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Bloomberg Radio New York
"nantucket" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"I'm going to try to get rid of a saltwater. During the lame duck? Are you good whenever I got to make that assessment as I get in and start counting the votes. The bidens are spending the holiday on Nantucket. Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orban said today that Hungary's parliament would ratify NATO membership for Finland and Sweden next year. Canada has published its first ever national climate adaptation strategy today, including $1.2 billion in U.S. federal funding commitments to help protect communities against the increasing impacts of global warming. Indonesian authorities have struggled today to get aid to thousands of people displaced by the deadly earthquake in western Java, rain triggered mudslides and difficult mountainous terrain, a hampering the efforts of the rescue teams. Tesla has opened the door for its controversial driver assistance program, making it available to customers previously deemed not safe enough behind the wheel to test it out. Elon Musk switched the system. It's called full self-driving beta and is now available to anyone in North America period to this point it was based on a test that Tesla had used to set insurance rates. In the San Francisco newsroom, I met Baxter and will have more global news coming up in about 30 minutes here on daybreak, Asia. Let's right now well, Peter McGuire, he joins from Sydney, Peter, is the CEO of XM Australia. Peter, thanks for making time for us on the final trading day of the week in the Asia Pacific, seeing a little bit of positivity in the equity market there. This week, we've seen pretty, I don't want to say dovish necessarily because we've had a number of central banks I'm thinking of the rbn zed, which really leaned in pretty aggressively, although yesterday the BOK was a little softer, I think, than some had been predicting. Are we at the point now where we can talk about the fact that we're on the other side of peak inflation. Yes, it might linger for a while longer, rates may remain elevated for some time, but the worst is over. Fair statement. Well, good morning, Dodd, guess it could be a fair statement and I think that there's many opinions out there and so if we look at first off from the fed and then move forward in the minutes and then as you mentioned this bar is the RB NZ, there are many different components of this inflation story globally and so yes we may be at that point that tipping point and we're on the dam would trek one can only hope, but at the present I think there's still a lot of there's still a lot of confusion from the retail sector and certainly from the man and woman on the street as far as cost of goods and whether they're all being appreciated as far as you know they've hit that headline number. We had from the B okay governor that just this morning he said that he's watching the fed as much as we're talking about the fed likely to be on a slower course of rate hikes. It's still higher for longer. You've got to wonder our markets really justified in rallying over the last few days. Well, I think a couple of things has led to a minute it's been incredibly volatile and we've seen that over this month and it certainly hasn't disappointed across many different instruments and if you're looking at the likes of crude you look U.S. dollar and look what's happened with equities, we have had a big sell off as far as U.S. dollar. There's been a return to some form of, I think, bullishness across equities and the overall movement to crew being really punched down as being a positive tone. So that's what the market's telling me. I think we've seen a very strong move across if you look at pound where we were a couple of weeks ago and certainly a year in Europe, I've spent very much a showtime portrayed as and that's been a good sign. But the rbn Z basically indicated that by mid next year, New Zealand could be in recession as a part of the fed minutes, economists at the fed are predicting that maybe the recession in the states is now a 50 50 situation. Basically a coin toss, are we going to be looking at a recession in the new year and if so, do we have to rethink corporate earnings in a major way? Well, I think it would have to think about that exactly dog as far as those earnings moving forward and what impact it's going to have to pay these and so on and the cost of capital and as you said, it's a link on the coin at the moment and that's where our attack so there are again many different nations in different parts of this or along that curve that are deeper in recession or certainly feeling the pinch compared to the likes of U.S. so that's the hard part of the moment as far as globally how they're tackling it. If you look at the likes of Egypt, you look at the likes of different nations in that main a region, they certainly under the pump and it's going to be a very tough, I think three to 6 months ahead of us. Peter, what happens to yields treasury can you use have come off a fair bit after threatening to push towards four and a half percent just a month ago? Where two for years? Well, that's a hard one as Linda Romania was cried at over the last couple of weeks and you really being again pushed down heavily so we've just got to see the Senate coming out of fed what goes on and if you look at the actual dovishness, the issue across the fed also is one of confusion with many of its members with a different mindset, some are still hawkish and you know, and then you've got the issues as far as
AP News Radio
Biden brings Thanksgiving pies to Nantucket first responders
"President Biden vacationing in Nantucket for the Thanksgiving holiday, spoke out against a recent spate of mass shootings in the country and calls on Congress to do more to limit assault weapons. 6 people killed in a southeast Virginia Walmart 5 dead in Colorado Springs in just a week and President Biden says more must be done to prevent these killings from taking place. The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick. It's just sick. He tells reporters he'll take it to Congress, even though the sessions almost over and Democrats soon lose control of the House. Meanwhile, the president reached out to the owners of club Q in Colorado Springs, offering support and condolences, while a worker at the Virginia Walmart, whose life was spared, says she doesn't think the victims were randomly chosen. He was going hunting. He was looking, he was picking people out. Jesse will chesky on the job just 5 days, says the gunman who apparently killed himself aimed at her and then told her to run. I'm Jackie Quinn
Bloomberg Radio New York
"nantucket" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Loves to read. He goes all off on the band thing and it's kind of embarrassing, but it's his thing. So I'll leave him to it. Yeah, I did not do it justice. Joe, my sec joins us here, Joe does all things municipals for Bloomberg news. Joe, we're all kind of looking at the images in a video of the terrible tragedy down in Florida. Is it an issue for the admissible bond market when you see that type of disruption in destruction? To structure. And you know, not just Florida, it's kind of back out in the ocean. It's winding up. It's going to South Carolina. More destruction there. But in answer to your question, it's very surprising to most people that natural disasters tend not to be a credit issue for municipalities. For states of municipalities, purely because the insurance money, you know, following the waves following the actual water that comes in comes waves of cash. Insurance money, federal assistance, rebuilding efforts get underway. So yes, you know, it's a tremendous tragedy, tremendous destruction, and then this tremendous renewal, if you will. So unless a municipality goes kind of out of business, the debt service is completely intact. Things occur. Just as they normally would and natural disasters are really just something that the market shrugs off. The only thing that I could think of otherwise is a couple of those towns that were destroyed by wildfire in California. They missed debt service because the whole town was wiped out and records were lost and things like that. But otherwise, no, it's not really a credit event. Interesting. All right, you've got, let's move from South Florida up to preppy island of Nantucket. Are you trying to tell me Joe that Nantucket is going into the bond market? Are they going to do an issuance here? They did this. They did do it. All right, they should this week and most of the issue is for affordable housing. Because Nantucket like your nearby island Martha's Vineyard like, I want to say Aspen, I think veil as well. These are places that people love in the charming and their enchanting and there's no room for the people who are essential service providers to live. They're being priced out of their own homes. So you're seeing police and fire nurses and teachers, that's who's going to benefit from this affordable housing bond issue. And Nantucket let's face it and Martha's Vineyard too. There's really, you can't say, well, you'll have to commute from the suburbs because you just have the oceans. Well, this was starting in your column which you wrote beautifully, by the way. You paint an idyllic picture of Nantucket Massachusetts, but ultimately they're issuing this debt for affordable housing and in the perspective, they're very much not focused on affordable housing. They're just trying to sell the vision of the town. Well, yes. Kind of the amazing factoid, I think I discovered there was that the median house price on Nantucket is $3 million. Wow. Interesting. So who funds it? Who pays his bond? Is it going to be a property taxes? Or is it going to be? This is a general obligation bond. So full faith and credit of Nantucket. But that includes all the money they bring in including this tax on hotel rooms. And that has been a booming since the pandemic because people really wanted to get out there and they couldn't go abroad. They couldn't go to London like we were talking about. So like, well, let's go domestically. So Nantucket, let's go there. So that the money's been coming in over the gunnels. If I were going to ever buy a house in Nantucket and I'm not in the market. You have to factor in the cost of an ownership of a plane. Because there's no way you're doing that very thing. That's a crazy trip. So if I can't afford a plane and a house, I'm not buying the house. What do you think of that strategy? A lot of boat, come on. No. Oh, yes. No, no, I need to take off from Mars town and just jet up to Nantucket. If I can't afford that, that doesn't fit into my talking about a little propeller plane or what? Yeah, I could do that, but no, I probably need a jet because the weather gets kind of funky up there, you know? So the last person, you know, John F. Kennedy Jr. flew a plane up there at propeller. That didn't work out so well. Well, no. All right, so Nantucket in the bond market, raising money, I'm assuming it's a top rated Bond, right? No, triple-A. Triple-A. Which rated triple-A? Because Nantucket has the money coming in and they also got money from the federal government, the arpa funds, and things like that. So they are doing very well. And these bars sold at very good prices for them. So they'll be able to, you know, the building of affordable housing is something that they have been doing. So it's not as though this is brand new. They have been trying to keep up with this. And yet the demand is fabulous because they haven't sold enough. They haven't built enough affordable housing. All right, Joe, good stuff. No, that's it. That's it. Joe my second editor Bloomberg brief are weekly. Overview of all things municipal bond, we go from mall of America in secaucus, New Jersey, all the way up to Nantucket for affordable housing. The municipal bond market is everywhere. And it is triple tax free. Ed has no idea
Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"nantucket" Discussed on Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"No. I'm smart at all. Just show up at a brewing service. I'm sure there's a sports car. The other bruins fans there, you know, taka hockey, you made a couple guys. Maybe you get a number or two. All right. Yeah, the lookout, you go up there, watch some games by the obi fairy. Yeah, I don't know. This poor guy's gonna be walking around, drop my name and he'd be like, fucking guys have been here 20 years. That guy's full of shit. That's not even a native. Martha's Vineyard, 728 reviews on Google 4.5 stars. Nice. Who reviews an island? I don't know, it's literally says it's an island. So it's like, Martha's Vineyard island 4.4 .5 stars. I just can not emphasize this enough. It is not for everyone. All right? The fact that the boat, you'll kind of drive around and it's gorgeous. I mean, seriously, every town it's, you know, it took me a little while to maybe be a little more settled than my own head and that kind of stuff. And the fact I could leave. But when I would come back and you pull in on the boat and behaving and you just like this place is insane. Like Nantucket's more fun, but Martha's Vineyard from a picturesque standpoint. I think has it all over dance. Is it losing any land? Is that a concern for those islands? I'd like is that water rising or anything? You know, I haven't checked the charts lately. Now, mostly if you look at the way the currents work, it's drags one part of the beach and builds up towards another end on the south part of the island. So I don't know, I don't know like chappaquiddick to the whole another story, so I imagine some of the four wheel paths are different now. But again, I've kind of talking to my ass a little bit because I don't know. So I'm going to stop. But fair. Yeah. But it was those winners man. Those winters were. I took a semester off, were construction there. That was necessary, but it was, actually, it wasn't necessarily. So it's already getting thrown like a mixer like drinking party on a fishing boat. Is that can you do that? Are these people gonna judge you because it's not like a nice yacht or something? I don't know, or at least just like a normal boat. No, no, you can do that. I mean, the thing is is that you can some of the fishing boats are basically party modes, you know? Like, oh hey, here are your rods and here's 70 white claws. And they were like, oh, we didn't catch anything, you know? It was a terrible time, you know? So I don't really know if this guy sounds like he's pretty hardcore in the fishing thing. I think we've covered this. I think we've talked about this a lot. So I don't have a ton more ad. Thank you for listening to the podcast today, and we will have a full episode on Wednesday and please subscribe. Thanks to Kyle Steve, primers to the podcast range Spotify..
