Nancy Anne Newhouse is a fifth-generation summer resident and has lived on Nantucket year-round for the past thirty-one years. She is a graduate of Rosemont College and received an MA in education from George Washington University. After twenty-three years of teaching in Washington, DC, she became a permanent resident of Nantucket in 1991. She was a member of the Town Finance Committee. Over the years, she served as a trustee/director/governor on the Boards of the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, Nantucket Island Community Sailing, the Nantucket Atheneum, Palliative and Supportive Care of Nantucket, the Nantucket Yacht Club, and the Hospital Thrift Shop. Nancy has been a volunteer at the Hospital Thrift Shop, Meals on Wheels, Palliative Care, and Our Island Home. She is the author of Voices of the Village: An Oral History of 'Sconset and Affordable Nantucket, A History of the Hospital Thrift Shop . Her work is included in The Little Grey Island .

Most recently, she has collaborated with Betsy Tyler on a book of the history of the Nantucket Land Bank. Mikki Ansin is a Cambridge-based photojournalist who specializes in film, politics, and people. She has worked for the Kennedy family, President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Merchant Ivory Productions, and most of the Hollywood studios. Her work is collected by The Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris), The Deauville Film Festival, the Kennedy Library, the United States Information Agency (USIA), and numerous private collectors. Ansin also held a White House appointment to the Board of Governors of the USO. She is quoted as saying that Nancy Newhouse took her by the hand to meet the real Islanders: those who had been born there, at least ninety years before.