Nantucket Island Offers Paradise at a Price
July 30, 2012
Nantucket’s restful town center, though this photo was certainly not taken in the summertime, when the streets are full of cars that tourists bring over on a ferry. (Carol M. Highsmith)
Forty-three kilometers off the coast of the northeastern state of Massachusetts lies the island of Nantucket.
It’s the size of New York City’s Manhattan Island, but with about a million and a half fewer residents. Just 10,000 or so year-round - but at least five times that number each summer.
There’s no bridge or tunnel to the island, so you have fly or take a ferry to get there. Its isolation, and the treacherous shoals that surround it, kept Massachusetts’ early settlers away and the landscape wild.
Nantucket was once the biggest and busiest whaling port in the nation - the place from which the fictional Captain Ahab set off in search of the great white whale Moby Dick in Herman Melville’s novel.
These days, Nantucket is still relatively unspoiled. It’s a peaceful place with none of the high-rise hotels, honky-tonk boardwalks, amusement parks, or shopping centers of other beachfront resorts.
A lovely and inviting Nantucket cottage. (Carol M. Highsmith)
There is just one town, with cobblestone streets, cottages with flower boxes and gardens and white picket fences, and expensive restaurants and guest houses with porches full of wicker furniture - perfect for reading or dozing.
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