Historic Nantucket projects an idyllic New England character through preserved buildings, island setting, and a downtown ban on chain stores. Luxury home sales have increased even as efforts aim to create more egalitarian housing. Recent months featured unusual public disturbances and erratic behavior among some wealthy residents. The local health department initiated sewage testing to assess drug use on the island. Incidents included a pilot banned for taxiing across grass and urinating before airport employees, plus multiple bomb threats to Main Street businesses. Illicit tree removal and widening income inequality underline growing social tensions beneath the island's polished surface.
some of the well-off of Nantucket finally seem to be losing their minds.
taxiing across a grass island on the airfield, and urinating on the airfield in front of three airport employees.
[I]t has been getting harder to go on pretending things haven't changed,
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