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Welcome Frank O’Connor, MD New Full-Time, Year-Round Surgeon Nantucket Cottage Hospital has welcomed a new full-time, year-round surgeon, Frank O’Connor, MD, to the medical staff and the NCH surgical team. A native New Englander, Dr. O’Connor grew up in Woburn, Massachusetts and lived for many years in Newport, Rhode Island. He attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, and completed his residency at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. Dr. O’Connor is a former captain in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps. During his 26 years in the military, he was deployed to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom, he was aboard the USNS Comfort in support of Hurricane Katrina relief in 2005, and was also deployed to Kuwait, and Djibouti, Africa. Dr. O’Connor brings vast general surgery experience and laparoscopic surgical skills to Nantucket Cottage Hospital and will be an important part of the team that will maximize the capabilities of an expanded surgical suite within the new hospital.
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A numerical snapshot of the island in September.
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A breakdown of where you need to be this month.
HEALTHNWELLNESS N 34
Registered dietician Kathleen Minihan gives her recipe for eating well.
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Nantucket’s beloved bookworm Tim Ehrenberg offers his top reading recommendations.
NTERIORS 42
Take a look inside an intimate Nantucket space.
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All the news, tidbits and scuttlebutt that’s fit to print.
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NSPIRE 50 PLAY LIKE A GIRL
Checking out the rise of youth sports for girls on Nantucket.
54 QUEEN OF NEPAL
Nantucket resident Shradha Khatri Chhetri participated in the first Miss Nepal North America Pageant last month.
NSIDER 58
An exclusive rundown of this year’s Nantucket Project.
NQUIRY 64 THE VISIONARY
Exploring the mind and mission of lifelong summer resident John Johnson.
70 NONPROFIT PROPHET
Speaker Dan Pallotta shares his thoughts on why we need to rethink the nonprofit sector.
NDEPTH 76 SUSTAINABLE STYLE How summer resident and fashion designer Britt Cosgrove is making green the new black.
82 LEGENDS OF THE FALL
Some of the greatest senior female golfers are teeing off on Nantucket this month.
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NVESTIGATE 86 MISSING THE POINT
The two sides debating the future of Great Point.
92 BONE TO PICK
Will a bill designed to save endangered species cause an artistic tradition to go extinct on Nantucket?
98 LIFTING THE VEIL Exploring Nantucket’s booming wedding industry.
NVOGUE 104 IN THE MIST
N Magazine’s fashion squad hits ‘Sconset for a look at fall fashion.
NHA 122 TRAVELING BACK IN TIME
Take a spin in some of the planes, trains and automobiles of the past courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association’s image archives.
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There is something about Nantucket that is particularly engaging. The more time people spend on this island, the more engaged they become with the community, the nonprofits and the causes that influence island life. Our cover story follows John Johnson, a person who is deeply engaged with the communities where he spends time. On Nantucket, Johnson was the driving force behind the Almanack Arts Colony, which supports aspiring screenwriters, songwriters and other artists. In Costa Rica, Johnson has adopted the town of Nosara as a second home. There, he works to protect the environment and ensure responsible growth of the town. On September 26th, the Community Foundation of Nantucket has arranged for a particularly engaging speaker to headline its inaugural Nonprofit Leadership Conference. Dan Pallotta offers guidance to nonprofits by providing both novel and disruptive thinking as to how they should function. There are over one hundred nonprofits serving Nantucket, and the more effective they are in managing their time and resources, the more impact they will have on the community. Nantucketers have also become passionately engaged in the controversial debate surrounding Great Point, one of the island’s most iconic natural landmarks. In the last ten years, the protection of piping plover nesting grounds has resulted in extremely limited access to Great Point. In a story titled “Missing the Point,” writer Deborah Halber analyzes the contentious debate over who ultimately should have access to the point: people or plovers? Another controversial topic that hits close to home is the uncertain future of scrimshaw on Nantucket. One of the world’s largest scrimshaw collections is housed in our Whaling Museum, and Nantucket’s history has often been recorded through this old art form. However, the future of scrimshaw has recently come into question in light of new legislation designed to curb poaching of elephants and rhinos. We examine the question of whether the efforts to protect endangered species could inadvertently result in the extinction of this historic Nantucket art. In a feature about an artist of a different kind, Nantucket summer resident Britt Cosgrove shares the story behind her sustainable fashion line SVILU. Based in New York City, Cosgrove is the daughter of renowned heart surgeon Toby Cosgrove and distinguished healthcare consultant Anita Cosgrove. Although Britt Cosgrove might not be donning the surgeon’s smock like her father, her elegant designs have pulled on the heartstrings of many fashion lovers. Finally, Nantucket’s booming wedding industry, which contributes $50 million to the island economy, is an engagement story of a different kind. While we don’t have accurate statistics as to how many people actually get engaged on the island, we do know that there are well over two hundred weddings each season, ranging from simple ceremonies to virtual Hollywood productions. With the fall wedding season upon us, we lift the veil on what has emerged as a major island industry. True Nantucketers are seldom passive about life in this community, and civic engagement seems more intense here than most any other resort location, demonstrating how much people care about this island. This community engagement was most recently seen in Nantucketers giving over 1,500 donations to build the new Nantucket Cottage Hospital. So whether engaging with the community or getting engaged to a future spouse, the fall season is an ideal time to connect with others on the island. Sincerely,
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After appearing on N Magazine’s cover last month, winner of The Voice Brynn Cartelli shared the cover shot by chief photographer Brian Sager to her 184,000 fans on Instagram. The post instantly got flooded by thousands of likes and nearly 400 comments. And Brynn’s fans weren’t the only ones taking notice of her first official cover appearance. Two days later, The Boston Globe ran a story on this benchmark in her career. Later that month, Brynn performed an impromptu concert at Cisco Brewery.
During his month-long vacation on the island this July, Nantucket summer resident and Barstool Sports founder, Dave “@stoolPresidente” Portnoy, strutted his stuff for the annual Cisco Trashion Show. He wore a custom outfit designed with N Magazine covers featuring Bill Belichick and Linda Holliday. Portnoy posted a photo of himself rocking the coverage to his hundreds of thousands of followers. Away from the catwalk, Portnoy also dropped by a number of local pizza joints to film his viral pizza review videos.
Actor, director, author and filmmaker Andrew Keenan-Bolger was on-island last month and posted several shots of his time spent with family and friends. KeenanBolger is a Broadway star, having recently played memorable roles in Tuck Everlasting and Newsies. After debuting on Broadway as Chip in Beauty and the Beast, Keenan-Bolger has earned himself tens of thousands of followers who kept up with his recent adventures on the island.
HISTORIC on ORANGE LONG HILL , SITUATED AT T HE CREST OF HISTORIC OR ANGE STREET $15,950,000 30 Orange Street is in the heart of town. Dating back to 1823, this estate combines Federal, Georgian and period architectural styles throughout its 7,200 square feet. 8 bedrooms, 8.5 baths, and 8 fireplaces with sweeping views of the Harbor, Brant Point and Monomoy from two 90’ verandas on the 1st and 2nd floors. Includes a 2-car garage on a separate buildable lot. The central entry hall with 14’ ceilings leads to reception, drawing rooms and a generously proportioned living room. French doors lead onto the first 90’ veranda facing the harbor. A paneled library, formal dining room, windowed butler’s pantry and renovated kitchen complete the first floor layout. All major rooms have fireplaces. The second floor features a large central hall off of which are 5 en suite bedrooms. The second 90’ veranda adjoins 3 of the bedrooms. 4 of the 5 bedrooms have fireplaces. A 3rd floor offers 3 charming bedrooms and baths. Stairs lead to a widow’s walk with 360 degree views of Nantucket.
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On September 7th, join John Shea and the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket for a production of Arthur Miller’s classic tragic play on the Salem witch trials. The Crucible will be performed in the iconic Quaker Meeting House.
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Dream big, get inspired and honor a number of American heroes at the American Dream Gala. Come out for the annual celebration of Holidays for Heroes, and enjoy a night filled with fundraising, inspiration and stories of triumph over tragedy. All proceeds go towards funding American Dream grants, awards, scholarships and experiences. For more information, visit Holidaysforheroes.com.
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Feeling fishy? Get your rods ready for some Directed By Dustin Wills nonstop action and reel your way to the Nantucket Anglers’ Club Inshore Classic. Now in Heartbreakingly funny, a grown-up of Inshore love, hope, its thirteenthstory year, the Classic is Nanclimate...and change. tucket’s premiere fall fishing tournament, open to all local and visiting anglers. Designed to promote Nantucket’s fall fishing opportunities, the tournamentatalso raises funds for Get Tickets WhiteHeronTheatre.org the Nantucket Anglers’ Club Or call 508-825-5268 Scholarship Fund. To get caught in the action White Heron Theatre visit Nantucketanglersclub.com 5 N Water St (Behind the Whaling Museum)
New Neighborhood theater company and the Directed By Leonard Foglia White Heron Theatre are presenting the world miss this premiereDon’t of Evanston Saltworld Costs premiere Climbing preview! humorous & poignant on Nantucket. The The comedy tells the story of of Peter Calvin hisbattle wife. salt truckstory drivers, andTrillin Basil, & who winter storms one after the other. This play by Will Arbery is a heartbreakingly funny story about climate change. For more information, visit Whiteherontheatre.org.
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PARTICIPATING RESTAURANTS
With the food, wine and hospitality industries on Nantucket always booming, there is no shortage of exceptional culinary experiences—but this week is for the locals! With over thirty participating restaurants, savor while you save with prix fixe menus by many of Nantucket’s favorite chefs. For more information, visit nantucketrestaurantweek.com.
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Over five hundred visionaries and seekers are attending the Nantucket Project’s eighth gathering, exploring this year’s theme: Neighborhood. This year, courtesy of Jill and Steve Karp and Nantucket Island Resorts, local year-round residents can apply to attend a session as a guest. To learn about the fresh ideas being brought to Nantucket, visit Nantucketproject.com.
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SEPTEMBER 13TH – OCTOBER 7TH BENNETT HALL
Described by The New York Times as an exploration of “an over-privileged family” fighting domestic battles “while downing drinks,” the Theatre Workshop’s production The Cocktail Hour is sure to have you rolling on the floor with laugher. Watch as they dive deeper and deeper into their unique family as the martinis flow. For more information, visit Theatrenantucket.org.
