully designed home with four bedrooms, four and one-half baths, and three floors of living space.

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World-class cancer care has never been closer If you’re a cancer patient who calls Nantucket home, even for just a few weeks a year, you’ll be both amazed and comforted by the cancer care at Nantucket Cottage Hospital.

Developed in partnership with the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and led by Mass General Medical Director Richard T. Penson, MD, our program brings a team of cancer specialists to the island every month for patient consultations. In addition, a Board Certified Advanced Practice Oncology Registered Nurse is on-site to see cancer patients five days a week.

And, of course, we have our own community of doctors and clinicians working in tandem with the Mass General team to support you and provide treatment as well. Our program engages everyone on our staff to focus on the interaction with our patients.

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A numerical snapshot of Nantucket during the winter.

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The best wine to sip this holiday season will also help your local shell fishermen.

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Behind the scenes of top toy commercials with local filmmaker Dan Driscoll.

56 THE KING’S SPEECH

Longtime Nantucket summer resident Bernie Swain represents some of the the world’s most prominent orators.

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Meet the world champion sports car racer who drives among us on Nantucket.

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70 United Nations of Nantucket Examining the evolving demographics of Nantucket’s year-round population.

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N’s resident fashion photographer Brian Sager captures winter looks during the annual cranberry harvest.

Nquiry 88 UP FOR DEBATE

The chairman of the Committee on Presidential Debates Frank Fahrenkopf sounds off on the Clinton Trump debates.

94 SEAL OF APPROVAL The controversial conservationist Pete Bethune visits Nantucket and condemns local efforts to abate seals.

99 COUNTER POINTS A member of the Seal Abatement Coalition responds to Pete Bethune.

Neat stuff 100 WINTER WISH LIST

N Magazine’s ultimate holiday gift guide featuring the Lindvall family.

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Two of the top weddings this season.

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A quick chat with local designer Kathleen Hay.

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“Tucked Away” aptly describes this meticulously maintained home situated on an oversized lot. This unique sought-after location offers peacefulness and privacy while providing quick, convenient access to Steps Beach and downtown Nantucket. Quality craftsmanship throughout this well-thought-out floor plan. The spacious lot offers a variety of expansion opportunities. A special home where you create your own Nantucket memories!

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Magnificent home offering everything one could ask for. The open dining/kitchen area flows easily to the living room which leads to a screened porch overlooking the pool and patio. Four bedrooms, each with private baths, as well as a spacious family room. The pool, cabana and landscaping create a private back yard oasis. Offered fully furnished.

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The only home available for immediate occupancy, this Holly model overlooks protected land and features a wonderful first floor suite with tile bath and open living/dining/kitchen. Two bedrooms with en suite baths on the second floor plus laundry room and a “secret room.” Full basement with high ceilings and large windows. Half bath. Fully landscaped.

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There are virtually no topics that N Magazine could cover that would match the high drama of this year’s presidential campaign. Our best attempt at capturing the electricity fueling this year’s election cycle is through an interview with Nantucket summer resident Frank Fahrenkopf, considered the dean of presidential debates and the co-chair of the commission that operates them.

In another fast moving story, N Magazine profiles Bill Sweedler, a Nantucket summer resident who won the fabled 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car race this past June. Knowing that one of the world’s great race car drivers is stuck in traffic on the island just like the rest of us

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Another story that should bring a smile to our readers is Grannies of the Gridiron, which profiles three Nantucket ladies who rarely miss a Patriots’ home game.

Named fans of the year in 2005, these ladies have been celebrated by Bob Kraft and the Patriots’ brass for their undying loyalty to the team.

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N Magazine tackles a different type of topic in this issue with Jason Graziadei’s detailed article about the changing demographics on Nantucket. There is a sea of change now occurring with respect to who lives, works and is educated on Nantucket, and how this trend is likely to shape the future of the island. The details of this population shift are eye opening, as is the statistic that the full time population of Nantucket may very well exceed twenty thousand versus the official count of just over ten thousand.

An outgrowth of the increase of population on Nantucket is the well documented housing shortage. N Magazine reveals a story about Habitat for Humanity on the island, which is doing what it can to create truly affordable home ownership for those who want to stay here but who could not otherwise afford to buy a home.

While Habitat on Nantucket could hardly be described as prolific, the impact for those who benefit from the program is enormous.

The combination of remarkably good weather this past summer and into the fall has made this year one of the most successful seasons on Nantucket in recent memory. While the Farmer’s Almanac is predicting a long cold winter, we can all look forward to the return of spring and in the meantime we hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving and holiday season. Thank you for helping make this year at N Magazine the most successful one to date, and we look forward to sharing our 15th anniversary celebration with you next year.

Sincerely,

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Net raised by the Dragonfly Fundraiser, an event created to inspire change in mental illness.

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150 ft Length of great white shark “Grey Lady” caught and tagged this fall by Ocearch in Nantucket’s waters.

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Proud Pour wines are on a mission to restore shellfish populations one sip at a time.

It’s hardly news that oysters and white wine go well together, but Berlin Crystal Kelly has taken that thinking to a whole new extreme. The founder and co-CEO of Proud Pour, Kelly has developed a white wine that will not only please your palate, but also your local shell fishermen. “Every time you buy a bottle of our North Coast Sauvignon Blanc ‘The Oyster,’ a hundred oysters are restored to local waters,” Kelly gushes. “Proud Pour shares the mission of our oyster restoration partners. We want our shorelines and bays to once again teem with millions of oysters.”

Here on Nantucket, Proud

Pour has championed the efforts of the Nantucket Shellfish Association, which is currently working to restore the island’s native oyster population in Shimmo Creek.

In particular, the project is seeking to rehabilitate wild reefs by collecting the shells from local restaurants and using them to rebuild diminished eel grass beds. The campaign is called “Shuck It For Nantucket.”

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The global shark research vessel Ocearch made waves on the island’s social media radar after posting a photo of a 12.6-foot immature female white shark that was tagged in Nantucket’s waters. Named “Grey Lady” in honor of Nantucket and Cisco Brewers, the shark was equipped with a tracking device that will allow us to keep tabs on her.

This fall, Proprietors on India Street was named one of the best restaurants in the world by Condé Naste Traveler. Joining a list of distinguished dining spots dotting all corners of the globe, Orla and Michael LaScola’s Proprietors was praised for “top-notch” cocktails, tasty pig-ear fries, and dishes with “great flow.” Kudos to the Props team on the well-deserved honor.

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TWN Presents: A Christmas Story

November 18 – December 10 @ Bennett Hall BB guns, leg lamps and bunny suits—oh my! Everyone’s favorite holiday classic will dance and sing its way onto stage as TWN wraps up its 60th season with A Christmas Story: The Musical. For tickets, visit TheatreWorkshop.com.

A Nantucket Thanksgiving

November 25 – 27 @ Nantucket Culinary Center The Nantucket Culinary Center is teaming up with N.TUC Marché for a Thanksgiving weekend celebration. From a post-tree lighting feast and cocktails to a cornucopia brunch, there will be plenty of holiday spirit at 22 Federal Street. For tickets and more information, visit NantucketCulinary.com/ NCC-Events.

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Cool Yule Holiday Party & Reception

Friday, December 2, 5:30 – 7:30 P.M. @ Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery Looking for the perfect gift for that special someone? Look no further than the Artists Association of Nantucket’s holiday small works exhibition which will feature oil paintings, watercolors, photographs, jewelry and more, all hand-crafted by AAN’s more than 250 artist members.

2 Festival of Wreaths Preview Party

Tuesday, November 22, 5 – 7 P.M. @ The Whaling Museum Get the holiday season rolling by admiring an array of spectacularly crafted wreaths by local businesses and organizations, all of which will be up for bid to benefit the NHA’s year round programming. The wreaths will be on display through November 27th. Visit NHA.org for tickets.

3 15th Annual Turkey Plunge

Thursday, November 24, 10 A.M. @ Children’s Beach It’s time to brave the cold waters of Children’s Beach and take the plunge to support the Atheneum’s Weezie Library for Children.

After all, nothing works up an appetite quite like a brisk dip. To register, visit NantucketAtheneum.org.

5 Festival of Trees Preview Party

Thursday, December 1, 6 P.M. @ The Whaling Museum The treetops will be twinkling throughout the Whaling Museum at the annual Festival of Trees. Prepare to be astounded by the artistry and ingenuity on display at this not-to-be-missed, Stroll kickoff event. For tickets, visit NHA.org.

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Annual Basket Festival & Sale

December 2 – 3, 10 A.M. – 4:30 P.M. @ Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum Stop by the Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum this Stroll Weekend for some festive shopping, including new woven bangles, weaving demonstrations, refreshments and more.

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Santa Claus Arrives

Saturday, December 3, 1 P.M. @ Straight Wharf Whether you’ve been naughty or nice, make your way down to Straight Wharf to greet good old St. Nick as he arrives on Nantucket’s shores complete with a Coast Guard entourage.

Then hurry up Main Street and over to the Jared Coffin House where he’ll be holding court and taking wish lists.

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Bubble Bash

Sunday, December 4, 7 P.M. @ The Pearl What’s the best way to close out Stroll Weekend? Just add bubbles. Join The Pearl as they bring in talented chefs from around the country to put on a party of epic gastronomic and effervescent proportions. Call 508.228.9701 to buy your ticket.

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New Year’s Eve Disco Ball Saturday, December 31, 9 P.M. @ The Nantucket Hotel

Grab your polyester bellbottoms and get ready to boogie down as The Nantucket Hotel transforms into a 1970sera discotheque. For tickets and more information, visit TheNantucketHotel.com/Specials/New-Years-Eve.

