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TOM ARRIX From Facebook to Dog Food Great Harbor’s
GREAT CAUSE Lyme Disease Expert
DR. TIMOTHY LEPORE
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Meet a few of the talented folks that made this September issue possible.
NUMBERS N 32
A numerical snapshot of Nantucket in the fall.
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CRU serves up the definitive Nantucket cookbook.
N TOPTEN 36
The ultimate events guide for the fall on the island.
N TRENDING 38
A rundown of what went viral on #Nantucket.
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All the news, tidbits and scuttlebutt fit to print.
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Tim Ehrenberg gives his required reading list for the fall.
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Former yoga instructor and Roastd General Store owner Lynne Begier shares her secrets for healthy living.
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NVESTIGATE 62 THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD A look at the historic house move that took place on Pocomo this summer.
68 TICK DOC
DR. PETER SLAVIN
President of Mass General Hospital
Dr. Tim Lepore gives his prognosis of tick-borne illnesses on Nantucket.
TOM ARRIX From Facebook to Dog Food Great Harbor’s
GREAT CAUSE Fighting Lyme Disease
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NSPIRE 52 HOMEGROWN HELP How a grassroots nonprofit is seeking to combat mental illness on Nantucket.
76 MAKING OLD NEW AGAIN
James Russell and his team at the Nantucket Historical Association are making history at the Whaling Museum.
82 GREAT CAUSE FOR GREAT HARBOR The Great Harbor Yacht Club launches a fund designed to protect its most vital asset.
56 CHANGING COLLARS
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From Facebook exec to dog food innovator, summer resident Tom Arrix digs into a new venture.
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Chef Erin Zircher’s burrata with fig and olive tapenade dish featured in CRU Oyster Bar Nantucket Cookbook (Photo by Wayne Chinnock)
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Dr. Peter Slavin, the president of Massachusetts General Hospital, shares his thoughts on the newly opened Nantucket Cottage Hospital and the future of medicine.
Nantucket’s style squad head north to shoot the island’s fall fashion in Vermont.
NHA 112 HISTORY ON THE HALF-SHELL
Dig through the NHA’s image archives for a look at the island’s shell-fishing past.
William Copeland Brody wed on Nantucket this summer.
NOT SO FAST 134 A quick chat with
legendary island artist John Lochtefeld.
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Nantucket’s ability to reinvent itself and its institutions is the reason why the island still prospers today. The total transformation of our economy from the whaling industry to agriculture and, ultimately, to tourism required a flexible mindset that continues to thrive today. Our cover story on the Nantucket Historical Association’s Gosnell Executive Director, James Russell, is a perfect example of how new thinking applied to old subjects keeps Nantucket fresh and relevant. At a time when young people are deeply absorbed in iPads and other handheld devices, making museums come alive is not easy, but Russell has added a new level of energy to the Nantucket Whaling Museum that has made something old, new again. Our story about Tom Arrix, a former high-ranking exec at Facebook, looks at how he decided to trade in his computer for a dog collar and develop a dog food product—the Joy Food Company—that makes healthy, nutrient-rich foods for our canine companions. Since so many dogs eat human food, Arrix has concluded that we should feed them like we feed ourselves and has developed a unique brand that could ultimately fetch him many four-legged friends. If ever there was a creative and unconventional thinker on Nantucket it is Dr. Timothy Lepore. An icon on the island for decades, Lepore has emerged as one of the country’s top experts on the treatment of Lyme disease. N Magazine sought to clear up some of the misconceptions about this highly prevalent disease on Nantucket by posing the most pressing questions to Lepore. Drawing upon his expertise, he demystifies the perceptions of this tick-borne illness. On the subject of cutting-edge medical thinking, N Magazine interviewed Massachusetts General Hospital president Dr. Peter Slavin on the opening of the new Nantucket Cottage Hospital, as well as Mass General’s role in connecting the island with one of the world’s great medical institutions. Slavin shared his optimism on how the use of new therapies and medical technologies is likely to revolutionize the world of medicine and how the advanced telemedicine capability at our new hospital will connect us virtually with Mass General in Boston. Adapting to our ever-changing environment on Nantucket has been another requirement to keep the island healthy and viable. The overuse of fertilizers and marine pollutants are posing increased threats to our harbor. Recognizing this threat, the Great Harbor Yacht Club has stepped up to create a fund to help restore this irreplaceable resource. N Magazine spoke with the club’s leadership to learn more about how the organization will play a role in keeping our waters clean and our aquatic environment balanced. Last, there is no more graphic example of our need to be nimble than the constant requirement of shoreline homeowners to relocate their houses due to erosion. The process of picking up and moving the massive property known as En Fin in Pocomo in an effort to keep it from falling into the harbor makes for a fascinating story that shows how truly dynamic our island is. The change in seasons is upon us and we hope you enjoy the transition from what was a spectacular summer to what is predicted to be a beautiful fall. Sincerely,
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CONTRIBUTORS GIOVANNA DIRUSSO Giovanna DiRusso is a newcomer to the island as a full-time resident, though she fell in love, as a visitor, with the Grey Lady a long time ago. She came to Nantucket from Aspen, Colorado, where she lived for seventeen years, spending much of that time working as the fashion and style columnist for the Aspen Daily News and Aspen Sojourner magazine. The switch to Nantucket was mostly a lateral move from one beautiful resort area to another, with one difference—about 8,000 vertical feet! For her debut issue of N Magazine, Giovanna explores her second love after fashion, which is food, talking to the owners of The Beet, a new casual restaurant on the Nantucket culinary scene. GEORGIE MORLEY Georgie Morley is a photographer, podcaster and blogger based on Nantucket. She grew up on Nantucket and moved back to the island in 2016. Her Nantucket photography has been featured in Yankee Magazine, Town & Country, Real Simple and more. While Georgie considers herself a jack-of-many-trades, the commonalities in her work are holding space for people, exploring curiosities and developing meaningful communities. Whether it’s portraits, landscapes or commercial work, Georgie believes that photography helps us see familiar subjects with a new perspective. KATIE KAIZER Katie Kaizer was born and raised on Nantucket, and she has always been inspired by the natural beauty of her home. She grew up with a camera in her hands and later studied photojournalism and wedding photography at the New England School of Photography in Boston. Katie believes in always evolving her craft by continuing to attend workshops and pursuing projects that push her beyond her comfort zone. For weddings, family portraits and photography projects near and far, she strives to capture the stories and moments people will N magazine
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Enter the half-mile, rhododendron-lined driveway and wind through 28 woodland acres to arrive at a sanctuary of quiet. The Chimneys is extremely private, but not isolated: five minutes to charming Manchester-By-The-Sea, 17 minutes to Beverly Airport and 40 minutes by car or train to the restaurants, museums, and shopping of historic Boston. The 13,000sf, 12 fireplace home commands a bluff above the Atlantic Ocean with horizon-to -horizon seascapes and the metronome of ocean waves. There are eight bedrooms (six with full baths) a kitchen with a wood-fired oven and grill, and refined sensibilities throughout. The Chimneys owns a private white sand beach and includes seven acres of restored 1906 Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. gardens. A 4,000sf Carriage House once accommodated a car collection with a two-bedroom apartment above for senior staff or summer guests. Since 1844, just three families have owned the original Dana estate and since 1904 only two families have experienced the exquisite pleasure of living at The Chimneys. It now is ready for a fortunate family to add a new chapter to its distinguished history.
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sk just about anyone to describe the quintessential waterfront dining experience on Nantucket and they’ll likely give you three simple letters in response: C-R-U. Since taking over the former location of the Rope Walk at the end of Straight Wharf seven years ago, CRU Oyster Bar has perfected a recipe of exquisite cuisine, impeccable service and an airy ambiance that buzzes with an energy unmistakably of its own creation. This year, CRU’s ownership team—namely Executive Chef Erin Zircher and her partners Jane Stoddard and Carlos Hidalgo—shared some of the ingredients behind their secret sauce by way of a delectable cookbook.
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CRU Oyster Bar Nantucket Cookbook: Savoring Four Seasons of the Good Life is much more than just a cookbook—it’s a testament to the fact that CRU isn’t just a restaurant; it’s an island institution. With stunning photography by Wayne Chinnock and enchant-
ing storytelling assisted by award-winning author Martha W. Murphy, this beautiful book adorns a coffee table like a cherished seashell reminding you of Nantucket all year round. But just as with Chef Zircher’s cuisine, savoring the nitty-gritty morsels is what makes this book such a delight. Her recipes include anecdotes of island characters, historical tidbits and an exploration of seasonal island flavors that will cause you to dog-ear many a page. Take, for instance, the “Surfcasting and Sunsets” chapter, which honors the fall harvest and reads like an ode to September. Beginning with grilled littleneck clams served in cilantro lime butter and burrata with fig and olive tapenade, the Surfcasting and Sunsets recipes smack of the freshness that we all relish in September when the crowds are gone and the water is still warm. Indeed, the menu moves from land to sea with a classic bluefish dish complemented by a side of saltwater soaked corn. And for dessert, how about vanilla-and-rum grilled plums served over orange-scented pound cake? How could you not? “Wherever you are, you can celebrate summer’s end with the recipes in this chapter,” Chef Zircher writes. “So raise a glass of CRU’s favorite rosé while you make plans to return to Nantucket next September, for a much longer stay.” We can all eat and drink to that!
CRU Oyster Bar Nantucket Cookbook: Savoring Four Seasons of the Good Life can be purchased at CRU, online at crunantucket.com, or locally at Mitchell’s Book Corner and Nantucket Bookworks.
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FIREFLIES
TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
Grab your friends and head to the White Heron Theatre to see its production of Fireflies, a romantic comedy about a respected Texan dame and her complicated relationship with a drifter handyman. For tickets and more information, visit www.whiteherontheatre.org.
