Why become a patron and support the Nantucket Owner’s Manual? 1. Your support allows us to do more. As you can imagine, a start-up like this requires a lot of sweat equity. At the beginning of NOM, the work is being done by me — one person with the help of a panel of volunteer …
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How I got through one of the busiest summers on record without ever getting stuck or wasting time in traffic. [Originally published on the SAND.agency blog in September of 2019.] Most people who live on Nantucket like to complain. If there was a “Complaining Olympics,” Nantucket would take bronze, silver, and gold every four years. …
For years, people on Nantucket have been talking about studying the island’s carrying capacity. It’s an easy thing to say. “We need a carrying capacity study!” But it’s a little bit like the question of “Life, the Universe, and Everything.” in the book, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Since the question …
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Nantucket Owner’s Manual — A guide to leaving the island better than you found it, is an idea that came out of a particularly contentious town meeting. A community that should have been able to come together to protect itself was divided by misinformation and bias. And, as a result, very little got done. This …