Synopsis

Following a journey to Coatue, a preserve on Nantucket Island, with Jim Lentowski, director of the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, we explored the landscape's natural beauty and a 1920s fishing shack once utilized by the foundation’s rangers—a structure evocative of a more unhurried era on the island. Returning to the house, our master carpenter inquired of Bruce Killen regarding his preferred clapboard installation: three-inch exposure, sunken nails, and no back-caulking. Killen demonstrated