Join the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket for its fall production of Terms of Endearment, a funny and touching story about the delicate, sometimes fractured bonds between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, and lovers, both old and new. For tickets and more information, visit www.theatrenantucket.org/events/ terms-of-endearment-1.
AUGUST 23 SEPTEMBER 14 – 7:30 PM WHITE HERON THEATRE COMPANY
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12
Join Nantucket Anglers’ Club for a monthlong fishing tournament open to all local and visiting anglers. The competition commences with an opening kick-off evening featuring a raw bar, hors d’oeuvres, raffle and auction. Talented fishermen might even hook a prize at the tournament’s closing awards ceremony! This event raises money for the Nantucket Anglers’ Club Scholarship Fund. For tickets and more information, visit www.nantucketanglersclub.com.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5 BENNETT HALL
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THE NANTUCKET PROJECT
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 THE WHITE ELEPHANT
Disconnect from the noise of the world and connect with one another at this year’s Nantucket Project! TNP is an annual event where attendees can enjoy inspiring talks and stories from amazing presenters, changemakers, artists and more, all while meeting new friends in an unforgettable experience. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.nantucketproject.com.
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NANTUCKET SLAM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM NANTUCKET BOAT BASIN
Come out and participate in this all-inclusive catch and release fishing tournament to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Achieving “the Slam” (one person catching three designated fish in one day) is the goal, so get ready for some fun competition! For tickets and more information on how you can help “Catch the Cure for Cystic Fibrosis,” visit events.cff. org/NantucketSlam.
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FALL RESTAURANT WEEK
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6 VARIOUS TIMES AND LOCATIONS
Looking to expand your palate? Or maybe just wine and dine at an affordable price? Nantucket Restaurant Week is the perfect opportunity to do both. Visit restaurants like Brant Point Grill, Ventuno and Topper’s to experience fabulous flavors and wonderful wines for under $50 dollars per person.
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THE GIVER
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 THE DREAMLAND
Step into a dystopian world right here on Nantucket. This production, based on the classic novel by Lois Lowry, will be a hit for booklovers and theatergoers alike. Without a doubt, this play is sure to give everyone a bit of nostalgia and appreciation for their childhood memories. For tickets and more information, visit www.dreamlandstagecompany.org/the-giver.
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SCALLOPERS BALL
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 6:30 PM - 11:30 PM THE NANTUCKET YACHT CLUB
Celebrate the start of this year’s scalloping season with the annual Scallopers Ball! Attendees can expect plenty of activities including silent auctions, live music and (of course) loads of delicious seafood provided by the local fisheries. The event is open to the public, and tickets are $50 per person. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.nantucketshellfish.org/events.
NANTUCKET CRANBERRY FESTIVAL
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM MILESTONE CRANBERRY BOG
The Nantucket Cranberry Festival features live music, cranberry bog tours and tons of activities for the kids like sack races, hay rides and face painting. Food will be catered by a “berry” good bunch of locations including B-ACK Yard BBQ, Barlett’s Farm and Wicked Island Bakery. You’re going to want to attend this fun-filled day! For more information, visit www.nantucketconservation.org/ events/cranberry-festival.
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NANTUCKET SHORTS FESTIVAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 THE DREAMLAND
Don’t be fooled by its name—this film festival isn’t about cropped pants. Head to the Dreamland on October 12 for a night of short films inspired by Nantucket. This event is sure to be short and sweet! Deadline for film submission is September 15. For more information and to submit your film, visit www.nantucketshorts.com.
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SHARK OUT OF WATER
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Real Housewives star and judge on ABC’s hit show Shark Tank, Bethenny Frankel, spent a week on Nantucket this summer with her boyfriend, Paul Bernon, and daughter, Bryn. She shared her splashy vacation to the delight of her 2.1 million followers on Instagram.
The canine internet sensation “Samson the Goldendoodle” took a trip to the Juice Bar this summer and captured this sweet snapshot. With 245,000 followers on Instagram, @samsonthedood has been featured in the pages of Town and Country and clearly digs Nantucket.
The quiet creators behind @wicked.little.chad continue to put on their thinking caps by hilariously recreating island scenes using dolls on their social media account. After N Magazine featured the handle in the July issue, @wicked.little.chad brought a mini copy home for some light reading.
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s the lifeguard stands begin their fall migration to offseason storage, winter travel plans slowly creep into our collective psyches. Thankfully, there have never been more ways to jet set to and from Nantucket. One aviation company serving the island, however, has dedicated the last twenty years to truly perfecting the private jet experience. With access to more than 1,100 aircraft of all classes and sizes, Sentient Jet has soared over the competition,
becoming one of the most highly regarded private aviation companies in the country. What’s its secret? Here’s a hint: It’s no bigger than a business card. Back in 1999, Sentient Jet revolutionized the private jet game by introducing the first-ever jet card, allowing Cardholders to book flexible flights
to most any location and pay by the hour. Think of the Sentient Jet Card as a golden ticket that allows Cardholders to book their travel with fixed hourly rates—starting at $137,975 for twenty-five hours— through a simple mobile app, thus opening up a world of possibility to explore beyond Nantucket. Part of the benefits of being a Sentient Jet Cardholder is enjoying highly curated experiences once
serves its Cardholders by land and by sky. And when it comes to Nantucket, Sentient Jet isn’t about quick touchand-go service on and off the island. The company is committed to working on the ground to help lift the community. In August, for instance, Sentient Jet served as a top-tier sponsor of the Tim Russert Summer Groove, benefiting the local Boys and Girls Club. “Nantucket is a very popular destination for our Cardholders, and we are
constantly looking for meaningful ways to get involved with the island’s community,” said Andrew Collins, Sentient Jet’s president and CEO. “We look forward to deepening our relationship with the Nantucket Boys and Girls Club.” Indeed, Sentient Jet has already committed to supporting the club’s efforts heading into winter at the Nantucket Stroll. And when the holidays do roll around, the Sentient Jet Card might just make the perfect gift to getaway.
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you land. The Sentient Jet Card opens up unparalleled access to private art shows and exclusive events such as the renowned (RED) Auction at Art Basel in Miami. For those with more of a taste for fine food than fine art, Sentient Jet also creates culinary adventures such as the annual “Derby Day Breakfast” at the Kentucky Derby in Louisville with its inaugural brand ambassador, celebrity chef Bobby Flay. These are just some of the many ways that Sentient Jet
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NBUZZ LONG LIVE LONGEVITY
Ignorance is not bliss, said Dr. David Karow of the cutting-edge medical diagnostic company Human Longevity Inc. in speaking at the Great Harbor Yacht Club last month. Indeed, through sophisticated, Star Trek era imaging technology, Human Longevity’s Health Nucleus CORE program allows people to learn more about their bodies and potential for disease than the most sophisticated executive physical. By combining advanced clinical imaging with whole genome sequencing and more, Health Nucleus CORE provides another level of insight into a person’s health status, empowering patients to optimize their health potential. Karow was brought to Nantucket by Anita Cosgrove, Human Longevity’s director of strategic alliances and wife of former Cleveland Clinic president Toby Cosgrove. According to Cosgrove, “What you don’t know can in fact hurt you.” To learn more about Human Longevity's Health Nucleus CORE, visit healthnucleus.com.
SWEET SOUND OF SUCCESS
The Boston Pops on Nantucket concert hit a particularly high note last month when it was formally announced to the crowd of thousands that the Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s herculean capital campaign had officially met its mark. “Big dreams come true on this little island and tonight is no exception,” said Bruce Percelay, the Chairman of the Nantucket Cottage Hospital's capital campaign. “I’m thrilled, and somewhat relieved, to announce that as of 7:30 p.m. last night we have reached our goal of $120 million in our capital campaign for the new hospital.” The announcement marks the largest community hospital fundraising campaign ever conducted in the United States.
SPACEY CASE
CUT SHORT
This July, the criminal charges against Kevin Spacey were formally suspended in Nantucket District Court after Spacey’s accuser pleaded the Fifth Amendment during pointed questioning by the defense. Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe explained that he was forced to drop the case “due to the unavailability of the complaining witness.” This dramatic shift in the case occurred shortly after Spacey’s lawyer argued the accuser had deleted text messages that would have proved the two-time Oscar winner was innocent. The charges were dropped shortly after the civil suit against Spacey was also suspended by the accuser.
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TONY WINNER AT DREAMLAND
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Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will be joining Sirius XM Radio star Seth Rudetsky for a one-of-a-kind evening at the Dreamland on September 3rd. Accompanied by music from McDonald’s historic career, Rudetsky will interview the Broadway star on stage. This is the third time these two have shared the stage for this unique question and answer session, having produced similar shows in New York City and San Francisco.
CRUNCHING NUMBERS
Last month, the Nantucket Data Platform presented its most recent work to the Nantucket community. According to the data platform, the team has grown from six members to over 40 experts in methodologies, data aggregation, analysis, data science and data visualization. Topics on its recent to-do list include looking at six-year on-island trends; analyzing the daily flow of cars to and from the island; assessing supply, demand and preferences of affordable housing; analyzing community views in a quantitative way through its Community Survey Panel; and partnering with the town to improve the 2020 census. The Nantucket Data Platform is working on any and all major issues facing our island today and is partnering with other organizations to tackle upwards of 30 issues with research and hard numbers.
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HULU GIRL
The queen of the beach read, Elin Hilderbrand, may be taking her best-selling books to the small screen. Hilderbrand has reportedly been working with Amblin Television to adapt her novels The Identicals, The Matchmaker and The Blue Bistro into a series on Hulu. Rumor has it that Hilderbrand will also be involved in production of the show alongside André and Maria Jacquemetton, producers of The Romanoffs and Mad Men. One thing is for sure— just like her books, this show should make for some binge-worthy entertainment.
