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Most people think of Nantucket—a beach-ringed island thirty miles off the coast of Cape Cod—as a summer vacation destination, but islanders love the off-season best. In the winter months, strong community bonds become more evident. Locals know, or at least recognize, one another, and no one is in any particular hurry, taking time to chat with an acquaintance when getting mail from the post office in town or stopping at the Hub for the newspaper.
Nantucket in December looks like an old-fashioned Christmas card. Today’s Nantucketers indulge in a bit of lighted shrubbery and may string Christmas tree lights along picket fences, but their door decorations remain rather simple. Inside, they turn to traditional boughs and garlands of evergreen, holly, winterberries, pinecones, and, of course, seashells to doll up their banisters, doorframes, and fireplace surrounds.
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