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SEPTEMBER Per square foot, there are more fascinating people on Nantucket, both year-round and summer residents, than perhaps any other place in America. This year’s Nantucket Project (TNP) draws upon some of the local luminaries who are recognized globally for their wisdom and their vision. In its third year, TNP is helping establish Nantucket as more than just a place to feed the soul, but also to expand the mind.

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Rubenstein shares his views on philanthropy and the economy, and is also a featured speaker at the Nantucket Project this year.

Contributors Phil Donahue John Doyle Holly Finigan Senator Bill Frist Elise Linscott Chris Matthews Elisabeth J.M. Schadae Claire White Photographers Meghan Brosnan Maria Carey Anna Creissen Zofia Crosby & Co. Cary Hazlegrove Katie Kaizer Brian Sager Advertising Director Fifi Greenberg Advertising Sales Audrey Wagner Publisher N. LLC Chairman: Bruce A. Percelay

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Back on land, we meet the next generation of businesswomen on Nantucket when profiling five female entrepreneurs under the age of thirty whose drive and creativity are only matched by the enthusiasm they show in their businesses.

Come September, few people could be more deserving of a restorative makeover than a teacher. So just before the school bell rang, we treated fourteen-year veteran 8th grade teacher Alyssa Billings to a head-to-toe transformation. Also on the style front, N photographer Nathan Coe showcases an inventive portfolio of photographs using double images that are a stunning combination of fashion and art.

Lastly, as the Nantucket Cottage Hospital begins planning for an ambitious new facility, recent mother Elisabeth Schadae talks about the virtues of having a baby on the island, and why she chose Nantucket over award-winning national medical centers on the mainland. The article entitled “Local Delivery” reinforces the importance of a strong hospital on the island, a subject that will generate a great deal of attention over the coming year.

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26 THE NATURAL

The beat on the cobblestone streets.

Nantucket native Beau Garufi won the Olympic-distance Nantucket Triathlon this past July. Now, the twenty-two-year-old is looking to go pro.

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When violinist Armen Ghazaryan immigrated to the United States from Armenia, he never could have imagined that one day he would be playing for Mikhail Gorbachev—and on Nantucket no less.

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A mother shares a first-person account of having a baby on Nantucket.

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Climb aboard an extremely rare sailboat that’s raising some eyebrows on Nantucket and some red flags in the pro sailing circuit.

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67 THESE WOMEN MEAN BUSINESS A profile of five young businesswomen who are keeping the entrepreneurial spirit alive and well on Nantucket.

Local teacher Alyssa Billings enjoys a head-to-toe makeover before the first school bell rings.

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In preparation for Mikhail Gorbachevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talk at the Nantucket Project this month, TNP participants Bill Frist, Chris Matthews and Phil Donahue share personal accounts of the man who brought down the Berlin Wall.

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N Magazine sat down with Carlyle Group co-founder and Nantucket Project presenter David Rubenstien to discuss his career, his philanthropic pursuits, and his perspective on the future of the US economy.

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GUESTCONTRIBUTORS SENATOR BILL FRIST Bill Frist is both a nationally recognized heart and lung transplant surgeon and former US Senate Majority Leader. An author of several books and over a hundred medical articles, Frist is focused on domestic health reform and leads medical missions to Africa and places impacted by natural disasters annually.

During his tenure as Senate Majority Leader, Frist hosted Mikhail Gorbachev in his office in preparation for the funeral services of President Ronald Reagan. Frist recounts this interaction with the former Russian president who will be serving as this year’s keynote speaker at the Nantucket Project (page 78). Bill Frist is a longtime Nantucket summer resident and a Founding Circle member of the Nantucket Project.

CHRIS MATTHEWS Nantucket summer resident Chris Matthews is the host of MSNBC’s “Hard Ball” and the author of the forthcoming book Tip and The Gipper. Prior to his career in journalism, Matthews worked as a presidential speechwriter in the Carter administration, and then went on to serve as an aid to Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill. After politics, Matthews worked for fifteen years as a print journalist, covering such stories as the fall of the Berlin Wall. For this September issue, Chris Matthews revisits the topic of the Soviet Union when providing his reflections on Mikhail Gorbachev (page 80).

PHIL DONAHUE Over the course of his career, television personality Phil Donahue has interviewed the likes of John F. Kennedy, Johnny Carson, Malcolm X, Elton John, Muhammad Ali and Noam Chomsky. This September, Donahue will be on Nantucket interviewing former Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev at the Nantucket Project. Back in the 1980s, Donahue co-hosted the famous “Space Bridge,” a satellite conversation between audiences in the United States and Russia. For this September issue, Donahue writes about this

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”I HAVE JUST ONE: WORD FOR YOU PLASTICS.”

What does a pink flamingo, a lawn gnome and a Main Street lamppost have in common? They’re all made of plastic.

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Despite the HDC’s mission of maintaining the historic look and feel of downtown Nantucket, fixtures like some of the lampposts apparently predate the commission’s

After thirty-five years of running strong, Nantucket’s Demolition

influence, and are made of inauthentic materials such as

Derby stalled out this past August and was towed into the fall. At press time, organizers were considering Columbus Day weekend for the twisted-metal festival that’s been held at Tom Nevers for over three decades. The decision was made due to decreasing participation

During this fall’s

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of White Heron Theatre, the Nantucket Theatre Institute, will be holding its first Playwright’s Conference on the island.

Over the course of nine days, the conference will workshop three plays and will have three public showings. “Audiences will be able to watch the process of putting a play on its feet,” noted a White Heron spokesman. “This sneak peek inside the rehearsal process will allow the public to see how actors, directors and playwrights work together to create a play that works on the stage and not just on paper.” At press time the plays had not yet been selected, but those interested can go to www.whiteherontheatre.org for more information.

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The mystery continues in the cold case of a dead shark that washed up on the doorstep of Sea Dog Brew Pub on South Water Street this summer. It was early on a Thursday morn-

Kicking off the third annual Nantucket Project this month is The Finance Fo-

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rum held on September 26th. Speakers

submissions up till the 15th of September. Filmmakers

will include Andrew Ross Sorkin,

are encouraged to be creative in capturing their

Steve Karp, David Rubenstein, Meredith Whitney, Bob Diamond and

two- to eight-minute films, all of which must take place

others. The Finance Forum will bring some of the greatest economic

on the island. While only ten films will be shown on

thinkers together to discuss the state of today’s economy. While the

the big screen at the Nantucket Dreamland during the

cost of the ticket might not be cheap, the information offered is sure to

Nantucket Arts Festival, all

be priceless.

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gruesomely across the entryway. Seadog took the episode swim-

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OZONE CATCHES A BREAK

After cancelling last year’s competition, the Ozone Surf Classic came back to Cisco Beach stronger than ever this summer. At least two thousand people attended this year’s event, as competitors young and old enjoyed nice waves and fun vibes. The event is in memory of David Ozias and raises money for island charities.

TOMMY HILFIGER HAVING

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Tommy Hilfiger is running a very different kind of sale than he’s used to. Instead of designer clothes, the legendary fashion designer has put his longtime Nantucket retreat on the market. For just under $27 million, you can have his nineteen-room summer home perched on Cobblestone Hill, complete with arresting 180-degree views.

While the location alone might warrant the price tag, one could imagine that the interior of Hilfiger’s house has no shortage of design.