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Join the 15th Annual Cranberry Festival to experience a fall day full of fun. Guests will be able to see how cranberries are harvested, learn about the history of cranberry farming, and participate in family activities. The event will also include live music, berry bouncing machine demonstration, and antique tractor displays. To learn more, visit nantucketconservation.org.
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THE DREAMLAND THEATER
The annual Nantucket Shorts Festival is here once again, bringing together experienced and amateur filmmakers to show their work. The Shorts Festival will be hosted by John Shea. For more information, visit Nantucketshorts.com.
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The ‘Sconset Trust will be opening Sankaty Lighthouse for tours. Be prepared to climb to the top and have an experience like no other. With free admission, this is truly a priceless experience. For more information, visit Sconsettrust.org.
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FOCUS ON WHAT YOU NEED TO ADD Depending on who you ask, there is an infinite number of foods, habits, or behaviors that we need to remove from our lives in order to improve our health. If we were to remove as many of these items as are suggested without adding anything back, the result would be more problems than benefits. Instead, focus on what you need to add to your life—more activity, vegetables, sleep—not what you should be taking away.
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MAKE A FEW CHANGES AT A TIME In a “do more” society, it’s hard not to want to make all of our health changes in one fell swoop. But an all-or-nothing approach rarely provides sustainable change. Instead, take the path of least resistance. Make a list of one to three very specific goals or behaviors you would like to change. Be sure to select goals to work on that you know are feasible to accomplish in that moment in your life. Once these become routine, then it’s time to add a new goal to your list.
3 FIND MOTIVATION Studies have shown repeatedly that you are far more likely to continue an activity or behavior if it is something that you enjoy doing versus those activities that are done simply for a reward. If you choose to eat vegetables that are prepared in a way that is tasty, you are more likely to continue to eat vegetables. If you are force feeding yourself vegetables simply to reach the goal of losing weight, this habit will most likely be short-lived and your old patterns will resurface.
4 MAINTAIN POSITIVE INTERNAL DIALOGUE
MORE CARROTS, LESS STICKS PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN SAGER
REGISTERED DIETICIAN NUTRITIONIST KATHLEEN MINIHAN GIVES HER TOP TIPS FOR LIVING YOUR BEST LIFE
We are our own harshest critic. How we talk to our-
selves can be the catalyst to propel us forward or hold us back. Beating yourself up for eating a cookie or skipping a workout will not build you up. Try focusing on the things that you are able to accomplish. Make note of those that aren’t working in the moment and figure out why. Nine times out of ten, it’s not because you’re not trying hard enough.
5 ENJOY THE JOURNEY Health is a journey with no concrete finish line. Whatever health changes we make, they must make us feel good, strong and happy. By no means do the “guilty pleasures” need to be eliminated entirely; in fact, they play a role in health by providing joy. At the end of the day no matter how “healthy” you are, if you don’t enjoy the journey you will never enjoy
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Kathleen Minihan MS, RDN, LDN founded MiniNutrition to share the importance of healthy living and illustrate that health and nutritional change can be enjoyable and achievable. A registered dietitian nutritionist with a master’s in Nutrition and Health Promotion from Simmons College, Kathleen models a non-diet approach to a healthier life.
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NEED TO READ NANTUCKET’S BELOVED BOOKWORM TIM EHRENBERG GIVES US HIS TOP RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FALL.
THE SUMMER WIVES BY BEATRIZ WILLIAMS If you missed this one earlier this season, make sure to pick up a copy of The Summer Wives. It’s historical fiction with memorable characters and a layered plot of class, love, power and redemption set among the inhabitants of an exclusive island off the New England coast. Sound familiar? While the fictional Winthrop Island in this story is actually inspired by Fishers Island, you can’t help but see parallels to our own island of Nantucket.
THERE THERE BY TOMMY ORANGE Every once in a while you read a story that hasn’t been told before. There There is a groundbreaking portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. It captures twelve distinctive Native American voices and tells the history of a nation and its people through its pages. Many book critics are calling this a contender for book of the year. Sherman Alexie writes “Native American literature will never be the same!” Hear, hear for There There!
CLOCK DANCE BY ANNE TYLER Sometimes the simplest language can produce the most powerful story. This statement has never been more accurate than with Anne Tyler’s newest book, Clock Dance. Within these pages, we meet Willa Drake who describes herself as “the N magazine
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to turn the oven off.” What follows is a novel of hope, self-discovery and second chances. From 1967 to 2017, we take a transformative journey with this leading lady on the winding road we call life.
OHIO BY STEPHEN MARKLEY Ohio puts a spotlight on what happened after 9/11 to a generation who has only known war, recession, political gridlock, racial hostility and the fear of environmental calamity. Four former classmates converge on the rust belt town where they grew up, each of them with a mission and each haunted by regrets and secrets. I know this town and these people. Having been born and raised in the Midwest, I can say Stephen Markley perfectly captured it. I loved this book for its story and characters, but even more for its insight on a particular time, people and place.
SICK: A MEMOIR BY POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR This book has been appearing on many “most anticipated” lists since the beginning of the year. For as long as Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. Here is a memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction and the myth of full recovery. After years of struggle, pain, uncertainty and transformation, Khakpour had a diagnosis: late stage Lyme disease. A very real disease, especially relevant to us on Nantucket, this is such an honest work of nonfiction with beautiful prose that I was absolutely captivated.
THE MYSTERY OF THREE QUARTERS BY SOPHIE HANNAH It is no mystery that I loved Agatha Christie novels from a very young age. I would write all the suspects out on my bookmark and try to decipher the who, what and why of the crime along with legendary detective Hercule Poirot. Best-selling author Sophie Hannah has brought back the Agatha Christie novel. Set in 1930 of relationships, scandalous secrets and past misdeeds.
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CROSSROADS A group of Nantucketers launched a grassroots campaign protesting a proposed 40B development called Surfside Crossing. The housing development would include sixty stand-alone homes and ninety-six condominiums, 25 percent of which would be lowincome, affordable housing. Many contend that the development could cause water, light, and noise pollution issues, not to mention a dramatic increase in traffic. Locals hung flyers all over the island, wrote letters to local and state officials, and attended Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) meetings to ensure the project did not move forward. At press time, the ZBA had rescheduled the hearing to Tuesday, August 28th, after the first meeting was cancelled due to a lack of space to accommodate all those wishing to attend. Â
RUN FOR RECOVERY run will raise awareness of these difficult
September is National Recovery Month
and life-altering disorders, as well as
for mental and substance use disorders, and the organizers behind the
raise money for the Addiction Solu-
Nantucket Island Run for Recovery
tions Fund of Nantucket. The scenic
are doing their part to raise aware-
course stretches along West Miac-
ness. Planned by Nantucket Rising,
omet Road and promises spectacular
Bartlett Farm and other members
views of Miacomet Pond and the Atlantic Ocean.
of the Nantucket community, the 5K
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SHOP
After eighty-eight years, The Nobby Shop will be closing their beloved location on Main Street. The Nantucket staple has been struggling with downtown parking issues, reduced foot traffic and the boom in online shopping. These new shifts in business have proved to be too much for storeowner Sam Limperis to stay open. The Nobby Shop is running its annual sale now until the merchandise is gone, so stop by to hob-nob and wish Sam a happy retirement. Â
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Miacomet and Surfside beaches were shut down for the day after an unconfirmed fin sighting, followed by the discovery of a seal with wounds consistent with a shark attack. Fin sightings are deemed ‘unconfirmed’ unless verified by a lifeguard or other public-safety official. While there have been previous instanc-
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The Jamaican Lacrosse team, which featured
es of fin sightings and sharks preying on seals offshore, this is the first to occur
several former Nantucket Whalers players, com-
so close to a guarded south shore beach. While there is no immediate concern,
peted in the Lacrosse World Championships in
beachgoers should keep a sharp eye out.
Israel this summer. After losing their first game to Israel, one of the best teams in the tournament, Jamaica found their groove and ripped off seven straight victories en route to a 13th place finish overall, out of 46 teams. “Looking back, we all feel that if we played Israel later in the tournament it would have been a whole different game,” said star player and former Nantucket
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resident Hakeem Lecky. Nevertheless, Lecky said that 13th place was definitely an accomplishment, and winning seven straight games was no easy task.
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After recently announcing that they will be closing their restaurant at the end of this sea-
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son, the owners of Atlas Nantucket are going global and moving to Guatemala. Bringing their two sons with them, former owners Gabrielle and Brandt Gould will fulfill their lifelong dream of working with a nonprofit to build homes and hospitals, teaching English and volunteering abroad. Gabrielle will finish her short tenure as executive director of the Nantucket Community Music Center this September, before her family’s new adventure begins.
N Magazine’s August issue cover star and breakout musician Brynn Cartelli made good on the promise she made to the Nantucket community by performing a number of intimate shows on the island last month. Kicking it off with a performance at Cisco Brewers,
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Cartelli played less than a week later at the Sandbar Nantucket will be buzzing with festivals this September and October. The ever-popular Nantucket Project will kick things off from September 13th – 16th, followed closely by
The Nantucket Arts Festival, celebrating the island’s local artistic community from September 29th – October 9th. Columbus Day Weekend boasts a jam-packed schedule, beginning with the Nantucket Cranberry Festival on Saturday, October 6th. That evening, The Nantucket Shorts Festival will take place at the Dreamland, featuring short films inspired by or created on Nantucket. See spotlight stories come alive on the screen, including the short film Sdrawk Cab, directed by N Magazine’s own Kit Noble. In the loss column, the beloved Nantucket Island Fair will not be taking place have decided to take time to plan ahead for a comeback in 2019.
who missed it, Brynn Cartelli became the youngest winner of NBC’s The Voice, after a video of her playing on Nantucket went viral and was seen by NBC’s producers.
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off the recent stardom of island native Meghan
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this year; volunteer coordinators, feeling that the planning was too rushed this year,
where she was first discovered two years ago. For those
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COOKING BY THE
BOOK WRITTEN BY JOSH GRAY
PHOTOGRAPHY BY WAYNE CHINNOCK
An exclusive look at Cru’s cookbook hitting bookshelves around the country next spring
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verlooking the harbor on Straight Wharf, Cru Oyster Bar possesses a Gatsby-esque elegance that epitomizes the high-end dining scene on Nantucket. Since opening their restaurant seven years ago, owners Jane Stoddard, Carlos Hidalgo and executive chef Erin Zircher have established Cru as one
of the most desirable dining destinations in the world. Much of that success is a credit to their exquisite cuisine, which recently inspired a new chapter in the evolution of this high-end eatery. The Cru team is now sharing their recipes in a new cookbook that will hit bookstores nationally in the spring of 2019. The Cru Oyster Bar Nantucket Cookbook: Savoring Four Seasons of the Good Life
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dishes and cocktail recipes in a stunning hardcover, coffee-table book published by St. Martin’s Press, a division of Macmillan Publishers, one of the largest publishing houses in the world. “We thought the cookbook would be a great way to celebrate what Cru has become, which is really a reflection of who our customers are,” say the Cru owners.