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A year after being canceled, the Nantucket Island Fair will be back and better than ever this September. A small group of volunteers have been working tirelessly to make sure this beloved family-friendly event includes a livestock show, county fair games and contests, a kid’s corner, food vendors, performances and more. The Nantucket Island Fair takes place on September 14th and 15th on Tom Nevers Fairgrounds.
Since Gwyneth Paltrow’s billion-dollar wellness brand Goop took up residence at 22 Centre Street this spring, intrigue has swirled around what the actressturned-entrepreneur’s intentions were with Nantucket—and if she’d ever even step foot on the island. Several requests for interviews with or statements from Paltrow were flatly declined by her communications team over the ensuing months. However, at the end of July, news broke that Paltrow had finally graced Nantucket with her presence at an exclusive, invitation-only farmtable dinner held at a palatial waterfront estate. Joined by Michelin-star chef Curtis Stone, Paltrow’s “goop by the Sea” event featured a sixty-person guest list of local notables as well as television and social media celebrities. According to reports from those in attendance, Paltrow strolled into the party two hours after it began. She made some remarks, enjoyed some food and wine, and then slipped away with her handler. It had been twenty-five years since the last time Paltrow had been on the island. Only time will tell if Nantucket will have to wait another twentyfive for her return.
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NEED TO READ PORTRAIT BY BRIAN SAGER
BOOK PHOTOS BY TIM EHRENBERG
N’s resident bookworm Tim Ehrenberg shares six of his favorite reads
A BETTER MAN BY LOUISE PENNY You won’t find a better mystery writer than Louise Penny and A Better Man is one of her best! What I love about this series starring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and the villagers of Three Pines are its themes of human psychology entwined within a mystery novel. This latest in the series asks what one might do if a suspected killer walked free? All of your favorite characters are here, the mystery isn’t easy to figure out and the plot gets you thinking “what if?”
THE LAGER QUEEN OF MINNESOTA BY J. RYAN STRADAL We know books and beer here on Nantucket considering our bookshops’ owner Wendy Hudson also helped start Cisco Brewers. This new novel by best-selling author J. Ryan Stradal sounds perfect for relaxing with a cold beer this month. (I recommend Cisco’s Grey Lady Ale.) Stradal takes us on a journey of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer.
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THE ROAD TO SAN DONATO: FATHERS, SONS, AND CYCLING ACROSS ITALY BY ROBERT COCUZZO Available September 1st
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Let’s be honest. You will never see me biking across Italy with my father, so I am thankful author—and editor of this magazine—Robert Cocuzzo wrote about it in his brand-new book The Road to San Donato. This story has a little bit of everything: adventure, cycling, World War II and family history, travel, community, parent/child dynamics, insightful writing and much more. While I may not want to follow their bikes’ path, the book did make me want to travel to Italy, learn a little bit more about my own family history, and pick up the phone and call my dad. Join author Rob Cocuzzo for a book signing at Mitchell’s Book Corner on Saturday, September 7th, from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
THIS TENDER LAND BY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER
Available September 3rd September sunsets are my favorite time of the year to read, and the “orphan story” is one of my favorite book plots. From the author of Ordinary Grace comes a story about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the early years of the Great Depression. The characters and their adventure stay with you long after the final sentence, giving this novel the feel of a modern classic. It’s a big-hearted epic “that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams and makes us whole.”
THE INSTITUTE BY STEPHEN KING
Available September 10th The King reigns supreme with the most riveting and unforgettable epic about kids confronting evil since It. I have been devouring Stephen King’s stories since I was probably too young to be reading them. He could truly come out with a phone book and I would read it. In King’s latest book (approximately his ninetieth), a boy named Luke wakes up in The Institute, run by Mrs. Sigsby and her evil staff, who try to extract from a group of children the force of their extraordinary gifts.
THE DUTCH HOUSE BY ANN PATCHETT
Support your Island Indies. All books are available at Mitchell’s Book Corner & Nantucket Bookworks!
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Available September 24th The latest novel by beloved author Ann Patchett reads like a fairy tale and I was lost in the story of siblings Danny and Maeve. They are exiled from their home, The Dutch House, by their stepmother and what follows is a story of an indelible sibling bond and the past that won’t let them go. The writing, the characters and the way the plot is constructed are so beautifully done that I immediately started rereading it after I finished.
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FINDING BALANCE PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE
Former yoga instructor and Roastd General Store owner Lynne Begier gives her top tips for living your best life
1 STOKE YOUR BELLY Your belly is the engine of your digestive system and immune support, and it helps clear and ground your body, brain and energy every morning. I use ancient yoga kriyas from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, followed by thirty-two ounces of warm water and my choice of CBD and adaptogenic herbs to support my day. This is my non-negotiable morning routine and is the heart and soul of my current health routine.
2 PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU ARE DOING WHILE YOU ARE DOING IT This is a simple way that I can work to live in the moment. When I live this way, I notice that I am much less stressed and am able to manage all of the moments that I encounter day to day. When I get stressed out, it is usually because I am looking forward or in the past way too much and need to pull back to the moment-to-moment awareness.
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SURROUND YOURSELF WITH PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT YOU You can’t always have great days. Sometimes that person who cares for you will drop a word or two that just resonates and shifts your day. We can’t always do that for ourselves, so we need a good tribe.
HEALTHNWELLNESS N 4 DON’T WATCH YOUR WEIGHT I know we need to be careful about our health, but I gave up watching my weight and all those games back in my early twenties and it has made living so much more fun. I love ice cream and try to eat it as much as I can in the summer on Nantucket.
5 BE WILLING TO MAKE A PARADIGM SHIFT It can be fun to get locked in a routine, but that sometimes can work against us long-term. The body and mind need diversity, and this can also help us maintain neuroplasticity. After fifteen years of teaching yoga full-time, I stopped teaching and opened Roastd General Store. It turned my brain upside down, but I feel younger and energized by the challenges and all of the new lessons.
6 GO OUTSIDE THE NORM WITHOUT DEFINITIONS We can spend thirty years growing up and figuring out who we are and then we end up in a defined box that can feel limiting. Being open to change, evolution and new possibilities is always freeing for mind, body and spirit.
7 THE 80/20 RULE This is a guiding force for me. I remember hearing this at a training at the Kripalu Center and feeling so relieved and inspired. Do what is healthy 80 percent of the time and give yourself the other 20 percent to enjoy and live as you like.
8 PRACTICE KINDNESS ON THE SPOT We don’t always feel nice and kind (at least I don’t), but moments are always changing and we can shift quickly with each fresh encounter. [The renowned American Buddhist teacher] Pema Chodron talks about a meditation technique that she uses “on the spot.” I have adopted it as best I can to use in my daily life. Say “hello.” Acknowledge people as they are and allow yourself to be touched by both the beauty and pain of life—always ever-shifting. I know that I am out of balance and need to recharge if I am not able to maintain this practice. It is a good beacon for me.
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Lynne Begier first studied yoga at Kripalu in 1998 where she completed her first teaching training in 2001. From there, she began to study the ancient medicine system Ayurveda at the Kripalu center in western Massachusetts. It was her early Ayurvedic studies that initially sparked Lynne’s curiosity around marrying wellness with the specialty coffee world. Lynne opened Back Bay Yoga in 2002 and eventually sold her yoga studios in 2015 to YogaWorks. She then moved to her current home on Nantucket in 2016. Lynne’s early desires to integrate the specialty coffee industry with the wellness world bubbled back up, leading to her current creation, Roastd General Store.
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HEALTHY, FAST-CASUAL EATING HAS ARRIVED ON SOUTH WATER STREET
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Nantucketers have longed for a healthy, fast-casual eating option downtown where they can pop in for a freshly made meal and leave without a shred of guilt. Newly opened this season, The Beet on South Water Street has delivered this and a whole heck of a lot more. Set in a bright, inviting space that reflects the fresh flavors found behind the line, The Beet boasts a robust, made-to-order menu of signature salads, sandwiches and bowls, complete with beer and wine. “We cater to people who are looking for easy dining, a welcomed alternative to all our fancy restaurants on-island,” says Felino Samson, who co-owns The Beet with Amy Young. “We’re also serving up good vibes, good jams and an upbeat atmosphere that reflects the heartbeat of the town.” Indeed, from the moment you enter, The Beet exudes the fresh, healthy feeling the owners want you to leave with after dining. Wearing bright pink hats and fun t-shirts reading “Stay Up Beet” and “Eat Beet Repeat,” the staff are warm, courteous and excited to serve you. The tone is set by Young, whose
warm smile many will recognize from her years managing CRU restaurant on Straight Wharf. “I can’t tell you how long I’ve wanted to open my own place,” gushes Young, who met her Beet business partner Samson while he was a consulting chef at CRU. “But more importantly, I wanted to give the island an option it was desperately missing.” True to its name, The Beet incorporates the nutrientrich veggie in two salads, one bowl and two beverages. “But we want to open up the island to try new flavors,” says Samson, who has infused his Filipino background into some of his ingredient choices on the menu. “We do not want to stand for just one thing—like salads.” The Beet has definitely succeeded on that front. As a whole, the menu offers a lot of options—from brioche beignets to sweet potato fries—without straying too far from the healthy focus that anchors the eatery.