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The Natural How Nantucket native Beau Garufi won his first tri on his first try

WRITTEN BY ROBERT COCUZZO

PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT NOBLE

Number 250 emerged from the water first. The crowd cheered as he stormed up the beach, then jumped onto his bike and pedaled off behind a police escort. The spectators then turned their attention back to the water’s edge to await the next triathlete. They waited and waited. Finally after nearly two minutes—an eternity in swim time—the next competitor hustled up Jetties Beach in hopes of catching the front runner that had just dominated the first leg of the Nantucket “Hero” Triathlon. He would try, along with many others, but in the end, no one could beat the leader Beau Garufi.

At twenty-two years old and standing at a sturdy 6’1”, Nantucket native Beau Garufi has the look of an athlete who was born with bulging biceps and a six-pack—and now he has the résumé to match. In Nantucket’s first Olympic-distance triathlon, Garufi not only bested a handful of top ranked triathletes, he even beat out the lead relay team. In other words, he swam and ran and cycled faster than a three-man team, where each member of that team only had one event to complete. So after swimming .75 miles and then cycling twenty-eight, Garufi still ran faster than someone running on a fresh pair of legs. This feat becomes even more baffling when you consider that Beau Garufi had never competed in a triathlon before.

What he had competed in was swimming. His record times still line the walls around Nantucket High School’s swimming pool like permanent fixtures. While he entered the water at an early age, it wasn’t until he was seventeen that he started honing his stroke. He put down his baseball glove and hung up his soccer cleats to focus entirely on swimming. “I knew that I couldn’t do all three sports at the level I wanted to, so I picked swimming, dropped everything else and then started training by myself all year round,” he says. “I’d go to Whalers practice, and afterwards I would stay until the pool closed...I knew what it took to be one of the better swimmers, but I had to do it by myself.”

All the extra laps paid off when he earned a spot on the UMass Amherst swim team, a D1 program of which he eventually became, appropriately enough, tri-captain. Last season, Garufi missed nationals in the hundred-meter breaststroke by .14 seconds, a miniscule margin that clearly scathes him to this day. After his victory this past July, recruiters for the US Triathlon team reached out to him, and he was invited to compete in the Age Group National Championship in Milwaukee. Out of 2,650 racers, Garufi came in 57th overall, and 19th in his age group.

The performance qualified him for the 2014 International Triathlon Union’s World Championships in Edmonton

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“Even for an individual with an extremely athletic pedigree like Beau’s, a first time win in an Olympic distance triathlon is a phenomenal achievement...

I’d say that Beau has a very bright future in triathlon should he choose to pursue it.

Whether he can rise into the ranks of the paid professionals that compete in long course races…remains to be seen.”

— Nantucket Triathlon founder Jamie Ranney

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says Nantucket Triathlon founder Jamie Ranney. “I’d say that Beau has a very bright future in triathlon should he choose to pursue it. Whether he can rise into the ranks of the paid professionals that compete in long course races…remains to be seen.”

Beyond raw talent, Garufi seems to possess the soft-spoken demeanor that is exceedingly rare amongst today’s athletes. He strikes me in the same way that reporters used to describe NFL Hall of Famer Barry Sanders: humble to the point of shy. “I guess I just love competing,” he says of his motivation. “I don’t have to be here [in this interview] right now. No one has to know about me. No one knows me when I’m out running or biking by myself. I just want to do it.” But Beau definitely knows Beau, and he is keenly aware of his abilities and where they could take him. “As far as I’m concerned you put the limitations on yourself,” he says, “so I try not to think too much about where I will end up. I just want to take it as far as I can.” In the meantime, Nantucket will just have to wait and see how far and how N magazine

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Elizabeth Winship, Owner, Nantucket Looms with Sara Congdon, Nantucket Branch Manager, Hingham Savings Armen Ghazaryan was destined to be a musician. Before he was even born, Armen’s father foretold that his son would become the musician he himself never had the chance to be while growing up in the Soviet Union during the 1950s, a time and place where composers often hid their sheet music under their mattresses for fear of being ban-

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ished to a Siberian prison if their scores were deemed too subversive. That Armen would end up possessing the passion and talent to become a musician was a stroke of serendipity.

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delivered Armen to Nantucket, and seven years later, on the fiftieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, he was sworn in as an American citizen at the JFK Library. He has lived on Nantucket ever since, performing and teaching violin.

“The instrument is only a little over one pound, a piece of wood,” Armen says today in a lingering Armenian accent. “If you think about it, it’s absurd how many things we can do with that little piece of wood.” Armen is a slight man, and he talks with the thoughtful rhythm of a bow being drawn back and forth over taut strings, his eyes scanning the room as he mentally translates his words. “I don’t believe that the violin has been fully discovered yet,” he says. “I think there’s a few things still to be done.”

Accompanied by pianist Robert Berman, Armen will perform Edvard Mirzoyan’s “Introduction and Perpetual Motion” at the Nantucket Project for Gorbachev, a piece of music that holds significance for both the performer and the former Russian president.

“Obviously we couldn’t pick something random, like a Beethoven piece, no matter how much I love Beethoven,” Armen says of the chosen score. Edvard his September, Armen is slated to give the most significant performance of his

Mirzoyan was a top composer in the Soviet Union

career when he plays for former Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev at the

during Gorbachev’s time, and he knew the Russian

Nantucket Project. “I saw Mr. Gorbachev for the first time at the age of seven, being a

president personally. “He was a composer who raised

little kid in Moscow with my father,” he says. “I remember his presidential limo was

his voice [during] a very difficult period, not only in

coming out of Kremlin, and dad grabbed me to go see him…Gorbachev brought a lot of

Soviet history, but in human history,” Armen says.

hope with him, a lot of good energy.”

“He was someone that described his time very well.”

This hope was felt especially in the arts, where for decades Soviet painters, writers and

At the age of sixteen, Armen performed the piece

musicians lived in fear. Many bold composers used their music as an outlet for protest,

in front of Mirzoyan himself, learning firsthand the

embedding dissent into their scores at great personal risk. Writers were especially endan-

message that the composer intended with each note.

gered, as was seen when Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was locked up in a

Armen’s performance of “Introduction and Perpetual

Siberian prison for what was deemed subversive literature.

Motion” comes just months after Mizoryan passed away at the age of ninety-two. “This will be the first

“Then with Gorbachev it changed,” Armen says. “You didn’t have to worry that your

time I’ve played the piece since his death,” he says.

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you should play it.” Indeed, the arts flourished under Gorbachev. “What he wanted to do

So while Nantucket may be worlds away from

was change the way of thinking that ruled for fifty years,” Armen says raising a clenched

Mikhail Gorbachev’s motherland Russia, thanks to

fist. “It wasn’t an easy thing for him to do, but he did it.”

Armen he can feel somewhat at home, hearing the music he made possible through his leadership. As

With the Iron Curtain down, Armen picked up the violin at the age of six, and played his

for Armen Ghazaryan, this will surely be a perfor-

way up the ranks of Eastern Europe’s music schools and conservatories, often under the

mance of a lifetime, and in many ways, it’s a new

tutelage of renowned composers. At the age of twenty-two, a foreign exchange program

interpretation of Nantucket sound.

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A STORY OF HAVING A BABY ON NANTUCKET

Coming from a culture where many babies are delivered at home, my cousin who is a doctor and mother of two, reminded me that no matter the frightening delivery stories people seem to want to discuss right before your scheduled due date, “the delivery process is completely natural, is not truly medical, you are not sick, your body knows what to do and the hospital staff is there to facilitate the natural process.” So given the choice between several large world-class medical centers to deliver my baby, I was leaning towards the Nan-

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The thought of having a baby born on Nantucket is for many both a romantic notion and, from what I have learned, a badge of honor. But in my case, the decision had nothing to do with the fact that my baby’s birth certificate would say “Place of Birth: Nantucket,” but rather to have a wonderful birthing experience that we would carry with us for the rest of our lives.

