Skins, although a natural habit unto all before the invention of texture, was something more unto Adam.

[…] Master Primmer is the man for my money; a man of learning; that can lay down the law: why, adzooks, he is wise enough to puzzle the parson: and then, how you have heard him oration at the Adam and Eve of a Saturday night, about Russia and Prussia […]

Nantucket is a pretty upmarket place. Mirabile dictu, this is one place in the US where not a McDonald's or Burger King is to be seen.

Many dwellings have been semiabandoned as inhabitants have moved to farms on the plain to return mainly for summer or for festivals.