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Personof theYear One of the most striking aspects of life on Nantucket is the strength of our community and the capabilities of the people who live here. There are so many gifted, committed, exceptional, generous people on Nantucket that singling out a specific individual for special recognition is a difficult and perhaps risky task. However, in any given year, there is usually one who by a combination of timing, circumstance and Editor & Publisher
their own capabilities has had a level of impact on the community that stands out.
For our first annual Person of the Year Award, N Magazine recognizes Dr. Margot Hartmann for her work as President and CEO of the Nantucket Cottage Hospital, and for her vision for the future of this most vital of island institutions. In two short years, Dr. Hartmann has been the steward during the NCH’s affiliation with Massachusetts General Hospital and presided over a dramatic improvement to both the hospital’s finances and services. For those who have experienced the NCH recently, the changes in the range of services, the quality of delivery and the staff morale are impressive. All this is a precursor to an ambitious and much-needed project that will ultimately result in the replacement of an aging building with a brand new and cutting-edge facility that will set a new standard for community hospitals. We are proud to recognize Dr. Hartmann for what she has achieved to date at the NCH and for the trajectory she has set for the hospital in the coming years. The Stroll Issue also highlights other extraordinary seasonal and year-round residents such as former advisor to Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy, Senator Harris Wofford; Vanity Fair special correspondent, Maureen Orth; the island’s oldest artist, Maggie Meredith; and Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s newest family physician, Dr. Nicole Stienmuller. And in celebration of Thanksgiving, we learn about two Nantucketers of the past who are responsible for bringing the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade into being. As for winter activities on Nantucket, we check out everything from preserving fruits and veggies, to listening to gypsy music, to scoping out plans for Nantucket’s first gun range. For those who missed it, we recap the second annual Nantucket Project, held this past October. And just in time for holiday shopping, we take a look at winter fashion and gift ideas. Beyond anything else, simply being on Nantucket for the holidays is one of the best gifts of all, and we wish you a wonderfully festive and healthy season.
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Stroll 2012 21 A Meeting of the Minds Take a cram course into the second annual Nantucket Project and learn some of the big ideas that were presented at this year’s conference.
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Head out to Tom Nevers for a look at winter fashion through the lens of photographer, Nathan Coe.
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any people say that Nantucket rejuvenates the soul, but an enterprising couple has discovered a secret
ingredient in our seaweed that literally rejuvenates the skin. Not just any kind of seaweed, however, this is native algae that Mark and Ellen Comerford spent weeks searching for in the dead of winter. Where did they find it? It’s a secret. “We wanted to start with a rich moisturizing cream that had a nice texture and aroma and would last on the shelf,” said Ellen, who owns Boston’s Core de Vie holistic wellness spa and fitness studio with her husband, Mark. “We absorb so many nutrients through our skin, so it made sense to start out with a base that was nutrient-dense. Seaweed contains a host of nutrients from the seawater, including selenium, potassium and iodine.” Does the world really need another specialty skin care line? Let’s face it: There are plenty of creams, cleansers, serums, moisturizers and toners out there. However, as the Comerfords explain, many of these contain synthetic paraben, a petroleum-based derivative commonly used as a preservative in cosmetics that may have links to breast cancer. Those that are paraben-free, typically have other chemical additives to extend their shelf lives. Simply put, there was no effective, all-natural skin care line out there that met the Comerford’s high standards. So Mark and Ellen decided to make their own. Employing his background in chemistry, Mark tracked down a specific species of brown kelp sea algae that contains an ultra-high concentration of fucoxanthin, a major carotenoid shown to have anti-oxidant, anti-aging, anti-pigment and anti-cancer properties. Mark discovered that this rockweed thrives in cold seawater and eventually sourced the kelp from a farm in Northern California. Further digging revealed that the algae might grow in the pristine waters off Nantucket. The couple, who live on a boat on Straight Wharf during the summer, asked their slip neighbor, Captain Bobby DeCosta, if he had ever seen the plant. “He told us that there was no way it would grow here, as it isn’t a rocky enough coastline,” said Ellen. Undeterred, the couple scoured the shores by dinghy. Their persistence finally paid off when they found the algae last year. As it turns out, Nantucket is just about the farthest point south where the species can survive.
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Nantucket stylist, Kimberly Pizzitola, has turned her eye for fashion towards finding the perfect presents. “So many people just dread holiday shopping,” she says, “either that, or they just don’t have time to search for the perfect gift. Several of my clients are husbands who have a specific thing in mind for their wives, but don’t know where to begin to find it. This is where I can help.” Not only will Pizzitola scout out and purchase the gift, but she also will wrap and deliver it. If it were any easier, it would be shoplifting.
While they won’t disclose the location of this elusive Nantucket seaweed, the Comerfords did stress the great care they take in harvesting it, delicately clipping snippets of the algae to ensure its regrowth. As Nantucket is not an Mark and ellen e c comerford on Madaket Beach
ideal habitat for the species, there is no mandate or regulation restricting
Kimberly Pizzitola picking out some possible presents at Pollacks.
or prohibiting the culling of it, added Mark. Further protecting the
This shopping service is an extension of Pizzitola’s City and
species is the winter season during which it thrives.
Seaside Styling, which she founded when clients from her chic Nantucket boutique, Blu, started asking for her assistance outside
Mark and Ellen have made every single tub of cream and bottle
of the shop. “People kept approaching me for help editing their
of cleanser, from the harvesting to the labeling. They are eager to
closets, putting outfits together and picking out clothes that would
expand their line, ramp up production, and are meeting with local
work for their lifestyles and figures,” she says. “I decided to turn
vendors. Whether or not they will ever disclose their trade secrets
it into a business a few years ago when I closed Blu, and it has
is another story. At the moment, they have found this to be a
just taken off.”
rejuvenating experience. Pizzitola’s clients range from big-time CEOs to jet-setting fashionistas, and everyone in between. With more than twenty years of experience in the fashion industry, she has the personality, the professional savvy, and, most importantly, the eye to tackle any closet and dress, whether her client needs an off-the-runway couture gown or a pair of jeans that really fit. Her the inside. And this holiday season it’s better to be on Pizzitola’s good list, as she may be the one picking the present.
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NothiNg breaks up a fall weekeNd quite like haviNg two u.s. seNators, pepper you with their personal and professional views of the world. This is the second annual Nantucket Project, a three-day long conference where the influential join the powerful and the brilliant join the gifted to disseminate the latest accomplishments in the realms of medicine, education, technology and social innovation.
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the world’s top stem cell researcher, the former Secretary of the Treasury and the CEO of America’s largest private company
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“G
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the founder of Room to Read. After
leaving Microsoft, Wood has managed to create a global literacy organization that has resulted in building more libraries than Andrew Carnegie did, reaching over six million children. Wood’s organization opens as many schools per day as Starbucks does coffee outlets, and, as a young man, he has already left an indelible mark on the developing world. And then there was Dr. Daniel Kraft, a former physician at Mass General Hospital and now at Singularity University, who demonstrated to the audience a cardiogram app for an iPhone that enables patients to communicate vital heart information to their doctor without leaving home. Kraft then went on to open people’s eyes to medical technology right around the corner that literally comes out of episodes of Carly Fleischman with moderator Tom Ashbrook and former Universal chairman, Bob Wright
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New York Times bestselling author and economist, Dambisa Moyo
Moderator Peter Hopkins, Paypal founder Peter Thiel, and Harvard University professor Lawrence Summers.
To paraphrase the old EF Hutton television commercials, “When the Nantucket Project speaks, people listen.� And listen they did. In a remarkable moment, a young lady unable to speak due to autism, Carly Fleischman, stunned the audience by demonstrating full cognitive skills locked within her body through the use of a laptop computer. On stage with Autism Speaks founder and former Universal chairman, Bob Wright, Fleischman grilled U.S. Senator John Kerry with questions about autism that raised the larger question as to whether millions of other non-verbal autistic children have broader cognitive skills than ever Senator John Kerry with Vice President of Academics and Innovation at Singularity University, Vivek Wadhwa
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Former CEO of Patagonia, Inc., Michael Crooke, Ph.D.