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Biden, Fauci Want You to Live in Fear With Masks
"Dennis prager here and what was the latest that you have to wear a mask indoors? I mean, he's telling you you should hear encouraged to wear a mask indoors. How can we further ruin the quality of people's lives? He was caught there, by the way, and was in Massachusetts. He was vacationing. Nantucket? And he wasn't wearing a mask. The question of whether they believe what they say. Is an interesting question, but only God can answer it. But I've always said that Gavin Newsom citing in the middle of the lockdown and closing of restaurants many of which never recovered. And he's sitting there with his buddies at his $1000 meal. Without a mask on, it doesn't make him a hypocrite. He, of course, he's a hypocrite, but that doesn't mean anything. At bottom they don't believe it. They believe it's good for you, you sucker, who believe Newsom and Fauci. And Biden, you're a sucker if you believe them. And you've decided to be one. That's what's so amazing. That's what so depressing to me. You have decided to believe nonsense. To scare your life and scare your children and deprive your children of friends and deprive your children of play and deprive your children of school. You made those decisions. I have to ask my fellow Americans was this not serious enough for you to read about? A people like me do we want to die? Do we want our families to die? Why do we think differently? I'll tell you why because we know more.
Mark Levin
Joe Biden Announces Travel Restrictions Following New COVID Variant from South Africa
"Take a listen to this guy I mean he was in rare form today even for Joe Really do wonder what happened before he was wheeled out and tuck it and you know the SAP said hey goes something to say something about the variants Plus I mean you can get excited because we're gonna get an issue who travel restrictions and you can talk about locking people down and mandating vaccines again And that was his inspired approach today The Nantucket The president came out to advise that he was restricting travel Which is interesting because even in what he said there he said South Africa and 6 other countries I somewhere along the way it turned out to be 8 in total So you know old Joe Not sure if Who knows You know maybe it was what do you think Susan Rice Google went ahead and added in another country or I don't know Nothing to worry about nothing to see there Our fearless leader has the new variant of concern Under control
KOMO
"nantucket" Discussed on KOMO
"The COVID pandemic saw Americans coming out for parades and family dinners President Biden wished Americans a happy and closer to normal Thanksgiving from Nantucket Massachusetts A Long Island emergency room to reopen tomorrow after resolving staffing shortages related to the state's COVID vaccine mandate for healthcare workers Chuck sievertson ABC News Komo news 1000 FM 97 7 7 31 right now 47° art Sanders and your top local stories from the como 24 7 news center One person died several others injured in a multi vehicle crash east of stanwood to project kennett says the accident happened about four today on state route 5 32 west of I 5 four to 5 vehicles were involved in traffic is currently being diverted off the highway the driver that caused the accident is in custody in the investigation is ongoing King counties agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a formerly jailed man who was beaten in his sleep by a man who was placed into general population despite being in what a doctor described as a meth fueled rage The Seattle times as Abdul Ali musi suffered broken bones in his face broken teeth and a traumatic head injury when he was attacked in 2015 by Carl Allen Anderson The man with mental illness in a criminal history had been booked for attacking a stranger in Seattle News has been booked for hours earlier for the first time in his life Anderson was eventually convicted of assault Floodwaters have receded throughout much of Watkins county but one family that was rescued from their home is bracing for more rain almost coal Miller spoke with a video shows U.S. border patrol agents out of Blaine rescuing a family one of many carried out last week Marla cross was on that boat These guys literally were doing this for hours prior They were cold They were happy They were kind It was awesome I am so thankful Her neighbors as well as those in nearby towns such as Everson and sumac are bracing for whatever comes next I think people are in high alert honestly My neighbors are stressed They're pretty stressed about this The Washington military department says it's still assessing the entirety of the destruction and that is too soon to say if federal health or a major disaster declaration will be issued this family heading into Thanksgiving simply thankful they have each other We prayed about it and you know God was taking care of us Go was Cole Miller in nooksack Damages from this month's devastating floods are skyrocketing more from como's Jeff pojo and welcome county alone upwards of $20 million in damage has been done to homes and other 20 million to businesses and even more to the area's infrastructure John Garret with the sheriff's offices emergency management division and he tells the Bellingham Herald that costs will continue to climb I would not be surprised to see the total here end up in I would not be surprised to see it at 50 million Much of the damage was caused when the nooksack river spilled over its banks on November 14th Jeff pojo news Common news 7 34 traffic every ten minutes on the fours from the duban logger of traffic center Tama Fulton Well we're still watching a crash in span away on southbound highway 7 It's just before highway 5 O 7 the McKenna highway both of the south on highway 7 lanes are blocked at a traffic spin reduced to just one light at each direction It looks like they are alternating traffic through the northbound lane using it as a southbound lane The earlier crash in Sumner on highway one 62 that was blocking both directions between 96th street east and 80th street east that's been cleared away There's still some residual slowing through that area and we're still watching a crash in Bellevue on southbound four O 5 at 5 20 It looks like it's just down to one lane block now still seeing a bit of slowing through that area but it's starting to thin out gradually as it looks like one lane has been reopened This report is sponsored by Pacific science center pack side brings you the world premier exhibition hockey faster than ever dive deep into the world of hockey and is highly interactive exhibit open to all ages info at pack site dot org Our next combo traffic at 7 44 Gabby Coney has your como forecast all right everybody So we're still looking at the possibility for some scattered rain into early Friday morning mostly where convergence son as possible and portions of kings to home wish and.
