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Nantucket Magazine July 2014 Sounds ofSummer
Nantucket on Independence Day is a sea ofred, white, and blue,from flags hanging on Main Street, to festive attire for fireworks on Jetties Beach. In the spirit of the holiday, N Magazines cover features American flag- Breakfast • Lunch • Bar Menu wrapped country singer Ayla Brown, who will be performing at the Nan- Dinner • Sunday Brunch tucket Music Festival starting August 2nd. The patriotic theme of this issue extends to our preview of the August Nantucket Cottage Hospital Pops Concert, which will feature a special performance of `The Star- Spangled Banner" on its 200th anniversary.
Bruce A. Percelay There is no more comfortable place to call home than Nantucket on July Publisher & Editor-in-Chief 4th. While a home is more than bricks and mortar, more and more stun- ning pieces of architecture are appearing on the island, as both designers and owners become more expressive with their taste. An example is the new music school built by Wendy Schmidt, which is one of the most exciting public spaces on the island. With its stunning interior design by Kathleen Hay, and thoughtful interior utilization by architect Joe Paul of BPC Architecture, Schmidt has made an extraordinary contribution to the island with this project. The new Nantucket Community P Music Center on Centre Street is a must-see for those who appreciate cutting-edge environments. BRANTPOINTGRILI: Stepping outside, N Magazine interviews how-to TV legend Russell Morash, whose gardening tips and advice have helped millions of homeowners produce magical landscapes, and have led to Enjoy our new menu featuring steaks, lobster and seafood presented his receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Annual Daytime Creative Arts Emmys by Chef Thomas Pearson. Serving daily until 11pm. As much as Nantucket is made up of beautiful buildings and spectacular homes, nothing about this 508.325.1320 • brantpointgrill.com island is as impressive as its people. N Magazine features a profile of long-term resident and vol- OpenTable.com unteer extraordinaire Linda Williams, who is one of the unsung heroes that help keep Nantucket going. From her role as chair of the HDC,to her home life as a foster parent, to her unending list of EOM community-based activities, Linda Williams defines citizenship.
From the shores of the Atlantic to the banks of the Potomac, N Magazine profiles a true Washing- ton power couple, David Leiter and Tamera Luzzatto, who have both served as chief-of-staff to some of America's most influential politicians, including John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. Unlike their counterparts in the TV series, House of Cards, Leiter and Luzzatto demonstrate the kinder and gentler side of D.C. politics, and have built a reputation that defies the conventional perception of Washington as cutthroat. vv
Closer to home,N Magazine is delighted to introduce a young star in the making: Chelsea Remick, Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner whose walk-on audition for the Theatre Workshop's production of Annie has set her on a trajectory Cocktails • Sunday Brunch toward Broadway stardom. According to her coach Cynthia Csabay, this self-possessed twelve- year-old is "the most talented young person I have ever met and whose success is not a question of if, but when."
Music of a different type will be arriving on our shores in the form of the first annual Nantucket Music Festival, featuring three-time Grammy Award winner Bruce Hornsby. The broad range of ...EMMA talent will include Ben Taylor,son of James Taylor and Carly Simon,Guster, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. The roster of top performers promises to build as the August 2nd and 3rd I event approaches, hopefully making this festival a permanent staple of the summer season.
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In the hit Netflix TV series, House ofCards, a Machiavellian politician teams up with his cold-blooded wife to create the ultimate Washington power couple—successful yet unapologetically ruthless. Far from these exaggerated televi- sion characters Francis and Claire Underwood is the real-life Washington power couple of Tamera Stanton Luzzatto and David Leiter, who call Nantucket their summer home.
Both Luzzatto and Leiter had the distinction of being chief of staff to two ambitious and successful politicians in Washington: Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. Luzzatto is senior vice president at the Pew Charitable Trusts in D.C., while Leiter is an influential lobbyist at ML Strategies, a division of Boston-based Mintz Levin. Theirs is a true D.C. life replete with influential friends, a packed schedule of A-list black-tie events, and associations that go all the way up to the Oval Office.
For Leiter, a native of Seekonk, Massachusetts, it all began as a volunteer in Congressman Mo Udall's 1976 presiden- tial campaign and then a position on President-Elect Jimmy Carter's Presidential Transition Team. He later served as a senior aide to U.S. Senator Wendell Ford and then campaign manager and chief of staff to Rhode Island Lieutenant Governor Richard Licht, which led to a position on Senator John Kerry's 1990 reelection campaign and ultimately to chief ofstaff in Kerry's Washington Senate office. Leiter became well-known for his affable personal style and served during a time of ascending influence of Massachusetts's then-junior senator. While distance from his former job gives him freedom of candor, Leiter's admiration for the now secretary of state is palpable. "I have never met an individual so talented in so many facets of life, from his grasp of numerous foreign languages to his athleticism, to a level of intelligence that few can grasp," he says."Kerry to me is a vertically integrated human being." amera Luzzatto's instincts for politics began as a government major at Harvard College, where she was the first woman elected head of the Harvard Democrats and a leader at the Institute of Politics. After graduating from Har- T vard, she rose up the ranks at the office of Senator Jay Rockefeller, ultimately becoming his chief of staff and a valued confidant for fifteen years. As Luzzatto's reputation grew in Washington, she caught the attention of then-First Lady Hillary Clinton, who recruited her to become her chief of staff when she was elected senator of New York State. •,_3!"-A -
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Luzzatto became Hillary Clinton's chief of staff when Clinton was sworn into office in early Jan- uary of 2001. The senator was still the first lady until January 20, and she invited Luzzatto to join the Clintons over a final weekend at Camp David that hosted members of Congress and close friends. After learning she herself could bring a guest, Luzzatto thought of David Leiter, whom she had reconnected with at a recent Capitol Hill holi- day party. As fate would have it, this trip to Camp David would be the couple's first real date. Four months later, Leiter proposed to Luzzatto on the shores of a beach in Tom Nevers.
Life has had its interruptions for Leiter and Luz- zatto, including Luzzatto overcoming two brain-tu- mor operations,from which she has fully recovered. Just eleven days before their wedding in 2001, the September 1 1 th attacks occurred, throwing them yet another curveball. New York was still in a state of shock from the attack, and after wrestling with the decision on whether to postpone their wedding, they both agreed that the best way to respond to the terrorist attacks was to show that life goes on. After the ceremony at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, in a display of proud defi- ance, guest Hillary Clinton spontaneously decided to lead all the wedding guests on a walk down 5th Avenue to the reception. While Clinton's actions
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