“It’s a toast to them and a
that is our aim with this
way for people to take a
book,” says Stoddard.
piece of Nantucket home
“This is really a passion
with them when they
project—something we
leave the island.”
can share with the whole
With mesmerizing
community, something
photography by Wayne
that hopefully fully rep-
Chinnock, the cookbook’s
resents our Nantucket
chapters are organized by
lifestyle.”
the seasons where readers
Cru’s cookbook has
can find detailed listings
been years in the mak-
on how to recreate their
ing. The idea was first in-
favorite dishes and drinks
spired by a conversation
at home. Among the
with one of Cru’s long-
recipes—which includes
time summer regulars,
Cru’s famous lobster
renowned talent agent
roll— readers also learn the story behind
Alan Morell. Since then, the project has
this iconic restaurant and the people who
occupied a large portion of the owners’
made it possible since the beginning.
off-seasons. “Because of the seasonality of
“I personally love finding cookbooks that
the island and the nature of our business,
tell the story of a people and a place, and
we hope this book will keep us on people’s
minds and in their kitchens throughout the year,” says the Cru team. In line with the book’s debut next spring, Cru will be hosting special launches in New York and Boston in April and here on island in May centered around the Nantucket Wine & Food Festival, with the possibility of a book tour after the 2019 summer season. Until that time, Chef Erin come in an exclusive recipe excerpt of their fabled sliced summer tomatoes with green goddess dressing.
Ingredients for the salad: 2 lbs. ripe tomatoes 1 pint cherry tomatoes 2 scallions, thinly sliced Garnish: nasturtium flowers, chervil, or tarragon leaves
GREEN GODDESS DRESSING 1/2 cup fresh cilantro 1/4 cup fresh tarragon 1/4 cup fresh flat leaf parsley 1/2 ripe avocado 1/3 cup mayonnaise 1/2 cup sour cream 2 scallions 1 garlic clove 1/2 tablespoon fresh lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt TO MAKE THE DRESSING: Wash the herbs in a bowl of cool water and pat dry. Roughly chop the herbs and puree them with the remaining ingredients in a blender. Refrigerate until ready to use. The dressing will keep for two days refrigerated but may thicken a bit in the refrigerator. If so, it can be thinned with a little buttermilk or extra lemon juice. TO MAKE THE SALAD: Wash and slice the tomatoes and arrange them on a platter. Drizzle with the Green Goddess Dressing. Garnish the salad with the sliced scallions, nasturtium flowers and extra herbs. Finish with a light drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and freshly cracked black pepper.
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Zircher gave us just a taste of what’s to
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WRITTEN BY ROBERT COCUZZO PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE
The rise of female athletics on Nantucket
W
hen Jami Lower stepped onto
Along with youth lacrosse, new programs
the field to coach her daughter’s
have been introduced for girls in swimming, ten-
youth lacrosse team five years ago,
nis and basketball. These programs are serving
the scene looked straight out of Bad News Bears.
as launchpads for girls when they enter high
“I walked onto the field and there were fourteen
school. “You have to bridge the gap between
great girls who really needed some leadership,” she
youth sports and high school sports,” Lower ex-
says. “The first year was kind of hodgepodge…we
plains. “We want to achieve the same success
didn’t win a game.” But the ragtag team continued
we’ve had with the lacrosse program with other
to improve, more girls joined each season, and this
sports that haven’t been made available to girls.”
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past year, Lower and her team went undefeated.
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Such was the case with hockey. Until
The success of the girls youth lacrosse program
last year, girls interested in strapping on the pads
exemplifies a trend in Nantucket’s youth sports to-
and hitting the ice were forced to play on a co-ed
day. Young girls are now getting the opportunity
team. Upon entering high school, however, many
to play sports that were previously unavailable
of these girls quit, switching sports because their
to them until high school. In some cases, as with
only option was to join the boys’ team, where the
hockey, all-girls teams weren’t available at all on
physicality of the game could put them in dan-
Nantucket. And these young girls are responding
ger. That’s beginning to change now, thanks to
to these new opportunities with gusto. “The num-
the dedicated work of Nantucketers like David
bers have literally quadrupled,” Lower says. “Girls
Pekarcik, who organized a girls’ youth program
youth sports are growing at an exponential rate.”
last season.
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“T
his all began with asking the question,
‘Where do we want to see our daughters end up?’” says Pekarcik, whose daughter
plays on his team. In the past, Nantucket girls wishing to pursue their hockey aspirations were forced to attend school on the mainland. “Unfortunately, many families on the island can’t afford to do that,”
Pekarcik says. “So our ultimate goal is to roll this club program into a high school program, but we need to show that there is enough interest for NHS’s athletic director to start the team.” By all accounts, the interest is most definitely there. At the end of last season, Pekarcik had between fourteen and twenty-four girls of all skill levels hitting the ice for weekly practices. The benefits of youth sports have long been known, including learning about the importance of teamwork, the power of practice, and the life lessons around winning and losing. Nantucket’s athletes, however, receive an additional
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dence. As coaches like Jami Lower and David Pekarcik have witnessed up close, when it comes to girls reaping these rewards on Nantucket, all we need to do is give them a shot.
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QUEEN of NEPAL WRITTEN BY REBECCA NIMERFROH
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN SAGER
In competing for the Miss Nepal pageant, SHRADHA KHATRI CHHETRI has a larger mission. At least twelve hundred homeless children roam the streets of Kathmandu today. Instead of spending their childhood in school learning to read and write, they scrounge together a sad existence in Nepal’s capital city begging for food and money. Nantucket resident Shradha Khatri Chhetri has seen this suffering up close. Raised in a suburb just outside
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NSPIRE She was hands on, feeding them, bathing them and giving them a place to sleep. Now this twenty-two-year-old is on a mission to save more children in her native country—but she’s going about it in a way that you’d never expect. Last month, Chhetri traveled to Queens, New York to compete in the first ever Miss Nepal North America pageant. She beat out hundreds of other applicants from the United States and Canada to join an elite group of twenty Nepalese women seeking the beauty pageant crown. If Chhetri won the distinction of Miss Nepal, she would become an international ambassador for a foundation dedicated to the children she so desperately wanted to help.
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f I win, I will be the voice of street kids who don’t have a voice,” she said, prior to the contest. “Winning this title is not to make my ca-
reer—it’s for these poor children.” Chhetri’s immediate goal is to collaborate with existing organizations that provide aid. Should she secure the crown, her plan would be to learn from these organizations, and
eventually establish her own foundation that would focus on educating children in Nepal. “I feel like these families don’t really understand the importance of education,” Chhetri said, explaining that school in Nepal isn’t free, “but these children are so bright, and with education, they can grow to one day give back to their community.” Chhetri is a sterling example of the power of education. After immigrating to Nantucket at the age of fourteen, she went on to graduate from UMASS Amherst. Today, she holds deep appreciation for how the island altered the trajectory of her life. “Nantucket is a special place for me and my family,” she says. “Whenever someone asks me where I’m from, I say ‘I was born in Nepal—but I am from Nantucket.’” Today Chhetri is an aspiring actress and contracted
“If I win I get to be the voice of kids who don’t have anyone listening to them. That’s why it’s special to me.”
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model. Like many young girls in Nepal, she always idolized the
When the contest concluded after four days, Chhetri was
Miss Nepal pageant winners and dreamed of one day competing.
among the top ten and was awarded the title of Most Disciplined.
“People think the pageant is all about looks, but it is really
“It’s one of the subtitles,” she explains. “They judge you during
about female empowerment,” she says. Judges evaluated Shradha
the week leading up to the pageant. Whoever gives 100 percent
and her fellow competitors in academics, personality, charisma,
in every aspect of training for the pageant, gets the title of Most
and overall presentation. The four-day event had the backing of
Disciplined.” Although she didn’t take the crown of Miss Nepal,
major international sponsors, magazines, and a number of high-
Shradha Khatri Chhetri remains fully committed to her mission
profile Nepalese representatives. For the talent component of the
of becoming a voice for the homeless children in her homeland.
contest, Chhetri performed a traditional Nepali dance wearing a
And that might just be the most beautiful part of the story.
traditional Nepali dress that she personally designed.
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AN INSIDE LOOK AT THIS YEAR’S NANTUCKET PROJECT ON THE ISLAND AND BEYOND
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NSIDER
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ach September for the last eight years, The Nantucket Project [TNP] has brought together inspired thinkers to explore the question of “What
matters most?” Five hundred attendees, members of the TNP team, and world-
class thinkers from the worlds of statecraft, business, technology, science, music and the arts come together at the White Elephant during the four-day event to disconnect from the outside world and engage one another in real and meaningful ways. This year’s presenters include President George W. Bush, former professional cyclist Lance Armstrong, fashion icon
“THE CONVERSATIONS WE HAVE HERE FEED MY SOUL.” — Tom Scott, TNP co-founder & CEO
André Leon Talley, former NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, music producer and DJ Moby, former CIA operations officer Valerie Plame, exoneree and journalist Amanda Knox, comedienne and actress Tig Notaro and many more. Each year’s gathering has a theme that guides TNP’s selection of presenters, the conversations that take place, and the overarching leitmotif of the event. This common frame of reference serves as a lens through which attendees, together, explore what matters most. The theme of this year’s event is Neighborhood.
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A selection of 2018 TNP presenters: President George W. Bush; Lance Armstrong; André Leon Talley; Ray Kelly; Moby; Valerie Plame; Amanda Knox; Tig Notaro.