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he choice of a doctor or a hospital is a trying task at best.

Researching physicians’ backgrounds, experience and reputation, available specialists, nurse/patient ratios, teaching and research facilities are just some of the considerations. One can spend many rainy evenings on the Internet researching all the options to make a well-informed decision. Unlike many other medical procedures, selecting the doctor and hospital to deliver a child brings many more personal and emotional factors into play as well. Will it feel like a warm and caring environment? Will the doctors and nursing staff respect my birthing wishes? Will the nurses have quality time for my newborn and me?

When I learned I was pregnant, I asked myself all these questions, yet with so many excellent hospitals in New England, there were no obvious answers. With access to some of America’s leading medical centers, many would choose, and many friends certainly recommended, the “safe” option of a large, nationally ranked and recognized hospital with unlimited technology budgets, huge nursing staff, many medical residents on staff and the capability to address any hypothetical medical issue should the need arise. However, living in Boston and summering in Nantucket, with an uneventful pregnancy and an anticipated uncomplicated delivery, all options were on the table for our spring delivery.

When visiting the Nantucket Cottage Hos-

and doctors. While I cannot comment on

us. Our baby was delivered at 10:00 a.m.

pital’s obstetrics unit, my mind was quickly

the medical importance of being relaxed

on Sunday morning, April 28th, and beyond

made up. Past the wall of bricks inscribed

during the birthing process, I have to be-

being the most incredible moment of my

with the names of babies born on Nantucket

lieve that feeling so secure in the ability of

life, it was truly a gift to have had the baby

and walking through the doors of the ob-

those around you and so comfortable in the

at the Nantucket Cottage Hospital. The pro-

stetrics department, I felt immediately en-

hospital environment plays a role in the de-

cess went so smoothly, and both myself and

veloped by a warm safe environment sur-

livery outcome.

the baby were doing so well, we decided to

rounded by nurses who were as excited

leave the hospital a day early to the disap-

about my pregnancy and upcoming delivery

pointment of my husband who was enjoy-

as I was. Past the nursing station, the oak-

ing the broiled salmon dinners, the diaper

paneled delivery rooms with en suite bath-

changing service and the flat screen TV.

rooms, rocking chairs and beds felt more like a hotel than a hospital. While the req-

Since leaving the hospital, we befriended

uisite medical equipment sat by each bed, I

our wonderful delivery nurse Pat, who vis-

did not hear the constant buzzing of moni-

its our baby regularly and feels like she has

tors and medical devices from the hallways

become a part of our family. When people

that make institutional hospital settings so

ask where we had the baby, there is almost

unpleasant. Rather the space felt not that

a universal reaction of surprise. Given the

different from being at a luxury resort with

extensive options of extraordinary medical

a level of attention from the staff that any

institutions from which we had to choose,

hospitality business would strive for.

there is absolutely no question that we

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We arrived at the hospital at midnight and

By the time my contractions increased and

in Nantucket. In so many ways this was an

were immediately settled into our room. It

birth was impending, the entire team was

unforgettable experience, and yes, our ba-

became very clear that we were surrounded

at my side. With some nurses even stay-

by’s birth certificate will forever say “Place

by a team of efficient and competent nurses

ing past their regular shifts to be there for

of Birth: Nantucket.”

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As a single-hull, winged sailboat, the Mach 2 requires the balance and upright stance of a windsurfing board, and demands the same level of athleticism of its pilots. When the boat lifts out of the water, the sailor has to maintain a ninety-degree angle with their body, hanging off the side of the boat to balance against the strong pull of the sails. “The whole thing is a balancing act,” says nineteen-year-old Perrin Hutcheson, the only Mach 2 owner on Nantucket. “It’s like a trapeze once you get onto the boat.”

While her Mach 2 is hard to maneuver, Perrin says the adrenaline rush is more than worth the work. “The first time you get it up it’s shocking how sensitive it is,” she says. “It’s also amazingly quiet. You get up on the foils and you’re not creating any wake, so it’s really silent.” She adds, “They go a lot faster than some motorboats, so there’s been some speeding tickets.”

Indeed, the Mach 2 can cruise at up to thirty knots.

Along with hitting high speeds, sailors should be prepared to hit the water, as capsizing is common in the Moth Class. Perrin has been sailing the Mach 2 for about a year now, but still spends almost as much time in the water as in the air. “In normal sailing races, capsizing is almost unheard of,” she says, “but in Moth races, most sailors capsize at least twice, and those guys are professionals.”

While there haven’t been any deaths reported with the Mach 2, the frequent capsizing of hydrofoil boats has caused some in the sailing community to question the safety of the seemingly unstable technology. Even larger, multi-hull hydrofoil boats tend to capsize. As

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was the case this past May when Olympic gold medalist Andrew “Bart” Simpson was killed when he aunched in 2009, the Mach 2 falls under sailing’s Moth Class, which is broadly defined as a single-hull sailboat that uses hydrofoils, or foils, to raise the craft out

was trapped underneath a capsized boat in San Francisco Bay for about ten minutes.

of the water as it cruises. Indeed, when the Mach 2 gets going, it hovers swiftly over the water’s surface like a bug around a porch light. Its foils were designed to

Perrin Hutcheson knows about the controversy sur-

reduce drag and have built-in trim flaps that help lift the boat. When the Moth picks up

rounding hydrofoil boats, but she isn’t worried about

enough speed, the hull rises out of the water, and only the foils remain cutting through

her safety on the Mach 2, beyond a few bumps and

the surface.

bruises. And while she doesn’t have any plans to hit

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around Nantucket Sound at race-worthy speeds on

light compared to other single-hull sailboats that can weigh up to nine hundred. The

her Mach 2. “It’s kind of an outlet,” she says. “There’s

“wings” of the boat are made of durable, stretchy fabric for the sailor to sit on while try-

something so cool about being alone on a boat, just

ing to harness the wind. Of course, all this cutting-edge technology doesn’t come cheap:

sailing, and especially when the boat’s so quiet. It’s

the asking price of a Mach 2 can be upwards of $17,000.

always a great time.”

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one with two energetic boys of her own? Mrs. Alyssa Billings has been teaching eighth grade at Nantucket Middle School for fourteen years and counting. After a summer of running her sons Jack and Ben from hockey camp to surf sessions, Alyssa was delighted to have a day of being primped and pampered courtesy of J. Parave & Company on 19 North Beach Street.

Hairdresser 0HJDQ 'XIÀQ started things off with a bold idea: “How about we go short?” Without batting an eye, Alyssa said, “Let’s do it.” So after having her hair shampooed and conditioned, Alyssa had four inches snipped off. “My hair has never been this short” she said, “but I love it!” From hair it was onto nails and makeup. J. Parave’s

nail technician Nadica Stojanova gave Alyssa an express manicure and pedicure, finishing it off with a fun shade of purple polish. Emma Gibbons then broke out the bronzer, lipstick, eyeliner and mascara, and did Alyssa’s makeup. “She’s so beautiful, I really didn’t need to do much,” Emma says.

