Down and Dirty on Nantucket

Down and Dirty on Nantucket

An aerial view of Sconset Beach, and Baxter Road above it, where the coast has been particularly affected by erosion. The alleged vandalizing of geotubes installed to prevent beach erosion is exposing fault lines between the island’s affluent summer residents and year-round locals By William D. Cohan Burton Balkind, known to many as just “Spruce,” is the president of the Nantucket Coastal Conservancy, a highfalutin name for a grassroots, volunte…