Mark Levin
Jen Psaki Tells Americans Joe Biden Doesn't Care About Your Expensive Thanksgiving
"But she is right about one thing Prices have gone up Quite a bit 6.2% on average for a lot of things even more so especially the things on your Thanksgiving table And wages have only gone up less than 1% year over year So inflation's up 6.2% over the year your wages if you're lucky went up by less than 1% Oh if you're on social security though they make a big deal out of this People on social security got a cost of living increase of 5.7% We'll excuse me pal But if inflation is up 6.2% and the cost of living increase in social security was 5.7% I'm still losing money I'm still losing money And they don't care Oh no are they working really hard They really they do care They do care Oh really Here's Peter doocy asking Jen Psaki about the optics of Joe Biden going to Nantucket for Thanksgiving with one of the richest people in the country while families are struggling to get a stouffer's meal on their table What message doesn't say into the middle class Americans President Biden says that he's trying to help for struggling this week to cover the cost of the most expensive Thanksgiving ever that the president is going to take a few days off at a billionaire's compound in the untucking Well first I would say I don't know if you've cooked a Turkey before but a 20 pound Turkey is a pretty big Turkey I think we can all agree There are about $1 more Yeah it's only $1 What do you complaining about Go eat your Turkey and stop bitching at us okay Come on you ungrateful Americans People take issue with me saying they don't care Does that sound like somebody who cares Did that sound to you like somebody who deeply cares about the increase in inflation in the increase of costs It the most expensive Thanksgiving in American history A billionaire's compound in
Mark Levin
Breitbart News: Biden Will Deliver Speech on Economy Before His Thanksgiving Vacation
"Joe Biden planning to blame business for inflation and higher prices breitbart writes He's going to blame them for rising prices and higher inflation this week as his poll numbers continue to plunge The president is scheduled a speech on the economy and lowering prices for the American people unquote at The White House tomorrow before he leaves for his Thanksgiving vacation in Nantucket Massachusetts Why is he going to Nantucket Shouldn't he go to math as vineyard with all the other kooks It's got to be a Kennedy there somewhere There's like 4 billion of them But ladies and gentlemen he's gonna blame business for rising prices and higher inflation He's going to use the worst kind of propaganda demagoguery Now he doesn't use it on the communist Chinese and G doesn't use it on the fascist Russians and impute and he doesn't use it on the islamo Nazis and Tehran Now he uses it on Americans whether it's Republican state legislature What honey Oh my pants are down Anyway so The guy that created this situation with inflation gasoline prices food prices he's going to blame the very entities that are saying stop the regulations Stop the prohibition Stop the taxes They're very businesses That we're providing plentiful fuel at a very low price that we're providing plentiful feud at a food at a very low price Plenty of everything The shells were full even during the height of the pandemic This guy comes in the one man wrecking ball and he's gonna blame them They're very people who say let us drill and produce more natural gas and oil Let us frack Now you can't do that Well the prices are going to go up the supply is going to go down We're going to have to peck We're going to have to rely even on our enemies And then he blames those
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"nantucket" Discussed on AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
"I was literally screaming in pain. You know, maybe she said that. Apparently she did. It doesn't mean what she said was a very negative thing. You can read that as almost a positive thing. I know being raped is not a good thing, but rough sex screening and pain, I can see a girl say that while laughing. I really could. Maybe he's very well in doubt. I have no idea I have no clue. I'm trying to present the argument that has never presented in the press. It's always presented in a very slanted way. Another women and another woman in this business inside a report referred to as Allison, she didn't call her encounter with portnoy a sexual school, assault, but she described it as really aggressive. And she felt very preyed upon after she left. I don't know what that means. She was 19 at the time when she reached out to him and agreed to meet up at his Nantucket house. Three days after they had sex, she became suicidal. I was hospitalized. First of all, her mother had told her to go to the hospital because she was so depressed. That doesn't weird fucking people. Those are weird people. You've been depressed for three days, go to the hospital. That's strange. Then I'm playing with a full deck. I don't know anybody who would do that to their daughter. I just don't. Now, her mother tried to bring legal action against port and I sure. And then the girls stopped because she said, I was afraid he would drag me through the mud. Well, that's what you're doing now to him. So now there's nothing illegal about two people having rough sex. Believe it or not, some people like it that way. These women didn't have any bumps or bruises and both of them continued to text and direct message him after they said encounters. To me, that's the big thing. That always puzzles me. One of them did sleep on the couch after sex because as portnoy explained, we couldn't agree on anything
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Barstool Sports Founder Dave Portnoy Hit With a Scandalous Sex Suit
"I'm about to take the show tonight and a huge accusatory story comes across the wires or the Internet as we say nowadays. That barstool sports founder Dave portnoy had centrally assaulted two women in his home in Nantucket. Some writer for business outsider worked on this hit piece for 8 months before publishing this story. If Thursday afternoon and portnoy immediately put on a nice crisp white shirt put on his good reading glasses and calmed his hair right and posted two lengthy videos on Twitter proclaiming his innocence. And anybody who's a fan of barstool or portnoy or even his overnight successful one bite pizza reviews, which he turned into a business, they can tell you that many members of the mainstream media have tried unsuccessfully to cancel him. It got to the point where he proclaimed that I am un cancellable. I don't think anybody should say that. But he said what he said. These people in the media are jealous of his company that he owns barstool sports, which he built from the ground up, that jealous because while all of the half assed Internet journalists who try and knock him down or living pretty much hand to mouth, no one knows who they are. Dave portnoy is the true example of the American Dream coming true through hard work and persistence. And a little bit of luck, but that takes nothing away from his growth from his humble
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"nantucket" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"Nantucket Residents against Turbines has scheduled a press conference to announce a federal lawsuit. Aimed at stopping the construction of offshore wind farms in the waters south of the island group indicates their suit will be based on efforts to protect the northern Atlantic right Wail, which Noah described as one of the world's most endangered large whale species. In fact, there were less than 400 of them remaining on its website, the group says they're concerned with the adverse impacts from the increased construction vessel traffic. Pile driving and operational noise that will have on the critically endangered mammals. In May, the Biden administration issued final permits for Vineyard wind, the nation's first commercial scale offshore wind project, 43. It's traffic and weather together. The Subaru retailers of New England all wheel drive traffic called the three. You got to pick somewhere to start, Michael. Well, why don't we start up to the North here? Ben. Some of the busier highways are north of the city with 1 28 Nora 1 28 North. We've got these on again, off again Delays that really stretch from the Mass pike all the way up to four into 25. Then it's a struggle from wind street up past, 93 looks like delays in both directions through Peabody in Danvers. 93. Dortmund is bad, really? Right off those They can bridge up through Medford, then Commerce Way up to a left lane crash right at well, a little after Route 62. It's that time. Let's check out Route one with the need and bank traffic copter. Well, hi, Mike Room, but not as slow from sergeant straight until in the street this afternoon. More delays are waiting for you up around the Linfield Tunnel. Those continue up past the jug handle light. Colbun also backed up from the just after the 95 on ramp down through the drug handle, and we do have a crash on Walnut Street and August over over Route one that's causing some pretty big backup since both sides fallen street. Christian AC and the need of think, Copy the self beyond Expressway. Just a grind here from the tunnel to South Bay. Then granted of all the way to route 24 never found 93 is bad from 95 to 24 then Furnace Brook Park. Way of passing upon its circle. Clear up at the tunnel. Look at that. 1 28 South bound tough Route nine Down into debt of 24 south is bad from 4 95 down through Taunton. With a crash cleanup going on before we won 40 and then delays on the mass pike westbound starting after 1 28 out to route 30, Mike King WBZ traffic on the three humans for the next several days will have the stickies tonight. Uncomfortable for sleeping Turned up the If you got it, 74 for the low with those human conditions and hot, humid.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"nantucket" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"Group called Nantucket Residents against Turbines has scheduled a press conference to announce a federal lawsuit aimed at stopping the construction of offshore wind farms in waters south of the island group indicates their suit will be based on efforts to protect the northern Atlantic right whale. Which Noah describes as one of the world's most endangered large whale species. In fact, there's less than 400 remaining on its website. The group says they are concerned with the adverse impacts from the increased construction vessel traffic pile, driving and operation noise of the critically endangered mammals. In May, the Biden administration issued final permits for vineyard wind, the nation's first commercial scale offshore wind. Project two. Oh, three. Traffic and weather together. The Subaru retailers of New England all wheel drive traffic on the three is after the south, dealing with some Tuesday afternoon trouble, Mike. Yeah, That's right, Ben. Yeah, this is Rue 24 south. It's jammed well over two miles, basically taunting down into Berkeley with a crash pretty serious, one involving a tanker truck, which apparently jackknifed. This is down after Podell Fridge Street. All lanes are shot. Watch for a detour. They're forcing everyone off at pad Elford Street. If you can get off at route 1 40. That would be a good idea to see just an area to avoid 24 South. Taunted into Berkeley. You want to stay away now? Elsewhere 4 95 North is backed up over two miles through Middleborough. That's roadwork going on up after route 44 just one lane getting by their over to the expressway South. Here we go. Stop and go from the tunnel down to the gas tank again. Slow into the Braintree Split now. 93 North is backed up shortly after 28. Up onto the expressway to Furnace Brook Parkway. You're on the brakes again. A past Columbia road and slow going up towards the tunnel to at least 20 minutes. Braintree in the Boston three South. Got that familiar? Stop and go route 18 Derby Street. You know, it goes from three lanes to two there northbound from Stop and go coming up past Derby Street two we see that sometimes up to the north 4 95 north is hung up a few miles coming up through Chelmsford. There had been a breakdown in a terrible spot up at route 1 10. Luckily, they've got that out of the way. 93 north Beyond the usual stop coming up towards 1 28. Route three is fine coming up to Bill Rika, but Delays on the outbound or southbound hole connector. It's Elaine taken by industrial laugh, roadwork going on there and to the west to 90 East is backed up almost a mile through Marlboro. It's a crash right at the 4 95 interchange there. My King WBC's traffic on the three get a case of the McGee is to deal with around here. It's humid conditions. We do have some sunshine around this afternoon. Warm feeling, though, amid U Upper eighties, most spots going to feel like it's in the nineties..
Airline Pilot Guy - Aviation Podcast
"nantucket" Discussed on Airline Pilot Guy - Aviation Podcast
"Galloway says swansea wind for sale low hours fresh paint clean interior light water damage. No low ball offers. I three to our audience there so alright and Finally we have this item in news. And i'm not sure if this is still going on or not. It's been a in our news note but for a while Have you guys heard about any updates. On the story about fuel shortages nuts and look at the lives is telling me look at the last article. Okay here we go. Last article is right here. Nantucket airport runs out of jet fuel. And i'm assuming this is this is from the What nantucket magazine Nantucket memorial airport has run out of fuel at the peak of summer impacting commercial and private flights. At one of new england's busiest transportation hubs on saturday. The airport suspended jet fuel sales and informed commercial carriers that they needed to fly into the island fully loaded with fuel shortage. Airport officials said saturday night that they were not only facing overwhelming demand for jet fuel but also a logistical nightmare and getting fuel tanker trucks to the island due to record competition for reservations. The summer on the steamship authority fairies. They also cited a national truck driver shortage as playing a role in the unprecedented situation on saturday. The airport reserved jet fuel for scheduled. Air carriers including jet blue delta united. An american in order to ensure those flights and thousands of passengers reached their destinations around one pm. The airport stopped selling fuel to the hundreds of private aircraft that come and go from the island on any given summer day and liz's believing that this article was written this past saturday Yeah so Our first article regarding the fuel shortages was talking about american airlines warning about the jet fuel shortages around the united states and asking pilots to conserve and So talks about these possible issues. And i think it all kind of stems from the fact that they're having a hard time finding people to drive these fuel truck these tanker trucks with fuel to get them distributed to various airports. If it's something like the united kingdom they had a lot of shows us in supermarkets and things because a lot of truck drivers have Colt the Covert or they've been pained in ourself isolating and Some guys have moved on to other jobs because Joined the lockdown wasn't capsule over a wet full them So yeah it's And when you get a sudden demaim like this very hard to To suddenly gear up a transport system that had previously been just idling alone yup Let's see jeff again. Just have the flights meet up with tanker once they take off Yeah no not a lot of commercial jets. Have that capability jeffrey. And you know that smart aleck Well they should change it. The official wave at each other. That's true we have all your fuel. Yeah yeah just kim. Logistics supply chain issues. Like anything else. I have in my own anecdotal experience at least well. I didn't fly for about thirty days. So maybe maybe that's when all the field shortages were going on. But i have not noticed that Before my little break and since i returned which was yesterday so And in fact Acne airlines. I believe said that they weren't really being affected too much by nor was southwest airlines. I think they said they were just doing a lot of anchoring but again i do. I have not done any tinkering on on this trip as of yet. So maybe it's because of the type of airplane flannel now. But anyway yeah of tinkering for the uninitiated carrying during extra fuel as an tanker truck tanker yes kerry if you saw the one of the things about tinkering fuel is that it. It's white and so the more weight you add to an airplane the more feel you're gonna burn carrying that extra weight but The airlines will look at things such as the availability of fuel but usually it's the price of fuel until a lot of times if they can put extra fuel onboard the airplane that will help offset some of the costs of filling up the will not filling up but putting in fuel for the return flight and they can save some money and in that way but It's kind of a dual edged sword so to speak as far as tinkering fuel. But anyway okay. That's about it anything else to add before we get onto my favorite part of the show which is getting to know us. You know what i meant to do. I meant to make an overlay. That had the lyrics on here just to.