With hair and makeup accomplished, Alyssa met up with local stylist Kim Pizzitola in town to pick out a few new looks. She started off at The Lovely on 11 Washington Street, then made her way over to Diane Firsten on 50 Main Street, and then up to Erica Wilson on 25 Main Street. Finally, after slipping on a pair of chocolate brown suede boots, Mrs. Alyssa Billings was ready to start her school year off on

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Emily Ott Hollister was only going to spend one more summer on Nantucket. Come fall, she and her future husband, Steve Hollister, were planning to move to Boston and get “real jobs.” Yet as fate would have it, that one summer turned into seven years, and today Emily is the owner of one of Nantucket’s hottest clothing boutiques, Milly & Grace. Named after her two grandmothers, Milly & Grace is a family-and-friends-run business, with her mother assisting in the buying, her sisters helping on the sales floor, her best friends managing the day-to-day, and her husband and her father offering support and business advice.

“Every season I fill the store with the best pieces that I can source, display and merchandise as creatively as I can,” Emily says. “Most importantly I’ve hired a team of people I love and care about.” Now in her fourth season, Emily is working to expand her brand and her market. In addition to offering an online boutique, Emily recently launched a fun lifestyle blog with her sisters called Milly and Grace Girls. “Waking up and knowing that every day is going to be different and to always be challenging myself to improve my business is what keeps me satisfied and on my toes.”

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MEREDITH HANSON, 25 ANCHORED ARTISTS

LAURA ELKMAN, 24 DAKOTA Growing up in South Florida, fashion was always part of Laura Elkman’s life. Her grandmother was a fashion and jewelry designer, and Laura inherited her exquisite sense of style and ability for putting together an outfit.

In 1993, Laura landed on Nantucket when her family’s boat sank in the harbor, prompting her parents to sell the boat and build a home. Eighteen years later, Laura opened her clothing and jewelry boutique, Dakota, on Old South Wharf, a fitting location as her back door now looks out to the same harbor that grounded her family on the island. With her “shop dogs,” Sally and Shimmo, welcoming patrons at the door, Laura offers clothing and jewelry that she has hand-selected, much of which has been designed by her friends and friends of friends.

“Each piece has a great story behind it and I love telling people about them,” Laura says. “I want to inspire other people to find their style the same way that I have been inspired to find mine.” And there is lots of fashion inspiration to be found at Dakota as it’s packed with exclusive looks that can easily transition from Nantucket to Newbury Street. “My advice to anyone trying to break out as a young entrepreneur is to be as authentic and true to yourself as possible,” Laura says. “It is so important to reflect your individuality, as well as taking to heart the lessons that come with the experience.”

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Breaking into a gallery on Nantucket as a young artist can be near impossible—that is unless you open the gallery yourself. This past June, artist Meredith Hanson opened Anchored Artists on Old South Wharf with her boyfriend and business partner, Nick Addeo.

The two both studied studio art at Wheaton College and met serendipitously on Nantucket three summers ago.

Before becoming a full-time artist, Meredith tried her hand at interior design by taking an unpaid internship at a firm in New York. “However, I quickly realized that I would rather be a starving artist than a starving intern so I packed my bags and moved to Nantucket,” she says. Drawing inspiration and guidance from her mother Janet, a serial entrepreneur who founded a global women’s network called “85 Broads,” Meredith has taken her artistic creations and turned them into profitable commodities. “Our artwork, accessories and apparel have been a tremendous hit as they are all hand-made, painted, or sculpted ‘one-of-a-kinds,’” she says. “Nick loves to work with wood, I love to paint Nantucket scenes, and Jen Addeo, Nick’s mom, designs our bottle bags, bowties, and hats!” Beyond her mom, Nick and his mom, Meredith thanks local artists Anne Sutherland and Julie Gifford for their artistic guidance. “There is something very different about being an artist on Nantucket,” Meredith says.

“Here, there is a sense of warmth and support within the art community that I don’t think you could possibly find elsewhere.”

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MISSY’S MINIS Nantucket native, Marissa “Missy” Holden spent her early childhood hovering around an Easy Bake Oven recreating the sweet treats that her grandmother, “Meme,” passed down to her. From whoopie pies to cookies to cupcakes, Missy’s sweet tooth knew no bounds. So in 2011, while studying public relations at Suffolk University, Missy decided to go pro with her baked goods on Nantucket, except she didn’t open a shop or have a storefront. Rather, her entire business takes place online at Missysminis.com, a website a Suffolk professor helped her create. What further distinguishes Missy’s business model is that she only bakes “minis,” cute, bite-sized pastries that pack a punch. “I like to say I took a little bit of each child’s sweet tooth and transformed it into a mini that is a decadent indulgence for the adult palate,” she says. Indeed, Missy’s mini menu includes such scrumptious delights as peanut-butter-and-jelly brownies, Fun-Fetti cupcakes and chocolate chip mint cookies. Along with her grandmother, Missy credits her parents, Fire Department senior captain Tom Holden and author, realtor and full-time mom Betsy Holden, as her inspirations. “To me, success is the day that I can turn to my parents and show them a respectful, honorable and hard-working daughter that can give all the credit to her upbringing.”

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Whenever Courtney Nemeth traveled, whether it was to Paris, the Everglades or just to Boston, she always loved taking bike tours. One day, while on the ferry returning from one of these tours, Courtney turned to her future business partner Jason Bridges and said, “You know someone should do bike tours on Nantucket.” By the time the ferry docked, Courtney and Jason had sketched up a logo and a rough business model. Three summers later, Nantucket Bike Tours on 31 Washington Street is a spinning enterprise, guiding visitors around the island by their own power. “We believe in being active, having fun, and sharing Nantucket with others,” Courtney says.

“If you’re on a tour with me I’ll be telling you all about the birds, flowers, and nature around the island.” Courtney is uniquely qualified to point out Nantucket’s natural wonders from her years interning and teaching at the Maria Mitchell Association. During Nantucket Bike Tours offseason, Courtney teaches at the Nantucket Lighthouse School, and she is well aware of the island’s history as a hub for women in business. “Long before women’s suffrage, the Quaker society of Nantucket made it possible for women to thrive as business owners and operators,” she says. “I think because it is steeped in tradition, our community supports women in business.”

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M ikhail Gorbachev came into my office alone. He was not as

That he was there to await his appointed time later that afternoon

big as I thought. Shaking his hand, I instinctively walked him over

to view the casket lying in state twenty yards from my office meant

to the prominent window that looked out on the long expanse of the

that, unlike the more official head of state meetings I had in the of-

west lawn of the US Capitol and stretched seemingly forever down

fice where there were always an underlying agenda and formalities

the mall. It was a somber and reflective time, as Gorbachev had

at hand, we had plenty of time to just talk. He spoke about his special

come not to specifically see me, then Majority Leader of the Sen-

relationship with Reagan and his deep admiration and respect for

ate, but rather to pay his respects on that June 10, 2004 day to the

Margaret Thatcher (who ironically had spent three hours just the day

Reagan family, and attend the lying in state following the death of

before in the same office, most of that time in conversation not with

President Ronald Reagan five days earlier.

me or other senators passing through but with my teenage sons and their high school friends who also were waiting in the office).

We stood side by side, taking in that linear view down the mall that goes on for two miles, which includes first the simple yet towering

But what he talked most about was the earlier years, where his main

Washington Monument, and then, far beyond in the same line of

goal was to pull the Soviet Union out of the economic doldrums and

sight, solidly grounded the Lincoln Memorial. I commented, won-

stagnation of the time. It was that goal, he told me, that motivated

dering what he was thinking as he peered so intently, that this is one

his revolutionary commitment to widespread social and political

of the most precious and symbolic views in Washington, honoring

reforms. Without freedom of speech, including toleration of some

two inspirational presidents who stood for freedom and democracy.

harsh criticism of his own government, and some degree of inde-

SENATOR BILL FRIST “History will record Ronald Reagan in a similar way,” I predicted.

pendence of business and private ownership, he said he realized he

“In large part because of your personal relationship established at

would never be able to accomplish economic prosperity and growth.

your many summits,” referring to the disarmament summits, which

He advocated social and political reform not so much for the sake of

led to the end of the Cold War, and ultimately to the collapse of the

principle as for the sake of specifically achieving his goal of improv-

Soviet Union. He said almost wistfully, “Yes, this view represents

ing the economy.

freedom in its purest sense.”