The Beet serves a wide selection of breakfast options, with stand-outs like the “Egg-cellent Tartine” (egg salad, summer black truffles, served on ciabatta) and the “After Tequila Sunrise Bowl” (brown rice, smoked black beans, cherry tomatoes, avocado, cilantro, and tortilla chips, served with either poached eggs or chicken). There’s also overnight oats, granola and avocado toast. Samson points to their “Breakfast Club” with egg, cheddar, smoked bacon, caramelized onion aioli and arugula, served on a potato bun as a particular fan favorite. Finally, their brioche beignets—think gourmet Dunkin’ Donuts Munchkins—are warm, cinnamon-glazed, bite-sized morsels from heaven. Lunch comes with a diverse selection of salads, sandwiches and bowls. The salads are portioned generously, with favorites like the “Kung Fu Fighter” (Napa cabbage, romaine lettuce, hoisin chicken, edamame, water chestnuts, radishes, peas and crispy wontons tossed with sesame ginger soy dressing), the “Greek Goddess” (romaine lettuce, arugula, cucumber, tomatoes, pickled red onion, Kalamata olives, pepperoncini, fried chickpeas and feta cheese tossed in red wine vinaigrette) and, of course, “The Beet Goes On” (butter lettuce, quinoa, roasted beets, raspberries, Bûcheron goat cheese, basil and chives served with sherry lime dressing). For those not in the mood for greens, there’s also the “Hokey Pokey Bowl” with sushistyle ahi tuna, quinoa, spinach, seaweed salad and avocado, accented with a basil aioli. The signature sandwich is the chicken burger with a flavorful umami glaze. The shrimp burger, a rather unique fish sandwich option, is slathered in zesty beet horseradish tartar sauce. Rounding out the sandwich options is the de rigueur “Rockin’ Lobster Roll.” Most dishes ring in under $20 and are available with beer and wine. Coming this fall, Samson and Young are incorporating a new dinner menu to their already extensive offering. “The idea is to strip away the superfluous trimmings of formal dining to get to the heart of ‘real food,’” Chef Samson describes. “I will draw on my Filipino background to expand upon the growing food scene on Nantucket, while also keeping the price point down and serving our island residents and neighboring businesses.” The Beet achieves that elusive quality in the local restaurant industry where it meets a need we never fully knew we had. Felino Samson and Amy Young plan on staying open yearround, ensuring that for Nantucketers who have finally found the healthy-eating option that they were missing, The Beet will go on.
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Homegrown Help WRITTEN BY ROBERT COCUZZO
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How a new grassroots nonprofit is seeking to combat mental illness on Nantucket
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or nearly seventeen thousand year-round residents, a population which multiplies in the summer months, there are currently fifteen mental health therapists available to provide them with care. With depression, anxiety, addiction and suicide continuing to rise on Nantucket, the need for more year-round men-
of therapists and mental health counselors on the island. This spring, local yoga instructor Evie-Marie O’Connor and Holly Finigan of the Nantucket blACKbook, launched The Healing Fund, a grassroots scholarship program dedicated to providing annual funding to island residents who are pursuing studies
“...when applying for local scholarships… I realized that there were not any scholarships orientated to fund students studying mental or behavioral health.”
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tal health professionals has never been greater. Organizations like Fairwinds, Gosnold, NAMI Cape and the Islands, and the Nantucket Cottage Hospital provide vital care, but with limited staff, they can only treat so many of those in need. However, two Nantucket residents believe they have a solution to the shortage
and training in mental, emotional and behavioral health. O’Connor and Finigan believe that by financially supporting local students who are seeking careers in mental health, The Healing Fund will sow the seeds of future caregivers to treat patients on the island. O’Connor knows this firsthand because she counts herself as
one of those future caregivers. “I am currently working on my master's degree in Clinical Mental Health at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado,” says O’Connor, who enrolled in a three-year program to become a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Massachusetts after working at Fairwinds Nantucket's Counseling Center for a year and a half. “Last year, when applying for local scholarships, I realized that there were not any scholarships orientated to fund students studying mental or behavioral health.” O’Connor explains that, “We are in a mental health epidemic on the island and in the country at large. Holly, whose late mother spent years as a social worker, and I recognized there was a need to support local community members, like myself, who want to continue their education and bring these needed services back to Nantucket.”
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"...this fund started by trying to meet an immediate need that I was facing and then grew into a much larger vision for the community as a whole." — Evie O’Connor
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cation,” she explains. “It could be a graduate or undergraduate program, but also a licensure or professional training program.” The essential criteria is that applicants are year-round members of the community commit-
ted to bringing their mental health services back to the island. While creating a sustainable scholarship program is the main objective, O’Connor and Finigan want to make sure The Healing Fund stimulates conversational opportunities around mental health and well-being. “We live in a world where there is so much misunderstanding, judgment and fear around addiction and mental health,” says O’Connor, “we want The Healing Fund to help break the stigma by talking about these things as part of the human experience.” And hopefully, with the help of The Healing Fund, there will be many more people like O’Connor and Finigan to have this important conversation with on Nantucket.
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Together they have held three block parties at Island Kitchen and a live “Chasing Joy” Podcast about holistic mental health at Lemon Press with Georgie Morley. These events have raised $10,000 through small donations and matching gifts that will be directed toward building The Healing Fund. O’Connor will be the first recipient of The Healing Fund scholarship. "While it might not be traditional for the founder to be the first recipient of the scholarship, this fund started by trying to meet an immediate need that I was facing and then grew into a much larger vision for the community as a whole," O’Connor explains. The next scholarship will be available for application in January 2020 and will
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"We want The Healing Fund to help break the stigma by talking about [mental health] as part of the human experience." — Evie O’Connor
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social media company right as it was beginning to branch off beyond college campuses. As Facebook’s Vice President of Sales and Global Marketing Solutions, Arrix’s job was to bring in enough revenue for Mark Zuckerberg to hire more and more engineers to scale Facebook into the global, history-making company it is today. “You had a small group of people that all served this incredible purpose,” Arrix recalls fondly. “Everybody’s role was so clear. Everybody trusted each other. There were no egos. No sense of any politics. The culture was just palpable.” In the span of seven years, Facebook went from 8 million users to growing at a breakneck pace of 50 million users per quarter. “Once we started to inch north of 100 million users to 250 million and then 500 million users, we knew that Facebook was bringing incredible value to people’s lives,” Arrix says. “For the first time, you were connected to all those people that were important to you.”
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acebook’s success, according to Arrix, was rooted in Mark Zuckerberg, who he says had an uncompromising commitment to serving his users, hiring good people, and striving to improve the world. “Mark is one of the most loyal people I’ve ever met or ever worked for,” Arrix says. “He loves to empower people. So intelligent and so smart, so focused on doing good for the entire planet—I don’t think that comes across enough.” Arrix was no longer working at Facebook to see its co-founder in the crosshairs of Congress. In 2013, he decided to leave. “I loved the company, but the work I was doing wasn’t nearly “You should feed as satisfying,” he says. your dog like you “So I left at the top of my feed yourself.” game, with the energy to — Tom Arrix do something different.” Appropriately enough, he announced his departure in a Facebook post, explaining that he planned to spend the summer enjoying time with his family. He and his wife Kathy—who is the cousin of Nantucket resident Kate Kling—purchased a home in Cisco. There they spent large amounts of time with their four kids and two golden retrievers, whom they consider their fifth and sixth children. Enter the story of Cooper. Last summer, Arrix’s dog Cooper became sick and was diagnosed with lymphoma. He brought Cooper to see Dr. Kendra Pope, a veterinary oncologist who asked about the dog’s diet. “She said that you should feed your dog like you feed yourself,” Arrix remembers. “She told me that kibble is garbage.” Dr. Pope explained that changing Cooper’s diet could have miraculous healing properties. So with the help of veterinarian nutritionist Dr. Sarah Abood, Arrix started feeding Cooper simple recipes of turkey and beef with fresh vegetables and nutrients. Within a matter of months, the lymphoma was gone.
Arrix had also begun feeding the new recipes to his other dog, Eddie, who experienced chronic ear infections that sent him to the vet every other week. With the new food, Eddie’s ear infections not only went away, but he became leaner with a healthier coat. Arrix realized that he had found his next venture. Earlier this year, Arrix launched the Joy Food Company, which offers high-quality, nutrient-rich dog food delivered direct-to-consumer every week by way of a subscription. Joy’s turkey and beef recipes are both complete with cauliflower, rice, broccoli, carrots, apples, flax seed, fish oil, turmeric and a slew of vitamins. Arrix says that a dog’s wellbeing is based on three pillars: genetics, environment, and nutrients. With Joy Food Company, he’s striving to better
support at least one of those pillars. “We’re trying to unleash wellness for dogs everywhere,” Arrix says. “But this is more than creating a dog food company; we’ll also be changing the lives of the dogs’ owners.” Much like he did with Facebook, Arrix hopes to grow his Joy Food Company into a beast of its own. He’s leveraging his years in technology and marketing to engage consumers and make the case that they must feed their dogs better. And hopefully in seeing to it that their dogs eat well, Arrix believes his customers might follow suit. There’s still a lot to dig into, but in the meantime, Tom Arrix can take comfort in knowing that while he’s in the healthy dog food business, he’ll never go hungry.
“We’re trying to unleash wellness for dogs everywhere. But this is more than creating a dog food company; we’ll also be changing the lives of the dogs’ owners.” — Tom Arrix
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A HISTORIC HOUSE MOVE IN POCOMO REDEFINES THE MEANING OF HEAVY LIFTING
Toscana Construction moves upwards of thirty houses each year on Nantucket. Some house relocations, like this one in Tom Nevers, travel a matter of miles. While others, like the historic move of En Fin in Pocomo, which this story 62 centers on, only travel a matter of feet.