Radio Boston
"nantucket" Discussed on Radio Boston
"Who live close to the shoreline. And you know. I think it's time to start thinking about. How does how do we naturalized our coast as well. So that were getting people in the development out of harm's way or in some cases having nature help protect and make our areas more resilient on the coast where we live and work tom different. There's a lot of trade offs because you can't just define that term for us a little bit. What do you mean by naturalizing the coast. Yeah i mean. I think it's thinking about how are salt marshes our beaches in areas that right now provide protect in buffers from storm surge minimize wave action in flooding or are just by nature right. They're not developed in so they're not like they can handle it. He'll respond to change. That's what they've done now. It's what they're sort of evolved to to deal with as systems whereas you know seawall when it breaks. You've got a repair it. You have to renew it. If it's a house it gets damaged. You know you have to repair it. In some cases the house could fall into the sea right Roads need to be rebuilt. And so you know the more natural coastline. You have resilient it is just by nature that it can respond in heal itself. So are there ways that we can. You know incorporate and think about nature based solutions which is a term you may or may not have heard about which is using nature as part of the part of your infrastructure and ways to help buffer the impacts of coastal change so. I want to pick up another thread. You mentioned you talked about people having to move right move. Physical buildings houses relocate one of the solutions. You talk about is that but you also say that there's a really small amount of remaining land on martha's vineyard and nantucket that are available for development. So where do people move to. And how do we solve for that problem. Yeah that van will be. That will be a challenge. For sure is to start thinking about. What are the relocation possibilities at the same time thinking about. How do we make more resilient areas. I mean i've talked about coastal corridors. That these are the areas where they are going to be impacted navy through tidal flooding or storms storm events that are.
America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast
"nantucket" Discussed on America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast
"Hate actors joining me. Is priscilla johnson bender. Priscilla is a seasonal resident of nantucket. And the chair of the property committee of the trustees of reservations priscilla. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you for having me. So how long have you been a resident of kentucky. Well we've been coming up here for many decades with our kids but when we've been actually living on island in the season for the last seven years okay. So that's quite a while. And what role do you play with. The trustees reservations. You are the chair of the property committee. What does that mean yes. Well for untuckit. We have a property. Only one property here and that's cascadia co two nature preserve and there are group of people who are volunteers who live on the island and have an interest in the property and work to support it and support the rangers who manage it just described that. How often do you meet. What are some of the issues that come up when the committee meets. Well we meet two or three times a year in person and off-season Have a phone call once a year and we work on ways to support the growth of the great point circle membership which are people who really give it a higher level to support the mission of the trustees here on untuckit the trustees is much larger organization that incorporates all of massachusetts but this one property of their hundred twenty is the only one here. It's eleven hundred acres a very very fragile and imperilled lance along the coast so we try very hard to do it. We can't support it as part of this podcast. There's a partnership between the untuckit conservation foundation. And the trustees has the foundation's work. Overlap with anything that you're doing oh they overlap enormously for one thing. The properties are kind of mosaic together. The conservation foundation which is amazing organization as well has a number of properties alongside the trustees properties out there. The gatehouse is a entryway that the trustees manages but is owned by the conservation foundation so they really work hand in glove and on the issues surrounding nature and the preservation of the land. And how we're going to manage and regulate things that are going on out there. The two organizations were very closely so even in the seven years that you've lived on the island. Have you noticed changes when you go out to the beach other things that stand out to you. Well obviously there's the erosion issue with the rising tide some more severe storms has just really astounding this past year. We had enormous storm in december. I think it was around the eighth of december. That really took out a chunk of the island. And i found just week or so ago i went out in a spot that i used to love to go to sit and contemplate the ocean with my dog just doesn't exist and it was almost like losing a friend to find that this physical place that i have spent so much time at was just gone. I had spent so many times even in january watching the snowflakes swirl over the water there with my dog and literally. The dune is gone. There's nothing there that was kind of a shock so as a resident to and when you talk to other residents of nantucket how is the issue of climate change. Come up are people talking about it at all. Oh absolutely there's a whole commission that has been formed to talk about resiliency untuckit and its waterfront. The cascadia co two property really defines nantucket as it the shape of the island. You just look at that iconic shape that you see on logos all over the place that point heading up towards the northeast is really very defining for the image of nantucket and is also defining for our waterways. The harbor that made nantucket such a great whaling station. All of that is possible because of these barriers that protect to the harbor front and if that is to go and go and be washed away the entire ocean comes right into the town is just open and that's in ecology disaster and it's a town disaster so both the foundation and the trustees are talking more and not just talking but they're doing adaptation planning. How we're going to adapt to climate change. Is that coming up at all with the work. You're doing his chair of the property committee. So yes it's absolutely in everyone's minds. Most people who were there have specific interest either as Recreation interest in terms of fishing or personal interests in their homes are located in areas that are endangered. We aren't really responsible directly for policies around that but it certainly is in everyone's mind that access to the point is going to be limited that we might need to think about other ways to adapt to how we access it. The trustees mission is really not just about preserving nature and special places but is also about inviting people into enjoy those special places and how we gauge people with them and clearly that has to be rethought as the spaces. Themselves are more and more imperilled. Do we allow vehicles to travel over the dunes. Will we'd certainly block off vehicles during nesting season for the threatened shore. Birds cascadia coach. Who is home to several different endangered and threatened species. Obviously the piping plover is everyone's favourite because they're adorable but also turns and oyster catchers in northern harriers. All of these things are endangered. Just like the house czar and we close things down to them. Maybe we need to think about other ways to engage people and bring them in to the space without endangering the dooms case in tuck it. Is this world class tourist destination so you have the residents of the island but then you have a steady flow of tourists especially in the summer. Do feel the tourists understand. What some the long-term changes are going to be to the islands in light of sea level rise. I think the ones who come here regularly and are really devoted to the islands. The people who come up for a week or two weeks every year and have been coming up for a long time. Those tourists probably do care about that very much. There are other people who come up for the nightlife and the summer sailing and things like that and might not be as aware of it. I think they're beginning to see a little bit more through social media but the long tourists who come up year after year for a week. I think they are seeing it. So you obviously care. Deeply about the refuge in your involved with the the property committee. What's next for you. What how are you gonna stay involved. Oh gosh well. I've been working to try to increase my own education on what the issues are and how we go about preserving the land we care about cleaning up the oceans. There's just so much to learn about. And i think if i can help direct where we're putting our energies to study. Things make new policies or even put funding into research and initiatives and scholarship. As part of the trustees. I think that might be helpful in our own. Little small corner of the world. The nantucket is one teeny island but in in many ways it's a barometer..
America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast
"nantucket" Discussed on America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast
"At the time in really liked who he was but the organization stood for and they were. I don't know it's just a good fit. Do you get to visit the refuge very often. Oh yeah and my sister lives out on a house in wa win. It and her house looks out over the property across the harbor. So we we spend a lotta time out there. It gets crowded in the summer but we go out there when we can in. My sister looks out over it every day of her life. I thought maybe the number visitors visiting during cova would actually go down but it sounds like because everyone wanted to go outside because you couldn't be inside. The refuge actually saw an uptick and visitors. Did you notice this. I did and so. Did the property manager diane lang who by the way does just a magnificent job. Managing the property. She noticed it as well and we have periodic meetings. I'm on the trustee the board for the trustees for the property and so we chat about it. You know how interesting. It is. The ebb and flow of the visitors to the to the property. You know some of the time in the summer were not allowed to go all the way out to grade point because of the nesting birds. The federally regulated nesting birds. So even though people can't go all the way out there it's very very popular. It's a beautiful piece of property in are very few places like it on the planet. You probably never thought of that but you. There's this donated land from your family that so many people get the benefit from it actually brought so much probably peace of mind for people going through this pandemic that that must be something that you must think about a little bit. Yeah i you know that is true. It is a very peaceful on one side of it. The skinny strip of land most of it is pretty skinny strip land and on one side sunrises and on the other side the sunset so you can't you know anytime of the day that you go up there it's beautiful will longtime resident nantucket just even the refuge or even the island itself. Have you noticed any changes and more toward the natural landscape. Well sure this property changes all the time. My father did a study many many years ago of what he called the wagging of great point which is the very tip of the property the farthest northern tip. And if you look at photos from historical photos you see great point going to the left a little bit to the right and back to the left again and they called it the wagging so the changes all the time but it sure because the climate change erosion we have these slow moving storms. Now if they come from the northeast you know the washes. The water washes over the sand. And it's very concerning but there are a lot of really really smart people who are working on this and some of them that are affiliated with the trustee trustees doing studies about different places that are more fragile and different options that we all have to try to foster lack of a rosen. You've mentioned climate change in this episode is going to be about climate change. How does it come up with you. And as a resident of the island does it come up in conversations with other residents. And when you talk to the people of the trustees they have to start thinking about sea level rise in how they're gonna managed property. Have you been able to even listen in or participate in any sort of those discussions short. Everybody talks about it because there's an awful lot of this island that is just you know a foot above sea level so it's like some of it is like a barrier island if you've been down to the south carolina are down that way. It's like a barry barrier island. So everybody's talking about it. Everybody's worried about it. They have done a lot of things to the town of nantucket because of co two or cost gate gets compromised in some of these very large north storms. The water would come right into nantucket town in. So they're doing some things to shore up the wards and the area where in the in nanotech at harbor. But everybody's talking about it you know it's just something that anybody that lives on a fragile piece of property like this. I'm sure they're talking about it. Everywhere where there's islands. So do you have a favorite spot. In the refuge i would say hoskin upon which is a lovely little pond with trees around in the osprey nests there and but the actual tip of great point is spot too. But we haven't been able to get there for many years because the endangered seals if taken over that spot so people are not allowed to walk out their offense stuff. Doc but i would say cuss- gator pond deal. Thank you so much. Thank you for your family donating the property in the first place or we wouldn't even be doing this podcast and thanks for all that you're doing well. I appreciate your.