Those hours were special. It gave me a glimpse into the heart of a man who singlehandedly altered the course of history. I had that opportunity because I happened to be Majority Leader at the unique historical time of the passing of another great leader.

But because of the foresight of the Nantucket Project leadership, I will have that chance once again, along with all the participants who attend the Nantucket Project here on the island in just a few weeks.

If it is anything like my last interaction with him, it will be a relaxed

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and intimate conversation that forever will be remembered on the N magazine

principles that surround freedom and the dignity of mankind.

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In December 1987, I stood on the corner of 17 and Pennsylvania, a block from the White House, and

All of this instruction involving current events, public

jumped and applauded like mad for the man being driven by. He had changed the world, altered everything I

safety and religion came to us as a piece. It was noth-

had grown up believing the world would come to. Because of him there wasn’t going to be a World War III,

ing to laugh about—though I did, even back then, raise

unleashing the nuclear hell my generation had seen coming since first grade.

the prospect that the good Sisters might someday get

th

the two drills mixed up, sending us under our desks to His name was Mikhail Gorbachev. He was the young new leader of the Soviet Union and his meetings with

face the fire and out onto the recess yard to welcome

President Ronald Reagan had changed the course of history. The two countries were no longer headed to-

the incoming.

ward an inevitable clash that would destroy everything.

But the fact is, hard for the younger generations to believe, we took this all with dead seriousness, just as the US government itself did. I bring to your attention the National Security Council Report of April 14, 1950.

Kept “top secret” for a quarter century, NSC 68 is the official version of what the Sisters of Mercy were telling us at St. Christopher School in northeast Philadelphia:

were making inroads in North Africa and had admirers throughout the “Third World.” They were backing

“The Soviet Union … is animated by a new fanatic

“wars of liberation” around the globe, including the

faith, antithetical to our own, and seeks to impose its

fight for South Vietnam. When would the time arrive

absolute authority over the rest of the world. With the

when we’d have to fight for America itself? Every

development of increasingly terrifying weapons of

American president, from Kennedy to Reagan, sweated

mass destruction, every individual faces the ever-pre-

the possibility that he would have to “push the button,”

sent possibility of annihilation should the conflict en-

choosing nuclear war over capitulation.

CHRIS MATTHEWS ter the phase of total war. The issues that face us are

All this changed with the arrival of Mikhail Gorbachev.

momentous, involving the fulfillment or destruction not

From the moment of his early meetings with Britain’s

only of this Republic but of civilization itself.”

Margaret Thatcher, the word passed that this Soviet leader was someone we in the West could “do business

Fifteen minutes and then a flash of light.

with.”

It’s hard to measure the impact of that information on

It was better than that. A year later in Reykjavik, Gor-

the young mind. Yet the specter of nuclear war with the

bachev and President Reagan came close to a decision

“Russians” was not only the cosmic reality we were

to rid their countries of nuclear weapons altogether.

For those of my generation, those born during and just after World War II, the earliest boomers, the school

taught in school but, let’s face it, the box our heads ar-

As the Soviet leader told the Icelandic prime minister,

days of the early 1950s featured two periodic drills. One was for fires. That was when we got into lines and

rived in. We knew no other world. We’d had two world

while standing there on the tarmac, “This is the begin-

moved two-by-two out of the building and onto the asphalt recess yard.

wars; it was just a matter of time before we had the

ning of the end of the Cold War.”

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third, the big one and the last, the last of everything.

A year after that, Gorbachev was being driven through

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our little wooden desks, then crouch there without a sound. We were told to use this time to prepare for the

The hard thing to imagine growing up in the 1950s

Washington, and I, like so many others, was standing

real thing. It would take fifteen minutes—though even Sister admitted no one knew for sure—for the giant

was how a WWIII could be avoided. The Russians had

along the sidewalk cheering.

flash of light that would signal the onslaught of nuclear weapons, with them the end of the world and the

gotten China in ’49, then a good part of Indo-China in

coming of the General Judgment.

1954. They had cracked down on Hungary in ’56 and gotten Cuba three years later. By the early sixties they

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The other, far more horrific, was the “air raid” drill. In this exercise, we were instructed by Sister to get under

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When I was a child, “good Catholics” went to church

“Russian who didn’t sound Russian.”) Koppel’s positive

Soviets had pledged their devotion: “Why do you allow old men behind closed doors to decide what is good for

every Sunday and prayed for “the conversion of Russia” af- review of Pozner eased my Commie-sympathizer anxiety

you? Why does it say ‘Jew’ on certain of your passports? Why is Sakharov in exile in Gorky?” As the camera slowly

ter every mass. Russians didn’t believe in God, they were although he did caution, “They might rig the interpreters.”

panned the faces of the Leningrad assembly the shock was palpable. These ambushed Soviets were the deer and I

part of an empire that was evil and existed behind a curtain

was the headlight. Never had so many Russians heard such harsh criticism of their own country on their own public

made of iron. To the faithful in Our Lady of Angels parish My “Space Bridge” co-host Vladimir Pozner was born in

television. What followed was a two-and-half hour candid exchange between the citizens of both countries. I am told

on Cleveland’s west side, no one needed prayers more than Paris to a French Catholic mother and a Russian Jewish fa-

Mr. Gorbachev reviewed the tape and commented, “This will be our gift to the 27th Congress of the Communist Party.”

the Russians. Why then, in the middle of the Reagan years, ther. At age five, little Volodya came to New York City with

The Soviet TV producers started breathing again.

was the good Catholic Phil Donahue cavorting with these his parents, attended City & Country School in Manhattan, godforsaken people?

and was soon a student at Stuyvesant High School. In 1948,

The program aired across eleven time zones, and Vladimir received 87,000 letters. I surely looked like a very boorish

the devoutly communist Pozner Sr., who had previously

houseguest taking self-righteousness to a new lower level. (But Ted, I was not censored. Promise kept.) It’s been

Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in March 1985. A new worked for MGM, fled the Red Scare with his family to

twenty-eight years since this career moment of my life. I’ve met hundreds of Russians here and there. Vlad and I

leader materialized on the front pages of the world’s news- East Germany. In 1952 the Soviet Government provided a papers. He promised a new nation, one of freedom and Moscow apartment for the new citizens who arrived shortly openness, a restructuring of old Kremlin ways that would before Stalin died. Five years later, young Vladimir gradu-

PHIL DONAHUE include free speech and elections. Glasnost and Perestroika ated from Moscow U. with a degree in biology. He was were the new words in the world dictionary, openness and speaking four languages without an accent. Today Vladimir restructuring. Almost none of the praying Catholics on Pozner is the most recognized TV news face in all of RusCleveland’s west side believed it.

sia’s eleven time zones.