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Nantucket Project participants Stephen and Jill Karp
f a picture is worth a thousand words, a great political cartoonist has an entire vocabulary of his very own. Ranan Lurie, the most influential political cartoonist of our time, spoke of his interactions with various leaders around the globe, including Mikhail Gorbachev. He recounted to the moderator, MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews, that upon his first meeting with the former Russian president, Gorbachev immediately
embraced him with a bear hug because of Lurie’s blood relationship to Karl Marx. Lurie quickly indicated to Gorbachev that his family had shunned Marx because of the rumor that he may have been a Communist, which was one of the session’s great understatements. At a time when Americans are caught between feelings of optimism and pessimism, the Nantucket Project presented both cautionary tales and uplifting examples of boundless inventiveness and creativity. By the end of the weekend, the theme of collective intelligence impacted everyone’s thinking in the room by suggesting that no matter how many obstacles we face, virtually nothing is impossible by unlocking the power of individual talent. For many, attending the Nantucket Project was the smartest decision they may have made all year.
Legendary cartoonist Ranan Lurie fields questions from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews.
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the macys day parade… it all began on nantucket!
One of the first balloons by Nantucket artist, Tony Sarg for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.
three million of which crowd the streets of New York City, their eyes cast to the sky as giant super heroes and cartoon characters float by. Macy’s Day is the Super Bowl of parades, and it all began here on Nantucket. As curious as this might sound, it’s absolutely true: Not only was a Nantucketer responsible for making the Macy’s Day Parade an iconic Thanksgiving tradition, but the event’s very namesake, R.H. Macy & Company, traces its roots back to the island.
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Forty-four million people watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade every year,
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tony sarg showing off his sea serpent to crowds on Washington street in what became one of the great hoaxes in Nantucket history.
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n 1921, Tony Sarg, a celebrated illustrator
sister, Phyllis. “My God that was a hundred
red star come from? Off R.H. Macy’s arm: it’s
and puppeteer, bought a home on
years ago—well, almost a hundred,” laughs
a tattoo he got while he was off awhaling.
Nantucket and eventually opened a toy store
Chase, now eighty-one. “I must have been
in town. From his off-island studios nestled in
seven or eight, and my sister is a year
Today, the parade remains tethered to the island.
Times Square, Sarg’s artwork appeared on the
younger…we went down there to Washing-
In fact, there are at least two Nantucket residents
covers of magazines, on the pages of children’s
ton Street and we were amazed by the thing.”
who spend the day before Thanksgiving
books, and eventually in Macy’s department
Throngs of Nantucketers joined the two girls,
inflating the balloons before they embark on
store window displays. Beginning in 1924,
rushing down to catch a glimpse of Sarg’s
their march through Manhattan. Longtime
Macy’s held an annual Christmas parade to
balloon beast like times of old when giant
summer resident, Linda Lynch has been
celebrate the holiday shopping season in New
sperm whales were unloaded on the docks.
volunteering for twenty-seven years now,
York City, and appointed Tony Sarg as its chief designer.
inflating balloons ranging from Spiderman to Nantucket’s connection to the parade doesn’t
Sponge Bob with helium. The inflation process
begin and end with Tony Sarg’s balloons,
for an especially large balloon can take up to
After three years of the Christmas Parade, in
however. Rowland Hussey Macy was a
two hours, requiring more helium than a hot
November 1927, the president of Macy’s, Jesse
Nantucket whaler who left the island in the
air balloon and sometimes a team of fifty to
Strauss, announced to America that
tame. When she’s not on the island,
the parade was going to take it up
Lynch is a professor at the Stevens
a notch, way up. The press and the
Institute of Technology in Hoboken,
people of New York City swelled
New Jersey. “Hoboken, until last year,
with anticipation, all waiting to
was the home of the Macy’s Parade
see what Tony Sarg had in mind.
studio,” she says. “So years ago they
At one o’clock, Thanksgiving Day
decided that maybe we would have
1927, Sarg unveiled his lofty
students that weren’t going back
creations—first a twenty-one-foot
home for Thanksgiving help inflate
balloon man that peeked into
the balloons.”
second story windows and then a jaw-dropping sixty-foot-long
One hundred twenty-five students,
balloon dragon. The balloons were
faculty and staff help with the
a huge hit, and have been the
inflation, and Lynch is the co-organizer
centerpiece of the Thanksgiving
of that group. One honorary member
Day Parade ever since.
of the group is year-round islander, PJ Joyner. Originally from New York City,
In the summer of 1937, one of
Joyner grew up attending the parade
Sarg’s balloons appeared on the
as a little girl, and when she found out
shores of Nantucket, but not
about Lynch’s role in it, she pleaded to
before the artist called up the press
be involved. “We generally don’t take
claiming to have seen a sea serpent
outsiders other than people from our
out at Coatue. The town was abuzz
school,” says Lynch, “but we made an
as reports came in of fishermen
exception with PJ and she’s become a
finding giant footprints in the sand
really great member of the team.” This mid-1800s to find fortune on the main land.
Thanksgiving, Joyner celebrates her tenth year
the Sound. Then on hot summer afternoon, the
Beyond whaling, Macy seemed to have retail
volunteering at the parade.
sea serpent revealed its giant rubber head on
in his blood as his father ran a storefront
Washington Street and Sarg’s elaborate hoax
adjacent to where Murray’s Toggery Shop
And so it is that from R.H. Macy to Tony Sarg
was up.
stands today on Main Street. After several
to Linda Lynch and PJ Joyner, the Nantucket
financial failures in Wisconsin, California, and
Macy’s Day Parade tradition is brought to new
Somewhere in the family album of renowned
Massachusetts, Macy made his way to New
heights by generations of Nantucketers. It’s an
Nantucket scrimshander, Nancy Chase, is a
York City and opened R.H. Macy & Co. Over
uplifting experience not only for them, but also
black and white photograph of two young girls
a century and a half later, Macy’s is one of the
for the millions who watch this Thanksgiving
sitting in the shadow of Sarg’s balloon. The
largest department store retailers in the United
tradition.
older girl is Nancy, and the younger is her
States. And where did the Macy’s trademark
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It’s late fall in New York City and Vanity Fair Special Correspondent, Maureen Orth, is in Central Park. “This is where
I started my career,” she says as we walk, “I was one of the first female writers for Newsweek back in 1972.” Orth smiles
endearingly and I almost forget that this
is the same woman who investigated the
opium trade and terrorism on the border of Afghanistan six weeks after 9/11. Indeed,
she seems less a tough-nosed journalist and more like the name of her Twitter handle: @LukeRsMom. Yet as we discuss her
career both past and present, this Nantucket summer resident appears as driven as
ever, pursuing her craft with the same
determination that has made Orth one of
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always tried to strike a balance. I have so many other
and lifestyle reporter, Orth’s byline could
things in my life that are positive, that are light instead
be found under the great music and
of darkness—my time on Nantucket, my nonprofit, my
Hollywood headlines of the time, interviewing Bruce
friends and my family—things like that allow me to not
Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Richard Pryor,
get carried away in the bad and the ugly.”
and many other big names famous and infamous. She would go on to win awards, write two books, and cover
As we make our way around children
world dignitaries like Margret
playing in the park, Orth tells me more
Thatcher and Vladimir Putin for
about one of these sources of light in her
Vanity Fair. Her pieces are time-
life, namely the Marina Orth Foundation.
less—not in their subject matter
In as much as her journalistic acumen can
per se, but in their execution and
be credited to a BA from Berkely—
style. Read, for instance, her early
she grew up in the Bay Area—and a
work for Newsweek and then follow
masters from UCLA, Orth’s investigative
it up with her most recent Vanity
nature was forged in a little school in
Fair cover story on Katie Holmes,
Medellin, Colombia—a school that she
Tom Cruise, and Scientology—the
built. Fresh out of college, Orth joined
construction and style of her prose
the Peace Corps and was assigned to a
resound with the same literary prowess.
small village high in the Andes. There she collaborated with families and local workers to build a school that
At a time when blog posts and Twitter tweets readily get passed off as jour journalism, Orth continues to take the “long view” with her
the village later named in her honor, La Escuela Marina Orth.