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"nantucket" Discussed on America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast
"I i really think it's important that the town come to grips with realizing that the margin against the harbor in the sea is is moving forward. And so you know. I think i don't know what will it do to real estate. When people begin to realize the islands days are are numbered to a certain extent it may make more precious in the short term. I know but it's it's one thing that was in the background. When we first got here and for the first decades we are here but is now really in the forefront. And i think will you know thank goodness. There is always a generation because we really need people who will put away their nostalgia for the way ticket. It was because nantucket. Many of them had their greatest summer of their youth when they are eighteen on an intricate beach. And never want the island to change from that and and that's dangerous that kind of nostalgia for the way it was. And then you have historic rations. Which is this is a historic town a fascinating thing to be preserve but you know it's days are number whether you do. Do you move that historic town to the high ground behind it. Do you know what do you do you know. And i'm not in a position to answer those questions but man they are going to be tough scenarios to think through and ultimately come to some decision so do you have favorite spot on nantucket and why. Well i actually have. Two favorite spots. One of them is what we mentioned earlier. The confiscate upon every summer my wife and i figure out when high tide is at noon and then a head down in our sailboat Sailing the full seven mile length of nantucket harbor to the entrance. To cascade upon it's actually a salt pond connected by little narrow sliver of channel and we sail in l. to the pond do a ceremonial lap. And then have lunch on the beach and then After lunch now the tide is flowing out. We sail out of the Out of the pond and then back up the harbor to our mooring seven miles away and for me. It's just a new model experience every time it's i it just seems to connect me not only with the island but the universe in this in a nice leary way and then the other one is entirely different. Parts of the island in pretty much in the center of the island is what's called ultra rock. It was apparently a. It's the highest point of the island just over one hundred feet high. It's almost as high as highest point in the dump and it's a stunning view. It's not much height If you're from the west but if you're on the it gets and you can just see what are known. As the moore's rolling a landscape a- grasslands that typified the eastern end of the island and you can see nancy on either side of nantucket you can see the ocean to the south and the sound to the north. It's it's as close as you're ever going to get on land to seeing nantucket in its entirety. It was a sacred place the native americans and from my from my perspective. It's it's still a sacred places they come on the untuckit and so between those two. Those are my my favorites out to very extreme examples. Now this has been a real tree chatting with you. I appreciate you sharing your perspective on what's going on. Tuck it in. Thank you so much. For coming on the podcast. What it's been great to talk to you. Doug a a real pleasure. Eight after joining me is teal zicklin. Colloton high. -til welcome to the podcast. Hi nice to be with you well. It's a pleasure to have you on and you are a longtime resident of nantucket island. How long have you lived on the island. We go back many generations. My mother's side of the family back many generations. Maybe we don't want to dig deep. But what's the story there. How did they get over to nantucket island and why were they were primarily fought sheep farmers and we didn't have any whaling captains in our family but primarily she farmers and living off the land where we're talking about the co two refuge in your family is responsible for the donation of the land. That has become the refuge. Can you tell us about that. Why did they donate the land. And what's the whole story. There in nineteen seventy four. So originally my grandfather was dedicated to purchasing and preserving the land up there he realized that it was very special and so he wanted to preserve it for families to go up and picnic to people to go hunting and fishing without you know building on it or even that was. It's all sand but at the time there were no real regulations but it was to preserve the property in one thousand nine hundred seventy four. My grandmother harry withers. Bacchus decided that because the property had gotten so popular so many people with suv's going up there and it was very difficult to manage it from our family standpoint so she decided along with my mother and my father decided to give over eight hundred acres to the st so that they could formally manage formerly protect in really just pay attention and allow people to go up there safely and while protecting the property so your grandfather was the originator of this i mean. I'm assuming you knew your grandfather. You got to spend time with them. But not quite. Did you ever have a conversation with him. I said when you were younger and did. Did he talk much about why he was doing this. And why it was important to him. No he didn't. While i was a kid when he died but he was just dedicated to preserving the land you know he knew that the in the fishing and preserving it for families was really really important and he lived that he didn't talk about it he lived it but i was also. I was a kid you know. I was probably ten years old when he died but he spent a lot of time on the property in just genuinely loved it now. Why the trustees of reservations. Why was it that group that seemed like a good fit for donating land to my grandmother and her family attorney decide. They met with gordon abbott at the time in really liked who he was but the organization stood for and they were..
America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast
"nantucket" Discussed on America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast
"Twenty five foot long open boats. Six people in them and you've built them with cedar and and so they would head out in their eyelid back. Then they're islands. That are now underwater because global warming but back then they were a thick with cedar trees as was co two and the nanto critters stripped those outlying alan's of cedar and were turning their attention to the toco two when the town fathers realized if we lose our cedar trees on co to. We're going to be in trouble so they outlawed the taking of red cedar from co two and so you see that You know Early in the historical record. It's been a refuge in a in a way from the very beginning of the english settlement. And you know what's happening today. Is i think perfectly in keeping with that tradition. And you know it's for us but there's not a lot of trees nantucket sandbank middle of the ocean with the wind. One of the windiest places on the east coast. It's a tough environment. Trees out there in co two. Tickly gator you have them. It's it's an important place that's you know. Not it's it's outlying so if you live on an tuck it it's not the first thing in your a point of focus but it's absolutely essential to the overall health of the silent era unique position as an author and historian to think about these issues. How has climate change. Come up in. What do you even think about the topic in regards to where you live. Oh you know. It's i remember when we first got here. You know people. I befriended a guy named west tiffany. Who was on the staff of the umass. Boston field station and west. He was trained in botany but had become erosion expert after living on the untuckit for decades and he was the first person in my experience to start saying look in as little as two hundred years. Things are going to change on this island. It's so low lying. The highest point on nantucket is at our town dump hundred feet. And so it's not gonna take much Sea level rise to have a huge impact and back. Then it was. Yeah yeah yeah you know. That's that's what you're saying west but now that's all changed you know people are are analyzing it and one of the things they're is that co two will be one of the first things to go and co two is lost that means nantucket harbor and the town of nantucket will be naked to the northerly lease at ravaged the this area in the winter. And so that's that's it's going to. It's going to create all sorts of havoc so it's a reality. That is settling in and when people look at the science and are willing to look at the science. They can't help but begin to say we have to begin to plan around this you know. Our lifeline is a ferry and You need to have a ferry terminal for that very to get here and so things are going to change i You know if if not in my lifetime in the lifetime of my children and their children or when you think about these things and how the landscapes could change you as a writer and as a historian you've written about how these landscapes what has gone on on these landscapes but now these are landscapes that potentially could be lost and they're not even be there anymore making history disaster influence at all. The things that you think about writing or just wander. Oh absolutely. I remember early on after we had moved here on untuckit. We have the nantucket town meeting which means this is democracy at its bare knuckled best. We don't elect representatives. We go to the high school auditorium in vote on proposals. Before the town and one of them was in the east under the island has been particularly hit hard with erosion and one of them was whether the town was gonna contribute to an attempt to delay erosion at a beach out there and i remember one guy stood up and said you know anyone who builds their house beside a beach is asking for trouble. That's why all the old time nantucket lived in town away from the the edges of this island. If you certainly summer people who do this are getting what they deserve. And then it was my neighbor just down the street. He's no longer with us but he said you know i'm hearing both sides. But he said you know when i die. I'm going to be buried on this island. And i don't want my coffin. Floating around brandt. Point is the the point around which the ferry comes into nantucket harbor and sure enough. He appealed to the island and they voted for that that particular proposal and so it gets at the very essence of who we are and and what we are on this planet and you know we'll displays be here after we die. No it won't after a certain period of time and so you know in a way it's a metaphor for all of us. You know the sun is gonna explode and all of all of the earth will go into oblivion you know so. That's the destiny but on an like this that is slowly enough quickly eroding. That destiny seems a little closer. What is your opinion about the future of nantucket. You've sort of alluded to in some of your previous answers. But just really what you thinking. Twenty fifty not into the too far future. But what is the future of nantucket while you know. What i've seen is the that hundred year storm that floods downtown nantucket is now becoming an annual event and It's just common. It's common and the town is building some parks beside the harbour. I just just think they're going to get the they're just not going to be there The next bad storm..