Do you have an event for the N Top Ten? Contact us at Editor@N-Magazine.com

Another glorious Nantucket Summer gone…

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NBUZZ NEW AIRLINE TAKES FLIGHT It’s been a turbulent year for Nantucket Memorial Airport. When Island Airlines closed up shop unexpect-

edly after twenty-four years flying commuters back and forth to the Cape, Nantucketers were eagerly hoping another airline would pick up the route. Enter Rectrix Aviation. This past October, Rectrix—a Hyannis-based FBO and private jet charter service—announced it will be offering a daily shuttle service between Hyannis and Cape Cod. Equipped with new twin turboprop Beech Super King Air B300s, the Rectrix Shuttle will fly up to nine passengers from 6 am to 6:30 pm to and from the Cape. “We are very eager to begin this daily service between Hyannis and Nantucket which has always been a popular route,” says Richard Cawley, the CEO of Rectrix Commercial Aviation Services Inc. “Our charter jet service has had an increasing following here in Hyannis and we think this new shuttle service is a terrific compliment to the services we already provide right here at Barnstable Municipal Airport.”

of RETURN THE

JETTIES

RESTAURANT

SHUFFLE Rumor has it that there

are at least two restaurants changing hands for next season. After nearly forty years, Joe Pantorno is said to have left his station at the Club Car after selling his beloved restaurant. Time will tell how and if the classic Nantucket restaurant will change next season. Just outside of town, Jetties Beach Bar and Restaurant has been taken over by George Kelly and

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It’s been a long time coming, but all indications point to the

new restaurant will be called the Sandbar at Jetties and will

commencement of the jetties reconstruction project. Giant boul-

remain a family-friendly clam shack offering burgers, dogs,

ders arrived on a barge in Nantucket Harbor this fall and cranes

fish and chips, cocktails and other casual fare. Meanwhile

were getting in place for the work. The jetties project was first

off-island, Marco Coelho and his restaurant group continue

proposed back in 2012, but has run into several hurdles and post-

to prepare for their opening of Lola 42 on the ground floor of

ponements. In 2015, a generous grant from the United States

Twenty Two Liberty in Boston’s

Corps of Engineers made the multimillion dollar project pos-

Seaport District. At press

sible. Unfortunately, the construction comes after yet another

time, Lola 42 was slated to

vessel ran into the jetty back in August (read about the accident

open in February.

on page 40). Construction is expected to run through the winter and into the spring, but should be completed by June 30, 2017.

Construction of the new hospital is calling for a number of big old trees to be removed. Most recently, two beautiful beech trees were cut down to make space for where the existing Anderson and Founders buildings will be moved. Yet instead of turning these trees into wood chips, Nantucket Cottage Hospital hired Nantucket Yard Guard and Barber Brother Furniture to craft furniture from them that will be included in the new hospital. “We thought it would be a nice way to reuse the trees and honor the former site of the court-

UNDERDOG

Nantucket had a special visitor this fall when social

yard,” wrote the hospital’s spokesman Jason Graziadei. And there’s more

media sensation Bixby the “Super Dog” made a

good news for tree lovers: the new hospital’s landscaping plan is calling for

stop on island during her cross country voyage. For

150 new trees, including dog woods, American elms, red maples, jack pines,

four years, Bixby, a six-year-old rescue dog from

white firs, and honey locusts.

Austin, Texas, and her owner, Mike Minnick, have been pedaling from coast to coast on a mission to raise awareness around the importance of pet

NOT SO EASY STREET

adoption. “If you rescue these dogs, they’ll rescue

Many islanders’ commutes will be

pavement had a domino effect that

this little creature has done for me.” Now the duo

detoured till mid December due to

required a number of other traf-

is about to break the Guinness World Record for

a long-needed repair of the Easy

fic reconfigurations elsewhere

logging the most miles on an electric-assist bike.

Street bulkhead. With a massive

on the island, especially for big

“We’ll at least quadruple the record,” Minnick

crane blocking traffic on the

trucks headed to the Steamship.

says. Using their blog and social media following,

one-way heading towards the

The closure has also put added

Minnick and Bixby typically stay with complete

Steamship Authority between

pressure on businesses on The

strangers they meet along their journey and give

Cambridge Street and Oak

Strip, so make sure to go the

talks at local schools as ambassadors for shelter

Street, the street needed to be

extra mile and continue vis-

dogs. “Bixby taught me that dreams are like sticks,”

completely shut down. Inter-

iting these shops while con-

Minnick says. “You just need to chase them.” Follow

estingly enough, the clos-

struction is underway.

you,” says Minnick, a former smoker who is now on track to riding 20,000 miles. “It’s amazing what

their journey at www.wheresbixby.com.

ing of this one stretch of

On the morning of December 15th, secSchool will have a truly out-of-this-world experience when they speak to an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. The conversation will be broadcasted live on NASA’s website, so those interested can tune in. Visit nantucketnewschool.org for more information.

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OPEN at Last Written BY Robert Cocuzzo

After months of preparation, Greydon House’s fall menu will have you seeing Michelin stars.

The moment you enter the cozy restaurant at the Greydon House,

you know you’re in for something different. The green walls and dark pine accents mark a complete departure from the airy aesthetic that has come to define many of Nantucket’s interiors. And that’s exactly what they were going for.

“We’re dark and sexy all year round,” laughs Jeff David, the twenty-room boutique hotel’s managing partner. If the design wasn’t striking enough, Greydon House has a menu to match.

Greydon House’s menu was created by Michelin-starred chef Joseph

Keller, the older brother of Thomas Keller of Per Se and French Laundry fame.

Dinner begins with piping hot popovers served with both cow and goat’s milk

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as pastries and remind you of grandma’s kitchen. Greydon House’s kitchen is helmed by executive chef Marcus Gleadow-Ware, formerly the executive chef of Aureole, a Michelin-starred restaurant in New York City.

The menu is broken into categories:

Raw (sushi), Aqua (fish), Terra (meat) and Next (middle course). The bluefin tuna appetizer comes out looking like succulent slices of watermelon sliced into rich red cubes without the slightest hint of sinew. On top of a generous hunk of tuna sits a delicate serving of bright orange sea urchin along with a piece of compressed pineapple. A middle course of Hudson Valley foie gras emerges from the kitchen in the form of a terrine served with thick toasted brioche. Much like the popovers, this bread is worth writing home about.

No doubt Atkins would have hated this place.

The center piece of Greydon House’s

menu is a roasted dry aged ribeye from Wyoming. The seventy-dollar steak is meant for two and comes with a number of accoutrements in cute copper pots. As with the two prior courses, the steak is a marvel of textures. The grilled bits give way to a buttery middle that could convert a strong-willed vegetarian.

No surprise, Greydon House’s dessert

delivers in full, offering a choice of peanut butter milk bar, poached peaches vacherin or lemon meringue pie. While you can do no wrong with any of the desserts, the only lingering sense of guilt you might walk away with is not having pocketed a couple of those popovers for breakfast.

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Nspire The most passionate Patriots fans on Nantucket are not who you might expect.

Between the three of them, Nantucket natives Joan Fisher, Jeanne Dooley and Jane Hardy have logged more years rooting for the Patriots than most people have been alive. The three sisters have been season ticket holders for twenty years and have been pulling for the Pats since the late sixties. Today, their names are literally printed on their seats at Gillette Stadium. Every home game, they drive onto the 6 a.m.

Steamship for the daylong voyage to and from Foxboro. “Come hell or high water, we’re there,” says eighty-five-year-old Jeanne. And their devotion hasn’t gone unnoticed. Joan, Jeanne and Jane have starred in NFL commercials, have been featured in a Patriots-produced film and were even named Fans of the Year in 2005.

“There’s not many games that we’ve missed,” Jeanne says. “We should really write a book, because you never know with the weather with the trips from Nantucket.” Over the years they’ve driven through blizzards, flown through hurricane winds and even climbed over snow banks to assume their posts in the stadium. “I missed a whole season one year because I was sick and damn near died!” seventy-seven-yearold Jane says with a laugh. “That was ten years ago. Thankfully I was given a second chance at football…and everything else, of course.”

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atriots owner Bob Kraft calls the three sisters his “Nantucket ladies” and always makes a point of seeing them when he’s on-island for the Pops. “He’s such a gentleman,” Jane says. “Very humble.” On week four of this season against the Buffalo Bills, Kraft invited his “Nantucket ladies” on to the field for a photo op and to watch the players warm up. Yet even before

up old fan favorites like Ben Coates, Troy

walking onto the field that day in September,

Brown, Ty Law and Tedy Bruschi. A jar of

the sisters had already had some chance run-

dirt from the old Foxboro stadium sits on a

ins with Patriots

shelf in Jane’s

stars.

living

“When

room,

we heard Edel-

and

man was on the

pictures of her

rituals. Joan dutifully hoists the Pats col-

island this sum-

grandchildren

ors up the flagpole on her front lawn, and

mer, we came

is

framed

each sister wears matching Patriots medal-

running,” Joan

photo of Tom

lions carved by the late scrimshander Nancy

laughs.

Brady. Perhaps

Chase, the backs of which are inscribed with

eight-seven-

not

each Super Bowl win. This is not to say the

year-old

then

ingly, when the

whips out her

topic of Deflat-

iPhone

egate

The

and

next

a

to

surpris-

comes

up, each lady

pulls up a photo of her sitting on the star receiver’s lap at

falls silent as Belichick at a press confer-

Backyard BBQ this summer to prove it.

ence. “It was a disgrace,” Jeanne finally

The three sisters are a riot together,

says.

laughing, and talking the talk better than

When the Patriots are playing on the

most sports radio hosts. They readily bring

road, the ladies have on-island game-day

ladies aren’t willing to travel to away games.