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journalism, I have the ‘EEEPPP’ rule,” she says, “energy,
“Being thrown into the middle of nowhere for two years,
enthusiasm, empathy, polite, prepared, and persistent.”
as the Peace Corps does, was excellent for journalism,”
This approach has unveiled some dark stories in the past,
she says, “because it taught me how to listen and observe.”
as with her investigative pieces on the Michael Jackson
Greater still was the worldview Orth would take away
pedophilia cases for Vanity Fair. When asked if digging
from Colombia: “Humanity is pretty much all alike. It
deep into such hard truths takes a toll on her, Orth replies,
doesn’t matter where you were born or how much money
“I don’t set out to find the dark underbelly of a story, but
you have…God doesn’t discriminate with talent and brains
if the reporting takes me there, of course, I follow it. I’ve
and beauty.”
(Left to right) Maureen Orth with Richard Pryor, Bruce Springsteen, Paul and Linda McCartney, and Stevie Wonder.
In 2004, Orth returned to Colombia and at the request of Medellin’s Secretary of Education she created the Marina Orth Foundation. Today, the foundation serves three schools in and around Medellin where over 1200 students from kindergarten through high school each has their own laptop. Escuela Marina Orth was the first to introduce the One Laptop Per Child program in Colombia, and the school has become an exemplar for teaching technology, English, and leadership in the country. The Marina Orth Foundation seeks to continue educating teachers in the region, and open similar schools throughout Colombia.
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While many know Orth from her blockbuster cover stories and nonprofit work, many others are more familiar with her late husband, “Meet the Press” moderator and beloved newsman, Tim Russert. The two met at the 1980 Democratic National Convention, and a year later, Russert brought Orth to Nantucket for her first visit while they named Luke, now a correspondent for MSNBC. In the Washington household of two esteemed journalists, the dinner table often became a debate stage, with Luke sometimes acting as moderator.
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Nantucket renting a cottage out in
Madaket. “Those were extremely happy years, right on the water there on Massachusetts Avenue,” Orth remembers. “We got to know that community, Mr. Roger’s neighborhood, and that was just a privilege. I love the people down there. That was really a part of old Nantucket.” In 1999, Orth and Russert purchased their own summer home on the island, and became increasingly active in the community. “There are so many services provided to us summer people throughout the year,” Orth says. “The least we can do is try be engaged to make it the best possible place it can be and do things that help the full-time residents.” The Summer Groove Benefit became their way of giving back, raising money each year for the local Boys & Girls Club.
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In June 2008, Tim Russert passed away suddenly in his offices in Washington D.C. after returning from a family vacation in Italy. He was fifty-eight years old. Russert’s death was mourned across the country. With her family and friends in support, Orth turned to journalism for catharsis. “When Tim died that was a dark time,” she says. “Five weeks after his death, I was back over in Paris covering Ingrid Betancourt [who had just been released after over six years of being held hostage by FARC guerillas in Colombia] …I knew the timing was
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Today, the story of Maureen Orth continues to be written. She is constantly on the go—attending conferences, visiting her schools in Colombia, hunting for her next story for Vanity Fair. She is a woman of passion and curiosity, gracious and humble. At a time when the future of journalism is uncertain, Maureen Orth reminds readers that the pursuit of truth through the written word will remain strong no matter the medium. On a larger level, her life in service goes to show that some of the greatest gifts are indeed found when helping others.
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Dr. Margot Hartmann has spent her career healing patients in hospitals. Now, she finds herself improving the health of a hospital itself. In just two years of being president and CEO of Nantucket Cottage Hospital, Dr. Hartmann has not only helped financially resuscitate NCH, but she is now overseeing the delivery of a brand new medical facility for the island.
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“The ability to see a top quality neurologist without leaving the island is the way of the future for here” — Dr. Margot Hartmann
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ransitioning from emergency room to boardroom, Dr. Hartmann has managed the hospital with surgical
precision and today, through increased services, improved
finances and a dynamic partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital, NCH is on the path to becoming stronger than ever. One only needs to listen to her vision of the hospital’s future to realize that the health and wellbeing of the Nantucket community is indeed in very good hands. “We have an opportunity to create something for this community that will be a beacon of wellness long after we’re here,” Dr. Hartmann says. “I would like to be a hospital that is not only
of the number one hospital
where people bring their illness, but where people bring their hopes in the country.” As a result, for wellness.”
more and more patients have been checking back into NCH
Two years ago, this vision might have sounded a bit lofty amidst
rather than going off island for their care.
the hospital’s $7.5 million losses. Certainly the very idea of building a new facility at the time would have been unrealistic. Upon
On the revenue front, Dr. Hartmann has streamlined the hospital’s
taking office, Dr. Hartmann faced a “perfect storm” of decreased
infrastructure, both fiscally and technologically. “For decreased
patient volume, decreased reimbursements, and an outdated building. reimbursement, we’ve worked with Partner’s Healthcare and our Over the last two years, she and her board have remedied the first
board to redefine certain contracts for insurance payers,” she ex-
of these challenges by reaching out to the community, learning
plains, “and we’ve been able to reduce charges in our lab by forty
hospi services what its specific needs are and increasing the hospital’s
percent.” The hospital’s billing system has also been improved. By
precisely to meet those needs. The hospital has since
leveraging federal dollars, all medical records are being digitized
grown in primary care and specialty
and soon every room in the hospital will be equipped with a
clinics, and is offering new services
computer. These measures have helped tourniquet NCH’s financial
ranging from podiatry to neurology.
bleeding and put it on a road to recovery.
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but also the quality of care meets
With patient volume and reimbursements on the mend, Dr.
a “gold standard” through the NCH’s
Hartmann now turns to treating the failing building. While the
partnership with Mass General Hospital.
specifics of its design are still being determined, her vision for a
“We have a lot of local expertise and a lot of local
new hospital is clear: “This hospital should not be more hospital
knowledge about how to deliver care,”
than it can sustain. It’s not going to be a little Mass General. It has
Dr. Hartmann says, “but we now also
to be the customized hospital that this island and this community
have all the clinical power and breadth
needs for all its constituents.” In particular, the new hospital’s
infrastructure will support both evolving
wants it to become a community focal point
emergency room that prepared her best for the
medical technology and a patient population
where islanders go to discover ways of living
job. “You’re constantly having to triage to your
that fluctuates five-fold from winter to summer.
better. “I would like to be a hospital where we
larger vision of health,” she explains, “how to
can have meeting spaces to educate the commu-
keep the greatest number of people safe and do
Every room will be equipped with telemedi-
nity in wellness,” she says. “This hospital wants
the best amount of good.” Yet she also thinks on
cine, thus connecting Nantucket patients with
to be the hospital for our community. It wants
the micro level, drawing from her own personal
leading physicians in Boston and beyond. “The
to be in relationship with it in an active, alive
experiences with the hospital: “I know what it
ability to see a top quality neurologist without
way.” This will require not only a change in the
means to have this hospital here because my
leaving the island is the way of the future for
building, but also a change in the public’s per per-
mother needed cancer treatment and was able
here,” she explains. “We’ve always struggled
ception of NCH. As she explains, “I think there
to receive it here on the island in her eighties…
to bring specialists out to serve the community.
are some people who drive by this building and
Nothing matters if we don’t have a great
We now have a modality that allows us to
don’t see a building where they feel confident to
hospital for life on this island. Period.”
access the best quality specialists that we can
bring their vulnerability, because I don’t think
with a flat screen TV and a nurse practitioner
this building reflects the quality of the medicine
While she has delivered change quickly, there is
at your side.” And this is only the beginning.
delivered within it.” Thanks to Dr. Hartmann
nothing breathless in her approach. As with many
Ultimately, Dr. Hartmann wants to build a
and her board, that perception will change
physicians, there is a calm about Dr. Margot
hospital that meets the unique challenges of
dramatically in the next several years.