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stimulation, which leads to anxiety and isolation. This has led to a yearning for more in-person, shared experiences, along with a desire to serve others and build greater trust in individuals and communities. That, TNP believes, is the essence TNP co-founder, Tom Scott
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eighborhood is where real life happens,” says TNP co-founder and CEO Tom Scott. “It’s where people connect, share and find meaning. We believe neighborhood is the
idea of our time and holds the key to happiness.” The traditional definition of neighborhood is “geographically defined area,” but as more of our daily interactions take place
virtually, this explanation is evolving right before our eyes. Key to TNP’s understanding is that while our new, globally connected neighborhood has many benefits worth celebrating, there are unintended consequences. As we’ve become more technologically connected to each other, there’s a sense we’ve grown more divided and isolated. What’s more, the phenomenon called “digital addiction” is no longer a theory, but a fact. Excessive, persistent stimulation from all our digital devices – all those pings and rings and alerts – cause dopamine
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of Neighborhood. For years, TNP attendees have asked for ways to stay involved with the group throughout the year, hungry for a continuation of the magic that happens under the tent. One answer is in The Neighborhood Project, TNP’s offshoot dedicated to encouraging more meaningful conversation. Now offered to everyone everywhere, The Neighborhood Project is sweeping the country, with dozens of groups meeting in big and small towns across America. There’s even a group in Canada.
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Participants gather monthly in small groups and watch award-winning TNP films hosted by one of the group’s guiding lights, New York Times best-selling author Kelly Corrigan. What follows is deep, meaningful conversations attendees don’t have every day. These talks are enriching peoples’ lives and changing neighborhoods. Says one Neighborhood Project participant, “The conversations we have here feed my soul. I had no idea talking like this could be so satisfying.” “Although The Nantucket Project hosts numerous events around the country, our home is Nantucket,” says TNP co-founder, Kate Brosnan. “This is our neighborhood.”
“ALTHOUGH THE NANTUCKET PROJECT HOSTS NUMEROUS EVENTS AROUND THE COUNTRY, OUR HOME IS NANTUCKET...THIS IS OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.” — Kate Brosnan, TNP co-founder
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VISIONARY INTERVIEW BY ROBERT COCUZZO
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE
EXPLORING THE MIND OF LIFELONG SUMMER RESIDENT JOHN JOHNSON At fifty-one years old with a thick beard and inquisitive eyes, John Johnson has a sage air about him. He props himself gingerly on a stool in his barn at the Almanack Arts Colony. “Tweaked my back surfing,” he sighs. For the last two weeks, Johnson and his wife and children were sailing around the Abacos where they made stops to surf and free dive. If you emailed him during that time, his automatic reply read: “Greetings from off the grid…For the next two weeks, I’ll be under sail or underwater, possibly even under the influence, and checking email once a week at best.” Even his email was intriguing. The great-grandson of Johnson & Johnson founder Robert Wood Johnson and the son of artist John Seward Johnson, who is world-renowned for his massive sculptures, John S. Johnson III successfully carved out a name for himself in
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his own right. He’s a modern-day Renaissance man, writ-
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in conversation like he’s conducting a symphony, playing
supporting an artists’ colony on Nantucket and launching
all the parts of the listener’s brain. Here in his barn, where
successful tech companies, most notably BuzzFeed.
next month he’ll host the sixteenth annual Screenwrit-
As a former Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen In-
ers Colony, Johnson weaves together another impromptu
stitute with a master’s degree from Columbia in research
opus, sharing his thoughts on his family, on Nantucket, and
methodology and quantitative methods, Johnson engages
on his many endeavors.
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ing screenplays, developing a coastal town in Costa Rica,
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Scenes from Johnson’s summer adventures in Abaco Islands. Photos by Hallery Matson.
N MAGAZINE: Where does Nantucket fit in the fascinating matrix of your life?
JOHNSON: And by “fascinating” you mean meandering, hilariously spacey and frequently awkward, correct? I don’t have as much history here as a lot of people, but it was a place of escape for my grandfather who would sail here from Chatham. My parents met on a plane bound for Nantucket— fogged out, of course—which is how they got to know each other. So I possibly owe my existence to Nantucket’s fog! Nantucket is more home to me than anyplace else. I’ve always thought that if I got bumped on the head and developed amnesia, Nantucket is the first place I’d
N MAGAZINE: Your father quite literally cast an enormous shadow with his larger-than-
remember.
life sculptures. What influence did he have on you?
N MAGAZINE: Given the impressive array of historical ac-
my dad, I would just see him flip perspectives all the time. I remember we were on a
define yourself in your own right?
father-son trip to DC. We stopped at the Vietnam and Korean War memorials, and then
JOHNSON: Living in a shadow requires feeling external
we paid a visit to his monumental sculpture, “The Awakening,” which is this massive
pressures. My parents, especially my mom, were relent-
giant—his arm and hands forty feet tall—coming out of the earth. As we approached
less in reinforcing the idea that I could do anything I set
the piece, I saw that someone had spray painted graffiti on it. I exclaimed and pointed
my mind to. They had incredible faith in me. Maybe
at it. My dad’s response was: “I know…Isn’t it great?” My head exploded. He loved
they had the burden of a family legacy in mind, but I also
the idea of someone actively responding to his art. Being around my dad would fre-
think they were reacting to the fact that I really struggled
quently lead to those head exploding moments.
kid who was not fitting in and feeling down on himself.
N MAGAZINE: You’re involved in so many endeavors; how do you define what you do? JOHNSON: When people asked me what I do, I usually just talk about whatever I’m work-
Their strategy was to reinforce the idea that I’d have op-
ing on the most at that particular time. Having crossed the fifty-year mark and making
tions, with a lot of love, but also through brute force of
time for more introspection, I feel like a deeper layer of understanding of what I want
repetition. There was also a sense instilled in me that as
to accomplish is emerging. A while ago, I was thinking back to the origin of many of
someone who by sheer luck and cosmic roll of the dice
these projects. At first I thought that they were addressing frustrating problems in need
had started with all of these resources, I had a responsi-
of solutions. But over the last decade, I’ve come to see that all the projects relate to a
bility to give back within the parameters of being true to
kind of “cultural arbitrage,” for lack of a better term. They are all related to an imbal-
myself.
ance of value created by assumptions, by the way we think about things, our mental
sically until college. They had this skinny, nerdy, dreamy
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profoundly attached to their preferred mental models of the world. But being around
complishments in your family, did you find it difficult to
when I was a kid and was deeply unhappy in school, ba-
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JOHNSON: My dad is the most flexible thinker I know. Most people go through life
models of the world. I’m especially struck
N MAGAZINE: What have you learned about
The fact is that we don’t know. Academic
by services or products that are aiming at
media influence, especially as it relates to
media researchers don’t know. The most
me, but not reaching me. Businesses out
the last election?
talented advertising and Hollywood story-
there that have seen that cultural arbitrage
JOHNSON: The reality is we are in a full-
tellers don’t know. In the deepest bowels
opportunity and refreshed their assump-
blown information war, and that is a wake
of the Pentagon and our intelligence agen-
tions about the world, like Airbnb and
up call to those of us in media and to our
cies, they don’t know the answer either.
BuzzFeed, have done pretty well.
intelligence community, as well, who were
The reality today is that while we under-
also caught on their back foot to say the
stand generally a lot of ways to influence
N MAGAZINE: Can you explain this “cultural
people through messaging, we really don’t
arbitrage” in the case of BuzzFeed, which
understand in a holistic way how messag-
you co-founded in 2006?
ing works on us. Yes, there are studies that
JOHNSON: With BuzzFeed—and I have to
give us narrow insight and some of it is re-
give the credit to my co-founder Jonah
ally good. But to adequately defend your-
Peretti who first saw this—it was seeing
self against a threat to a system, you have
that the old mental models of news dic-
to understand the system itself and we just
tated a need for a kind of “seriousness.”
don’t understand how society and media
Get out your pipe, open up the paper and
interact at scale.
block out the family. “Don’t interrupt dad, he’s reading the paper…” But what people
N MAGAZINE: Are you developing ways to
our age and younger really wanted was
defend democracy at Harmony Labs?
a single place for everything, all of their
JOHNSON: So when I get burned out of the
content. That was the undervalued thing
defending democracy stuff which gets pret-
in the “how you get your information”
ty dark at times, I focus on the aspirational
mental model, having the stuff you love,
least. But a wake up call to do what? We
element. We’re getting to tackle the last
all together in one place. BuzzFeed has an
know Russian hackers are now attacking
great problem in communications science.
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our power grid, so that is a wake up call
What does that look like in actual practice?
billion views in 2017, just on Facebook—
to address vulnerabilities there, perhaps
One research group is tracking memes,
so there is arguably some confirmation
to decentralize our power and make
contagious ideas, from the far right and far
that this experience has value for people.
it more resilient, certainly to beef up elec-
left and tracking them into their spawning
tronic security.
grounds on the internet. From there the
N MAGAZINE: What’s your main focus now? JOHNSON: My main focus now is Harmo-
But what do we do when our informa-
idea is that we may be able to build a tax-
tion systems—which are crucial, I might
onomy out of those diffusion patterns and
nyLabs, which is targeting a flawed model
add, to keeping people informed and to
be able to recognize a powerful meme as
for understanding how media influence
maintaining a democracy—are attacked?
it is taking off. If that meme is based on
works. I was seeing how much money was being spent on media to win hearts and minds, despite nobody having more than intuition about how hearts and minds are won. I’m not putting down intuition— you can now shift a presidential election if your intuition about media influence is sharp enough—but as a society we need to get our arms around this, and not just be subjected to it. We need to expand our shared human knowledge into this realm study it.
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misinformation or disinforma-
that are so popular are
tion as many of them are, those
also facing other prob-
can be targeted for debunking
lems of unmanaged
before they influence millions
growth. So we brought
of people.
stakeholders together– people who know and
Johnson with friend and Harmony Projects colleague Lee Bailly, Photo by Hallery Matson.