“We went to the Super Bowl in Arizona,” Jeanne says. “But that was a bad game.” The sisters all nod in agreement. “We were the first three out of the stadium.”

This season, Jane, Jeanne and Joan have high hopes for the home team. “Everyone is healthy, and things are clicking,” Joan says. Whether the Patriots add another

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yet to be seen, but one thing’s for certain: Bob Kraft’s “Nantucket ladies” will be doing their part to win.

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ROCKY SITUATION Written by Rebecca Nimerfroh

Portraits by Kit Noble

Boat photos by Geoff Gibbons

How former Coast Guardsman and Nantucket resident Joe Tormay answered the call of duty.

The mayday crackled over the radio just as darkness was beginning to descend over Nantucket harbor. Joe Tormay was motoring back to the dock when he heard the distress call. A boat named Sea Wolf had accidently run aground on the east jetty with six souls on board. Not more than two hours earlier, Tormay had seen the forty-two-foot Duffy loading up next to him at the pier. Now Sea Wolf was pinned up on the rocks—helpless and calling out for aid.

A former Coast Guard petty officer stationed at Brant Point, Tormay immediately shot into action. “I know what the Coast Guard can and can’t do,” he says. “So we cruised out to help.” By the time Tormay and his friend Jimmy Sjolund arrived, the Coast Guard was on the scene throwing life jackets to all six men aboard the Sea Wolf. The scene wasn’t pretty. “They were high up on the jetty,” he remembers. “They almost drove over the whole thing but their port quarter was still hung up on it.” Sea Wolf was hanging precariously on the rocks like a seesaw. Its back end was propped up nearly eight feet above the water line on one side of the jetty, and its front end was down to the

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he water on the inside of the channel is deep enough for our Coast Guard boats, but outside of the channel it gets very shallow, too shallow for us to get around,” says Nantucket Coast Guard Petty Officer John Feniello who was also on the scene. “The problem was that when their boat went up on the jetty, it listed over hard to starboard. So in order for us to get the people off the boat, our

The following morning, pictures emerged on the local news showing the snagged vessel propped precariously over the rocks. On social media the news spread quickly, heralding Tormay and Sjolund as local heroes. Their story traveled quickly to the Egan Maritime Institute, which chose to recognize these friends with the Lifesavers Recognition Day Award at their yearly celebration held on September 11th.

plan was to have them shimmy off on the low side, climb around the jetty, and we were going to throw a line to them and pull them in.”

But Tormay had a better idea. Instead of having the crew of Sea Wolf jump in the water and almost onto the rocks, Tormay suggested that he drive around and pick them up from the other side of the jetty. “It gets really shallow in there,” he said, “but I’ve driven in there before.”

The coxswain of the Coast Guard gave Tormay the go ahead. With the sky darkening around them, he handed command to Sjolund and grabbed a flashlight to navigate safely around the jetty. “It was pretty rough, pretty windy, three to four foot seas,” Tormay remembers. “So we went around and cleared the east jetty and came around to the other side

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one by one.” With all six men safely on board, Tormay delivered them to the Coast Guard Station.

“Lifesaving is really the best of who we are as Nantucketers,” explains Jessica Guff, vice president of the Egan Maritime Institute and chair of the Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum Advisory Committee.

“It’s a really proud tradition. With Joe Tormay, you have somebody to whom Nantucket is his adopted home. A Nantucketer will always come to the aid of a party in trouble at sea.” Meanwhile, Joe Tormay isn’t much for all the hero talk. “It’s one of those things,” he says with a shy smile. “You’re just being a good Samaritan. That’s it. If you were in their situation, you would want someone to do the same thing.”

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BUILDING DREAMS

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Photography by Kit Noble

“We didn’t know what to do...

It seemed like we would have no choice but to leave Nantucket.

And then we got the phone call.

It was the most amazing thing that could have happened.”

— Sophia Orr

Habitat Nantucket is helping local families move into their own homes.

In January of 2016, Liam Sherry and Sophia Orr won the lottery— the housing lottery that is. Like many year-rounders, the young couple felt the crushing weight of the island’s housing crisis bearing down on them. It’s an all-too-familiar story: Young couple works multiple jobs to make ends meet. They sign a lease on a poorly maintained rental unit that they can barely afford, yet consider themselves lucky to have found. But then after a couple of years, the septic system fails and they get evicted right before Christmas. With no viable alternatives, Liam and Sophia were forced to move into the spare room at Liam’s mother’s house, an option they also considered themselves fortunate to have. They searched with desperation for another rental but weren’t able to find one.

“We didn’t know what to do,” says Sophia. “It seemed like we would have no choice but to leave Nantucket. And then we got the phone call. It was the most amazing thing that could have happened.”

In the spring of 2015, a chance meeting with a family friend who was dining at Center Street Bistro, where Sophia waits tables as a side job, led to her and Liam applying for the Sachem’s Path and lark, as neither of them really thought they’d be seriously considered.

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ophia and Liam’s new home

national Habitat for

is the first Habitat house to

Humanity

be built in Sachem’s Path,

tion,

organiza-

which

brings

one of the island’s most recent afford-

professional

able housing projects created by the

people and communi-

Nantucket Housing Authority (NHA).

ty volunteers together

“With Sachem’s Path, we wanted to

to build homes for

mix things up a bit,” says NHA execu-

people in need. The

tive director Renee Ceely, underscor-

organization

ing that over the years her organiza-

residents who make

tion had been doing a lot for rentals

up to 80 percent of

but wanted to do something more for

the area’s local area

home ownership. It took six years to

median income, and it

get the legislation passed to be able to

relies on support from

do a mixed income home-ownership

the community in the form of dona-

for the organization to be in,” says Joe

development. As a result, Sachem’s

tions of funds, materials, services and

Grause, the former treasurer and soon-

Path now accommodates a broad

land.

to-be president of Habitat Nantucket.

trades-

serves

“It all starts

After acquiring the land, the next

with the land,” says

step is to fundraise to cover con-

Richard

Hussey,

struction costs. Over the last fifteen

Habitat

Nantuck-

years, 90 percent of these funds have

et’s vice president.

come from the Community Preserva-

“Land is like gold

tion Committee (CPC). “We are not

out here.” Not surprisingly, acquiring

the biggest entity that they support,”

spectrum of income groups. When

land is also the organization’s biggest

says Grause. “But the CPC has been

complete, it will feature forty owner-

challenge. Prior to Sachem’s Path,

very good to us.” The town and local

occupied houses, including three that

they were negotiating with the town

tradespeople have also been tremen-

are being built by Habitat Nantucket.

for land. “Now, we’ve got three to

dously supportive, he notes.

Founded in 2001, Habitat Nan-

four years of work planned out ahead

Ultimately, the goal of Habitat

tucket is a local affiliate of the inter-

of us, which is a very good position

Nantucket is to help very low-in-

come families own their homes. To NHA and Housing Nantucket are

need to have as many different tools as

be clear, Habitat lottery winners like working on. “The town is under pres- possible to deal with the problem,” he Liam and Sophia don’t actually win a sure to build affordable homes,” says says. “Habitat Nantucket is one of the free home. They win the opportunity Grause. “There are about 2.5 percent

tools. They provide a niche product…

to buy a home with a 0% mortgage. of them in the housing Additionally, new owners must spend stock, and they’ve got to 350 hours of “sweat equity” helping get to 10 percent.” the other volunteers build their home.

That means 368 ad-

“That’s sort of their down payment in ditional affordable homes a commitment sense,” says Grause. need to be created to meet Additionally, if the owners later decide the requirements of the state’s Subsi-

and really get people engaged in com-

to sell the home, they can only sell it dized Housing Inventory, according to munity involvement.” back to Habitat Nantucket; they can- Anne Kuszpa, the executive director As for Liam and Sophia, they say of Housing Nantucket. “What’s hap- that owning the Habitat home will be It takes Habitat Nantucket approxi- pening on Nantucket with affordable “an immeasurable improvement” for mately twelve to eighteen months to housing is uniquely challenging,” says them. And Liam, in particular, has been not put the home on the open market.

complete a single house. And it liter- Kuszpa. There are the natural boundar- enjoying the sweat equity factor: “It’s ally takes a village of volunteers to get ies of the island. More than 60 percent very satisfying to be able to work on my the job done. (No experience neces- of the land is restricted for conserva- own house and to know that things are sary, by the way. Construction super- tion. Plus, with a 14 percent popula- being built as I would like.”

visor, Craig Spery, will teach you all tion increase since 2000, Nantucket is you need to know.) The organization’s one of fastest growing communities first house was started in 2003, and it’s in the nation. “In the state, it’s second built seven more since.

only to Martha’s Vineyard,” she says.

When it comes to easing the af- Yet year-round housing units are decreasing.

“What appeals to me, and what appeals to our board,” Grause explains, “is that we’re providing a different model of affordable homes for Nantucketers from what Housing Nanfordable housing crisis on Nantucket, tucket and the NHA offer, which is what they do is just a “drop in the

Former selectman Tobias Glidden

bucket” compared to the larger-scale explains that he sees affordable houssolutions that organizations like the ing on Nantucket like a tool bag. “You

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even Grause and Hussey admit that predominantly rentals.”

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Commericial

Success

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Written by Marie-Claire Rochat

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Photography by Kit Noble

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Behind the scenes of famous toy commercials with Dan Driscoll. t was a thirty-second commercial of a child dipping a crinkle-cut fry into a glob of ketchup that launched Dan Driscoll’s career in the toy commercial industry. That award-winning ad for McCain’s Superfries caught the attention of execs at Mattel who hounded Driscoll’s sales reps and producers until he finally agreed to take on the corporate parent of Barbie, Polly Pocket, and Action Shifters as a client. “Kids are hard to work with,” says Driscoll, “and I resisted it like crazy. But my producer kept kicking me to take it, and I am very glad I did.”

