NOT SO FAST: Bruce Miller
A quick chat with Board of Selectman, Bruce Miller N MAGAZINE: What originally brought you to the island? MILLER: The glamour of washing dishes…
LYNX TO THE PAST
On the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Nantucket, a replica Baltimore Clipper of the privateer Lynx gives a fitting salute. Ask someone on…
AN ISLAND UNTO ITSELF
“Adventure travel seems to imply a far-off destination,” wrote legendary travel writer Paul Theroux, “but a nearby destination can be scarier, for no place…
THE WAY OF THE FALCONER
Emerging from his quaint cottage in ’Sconset, Tom Mulholland has the look of a wizard who just stumbled out of The Lord of the…
A FIGHTING CHANCE
A group of children are gathered in a circle, singing enthusiastically in Portuguese. They’re all dressed in loose white uniforms, including their instructor, Andre…
GOOD COMPANY
Andrew Perlman has lived the Mark Zuckerberg version of the American Dream. While other kids in his hometown of Newton, Massachusetts pinned posters of…
ON THE WINGS OF HISTORY
Watching Andrew McKenna perform a fighter approach at Nantucket Memorial Airport in his P-51 Mustang makes your heart thud like a prop. Coming in…
BEACON OF BRIGHT IDEAS
First there was Tom and Tom. Then there was Tom and Kate—Tom Scott and Kate Brosnan that is, the co-founders of the Nantucket Project….
A CURE IN SIGHT
There is an old English proverb, “What is bred in the bone wills out in the flesh.” For some of us, that means our…
MAKING WAVES
Razor-sharp coral reef. Man-eating sharks. Cutthroat competition. The life of a pro surfer is hardly a day at the beach, but for sixteen-year-old Spencer…