invites (including invite, oversize envelope, response card, and response envelope) came to just under six thousand dollars. (A vellum insert printed with the committee members’ names will be extra, but I do think we should include it once our committee is firmed up.) The invites just came back from the printer; I sent you one straightaway. But you’ll agree with me that we can’t incur any additional expense by going back and changing your name (which, I will point out, is not misspelled or inaccurate) just because you don’t like it.
Thx! Isabelle
Fwd: [email protected]
Sent: February 28, 2008, 9:00 P.M.
Subject: Sense of entitlement!
Have you seen this??? Can you believe it??? I am going to be listed (underneath Isabelle, by the way, even though I am first alphabetically, and whose decision do you think that was?) as “Mrs. Jason Crispin.” It is so disgustingly Mayflower, I think I might puke.
From: [email protected]
Sent: March 1, 2008, 8:14 A.M.
Subject: Sense of entitlement!
Six grand is too much money as it is, Claire. We can’t go back and fix them. On the bright side, Jason will love it.
Adams
From: [email protected]
Sent: March 1, 2008, 9:45 A.M.
Subject: Sense of entitlement!
Jason won’t understand it! He’ll see the name “Mrs. Jason Crispin” and think someone is calling him a woman.
From: [email protected]
Subject: Disgusting sense of entitlement
(Unsent)
Isabelle—
I find working with you difficult and unpleasant. I understand that you are going through a very painful divorce and hence I am willing to give you some extra rope. What I’d like you to understand, however, is that Nantucket is different from Manhattan. Nantucket, at its core, is a small town, casual and humble, even in the busy summer months. We do not need (or want) all the trappings and pretensions that might attend a benefit such as the gala in Manhattan (or Cannes, or Nice, either, for that matter!). I do not need (or want) a title like “Mrs. Jason Crispin.” Even my children’s friends call me Claire. It does not matter if the location of the gala is referred to as the “Town Recreational Fields,” because that is, in fact, the venue’s name. I am sorry if that is too down-home-church-social for you. I am sorry if Nantucket in general is too unpolished and loosey-goosey for you. However, remember this: The quiet, modest, relaxed nature of the island is the very reason why so many esteemed people have sought it out as their summer refuge. As an antidote to the big city, not a summertime version of it.
Thx! Claire
Bid for Nantucket’s Children Summer Gala: Island Fare Catering, Carter and Siobhan Crispin, Proprietors
Including full bar, champagne fountain, passed hors d’oeuvres, stationary hors d’oeuvres, sit-down dinner, dessert sampler: $225 per person
Caterer’s Note: The following menu has been written for success. It is a challenge for even the largest, most sophisticated catering operation to serve a sit-down dinner to one thousand people successfully. (We heard complaints that last year’s entrées were, in turn, cold, undercooked, and overcooked.) Our focus is fresh, seasonal food (locally grown, raised, and fished, when possible) that can be eaten at room temperature, as at a picnic. We will offer modest portions of three entrées to ensure that we please everyone, and we guarantee elegant and creative presentation.
Passed Hors d’Oeuvres
Coconut shrimp, curried mango chutney
Chilled gazpacho “shots”
Smoked chicken and avocado quesadillas with corn salsa
Wild mushroom and Roquefort in phyllo
Gougères
Crispy fried pork wontons with sweet-and-sour apricot dipping sauce
Stationary Hors d’Oeuvres
Raw bar with freshly shucked oysters and clams, mignonette sauce
Jumbo shrimp with horseradish, mustard, and cocktail sauces
Brie en croûte with pecans and plum chutney
Chilled vegetable crudités with chive and pine nut dip and roasted red pepper hummus
Seated Dinner
Grilled beef tenderloin with Gorgonzola cream
Mini lobster roll
Wild rice salad with portobello mushrooms and dried cranberry vinaigrette
Traditional Caprese salad: Sliced Bartlett Farm tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella, fresh basil
Corn bread with honey butter
Dessert Sampler
Brownies and blondies, chocolate-dipped strawberries, éclairs, Key lime bars, homemade marshmallows, brown sugar fudge, peanut brittle, chocolate mint truffles
Business Briefs, The Inquirer and Mirror, February 25
Lockhart Dixon, executive director of Nantucket’s Children, confirmed yesterday that rock-and-roll icon Max West will perform at the charity’s annual Summer Gala, to be held on August 16 at the Town Recreational Fields.
“We’re thrilled with this opportunity,” Dixon said. “Max West has agreed to donate the performance; otherwise we would never have been able to afford such an esteemed name. Our gala cochair, Claire Danner Crispin, is a childhood friend of Max West’s. She was able to get him to commit, and we are very grateful.”
Tickets to the event start at