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For more than thirty years, Driscoll has produced and directed commercials for some of the world’s most recognizable brands—Puma, Spaulding, Ford and General Mills, to name a few—as well as numerous regional companies and entities including TJ Maxx, The Massachusetts State Lottery and, as he puts it, just about every small bank in New England.

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Located in an eight-thousand-square-foot loft

pany with eight directors and as many freelance

retired, works out of a studio above the garage

in the South End, Driscoll’s September Produc-

producers and stylists on staff. His jobs took him

of his Nantucket home. It’s cluttered with all the

tions became Boston’s largest production com-

all over the country to work with everyone from

equipment one would expect to see in the work-

endearing

nine-

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year-olds plucked

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space of a self-described workaholic who is still very active in the film business.

from casting calls

These days, Driscoll travels to Vancouver

to some of the

two or three times a year to film blocks of ads

biggest names in

for Mattel. While a lot has changed since he

sports, such as

launched his company in 1978, making toy com-

Larry Bird, Mar-

mercials remains big business with lots of mov-

tina Navratilova

ing parts. “Everything is carefully scripted and

and Pele. Today,

all the details are worked out before we begin to

Driscoll, who is

shoot,” says Driscoll. “Overtime for us is thou-

now more or less

sands of dollars, and we are always on a budget.”

The art direction needs to be flawless so that the ad demonstrates exactly what the toy does. “You cannot show the product doing anything that it doesn’t actually do,” he explains. “You have to be careful not to oversell or overpromise.”

And then there is the meticulous image of the toy that gets projected. Take Barbie for instance. “We go nuts if there is one flyaway hair,” says Driscoll. “The doll stylist has to come in and fix the hair; it has to be perfect.” He has worked with the same stylist—who travels the globe full-time making sure that doll’s locks are well-coiffed—for close to eighteen years.

Flyaway hairs aside, in Driscoll’s experience, problems on set usually stem from the talent. Take, for instance, an ad Driscoll was shooting for Spaulding that featured Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Julius “Dr. J” Erving. Bird and Johnson were archrivals and refused to be on the basketball court at the same time—let alone on the same set. The superstars finally agreed to share the spotlight after Erving intervened. When filming an ad for Puma, tennis ace Boris Becker refused the limo hired to transport him from his hotel to the set, demanding a helicopter for the ten-minute trip.

But it is not only adults acting like children that can hold things up: children acting like children are what turn many directors off. “Kids are good for the first three to five takes,” says Driscoll. “After that, they go downhill quickly. The key is to keep the chaos down on the set. Overall, I have been very lucky to get performances out of them. It’s like being a teacher; there’s a lot of psychology to it.”

Driscoll claims that each of his toy commercials may be his last. “My work with them is fading slowly, and a lot of that has to do with the fact that their budget is shrinking,” he says. “We simply can’t do some concepts at the level we are doing it for the budget.”

When he

does indeed shoot his last toy commercial, Driscoll will stay plenty busy.

September

Productions

is by no means defunct.

These days, he creates short films for island nonprofits as well as wedding

e

videos. Looking back on

e

his professional career, he

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has no regrets. “I am so

ll

thankful. I went to work every day and loved what

r

I did. I am ready for what

s

is next.”

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Bernie Swain might just be the most connected man on Nantucket. His rolodex is packed with former presidents, prime ministers, Pulitzer Prize winners, sports legends, secretaries of state, news anchors and many other high-profile individuals from all walks of public life. He’s sipped whiskey with Margaret Thatcher in the British Embassy, spoke

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SPEECH Written by Robert Cocuzzo

Photography by Kit Noble

Longtime Nantucket summer resident Bernie Swain represents some of the the world’s greatest orators.

to General Norman Schwarzkopf from a bunker at the end of the Gulf War and spent the afternoon with George W. Bush on the president’s final day in the White House. So how did this unassuming man from Virginia end up swimming in some of the world’s most elite social circles?

“We never went to the cocktail parties,” Swain says in his home on Nantucket, flanked by his wife Paula of fortyone years. “I always thought that my clients wanted me behind my desk.” Swain is the co-founder of the Washington Speakers Bureau (WSB), which today represents hundreds of the world’s most prestigious speakers, ranging from astronauts to executives. A quick scroll through the WSB’s roster reveals names like Tony Blair, Tom Brokaw, Alan Greenspan, Condoleezza Rice and Terry Bradshaw. But thirty-six years ago, Swain’s WSB was nothing more than

three employees cold calling potential clients from a tiny makeshift office that barely had enough money to keep the lights on.

In his mid-thirties, with a wife, a newborn and a mortgage, Swain took a big gamble. After reading an article in Fortune about a speakers’ bureau that was thriving because it was “the only game in town,” he quit his stable career as an athletic director at George Washington University to enter an industry in which he had absolutely no experience.

For a year, Swain and his wife and partner languished without landing a single client. Just as the last of their startup money was swirling around the drain, an anchor for Good Morning America named Steve Bell decided to give them sealed with a simple handshake. Bernie Swain was committed to winning and keeping his clients by being honest and trustworthy. This straight-shooting style became his trademark for the next thirty-five years.

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When Swain got word that he had landed President Ronald Reagan as a client, he didn’t ask any questions. The biggest agencies in the country were vying to represent the president, and Swain thought there must have been some kind of mistake that his fledgling company had won out. Years later, after earning a successful track record with the former president, Swain finally asked why Reagan had chosen him. “You actually came in second,” he was told. “The president chose you because you were starting out in business, you were fairly young and he wanted to give you a chance.” Swain was totally blown away that the president would entrust his reputation to someone who “could screw it up in a week.” “But Reagan believed in the little guy,” Swain says. “He believed in entrepreneurism. It was one of those lessons. Here’s a guy who truly stood by his beliefs. He could have been easily convinced to go with a big agency that he could trust his legacy with, but he didn’t. He chose to trust us.”

Ronald Reagan was the first of three presidents Swain and his agency represented. Both George H.W. and George W. Bush signed on with him. And that’s how Swain ended up in the White House on George W. Bush’s final day as President. After an hour showing him around, the president invited Swain and his wife, Paula, to return with him to the residency where his wife, Laura, and his mother and father were packing up. “We spent four hours talking about everything from bicycles to politics,” Swain remembers. “Here’s a guy who could have anybody over there at his place on the last day of his presidency. But he had us.”

Swain tells his stories with genuine, gee-whiz amazement Bernie Swain and his WSB cofounder Harry Rhodes

without a hint of ego. Indeed, What Made Me Who I Am is Swain’s first foray out from behind the curtain to give voice to

ountless clients later, Bernie Swain has just released a book titled

his own story. “I was determined to succeed,” he says. “The key

What Made Me Who I Am, which compiles life lessons from a se-

to success is not finding a talent for doing something. It’s about

lection of the speakers he’s represented. With no experience as a

passion, which is much more important than talent.”

writer, Swain tapped friends such as Bob Woodward for tips on how to glean the most information out of the likes of Madeleine Albright, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Colin Powell. “I discovered how Bob Woodward found his passion for investigative journalism while [he was] working as a janitor,” Swain wrote. “That Tony Blair’s journey to Prime Minister was almost completely derailed by Mick Jagger; and that Robert Reich’s childhood friend’s death sparked his lifelong mission to change the world.”

Perhaps equally as captivating as the lessons revealed in his book are the stories found between its lines. Swain has shared intimate moments with some of the most pivotal people in history, providing him a rare glimpse into their lives beyond the lime light. He remembers spending an evening with Margaret Thatcher N magazine

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the former prime minister asked Swain if he fancied a fire. “I thought she’d call in a butler or someone to build it,” Swain laughs. “But she went right over and picked up these big logs, walked into the fireplace, threw them down, and started the fire herself.” Swain gawked as the 5’5” woman built a roaring blaze, clearly showing that no task was too small for this world leader.

Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Bernie Swain, Alma Powell, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Paula Swain at the State Department for Secretary Powell’s retirement party.

Pick up a copy of What Made Me Who I Am at Mitchell’s Book Corner.

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THEof MAN LE MANS Written by Robert Cocuzzo

Photography by John Dagys

Meet the world champion sports car racer who drives among us.

Team Scuderia Corsa’s headlights peered

kind of way, he certainly looks the part, but

through the punishing rain as it shot off the line.

he doesn’t have the racecar resume one might

The weather was hardly fit for a drive down

expect. “My parents unfortunately wanted me

to the corner store, let alone racing around a

to have nothing to do with automobile racing,”

circuitous track at nearly two hundred miles

he says. So despite obsessing over roaring en-

per hour. The rain beaded off its hood then

gines and racetracks since he was a kid in a

peeled the

down

car seat, it wasn’t

million-

until his twenties

dollar machine

that

into a haze of

enrolled in Skip

jet stream. Hit-

Barber

ting the straight-

School. He was

away, the driver

a natural behind

swerved in and

the wheel, but

out of his lane,

after graduating

warming

from

his

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and

Sweedler Racing

Babson marrying

ing all six hundred horses of his Ferrari 458

his college sweetheart, Sweedler realized

Italia for the twenty-four hours that lay ahead.

that being an aspiring race car driver wasn’t

The wait was finally over. Bill Sweedler was

exactly a stable career for starting a family.

at Les Mans, and he was there to win.

So he turned his competitive racing attitude

At forty-nine years old, Sweedler, a private

towards business, leading several big name

equity exec and longtime Nantucket summer

companies such as Joe Boxer and Hathaway

resident, was living his childhood dream as a

before launching his own private equity firm,

racecar driver. Dashing in a Steve McQueen

Tengram Capital Partners.

