THE EBB & FLOW OF RIVER BENNETT
You wouldn’t describe River Bennett as “your typical kid.” By appearance alone, the twenty-one-year- old is anything but. Long chestnut curls flow from his…
THE MEETING OF THE MINDS
Nothing breaks up a fall weekend quite like having two U.S. senators, the world’s top stem cell researcher, the former Secretary of the Treasury…
THE MACY’S DAY PARADE: IT ALL BEGAN ON NANTUCKET
Forty-four million people watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade every year, three million of which crowd the streets of New York City, their eyes…
ORTH ON THE RECORD
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…
PERSON OF THE YEAR: MARGOT HARTMANN
Dr. Margot Hartmann has spent her career healing patients in hospitals. Now, she fifinds herself improving the health of a hospital itself. In just…
THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY
At a time when few twelve-year-olds ventured far beyond their own neighborhoods, Harris Wofford boarded a transatlantic ocean liner and sailed east from New…
HOME ON THE RANGE?
For eight long years, the Nantucket Hunting Association has been gunning for a shooting range to be built off Shadbush Road out by the…
A JARRING EXPERIENCE
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…
FROZEN IN TIME
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?”…