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ouses have been moved around the island since the very first English settlers arrived in the mid-1600s. Since then, Nantucketers have relocated sixty-foot lighthouses, floated hotels across the harbor and rolled countless cottages up and down the cobblestones. Needless to say, these days the sight of a five-bedroom McMansion rolling down Milestone Road is hardly cause for a double take. But earlier this summer, a house was moved on Pocomo that not only raised eyebrows—it grabbed national headlines and made history.
...earlier this summer, a house was moved on Pocomo that not only raised eyebrows—it grabbed national headlines and made history. The palatial 8,450-square-foot estate on Pocomo Point known as En Fin had long been a familiar sight for mariners who could make out its gabled roof on the horizon for nearly a half century. Originally listed for just under $16 million by its original owner Nicki Nichols Gamble—the widowed heiress to the Procter & Gamble fortune—En Fin sold in 2012 after more than a year on the market for just $8.35 million. The dramatic 50 percent price drop was due to the fact that the property’s sevenacre beachfront was quickly eroding away, and the six-bedroom, six-bathroom home would soon either need to be moved—or be completely destroyed.
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“We’ve raised bigger houses, but we’ve never moved them...this is definitely the biggest one we’ve done.” — Carl Jelleme, Toscana Construction
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ary and Dao Engle purchased the estate and spent the next seven years plotting its critical move away from the eroding shoreline. Consulting with architect Chip Webster, the Engles, who are real estate developers and investors based out of Palm Beach, Florida, enlisted Carl Jelleme and his team from Toscana Construction to move the sprawling structure. “We’ve raised bigger houses, but we’ve never moved them,” explained Jelleme, who indicated that Toscana Construction relocates between twenty-five and thirty houses a year. “We had the Nantucket Hotel up in the air and the Westmoor clubhouse, but as far as physically moving a structure, this is definitely the biggest one we’ve done.” Indeed, weighing in at around 450 tons, En Fin could possibly be the single largest structure ever moved on the Cape and the Islands. However, instead of having to move it several miles, as is the case for some houses on Nantucket, the Engles’ estate only needed to travel about eighty feet to the north and sixty feet to the east. While Jelleme skirted around the question about what such a move might cost, The Wall Street Journal reported that the whole operation ran the Engles in the neighborhood of $1.6 million. But as Dao Engle explained to the paper, “By fixing the problem and redoing the space, we have effectively doubled the value of the home versus what we bought it for.”
Moving a house this size might seem like a marvel of engineering, but, according to Jelleme, “it really wasn’t difficult from a technical standpoint…it was just big.” Still he admitted that “house moving is a dangerous trade—guys can catch their fingers, toes—but if you do it professionally and safely there shouldn’t be any issues.” First, Jelleme’s crew of eight men tunneled beneath the structure through the crawl space and then built up what are known as “cribs”—wooden sixby-six-foot grids. Long steel beams known as “stringers” were then inserted at the base of the structure on top of those cribs, followed by cross beams running the opposite direction. “With the beams in place, it was time to jack it up,” Jelleme says. Deploying what’s known as a Unified Jacking Machine, thirty-two hy-
draulic jacks were placed along the stringers with each pressurized to hold a specific load. “So one jack could be holding five tons, one might have ten tons, another twelve tons,” Jelleme explained. “Then we locked them at that pressure and one main cylinder pushed them
“skates” were inserted below. Once all sixteen skates were in place, the entire structure was checked to ensure that it was level, and then it was pulled, ever so slowly, by excavators. “They’d move the house five feet, then check it,” Dao Engle told The Wall Street Journal, which published at least two stories on the historic “They’d move the house house move. “Then they’d move it five feet, then check it. ten feet and check it again…It was Then they’d move it ten feet definitely nerve-wracking.” Had and check it again…It was Jelleme and his team been moving the house any farther than its sixtydefinitely nerve-wracking.” by-eighty-foot path, the structure — Dao Engle to the The Wall Street Journal would have needed to be chopped into blocks and put on trucks. Yet all up together exactly at the same time, same despite the relatively short distance it travheight, same sequence.” eled, the entire move took a week. With the 450-ton house raised up by the With En Fin in its final resting stringers, sixteen steel rolling beams known as place—for now, anyway—the Engles are pouring in another $4 million to expand the estate, adding another 6,200 square feet by way of new bedrooms, a finished basement, a theater and a gym. The Engles told the Wall Street Journal that they hope their summer estate will be there for the next hundred years. But if they do have to relocate again in the future, at least they know their summer home has strong enough bones to make the move.
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Tick-borne illness expert Dr. Timothy Lepore demystifies Lyme disease
TICK DOC DR. TIMOTHY LEPORE INTERVIEW BY BRUCE A. PERCELAY
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When it comes to island treasures, there is the Great Point Lighthouse, the Old Mill, the Nantucket Whaling Museum—and Dr. Timothy Lepore. An enduring icon on Nantucket, Lepore was the subject of a critically acclaimed book titled Island Practice and has earned a following on the island like no other doctor. Beyond Nantucket, Lepore has developed a national reputation for his expertise in Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses. Patients suffering from these diseases venture from all over the world to see him. N Magazine sat down with Lepore to help demystify the confusion around Lyme disease, how it is treated, how serious an illness it is and ways in which it could be managed or eradicated on Nantucket.
“Lyme disease scares people in part because it has several stages. People hear these stories that it’s not curable.” — Dr. Lepore
N MAGAZINE: What is Lyme disease? LEPORE: Lyme disease is an infection with a spirochete [a type of bacterium] of which the vector is the tick and the reservoir [or carrier] is probably the white-footed mouse, deer mouse and vole. That’s what Lyme disease is. Now, Lyme disease has a series of several different stages.
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N MAGAZINE: What are those stages? LEPORE: If a person finds a tick on themselves and it has been present for less than twenty-four to thirtysix hours, the risk of transmission of Lyme disease is pretty small. If you miss the tick and it falls off, and then you notice a rash, a bull’s-eye, or what we call cellulitis behind the knee that is expanding in nature (greater than five centimeters), then you most likely have Lyme disease. You might also have multiple areas of rash because the spirochete gets into the blood and may show up in other areas. But typically, the place you get the rash is where the bite was. After a period of time, the rash goes away. If you’re treated with either amoxicillin, doxycycline, Ceftin or Rocephin, that’s the end of the story.
N MAGAZINE: What if it goes untreated? LEPORE: If it goes untreated, you may present with second stage Lyme disease, which is classically a facial palsy and a heart block where your heart may go from, say, seventy or eighty down to thirty beats per minute. This is also treatable with antibiotics.
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“All you need is a good friend, a significant other, a partner, a wife or a husband to look at those places where you can get a tick that you can’t see.” — Dr. Lepore
LEPORE: Third stage Lyme disease can
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cured. Lyme disease treated later— most often be referred to as “Lyme arfor patients who complain of cured, but there’s a subset of patients thritis.” I classically see these patients having long-term symptoms that will have persistent symptoms. in November or December because that the Lyme disease may Lyme disease scares people in part they have been bitten in the spring or have triggered some kind of in the early fall and it was autoimmune disorder? missed, and now they come "The Lyme vaccine was LEPORE: Why do some peoin with a big, red swollen successful...I used the Lyme ple have persistent sympknee. Lyme arthritis is typivaccine on a number of toms? One idea is that if cally in one joint. They’re patients and it was very effective. you look at the bell curve big joints: hips, knees, anThe problem is that we’re of people, a lot of these kles. Then there’s also Lyme surrounded by lawyers." complaints fall inside the meningitis, which is uncombell curve, but some of mon. And another late stage — Dr. Lepore these people complaining is Lyme radiculitis. Again, because it has several stages. People of long-term symptoms fall outside these are treatable in all stages. hear these stories that it’s not curable. the bell curve of the population. And because of the way we test for N MAGAZINE: If Lyme disease is so They may have an immune dysregit—an antibody test— it takes four to treatable, why the panic? When ulation relating to the spirochete. six weeks to turn positive. Even afpeople get Lyme disease, they This is something that Allen Steere ter you’re treated, the test may show jump to a conclusion that this is is working on up at Mass General. positive for months to years. a lifelong affliction. There’s a real possibility of that.
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“Babesiosis is a potentially dangerous disease. I’ve had two adults that had to be on ventilators for a month and six weeks. Another young man had to have five units of blood transfused...” — Dr. Lepore
N MAGAZINE: Does Nantucket have the highest concentration of people who have had Lyme disease? LEPORE: It depends on whether you’re talking about numbers or percentages. If you talk percentages, Nantucket is up there.
N MAGAZINE: Why is it so high? LEPORE: Because people don’t do the simple things. The simple things are tick checks. It’s cheap; it’s easy. All you need is a good friend, a significant other, a partner, a wife or a husband to look at those places where you can get a tick that you can’t see. One of my nurse practitioners thought her son had a little bit of chocolate on his lip and it turned out to be an imbedded tick.
N MAGAZINE: What else can you do? LEPORE: Tuck your pants into your
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socks. Wear light-colored clothes. Take your clothes and throw them in the dryer for ten or fifteen minutes, which kills the ticks. Cut down your risk areas by avoiding what I call “the edge.” I use the golf course analogy: If you’re in the fairway, you’re all set. But if you get into that edge property, that’s where the ticks live.
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N MAGAZINE: Why was the Lyme vaccine not successful? LEPORE: The Lyme vaccine was successful. I was part of the trials. I used the Lyme vaccine on a number of patients and it was very effective. The problem is that we’re surrounded by lawyers. With any vaccine, it gets expensive, because anybody that gets a hangnail blames the vaccine. I immunized probably four hundred people total. The worst thing I saw in the trial itself was with my administrative secretary, who I signed up for an injection and she had a reaction.
Dr. Lepore in his office holding a giant tick model made by one of his patients.
