Readers Write

I often get emails from friends and subscribers who appreciate the newsletter, and others who are just checking in from off island – sometimes far off island. Here are some of the most recent.

From Karen Szahun:
Still love being kept in the loop with your newsletter – thanks! So, after a winter of moving around, I have finally settled down here in New Orleans. I LOVE it!! I’ve been down here for a few months & am having a blast! Funny thing…driving over the street car tracks a few weeks ago I stopped for a man on a bike to go across, he stopped for me, we exchanged a look of confused recognition & then moved on. Later on that same day I was going out of my front door and that same man was stopped in front of my house on his bicycle. I said…is your name Barry??…from Nantucket?? He smiled & said “You’re in the band!!!”. We both laughed. It was Barry Donovan – a contractor out on Nantucket. It was surprising & wonderful to see a familiar face on the street down here! Anyway, still playing music (got to play with Charmaine Neville a few weeks ago!), teaching music at a summer camp for 2 to 12 year olds, and am in the process of starting up a sports-based youth program in the city. Exciting times down here!

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From Kerry Flynn:
Best wishes on two years of great writing. Mahon About Town is the must-have go-to to know what’s going on on island and afar. I love your missives from home while away on the other side of the world. I am currently in Vietnam for two months as a volunteer caregiver and English teacher at assorted orphanages around Da Nang, and love reading all about what’s going on at home. My weekdays are spent in Da Nang working at several orphanages around the city.

Besides my hearty congratulations to you on your landmark anniversary, I wondered whether you might entertain a little PR work for me on behalf of my mission here. I haven’t been in Da Nang quite long enough to know what I might do to help the people here, but I was thinking that a little column in Mahon About Town might be a good introduction to islanders and summer visitors who subscribe so that more people might be familiar with what I was doing before I hit them up for money or donations or whatever for the lovely people here.

Anyway, here’s the website that describes the work I’m doing. It’s just wonderful here, and the children are just amazing. I will definitely make this organization a part of my life for years to come. The children need so much, and westerners could really offer so much without even breaking a sweat.

And here’s the website I set up t chronicle my time here.

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From Greg Bourbeau:
Thank you very much for your help getting the word out about Arm Chair last night. 50 people showed up at Beverly’s house and the evening was a great success.

From Susan Fernald:
Mahon about Town is an incredible service/pleasure/resource! It is great for folks on-island, but really really important for Nantucket ex-pats (or should we call them ‘ex-acks’?). You have near instantaneous response time, an ear-to-the-ground for getting the word out on impromptu events and, on a sadder note, for sudden losses.

From Kim Cooper:
Moved out to Sonoma recently and if I didn’t have your Newsletter, I don’t think I’d remain grounded..even if I couldn’t party with the dolls til lingerie, i can share their fun thru your pix..thanks

From Wesley Morris:
CONGRATULATIONS and best wishes for your continued success on this, your anniversary of the newsletter! Martha and I hope to see you “about Town”, doing your thing, for the next fifty or so years at least !!! And if I ever do actually bring my law practice to Nantucket, whether in “semi-retirement” or full-time, yours will be the first door I knock upon for advertising and advice.