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With his business life on cruise control, Sweedler returned to racing in his late thirties. He started small by racing Miatas in regional races, then in national races. In 2001, he upped the ante by racing Porches. And Sweedler wasn’t just racing—he was winning. He took the 12 Hours of Sebring in 2012, the Rolex 24 at Daytona in 2014, and then he was crowned the champion of the International Motor Sports Association a year later. But it wasn’t all victory laps. In 2013, Sweedler was coming around a high-speed turn when a tire released on him.

“I hit the concrete barrier at 135 miles per hour,” he remembered. “But I was fine. I walked right out of it.” That wreck aside, Sweedler was on course to capture the elusive endurance triple crown. The only podium that had eluded him was that of the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans.

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e Mans is the granddaddy of all forms of racing,” Sweedler

and pull up to 3Gs. The track is shared

When the sun finally broke

important endurance race in the world.

by seven classes, ranging from GTs like through the grim, rainy sky five Sweedler’s Ferrari to space-age concept hours after the start, Townsend Bell cars that hit the straightaways at over two pulled Scuderia Corsa’s Ferrari into

It’s a feat just to finish.” Founded in north-

hundred miles per hour.

ern France in 1923, Le Mans is the oldest sports car endurance race in the world, test-

Each team enlists three drivers to swift switches at the wheel, slowly break up the twenty-four-hour race along dominating the second place car un-

ing teams of three drivers on an eight-and-

with a pit crew of up to twenty. Joining til they had carved out a three-minute

says. “It is the first and most

the lead. The three drivers made

lead. The pit stops, twentyfive in total, ran flawlessly, eventually propelling the all-American team to lap the entire field. But even with a three-minute lead, victory and defeat at Le Mans can be decided in a matter seconds. “I hate the end of endurance races when you’re leading,” Sweedler told reporters.

“So many things can go wrong.” Consider the case of the #5 Toyota team in the hybrid MLP1 prototype class. After nearly twentya-half mile course for twenty-four straight hours. “Most people don’t understand the endurance and athletics that are involved,” Sweedler explains. “Imagine being at a

also competes in the Indy Car series (and lost power and came to a complete is a frequent Nantucket visitor). Bell has stop. With that, their race was over.

rock concert, while on a treadmill, trying to

been racing since he was twelve years old

play a game of chess—on a rollercoaster.

when he took the wheel of a go-kart in of Bill Sweedler and his Scuderia Southern California. Much like Sweedler, Corsa team. They defended their

That’s what it feels like in a racecar, the most extreme roller coaster you can imagine in heat that can be up to 135 degrees.”

While most race courses might only have one or two opportunities for a car to reach maximum speed, Le Mans boasts five. “There’s no place like it on earth,” Sweedler says. “It’s hallowed ground.”

Once a year, the storied racetrack, the Circuit de la Sarthe opens its gates to the streets of Le Mans, creating straightaways

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Sweedler on his Scuderia Corsa team was four hours racing perfectly with just forty-one-year-old Townsend Bell, who one lap to go, the Toyota suddenly

But that was not to be the fate

he earned his racing chops at Skip Barber lead till the end, and at three p.m.

Racing School. The two had teamed up on the #62 Ferrari took the checkered a number of races together and were both flag. Minutes later, 250,000 spectagunning for the triple crown honors at Le tors stood in silence as the National Mans last June. Rounding out their team Anthem was played over the historic was thirty-one-year-old Jeff Segal, who, racetrack in France. As Bill Sweedler among many other racing stripes, had been stood there with his hand over his the youngest to win the Ferrari challenge heart, he might have thought about when he was just seventeen. Together, the how legends are made in Le Mans. three men made up the only all-American And now he was one of them.

Ferrari team at Le Mans in 2016.

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Nvestigate antucket is changing before our eyes. It’s a refrain you’ve probably heard before. Sure, there are more cars. Yes, the cottages are being replaced by McMansions and the motorboats by mega-yachts.

But perhaps the most profound change is the sweeping demographic shifts that are remaking Nantucket’s year-round population. The island is experiencing an incredible transformation as immigrants from around the world come not only to find seasonal work, but also decide to stay and make Nantucket their permanent home.

Island resident Peter Morrison spent more than forty years analyzing population trends as a demographer for the Rand Corporation. When he’s not working shifts for Cape Air at Nantucket Memorial Airport, Morrison tracks the island’s demographic trends with a keen eye. What he’s seeing today is remarkable.

The island, he says, has historically been an immigrant entry port in which pioneering migrants from around the world arrived and eventually established self-perpetuating communities. In the past, it was the Irish and the Cape Verdeans. Today it is immigrants from Eastern Europe, Asia, the Caribbean and, most prominently, Latin America. “The most fascinating aspect of this is the long term transformation that is going to occur,” Morrison says.

Morrison likens Nantucket’s seasonal economy to a conveyor belt that brings thousands of workers from around the world to the island’s

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Examining the evolving demographics of Nantucket’s year-round population.

shores. Most return home when the season ends.

But increasingly, these workers have decided to step off the conveyor belt and make Nantucket their permanent home. These immigrants have found opportunities, started businesses, had babies and managed to establish a foothold on the island despite its high cost of living and extreme lack of affordable housing.

“Nantucket’s going to be a different place if you think in terms of the conventional categories—less white, more people of color,” Morrison says. “But that’s a distinction that’s going to diminish in significance because of the demographic changes themselves. If you come back here in twenty years, the distinctions between people of color and white people are going to feel maybe the same way as distinctions between people of German ancestry and Irish ancestry feel today.”

The US Census Bureau’s official population estimate for Nantucket is 10,925 yearround residents. For those of us actually living on the island, it’s a laughable number. Whether it’s the enrollment at the schools, the massive volume of trash generated at the landfill, or the island’s soaring demand for electricity, Nantucketers know the real year-round population number is far higher.

At the Nantucket Town & County Building on Broad Street, Town Clerk Catherine Flanagan Stover has made it her mission to find the true number. Through voter registration and tracking additions to the town street list, Stover says she can officially put a name on more than thirteen thousand yearround residents. But if you include all the people who haven’t been counted, many of whom are part of the surge of immigrants to arrive on the island since the last official Census Bureau year-round population may actually be more than 23,000 souls.

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count in 2010, Stover believes Nantucket’s

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n the last five years, it’s gone right

ever for a one-year period on record. As if

as the late 1990s, the island school district

through the roof,” she says. On a recent

to drive home the point, Stover mentioned

was 97 percent white. Twenty years later,

fall day inside her office, Stover went into

her own grandson, whose father is Domini-

more than 40 percent of the student body is

the vault to retrieve a book that contains

can and who lives in a household in which

non-white, including large concentrations

the birth certificates of every baby born on

three languages are spoken: Portuguese,

of Hispanic, Jamaican, Asian and Eastern

Nantucket. As she flipped through the re-

Spanish, and English. When she’s not serv-

European students. That includes over 370

cords, she pointed out the parents’ country

ing as Nantucket’s Town Clerk, Stover is

bilingual children, with eleven different

of origin listed on each of the certificates.

also a justice of the peace and officiates her

home languages represented in the district.

“China, Jamaica, El Salvador, Lithuania,

fair share of weddings on the island.

Sierra Leone, Trinidad, Belarus, the Do-

“I do a Salvadoran wedding every

think about that—40 percent of the student

minican Republic,” she says. Pointing to

week,” she says, showing off a printed copy

population in twenty years,” says Jeremiah

one of the birth certificates that caught her

of her prepared script for a wedding cere-

Splaine, the director of English language

eye she adds, “There’s two American par-

mony that had been translated into Spanish.

learner (ELL) services at the Nantucket

ents—that’s almost unheard of now.” Ac-

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Public Schools. “But that does absolutely

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nificant populations of Salvadorans, Jamai-

mirror the growth of the immigrant com-

percent of the babies born on Nantucket in

cans, and Eastern Europeans on the island,

munity on the island because we get all the

2015 had at least one foreign-born parent.

Nantucket also has blossoming immigrant

kids. We see the demographics starkly here,

Last year, the number of newborns on the

communities from Nepal and Thailand.

more so than you would in probably any

island with two foreign-born parents actu-

While Nantucket has welcomed im-

ally outnumbered those babies with two

migrants and new cultures in the past, the

The number of ELL students enrolled

American parents.

scale of the demographic shifts in recent

in Nantucket’s public schools has more than

At Nantucket Cottage Hospital, which

years is unprecedented. “It’s an unfold-

doubled over the past four years, with 255

tracks births by fiscal year, (Oct. 1–Sept.

ing wave,” Morrison said. Nowhere is

children currently receiving ELL services

30), there were 159 babies born at the hos-

that wave more apparent than in the Nan-

during the 2016–2017 school year. As a

pital during the most recent year, the most

tucket Public School system. As recently

percentage of total enrollment, 16 percent

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“That’s an enormous shift if you

Sunday night Spanish Mass at St. Mary’s Our Lady of the Isle Catholic Church.

other setting in the community.”

of all island students receive ELL services, compared to the statewide average of 9 percent for all public schools in Massachusetts. More than job sites or the Stop & Shop, the island’s public schools have become the one place where Nantucket’s melting pot of cultures truly come together and interact under one roof.