N MAGAZINE: Another one of
love the community,
your big focuses is Nosara, a
and who understand
coastal community in Costa
how things get done
Rica where many Nantucketers
in Costa Rica. We en-
now spend their winters. You
visioned what success
opened the Harmony Hotel
would look like and
back in 2004 and have since
then designed back-
started a pretty significant
wards from that. In
project to ensure sustainable development in that area. Can you explain the oppor-
addition to preserving
tunity you see down there?
habitat, we realized
JOHNSON: Nosara is at a wonderful place at an early stage of growth—a place that
that we need to think
Nantucket resembled close to three hundred years ago. There is an opportunity to
about maintaining eq-
take a crack at solving the downside of rising property values while it’s a $50 mil-
uity for lots of people,
lion problem instead of a $50 billion problem. That means conservation, affordable
not just the extremely
housing, access to capital for small businesses and smart water management. The community’s solution was formed from working backwards from a vision of the place we all wanted to see in twenty years. Ticos [native Costa Ricans] and gringos, wealthy and lower income, are designing backwards from a vision of success. That means abandoning a lot of old models for getting stuff done, both on the conservation side and on the real estate development side. It’s meant a lot of stitching together of various groups: a double bottom line real estate fund, micro lenders, green
wealthy. The fund is the profit making element but there are many other pieces to the puzzle, including private foundations and government agencies with whom we’ll work closely. The key to me is to hit this relatively early in Nosara’s development arc. Here on Nantucket, the affordable housing was ignored for a long time until the intervention required was enormous and expensive. There are shock waves from an interven-
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development companies for built environments, conservation, hospitality and, of
can avoid if the right parties come together
course, government, because you can’t just build a jewel box model—then everyone
and work towards long-term goals sooner in
just builds up to your boundary. You need smart zoning to protect that future state.
their development.
N MAGAZINE: How are you executing your long-term vision for Nosara? JOHNSON: The ESG (Environmental Social Good) fund concept is starting to come of
N MAGAZINE: What lessons can Nantucket learn
age and family office managers and even some of the more conservative institutional
JOHNSON: There is so much on Nantucket that
investors are seeing that it makes sense. As we thought about Nosara, we realized
is still fantastic. I don’t feel right about propos-
the problem was more complicated than simple conservation. Places like Nosara
ing solutions for Nantucket because I haven’t
about the work you’re doing in Nosara?
studied the island’s more idiosyncratic problems
that if those learning differences go unmet, we’re creating lots of other chal-
deeply enough. But as a lifetime visitor, I sure
lenges unnecessarily for them later on in life such as sense of self-efficacy, self-
have opinions about the problems. Number
worth, et cetera. So we decided we were going to take this on. We’re working
one for me is the evaporating middle and artist
back from first principles, thinking about the attributes we’d like to inculcate in
classes. Who wants their kids growing up in a
our kids with: kindness, listening to your inner voice, compassion, imagination,
rich white bubble? That’s not the future. Now
but also grit, critical thinking, systems thinking, pattern recognition, physical
we have a cool burgeoning West Indian popula-
confidence — there is a lot more. So the idea is to take these concepts and then
tion, but there’s still a lot of economic segrega-
work with education professionals to design a curriculum that addresses nurtur-
tion. Kudos to Wendy Schmidt and ReMain and
ing them in our kids. But do that in both indirect and direct ways that meet their
the handful of farsighted folks who are thinking
very specific learning profiles, keeping it fun, chucking that 19th century manu-
about how to address these issues here.
facturing model and going back to an 18th century one but informed by 21st century research and lots of caring thought.
N MAGAZINE: Your Screenwriters Colony has
As for getting out of bubbles, really every place with any kind of distinct
become one way of supporting this artist class
culture forms its own bubble, so you never really get to escape bubbles. We
on Nantucket?
just want to go bubble hopping and make sure the bubbles are different enough.
JOHNSON: With the Screenwriters Colony here
Hopefully our kids will understand that they are citizens of the world, that there
on Nantucket almost twenty years ago it was
are multiple mental models or perspectives for any situation and that they’re
about seeing the outsize role screenwriters have
connected to everyone and everything in really important ways beyond whatever
in shaping our culture on one hand, and then on
bubble they are in presently. Costa Rica really helps us do that and we’re excited
the other, seeing the almost total lack of support
to take our kids farther afield.
they had at that time from the arts community to insulate them from commercial pressure and elevate their work. It seems obvious now, but at the time, the art community mental model was a screenwriter makes more money than a starving poet, so we
don’t need to help them. There was very little thinking about the value of scaled outcomes from these decisions. But don’t get me wrong, poetry is one of the most beautiful things about humanity, and it changes lives, too.
N MAGAZINE: As far as your own children, how are you preventing them from growing up in
JOHNSON: My wife, Susan, and I are planning for our next big family adventure, which is a three- to five-year homeschooling and traveling adventure. All of our kids have learning differences, nothing extraordinary, but enough
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“a rich white bubble” that you mentioned?
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NQUIRY
THE
NONPROFIT
PROPHET WRITTEN BY ROBERT COCUZZO
PHOTOGRAPHY BY TED
DAN PALLOTTA BELIEVES NONPROFITS SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE BUSINESSES — NOT CHARITY CASES Dan Pallotta is on a mission to revolutionize how society thinks about the nonprofit sector. After a massively successful career raising hundreds of millions of dollars for causes ranging from AIDS to breast cancer research, Pallotta had an overnight fall from grace when news broke that his fundraising organization, Pallotta TeamWorks, came under fire for investing 40 percent of the gross money it raised for cancer research into so-called “overhead.” His sponsors dropped him, hundreds of his employees lost their jobs, and his fundraising organization swiftly went out of business. This despite the fact that Pallotta was bringing in tens of millions of dollars a year for breast cancer research. The experience illuminated to Pallotta the unfair standard that nonprofits are held to compared to the corporate sector. How were charities expected to meet the complex challenges of the world, he opined, when they weren’t allowed to run themselves like businesses, which can invest in marketing and talented leadership? Posing these questions, Pallotta emerged as a respected thought leader in the nonprofit world, writing bestselling books that challenged society’s understanding of the nonprofit sector. This is the message he’s bringing to Nantucket on September 26th, when he speaks at the Community Foundation’s inaugural Nonprofit Leadership Conference. As the keynote speaker, Pallotta will join four other distinguished speakers, local nonprofit leaders and community members in a day-long program designed to empower the island’s nonprofit sector. Prior to the confer-
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In 2013, Dan Pallotta delivered what has since become of the most viewed TED Talks of all time. Focusing on the nonprofit sector in the United States, Pallotta’s gripping talk has been viewed more than 4 million times.
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N MAGAZINE: Nantucket has over a hundred nonprofits on the island serving various subsets
N MAGAZINE: What do you think is the most
of the community, from health and human services to the cultural arts. These organiza-
detrimental misconception society has
tions are competing for the same fundraising dollars, especially during the high-season
about the nonprofit sector?
when high-net-worth donors are on the island. Can you suggest any innovative ways
PALLOTTA: That social problems somehow
that these nonprofits could be collaborating more effectively, as opposed to competing?
get solved using a different set of standards than that which we allow for the solving of
“IF ORGANIZATIONS IN SMALLER COMMUNITIES CAME TOGETHER TO COMMIT THEMSELVES TO A DARING DREAM FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY, IT WOULD LIFT ALL BOATS.” — Dan Pallotta
business problems. That the giant consumer brands should be allowed to market and compete for consumer dollars with howitzers, while the nonprofit sector should be asked to use sling shots.
PALLOTTA: If organizations in smaller communities came together to commit them-
N MAGAZINE: There are a number of vital
selves to a daring dream for the entire community, it would lift all boats. We
nonprofits on Nantucket that have a hard
keep preaching to nonprofit organizations that they ought to collaborate in the
time fundraising because they’re not behind
absence of any breathtaking dream that the collaboration would serve. Reclaim-
a big, sexy organization. What advice would
ing our dreams is key. Also, I wouldn’t accept it as fact that it is a zero sum game.
you give them for improving their fundrais-
I wouldn’t accept it as fact that you have come anywhere close to saturating the
ing efforts and messaging, especially within
market for philanthropy even in a smaller place like Nantucket.
the confines of a limited budget?
“WE NEED TO GIVE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THE SAME FREEDOMS THAT WE GIVE TO BUSINESS.”
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PALLOTTA: Once again, what is the dream?
PALLOTTA: The head of Wounded War-
To what gigantic aspiration are they
rior Project was crucified for making
holding themselves accountable? That is
$400,000 a year in a nonprofit setting.
what inspires donors to give him more.
The head football coach at the Univer-
Also, find an outside source of capital
sity of Michigan makes $9 million in
that can be used to expand fundraising
a nonprofit setting, and no one bats an
operations.
eye at that. We don’t even need to go to the for-profit sector for a reality check.
N MAGAZINE: What cultural shift do you
think we need to see in American society
N MAGAZINE: What questions should po-
to enable the nonprofits to thrive?
tential donors be asking when consider-
PALLOTTA: We need to give nonprofit or-
ing whether to donate to a nonprofit?
ganizations the same freedoms that we
PALLOTTA: What are your goals, what progress are you making toward those goals and how can you improve?
“WE HAVE NO PROBLEM TELLING THE RED SOX THEY SHOULD SPEND WHATEVER THEY NEED TO SPEND TO FIND THE BEST PLAYERS AND COACHES TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES...YET WE ASK THE ORGANIZATIONS TRYING TO ERADICATE POVERTY AND CANCER TO FIND TALENT ON THE CHEAP.” — Dan Pallotta
N MAGAZINE: What red flags should donors be looking for?
PALLOTTA: Conspicuously low overhead and a lack of any statements about what the organizations’ goals are and to what they are holding themselves accountable.
N MAGAZINE: The Community Foundation for give to business. We have no problem
Nantucket is responsible for bringing you to the island as a featured speaker for its Non-
telling the Red Sox they should spend
profit Leadership Conference this month. What has your experience been with community
whatever they need to spend to find
foundations elsewhere in the country, and what’s their importance in the nonprofit sector?
the best players and coaches to win the World Series. And we will gladly pay
“ROBERT KENNEDY SAID THAT ‘ONE-FIFTH OF THE PEOPLE ARE AGAINST EVERYTHING ALL OF THE TIME.’ YOU CAN’T LET THOSE PEOPLE GET IN THE WAY OF PROGRESS.”
the higher ticket price. Yet we ask the organizations trying to eradicate poverty and cancer to find talent on the cheap.
— Dan Pallotta
When the general public comes to terms with the utter irrationality of this, then our nonprofit organizations can start to
PALLOTTA: Community foundations are more innovative than the larger institutional
scale to the size of these problems. And
funders. They are a critical part of the fabric of civil society and could single-hand-
nonprofit organizations have to be driv-
edly among themselves change the way the culture thinks about charity and giving.
ing the public to change their thinking.