Hartmann that fills the room, and she speaks with
an island thirty miles out at sea while also
the measure of someone who has faced dire
setting a new standard for community
Considering where Nantucket Cottage Hospital
situations before and found solutions. So as she
hospitals nationally.
has come in the last two years and where it’s
leads the charge to break ground on a new
poised to go in the years to come, the fact that
hospital, Nantucketers can take comfort in
Beyond the building’s functionality, Dr.
Dr. Hartmann had no prior experience in
knowing that the project is in the steady
Hartmann envisions the new hospital as
business or hospital management is remarkable.
hands of a doctor, an astute manager, and
offering more than just treatment and care. She
Perhaps it was her time as head of the
a visionary.
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woFFord WRittEN By rObert S. COCuzzO
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a a tiMe when Few twelve-Year-olds ventured F at Far beYond their own neiGhborhoods, harris woFFord boarded a transatlantic ocean liner and sailed east FroM new York citY. Y Y. The year was 1937 and the tides of change were rising fast, causing a wave of social, economic and military unrest to crest around the globe. Accompanied by his grandmother, Wofford’s first stop was in London, where he saw the king and queen and heard the early warnings of a statesman named Winston Churchill. From the United Kingdom, it was on to Paris and then
Rome where he stood amidst a mass gathering and listened to the words of a fiery fascist dictator named Benito Mussolini. On Christmas Eve, he huddled in a church in Bethlehem as gunfire went off outside in the dark, during the Arab revolt of 1937-38. In Bombay, he crossed paths with Mahatma Gandhi. And in Shanghai, he sifted through the rubble from the Japanese bombardment in their conquest of most of China. After six months of extraordinary adventures, Wofford returned home to seventh grade acting, as he describes, like a “know-it-all foreign policy expert,” and declaring himself a “citizen of the world.”
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oday, Harris Wofford is no longer a young man and there is a distance to his gaze that suggests he’s seen more than most. Yet as the former Pennsylvania
Senator muses upon his life from his beach home on Madequecham, an unmistakable zeal and
clarity defies his eighty-six years. “By the time I had gone around the world, I had already fallen in love with the idea of America—the Founding Fathers, the Declaration, the words of Jefferson
and Lincoln,” Wofford says over dinner. “When I returned with my grandmother, the world
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“it took most of a year in india to make me look back on America and see more vividly that racial discrimination, segregation, the denial of the right to vote, was the shame of America, was the great blot on the American soul and the American idea in the world.” — harris Wofford
The bullet points of Wofford’s life are impressive. So
When pressed to talk about Martin Luther King at pre-
much so that accomplishments such as founding the
sent, Wofford takes a long pause and shuffles his hands
Student Federalists organization in high school, or
about the table as if sifting through his memories. “My
volunteering for the Army Air Corps during World
wife had never met King,” he begins, “and we picked
War II, or being the first white student to graduate
him and his wife Coretta up in Baltimore to drive
from Howard University Law, often get lost in the
them back to Washington. In the front seat, Martin and
fine print of his many
I were talking about Gandhi strategy and we
bios. Such distinctions
heard Coretta say to my wife, ‘You know Clare,
are overshadowed by
ever since Martin chose this course, I’ve had a
his involvement in the
nightmare that at the end of it, he’s going to be
Civil Rights movement.
killed.’ King turned around and said, ‘Corey, I
When retelling of these
keep telling you to take that nightmare out of
formative times in his
your head, and think of all the things that we can
life, Wofford provides
do now. I didn’t choose this course. You know
the listener with not
I didn’t choose this course. They asked me to
only his story but also
take the lead in the bus boycott and I said yes.’”
that of the day and age.
Wofford looks up and concludes the account: “And then he hummed a spiritual. I’m not going to sing it, but the
“It took most of a year in India, right after col-
thrust was: ‘The
lege, to make me look back on America
Lord came by and
and see more vividly that racial discrimi-
asked, and my
nation, segregation, the denial of the right
soul said yes.’”
to vote, was the shame of America, was the great blot on the American soul and
While much
the American idea in the world,” Wof-
can be said
ford says. Prior to attending law school
about Wofford’s
at Howard and then Yale, Wofford sailed
political mark on
back to India for a study fellowship in 1949 with his
the 1960s, his involvement is encapsulated in what’s
wife Clare, a year after the assassination of Mahatma
become known as The Call. After becoming a close
Gandhi and two years since the country achieved
colleague of King’s, Wofford went on to work on John
independence. On returning, they coauthored India
F. Kennedy’s 1960 Presidential bid, as deputy to Sargent
Afire, a book championing Gandhian nonviolence and
Shriver in the campaign’s Civil Rights Section.
prescribing it to the growing Civil Rights movement in the United States.
Kennedy was struggling to secure the black vote, some of which opposed him because of his Catholic faith. Then on October 19, 1960, King was arrested at a
dations for civil disobedience and nonviolent protest.
sit-in in an Atlanta restaurant, along with fifty-one
Howard University dean, William Stuart Nelson,
others. Although initially released with the other
who once visited Gandhi and urged him to come to
protesters, King was rearrested and taken to a county
America, wrote Wofford saying, “Reluctantly, I’ve
prison outside of Atlanta and then in shackles to a
concluded that the American Negro has no Gandhi in
faraway state prison. The judge sentenced him to four
him.” Then came the arrest of Rosa Parks, and a young
months hard labor. It became a front-page story in the
Baptist minister, Martin Luther King Jr., rose up to lead
American press and around the world it was treated
a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. The American
as a scandal.
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At first, many black leaders rejected the recommen-
Negro had found his Gandhi, and Wofford became one of his close advisors.
Wofford with Coretta King (top) and with Sargent Shriver in India (bottom)
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earing that her husband was going
Through all the comedy and tragedy of his years,
to be killed, Coretta King, who was five
Wofford went on from serving as Special Assistant
months pregnant, called Wofford in a
to the President for Civil Rights in Kennedy’s first
panic, hoping he could do something. Knowing
five hundred days to become the Peace Corps’
that Kennedy did not want to intervene publicly
representative to Africa and eventually to be Sargent
with the court process, Wofford suggested to Shriver that
Shriver’s Associate Director of the Peace Corps in
he urge Kennedy to intercede on an emotional level and
Washington. In 1966, he entered academia as the
phone Coretta King to extend his personal sympathy and
founding president of State University of New York’s
concern. Shriver took the idea directly to Kennedy, who
new College at Old Westbury. In 1970, he became
thought briefly and then asked for her phone number and
president of Bryn Mawr College.
made the call. After the tragic death of U.S. Senator The story of Kennedy’s
John Heinz in 1991, Wofford was
empathy and the warm
appointed senator, with six months
words of thanks from
to win the seat in a special election
King himself, spread
against former governor and then U.S.
quickly through the
Attorney General, Dick Thornburgh.
black community in the
Wofford’s surprise landside victory
last ten days of the cam-
was attributed widely to his campaign
paign (with help from
theme of universal health care. The
Shriver and Wofford).
late Ted Kennedy credited him with
By all accounts the im-
carrying that banner of health
pact of Kennedy’s call
care into the Senate, but by
swayed many black votes, north and south.
the Republican wave of 1994,
With a margin of only 112,827 popular
the banner was in tatters, after
votes, Kennedy’s victory in the Electoral
the failure of the Clinton plan.
College depended on states where the
Wofford calls it “a fiasco” for
large increase in black votes from the
both the Congress and the
1956 election made the difference. Among
President—and for himself as
the many factors necessary for his victory,
he lost his reelection by a nar-
Kennedy’s call ranks as one of them—a
row margin to Rick Santorum.
footnote to how the course of history can be changed.