N MAGAZINE: Do you wish that particular vaccine was still on the market? LEPORE: Oh, yes, because it was safe and effective.
N MAGAZINE: Are you close enough to the pharmaceutical world to know if there’s something else in the works? LEPORE: Yes, there are attempts out there to recreate that vaccine.
N MAGAZINE: Does Lyme disease pose any different risk components to children? LEPORE: No. We treat Lyme disease in children the same. Children handle Babesia very well because they’re immunologically very in-tune, whereas when you get into the geezer ages, you’re not quite as immunologically competent.
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N MAGAZINE: Tick-borne illnesses are not limited to Lyme. How serious are the other range of tick-borne diseases that we see here? LEPORE: They are all much more serious than Lyme disease. The original tickborne disease described on Nantucket around 1970 was Babesiosis. Babesiosis is very much a malarial-type illness. It breaks down red blood cells and you look like Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen with bed-shaking chills. People don’t come to me and say, “I think
Some years we’ve seen as many as fifty, but that just depends on whether I can go around the emergency room and hunt them out.
N MAGAZINE: What else is out here as far as tick-borne diseases? LEPORE: There’s Anaplasma, which was described by Sam Telford and myself in 1995. Same tick, same vector, same reservoir and the treatment is with doxycycline. People get better very quickly. Better than with the more significant Lyme disease or babesiosis.
“When they culled the [deer] herd way down, the instances of diseases went away. That’s one way to control it, but there’s no political will do it.”
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I have babesiosis.” They come to me and say, “I’m awfully sick.” Babesiosis is a potentially dangerous disease. I’ve had two adults that had to be on ventilators for a month and six weeks. Another young man had to have five units of blood transfused because babesiosis breaks down your red blood cells. The treatment was pioneered out of this hospital with Dr. Peter Krause from Yale and myself using azithromycin (Zithromax), which is the standard of care right now. You get treated for a week and you get better. You get cured.
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resources, how would you fight the tick-borne illnesses on Nantucket? LEPORE: The perhaps simplest but most controversial way is to wipe out the deer. Our deer herds number fifty per square mile. If you get them down to fifteen per square mile, these diseases go away. This has been done at Great Island, a privately owned island that had a very high rate of tick-borne illnesses every year. They killed all the deer, and after two years, the numbers went down dramatically. That was also done around Crane Beach in Ipswich, where they had a hundred deer per square mile. When they culled the herd way down, the instances of diseases went away. That’s one way to control it, but there’s no political will do it.
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sis on Nantucket? LEPORE: It’s less common than Lyme disease, but it’s in about second place. I’ve had about twelve cases this year.
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How James Russell and his team at the NHA are breathing new life into the Whaling Museum
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Bounding through the Nantucket Whaling Museum, James Russell points like a kid in a candy store at new interactive touchscreens, new works of art, new exhibits—even a new whale jaw. There are more model ships, more scrimshaw, more exhibits, more tours—more everything, really. “In six months, we have probably doubled the number of items on view here,” Russell says giddily. Hundreds of objects have been dug out of the NHA’s mid-island storage facility and put on display. Indeed, around every turn, the wave of energy that Russell and his team have brought to the museum feels nothing short of historic. More than a hundred thousand annual visitors are now
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experiencing an entirely different Whaling Museum from a decade ago—or even a year ago. Russell’s dramatic overhaul of artifacts, exhibitions and programming at the museum and other Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) properties is putting storytelling front and center. “It’s the depth of these stories and the potential to tell them that drove me to here,” says Russell, who took over as the NHA’s Gosnell Executive Director in 2017 after serving as the president and CEO of the New Bedford Whaling Museum for nearly a decade. “With the richness of properties and interior spaces, and the history that goes well beyond whaling—there’s tremendous opportunity here now.”
The grand opening of the new Williams Forsyth Gallery where artwork from private collections has been paired with selected works from the NHA's permanent collection.
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The NHA's chief financial officer, Johanna Richard, standing in front of Edward Hopper's "Cape Cod Morning" painting in the NHA's Smithsonian exhibit.
"One and Another" by Hugo Robus.
“In six months, we have probably doubled the number of items on view here.” — James Russell
“Our collaborations and partnerships with peer institutions have gone up dramatically,” Russell says. “We now have collaborations and partnerships with fifty-plus entities.” Examples of these collaborations can be seen in an architectural exhibit at the Hadwen House curated by Michael May of the Nantucket Preservation Trust; exhibits on whale ecology with the Marine Mammal Alliance and the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Massachusetts; and the “Strangers to Neighbors” exhibit, exploring Jewish history on Nantucket with the Congregation Shirat HaYam. N magazine
(Top right) "The Great Moth" by Theodore Roszak; (top left)"Purple Interior with Window" by Rose Mary Gonnella-Butler; (bottom) "In the Summerhouse" by George Tooker.
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Peggi Godwin, the visitor operations coordinator, inside the new Williams Forsyth Gallery
“Dalles Dam, Evening” by Robert Birmelin on display courtesy of The Sara Roby Foundation
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et perhaps the most conspicuous collaboration is with the Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN), featuring the iconic work of one of the island’s most cherished artists, Seward Johnson. Ten of Johnson’s life-size statues are on display directly outside of the Whaling Museum, as well as at various NHA properties throughout town. While the famed artist has been a lifelong summer resident, he’s never had a full exhibit on Nantucket until now. Paula Stoeke, the curator and director of exhibitions for the Seward Johnson Atelier in Santa Monica, California, worked with the NHA and AAN in picking the various works that are on display until Columbus Day, October 14th.
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Seward Johnson creating the Einstein sculpture that is now on display outside of the Whaling Museum.
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“With the richness of properties and interior spaces, and the history that goes well beyond whaling—there’s tremendous opportunity here now.” — James Russell
Two of the ten Seward Johnson sculptures that are placed in and around downtown Nantucket.
"Man with Coffee Cup" by Katherine Schmidt
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“The element of interaction with Seward Johnson sculptures is crucial to his point in making his art,” Stoeke says. “He has a great sense of humor and truly enjoys surprising people by the realism in his sculptures.” Hundreds of visitors have taken selfies with the statues outside the Whaling Museum’s doors and around town. The sculptures include the stern American Gothic couple, a young man eating ice cream across the street from the Juice Bar and the debut of a new, never-before-seen piece of Einstein riding a bicycle. Standing guard outside of the museum, the sculptures signal an undeniable sea change at the historic institution. When James Russell took over the Whaling Museum two years ago, he was bursting at the seams with big ideas to make this historic space feel new again. One need not walk far inside—or outside the museum, for that matter—to realize that he’s made good on that vision. This year is significant in terms of local history. The Nantucket Historical Association is celebrating its 125th anniversary. Herman Melville would have turned 200 years old this past August. The first settlers arrived from the mainland 360 years ago. But 2019 might also be remembered as the year the Nantucket Historical Association began writing a new chapter in its history, one that celebrates the past while keeping an eye to the future.
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The Great Harbor Yacht Club Foundation is setting out to save our harbor
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Nantucket boasts two of the most vibrant harbors in Massachusetts and one of the few remaining sustainable commercial scallop fisheries in the world. Gazing out onto our pristine waters, it’s hard to imagine there could be anything wrong. However, according to Andrew Mckenna-Foster, the director of Natural Science at the Maria Mitchell Association, Nantucket Harbor is now at a critical moment when the tides could be changing for the worse. Heavy boat traffic, population surges and pollution from fertilizers and septic systems threaten the salt marshes and eelgrass beds that filter water and trap sediment, while algal blooms and rust tide threaten the surrounding waters. Although other initiatives have addressed these threats, a new force has emerged on the front lines.
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he Great Harbor Yacht Club Foundation has put into motion a $2 million capital campaign to implement and support a comprehensive, scientifically advanced and long-term initiative to restore, protect and preserve Nantucket Harbor. Taking a page from the Nantucket Yacht Club and the Nantucket Golf Club, which have charitable foundations that make educational grants to local students, the Great Harbor Yacht Club established its charitable foundation dedicated to the health of the harbor and its marine ecosystem.
Elliot Gewirtz, the vice president of the GHYC Foundation
For nearly a decade, the Great Harbor Yacht Club has been making obligatory annual contributions of $35,000 to the Nantucket Land Council to fund research and support existing harbor restoration efforts, including shellfish propagation facilities, water quality monitoring equipment and studies on eelgrass transplant and mooring, shellfish spat migration and the effect of algae on scallop population and eelgrass. “But we could do more,” says Elliot Gewirtz, vice president of the GHYC Foundation. “The harbor is the vitality of the club. On Friday night we gather for drinks by the harbor. We eat oysters from the head of the harbor. We look over the harbor as we dine from our decks. We race our boats in the harbor. Our kids fish in the harbor. In the
fall we scallop in the harbor. Without a doubt, we are the direct beneficiaries of a clean and vibrant harbor.” Helping spearhead the initiative is GHYC Foundation president Ron Zarrella, who emphasizes the importance of extensive research. “Initially we’ve been working with the town on a number of really important projects, and of course, we’d all like to get things done sooner, but before you can do a remediation that will have lasting impact, there is research that needs to be put into place,” he explains. “We can do this in a more substantial fashion than has been done in the past with a world-class panel of research experts. It was Elliot who was able to convince these people to do the work for us.” On the research front, Gewirtz has enlisted Dr. Robert J. Orth and Dr. William D. DuPaul, both distinguished professors in the biological and marine science departments at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, and Dr. Brian von Herzen, an expert in computer science, electrical engineering and planetary science who lectures on renewable energy, sustainability and carbon recycling at Stanford and Harvard. “We all want a quick fix, but there’s no way around a protracted period of research,” Zarrella says. “Dr. von
Ron Zarrella, GHYC Foundation president
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“By any measure, the membership of the club is exceptional... As a group, we are people who aspire to make a difference.”
