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Written by Brian Bushard Photography by Kit Noble For the past 10 years, Katherine Jetter has been selling her jewelry at her shop on Centre Street, The Vault. But unlike most jewelry stores, she is not only selling her own jewelry, but the earrings, bracelets and rings of 30 other couture jewelers. This month, she is showcasing those jewelers at a residency at Ten Easy Street, which runs through August 15. “The purpose is to celebrate our community and create a place to bring all of our clients into a social environment where they can get to know each other and experience all the things I love and curate on a deeper level in a social environment,” Jetter said. “I love bringing people together and curating, so I have curated some incredible experiences.”  How did you get into the world of jewelry making? I didn’t come from a multi-generational jewelry house where I had the privilege of growing up with a safe full of gems and access to everything. I’m completely self-made, and the only way that I could shine in a very saturated industry was to really teach myself to be an expert on specific subjects, so that I could really come from a place of knowledge. What did that process look like for you? I studied and studied books on the history of jewelry making. I went to every possible trade show I could find. I’ve been going to the Tucson Gem Show since I was 24 years old and I ask 10,000 questions. The thing that really made me learn was that I was never afraid to say what I didn’t know—why is this amethyst a $10 per-carat stone, and why is this amethyst a $200 per-carat stone? I found allies and friends in the industry that would help teach me and educate me. As a young 20-year-old, I found people who loved their craft who were excited to teach a young person what they knew. I would do everything from finding the rock to going to the mines. That is what I think really is different about me. I made it my business to be an expert and to study what I’m selling, so that I’m not just a designer who’s taking pretty objects and putting them together. I’m being very thoughtful about everything from the ground up—where it starts, how it’s made, the engineering of the piece and the execution. When you’re selling a product, if you don’t understand from the ground up the integrity of the piece, it’s a very different sales process than if you’re coming at it from a place of workmanship. Even though I specialize in certain avenues, I also recognize that there’s something for everybody, and if it’s not something that I’m making, I still want to find you. I love doing that; it really is what excites me. I’ve never had an ego around it being my way or the highway. If I don’t make what you’re looking for, I will find the expert that does.

Interview by Paige Martino Photography courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association Long before Greater Light became one of Nantucket’s most beloved historic houses, it was an aging 18th-century cow barn tucked away on what was then Bull Lane. Where others might have seen a weathered farm building, Quaker sisters Hanna and Gertrude Monaghan envisioned something extraordinary, transforming the humble barn into an exuberant home and art studio layered with salvaged architectural treasures, handcrafted furnishings and original paintings. They called it Greater Light . A hundred years later, Beverly Hall keeps HannaMonaghan’s spirit alive, putting on period clothes and performing as Hanna at Greater Light. “My feeling when I walked inside [Greater Light] for the first time was almost visceral,” Hall said. “One day during the process, I just got so immersed I said, ‘That house just needs someone to bring it alive.’ I just said it. I blurted it out. ‘Someone needs to be Hanna.’ The whole group turned around and said, ‘Beverly, why not you?’” Becoming Hanna meant immersing herself in Hanna’s memoir, filling pages with underlined passages, colorful notes and thoughtful observations tucked into the margins. She interviewed people who had known Hanna and spent countless hours researching both the Monaghan sisters and Greater Light itself. Along the way, she began recognizing unexpected parallels between their lives, particularly in their shared devotion to faith and the arts. “The attraction was immediate,” Hall said. “[Hanna] really sparked something within me, so I took it and ran with it.”

Written by Brian Bushard Photography by Kit Noble 

Written by Brian Bushard Photography by Kit Noble There are family vacations and there are family vacations. Some people take their kids to Disney World, some take their kids to a Caribbean resort. But Dan and Sarah Gault have taken family travel to an entirely different level. This August, the Gault family will take an 11-month trip of a lifetime from their house on Nantucket to 18 countries on three continents, traveling like vagabonds through Africa, Asia and Australia. Their four school-aged kids will join them for the entire length of the vacation, ditching the comforts of life on Nantucket for an education they would never receive in school. “On this trip, forget about watching a big screen TV,” Dan said. “We’re talking about things like clean drinking water and having electricity 24 hours a day. Showing them those things gives them perspective. It plants a seed in them for a lifetime.” The Gaults, by their own admission, are not ordinary travelers. Since their trip will take nearly a year, their four children—in eighth, seventh, fifth and third grade—will be homeschooled through a math and English curriculum, as well as a healthy dose of reading, journaling and cultural visits to museums and historical sites. Instead of a beach resort vacation, they’ll be in city centers and remote parks, immersing themselves in new cultures and languages. And since the children are growing—and taking up more space in their house on the island—the entire trip will coincide with a yearlong project to lift their house in Warren’s Landing, making more space for the family of six to spread out. For the time they’re gone, Sarah, a special education teacher at Nantucket Public Schools, will be on sabbatical and set to return for the 2027-2028 school year. Dan, who owns a property management company, handed the reins to his second-in-command for the time being. “My whole team stepped up to make this possible,” he said. “I was anxious to tell two groups of people—my employees, because I didn’t want them jumping ship, and my clients in the management world, because I didn’t want them to be upset. But they were maybe the most supportive.”