By Pete McGinnis
Well, Nantucket did its best, but the 2024 remake of “Jaws” doesn’t have the same pizazz. Like Steven Spielberg’s fictitious Amity Island, beaches are closed, and summer tourism is in the tank. The contentious town halls probably had guys in bad sports coats, a la Amity Mayor Vaughn.
This time, the monster besieging the island isn’t a gigantic, man-eating “miracle of evolution.” It’s more prosaic and predictable: bureaucratic arrogance serving an ideology. Huge and scary in its own way, Vineyard Wind, 15 miles south of Nantucket, doesn’t have the same shock value as a shark. In fact, it has no shock value: it hasn’t generated a watt of electricity in more than a month.