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grass is a marginal approach, but seeding it has a much bigger impact, and there are ways to open up the upper harbor to the seeding process.” Potential projects rolled out by the GHYC Foundation include expanding and building oyster beds to clean the harbor and mitigate storm surges, propagating eelgrass beds to help the local scallop industry and providing support for the town’s existing shellfish propagation station at Brant Point. The foundation is funded by the voluntary contributions of time, talent and treasure on the part of the GHYC members, as well as the general public. Beyond the foundation’s scientific brain trust, the GHYC membership itself holds immense promise in making a lasting impact. “By any measure, the membership of the club is exceptional,” Gewirtz says. “We count amongst our members distinguished scientists, in-
ventors, CEOs, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, financiers, professionals and more. As a group, we are people who aspire to make a difference. In addition to our expert panel of scientific consultants, we have a number of people in the club who run big advertising companies, who have successfully run anti-smoking campaigns and other large-scale projects. We have that talent and that kind of capability here. We can run and fund a public interest campaign that will ensure the success of the
GHYC clean harbor initiative.” Call it enlightened self-interest or good citizenship, the GHYC Foundation’s initiative comes at a critical time for the island as a whole and offers promise in heading off further ecological damage.
Jeff Carlson of the Town's Natural Resource Department whom the GHYC Foundation has collaborated in picking future projects to support.
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REMAIN INTERVIEW BY ROBERT COCUZZO
PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN SAGER
Cecil Barron Jensen brings an artist’s touch to ReMain Nantucket as executive director
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When Melissa Philbrick retired from her post as the longtime executive director of ReMain Nantucket last year, she left some big shoes to fill. Under her watch, Philbrick helped ReMain founder Wendy Schmidt actualize a vision of revitalizing Nantucket’s downtown and supporting its year-round economy through a wide range of strategic real estate investments, community initiatives and business creations. Taking over for Philbrick was Cecil Barron Jensen, who previously had spent a decade as executive director of the Artists Association of Nantucket. Now exactly a year since taking the role, Barron Jensen spoke to N Magazine about the future challenges facing Nantucket’s historic downtown, ReMain’s newest initiatives, and what an artist’s touch will bring to one of Nantucket’s most influential nonprofits.
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when shopping, dining or just enjoying the downtown. “The More Nantucket” website and advertising campaign spells out, very simply, that you will actually get more out of Nantucket if you’re not driving.
N MAGAZINE: Sea-level rise presents one of the most serious long-term threats to the future of downtown Nantucket. What is ReMain doing to prepare for the effects of climate change? BARRON JENSEN: This is a priority. We chose to take 2019 to understand the problem and look at the subject from as many points as possible. It has been fascinating to learn about the ways other organizations are preparing for Cecil Barron Jensen behind the scenes at one of ReMain Venture's newest partnerships, Born and Bread. climate change and elevated sea water. ReMain’s role will be to stay a part of N MAGAZINE: What are some of ReMain's central focuses in downtown Nantucket? the conversation— and ultimately to BARRON JENSEN: ReMain continues to be focused on transportation, parkfund key projects that will demonstrate, ing and access to the downtown—especially in the summer months. We educate, or mitigate the impact for the launched a marketing campaign to encourage people to ride the WAVE, future. We certainly cannot solve this bike or walk instead of driving. Our point of view is that there is more on our own. We all will to see and do if you are not driving need to work togetharound in circles looking for parking. er and keep the ideas We know we cannot solve the congesflowing from across the tion issues alone—we need the town, “...we are benevolent landlords island. businesses and residents to join in and because we want our tenants to imagine a way forward on this problem—but we are trying to help. We’ve also spent a great deal of time and energy helping the town to improve and expand its bike paths.
collaborate with us. Together, we serve the mission to make the downtown core a vibrant place.” — Cecil Barron Jensen
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on Nantucket? BARRON JENSEN: The idea of limiting cars is in the hands of the Select Board. At ReMain, we focus on where we can help influence behavior. We launched a marketing campaign this summer targeted at short-term visitors. The campaign “Leave the Keys Please” encourages visitors to book their trips to the island without bringing a car, in addition to encouraging seasonal and year-round residents to opt for an alternative mode of transportation
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rent and a short season, retailers continue to struggle on Nantucket. What can be done to help them? BARRON JENSEN: More people coming into town more often. That’s it. That’s our motto. That’s why we fund nonprofits and businesses that bring people into the downtown. Classes, activities, concerts, art events – we support all kinds of cultural programing. In addi-
Chamber of Commerce and helping to open the Nantucktion, we continue to invest in our properties and tenants. et Island Center for Entrepreneurship, we’ve discovered We want them to be open year-round and to provide lots that there is a real need for business-to-business support. of reasons for people to come and enjoy the Nantucket [Chamber CEO] David Martin and Karen Macumber Cultural District. There is nothing we like better than have stepped up to provide to brainstorm with our tencoaching and education for ants, helping them develop entrepreneurs at all levels. programs and activities. “We certainly cannot solve Karen, in particular, is help[sea-level rise] on our own. That’s the sweet spot – we We all will need to work together ing aspiring business ownare benevolent landlords and keep the ideas flowing ers with writing business because we want our tenfrom across the island.” plans, marketing and real ants to collaborate with estate planning. In addition, — Cecil Barron Jensen us. Together, we serve the she has developed a valued mission to make the downnetwork of mentors (both town core a vibrant place. on Nantucket and off). The downtown cultural scene is We love it when we hear that other building owners are also a priority for us this year. ReMain’s Virna Gonzalez doing the same thing. We hope it’s contagious. and I are working on a year-long research project that will survey and evaluate the cultural programming being N MAGAZINE: How do you respond to some downtown shop offered in the downtown core. owners who criticize ReMain Ventures for creating unfair competition?
BARRON JENSEN: We like the old adage: A rising tide floats all boats. We all benefit from successful businesses and a vibrant island community. We’re so encouraged that the summer event schedule on the island is jampacked. We are proud to be part of a community that provides such a varied cultural, historical, shopping and dining experience to our residents and visitors. Our mission continues to be to strengthen the lasting social, economic and environmental vitality of downtown Nantucket for future generations. By focusing on future generations, it allows us to step back and imagine the impact we may have in the long run, while also reminding us to continue to look for opportunities to partner and collaborate with other nonprofits and business leaders.
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Barron Jensen inside ReMain's Culinary Center
N MAGAZINE: What’s one thing that has surprised you since coming on board as the executive director of ReMain? BARRON JENSEN: We are so much more than our buildings.
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Yes, we are enormously proud of our properties and tenants. The buildings (and the organizations and businesses inside) serve as living, breathing, beating hearts of our community. The work that our tenants do to bring people into town and engage with our community is priceless. We are proud of them all and their com-
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mitment to Nantucket. I spend my days listening and learning from our community. At ReMain, I am developing patience. We affect change by studying, evaluating and supporting others who are working on projects that interact with our mission goals. I cannot yet see around the corner to know what our next projects will
be, but chances are they will drive our core values forward in positive ways, which hopefully will provide time and space for future generations to make wise and sensible decisions for our dear island home. *This interview has been edited and condensed due to space limitations.
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A conversation with Massachusetts General Hospital’s president Peter Slavin
Dr. Peter L. Slavin has served as president of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) since 2003 and has helped lead the institution toward being consistently ranked among the top hospitals in the United States. MGH is the third oldest hospital in America, and with 26,000 employees, is the largest private employer in the city of Boston. With the largest research program of any hospital in the United States and as the first teaching hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School, MGH is now becoming an important force in the creation of new drugs and treatments that promise to accelerate the rate of change in medical delivery over the coming decade. N Magazine sat down with Slavin to discuss a wide range of topics in the medical world.
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Massachusetts General Hospital and the Nantucket Cottage Hospital? DR. SLAVIN: Mass General had a long-standing clinical relationship with Nantucket Cottage Hospital. There was a lot of back and forth with patients over the years, and a strong preference here on the island for Mass General among the academic medical centers. Nantucket was very interested in joining a larger organization. We entered into discussions with them. At the same time, we entered into discussions with Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. The result was that both became subsidiaries of Mass General.
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The main lobby (left) and a room in the maternity ward (right) in newly opened Nantucket Cottage Hospital (photos by Brian Sager).
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satellite locations, but Nantucket Cottage Hospital is on a whole different level, given the geographic isolation realities. What are the biggest challenges dealing with an island thirty miles out to sea? DR. SLAVIN: One of the challenges is the variability of the patient population on the island year-round. The second is that for hospitals closer to us on the mainland, it’s easier for our doctors to provide services onsite. On Nantucket, given the small patient population and the degree of difficulty in getting here, we rely more on telemedicine than we do in some of the other relationships that we have.
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section of the population in Boston that present all sorts of different medical needs. Does Nantucket’s population mirror those needs, or does it have unique medical needs?
DR. SLAVIN: It started on Nantucket with a focus on stroke patients. If a patient showed up to the emergency room on the island with symptoms of a stroke, they would be connected electronically through a video link to one of our stroke neurologists who could advise the doctors here on how best to treat the patient and if necessary how to get them up to Boston for interventional care that has been shown to be effective. Telemedicine is now a mainstay and has expanded to many other areas. It’s an important link between this hospital and Mass General.
“The Nantucket Cottage Hospital is magnificent. I really applaud the leadership here for designing the building and for raising the money to make that building a possibility.” — Dr. Peter Slavin
DR. SLAVIN: I think you have unique medical needs here. Number one is the variation of the population during the course of the year. Number two, clearly there are higher instances of [the tick-borne diseases] Lyme disease and Babesiosis than we see in the Boston area. Apart from that, there aren’t any major differences.
