My Nantucket
Susan Burns
Susan Burns' Labor Day Comedy Extravaganza is more a right of passage than a rite of passage - if you've passed the summer here, you've earned the right, by Labor Day weekend, to laugh at the island chicanery the comedienne lampoons in her traditional show. (This year, the shows are Monday and Tuesday, September 3 and 4, at 8:30 p.m., downstairs at the United Methodist Church, 2 Centre St. Admission is $20.)
Having returned to Nantucket in the summers since her teenage years, Burns couples her knowledge of seasonal life with the stand-up craft she began honing as a young comedienne working with Lewis Black at his Greenwich Village comedy cabaret in the 1980s. After years of this, returning islanders are plenty familiar with the parts of Nantucket that prod and poke at her funny bone - but what about the things she genuinely loves about the place?
We asked Burns to share some of her local loves:
Riding my bike down the hill past Sanford Farm on the Madaket Road. It's like a ride at an
amusement park.
Walking around town on a summer evening and being intoxicatedby the aroma of flowers
Seeing Great Point from the slow ferry emerge for the first time on the horizon
Finding a "secret spot" or a "secret beach" and just being alone
Walking along on an icy
morning near Miacomet Pond
Smelling Portuguese bread near the bakery in the early morning
Standing under the clock at the Unitarian Church and hearing it chime the hour
Walking over the bridge near Millie's old house and seeing the sign in her memory
Eel Point
The view from Steps Beach I 
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