N MAGAZINE: Can you give us a reality
N MAGAZINE: Why do you think some criticize you for your work and positions in this field? PALLOTTA: The vast majority of people that come to my talks seem to leave unable to stop
check as it relates to the topic of com-
nodding their heads in agreement. I think it’s just that people don’t have the time to actu-
pensation in the nonprofit world as it
ally think about these things. Also, Robert Kennedy said “One-fifth of people are against
compares to the for-profit?
everything all the time.” You can’t let those people get in the way of progress. N magazine
To register for the Community Foundation’s Nonprofit Leadership Conference being held on September 26th from 8:30 – 4:30 at The Nantucket Inn, visit cfan.org or call 508-825-9993.
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NDEPTH
SUSTAINABLE STYLE WRITTEN BY DEBORAH HALBER
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE
SUMMER RESIDENT AND FASHION DESIGNER BRITT COSGROVE IS MAKING GREEN THE NEW BLACK Even as a young girl, Britt Cosgrove had a strong sense of what she wanted to wear— and it wasn’t the tomboyish khakis and button-downs her mother bought for her. “She had a lot of opinions about it. I had a lot of opinions about it, but she won most of those
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arguments,” Cosgrove laughs. “So I think it’s a deeply rooted rebellion.”
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osgrove’s rebellion took the form of a women’s clothing line called SVILU, (pronounced svee-loo), which comes from the word sviluppare, Italian for develop, expand, evolve, strengthen. Co-founded by Cosgrove in 2012, SVILU’s
latest spring/summer collection of dresses and jumpsuits in washed linen, organic cotton and raw silk blends classic, simple lines with feminine, floaty silhouettes. Cosgrove grew up in Cleveland where her father, renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. Toby Cosgrove was, until recently, president and CEO of the Cleveland Clinic. Her mother, Anita, worked as a healthcare consultant. Cosgrove would beg for trips to the local craft store. She’d spend hours choosing fabrics. “I just loved it. I wanted to make things,” she recalls. She taught herself to sew on a Singer machine in the basement of the family home. After majoring in psychology at Middlebury, Cosgrove moved to New York. She landed jobs in PR for Prada and the luxury brand Hogan, which she says offered her a 360-degree perspective on the design world. “We were doing a lot of really exciting stuff, like dressing celebrities for the Oscars and one-off creative projects,” she says, but she decided to follow her passion and enroll in Parsons School of Design.
“…YOU DRESS TO EMPOWER YOURSELF. YOU’RE NOT DRESSING TO BE DECORATIVE. YOU’RE NOT DRESSING TO MAKE OTHER PEOPLE LOOK AT YOU. YOU WEAR CLOTHES TO FEEL YOUR BEST AND HIGHLIGHT YOU—NOT WHAT YOU’RE WEARING.” — Britt Cosgrove
She then worked under fashion designer Peter Som and met her future business partner, Marina Polo. When Cosgrove and Polo started to explore their own line, they noticed that sustainability was a driving force behind industry startups in food and beauty, but not fashion. “We said, let’s make the company environmentally responsible but not compromise on the design at all,” Cosgrove says. SVILU uses
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engineered seeds and without the use of pesticides, insecticides and synthetic fertilizers. They are also partnering with mills to develop better alternative fabrics.
“WE SAID, LET’S MAKE THE COMPANY ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE BUT NOT COMPROMISE ON THE DESIGN AT ALL.” — Britt Cosgrove
True to Cosgrove’s childhood vision, the texture, ease and muted fabrics of her own line make the styles functional and effortless. Her mom’s utilitarian influence was “a double-edged sword, because it made me want to be creative and do my own thing. But at the same time, it taught me that you dress to empower yourself. You’re not dressing to be decorative. You’re not dressing to make other people look at you. You wear clothes to feel your best and highlight you—not what you’re wearing.” The next big step for SVILU, which has been available through boutiques and department stores, is reaching customers directly online and through social media. Cosgrove is thrilled to be able to connect with the women who wear the clothing day to day. Now she divides her time between Cleveland, where she is a diehard Cavaliers fan (“They won the championship on my birthday two years ago—a momentous occasion!”); Nantucket, where her parents own a light-filled, modern home on a cul-de-sac off Cliff Road; and New York City, her home for fifteen years, where she and her husband recently renovated a house in Brooklyn. Cosgrove says Nantucket provides much-needed balance from the drive of her fast-paced the plane, and it’s humid and it kind of smells like roses. And you have this exhale moment.”
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life: “I love Nantucket in all the seasons. Landing in Nantucket, it’s fog, fog, fog. Then you get off
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THE GREATEST SENIOR FEMALE GOLFERS TEE OFF ON NANTUCKET
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LPGA Legend Nancy Lopez
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his September, eighteen of the world’s great-
Pro-Am on Nantucket as a warmup for the Senior
est female golfers will be teeing off at Sankaty
LPGA Championship, in which the winner will take
Head and Miacomet for the second annual
home a $600,000 purse. While sports icons might not
Nantucket Golf Weekend benefitting the Nantucket
be a surprising sight on Nantucket, watching these
Cottage Hospital’s Walk-in Clinic. Known as LPGA
athletes compete on the island is as rare as sinking
Legends, these retired LPGA players have hundreds
a double eagle. Getting to actually play alongside
of tour wins among them and are looking at this
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“YOU COULD NOT ASK FOR A BETTER FIELD OF PLAYERS... IT’S A WHO’S WHO IN WOMEN’S GOLF.” — Jane Blalock
LPGA Tour star Michelle McGann
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hat an opportunity to rub shoulders with professional golfers,” says Natalie Jacobson, a longtime Surfside summer resident who helped make this golf weekend possible. “If you’re a golfer, here’s an opportunity to get some tips, improve your game and have a lot more fun playing golf.” After fac-
ing off in a shootout on Saturday, September 8th, the eighteen LPGA Legends will be competing in a ProAm where locals will be swinging alongside the greats. “Even men will tell you that professional female golfers are easiest to learn from because their swings are slower,” says Jacobson, who competed in the ProAm last year and will do so again this September. “You can learn tips from them that you can’t otherwise.” Last year, Jacobson’s partner in the Pro-Am was Legends Tour hall of famer Jane Blalock. After racking up twenty-seven LPGA Tour wins and breaking the record for never missing a cut in 299 tournaments, Blalock retired from the tour and had a successful career in finance in Boston. But the thrill of competition continued to pull on her. “In golf, when you retire, it’s really volun-
“IN GOLF, WHEN YOU RETIRE, IT’S REALLY VOLUNTARY... YOU GO FROM A STRUCTURE WHERE YOU WAKE UP STRIVING FOR SOMETHING AND THEN ALL OF SUDDEN YOU’RE NOT—THAT’S WHY SOME PLAYERS RUN INTO A LOT OF PROBLEMS.”
tary,” she says. “You go from a structure where you wake up striving for something and then all of sudden you’re not—that’s why some players run into a lot of problems.”
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— Jane Blalock
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Unlike their male counterparts who could join the Senior Tour after the PGA, Blalock and her fellow female competitors didn’t have a venue to compete after they retired. So in the late nineties, Blalock launched the Women’s Senior Golf Tour, what is today the Legends Tour. Since 2000, the Legends Tour has raised over $22 million for charities. With a minimum age requirement of forty-five, the Legends Tour now has more than 120 players who account for a combined 750 tour wins. Of those 120 players, some of the most famous names in women’s golf will be teeing off on Nantucket. “You could not ask for a better field of players,” Blalock says. “It’s a who’s who in women’s golf.” Joining her this year will be Laura Davies, who collected twenty tour wins, including four major titles, during her LPGA career. Last fall, Davies won the Legends Tour Championship. Giving Davies a run for her money will be Nancy Lopez, a household name among female players, who had forty-eight tour wins, including three majors. There’s also Juli Inkster with thirty-one LPGA tour wins, seven major titles and four Legends Tour wins. One after the next, the eighteen player roster reads like the program at a hall of fame induction ceremony. How did Blalock pull together such an impressive field? “Because the players heard by word of mouth
Natalie Jacobson
just how fantastic this event was and how cool Nantucket is,” she says. “It’s that ca-
“IF YOU’RE A GOLFER, HERE’S AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET SOME TIPS, IMPROVE YOUR GAME, AND HAVE A LOT MORE FUN PLAYING GOLF.”
sual links-course feel. Miacomet is a hidden gem. The condition of the golf course is phenomenal with a really fun layout. It’s what I call an ‘old school golf course.’”
— Natalie Jacobson
With buzz around the event’s return continuing to grow, to
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MISSING POINT WRITTEN BY DEBORAH HALBER
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE
THE CONTENTIOUS DEBATE OVER ONE OF NANTUCKET’S MOST ICONIC LANDMARKS
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very summer for decades, Peter Krogh
Vehicle access to the peninsula has been
would run his fire engine red 1957 Willys
partially restricted since 1975, with varying
pickup over to the Wauwinet gatehouse and hiss
bird nesting grounds, access points and sand
the tires down to 12psi. Fishing rods jiggling in
trails cordoned off for several weeks every
the back, he’d shimmy the truck over five miles
year. In 2009, the very tip of Great Point be-
of sand to the trail’s end. Just off the northern-
came completely off limits to even those on
most point of the Coskata-Coatue peninsula,
foot, restricting access to this prime fishing
colliding currents from the Atlantic Ocean and
spot and signaling the beginning of a drastic
Nantucket Sound converge on Great Point, cre-
shift for fishermen like Peter Krogh and his
ating ideal fishing conditions. For generations,
fishing partners. In their eyes, the protection
this scenic spit of sand with Great Point light-
of piping plover nesting grounds at the point,
house as a backdrop was a surfcasting utopia
which has reduced human presence, has also
that drew anglers from up and down the Eastern
opened the floodgates to the onslaught of
Seaboard. But roughly ten years ago, all that be-
gray seals, rendering Great Point not so great
gan to change.
these days.
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since 2008, although it was intended to expand and contract as seal migratory patterns change. The report also notes that the number of oversand permits sold by The Trustees has been declining every year since 2007--probably, the report says, because of all the closures. On a recent midsummer day, Diane Lang drives a white Ford pickup with a green logo along a stretch of open beach towards Great Point. Wearing the Trustees’ khaki uniGuy Snowden, Peter Krogh and Peter Howell
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oday, Krogh doesn’t buy a permit to bring the Willys out to Great Point. The row of stickers on his truck’s bumper ends with the one is-
sued in 2016. “For me, this is a highly personal, visceral thing,” he says of the circumstances that have limited once-unfettered public access to Great Point and caused some, like him, to abandon it entirely. “I just don’t think this should go on.” As Krogh and his friends Peter Howell and Guy Snowden fight to “reclaim a treasured feature of Nantucket” as they put it, they raise the question: Between humans, birds and seals–who is most entitled to Great Point?