But Wofford says he has no complaint: “At sixty-five, I
“When people say to me, ‘How lucky you
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had the chance to be Pennsylvania’s Senator, and we did
and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King,’ I say, some
pass the National Service Act of 1994, a goal I’ve had
luck! The three people that meant the most to me during
since 1965 when I helped Sargent Shriver create VISTA
that part of my life were all killed.” Wofford then corrects
(Volunteers in Service to America) as a key part of
himself, “But I was lucky. We were all lucky to have had
President Johnson’s War on Poverty. And in all the years
them in our national life. I predominately think of myself
since, I’ve been in the front lines of the campaign for
as a comic character, in the broad meaning of comedy. But
large scale National Service.” He points to President Bill
I have been close to real tragedies such as the Vietnam War
Clinton’s call on him to help save AmeriCorps, as CEO
and the assassination of our best leaders in the middle of
of the embattled Corporation for National and Com-
the 20th century.”
munity Service. The House of Representatives had voted to terminate it, but Clinton and the Senate held firm
Wofford being sworn in as US Senator of Pennsylvania (top), Wofford with President Bill Clinton (bottom).
“i realize that i am yearning to be around the next time when idea and fate cross again in a creative hour.” — Harris Wofford
Wofford with John F. Kennedy
and AmeriCorps grew to fifty thousand on
four feet of beach per year. Some years,
have been a part. Looking now at a country
Wofford’s watch. After 9/11, President Bush
the ocean gives back a little. And so it has
divided and mired in partisanship, Wofford
called on Congress to enable AmeriCorps to
been with Wofford’s public life: losing
quotes what the philosopher Martin Buber
grow to 75,000, and Wofford was a leader
some—King and the Kennedys—and gaining
said to him in Jerusalem shortly after
in building the nation-wide coalition that
some—Barack Obama. In 2008, Wofford
Kennedy was killed: “‘Good ideas will rise
helped make that happen.
introduced the future president in Philadelphia
again and come back when idea and fate
just before he delivered his now famous
once more meet in a creative hour.’” He turns
After dinner, Wofford leads me down to the
speech, “A More Perfect Union.” Watching
to the horizon. “I realize that I am yearning
edge of his property overlooking the shores
Obama in Philadelphia, Wofford says he
to be around the next time when idea and
of the Atlantic. He and his wife Clare
saw shades of King and Kennedy in this
fate cross again in a creative hour.”
purchased the land in 1977, and ever since
next generation of American leader, the
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for eight long years, the Nantucket hunting Association has been gunning for a shooting range to be built off shadbush road out by the airport. It’s been an uphill battle, but the project finally may be in their sights,
of its construction are still being determined, the facility’s basic design calls for three open-air firing ranges, five trap-shooting stations, an archery range, as well as basic facilities for the shooters.
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onsidering the country’s polarity on the issue of firearms, it’s no surprise that some members of the
community have gone slightly ballistic in opposing the range, particularly its would-be neighbors on nearby Wigwam Road. Their two major concerns were that of safety and noise, but negotiations have since resulted in amending the lease and building plans to ensure a quieter and safer abutter. “We’ve gone from opposing the range, to saying: ‘Let’s work together on this, so that it’s done in a way that it doesn’t affect us,’” says Dan Saevitz, a resident of Wigwam Road and spokesman for the neighborhood. Shooting and hunting is a Nantucket pastime, and it doesn’t look to be going anywhere anytime soon. “I think there is a misconception about the percentage of people that are shooting here,” says Nantucket Hunting Association president, Steven Holdgate. “They think it’s only one percent of the population that shoots.
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It’s more like ten percent or more.” And that percentage is not
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made up entirely of men, as some might think. Women are one of the fastest growing segments in shooting.
Just ask Maria Carey, a physician’s assistant
Beyond recreational hunters and shooters,
beer and shoot cans all day long, or drive
at the Nantucket Cottage Hospital and
the range will also be made available to the
around at night jacking deer under the
competitive target shooter. “Women are much
Nantucket Police Department and the US
moonlight,” says Luke Natsis, the Hunting
less traditional than they used to be,” she says.
Coast Guard, which has earned the Nantucket
Association’s vice president. Natsis is sitting
“I think shooting is very empowering and
Hunting Association’s cause some influential
in a lawn chair surrounded by ten other
gives us a sense of accomplishment because it
support. “This facility will allow us to safely
members of the association. The scene is a
has traditionally been a male-dominated sport.
conduct our quarterly weapons qualifications,
far cry from some of the regal hunting clubs
Three or four women together shooting is a
[and] allow our firearms instructors to conduct
off-island, but that all stands to change if the
real camaraderie-building experience.” Seeing
classroom training,” says Nantucket Police
range gets built.
Carey fuss over firearms with local female
Chief, Bill Pittman. “Nantucket needs a place
shooters like Susan Whitlock, Allyson
where residents and visitors who enjoy the
The debate over firearms is likely to continue
Silverthorne, Jo Perkins, and Michele Letlaire,
shooting sports can safely engage in their
for years and years to come in this country—
it’s easy to see her point. If they
pastime.”
and Nantucket will no be exception. All poli-
weren’t passing around rhinestone-bedazzled Smith & Wessons and .44 magnums, the women could almost seem to be at a Tupperware party. Almost.
“i think shooting is very empowering and gives us a sense of accomplishment because it has traditionally been a male-dominated sport.”
tics aside, the topic of safety is paramount to the discussion. So while a gun range might not be music to everybody’s ears, hopefully it will provide an increased level of safety, and perhaps
Perhaps even more interesting is Carey’s
Attend a Nantucket Hunting Association
a venue to become better educated on the
perspective on firearms as someone in the
meeting, and you’ll be quick to see Pittman’s
topic. Ultimately, shooting can be viewed as a
medical profession. “I used to work in very
point. The association’s monthly meeting used
sport, and the Nantucket Hunting Association
big inner city ERs, so I was exposed to a lot
to take place in the Kennedy Bunker out in
is aiming to provide its players with a facility
of gun violence in my previous years before
Tom Nevers, but since their lease ran out, the
not unlike a golf course for golfers. Except on
coming to Nantucket,” she says. “Shooting has
group has convened in the rear garage of
this course, instead of yelling “Four!” they’ll
changed my intimidation factor to one of
Homer Ray’s Refrigeration Repair Shop on
be yelling, “Pull!”
curiosity and enthusiasm. I think you gain a
Amelia Drive. “This is not a good old boys
better appreciation for what the danger is, but
club where we sit and guzzle
I also think you gain appreciation to be in awe of them and treat them with absolute respect.” Not all firearm enthusiasts shoot to kill wildlife. Some just shoot to shoot, namely the Nantucket Shooters. Club chairman and year-round islander, Paige Buckley, leads the Nantucket Shooters off-island to try their hand in USPSA shooting competitions. If you’ve never seen one of these competitions, picture an obstacle course with a man or woman shuffling from station to station, unloading a hand cannon on plywood targets. The event seems a cross between a SWAT training exercise indeed get built, it’s entirely feasible that similar competitions could be held on Nantucket.
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A Portrait of the
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t the age of ninety,
Maggie Meredith is the
oldest artist on Nantucket. A painter, poet and rug maker, Meredith is the matriarch of a creative island family whose legacy continues to flourish on the island.