America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast
"nantucket" Discussed on America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast
"Joining me is nathaniel. Philbrick nathaniel is an american author of history a winner of the national book award for in the heart of the sea in finalist for the pulitzer prize. I not welcome to the podcast. It's great to join you. Well this is a real treat to have you on famous author. I don't get to talk to famous authors. That often on climate podcast. But i appreciate you making the time. But how long have you been a resident of the untuckit. We moved here in nineteen eighty six when our kids were one in four and so we have been. Here were year rounders. We don't go back and forth. We've been here thirty six years. Wow so you've written extensively about the islands yeah. I was sort of discovered history. After moving to nantucket nantucket was the whaling capital of the world and moby. Dick was my favorite novel of all times. And so it was sort of through the lens of melville that i i really got into the island's history and that led me to my first book about nantucket away offshore and in chapter of that was the story of the essex. The whale ship from nantucket that was rammed by whale and was the inspiration for the climax moby dick and so really moving to the target lunch me on the career. I followed ever since okay. I guess i'm just curious about that too. So you're on the island and you're getting interested in those things. But what is it. Just looking at the landscape in your own background understanding moby dick or their local people or the libraries. There that just have different resources. Yeah a little bit of all of that for the first thing nantucket in ireland and there is something about islands. There's a mode around us that says thirty plus miles wide and it. It seems to intensify experiences. you know. that's why. Darwin was in the galapagos when the theory of evolution hit him you know the heiser higher the lows are lower and i realized after moving here i was just fascinated with the people who had preceded us on the silent and i just i became a kind of local story for me that ultimately led to the history of not just the united states but the world because wailing was truly a global business in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and so but the other thing was it was very personal in a way. It was my home. I knew there had been. Quakers had been the dominant religion at one point. The island was predominantly native american for a well into the fifty years into the english. Settlement was a profoundly native place at the beginning. And you know the other thing was the resources were here. In a way that i really didn't appreciate at the beginning since i was kind of new to history There was there is an antic historical association. That has the whaling museum Which has just incredible archive of of logs journals letters. Then there's the nantucket hatha neom our library which had had just microfilmed of the newspaper collection. And then you have our town building. Which has town meetings going back to sixteen sixty and so it was in. They're all within a nathan mile of each other and it didn't know much of a so for me. It was just. It was what i was. I realized belatedly kind of what those destined to do so well watching is a popular thing. I'm assuming it's popular there in tuck in your own you focus on melville in moby dick and wondering this evolution of untuckit now whale-watching such an important part of the new england experience. Just your what do you think of that. you're this. Evolution of what wells means that island. Oh it's really interesting. 'cause you know here we have this whaling museum which kind of glorifies the slaughter of these creatures that are so important to us now in the twenty first century and nantucket tucker's have evolved back hundred fifty years ago. If you were a fourteen year old kid instead of going to high school you went on a whaling voyage in came back three years having traveled the world and killed as many wales as you could now an entirely different attitude prevails. There's an ma'am a marine mammal stranding team the full of volunteers that whenever a or a seal or or a dolphin washes up goes out and helps them and the in the epilogue of my book in the heart of the sea about the whale ship. Essex i was working on that book when a sperm whale and sperm. Whales are actually very rare. Rarely seen around here. But while i was working on this book this firm whale washed up on the east end of nantucket and -sconsin and it eventually died but it became this. This huge point of it was a calamity. initially because everybody wanted that whale to get out there and be okay but It had been injured. Apparently perhaps in a collision with the ship and died and then they thought well. Let's turn this tragedy into an opportunity with the state's permission. They used the nan. Tucker's age old techniques of stripping the blubber from a dead whale buried the bones so that they could the the what was left on their could decompose and those bones are now on display over the great hall of the whaling museum. Fantastic story you get to visit the coast. Gate tack co two refuge frequently. We we pronounce it by k. Co two kosgei is one of my favorite places on the planet it. There's a pond and this high grove of cedars overlooking it. And you know. The anti at harbor is seven miles long. And it's at the very edge of that harbors you have this big harbor leading to it. And then on the edges three thousand miles away portugal. And you know it's this grove of trees beside a pond at the edge of the universe is is just terrific and then co two. which is the sand. Spit kind of a scalloped sand spit that leads east west from that is also just an incredible piece of property. It's you know it's it's our borderland between us and nantucket sound. It's it's a catches the ways before the waves catch us. I guess we can't go into too much detail but can you give us some historical stories about the refuge. Yeah well you know the refuge was. It's interesting that the when the anti came here way back in the sixteen hundreds they initially were going to be a sheep farmers. that would This was an island without any wolves which was very unusual for new england so it made it a perfect place to raise sheep but then they realized a partly through the help of the trump inaugural the native peoples here. That you know. Hey there are these wales at show up. On the south shore every fall in stick around through the winter into spring right whales and so following the native lead they began to wail and that led that completely changed everything. Sheep remained but wailing was now at in for whaleboat wailing. You needed whale boats..
America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast
"nantucket" Discussed on America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast
"Become more resilient toothy level rise and what sort of planning and actually action is necessary to take the next steps. So you'd mentioned earlier that you were in the business of land acquisition but now's really more of a focus on science and research but when you look at some of the sea level rise projections you might have to think about some of your lands at might be lost to the sea. How's that influence what you're doing. They're very interesting. Some of our holdings are on the south end of the island which some fairly fantastic plant communities lows are fairly subject susceptible to erosion and have lost quite significant acreage over the past ten. Twenty thirty years. We have to look at those areas and determine how we can potentially mitigate for some of those losses and help facilitate the production of some of those plant communities in in other areas will. Have you had a chance to communicate with other islands. Islands have the unique situation where they're threatened by sea level rise and you're not necessarily gonna retreat inland. So are you talking to other islands. I know martha's vineyard just doing some things but even in areas that might be farther away from antarctica. Yeah we've certainly talked with martha's vineyard and similar type communities as it relates to some impact from sea level rise on manmade infrastructure and resources we ourselves the conservation foundation have been working with our colleagues and other areas not just even on islands but on the coastal communities that that are really seeing some brats to estrin resources. One of our biggest concerns is really what sea level rise will do to our salt marsh ecosystems. Which are some of the most productive ecosystems on the planet and have multiple multiple benefits if those are lost or the salt marshes are not allowed to migrate were essentially going to be losing very very important beneficial ecosystem over time. So we've been speaking with our colleagues science other scientists academic institutions to see what sort of strategies they've been employing in terms of protecting certain ecosystems such as salt marshes in their own community. Okay so in the past year. We've had this dramatic response to covert. It's impacted everyone. I imagined tourism dropped dramatically on nantucket. But i hear that even this year. There's just been a huge rebound the vaccines have come out. And you're seeing a lot of people coming out. How have you guys adjusted. I'm sure that was quite a whiplash. It's quite a whiplash for the economic community but it's very beneficial whiplash. At the end of the day for the stimulation of the tourist Connie to come back what was very interesting for the conservation foundation and similar land trust open space protection institutions during kovic. Is that when cova d- came. We saw an incredible spike in visitor. Use there wasn't a lot to do inside weren't restaurants to go to where they're movie theaters. There weren't social clubs turns watching music or any venues so we saw and there wasn't gyms there wasn't any gyms there wasn't any other wreck indoor recreational so we saw so many people utilize our properties which is quite rewarding till actually see how beneficial this open spaces and it was quite we always. We always knew the importance of open space but for those that just took it for granted over the years and then here they see it. It's really wanna. They're only outlets for doing something during these very difficult times and to have that a resource available to them. We heard so much appreciation in the community so we certainly saw impacts to the economy but the foundation itself are properties. Were busier than ever someone. Listening to this podcast. How can they learn more about what you guys are up to. I'm sure everyone's interested in. Different ways do coastal management in coastal adaptation Where should they go. Yes certainly one of the best resources that we have is our website. Www dot and conservation dot org and that has a wealth of information about our land-management strategies air science and stewardship departments and a lot of the projects and programs that they're doing particularly as it relates to the topic today sea level rise in salt marsh investigation and protection. We also have a science blog that can be signed up through that website and we have regular updates newsletters updates about our work that people can get involved more involved in. Do you have a favorite spot in the co two refuge. One of my favorite spots is one of the points called five fingered point. It's one of the cusp as spitz. That extended southward into the harbor and it really is on a particular time of the day with the angle of the sun shining. Just right you get this gorgeous gorgeous view east to west of the entire harbour and then of fairly peaceful beach it's quite and that's the real nice thing it's quiet and it's a place to escape and relax will thanks cormac for coming on and talking about the foundation and appreciate all the work that you're doing. Thanks so much for your time really appreciate it. After's joining me is nathaniel. Philbrick nathaniel is an american author of history a winner of the national book award for in the heart of the sea in finalist for the pulitzer prize. I not welcome.
