THE WAY OF THE FALCONER
byEmerging from his quaint cottage in ’Sconset, Tom Mulholland has the look of a wizard who just stumbled out of The Lord of the…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
A Living Link to the Past
byVanity Fair Special Correspondent Maureen Orth explores the story of Phil Grant, one of the last living connections to Nantucket’s whaling days. Five generations…
Finding Virtue in Vietnam
byRory Kennedy brings her award-winning documentary ‘Last Days in Vietnam’ to Nantucket. The Vietnam War will forever be viewed as an American policy debacle,…
Broadway Bound
byThe dramatic discovery of Nantucket’s Chelsea Remick At the age of three, Nantucket native Chelsea Remick had already found her favorite concert venue: the…
LARGER THAN LIFE
byDespite turning eighty-four this year, lifelong island regular Seward Johnson still exudes the childlike enthusiasm and fun sense of mischief that has defined his…