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making people as healthy as possible, but you’re also in a business. If everyone were healthy and didn’t need Mass General or any hospital, it would be a business problem. Is there an inherent conflict in the hospital model? Cutting-edge technology at Mass General is unlocking medical breakthroughs that were thought impossible just years earlier.
DR. SLAVIN: We’re a nonprofit organization. Our mission is
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to improve health. So the greatest measure of our success would be if we could go out of business because everybody was healthy. We’re not in business. We don’t operate to make a margin like for-profit businesses. We’re there to advance our mission and we deal with whatever the economic consequences may be.
Nantucket Cottage Hospital as a provider of last resort. We now have a facility that is vastly more sophisticated than we had before. Could you see this hospital having certain functions where people actually choose to have certain procedures here versus off-island? DR. SLAVIN: The hope is that with this new building, more island residents and visitors will stay here on the island for in-patient and outpatient medical care. Right now, it’s a small minority of them that choose to do so. The staff at Nantucket Cottage Hospital is terrific, and now they finally have a facility to use to the benefit of the patients here. We hope that there will be more elective surgery and less off-island transfers as a result of this state-of-the-art facility.
N MAGAZINE: With technology now advancing at an incredibly rapid rate, what do you see as the biggest advances in the next decade? DR. SLAVIN: I group them in two categories. One is biologic advances; the other is digital advances. In biology, perhaps the most exciting area is our ability to harness the immune system to fight cancer and—in the not too distant future—other
N MAGAZINE: We hear a lot about the connection between Mass General and Nantucket Cottage Hospital. If you are a Nantucketer, are you in effect getting Mass General quality treatment?
Telemedicine connects specialists at Mass General with patients at Nantucket Cottage Hospital.
diseases. Cancers that were deadly just a few years ago are now curable. It’s miraculous. I think there are many more examples of that to come. Digitally, I think we’re at the early stages of the use of information technology to make health care better, safer and accessible. We talked about telemedicine, which is part of it, but so is artificial intelligence and machine learning. It will have a profound impact on people’s care and people’s health.
DR. SLAVIN: You are. We work with the doctors here and in
tucket Cottage Hospital? DR. SLAVIN: The Nantucket Cottage Hospital is magnificent. I really applaud the leadership here for designing the building and for raising the money to make that building a possibility. It’s really a state-of-the-art facility that’s nicely tailored to the needs of the people of this island and also built in a way that’s flexible so that it can be as efficient as possible.
some cases we help with recruitment. In some cases it’s our doctors who provide services here. But if you need care that can’t be delivered on the island, we bend over backwards to try and make that possible at Mass General. We have no shortage of patients at Mass General, but when we get a call from Nantucket, it is a very high priority for us to accommodate that patient.
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example, is incredibly knowledgeable about the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme and other tick-borne illnesses. At Mass General, we have Dr. Allen Steere, who discovered Lyme disease when he was at Yale. We certainly see some of the more advanced cases that require specialized care. So my understanding is that there’s already a fair amount of collaboration clinically and academically.
N MAGAZINE: Do specialists who come here from Mass General enjoy coming to the island? DR. SLAVIN: I think they particularly enjoy it in the summer months. But I think they enjoy practicing in something other than an academic medical center. It’s a wonderful experience that contrasts with what they experience in Boston.
N MAGAZINE: What is the benefit of Mass General being affiliated with the Nantucket Cottage Hospital? DR. SLAVIN: Our mission is to improve health, so improving the health of the people of Nantucket is something that is important to us. We do benefit from the referrals that come our way from patients who are in need of secondary, or tertiary, or quaternary care.
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issue here, it’s Lyme disease. How big of a priority is Lyme disease for Mass General and could you see a larger focus on Nantucket to find a cure or a vaccine? DR. SLAVIN: There is great expertise here on Nantucket. Dr. Timothy Lepore, for
rise to the national Affordable Care Act. If, God forbid, the Affordable Care Act were to come down in the future, I’m sure Massachusetts would do its best to intervene and pick up the pieces.
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recently ranked Mass General as the number two hospital in the country. How important are these rankings? DR. SLAVIN: First of all, we don’t believe our N MAGAZINE: Mass General is certainly competition is Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopnot immune to the political shifts in this kins, Cleveland Clinic or the Brigham country. Obamacare itself was a sea and Women’s Hospital. We feel honchange and that is now evolving. Where ored to be mentioned in the same sendoes the hospital tence as those stand in terms of other great in"We have no shortage of patients health insurance stitutions. Our at Mass General, but when we and how is that competition is get a call from Nantucket, it is a influencing your mental illness, very high priority for us to acbottom line? Lyme disease, commodate that patient." DR. SLAVIN: I think heart disease — Dr. Peter Slavin all hospitals in and cancer. this country are Those are the in favor of expanding health insurance to enemies that our staff wakes up every all Americans. We strongly support that morning to fight. But I think it was a idea. How you go about doing that, I think, nice shot in the arm for our staff to see is subject to debate. Where we are today, our rankings go up from number four to continuing to fine-tune and expand the two in this past year. Affordable Care Act, is certainly one approach. And other approaches have been N MAGAZINE: Can you give us a couple of discussed by a number of the Democratic tangible successes that Mass General has candidates for president, which would be to had in delivering life-altering treatments? expand Medicare to people under the age of DR. SLAVIN: Probably the thing we’re most sixty-five. I think you get there both ways, known for happened in 1846 when we first although one might be more politically ex- used ether to put someone asleep during pedient than the other. But expanding ac- surgery. That transformed surgery in the cess is something we care deeply about. country and around the world. But more re-
N MAGAZINE: How does an institution as large as Mass General stay nimble when every four or eight years there could be major changes in health insurance? DR. SLAVIN: We benefit from the fact that we’re in the state of Massachusetts, which is also deeply committed to access to health care for its citizens. Massachusetts buffers us from some of the national changing political winds that are out there. After all, it was Massachusetts’ health reform that gave
cently, we’ve contributed to major advances in targeted therapies for cancer—immunologic therapies for cancer. Just ten years ago, the Ragon family helped us establish the Ragon Institute, which is an immunology institute focused primarily on HIV and currently producing what is viewed as the most promising HIV vaccine that is in clinical trials in Africa. So the research is incredibly powerful and is having and will continue to have a major impact on the health of our patients and the people of the world.
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WhistlePig has been leading the Rye Whiskey revival since 2008. Their bucolic farm in Shoreham, Vermont is the ideal place to perfect experiments in distillation, cask finishing and blending, leading to a range of deeply complex Rye Whiskeys. Built in a restored dairy barn, the farm is home to two copper stills named for WhistlePig’s late porcine mascots, Mortimer and Mauve, 500 acres of Rye fields, 20 acres of maple trees and an abundance of fly fishing streams - offering a pure and unfiltered Vermont experience. N Magazine descended just ahead of the 2019 Rye harvest, and celebrated the occasion with a fireside toast of WhistlePig’s latest release and their oldest yet: Double Malt Rye - Aged 18 Years. For those on-island, WhistlePig Rye can be found at a variety of premiere restaurants and bars including Oran Mor, The Boarding House, The Summer House, The Proprietors, Ships Inn and The Galley at Cliffside.
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Three men shucking bay scallops inside Walter Barrett's shanty. At the back is Walter Barrett, middle is Harold "Dudd" Williams, front is Vila Souza.
A fisherman standing on a scallop boat culling board, holding up a scallop dredge, while docked among other scalloping boats.
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N MAGAZINE: The new exhibition at the Visual Arts Center, “Folk Tales to Fine Art: A John Lochtefeld Retrospective,” is a very impressive amount of your artwork from over the years. What are some of the pieces in that exhibition that you are proudest of? LOCHTEFELD: It’s funny, the oldest piece in there is a big self-portrait that I carefully painted as a senior in college at Notre Dame, and I gave it to my parents as a present for Christmas. They had it for about forty-plus years in their home. And then they passed away and it sort of came back to me. I look at that now and I say, “You know, I wasn’t so bad then!”
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ated your gallery here on the island since 1969. What were your first thoughts upon arriving? LOCHTEFELD: I remember we got off the boat and wandered around, and I ran across about four or five boardedup art galleries down around South Water Street. I remember thinking, “Wow, if there are that many art galleries and business here, this has to be a pretty decent place to have an art gallery.” I signed up and we came up here in June, and very quickly became acquainted with all of the people in the art world here.
some of your biggest inspirations for your artwork? LOCHTEFELD: The thing that I liked especially on Nantucket was the sort of folklore that had built up around the whaling industry, all that history. And, of course, you had this beautiful harbor, and everything was just beautifully situated. So I started working, not totally realistically, but fairly realistically on different wharfs. I just started doing what I was interested in and stuck with it, and it did well.
exhibitions? LOCHTEFELD: I am now eighty-six years old, and I know that I’m going to have to start cutting back a bit because I just don’t have the energy that I used to, but I’d still like to work at it. I think we’ll probably stay here, and I will probably keep this studio and just keep it open till they carry me out feet first!
N MAGAZINE: What sort of advice would you give aspiring young artists that may be struggling to find their niche or inspiration in their artwork? LOCHTEFELD: I’ve known artists here who worked as bartenders and waiters, even people in the grass growing industry. They found a way, and you just have to be very stubborn about it and say, “I will do that.” As for what they want to paint, they just have to start searching and exploring and find out what fascinates them. If you’re gonna make art, primarily do it because you wish to make art, not because you're going to get rich because you may or may not. I’ve never been that successful monetarily, but I’ve done all right. I have been fortunate in that I got to do what I’ve always wanted to do.
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