The first and most visible expression of Gorbachev’s com- Ten minutes into our Space Bridge featuring 300 Americans mitment to change was a project called the “Space Bridge,” in Seattle and 300 Soviets in Leningrad, all wearing heada satellite conversation between Americans in Seattle and sets, I let loose with a simultaneously translated barrage of Soviets in what was then Leningrad. I accepted the invi- observations critical of the country to which the stunned tation to host the American side, but only after pondering

have shared the stage at my alma mater, The University of Notre Dame. I have taken questions from Russian students

several questions: Would Americans consider me a dupe,

in Siberia and the Gorky Palace of Culture in what is now St. Petersburg. “If you came to the United States, where

a pointy-headed liberal sucked into a KGB public relations

would you like to visit?” I asked. Hands went up everywhere in the audience: “Las Vegas.” “Disney World.” “Oxford,

campaign? I was already thought of as a political lefty, not

Mississippi.” “Why Oxford, Mississippi?” I asked. I heard the interpreter in my earphones, “Because that is the home

a popular label for an eighties TV sort. Who was Vladimir

of your great author, William Faulkner.”

Pozner, the Communist Party member who would host the other side of the debate half way around the world?

None of this could have happened without the wisdom and courage of President Gorbachev. I eagerly look forward

Would I be censored?

to the September moment when Vlad and I share the stage with him at the Nantucket Project. I want to thank him

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My research: Ted Koppel told me he “liked” Pozner

the pictures in the paper on the day after 9/11. Less than twenty-four hours after “The Towers” the entire front of the

(Vladimir first appeared on Nightline in 1980. He was the

American Embassy in Moscow was covered with flowers. Within the breast of Mother Russia beats a kind and loving heart and I will never pray for her “conversion” again.

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personally for parting the Iron Curtain allowing me to meet a lot of very nice people. I want him to know that I saw

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David Rubenstein is the cofounder of The Carlyle Group, one of the largest private equity firms in the world. A former domestic policy advisor to President Jimmy Carter, Rubenstein is considered one of the most savvy and influential business leaders in the country. He has generated significant attention for his purchase of historical documents,

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with David Rubenstein

most notably the Magna Carta and Emancipation Proclamation, and for signing the Giving Pledge, a commitment to donate more than half of his considerable wealth to philanthropic causes and charities. A longtime Nantucket summer resident, Rubenstein is a featured speaker at the Nantucket Project, and recently met with N Magazine for an

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We were very young and inexperienced, but it was a great training ground...Traveling with the President of the United States when you’re twenty-seven years old is a nice thrill.

N MAGAZINE: Everyone knows you in the

N MAGAZINE: Can you talk about your philanthropic pursuits?

finance world, but can you talk a little bit

DAVID RUBENSTEIN: I am interested in what I’ve called “patriotic philanthropy.” I

about your past political life as an advisor

believe people who have been fortunate like me should give back to their country.

in the White House?

I put up money to repair the Washington Monument, and I’m going to do more and

DAVID RUBENSTEIN: I’m a lawyer by train-

more things like that as a way to get people to think, “You know, I’ve had a great

ing, but I wasn’t that good of a lawyer. If I

life in this country, maybe I should give money not only to a hospital or university,

was, I would be practicing law. I went to

but to things that are more connected to our country because the country can’t afford

work in New York for a firm where Ted

these things.”

Sorensen was working. He was John Kennedy’s brilliant advisor and speechwriter,

I got very lucky in my business and made more money than I deserved. I signed the

and I spent some time working with him

Giving Pledge with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and I’m going to give away the

and ultimately he helped me get a job in

bulk of my money. I am the chairman or co-chairman of the board at Duke, Harvard,

Washington. That led to me working in the

University of Chicago, The Smithsonian, Kennedy School, and Kennedy Center. So

campaign for a man named Jimmy Carter,

I’m chairing or co-chairing six national campaigns.

who got elected. Although I was only twenty-seven, I got a job as the Deputy Domes-

But there are philanthropists in our country, and I know them pretty well, who are

tic Policy Advisor to the President of the

doing much more significant things than me, because they have much more money.

United States.

Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Warren Buffett, Mike Bloomberg — these are really great philanthropists. Most of my philanthropy is in education and medical research, but

N MAGAZINE: From what I understand of

the historical part gets much more attention because nobody else is doing it.

the Carter administration, that might have made you the oldest person.

DAVID RUBENSTEIN: I wouldn’t say the oldest, but I would say I wasn’t qualified for my job, and I didn’t feel out of place. We were very young and inexperienced, but it was a great training ground. I worked for four years around the clock. I didn’t take a day off. Traveling with the President of the United States when you’re twenty-seven years old is a nice thrill. Unfortunately I helped get inflation to 19%, which is not

N MAGAZINE: You appear to be quite a history buff, can you elaborate on that?

N MAGAZINE: You said that all American

DAVID RUBENSTEIN:

history should be shared, both the good and

I am speaking next weekend at the Nantucket Historical

Association because they asked me to talk about the Gettysburg Address. I spoke

the bad. What did you mean by this?

there last year on the Declaration of Independence. I am a businessperson who

DAVID RUBENSTEIN: Most people who write

buys some historical documents and I can make an intelligent speech about those

history for their country don’t write the

documents, but I am not a scholar. I just spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival about

worst things. I’ve bought two copies of the

the Thirteenth Amendment and contrasted that with what happened in the movie

Emancipation Proclamation and a copy

“Lincoln.” I just gave a speech there as well on Martin Luther King’s “I Have a

of the Thirteenth Amendment. One of the

Dream” speech, which is almost fifty years old. But I am not a historian. I am not a

Emancipations is in the Oval Office and the

scholar. I am just a businessperson who, compared to some people in the audience,

other two documents will go to the African

may know more, but I’m not a scholar.

American History and Culture Museum in the Smithsonian. When I give speeches

good, and mortgage rates to 22%. So when

about them, I talk about slavery and how

inflation gets as high as 19% or mortgage

I got very lucky in my business and made more money than I deserved. I signed the Giving Pledge with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and I’m going to give away the bulk of my money.

rates 22%, you’re probably not going to be reelected, so we lost in 1980 and I had to go back and practice law. I started my in-

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That is principally what I do, that and philanthropic things that I’m involved with.

David Rubenstein, right, and Archivist of the U.S. David Ferriero, unveil the 1297 Magna Carta in its new state-of-the-art encasement at the National Archives in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2011.

how terrible it was. I mean they understand it intuitively, but when you go through the details it’s unbelievable.

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vestment firm in 1987. I was thirty-seven.

unbelievable it was. People don’t realize

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The United States is still the greatest country in the world to invest, bar none.

I think anybody who talks about history has to talk about the good and

N MAGAZINE: Is China still the investment darling that it has been?

the bad. When you talk about Thomas Jefferson, as I love to do because

DAVID RUBENSTEIN: The United States is still the greatest country

I think he’s great, you have to remember when he wrote, “All men are

in the world to invest, bar none. There’s nothing comparable be-

created equal,” he had two slaves with him. He owned sixty slaves at

cause even though our growth rate is 2.5%, the rule of law, trans-

that time and he owned a couple hundred during his lifetime. Yes, he was

parency, quality of financing, quality of managers, quality of exit

a great man. George Washington was a great man and he had a couple

opportunities—nothing is comparable. If you eliminate the United

hundred slaves as well. Out of the first fifteen presidents, nine of them

States, the most attractive place to invest is China.

owned slaves. More than half the people that signed the Declaration of Independence owned slaves. So yes, we have to tell people that the Dec-

China will grow, not at 10%, which it did for thirty years in a row,

laration of Independence was a great document, the Constitution was a

which no country had ever done before, but it will grow at 7.5% to 8%.

wonderful document, but the people that signed it were slave owners to

Think about it: Suppose we had 8% growth? We’d be pretty happy.

some extent and they believed in slavery.