“Once the students are within the four walls here, kids are kids. They gravitate toward each other and the lanThe NHA’s “Celebration of Nepal” in April 2015. Photos by Brian Sager.

year, a 59 percent increase during that span. The Nantucket Elementary School is becoming one of the largest public elementary schools in Massachusetts. This growth prompted school officials to propose a $46 million tax override to fund the construction of a new intermediate school for grades three through five, and an expansion of the Cyrus Peirce Middle School, which sailed through Nantucket’s Annual Town Meeting in April, 2015 and was later approved at the ballot. The numbers are staggering, but they reveal just one aspect of Nantucket’s demographic changes. The personal stories from the people themselves paint a fuller picture of what’s happening on the island.

guage barrier doesn’t prohibit that,” Splaine says. “We have a truly multinational soccer team with kids from Ireland, Bulgaria, Brazil, Honduras, Mexico and Jamaica. The kids just naturally work it out.” For a relatively small school district, the effects of this influx are significant—both socially and fiscally. In 2003, the Nantucket Public Schools had one full-time teacher devoted to ELL services. Today, Splaine oversees a ers. “It sort of mushroomed, and it seemed like overnight,” Splaine says.

The overall enrollment in the district has soared from one thousand students in 1993 to 1,588 during the current school

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e to d so ood vas-

n Jan. 7, 2016, Noé Pineda 6,000 people. A significant numfound himself on the front page ber of those Salvadorans, Pineda of Nantucket’s Inquirer and Mirror included, hail from Agua Caliente, newspaper. Twenty-three years after the small rural town in the Central fleeing the bloodshed of El Salva- American country that is now inexodor’s civil war, and after surviving rably linked to Nantucket. the journey north across Central

Some of the first Salvadorans to

America to the US–Mexican bor- settle on Nantucket were from Agua der, Pineda smiled in the photo like Caliente and came to the island only a proud father could. He was via Boston in the late 1990s as opholding his newborn baby daughter, portunities in the island’s seasonal Maria Raquel, who was the island’s economy beckoned. Among them “New Year’s Baby” for 2016, along were members of the Tejada family, with his wife Sonia Raquel.

who were recruited to work on Nan-

For a man who only attained tucket by the late Jack McFarland, a fourth-grade education back in the former facilities manager for the El Salvador and entered the United island’s public schools.

States penniless and unable to speak

The Tejadas, like Pineda, escaped

a word of English, Pineda had come from Agua Caliente as the brutal a long way. The unlikelihood of his conflict between leftist guerillas and smiling face gracing the front page the U.S.-backed Salvadoran governof Nantucket’s newspaper was not ment escalated. Pineda’s memories lost on him. Now, he says, “I want of that time are painful. He recalled to see how far I can go.”

a day working in the fields when he

And why wouldn’t he? Since and his brothers were caught in the leaving El Salvador, Pineda has be- middle of a firefight. He thought one come bilingual, a homeowner and is of his brothers had been killed bea fourteen-year veteran on the main- fore finding him at their home hours tenance crew at Nantucket Memo- later, frightened but unhurt.

“It was tough,” he recalled while

to pay half of the $8,000 he needed for the journey

$60,000 per year. Pineda is one of sitting in the small break room at

north. And so with eighteen other Salvadorans, Pine-

the thousands of Salvadorans who Nantucket Memorial Airport. “You

da travelled by car through Guatemala and Mexico

have made their way to Nantucket cannot even imagine unless you’re

before reaching the border. Not everyone he was

since the late 1990s, a group that able to experience it. Our country

with made it through that final leg across the des-

today represents by far the largest has struggled so bad. We’re so small

ert into the United States, he says. “Some people get

immigrant population on the island. and don’t have a good economy. The

kidnapped or robbed,” Pineda recalls. “I don’t know

There’s no official count, of course, whole country was devastated.”

what happened to them.” But he did make it across

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friend who was already in the United States offered

In 1993, just after the civil war

the border and ended up in San Diego, California

Town Clerk, estimate Nantucket’s climaxed and came to an end, Pine-

where his friend put down the money for a flight to

Salvadoran population at 5,000 to da decided it was time to leave. A

Boston.

but both Pineda and Stover, the

The Noé Pineda Story

With others from Agua Caliente, Pineda settled into a new life

at St. Mary’s Church on Federal Street is regularly attended

in a foreign land. He bought a set of cassette tapes to learn

by more than two hundred people. It is a reflection, Pineda

English. He managed to find work cleaning retail stores in

says, of the thousands of Salvadorans, Dominicans, Mexicans

Boston. And he applied for political asylum, allowing him to

and other Latinos who now call Nantucket home. These ex-

obtain a work permit.

tended families, friends and acquaintances have learned how to live together on Nantucket despite the sky-high rents and

the invitation of a friend from church in Boston. He began

cost of living. That often means pooling resources, with mul-

working as a custodian at the public schools and at the Nan-

tiple families living together under one roof. “It hasn’t been

tucket Golf Club, where he lived in the club’s dormitory. He

easy. It’s been tough,” Pineda says. “You can’t have a room

quickly set out to establish a church group for Spanish-speak-

to yourself. You have to share with people. That’s how we’ve

ing residents of the island. Today that small group has blos-

been surviving.”

somed into a full congregation. The Sunday Mass in Spanish

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Pineda arrived on Nantucket in the spring of 1999 at

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The

Martin Anguelov Story

or some of Nantucket’s other immigrants, the journey to the island may not have been as harrowing, but

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it was no less unlikely. Growing up in communist Bulgaria when it was part of the Soviet-led Eastern

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Bloc, Martin Anguelov never thought he would leave his home country. But when he was fifteen, the communist regime fell, the borders opened up, and Anguelov’s path in life would soon lead him to Nantucket.

Through a student exchange

at the pharmacy. Meanwhile, An-

“It’s a great way of keeping

program, Anguelov came to the

guelov pursued higher education up not just with the language and

United States in 1997 on a J1 visa

and not only received a Masters writing, but also the traditions

and took a job as a dishwasher and

degree in business administration and culture,” Anguelov says. Bul-

prep cook at Hutch’s, the former

from Babson College in 2006, but garians are the largest of several

restaurant at the Nantucket Memo-

also went on to become a certified Eastern European groups that are

rial Airport terminal. At night, he

public accountant.

establishing themselves on Nan-

took a second job at Island Phar-

In 2013, after an extensive pro- tucket, including those from Be-

macy. Fast forward nearly twenty

cess, Anguelov became an Ameri- larus, Lithuania, Romania and

years, and Anguelov is now the

can citizen during a ceremony at Russia.

finance director for the Nantucket Public Schools. He has two children who were born at Nan-

“The community of this island has been great to me and my family. We love the island, and I do consider myself lucky to have met the people I have along the way.”

tucket Cottage Hospital. And he is one of hundreds, if not thousands, of Bulgarians who now call Nantucket home.

the JFK Library in Boston.

Anguelov and Pineda have

The Bulgarian community on seized the opportunities that NanNantucket, Anguelov says, is full tucket has offered and demonstrate

“I’ve been lucky,” Angue-

of success stories like his, includ- why so many continue to exit the

lov said. “The community here, I

ing friends and acquaintances who seasonal conveyor belt that Morri-

can’t say enough. The community

are now electricians, web design- son describes. “Nantucket is going

of this island has been great to me

ers and small business owners. to be the scene of numerous per-

and my family. We love the island,

The island’s Bulgarians have been sonal success stories on the part of

and I do consider myself lucky to

able to integrate into the island immigrants who have come here,”

have met the people I have along

community while still retaining Morrison says. “There’s going to

the way.” After making the deci-

their cultural identity, he says. On be a lot of people who come here

sion to stay on Nantucket year-

Saturdays at the Congregational from humble origins who are go-

round in the late 1990s, Anguelov

Church on Centre Street, for in- ing to look back and say, ‘Boy, I

worked his way up at Island Phar-

stance, there is a Bulgarian school came here without a penny in my

macy from a sales clerk position to

where the children of immigrants pocket and look where I am now.’”

manager. He met his wife, who is

who were born on Nantucket learn Read more Nantucket success sto-

also from Bulgaria, while working

to speak and write Bulgarian.

ries on www.N-Magazine.com

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Debate Interview by Bruce A. Percelay

Portraits by Kit Noble

The chairman of the Commission on Presidential Debates weighs in.

Never in the history of presidential debates has there

watched, few had a better view than summer resi-

been more attention or more controversy than this

dent Frank Fahrenkopf, the chairman of the Com-

year’s Clinton-Trump showdown. Nearly a hundred

mission on Presidential Debates. Fahrenkopf has

million people tuned in to see the combatants face

been in charge of the presidential debates since

off, prompting pundits to dub the debates the Super

1987, giving him a front row seat to eight presiden-

Bowl of the presidential race. On Nantucket, hun-

tial cycles. N Magazine spoke to Fahrenkopf over

dreds watched the historic debates on the big screen

the course of the three debates to get his take on the

in the Dreamland Theater. Yet of all the people who

election and its place in American history.

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N Magazine: Have you met any other president comparable to Reagan?

Fahrenkopf: Bill Clinton was very, very good. When you met Bill Clinton, he looked you right in the eye. He wasn’t looking to the next person in line. He had a rare ability. It was a special thing about Clinton. I haven’t seen that warmth or ability that [Clinton and Reagan] had, each in different ways, in any of the other different presidents since.

N Magazine: Do you think there’s something inherently flawed in the political process that yielded this presidential cycle’s candidates?

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N Magazine: How did you first enter

losses in Congress—President

N Magazine: Do you have any fun-

Fahrenkopf: The polls clearly show

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the political arena?

Reagan asked me to come back

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that the American people are

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Fahrenkopf: When I graduated

and become the chairman of the

spent with President Reagan?

dissatisfied. They’re dissatisfied

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from the University of Califor-

Republican National Committee.

Fahrenkopf: We were on Air Force

with Washington, with govern-

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nia Berkeley Law School and

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came back to Reno, which was

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my home since I was nine years

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there were two strong organiza-

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tions in both parties: The Young

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ment in general, with the presi-

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Republicans and The Young

N Magazine: What was Reagan like?

