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Faraway Island Media

Living year-round on Nantucket means being a self-sufficient generalist and a jack-of-all-trades

These are my tech & creative projects in 2026.

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IT & AV System Integration since 2005

My past two decades have been spent as a Nantucket Island tech guy.

I’ve owned and operated Faraway Island Media, LLC providing IT concierge services to executive clients, commercial IT services to small businesses, and AV system integrations for islanders and seasonal homeowners.

In 2026, our focus is luxury residential home automation & system integration services, partnering on island with MGi Systems & Nantucket Media Systems.

Read about my tech work at: Faraway Island Media

Residential
Commercial

Creative

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2026 Nantucket Event Music

Available for Summer 2026 events on Nantucket, I play acoustic guitar in the style of the Roaring 20s — Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and the Great American Songbook — perfect background music for garden parties, dinner parties, and fundraisers.

Sample Songlist:

Blue Skies

Beyond the Sea

Old Cape Cod

It’s Only a Paper Moon

Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars

We’ll Meet Again

When you’re Smiling

I’ll See You in My Dreams

Devil & The Deep Blue Sea

Blue Moon

What a Wonderful World

The Best Things in Life Are Free

Smile

My Blue Heaven

All of Me

In the Cool of the Evening

Honeysuckle Rose

I’ll See You in C-U-B-A

Let’s Do it

Lazy

Moonlight in Vermont

Bare Necessities

& 40 more

The American Troubadour Project

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I serve on the board of the American Troubadour Project, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization of artists, musicians and patrons dedicated to historical storytelling of the American Journey.

In 2023 & 2024 I produced an annual artist residency featuring Bill Schustik, the “American Troubadour” for a series of concerts with the Nantucket Historical Association and Egan Maritime Institute.

In Fall 2025 we’ll be recording a selection of Bill’s material on Nantucket, recreating Bill’s 40 years of performances aboard the Black Dog’s Tall Ship Shenandoah out of Vineyard Haven, Martha’s Vineyard.

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As an Americana folk artist Bill has performed for 4 US presidents including at Lincoln Center, Game 7 of the World Series, and at Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C. producing their longest running musical, a historical production set during the American Civil War.

Bill Schustik’s career has spanned 60 years starting at the Jared Coffin House at 19.

Community

Union Lodge F & AM

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Since 2022 I’ve served as house organist & musician at Nantucket’s historic Union Lodge on cobblestoned Main Street.

Founded in 1771, Union Lodge predates the founding of the United States and is the second-longest continuously running lodge in North America.

While serving as Master in 2017-2018 I was fortunate to preside over the 3000th consecutive meeting, continuing a 250 year tradition unbroken by Revolutionary, Civil or World Wars, economic downturns or local crisis.

First location of Union Lodge’s meeting room in 1771

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Lodges were popular with merchants and tradesmen, as well as with traveling maritime men and whalers who found local connections and a global brotherhood.

In modernity, we’re the world’s oldest fraternity, still relevant in a time where harmony, charity and community is needed more than ever.

The purpose of the Lodge is to make good men better through life-long self-improvement and fellowship. The doors are open equally regardless of race, political or religious affiliation.

For more information, just ask: https://massfreemasonry.org/