“You don’t catch as much dinner as you used to…The fishing is still good, but the catching isn’t as great as it was.” — Patty Chase, longtime Great Point fisherwoman
The 1,100 acres of the Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge— consisting of Coskata, Coatue, a narrow sand bar called the Galls, and most of Great Point—is overseen by a myriad of state, national and local groups. Twenty-one acres at the tip of the peninsula are jointly managed by The Trustees of Reservations—a Massachusetts nonprofit focused on conservation and public ac-
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cess—and the US Fisheries and Wildlife Service, a US Department of the Interior agency. A 438-page Fisheries and Wildlife conservation plan released in 2013 says Great Point is “recognized in-
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ternationally” for its premier fishing. The report also acknowledges anglers’ frustration with the off-limits area at the tip of the point meant to protect visitors from seals and seals from visitors. It’s been there almost year-round
form, Lang is stewardship manager
cause of the birds. The Trustees and
accidentally destroy their nests. Lang
for Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge,
Fisheries and Wildlife are de facto
points to a wooden frame where a gull
which includes the twenty-one acres
guardians of three kinds of endangered
perches. The sign once declared the
known as Great Point. She steers the
or threatened terns and a sparrow-sized
perimeter of the Nantucket National
truck over dips and swells, adjusting
shorebird called the piping plover.
Wildlife Refuge, a wildlife sanctuary
her sunglasses and ignoring the green-
While the birds nest from spring
for migratory birds. Another nesting
head flies and mosquitoes swarming
into late July, vehicles are kept away
habitat is at the tip of Great Point,
the windshield.
because they stress the birds and can
where every summer for decades
Jeeps and SUVs line the water’s edge from north of the spot known as the Haul-Over to marker three, where a thin cord on metal stakes stretches across the sand. The cord is there be-
beach fishermen spent hour upon hour surfcasting on the Sound. “Ninety-nine percent of the people who come out [to Great Point] want to do the right thing. They love it here for all of the right reasons,” she says. “And then you have that one percent who feel like they have the right to gripe because they can’t do what they did growing up.” Lang says most visitors understand the need to balance conservation and recreation. “People who come here have a matterof-fact attitude,” she says. “They say, ‘What’s open today? Two and a half miles of beach? I can walk that, perfect!’” She gazes from the van at the waves lapping the shore. Gulls dip and glide. Terns dance over the packed sand. “Perspective is everything,” she says. “And humans have a very shortterm perspective.” Just down the beach from Lang’s truck, Edward and Patricia Chase are lounging on beach chairs under a rainbow-striped umbrella. A fishing rod sticks upright in a holder near a red Jeep Wrangler. There are drinks coming to Great Point for almost fifty years, he says, since he was a boy. Patty remembers fishing out at
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the rip. Now they surfcast. “You don’t
In response to this influx of seals,
gered Species Act. Why is there so little
catch as much dinner as you used to,”
Peter Krogh and fellow fishermen Pe-
funding for seal research and manage-
she says. “The fishing is still good, but
ter Howell and Guy Snowden founded
ment? Why can no one define an “op-
the catching isn’t as great as it was.” Ed
the Seal Abatement Coalition in 2011.
timum sustainable population” of gray
says he spotted a bunch of striped bass
They rattle off grievances: Fisheries
seals? What are the long-term effects of
that morning just offshore, but the seals
and Wildlife cordons off the area once
an uncontrolled seal population?
chased them off.
used primarily by anglers; the seals
Krogh and Howell are heartened
Since 2008, Great Point has become
are turning the beach into a breeding
that the National Oceanic and Atmo-
a prime seal breeding ground. Fisher-
ground; they defecate; their excrement
spheric Administration is working on
men like Peter Krogh believe that limiting the human presence on the point to protect the birds has invited an influx of these unwanted guests. Starting in the late 19th
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century, thousands of
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a list of “safe and
“Ninety-nine percent of the people who come out [to Great Point] want to do the right thing. They love it here for all of the right reasons... And then you have that one percent who feels like they have the right to gripe because they can’t do what they did growing up.” — Diane Lang, Stewardship Manager for Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge
legal deterrent methods” for seals that approach fishing gear. That’s what they really want at this point: a way to stop the marauding
seals
from
stealing their catch. In
seals were killed every year in Maine
is unsightly and smelly, and can harbor
the meantime, the NOAA website advises
and Massachusetts bounty hunts—$1 to
parasites that infect cod; seals attract
recreational fishermen to remove their gear
$5 for a nose, tail or entire skin. By the
Great White sharks.
from the water if a seal approaches.
1960s, seals were practically extinct,
To members of the Seal Abatement
Krogh and Howell are aware that
prompting Congress to pass the Marine
Coalition, it’s a question about a com-
their idyllic fishing era at Great Point
Mammal Protection Act in 1972. Over
mon sense approach to managing an
might be a throwback, like Krogh’s
the past forty-six years, seals have re-
ecosystem. Why, Howell asks, is there
Willys truck. Some might view them as
bounded. There’s no official count, but
no provision for removing a no-longer-
“a bunch of old disaffected recreational
a 2017 study estimated 50,000 or more
threatened species from the Marine
fishermen,” as Howell puts it. But to
gray seals live in southeastern Mas-
Mammal Protection Act? Such has been
others, these old fishermen might just
sachusetts waters. On any given day,
the case with the Steller sea lion, the
represent the last Nantucketers who re-
gray seals can be spotted on and around
gray whale and other marine mammals
member when Great Point was, indeed,
Great Point.
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PICK
Nantucket has a long and complicated
species such as elephants and rhinos.
history with ivory, stretching back to the
Just last year, 1,028 African rhinos
whaling days when sperm whale teeth
were poached for their ivory, bringing
and jawbones were used for the art of
the total number of rhinos killed in the
scrimshaw. Today, the Nantucket Whal-
last decade to 7,245. The State Senate
ing Museum houses one of the most
has already passed the bill—which also
important scrimshaw collections in the
bans the use of ivory from mastodons
world, and the island continues to be
and woolly mammoths—and it current-
a leading purveyor in old and newly-
ly sits in the House of Representatives
commissioned pieces. However, new
Ways and Means Committee.
state legislation is being pushed to curb
“These protections are needed be-
the importation of ivory from poach-
cause there is a significant gray market
ers—and that might just put an end to
for poached ivory that drives the killing
the art of scrimshaw on Nantucket as we
of elephants, who are endangered,” Eh-
know it.
rlich contends. “Passing this bill would
This proposed legislation has been
eliminate the loopholes in the current
in the works for several years now.
structure that allows the illicit trade of
State Representative Lori Ehrlich, one
elephant ivory to flourish. And we are
of the sponsors of the bill, is trying to
contributing to the problem: Massachu-
limit the harmful poaching and smug-
setts has been rated as a significant il-
gling of ivory taken from endangered
legal ivory market in the US.”
“For us at Craftmasters of Nantucket, it would not only mean the end of our business, it would mean the end of an art style... It is a beautiful art style that I do not wish to let die.” — Cielo Masters of Craftmasters
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An iconic work of scrimshaw by the late David Masters, who was widely considered one of the most gifted scrimshanders on the island.
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O
ne might think that poaching in Africa is a world away from Nantucket, but cases of ivory smug-
gling are not unheard of on the island. In 2010, a local scrimshander was convicted of smuggling elephant ivory into the country in violation of federal and international law. He was also convicted
“These protections are needed because there is a significant gray market for poached ivory that drives the killing of elephants, who are endangered.” — State Representative Lori Ehrlich
of lying to federal agents, sentenced to thirty days in jail and fined $50,000 for his crimes. Stories like these don’t come up very often, but they’ve contributed to the bad rap given to the art of scrimshaw. While local scrimshanders are not protesting the protection of endangered species like elephants and rhinos, they still have a bone to pick with the ban—and a very old bone at that. “The included ban of fossilized mammoth and mastodon, while well meaning, has the unintended consequence of putting lawful Nantucket craftspeople out of busi-
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livelihood,” explained State Representative Dylan Fernandes, who represents Nantucket in the Massachusetts House. “Ancient fossilized ivory has no direct
A woolly mammoth tusk hanging in Craftsmasters, the local shop that provided all the pieces of scrimshaw featured in these photos.
“The included ban of fossilized mammoth and mastodon, while well meaning, has the unintended consequence of putting lawful Nantucket craftspeople out of business and will cause them to lose their livelihood.” — State Representative Dylan Fernandes
as a scrimshaw artist, but all around the island there are wonderful scrimshanders that rely on the extinct woolly mammoth’s ivory to create artwork that is straight from our proud history.” She adds, “It is a beautiful art style that I do not wish to let die.” Addressing the concerns of scrimshanders, Representative Ehrlich has revised the bill to exempt marine mammal ivory from the ban, including whale teeth, whale bones and walrus tusks. But the scrimshanders are still fighting for old bones of woolly mammoths and mastodons. The Congressional Representative and Senators have done their due diligence in making sure that their efforts reflect the best interests of their constituents, but work remains to be done if the elephants, rhinos and whales are to be saved while keeping local scrimshanders in business. Until the political battle concludes, the question remains: Will saving endangered species have the unintended consequences of making a rich Nantucket tradition go extinct?