Fahrenkopf: He was an amazing

landed in Las Vegas at 12:30 in

dent. They’ve lost faith in cor-

n

Democrats. I became the chair-

individual. When he walked into

the morning. The president said,

porations. They’ve lost faith in

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man of the Reno Young Republi-

a room, you felt it. He had a re-

“Frank, why don’t you ride with

banks. The American people are

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cans and then the Nevada Young

markable sense of humor. He was

me up front.” So I get in the limo

unhappy, and that’s why I think

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Republicans. I then became the

a leader. Everyone talks about

with the president, and it’s 12:30

not only Donald Trump did so

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chairman of the Nevada Repub-

how great a speaker he was. He

in the morning. Even [that late at

well in the process, but also Ber-

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lican Party for eight years, and

had a remarkable warmth and

night,] there were people along

nie Sanders. There are people

then in 1982—after the Republi-

charm about him, but he could

the road with their kids waving

looking for something else. It’s

can Party suffered some real bad

also be tough as nails.

flags. We came to a corner where

a very unusual, unusual time.

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we look, and all the girls are out

N Magazine: The debates themselves

standing on top of cars, and as

had some unusual moments, par-

the limousine approached, they

ticularly in the town hall forum

reached back and took off their

when Trump tried to have Clin-

tops and started twirling them

ton’s past accusers sit in his fam-

and yelling, “We love you Mr.

ily’s VIP box. Can you tell us how

President!” The president turned

that unfolded behind the scenes?

to me and said, “Frank, did you

Fahrenkopf: I was supposed to go

see that? Now that’s what I call a

on stage in ten to fifteen min-

real Las Vegas welcome.”

utes, and I’m standing with the

president of the university when one of my people came up to me and said, “Do you know about the press conference?” And I said, “What press conference?” He told me that apparently Trump had four women who had accused Bill Clinton of impropriety over time, and the word was that he’s going to try and put them in the family box. I said, “Absolutely not. That breaks the rules.” I went to the holding room where all the Trump people were. When I told them what I had heard, they were shocked. They had no knowledge of it. I said, “Look I have to go up on stage, but I have to tell you right here and now that if he tries to put them in the family box that’s a violation of the rules, and I’ll have security stop them.” So I go on to the stage. I’m in the middle of my remarks, and I don’t know what the hell is going on, until I see Rudy Giuliani leading the four women to regular seats, which was fine. Of course, Trump complained that they had the right to put them in the family box, but they just didn’t.

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also accused your commission of sabotaging the first debate, right?

Fahrenkopf:

There

was a controversy after the Hofstra debate. Those who watched on television didn’t hear it, but those who were in the hall noticed that there was an audio problem with Trump. His voice would sound high and low, high and low. Afterwards, he accused the commission of sabotaging. What happened was Trump was an hour late for the walk-through. We had about seven minutes with him; there just wasn’t enough time to get it done. But we thought we had it done right.

It had nothing to do with us. He blamed his poor showing on it, but in my experience the side that loses the debate usually blames the moderator or the commission. They can’t take the blame themselves.

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N Magazine: Is it difficult to find neutral or fair and balanced moderators?

Fahrenkopf: It’s the hardest thing we do. For

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the last six months we’ve been monitoring people who have been on television, seeing what they do. We want diversity.

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The networks don’t do a very good job, when you really look at it, with Hispanics and African Americans and Asians. They just really, really don’t. So we have to find diversity. I thought we did the best job we’ve ever done, this time. We had an African American, an Asian, two women and the first publically open gay person with Anderson Cooper. Of course, once the red

pendents saying, “Thank the lord for the commission and the integrity of

light goes on, who knows what happens.

the commission.” I think these debates have helped the commission and given us the credibility that hopefully we deserve.

N Magazine: What about the commission itFahrenkopf: We’re totally independent. It

N Magazine: How do you think history is going to look back on these debates?

Fahrenkopf: They’ll certainly go down in history for how many people

was created in 1987, when Paul Kirk was

watched and what happened on the stage. There’s never been so much in-

the chairman of the Democratic Party, and

terest. The Nielsen rating on the first debate was 84 million. But that didn’t

I was chairman of the Republican Party.

count CSPAN, which brought it right under 100 million people. That does

Paul and I shook hands at that time and

not count people who were in group viewing parties or the people that

said whenever we work on matters that

streamed it [online.] So, well over 100 million people saw that debate.

have to do with the debates, he would

That validated the importance of the debate and bodes well for the com-

never wear a DNC hat. I would never

mission in the future.

self? How do you keep it unbiased?

wear an RNC hat. We would always wear a USA hat. We would be down the middle.

N Magazine: How do you foresee the

And I think by the fact that we’re still here

Republican Party mending the frac-

after all these years shows that we have

tures after this election?

done that.

Fahrenkopf:

I’ve been in the Re-

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N Magazine: You’ve worked so hard to main-

and you go through cycles. I don’t

tain the integrity of the debates; do you think

think we’re talking about the

this presidential cycle has undermined them

death of the Republican Party. The Republican Party has some problems,

in anyway?

and after the election I’m sure there’s going to be new leadership. Both

Fahrenkopf: I actually think just the oppo-

parties will have to get back to my favorite word: comity. Comity has left

site. I have been buried in calls and emails

this town. And that’s what the American people want: They want comity

from Republicans, Democrats and Inde-

between their parties and their elected leaders.

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SEAL Interview by Vanessa Emery

APPROVAL Controversial conservationist Pete Bethune visits Nantucket and condemns local efforts to abate seals.

Pete Bethune takes environmental activism to a new level: He is not your

typical conservationist. He’s chased rhino poachers in Sumatra, conducted a citizen’s arrest of a Japanese whaling ship captain in Antarctic waters, clandestinely filmed baby seal clubbings in a DeBeers diamond mine in Namibia and embarked on many more adrenaline-filled eco-adventures while filming the first two seasons of his television show, The Operatives. In 2006, Bethune set a new world record, circumnavigating the globe in a state-of-the-art vessel powered entirely by bio-fuels. To publicize the fact that sustainable biofuels could replace hydrocarbon fuels, Bethune and his crew had liposuction and used their own body fat as part of their boat’s fuel. Now, Bethune is crowd-funding to build a new 150-foot, tri-hull, wave-piercing vessel to continue his eco-mission crisscrossing the globe.

During his recent travels, Pete Bethune came to Nantucket to learn about local environmental issues and to explore the potential for future projects here at the invitation of a member of the Nantucket Marine Mammals Conservation Program.

After several days exploring the island and meeting with local fishermen, politicians and conservationists, Bethune shared his thoughts when it comes to managing our

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Bethune:

N MAGAZINE: How did you end up

some of the locals and discuss the

these patrols, and on the fourth

coming to Nantucket?

issues.

day were able to get some seal

Bethune: I wasn’t going to come, but then [Scott Leonard of the

N MAGAZINE: What’s your experience

what they do there; it’s disgrace-

Nantucket

with seals?

ful. The footage has been used all

men-

Bethune: I’ve worked on seal is-

around the world and in several

tioned the issue here over the

sues before, in New Zealand and

documentaries in addition to the

seals. That pricked my ears up.

Namibia. In Namibia, the first

TV show. I feel pretty strongly

I did just a little bit of digging,

mission I did for The Opera-

about seals, they’re an impor-

and I went to the Seal Abatement

tives was to break into a DeBeers

tant part of healthy ecosystems.

Coalition’s website. And I think

diamond mine where they club

N MAGAZINE: What have you learned

it’s appalling what they’ve been

about fifty thousand seal pups a

so far about seals on Nantucket?

proposing. I see it as trying to roll

year. Because it’s a diamond facil-

Bethune: Thirty years ago there

back the Marine Mammal Protec-

ity, it’s very heavily guarded and

were zero seals on Muskeget Is-

tion Act, and I think that’s been

the seal clubbing is almost impos-

land, and today, at the peak of

a key piece of legislation in sav-

sible to film or photograph. So

winter, there may be as many as

ing seal populations. So I thought

we had to covertly sneak in. We

fifteen thousand. You’ve got these

I would come out here and meet

got dropped off a mile off shore,

locals trying to get the fishermen

with Scott and maybe meet with

swam in, spent four days dodging

on their side by telling them the

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clubbing footage. It’s appalling

Marine

Mammals

Program]

seals are impacting the fishery

should be celebrating that.

It’s an ecological hotspot, and

in a negative way, and we’ve

If they start actually culling

the future of an area like Nan-

got to do something about these

seals, this place will become

tucket and Muskeget Island is

excess number of seals. But

a hotbed for activism. You

in celebrating the wildlife you

what they’re doing is using a

wouldn’t be able to stop people

have, not in trying to control it.

to say, because there were no

from flying their drones and

N MAGAZINE: So what would you

seals a while ago, and now hav-

showing bloody seals on the

say the core of your work is?

ing fifteen thousand is too many.

beaches. In many ways, a place

Bethune: It’s a combination. Much

They keep using language like

like Nantucket should be an en-

of it is running missions to catch

“the burgeoning seal population”

vironmental leader. This is an

people who are doing illegal ac-

or “the exploding seal population”

eco hot spot here; it’s got such

tivities. Or running missions in

as though that’s a bad thing, when

great biodiversity. You’ve got

places where it may not be il-

it’s not a bad thing at all.

the sea monument just off-

legal, but I believe it’s wrong.

shore that President Obama just

For example, the seal clubbing

declared. You’ve got these

in Namibia is legal, as well as

tropical waters

Japanese whaling in Antarctica.

very short piece of history to justify it. They’re going back thirty years when there were zero seals. If you go back two hundred years, there were probably

100,000-200,000

seals

here. It’s pretty disingenuous

Increasingly, I’m trying to work with authorities and be on the right side of the law. But there are some cases where I think it’s with whale sharks and mahi mahi, blue marlin and

justified to say, “Hey, the law is wrong here.”

all manner of tropical fish. You come in closer and you’ve got

N MAGAZINE: You believe the grow-

these sub-tropical waters with

ing seal population is a good

amazing seals and great whites.

thing for Nantucket?