America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast
"nantucket" Discussed on America Adapts the Climate Change Podcast
"Collier. Cormac is the president of the antarctic conservation foundation hiker. Welcome to the podcast. Hey thanks for having me here. What's a treat to have you on. Well let's get started and just give us some background. What is an untucked conservation foundation. The conservation foundation is a land trust on anton islands. We've been existence since nineteen sixty three through all of the efforts that we've done in the past many decades we've acquired over nine thousand acres on the island in permanent conservation that's upwards of one third of the total land mass of the island while so is your holdings is at like the principle thing that tourists used when they come to the island both tourists day day visitors weekend vendors weekly visitors also seasonal and year round residents all open for the public for their enjoyment also trying to balance the ecological integrity and the importance of our holdings with public access in public visitation. Okay so in a normal year. How many people are visiting your properties were saying. Thousands of nantucket a a resort community. We have about on average about eighteen. Thousand twenty thousand year round residents and that nat balloons upwards of sixty sixty five thousand individuals that are living or visiting on the island at any one time and many of them come for our open space for our beaches for trails for our winding walks through various plant communities nico systems and it's quite a draw for a lot of people that not only live here but visit as well. Okay so you also have a science and research program at the foundation. Our main focus over the past fifty years has been acquisition acquiring land for open space protection but as we got on through our. i'm work. We realized that there was a necessity to do. The proper stewardship an investigation of the natural resources on our properties so it beginning in the nineteen nineties. We started science. Stewardship department is now grown to about five year round individuals with two seasonal staff and we studied a variety of disciplines from freshwater ecology salt marsh ecology bats Reptiles amphibians anything. That really exists on our property. You name it we. We review it. The properties themselves make up a wide array of different micro plants and wildlife communities and many of them are quite unique to massachusetts and actually the world is well. We have some of the best sampling grassland habitats in the actual in northeast and the country is will nantucket island is world famous island in many of us. Can't even visualize what really is on the island. Could you share just a few more of the unique ecosystems. That are there. Yeah so am. I touched upon a little bit about the sampling. Grasslands which is a disturbance dependent community that it means that needs various impacts to it. Whether it's mulling more tilling over time a prescribed fire we've tried as well and those plants are adapted to that type of impact and they're actually very unique and ran. Some of them are state listed in the state of massachusetts. There's other ecosystems that are here such as wetlands salt water ponds embodiments arbor's and what we're speaking about today is really fantastic barrier. Bj go system of coach Okay so you are partnering with the trustees of reservation on this project. Could you give us a bit of background that partnership absolutely. We've been as i said working with our acquisition team to protect upwards of nine thousand acres of that. We have a lot of open access beaches and barry beach ecosystems as well one of them being this northerly barrier beach ecosystem which protects the entirety of nantucket harbor our partners in conservation. The trustees of reservations they protect contiguous acres to our holdings going up to great point and also very era called the cosco woods through the years. We've done a lot of research in terms of the wildlife and plant communities. That are out there. We've done also a lot of engagement with visitors and one of the challenges that we face a now in. We're really seeing it. more recently. In the past ten years is the threats to this ecosystem due to sea level rise. We are partnering. With the trustees. To first and foremost identify areas that are most vulnerable to sea level rise and then working with the assistance of certain consultants and other individuals. Were going to be coming up with innovative ways in strategies to make those areas more resilient but also in keeping with the ecological biologically integrity of those areas themselves. So it sounds like you are full on planning. Climate adaptation there at the refuge. How are you integrating the local residents and tourists. Do they know what you're doing here. And do they know. The threat of sea level rises at something. That's spoken about much. Yes sea level rise certainly has become quite the buzzword on an target certainly up and down the coast communities of the united states but really particularly untuckit in the past three to five years. Because of some new projections that have been put forth by state federal and independent agencies about the actual salem arise and elevations rise in twenty thirty. Forty fifty seventy years and then we put those projections on some of our properties and elsewhere in terms of areas that are not necessarily are conserved but that are already built down in people. Certainly get a little concerns infrastructures. Threatened buildings are threatened are open spaces threatened. Our beaches are dunes and are salt marshes are threatened and really were putting a lot of energy now and a lot of attention in terms of identifying those resources identifying they can become more resilient toothy level rise and what sort of planning and actually action is necessary to take the next steps..
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Labor Shortage: Nantucket Restaurant Interviewing 8th Graders for Jobs
Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
White House Warns Companies to Act Now on Ransomware Defenses
"White house warns businesses to ramp up their security following more cyber attacks week alone. Ransomware attack disrupted ferry services to the islands of martha's vineyard and nantucket another another cyberattack linked to group in russia force the world's largest producer to shut down nine. Us processing plants which account for a quarter of the us beef supply. The company says it was. Plants are now back up and running. In as far as the price of meat goes experts. Say it may go up. The short term but this latest attack will not have a long-term effect on the us supply functions charles once
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White House Warns Companies to Act Now on Ransomware Defenses
"White house warns businesses to ramp up their security following more cyber attacks week alone. Ransomware attack disrupted ferry services to the islands of martha's vineyard and nantucket another another cyberattack linked to group in russia force the world's largest producer to shut down nine. Us processing plants which account for a quarter of the us beef supply. The company says it was. Plants are now back up and running. In as far as the price of meat goes experts. Say it may go up. The short term but this latest attack will not have a long-term effect on the us supply functions charles once
All Things Considered
Ransomware Attack Hits Ferry to Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard
"Attack has hit the primary ferry service that runs from Cape Cod to the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Website and reservation system are down as Jeanette Barnes of member Station C. AI reports. It's unclear how long the service will take to recover. The steamship Authority says the attacks started early Wednesday. Fairies are running, but passengers who are often traveling from afar have to buy tickets in person. Annamarie Gavin of Burlington, Vermont, says she noticed something was wrong when she tried to confirm her departure time. So is on. I will the log in as of seven a.m. this morning. And I wish I could have checked my very time because I ended up being a little late. A Steamship Authority official declined to say whether the attacker has demanded money. The authorities said on Twitter that vehicle reservations will be honored. That's likely to be a source of worry for customers who have to book months in advance.
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"nantucket" Discussed on NewsRadio KFBK
"Which you confined by the way at e, a dot Gove in 2019, renewable energy sources accounted for just 17% of electricity. Generated in the U. S. That's wind solar hydro together 17%. At the same time, the same agency reports fossil fuels accounted for more than 62% of electricity generated in the U. S. Natural gas 38% cold 23%. There's no replacing fossil fuels, and we're learning that the hard way by the way in California, where we're relying too heavily on renewables, and then when it gets to be 100 degrees and y'all run our air conditions, we wait. We gotta go out of state to get to get the energy from there that they're using their using coal and natural gas to produce. Here's after John Kerry made that announcement. The promise of wind generated power. Republicans wasted no time pouncing on that. This is former White House press secretary Republican Ari Fright, Fleischer calling out carry for hypocrisy. This was on Fox News. And, frankly, when I hear John Kerry talk about this, particularly talks about the power of glow of wind Remember, he is the man who opposed a wind project on the car Sound Nantucket sound because he didn't want to see the view outside his window. So what hypocrisy for him to talk about Green energy when he opposed a major wind project. Off the coast of Nantucket. So they called him out on the do as I say, not as I do Well, and it's not only John Kerry. There are other people who don't want to see that out there window either, and that's part of the struggle of getting these big projects done. Do you realize that less than half of the oil that's produced every day and used in the United States of America are put in cars and trucks? Listen here. Maura of it goes into plastics and lipstick and other hydrocarbons Manufacturing. Absolutely so, folks. Look, everything's going if you decrease the amount of oil that's produces, not just paying at the pump. It's paying for everything right? Everything goes up, and there's still so many things that were reliant on oil for. I mean, you know, make it again. It's a big ship, and it takes a while to turn. Should we head in that direction? Absolutely. But you can't. It's not a light switch, right? And so many jobs lost in the meantime. Yeah, Lots of them. All right, Let's get out side. We're up against it here. We need to talk to my health. Well, things are looking at this report is brought to you by Stockton Honda. He's looking not too bad on our roads around Sacramento, Take the wet conditions into consideration there right now Rose built to the Gap City split on west on I 80 is nine minutes nine more on the cap city gets into downtown. It's 13 minutes in from L. Grove on either five or 99, however, south of that son found highway 99 that Dillard Road start who's on the scene of an accident there? That's causing a backup all the way to grant Line Road north down 19 nineties called a little before both sound road, barely.
WBZ Morning News
Maine Coast Guard Tows Disabled Boat To Safety Over 5 Days Off The Coast Nantucket
"The main based coast guard ship, Tahoma, coming to the aid of a fishing boat disabled. 160 nautical miles east of Nantucket, took five days. But the DA Homma was able to told the fearless, which became disabled last Sunday in a foot waves and winds up to 20 knots. They eventually met up with a commercial towing company near Buzzards Bay On Friday, no injuries reported on board the fishing
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Coast Guard Tows Disabled Boat To Safety Over 5 Days
"It was a You busy just hit week a button. for the crew Okay? of I Maine just sold based everything. Coast Guard Wait Cutter Tahoma. a minute. Maybe I shouldn't have done They that. spent Well, five it's too late. days towing Right? a disabled Right. I fishing think that you boat have to understand. to safety. We say it many times, But did the homos, but the investment which based portfolio at that the you have Portsmouth Naval Naval Shipyard Shipyard The actual in in positions Kittery Kittery that name name your money received received in a a report report as last last is in weekend weekend that that the the has fishing fishing to have boat boat fearless fearless a plan behind was was adrift adrift it on some some and 160 160 you are plan has to nautical nautical coordinate miles miles with the overall east east investment of Nantucket. portfolio of The Coast where Guard you crew should hooked be. up with a different And so disabled people boat are on Monday you know, and Paul, started When I meet people to tow the her first back time in, they but have it these was types not of questions, a quick they job. say we have It these wasn't investments. until yesterday, We want to retire the next Toho year, moves but we they lost will our job. pass off the We boat have no to idea a commercial towing what company these investments near Buzzards are. We Bay. just know that we haven't Thankfully, They were not there for were one no K. They seem injuries to be doing okay. reported And
Mark Simone
Biden gives Thanksgiving address to reassure Americans
"Elect Joe Biden says he knows this Thanksgiving is unlike anything we've experienced in the past by and released a video on Twitter alongside his wife, Dr Jill Biden, and said They're celebrating the holiday in Delaware this year instead of on Nantucket, the president elect insisted that staying home could make a world of difference, Dr. Biden said. There were people to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, she noted, just some of them, including frontline workers, teachers and members of the military. President elect finished their message by saying better days are ahead. You'll
WBZ Midday News
Boston - Steamship Authority Employee Tests Positive For Coronavirus
"Authority employees assigned a Wood's hole has tested positive for covert 19 Thie authority is not disclosing the employee's name or position within the company. Theo employees We are learning last worked on a boat. Which is currently serving the Nantucket route on the ship that began with a new departure of the vessel from hyenas on August 25th and then ended with it's 11. 30 AM arrival in hyenas on August, 26 Thie employee was unlikely to have had any prolonged exposure with any member of the public during their work hours.