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M
aggie Meredith is best known for her whimsical
cat portraits, acrylic paintings of fancifully dressed felines. She has painted hundreds of them—along with countless still-life subjects and landscapes. And then she has her whales. “I painted my ‘happy whales’ for years in all kinds of human situations,” she says. “They were fun and they make people laugh, which I like to do.” The paintings beam with color and revelry, reflective of
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B
eyond painting, Meredith is also an
She had adventures in Hollywood and in
married, he bought a plane of his own,” she
industrious rug-maker, hand-hooking her own
New York City, working for photographers as
writes. “That was how we wound up buying
designs on burlap bases with yarn in an array
a stylist and taking headshots for aspiring
a house in Nantucket.” Living on the island,
of colors. “I’ve been hooking for years,” she
models. It was in New York that she met a
Meredith came into her own as an artist. In
says with a laugh. “It’s the most wonderful
cameraman, Stan Meredith, and fell madly
1962, Reggie Levine encouraged her to have
hobby!” About her passion for rug-making,
in love. The two quickly married and
her first show. Recalling it, she laughs and
Meredith once wrote that her rugs represent
worked together on the controversial 1954
says, “Before I knew it, I was painting my
moments in her life: “Every stitch is a thought
movie, Salt of the Earth, the only film to
ass off!”
remembered.” And while she has sold many
ever be officially blacklisted by the U.S.
paintings and prints, she has never sold a single
Government. “Working on the film in New
rug. They are too personal.
Meredith’s son, Chris, is helping to carry on the family’s creative legacy. Both he and his wife, Linda, are performing artists.
Love is a major theme in all of Meredith’s
Chris is a musician and composer. He
work—in her paintings, rugs, and her
plays drums, bass, keyboards, and guitar—
writing. In addition to a significant body of
and has “done everything from producing
visual artworks, Meredith has published five
records to playing and touring with a lot
books of poetry. “You’ll see she always has
of really well-known artists.” Linda is a
the word love on everything,” says her son,
dancer and choreographer who has worked
Chris Meredith. “That’s been a big part of
on projects in New York City, and now
her. She is that type of giving, loving,
does choreography for the Theater
nurturing person.” Considering her family, it is no surprise that Meredith became an artist. Her father, Nathaniel
“You’ll see she AlwAYs hAs the word love on everYthing…she is thAt tYpe of giving, loving, nurturing person.”
Pousette, was a painter
Workshop of Nantucket. “Growing up with everybody in my family being involved in the arts, it was very conducive to people being supportive of whatever you wanted to follow,” says
and writer, and her mother, Flora Louise Dart,
Chris. “If you had something you really
was a musician and poet. “My dad was a
loved, there was great support for it. Fortu-
wonderful painter,” Meredith explains. “He
nately, for all of us, it was the arts—music
never got the acclaim that my brother wound
and painting, and all of that.”
up with, but that wasn’t his interest.” She points to a large painting on the wall
Meredith has been a lifelong support to her
across from her desk. The style is fluid and
son Chris. The two have a mutual admiration
impressionistic with pastel brushstrokes that
and Chris has devoted himself to helping his
give the effect of summer sunlight bouncing
mother continue to pursue her creative path
between leaves, grass, and flowers. Nestled
by keeping her painting studio functioning
into the middle of the painting, there is a
and archiving and publishing her works as
woman asleep on a hammock. “That’s one
she marches toward the century mark. Today,
of his paintings of me,” she says, smiling.
Meredith’s work can be seen at Nantucket
Meredith’s brother, Richard Pousette-Dart,
Art Works on 31 Centre Street.
became a major figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement alongside names
Mexico was really an adventure,” Meredith
Fifty years after Meredith started painting on
like Jackson Pollack and Mark Rothko. His
remembers. “I just took to it. I designed
Nantucket, she continues to follow her own
masterpieces hang in the great museums of
the sets they were shooting on, picked
muse. Her paints and rug-making materials
America: the Met, Guggenheim, MoMA,
out all the clothing, and I loved it. It was
are ready for when inspiration strikes, but
Smithsonian, and many others of note.
a fascinating film and a wonderful,
she mostly focuses on writing these days—
wonderful experience.”
not for a book, she says, just for herself. “Living
Though she grew up surrounded by artists of
to ninety is not easy!” she declares. “But
all kinds, Meredith didn’t become a painter
Around that time, the Merediths found
everyone has a few people in their life that
until later in life. At sixteen, she preferred
Nantucket, not so much by washing ashore,
make it worth living. Mine are my son, my
to dance and performed regularly in the
but by landing. “Stan had flown four engine
daughter-in-law, and my good friends.”
Rainbow Room at the Waldorf Astoria.
planes during the war, so shortly after we
chris Noth at dreamland
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David Kuhn & chris Noth
chris Noth & Virginia Joffe
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Jim hackett & Jonathan anastos
Bill Liddle & Patty Roggeveen
Laura Poole & addie Richards
Wendi murrell, Keely Silverio, yolanda Fernandez & Lisa Frey
Susan cary & Sandy Walsh
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the band, coq au vin, has taken nantucket bY storM with an eclectic repertoire that includes everything from Django-style gypsy jazz, Eastern European and Russian folk music to French chansons, Cuban songs, American blues—and a little bit of pop. Since launching the band last spring, they’ve become the most sought-after show on the island. “We played eighty gigs in ninety days this summer!” exclaims Ingrid Feeney, the band’s singer. Coq au Vin’s bandleader, Nantucketborn Caleb Cressman is a musician, composer, ethnomusicologist and organic farmer. He plays an array of different instruments—Irish fiddle, flamenco guitar, mandolin, sitar and percussion— in a wide range of musical styles. The accordion is his newest instrument, and that’s what he plays for Coq au Vin. Cressman also composes all of the original music that Coq au Vin performs. Cressman put together the earliest incarnation of Coq au Vin as an instrumental ensemble in the summer of 2011 to perform at art openings, cocktail receptions and other Nantucket events. With Cressman on accordion, Joanna Hay on gypsy-style fiddle, Zeb Bennett on acoustic bass, and Bob Walder and Pete Arsenault on guitars, Coq au Vin got its start, stunning Nantucket audiences with their completely unique, if not foreign, sound. A bit later, Cressman brought on horn player and fellow farming colleague, Andy Harris, who “plays a funky-dirty N magazine
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Ingrid Feeney, who joined the band at the beginning of this year.
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“Many people have embraced me with tears in their eyes, telling me how happy it makes them to hear this music and what a good job we are doing!” — ingrid feeney
“When Ingrid started singing with us in January, we realized that something very good was happening,” says Cressman. “Putting a band together with players from such different backgrounds was a perfect fit for Ingrid’s tremendous voice and her linguistics background. Ingrid can sing pretty much anything in any language.” Feeney explains that she was initially concerned that fellow islanders who hail from Russia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, and other parts of Eastern Europe would be critical of their “imperfect attempts at interpreting folk music from these regions.” But she says it has been just the opposite. “Many people have embraced me with tears in their eyes, telling me how happy it makes them to hear this music and what a good job we are doing!” Part of Cressman’s vision for Coq au Vin was to be able to play unamplified. “Acoustic music has a more balanced, natural sound and the band can play intimate gatherings that a rock band would have trouble with,” says Cressman. “We are also highly mobile and versatile, since N magazine
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And thanks to Ingrid’s pipes, she can hold her own over the rest of the band, which is incredible.”
Mostly the band plays together for fun. They especially love gigs where they can “get a little more loose and where the audience is more rowdy” like at their weekly gig at Pazzo. But they admit that they’ve selected much of their repertoire to be appropriate for cocktail parties and other special events. “So I guess we did want to be able to support our music habit by playing fancy gigs too,” says Feeney. One of the most gratifying aspects of performing this past summer has been the community’s enthusiastic response. “It has been incredibly heartwarming,” says Feeney. “We are especially grateful to the theater community for coming and dancing at Pazzo after their shows and really helping to create a special ambiance there.” As for Coq au Vin’s future aspirations, they’re not yet sure where they want to go with it. The band will be on a brief tour the first week of December to New York City, Philadelphia, and Delaware. They also plan to make a studio recording over the winter. “But we all have other plans in life too,” says Feeney. With that in mind, Nantucketers should take heed and catch the island’s hottest new band, when, where and while they can!
