Word: nantucket
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...Nantucket Island, Mass., an innovative approach to that problem is a 2% tax on all real estate sales, the funds to be used to buy back the beaches for the public. But most states are not obliged to pay for what is viewed as a longstanding public right. That may be true even in Maine, which is still governed to some extent by a 17th century grant from the King of England that gave away huge tracts of coastal land, including the beaches, to encourage settlement...
Studds has also worked hard to keep oil drilling rigs off Georges Bank, winning him support from Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard residents...
America's most influential interior decorators; in Nantucket, Mass. A onetime architecture student at Princeton, the ur bane, diminutive Baldwin emphasized elegance without sacrificing comfort. His clients included Cole Porter, Jacqueline Onassis and Diana Vreeland...
Everyone has heard endless clash-of-cultures tales involving summer folks who invade rural enclaves like Nantucket and Maine. Newly minted ruburbanites get to be treated like interlopers the whole year round. When one commuter stood waiting alone for the last morning train, a dog-walking native asked, "Train late?" "Yes," replied the commuter, thinking he was finally being accepted. "Good," said the native. "Maybe you'll go back where you came from." Sometimes, though, there will be touching signs of grudging welcome. A doorbell will ring, but no one will be there when it is answered. Instead, paper...
Jane Carlee Nantucket, Mass...