Jay Talking
Nantucket urges non-residents to stay off the island
"Nantucket assistant town manager Greg Pittman says part of the reason for asking people with summer homes on the I want to stay away right now is that Nantucket cottage hospital says it may not have adequate capacity to deal with a large Colbert nineteen outbreak we have been saying to people even though you have a home here and you don't live here year round please consider staying where you are because if you get here you may not have the services you need should you have the virus one person has tested positive for the virus on Nantucket and Pittman says that by asking people not to visit their summer homes they are also trying to prevent the virus from spreading on the islands aren't going WBZ Boston this
Doug Stephan
Meghan Trainor's father struck by a car, hospitalized in stable condition
"Any difference and the same thing with Meghan Trainor's father Gary was crossing the street over the San Fernando Valley and a fire car there rushed to the hospital in stable condition now so she gave some of her fans an update yesterday thanking them for the love and support saying that she was at the hospital the father while he was recovering the motorist who struck Gerry Trainor did not leave the scene there was a guest the first report on this the lady driving cars going to please the Kerry's wearing very dark clothing you can see reports to let you know what that's very intense very legitimate I have come very close to hitting people at night stupidly on that side of the street no lights in the street name got any clothing lines you can see people on bicycles same kind of thing that happened near the very very careful especially around here because there's so many people all over the place watching when you make the turn to the right I am very careful I'm a different driver here and I am because we got to be very very careful police sources say no crime has been committed it appears the incident being viewed and dealt with as an accident Gary played a big part in making musical upbringing the group on Nantucket she was singing in their Methodist church there when he played the organ and may also play with Gary in a local cover band million released your latest album freak myself on the thirty first of last month the working in London which is currently a coach on the voice
How I Built This
How Bill Creelman Built Spindrift
"In two thousand nineteen the World Health Organization revised its guidelines for sugar intake. SUGAR IT turns out. It's actually worse for us than we thought. Too much can be deadly now. I say this by the way as I finish this delicious sugar cookie. My kids made last night anyway. The new guidelines now suggest adults should not consume more than twenty five grams of added sugar a day. Now think about this for a moment. A single twelve ounce can of Coca Cola has thirty nine grams of added sugar. That is a day and a half of sugar. A can of coke and if you go to the movies and get thirty two ounce cup you will burn through nearly five days if you're sugar allotment before you get to the credits so what to do. Well the obvious answer is drink less sugar which clearly is advice. Lots of people are taking because the last year the sparkling water industry hit an all all time high and sales nearly two and a half billion dollars according to Nielsen. And it's why the beverage out if your local supermarket is now jam packed with with Lacroix and Topa Chico bobbly Poland Springs and Waterloo in several other brands. And it's also big players like Coca Cola Pepsi and Nestle Sleet are all pushing into the sector. One of the fastest growing independent brands and sparkling water is called spin drift and unlike virtually every other bubbly water brand out. There spend drips. Water is as basic as it gets literally just a mixture of sparkling water and fresh squeezed juice which may may not sound all that innovative. But it's actually an incredibly challenging thing to make because fresh squeezed juice does not stay fresh forever and Spitzer's founder founder. Bill crewmen took years to figure out how to make it all work and along the way he struggled to find bottlers and distributors. Who would work with them but the story story of how he was inspired to create spin drift probably begins much much earlier back in his childhood bills? Parents chose to raise the family on a farm in in western Massachusetts. His Dad worked for the sporting goods company spalding. His mom wasn't home with the family and pretty much. All the food they ate was local. The fresh thing I remember most is just all of the food seem to come from our farmer or the farms around us. So you know we had. I just sugarhouse up the street from us. We had you know milked it was delivered with a huge head of cream on the top. You know unbiased tries we would make other from that. Ah I think key learning for me was just a very clear idea of where our food is coming from because it seemed to always be delivered from our neighbors abors or or just off of our own farm You know there was local unavailable and just to be clear. I mean we're talking about like the nineteen thirties or forties. I I believe at the time of this recording. You're forty five years old so this is like the eighties. This is not that long ago it really wasn't and that's what I mean. It was really a choice. And you know. I'm not sure what the message message was. We're supposed to take away from it. I would say my mom. She love this idea of being out in the woods and being on a farm and and surviving and off of nature and she was surrounded by friends felt the same way and we had almost no rules honestly we she had this philosophy. Severe that you know have fun. Do Your own thing in be adventurous. I think she's sort of thought of the farm is our playground are self expression and and I think the thing I remember that the farm land just kind of continued in all directions and farmers to the left and right in around us and even to this stay. This neighborhood and in Western mass is really still the same way it's virtually unchanged today. Do you remember how quiet it was at night. From like December to. Let's say the end of March because I'm imagining there was so much snow. It was absorbing all of the sound at night it was just silent. Maybe a little wind I I remember that really keenly and I actually think of that often because now you know in the suburbs herbs of Boston you that level of silence that type of silence. It was really hard to find. We would keep by firewood for the most part. We had a big woodstove when that fire would burn down nothing there was really no sound left in the house. Save your breathing or the shuffling of you. You know of a sibling was it. An old house would like old wooden floorboards. Yeah it was an old redman just where you imagine a Red Farmhouse Big Red Barn creaking floorboards floorboards for sure. So I guess you knew of someone got up during the night but other than that it was. It was completely silent so So that eventually your family moved off of that farm to the town of deerfield which is also in guessing western Massachusetts and you went to high school there and then to college in Washington. DC at Georgetown. When you when you got to college like when you're eighteen years old did you have any idea? What you you want to do with your life? Now I was kind of out of the sort of grasps of western Massachusetts and I was really starting to for the first time. I What I wanted to do professionally and I should mention that kind of in high school and then as I started college I was starting to work on the fishing boats off the Cape and islands of Cape Cod or or like nantucket? Martha's Vineyard is. Is that right. That's right and you know it was just it was just magical you know you're on abode all day. You're fishing for whatever you could catch. Stripe Pass in Blue Fish And so when I got to Georgetown I really really. I was working in the summers and then going to school during the year and I started to really solidify crystallize. You know what I thought I wanted to do. which was kind of try to figure out you know business? That would be interesting to me so as I was finishing up. Georgetown I took my coast card test. And then eventually I got my captains license right after graduation and Butleigh why you were Georgetown. You met somebody who became presumably became a girlfriend today. Your Wife Life Bray is is right. That's right yeah very lucky. I'm to meet my wife Harley while we are Georgetown and we started dating when we were nineteen uh-huh and so we've been together ever ever since I'm not sure she quite knew what she was getting into way back then but while I was at Georgetown. I took an entrepreneurship class in my senior year. She she got to see me Present my first business plan so I guess she had some sense devoid. She was getting into even in the nineties. And what was your business. Plan that you pitch to the class. It was called nantucket smoke house so the idea was taking smoke fish and striped bass and other things in creating a smoke house out on island we were then offer the products from all over the US turned out to luckily not an idea. We ended up pursuing Tom. But you know the Sivas planted for sure all right so so you you graduate From Georgetown in Nineteen ninety-six. And and what did you do. Where'd you go work? So the first thing I did was go back out to an antiquated and actually continue now with my captain's license in hand continue working on the on the fishing boats. You know I was probably my fifth year and so I went out there with an idea of kind of finishing that summer and then and then ultimately going out to the Pacific northwest to pursue the smoked food world or at least learn more about it and so my wife Harley was living in her girlfriend that time living in Seattle and we piled into her sir VW and drove up the coast and basically just started hitting smoke houses and asking them. You know what the industry was like today. Play kit today. Not like it would they recommend going into it and I'll never I'll never forget finishing a tour and the guy who is leading me on the tour pulled me aside and said I mean do you favor never get into this business fish. It's fire you know. It is a shrinking industry. You know it's nothing we would recommend and was that enough to convince you it was at least enough for me to second guess it and so I am incredibly grateful for that person's advice for sure and the the business idea that ended up kind of coming out of it was company called Nantucket Harvest and untuckit harvest offered smoked food items That were already being produced. Even though it ultimately long-term not terribly successful. It was much better than where we would land right okay. So you're so you decide I'm going to go back to Massachusetts. I'm going to start a business where I basically. What like source food food from nantucket and create like a mail order business? That's right who is mid mid nineties Nantucket at all these really interesting producers serves that had gotten to know some of them over the years What were they making or what? What did they produce? Yes so they had you know it's thirty miles off shore so it kind of has some. I'm really interesting. Unique products only only really only available out there. There was already a a smoke. Bluefish Pate Really Beach Palm Jelly really interesting Zhang Jellies Bay scallops. You know lobsters ice cream so our thesis was will people love these in the summer. I bet they would love to buy him. mm-hmm the other nine months of the year and we wanted to provide them with a solution to do
Overnight Talk
While No Longer a Hurricane, Dorian Still Inflicts Damage on Canada
"The death toll in the Bahamas is expected to rise six days after hurricane Dorian devastated the islands forty three people are confirmed dead and rescue crews are still unable to reach thousands of people CBS's Tom Hansen has more on the storm on Saturday Dorian track north to Canada with winds and rain Dorian left behind widespread damage on north Carolina's Ocracoke island and stranded hundreds of. all who defied mandatory evacuation orders this is a very close knit community in people assure me that everyone is present and accounted for on the Outer Banks the cleanup began. drawing it out the way while some residents return to the daily rhythms of life the storm passed by Nantucket early Saturday there was no major damage but ferry service from the Cape to the islands was disrupted it's now a post tropical cyclone as it passes Nova Scotia several hundred thousand people there are without