A FIGHTING CHANCE
byA group of children are gathered in a circle, singing enthusiastically in Portuguese. They’re all dressed in loose white uniforms, including their instructor, Andre…
Stories
HOLIDAYS FOR HEROES
byJust as you might remember a birthday or an anniversary, a wounded soldier will never forget the day his or her life was forever…
A TASTE OF HISTORY
byThanksgiving is a nineteenth-century invention. It was declared a national holiday by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, after two decades of persistent campaigning by…
GOOD COMPANY
byAndrew 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
byWatching 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
byFirst 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
byThere 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
byRazor-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…
FARM TO FORK
byOf all the island’s fall dining venues, few can compare with the farm-to-table feasts at Bartlett’s Farm. Set at an elegant- ly appointed hundred-person…
THE JET SONS
byExactly two years ago, N Magazine told readers about the JetLev, a $100,000 water-propelled jetpack that was soaring around Nantucket Harbor. Onlookers marveled as…