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Before
the season’s first frost, many
islanders look to preserve a taste of summer by canning, drying, pickling, and smoking a bounty of local produce, seafood, and wild
edibles. Their refrigerators and cupboard shelves get stacked high with canned tomatoes, dried peppermint and lemon verbena, frozen sweet corn, smoked bluefish and many other
Jarrin arrinG jams, sauces, and stocks. The practice is a
Nantucket pastime, connected to the days
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when preserving food was more than just a fun activity—it was a means of survival.
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Caleb Cressman, co-founder of Faraway Farms, turns into a hobby homesteader come fall. Armed with the unofficial preserving bible, Putting Food By, and a dash of local wisdom, Cressman and his wife, Lindsay, extend the life of their crops by way of the jar. “It’s one of the most basic things in the world, providing for your family,” Cressman says, removing a jar of applesauce from the pantry and handing me a spoon. “There’s a lot of pride that goes into growing something and sharing it.” I dip the spoon into the jar. The contents are sweet, velvety and deceivingly fresh, like it was jarred yesterday, not nine months ago. Put short and sweet: the food tastes alive. Another passionate preserver, Justine Paradis routinely forages for beach plums laden with red and purple fruit in the fall, identifying the shrub amongst scrub oak and honeysuckle. She places the plums in a jar and eats them grainy flesh, and spitting out the pit. With the alchemy of heat, sugar, and pectin, the berries will turn into jelly, which Paradis plans to use for popovers on Christmas morning.
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t’s about taking personal responsibility for what you eat,” she says. “You touch every single berry as they go
into your jar and then you touch them again when you wash
them. How often can we say with certainty and confidence how
our food comes to us?” Every batch of her jam or canned tomatoes delivers a unique flavor that reflects the particular time and place it was grown and harvested. French oenophiles term this nuanced, one-of-a-kind flavor: terroir. And just as with wine, every artisanal fruit and vegetable crop carries with it that power of place, the taste of the earth. Here on Nantucket the notes tend to be of glacial moraine with a hint of salt. Food produced through large scale, industrialized agriculture, with its monocultures and GMO’s, cannot offer the same depth and diversity in flavor as locally grown or wild foods. And
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although we have more options labeled organic or sustainable than ever before, the eater looking to augment his or her diet with artisanal, seasonal, local or regional foods won’t find many commercial options. Thus, many people turn to preserving foods. So when the Stop & Shop produce section turns to jetlagged apples from New Zealand and waxy, unripe tomatoes from Florida, there is still a way to eat local and fresh on Nantucket.
You will need: . 6 lbs. apples
(use local or regional apples for best flavor)
. Sugar . Cinnamon . Water . A heavy bottomed pot for the apples . Canning jars (about 4 sixteen-ounce pint jars for every 6 pounds of apples)
. A large pot for the hot water bath (like a lobster pot)
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. A cookie sheet . Clean kitchen towels . Tongs . A chop stick
What to do:
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4. 5.
Wash the apples, core them, and cut away any bruised or damaged parts leaving the skin on. Cut apples into large chunks. Place the cut-up apples into the heavy bottomed pot along with one cup of water and cook on medium heat until your apples turn to mush, around ten to twenty minutes. Stir occasionally and add more water as needed to keep it the consistency of applesauce. While the apples are cooking, start your hot water bath to sterilize the jars. Fill your large pot with about 5 inches of water and bring to a boil. Add your jars, rings and lids in the pot and boil for 10 minutes. Once boiled, carefully remove the jars and rings using tongs. Place jars on a cookie tray lined with a clean dishcloth. If you are using metal canning lids, leave the lids in the hot water until you are ready to seal your jars to keep the rubber seal active. Once the apples are all cooked down to mush, run them through the food mill or food processor to create an even pureed texture.
6. 7. 8.
Now fill your jars with applesauce, leaving half an inch of space at the top of the jar. Using a sterilized chopstick, stir the applesauce to remove any air pockets and gently tap the jar on a counter to settle. With a clean towel wipe the rim clean and secure the lids. Now using tongs or a jar lifter if you have one, place the jars of applesauce into your boiling hot water bath, making sure the jars are covered by at least one inch of water. Use a canning rack or some improvised barrier between the bottom of the pot and the glass lids to keep them from cracking. Boil for 20 minutes. Remove the jars and place back on the towel lined cookie sheet, and drape another towel over the jars so they cool slowly. Let sit undisturbed for 24 hours. N magazine
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Return your applesauce to the pot and sweeten and season to taste, over low heat. Often, the applesauce tastes so great alone we don’t need to add anything, but if your apples are on the sour side, a little sugar and cinnamon will help.
Check your jars to make sure they are all nicely sealed. Any lids that may have popped are not sealed properly and can be stored in the fridge and eaten within a few days. All other jars will keep on a shelf for a year.
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t the doctor w will see Your o whole FaMilY n now
Dr. Nicole Steinmuller
nce upon a time,
a doctor would deliver your baby, diagnose your husband’s back pain, help your grandfather pass a kidney
would arrive at your door with little more than a black leather bag, a
stethoscope, and a question: “What seems to be the problem?”
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all in a day’s work. The physician
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stone, and prescribe a pain reliever
While house calls may be a thing of the past,
do obstetrics, but it is part of family medi-
and underserved population at BMC and at
the Nantucket Cottage Hospital revives the
cine training,” Steinmuller accounts. Many
South Boston Community Health Center.
good old days of family medicine with the
family physicians shy away from obstetrics
For Steinmuller, family medicine calls for
help of doctors like George Buttersworth
as part of their practice because it can be
knowing and understanding the patient and
and Margaret “Mimi” Koehm. Joining their
demanding and challenging, especially in
their family beyond what the chart says, and
ranks this fall is Dr. Nicole Steinmuller, the
terms of the time commitment and skills
treating them accordingly. Her practice spans
newest addition to the family physicians
required. “I really wanted to do the O.B. part
the spectrum of the family, from obstetrics
practicing at Nantucket Cottage Hospital.
of [Family Medicine], but I felt I needed the
to pediatrics to geriatrics. “I wanted to be
additional training beyond my residency to
doing something where I develop relation-
A graduate of Tufts Medical School and resi-
feel comfortable and gain the skills needed,”
ships with patients,” she says. “You’re at the
dent at Boston Medical Center, Nicole Stein-
she says of her fellowship at Rochester
front end of things. You need to be a really
muller envisioned her practice somewhere
University. “Obstetrics is something that can
good diagnostician. People can come in with
in Massachusetts, but never on Nantucket.
go from low-risk to high-risk at any moment.
anything, and you need to either know how
Yet as fate would have it, NCH proved the
So I really wanted to be able to handle every-
to help them, how to treat them or where to
perfect place to establish her practice in fam-
thing that came my way.”
refer them.” Fortunately, NCH sponsors a strong network of doctors for Steinmuller to
ily medicine. “They were looking for exactly what I do,” Dr. Steinmuller says. “They were
In this age of medical specialists, where
call upon, whether it is a resident physician
looking for a primary care doctor, a family
there’s a physician for just about every
or one based at Mass General.
physician, that had surgical obstetrical skills.
pore and follicle, family medicine seems
They were basically looking for me.”
delightfully old-fashioned, reminiscent of
Living on an island where you can bump
the Rockwellian doctor raising a stethoscope
into your mailman, neighbor, and selectman
Steinmuller recently cut the cord, so to
to the little girl’s doll. This holistic style of
all in one aisle at the grocery store, Steinmul-
speak, completing a yearlong Maternal Child
caregiving appealed to Steinmuller from
ler is sure to get to know her patients very
Health Fellowship at Highland Hospital in
her earliest days in medical school, and
well. The young doctor is excited to become
Rochester, New York, during which time she
continued throughout her residency training
part of the island community and treat Nan-
delivered hundreds of babies and developed
at Boston Medical Center, where she was
tucket families with all the care and skill she
the surgical obstetrical skills to perform
eventually elected chief resident. During
has developed over the years.
cesarean sections. “Not all family physicians
that time, she cared for a greatly diverse
Obstetrics, or the care of women during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum, is in greater demand on the island as more Nantucket mothers opt to have their babies here, rather than on the Cape or in Boston. Island births are between ninety-five and one hundred per year (approximately one hundred births in 2011), and NCH representatives speculate that 2012 will be “record-breaking” in the arrival of “native” sons and daughters. Earlier this summer, one of NCH’s most seasoned family physicians, Dr. Greg Hinson, bowed out of the delivery room, thus opening the slot for Steinmuller to work alongside Dr. Mimi Koehm in the baby birthing business.
