Nantucket Week: Sen. John Kerry (D) MA.

Nantucket Week cut a bit short: this will be the final missive as ACK braces for Hurricane Earl

A window table for the Senator's party

The finest restaurant on Nantucket is The Galley, hands down.  Amazing food, perfect ambiance, tremendous staff, and the only Nantucket setting whence you can watch the sun set into the ocean while you sip champagne.  The Silva family has refined this masterpiece every year for decades and it is absolutely #1.

During one July evening in the run-up to the 2008 elections, as my party was tucking into dessert, in came John (President) Kerry, (First Lady) Theresa Heinz Kerry, and John's daughter Alexandra.  We exchanged brief pleasantries as he worked the room, my father (not a Kerry fan) nonetheless warming to him and commending him on his commitment as Chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship.  We Massachusetts citizens ("voters") were honored to be in his company and delighted when he took the table behind ours, with the beach view.

On this particular night Theresa ordered the swordfish; The Senator had the duck.

After a day of wind-surfing, Senator John Kerry (D), MA is wont to drop by The Galley for delicious fare, and a highball or two with with the high-rolling island plumbers and electricians.