They have a lot of problems in their economy, but we should have some of those problems. China will be the greatest place in the world to invest, and I analogize it to the United States. If you had invested in the United States in 1913, you’d probably ultimately have done okay. If you invest in China in 2013, you’ll probably do okay.

N MAGAZINE: Would you call yourself an optimist or is the golden age of prosperity for the middle class something that’s behind us?

DAVID RUBENSTEIN: I’m an optimist in the sense that I think the United States has recovered from the worst of the Great Recession. We have enormous pluses in this economy: the research and development, budgets of our economy, the resiliency of the economy generally, the higher education universities, the Silicon Valley mindset, the reinvention of our economy from time to time.

But we’ve got some problems. K–12 is terrible. Income disparity is getting worse. We have much more competition from overseas than we ever did…I’m an optimist but I wouldn’t want to make it sound like, “The best days of the United States are so far ahead of N MAGAZINE: Let’s move to the economy. During the deepest darkest

us that we clearly don’t have to worry about competition.” I don’t

days of the Great Recession, were you ever worried that the entire system

think that’s the case.

was going to collapse?

DAVID RUBENSTEIN: Well at the Aspen Ideas Festival, I interviewed Tim

N MAGAZINE: Thank you for your time and see you at the Nantucket

Geithner about it, and had a discussion with Jack Lew and with Henry Paul-

Project.

son and Bob Rubin about it. I did think that one weekend, as events unfolded, turned out to be a more dangerous weekend than we may have realized. Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson went to Congress and said, “If you don’t pay us TARP, the entire system will collapse. The entire economy will collapse.”

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HOMEBOY FORMER NANTUCKET RESIDENT JASON BRIGGS IS PUTTING A NEW SPIN ON REAL ESTATE IN NEW YORK CITY Written by Bruce A. Percelay

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Jason Briggs is a mover, both literally and figuratively. Born in Philadelphia, his family moved to Nantucket when he was eleven months old. There he grew up and was deeply involved in the islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social and fundraising world, including his role as a sponsor of the Nantucket Film Festival. Briggs was also known for his legendary parties like the Bartenderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ball. His father, Christian Briggs, was a longtime physician on the island, and his mother, Clara, was dedicated to the Nantucket art scene. Since then, Briggs has done stints in New York City, Boston, Manchester,

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serial entrepreneur, the Columbia graduate began his career at Smith Barney as an investment advisor.

Since that time, he has purchased an ABA basketball team called the Manchester Millrats, set up a poker club in high-end resorts, and invested in real estate in New York City and Miami. His newest venture,

Next Step Realty, seizes an opportunity Briggs identified to serve young professionals entering the apartment rental market in the Big Apple for the first time. Briggs recognized that recent college grads are often “frozen out” of the market because of lack of credit history and the competitive nature of the Manhattan real estate world.

Briggs and his confounder, Blair Brandt, have focused on a segment of the market that other real estate brokers have intentionally ignored and turned it into a growing enterprise from $30,000 in revenue in 2010 to now looking at $2 million in 2013. As testimony to their success, Brandt has appeared in Fortune and on Forbes list of “30 Under 30.”

Next Step Realty helped Nantucket summer resident

Scott

Gordon’s

daughter transition after graduation to her first New York apartment. “They made her life very easy in finding an apartment and the transition process,” Gordon says. “It was a very challenging market

Briggs’ business essentially provides a seal of approval

and they taught her how to

for young renters, giving landlords the confidence to

put deposits down, what to

pick them versus those with more established work

look for, and found her a

histories. “Our ultimate goal is to establish a long-term

nice apartment.”

relationship with these tenants, who will either seek larger apartments or eventually become buyers,” Briggs says. “By helping them out of a difficult situation up front, we are looking to create a long-term sense of loyalty, which is unusual in the client realtor dynamic.”

As the summer draws to a close, many parents are wrestling with the exciting prospect of sending their children into the real world, and Briggs’ new business

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made for the Nantucket Harbor to celebrate the second annual Hinckley Rendezvous, a weekend to observe the beauty and performance of these magnificent pleasure boats. N Magazine photographer Kit Noble climbed aboard to get a better look at the beauty behind the boat.

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The beauty of the boat

THIS PAST JULY, A FLEET OF HINCKLEY YACHTS

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Fall is again upon us, and with it the start of another school year. Students return to reading, writing, and arithmetic,

plus a range of twenty-first century skills that will serve them well in the ever-changing modern world. As the

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children of Nantucket hit the books, it seems fitting to remember Nantucket’s original hallowed halls.

Nantucket’s first young residents attended “cent schools,” led by women within their homes and so named for the daily tuition paid by their parents. The quality of instruction varied, and in 1716, the town voted to hire a schoolteacher for boys, Eleazer Folger. Seven years later accommodations were made to include a women’s school.

The education of Nantucket youth was often in the hands of island Quakers. As the Quakers increased in numbers over the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, they founded schools as offshoots of their religious obligations. One such school, built in 1838, was in the building known as the Quaker Meeting House at 7 Fair Street and now owned by the Nantucket Historical Association. Separate classes were held for boys and girls, but the level of their education was identical. Quaker teachers also did not permit corporal punishment, which was common in schools at the time. The first teacher at the Fair Street school, John Boadle, was remembered fondly for his organization of single-sex parties at which the students were given snacks and played parlor games.

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Interior of the Coffin School, showing work benches, desks, and chairs, ca. 1890s

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n 1827, the cent and Quaker schools confronted competition in the

form of the Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin Lancasterian School. English baronet Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin and Nantucket newspaper editor

Samuel Haynes Jenks opened the school in a pre-existing building on Fair Street with the goal of “promoting decency, good order and morality, and for giving a good English education to youth who are descendants of the late Tristram Coffin.” Tristram Coffin, one of the original settlers and to whom many of the children on the island at the time were in fact related, was an ancestor of Admiral Coffin.

One hundred and thirty girls and boys, aged The Coffin School was originally organized in the “Lancasterian,” or “Moni-

seven to sixteen and separated by gender, at-

torial System,” founded by English Quaker Joseph Lancaster, in which more

tended classes in 1827. Although the school

advanced students tutored those at lower levels of achievement. This encour-

charged a minimal tuition, Admiral Coffin

aged students to take a role of authority and responsibility for their class-

set up an endowment that would ensure no

mates’ education, but on Nantucket it more likely had its greatest proponents

child was turned away for lack of means.

for its fiscal prudence. It allowed for the education of larger numbers of stu-

Along with the standard school curriculum,

dents with fewer adult teachers and thus lower costs than traditional schools.

the school emphasized practical tasks such

That approach appealed to thrifty Quaker Nantucketers and might seem to

as sewing and nautical skills. Admiral Cof-

have its advocates today among those in the education field who lament the

fin purchased a training ship, the 87-foot brig

loss of the island’s talented young adults to the mainland.