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give
the gift
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What do you get for the person Who has everything? How about a whale? This holiday season, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary of whale adoption. For less than you might pay for a six-ounce fish dinner on Nantucket, you can adopt a seventeen-ton humpback whale (aquarium sold separately). Of course, you’re not actually buying the whale, but rather the
“In working with Shearwater Excursions, the Nantucket Marine
piece of mind of helping save one. True, whales are far more
Mammal Conservation Program, and the UMass Boston Field Sta-
protected than some years ago when over 100,000 humpback
tion we hope to further prove the importance of Nantucket waters
and sperm whales were harpooned
to large whales and increase public edu-
for oil. Yet despite today’s
cation and stewardship on the island,”
rigorous bans on commercial
says Karen Costa of WDC. “This year
whaling, thousands are still killed
marks the second year of this collabora-
every year. Since 1987, the
tion and WDC is appreciative of the
Whale and Dolphin Conservation
opportunity to collaborate on Nantucket
based in Plymouth, Massachusetts
and with these wonderful organiza-
has campaigned to protect these
tions.” On an island literally built from
magnificent mammals in our waters
blubber, adopting a whale could quite
and beyond, and their adoption
possibly be the most karmic gift of all.
program is the oldest in the country.
And if nothing else, it’s a present that promises to make a huge splash come gift-giving time.
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NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Festival of Wreaths
& Silent Auction
Whaling Museum | 13 Broad Street
Preview Party Tuesday, November 20 5–7 P.M. Space is limited. Purchase tickets at NHA.org or call (508) 228 1894.
Festival Dates Wednesday, November 21 Friday, November 23 Saturday, November 24
Sunday, November 25 10 A.M.–2 P.M. Successful bidders announced at 2:30 P. M.
10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Need not be present to win.
A free NHA community event
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Festival of Trees Whaling Museum | 13 Broad Street
Preview Party Thursday, November 29 6–8 P.M. Space is limited. Purchase tickets at NHA.org or call (508) 228 1894.
A Night of Holiday Magic Saturday, December 15 5–8 P.M. NHA Members free
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Children under 6 free Nantucket Year-Round Residents $5
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General Admission $17
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For more information,
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Visit nha.org or call (508) 228–1894
A special family evening filled with the sights & sounds of the holidays.
Festival Dates November 30 Friday 11 A.M.–8 P.M.
December 27–28 Thursday & Friday 11 A.M.–4 P.M.
December 1–23 Thursday–Monday 11 A.M–4 P.M.
Saturday, Sunday, & Monday
December 29, 30, & 31
10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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When the last hurrah of visitors swarms the island for Stroll weekend, many a Nantucketer faces the inevitable question: “So what’s the winter like?” Answers typically range from “peacefully picturesque” to “dreadfully dull.” Ask someone from the Nantucket Historical Association, however, and the response will likely be: “The winters? They’re nothing like they used to be!” When a particularly merciless cold spell struck Nantucket
of Nantucket’s past. During the eighteenth and nineteenth
in February of 1829, “no water could be seen from any side
centuries, from December through April, islanders lived at
of the island,” reported the Inquirer. Not only did the cold
the mercy of the elements, isolated by the all-too-common
weather result in a high sheep mortality rate and scarcity of
harbor “freeze-ups.” The frozen harbor, which could take
firewood, but the ice also prevented all mail delivery to the
three or four weeks to thaw, resulted in a complete detach-
island. When it did finally arrive, sleighs carried the parcels
ment from the outside world, embargoing essentials like
from the head of the harbor into town, where it sat frozen in
firewood and provisions as well as news and mail from the
a block of ice.
“continent.”
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w
hile these periods of isolation deprived Nantucketers of contact with the outside world, it did lay
the foundation for a community of industrious and resilient islanders who turned the seclusion
into opportunities for winter fun. According to NHA historian Edouard Stackpole, when snow
fell upon the island in the February of 1849 and the town was “transformed into a snow village,” Nantucketers harnessed their horses to a sleigh and raced along the streets. Years later, in 1865, when the ferry was once again
frozen in port, the harbor became a “skating park” and was enjoyed “by old and young alike.” While some business came to a screeching halt during the freeze-ups, Nantucketers did keep pace with other, more recreational pursuits. In 1856, during a severe ice embargo that lasted from January 4th to February 23th, it was reported that, “The churches remained closed, men went unshaved, the only branch of business pursued as usual was ‘courting.’ No storm ever yet has been known sufficiently severe to interfere with that interesting pursuit.” And so it was that when the firewood ran low, Nantucketers remained warm in one another’s embrace. By the middle of the nineteenth century it appeared that hard winters were becoming the “order of things,” as a young Maria Mitchell wrote in her journal on January 22, 1857. “[W]e have been frozen in our Island now since the 6th. No one cared much about it for the first two or three days, but as the daily temperatures steadily dropped day after day and even sleighing became uncomfortable, even the dullest man longed for the cheer of a newspaper.” Despite the boredom that came with a lack of news, Mitchell conveyed that families amused themselves by gathering together to write poetry in “great quantities” and N magazine
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Although, she contended, none of those activities could make up for being “now sixteen daily papers behind the rest of the world, and in these sixteen papers, are the items known to all the cities, which will never be known to us.” The mail finally arrived on February 3rd, after nearly a month of silence. While Mitchell recorded her frustration by journaling, other Nantucketers resorted to more desperate measures of combating the isolation. After several weeks with a frozen harbor, a group campaigned to free the ferry, Island Home, by cutting away the ice encasing the vessel and then exploding a path out of port. Unfortunately, before any headway could be made, another blizzard swept in and thwarted the efforts. By the turn of the 20th century, in 1914, the Inquirer and Mirror announced that Nantucket no longer “suffered” during the harbor freeze-ups as it once had. The advent of the telephone and construction of the Nantucket cable in 1886 had lessened the sense of isolation that Nantucketers endured when passage by the steamboat was halted. By the middle of the twentieth century, airplanes, kerosene, and electricity forever transformed the limitations imposed by inclement weather. Indeed, the times have changed and the weather seems to have warmed. So for those who shiver over the idea of spending the winter on the island, remember that it’s a Nantucket rite of passage, and not nearly as long brutal as it used to be.
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Trustees of Reservations Party at Great Point
Foggysheet nantucket
John & bonnie Gould
Kate saunders, Ken Roman, & Julie Williams
toni & Martin Mckerrow
ted steinbock, sarah Martin & Mark Goldweitz
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stephen Nicolle, bill & Jackie Kupper, Carl Melberg & John Vasconcellos Photos by FiFi GreenberG
Kirtan Music festival
Kirtan musicians
ashley Flagg
Rasamrta Devi Dasi, Katherine glass-KumuDini Devi Dasi
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Clay ornaments—lighthouse, whale pants, tree in dingy, and Nantucket signs— are all hand-made and painted by Massachusetts artist, Mary McCormack. Available exclusively at Andersons on 29 Main Street.
The 2012 “Preppy Pants Santa” comes from the Radko Company, hand-made custom. Available exclusively at Andersons on 29 Main Street.
Nantucket Noel bulb is hand-painted in Poland and is the first of the 2012 Stoll Collection. Available exclusively at Andersons on 29 Main Street.
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The scrimshaw ornament (above) was hand-carved by Michael Vienneau as part of his annual collection. Available exclusively at the Scrimshander Gallery on 38 Centre Street and Made on Nantucket 18 Old South Wharf.
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