{"id":4593,"date":"2017-02-17T09:49:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T14:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=4593"},"modified":"2025-08-24T12:37:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:37:49","slug":"behind-the-looking-glass-nantucket-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2017\/02\/17\/behind-the-looking-glass-nantucket-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Looking Glass: Nantucket Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some have visited there to vacation. Some have heard about it in \u201cNational Geographic.\u201d\u00a0 And some call it their home. The little island Nantucket, off the coast of Massachusetts, is home to nearly 12,000 people year round. \u201cNational Geographic\u201d named it, \u201cThe best island in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Year after year, thousands of people from all over flock to this little island that many call their permanent home. Two out of the nearly 12,000 natives got a chance to speak with us about life on the number one island.<\/p>\n

Thomas Murphy grew up on Nantucket Island. He was born in Boston and brought to the island when he was only three days old. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say that living on an island is any different from living anywhere else. It may be small, but we have everything we need here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Murphy recently graduated from Nantucket High School and is studying electrical engineering at Norwich University. Murphy is also a part of the ROTC program at Norwich. \u00a0He plans to join the Navy as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

When you Google search \u201cNantucket Island,\u201d you usually see pictures of sandy beaches and sunsets. During the summer season, the total population of the island changes from an average 12,000 people, to an overwhelming 60,000 people. The island\u2019s main source of income is tourism. So over 75 percent of these people who are living on the island are tourists.<\/p>\n

Linda Strachan has lived on the island ever since she moved there with her husband 22 years ago. \u201cWe moved to Nantucket to create calmer, more laidback lives for ourselves. Raising six kids in the city didn\u2019t seem ideal to me at the time.\u201d Strachan fell in love with the island at a young age and decided to raise her kids there.<\/p>\n

To some, Nantucket may seem like just a place to vacation. But for many, it is a place called home.<\/p>\n

Murphy explained the excitement and anticipation that comes with a summer on an island. \u201cDuring the summer there are a lot more things to do, since all the people are here. You can actually get out of the house and do things,\u201d he said. Summer activities include bike riding, boating, fishing and going to the beach.<\/p>\n

Many students spend their summers working at local shops and businesses, learning skills and making some extra cash for college. \u201cEveryone knows everyone here. It\u2019s pretty easy to get a job and maintain it throughout your high school career,\u201d Murphy said.<\/p>\n

Life on Nantucket, according to the natives, is a lot different from what many outsiders might expect it to be. So buy your tickets, and see it for yourself. \u00a0Nantucket is definitely worth the visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some have visited there to vacation. Some have heard about it in \u201cNational Geographic.\u201d\u00a0 And some call it their home. The little island Nantucket, off the coast of Massachusetts, is home to nearly 12,000 people year round. \u201cNational Geographic\u201d named it, \u201cThe best island in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8908,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions\/8908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}