Nantucket is an island 30 miles (50 km) south of Cape Cod, in Massachusetts. With a resident population of 10,000, it swells to 50,000 during the summer months! Ugg!   Nantucket has long been a vacation destination for America’s wealthiest and most powerful figures, including billionaires like serial entrepreneur Wayne Huzienga and Google‘s Eric Schmidt, banking scions like Barclay’s chief Bob Diamond, and politicians like former presidential candidate Senator John Kerry.  Your basic 3-bedroom, 2-bath with a tiny lawn in the middle of town lists for $1.5 million. Dozens of houses are listed at more than $10 million. The ex-president of Goldman Sachs recently listed his for $55 million.

I arrived in late afternoon and it was drizzling, so sorry about grey photos, but I loved the little downtown village immediately!!!!  I went for a walk. I found the stained glass windows of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, they are rare in an ecumenical setting, for they depict landscapes and flowers with no figures. They are fabricated from a rich and varied palette of opalescent drapery, and mottled and flashed antique glass held in a lead came/copper-foil matrix. There are seven layers of glass in the window.  Walking up Main St to the end away from the seaport….Lordy!!   Lots of money here!!!! Staying in a really nice B&B …Roberts House. I was delighted to find more fresh seafood, essentially a happy journey through oyster and prawn cocktail deliciousness. http://metonmain.com