Bethune: Yeah, seals have made a comeback and a few reasons have been used to trigger alarm.

People are saying the seals attract great white sharks. You know great white sharks are part of this ecosystem? They’ve become critically endangered and nearly hunted to extinca comeback now partly because of the seals. And I think we

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N MAGAZINE: You must have a good legal team.

Bethune: Yeah, but mostly we try not to get

the entire water column from the surface

the most extraordinary concentrations of

down to the bottom. The by-catch is enor-

fish in the world and you’ve got this brutal

caught. Mostly I work with authorities,

mous and you end up with all these dead

windswept island at the edge of the United

but I’m not afraid to push the boundaries.

animals. And people here are complain-

States. This is an extraordinary place and

An example would be in Costa Rica. We

ing that fishing is not what it used to be,

it should be an environmental leader.

got some intel on some vessels involved in

and they blame it on the seals. It’s not the

A lot of the people on Nantucket,

illegal shark finning. Myself and another

[expletive] seals! It’s the fact that you’re

they are environmentalists at heart. They

guy dove using reed breathers, a military

overfishing here. You have all these out-

live in one of the coolest places in the

underwater gear that has no bubbles and

dated fishing practices. They’re dragging

world, this wonderful little island placed

climbed aboard the shark finning boats to

using a one and seven eights inch mesh

on the edge of Atlantic here with all this

put turtle trackers on them. Technically, it

net. I don’t know another single Western

wildlife around it. I think people here do

was illegal for us to do that. But it gave

country that allows a

us an enormous amount of intelligence

mesh size under four

of where they were going and how they

inches. In this case,

were operating. It led us all the way out

they’re allowed a

to Cocos Island. Sometimes I might push

liner. It catches ev-

the boundaries a bit, but I do try and work

erything.

with authorities.

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N MAGAZINE: What’s another issue facing our

you think these is-

Nantucket waters?

sues can be better

Bethune: The fact that you have these drag-

brought to the pub-

gers that are allowed to fish so close to the

lic eye?

mainland is disgraceful. I don’t know any

Bethune: In many

other Western countries in the world that

ways, this area should be a genuine envi-

care and they might just need a little nudge

would allow draggers that close to shore.

ronmental leader. You have Woods Hole,

along the way.

At the very least they should be twelve

just over the water there, which is one of

Learn more about The Operatives and Pete

nautical miles offshore. That form of fish-

the greatest oceanic research institutes in

Bethune’s organization, Earth Race Conserva-

ing is horrendous. When you’re in water

the world; you’ve got these tropical waters

tion, at www.earthraceconservation.org

that shallow, the drag net effectively takes

fifty to sixty miles offshore with some of

COUNTER POINTS The founder of the Seal Abatement Coalition, Peter Howell, responds to Pete Bethune.

am a founder of the Seal Abatement Coalition, yet, like Mr. Bethune, I certainly consider myself an environmentalist and believe I have the credentials to support that claim. I agree with much of what Mr. Bethune says. No doubt the Marine Mammal Protection Act has, as he says, been key to saving seal populations, and I applaud that. But that act was passed over forty years ago when preserving individual species was, arguably, the principal objective. That was, and remains, a legitimate objective, but I believe we have since come to recognize that we must balance specific species preservation with preservation of the ecosystem as a whole.

Our concern is that in the current absence of natural controls over grey seal population growth in our waters (other than white sharks), human intervention in the form of the extraordinary protections afforded grey seals under the MMPA is now contributing to an emerging natural imbalance. As one example, our short documentary film, Unintended Consequences, documents the impact grey seals are having on the unique and fragile ecosystem of Muskeget Island, a National Natural Landmark.

We certainly do not advocate “rolling back” the Marine Mammal Protection Act. We do believe the act is flawed in that it does not provide for delisting species, which have demonstrably recovered, as does the Endangered Species Act. I agree with Mr. Bethune that we should celebrate the grey seal recovery, but I question whether NOAA is reluctant to acknowledge that recovery because the act is silent on the regulator’s responsibilities for managing marine mammal populations that have been restored to a sustainable level.

Mr. Bethune raises the difficult issue of “shifting baselines” in discussing an appropriate historical point of reference for determining what is a “natural” grey seal population. Suffice it to say, changes in our marine ecosystem, both natural and man-made, (e.g., the effects of climate change, human population growth, industrial commercial fishing techniques, etc.,) make such determinations difficult. What may have been a “natural” grey seal population in any specific locale generations ago may no longer be relevant today.

Finally, I agree we have an “eco-hotspot” here, and it is precisely in the interests of preserving our biodiversity that we are concerned about the unchecked growth of our grey seal population and its impact on our marine ecosystem.

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Seal Abatement Coalition founders Guy Snowden, Peter Krough and Peter Howell.

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Three brothers in the 1850s

PORTRAITS Photos courtesy of Nantucket Historical Association

PAST

Back in the day, getting the perfect holiday family photo rarely came together in a snap.

‘tis the season when mailboxes around the country begin receiving Christmas cards. Nowadays, we use family photos to adorn holiday cards and post on social media, but back in the day, a quality family photo was quite the undertaking. In the early days of photography, a portrait was costly and time consuming, meaning that posing for a family photo was a pastime usually reserved for a more affluent N magazine

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bers. There were ornate backgrounds and sometimes even props to aid in capturing the perfect picture. Flip back in time with these Nantucket family photos.

Mother and daughters, all dressed up for their portrait, ca. 1860

Nha Family portrait, 1930

Best friends in their finest, 1850s

Five lovely ladies of the Victorian era

Brother and sister in 1904

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The Hutchinson Family Singers, a professional group of the 1840s and ’50s who visited

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Boys posing in beach attire in the 1890s

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Family portrait, 1890

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Four young ladies of the 1890s dressed in traditional Quaker attire

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designing

woman A quick chat with designer Kathleen Hay

Photo by Jeffery Allen

N MagaziNE: What’s your favorite current issues of N Magazine and Hay: My family (which includes my Hay: Avocado appliances and ForNantucket Stroll tradition?

the Inquirer and Mirror, and menus

dog, of course), morning coffee, and

mica countertops.

Hay: The NHA Festival of Trees. It from some of our many fine restau- natural light. Followed closely by is inspiring to see the iconic shape of

rants.

the next three musts: red wine, good

N MagaziNE: What’s the easiest (and

the Christmas tree turned into end-

friends, and a comfortable bed with

cheapest) way to update a space?

lessly creative interpretations. And

N MagaziNE: When it comes to holiday lots of pillows.

the party is a wonderful gathering of

decorations, what are your go-to items?

the community.

Hay: I prefer a metallic color scheme N MagaziNE: What design element is in new patterns/colors can dramati-

to the traditional red and green. I

distinctly Nantucket?

Hay: A fresh coat of paint along with new light fixtures or throw pillows cally change a space.

N MagaziNE: What is one thing most group multiple small trees of silver, Hay: Cedar shingles and wood wall gold, and white to create a glittering treatments, such as beadboard, ship N MagaziNE: Looking to the New people don’t know about you?

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QUIDNET $14,950,000 Exquisitely built estate on 14 acres. One-of-a-kind pastoral setting with ultimate privacy that is close to Squam Beach and Sesachacha Pond. Eight-bedroom house, three-car garage, pool, pool-house, tennis court, walking trails, and room for expansion.

TOWN $4,975,000 Five-bedroom home with garage and studio. Wonderful floor plan: mud-room, storage, garaged, spacious rooms, bedrooms with private baths, patio and garden abutting protected green space, office, den, fireplaces, a roof walk, quality construction, built-ins, and timeless finish work.

POCOMO $32,750,000 Entirely unique waterfront compound with 300 degree dramatic views, privacy, direct access to a gorgeous sandy beach, boat moorings and multiple dwellings. Private beach stairs and a tennis court complete this elevated, waterfront compound with first-floor water views of Nantucket Harbor, Medouie Creek, Town, Coatue, and Great Point Light House, situated on almost 7 acres.

POCOMO $9,450,000 Stunning, panoramic views from this six-bedroom home sited on 3 acres in one of the highest elevations in Pocomo.

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TOWN $4,850,000 Elegant, in-town home tucked in off Fair St. on a seldom travelled lane just steps to Main St. Dramatic, open floor plan with gourmet kitchen, wall of French doors to an over-sized patio, grand bedrooms, large closets, and four floors of finished living space. In-town living at its best.

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TOWN $3,675,000 Beautifully restored in-town antique on an over-sized, corner lot. Everything has been replaced; foundation, plumbing, electrical, roof, shingles, fireplaces.

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Corner lot, large yard, two off-street parking spaces and new landscaping.

TOWN $2,695,000 Four bedroom, three and a half bath home in the Old Historic District. Large deck and gardens compliment the interior living spaces. Top-end kitchen appliances, marble counter tops, surround sound system, A/C, central vac., two fireplaces, custom built-ins and molding throughout the home.

WAUWINET $5,975,000 Incredible home on private, wooded and elevated five acre parcel of land overlooking Polpis Harbor and Nantucket Harbor. Five fireplaces, cast iron baseboard heat, A/C, granite counter tops, custom Rutt kitchen, bluestone patios. Elevator to all floors.

CLIFF $4,875,000 Beautifully restored 1747 antique home on desirable Cliff Road, a five minute walk into town. Many original features including four fireplaces, wide pine flooring, moldings and raised paneling. Private yard and gardens, and covered dining patio. Views of Sound from roof walk.

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