connection to rhinos and elephants––animals that need and deserve robust and enforceable safeguards. Without an exemption to long-extinct animals, we feel it’s necessary to oppose the bill in its current form and protect Nantucket craftspeople.” One of these craftspeople is Cielo Masters of Craftmasters on India Street, who has voiced concerns about what this legislation could mean for the future of her livelihood. “For us at Craftmasters of Nantucket, it would not only mean the end of our business, it would mean the end of an art style,” she says. “Many pieces of art in the form of scrimshaw would nowned scrimshaw artists on Nantucket. Cielo continues to proudly run Craftmasters in her late husband’s memory. “After David’s passing, we have continued to create scrimshaw,” she says. “And it’s not only myself
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be lost.” Masters’ late husband, David Masters, was one of the most re-
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LIFTING VEIL Written by Leise Trueblood
EXPLORING NANTUCKET’S BOOMING WEDDING INDUSTRY
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F
ew events are more enchanting than a wedding on Nantucket. From picturesque settings, to intimate venues, to bountiful ca-
tering and star-studded entertainment, tying the knot on Nantucket
can feel torn from the pages of a fairytale. Perhaps not surprisingly, the wedding industry on the island is a booming segment of the local economy. Each year, Nantucket hosts well over two hundred weddings, netting an estimated $50 million for the local businesses. Nantucket’s wedding industry defies the seasonal economic swing, peaking in the shoulder months of June, September and October, and extending business for restaurants, hotels, shops and many other vendors. By one event planner’s estimate, the average wedding on Nantucket costs between $800 to a $1,000 per guest. How that money is spent—on the venues, photographers, caterers and a slew of other vendors—takes all shapes and sizes, from as small as a three-person wedding to as large as five hundred. While there might be a recipe for throwing an iconic “Nantucket wedding”—think Nantucket Reds, St. Mary’s Chapel and Brant Point wedding photos—many couples have put their own unique twists on island matrimony over the years. For instance, when Jamie Moran and Chris Warnecke were married last September, they were determined to think outside the box when it came to their reception. “We knew that we wanted to do something different that was unique to Chris and me as a couple,” Jamie said. “We both work in the music industry in Nashville and music played a huge role in our relationship.” The couple’s love of music ended up landing them inside the box for their wedding—the Chicken Box that is. For the first time in its sixty year history, the island’s legendary dive bar was transformed into an elegant wedding venue. Collaborating with Box owner Packy Norton and Susan Warner Catering, the Chicken Box was dolled up with neatly appointed table settings, flowers and votives. “They temporarily carpeted the entire floor, decorated the place like crazy and used the shuffle board for the bride and groom’s head table,” says Packy Norton. “It was the first and last time we’ll ever have a wedding at the Chicken Box.” Very often couples fall in love with a venue on the island, but the space might already be booked out for months or even years in advance.
The other obstacle can be that the venue simply can’t accommodate their number of guests. Such was the case for Megan Korengold and Jon Turnbell. Megan’s family had been summering in ‘Sconset since she was a little girl, and she always dreamt of having her reception in the ‘Sconset Casino. But didn’t have enough capacity. Undeterred, Megan and John improvised by having the incredibly ornate woodworking of the Casino painstaking recreated in a custom tent set on the lawn of the Great Harbor Yacht Club.
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“W
e started talking about the gorgeous trellises in the Casino and the unique history of the association on Nantucket,”
Megan says. “When we showed our event designer Nick
Watts at Amaryllis pictures of the Casino’s interiors, he sketched out exactly how the trellises could fit into the shape of the tent and camouflage the metal beams. It perfectly captured the feel of historic Nantucket and that green patina hue of the island we love so much.” Of course, what takes place inside the venue is the most crucial component. Musician and entertainment provider Billy Voss has seen several major acts perform at intimate Nantucket wedding venues over the years. One unique challenge these bands face, however, is the town’s stringent noise ordinances, which restrict loud music past 10 PM. But as the saying goes, creativity thrives under constraints. Enter the Silent Disco, one of the newest fads in island weddings. Voss hands out hundreds of noise-cancelling headsets to the guests, with each synched up to the same sound system. When he presses play, a giant dance party erupts in complete silence. Sometimes couples go to ever more dramatic lengths with their wedding entertainment. When Bruce Percelay wed his Dutch bride Elisabeth Shadae at their home on Nantucket six years ago, they celebrated their international union with an elaborate theatrical production. The inside of a jumbo jet was projected on to one of the far walls of the tent and four local actresses came to center stage dressed as airline stewardesses. Af-
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nounced—in English and Dutch— the four actresses broke out in a stirring rendition of Frank Sinatra’s “Come Fly With Me.” PHOTOGRAPHY BY PATRICIA LYONS PHOTOGRAPHY
for their rehearsal. Greeting them at the door, Reverend Ted Anderson asked why they were there. Hadn’t they canceled the wedding? he asked. The couple looked back at him confused and flabbergasted. Rev. Anderson went on to explain that he had received a call from the bride a few weeks earlier, saying that the wedding was off. As it turned out, it wasn’t the bride who had called—but the groom’s
NUPTIALS NUMBERS $200,000
Average cost of a 200-person wedding
$12,000 - $15,000 Average cost for a live wedding band
Of course, weddings on Nantucket can hit turbulence. Even with every detail planned,
$2,000
accidents (and weather) happen. From a tower-
Average cost for a DJ
ing Sankaty Head Lighthouse cake falling on the bride and groom as they cut it, to sprinkler
450 guests
systems going off in the tent during the recep-
Largest wedding on Nantucket.
tion, Michael Molinar of Flowers on Chestnut has seen his fair share of catastrophes. As was
2 guests
Smallest wedding on Nantucket.
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Average number of wedding parties done by RJ Miller Salon each season
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Number of wedding permits issued in 2000
217
PHOTOGRAPHY BY CARY HAZLEGROVE PHOTOGRAPHY
the case when one bridesmaid fell headfirst into
jealous ex-girlfriend!
the center of the bride’s dress, leaving behind a
Regardless of the venue, menu, mis-
full face print of makeup on the pristine white
haps and weather, a wedding on Nantucket is
gown right before the ceremony. Thinking on
nothing if not memorable. For many island-
his feet, Molinar jumped into action, shooting
ers, the wedding industry keeps the lights
back to his shop to create a bigger bouquet that
on in their homes. At press time there were
the bride could hold in front of the stain for the
at least 113 weddings booked for the rest of
duration of the wedding.
the year, and that number will undoubtedly grow. Because no matter what your budget,
big day. A few years ago, a couple arrived at the
the romance you’ll find on Nantucket is truly
Unitarian Church the day before their wedding
priceless.
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SWEATER: JOHNSTONS CASHMERE NECKLACE: CALISTA WEST RINGS & BRACELET: JEWEL IN THE SEA
DRESS: MILLY & GRACE SWEATER: JOHNSTONS CASHMERE EARRINGS: CALISTA WEST
SWEATER & PANTS: SHARI’S PLACE EARRINGS: THE VAULT BRACELET: CALISTA WEST SHOES: MILLY & GRACE
DRESS, BOOTS, EARRINGS, RING: GYPSY
SWEATER: JOHNSTONS CASHMERE PIN: JEWEL IN THE SEA
SUIT, NECKLACE & EARRINGS: GYPSY
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THE PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES OF NANTUCKET YESTERYEAR
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Steamer Nantucket I rounding Brant Point Light at night in the moonlight
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B Nantucket Central Railroad Engine No. 1 on Easy Street, probably being delivered to the island in 1901. C Woman standing in front of an airplane on Nantucket.
D D Carriages and cars on Main Street square in August 1925.
E E Barge with automobiles.
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A Two railroad cars with passengers, stopped at the head of North Wharf on Easy Street. In the Bird Cage are two ladies and two men. A boy and the railroad operator are standing next to the Bug. A
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E TA group of women posed around an airplane summer 1939. Dave Raub’s female flight students.
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INTERVIEW BY ROBERT COCUZZO
A QUICK CHAT WITH JACQUELINE LANE OF THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS
N MAGAZINE: What motivated you to get into this N MAGAZINE: What’s the greatest misconception work?
people have when it comes to mental illness?
LANE: I became interested in this work through LANE: That it is not a real illness, like diabetes, can“shared experience” as my brother was diagnosed
cer, or heart disease. Possibly because the brain
with serious mental illness and until his death this
is our most complicated organ and we are still in
implemented by William James College of New-
winter, my family dealt with all the issues that I see
the first stages of understanding its complexities,
ton, Massachusetts. William James vets the island
families dealing with.
many (including many cultures) do not give men-
and regional resources and when one calls, offers
tal health issues the same importance and attention
advice on what kind of services are needed and
N MAGAZINE: For many, fall can bring about Sea- as other physical illnesses. It is often not recog-
then matches the caller with an appropriate option.
sonal Affective Disorder, commonly known as
nized by many as a true illness, but a condition
The phone is answered by a clinical worker or a
seasonal depression. What pieces of advice do you
that one can overcome by “just getting on with it!”
student of psychiatry. This is a free service and will
have for those who might be facing that this Sep-
be funded by NAMI CC&I on Nantucket with the
N MAGAZINE: Can you speak a little bit about the diLANE: Plan projects or activities that may have vide in understanding between those who grapple
proceeds from the highly successful Dragonfly
tember?
fundraising event.
been put off in the busy summer months, giving
with depression and anxiety and those who don’t?
one something to look forward to as the days get
LANE: I think that we all experience levels of anxiety
N MAGAZINE: Are places like the Cape and the islands
shorter. Keep in touch with friends and avoid too
and depression at certain times in our very hectic
more susceptible to instances of mental illness?
much solitude. There are also special lights on the
and challenging lives. However, there are those
LANE: Yes, I do think that there are some specific
market that are designed to be a substitute for natu-
whose continuing anxieties result in debilitating
aspects of life on the Cape and islands that are
ral sunlight and have been a help for some. If in
depression. I think that it is hard for those of us
challenging for the mental health field. Our de-
one’s budget, a trip, even a brief one, off island to
who are able to keep our anxieties and situational
mographics show a very wide divide between
a sunny location can help.
depressions mostly under control to understand
those with degrees of wealth and those who are
that there are those who, for whatever reason,
struggling. I feel that beneath the beauty, the
experience these feelings at a different level and
glamour, and the romantic image, there is a very
feel hopeless. I also think the growing addiction
ugly underbelly full of people with needs that
crisis is symptomatic of self-medication and lack
are not being met. We do not have the resources,
of treatment for depression. I am hopeful the new
therapists, or doctors that are found in the cities.
help line will give people an opportunity to speak
Due to the high cost of living, it is difficult to at-
in confidence to a professional and get help.
tract and keep these professionals. Getting treat-
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N MAGAZINE: Can you tell us about this new help
which raises a multitude of issues for a struggling
line that’s just now been made available to folks on
family. The Cape and islands also have large eth-
the island and how it came to be?
nic populations that may resist getting help. We
LANE: The new call line or Interface line, which is
do not have the number of bilingual professionals
scheduled to go live in mid-September, is a call
that can be found in the cities. Mental illness does
line for information and resources. This complete-
not discriminate and we must not discriminate in
ly confidential service, used by many Massachu-
providing treatment. There is much work to be
setts communities, was developed and is being
done to meet these challenges!
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