Tomahawk Ribeyes, Power Outages, and a Stroll: The Myth of Modern Convenience at 30 Miles Out

Winter, on Nantucket, has always. been, and will always be, an adventure.

It’s easy to forget that we live on an island.

At eleven o’clock at night, I was parked in the parking lot for the Madaket Beach. The most recent of our storms reached up and carved out the far end of the parking lot. Responsible people had erected a wall and decorated it with signage, but it was pretty clear that the ocean had taken another handful of i…