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Here are videos Nantucketers have made recently.

The Acapella Singing Competition with the Accidentals and winning soloist Kim McHugh

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Scott Capizzo has done a series of pieces on the 2007 Nantucket Film festival. Here’s Part 1.

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Holly Finigan, bartender at the Brant Point Grill wrote me this:

Hey Gene!!
Love getting the Newsletters over here in New Zealand! It’s like our own little slice of nantucket gossip while we’re away! I’ve started this blog called the “Kiwi Chronicles” and I would love it if you would share it as a link on your next Mahon About Town Newsletter. www.kiwi-chronicles.blogspot.com.

Holly is traveling around New Zealand for several months with Caitlin, Annie, and Freddie, bartender at Cinco. From her posts:

Top 5 things I’ve gotten used to:
5. Sleeping on a bunk bed in a room the size of a closet.
4. The fact that we’re 17 hours ahead of everyone in the states.
3. Putting on SPF 30 everyday, regardless if there are blue skies or a cyclone outside.
2. Not having a cell phone. (And loving it!)
1. Realizing that the limerick “There once was a man from Nantucket” is world famous.

Top 5 Things I have NOT gotten used to:
5. Looking right and then left before crossing the street. (I’ve almost gotten hit by about 10 cars.)
4. Mohawks on (otherwise) good looking Kiwi men. (NOT a good trend, guys!)
3. Why no one can just make a regular ice coffee over here!
2. What time it is. I never have a clue. (Nor the ambition to buy a watch!)
1. Why everyone goes barefoot around here. (Haven’t any of these people had a splinter before!?!)

Saw Ian from the Lobster Trap in Nantucket… he’s working at a great restaurant in downtown Russell…It’s been four days, and I already consider this place my home. You can now refer to me as Holly the Kiwi. Honestly, this island feels like home to us Nantucketer’s. We got a ride to the beach from a kind older island native who told us a little about this rock. 8500 year round residents with a population of 50,000 in the summer…. The island is 15 miles long and one to eight miles wide depending on where you are. It has this adorable little town and 90% of the natives live on 10% of the island…. Sounds familiar? It’s like our very own ACK! If we weren’t already Nantucket girls, we could definetly make a home for ourselves here! In the old Nantucket mantra…. Life is good.

Do you have a good travel story? Send it to us for possible inclusion in the newsletter?

The 3rd Annual Nantucket Firetender Auction took place on Saturday, October 20, 2007 at the Rose & Crown, benefitting the Boston Shriners Pediatric Burn Unit and The Bardsley Fund. Audience members bid on dinner dates with firemen, batenders and others strutting the catwalk.

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