Clio, to serve as a hands-on classroom tool in sailing and navigation. The ship sailed as far

Boys in class at the Coffin School, 1884

In case readers forget that Clapp is a schoolboy, his logbook

as Brazil, manned by crews of boys between

ends with a clear reminder – a series of explanations of sail-

the ages of twelve and sixteen. The Nantuck-

ing terms and maneuvers that he learned at sea. This unique

et Historical Association has a logbook of the

logbook points to the progressive nature of the Coffin School

Clio’s 1830 voyage from Nantucket to Rio

in regard to hands-on, experiential training. The original Cof-

de Janeiro, in which fourteen-year-old Henry

fin School closed after the Great Fire of 1846, and the Coffin

Clapp emulates a topnotch first mate with his

School trustees decided to grow the endowment before they

precise description of the ship’s location, the

began construction of a new school. In 1854, the school reo-

weather and conditions, and the occasional

pened in its current location on Winter Street as a command-

noteworthy event. Although Clapp maintains

ing Greek Revival structure. Throughout the late nineteenth

the matter-of-fact tone of a seasoned sailor,

century, the school struggled to maintain steady enrollment,

the special opportunity that the Clio afforded these young boys is made apparent in his entry of February 3, 1830, which references the

as the island’s public schools offered increased competition.

Morning prayer at the Coffin School, ca. 1910

the trustees sought to determine the best way to stay true to

common celebration and light hazing that ac-

the original goals of Admiral Coffin.

companied a new sailor’s first crossing of the equator on merchant and navy ships alike:

In 1903, the Coffin School began collaborating with the public schools to offer high school students courses in woodwork-

“At 2 P.M. his godship of the sea [King Nep-

ing, mechanical drawing, and home economics. As outlined

tune] came alongside, accompanied by his

in a pamphlet published that year, the school was commit-

usual retinue of shavers and scrapers with

ted “to build up active interests for the young, to train them

their assistance. A number of candidates of-

in the habits of industry, to develop their capacity for useful

fered themselves for initiation and the cer-

work, to hold before them finer ideals of personal character and responsibility.” During the first year of courses, the boys

formed upon them [sic].”

and girls learned together, as beginners, and in subsequent

Coffin School students, 1873.

years the administration continued to improve and diversify the manual and technical training that students received. This collaborative model continued for sixty-five years.

Boys and girls and their teachers at the Coffin School, ca. 1880s

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Display of girl students’ handwork at the Coffin School, ca. 1910

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n 1969, the Coffin School became the venue for public kindergarten classes and continued that function until 1978. It was used for various enterprises until 1996, when the Coffin School trustees offered a long-

term lease of the building to the Egan Maritime Institute. The building currently houses the administrative offices of the Egan Maritime Institute and Nantucket Community Sailing, and it is the location of year-round programming for those and other nonprofit organizations.

Today, island schools still offer a wide range of vocational and hands-on courses to Nantucket youth. As a part of its mission, the Nantucket Historical Association joins these schools and other nonprofit organizations to provide local educators and students with such experiences. Last year, the NHA welcomed over 1,200 schoolchildren to its historic properties, the majority of

Names of the boys on the brig Clio, which left Nantucket for Boston Sept. 9, 1829

whom were from one of Nantucket’s schools. Young visitors smelled whale oil and ambergris, touched treasured artifacts, encountered historic Nantucket figures, and experienced the past in unexpected ways. A look back at Nantucket education through the ages shows that these hands-on lessons are just the latest in a long tradition of experiential learning on the island.

Claire White is the Manager of Education at the Nantucket Historical Association. She oversees year-round school visits, offers at-school programming to students in all of Nantucket’s schools, and facilitates family and youth programming at the Whaling Museum and the NHA’s other historic sites. Besides whaleships and whirligigs, her favorite historical topic is the intersection between American religious and intellectual thought.

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Notebook with descriptions and examples of stitching, created at the Coffin School by Florence Chadwick (later Benoit) in 1921.

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Cover of Coffin School Sewing Book, by Geraldine Brownell, grade 9, ca. 1910s

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WRITTEN BY HOLLY FINIGAN

PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARIA CAREY

Thirty days has September… and there are never enough of them in my blACKbook! February may be the shortest month of the year, but this ninth month on Nantucket always seems to go by too quickly! September is, by far, many a Nantucket-lover’s favorite time out here. The weather is still beach-worthy, the nights are crisp, and the island is still pACKed with fun stuff to do! Here are a few of my musts when it comes to enjoying the off-season…blACKbook style.

BEACH IT… BIG TIME.

The water is the perfect temperature for leisure swimming, the waves get great for surfing as the remnants of storms come up the East Coast, and you can still get the last of your summer color on these slices of sand heaven on the often deserted beaches from Madaket to Madaquesham. blACKbook says… make sure to get a full beach day in on the west side of the island and finish off with a sunset, a margarita and the Starbuck quesadilla from Madaket Millie’s, before they wrap up and head south for the season.

SALE-TEMBER.

Getting a good deal on some hot summer trends is super easy in September. Not only can you find gorgeous bikinis and haute resort wear for up to half off, you can still wear these light threads this month when the weather is still tee shirt and flip-flop worthy! blACKbook says… Check out the huge sales at C. Wonder and find the ultimate in clothing steals and deals at the Hospital Thrift Store before they close for the season in October.

SEE YA SOON, ‘SCONSET.

This is the last full month that you can get the max out of the flower covered village of Siasconset! The beautiful town is still in full bloom, and you can BYOB at the ‘Sconset Café or get that last minute weekend reservation at the Chanticleer in the garden! blACKbook says… stop and smell the endless amount of roses along Front Street and grab a sandwich from Claudette’s as you relax on island time in this special little Nantucket sweet spot.

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SNACK + SIP!

One of the best parts of September is the ability to enjoy a last minute dinner out on the town without having to worry about reservations and not being able to find a seat at the bar! And lucky for us, Restaurant Week begins on September 30th through October 6th.

Here is your chance to taste some of the best menus on the island for three courses with prices ranging from $35 to $45 per person. blACKbook says… I’ve always loved LoLa 41 and Pazzo for their “have it your way” Restaurant Week menus, and I’m a huge fan of the fish entrees and cheese plates from Ventuno and Straight Wharf!

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Bike to Polpis Harbor, Pocomo, and Squam beaches. $1,975,000

POLPIS Beautifully sited, attractive Gwynne Thorsen designed home, overlooking and abutting acres of conservation land and the Creeks. Approx. 490 sq. ft. of ground cover remaining for expansion of the existing house or the addition of another structure. $1,995,000

POLPIS Charming Nantucket Cottage on 3+ acre, private, elevated property - views of the creeks, next to the Life Saving Museum; acres of open conservation land. Build a compound with a new custom home, use the existing cottage as a guesthouse. $2,195,000

TOWN Beautifully restored in-town antique on an oversized, corner lot. Everything has been replaced; foundation, plumbing, electrical, roof, shingles, fireplaces, etc. All original moldings, flooring, mantels saved, stripped and refinished. A beautifully restored home with all of the amenities in a most convenient location. $3,875,000

BRANT POINT Well executed restoration of a classic, bungalow style beach house – open, full length covered porch. New guest cottage. Walk to Children’s Beach, Town, The White Elephant, Brant Point and Jetties Beach.

TOWN Two beautiful houses on a large, in-town lot.

Total of 9 bedrooms, 10-1/2 baths. Each house has outdoor area and off-street parking. Walk to Main Street, bike to the beach. Acquire a large family compound adjacent to the Historic District. $2,295,000

MID ISLAND 4 BR all en-suite, excellent floor plan. Located in a sub-division bordering Nan. Land Bank and Conser.

Fndtn. land. Access to bike paths, Town and ‘Sconset Village. Great outdoor living and entertaining areas. Detached barn/1 car garage/storage $1,799,000

TOWN Renovated antique with large back yard and beautiful landscaping. Three finished floors plus basement.

Wonderful floor plan for families and large groups.

Bright kitchen with French doors leading to patio and yard. Two off-street parking spaces.

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$2,975,000

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