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Decorating the Kennedy
Summer House
Spring/Summer
GANT HOME
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LILY FLOWER DUVET
LILY FLOWER PILLOWCASE
NEWPORT SUMMER FRAME PILLOWCASE
LACE CUSHION
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. or “Bobby” as he is known to his friends,
loves the water. It’s a very personal love that is rooted in a magical
childhood growing up in Hyannisport, Massachusetts on the
shores of Nantucket Sound. Here, among historic clapboard houses,
boardwalks and beaches Bobby and his six energetic
children now share their own home
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The Kennedys moved to Hyannisport in the sprawling green lawn bordered by sawgrass and
1920s when Bobby’s grandfather Joseph P. white sand beaches that stretch into the spark-
Kennedy purchased a rambling beachfront ling sea. Hyannisport was a paradise for Bobby.
home. “Grandpa’s house” was soon surrounded Surrounded by his family he indulged his obses-
by the homes of his children including Bobby’s sion with the natural world.
father’s, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Nothing much has changed in Hyannisport
his uncle’s President John F. Kennedy, in a tight in the 50 years since it served as the summer
compound. Other Kennedy relatives also moved White House but today Bobby’s six children have
into a slightly more scattered orbit around Joseph 85 cousins to play with, all of them enjoying the
Kennedy’s gabled clapboard summerhouse and same close relationship with nature and the sea.
the tiny seaside village. Each day they ride their bikes to the tidal inlets
Bobby spent each summer on Cape Cod at the at Calmus Beach to crab, or to the salt marshes
family compound where he and his 29 cousins at nearby Squaw Island to catch fiddler crabs,
enjoyed a daily regimen of athletic training and killifish, and mumichugs. They dip-net for pain-
outdoor activities. Each day the families would ted turtles and baby catfish on Anderson’s Pond,
sail to the nearby islands with the children and seine for eels, shiners, skipjacks and Atlantic
skippering their own tiny sailboats and the needle fish that hide in the Sargasso weed on the
grownups leading the flotilla in the family’s 26- shores that bracket the harbor.
foot Wianno Senior. They would picnic there and Bobby’s home is a virtual hotel. His siblings,
fish for sand sharks, scup, flounder, puffers and cousins and dozens of young cousins from the
sea robins; gather hermit crabs, periwinkles and 4th generation assemble each night with weekend
scallops, or dig for the tasty steamers. After sailing guests and stray kids from across the village after
they would play baseball on the field behind outdoor games of baseball, football and capture-
John F. Kennedy’s summer White House or touch the-flag. As head of the household, he cooks a
football below Joseph Kennedy’s veranda on the giant barbecue, as thirty bicycles lie resting on
the front lawn.
Bobby’s classic New England cedar shingle
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is President of Waterkeeper home was built in 1820 by a sea captain. On its
Alliance and the best-known environmental roof is a charming fenced terrace known locally
lawyer in America. Waterkeeper Alliance is the as a “widow’s walk”, where the captain’s wife
world’s foremost grassroots water protection could watch for her husband’s return from the
organization. As president, he leads over two sea. From here, the expansive sea views stretch to
hundred local waterkeeper programs that the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket
protect rivers, lakes and ocean bays around on the edge of the horizon. Midnight may find a
the world using patrol boats, litigation and dozen children sleeping on the widow’s walk be-
science to bring the biggest polluters to justice. neath the stars on foam bedrolls. Facing the other
Waterkeepers understand that clean water way, there’s a Kennedy home in every direction.
means healthy communities. Bobby himself grew up in the house next door
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LACE PAISLEY DUVET
BIG LACE PAISLEY PILLOWCASE
SMALL LACE PAISLEY PILLOWCASE
LEAF EMBROIDERY CUSHION
SEERSUCKER THROW
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with ten siblings, his mother Ethel who still lives almost invariably includes a stop at the world fa-
there and father Robert Kennedy, the legendary mous ice cream parlor “Four Seas”, which also
attorney general and civil rights champion of provides cones and chocolate sundaes on evenings
the ’60s. when dinner guests outnumber the desserts.
The doors of this hospitable household are Fresh ocean breezes blow through open win-
never locked. The kitchen is always open and the dows and doors. The president of Waterkeeper
barbecue pit lit. Ringing phones, blaring music, Alliance has spent his entire life on rivers and
trampling feet and the barking of the Kennedy’s by the sea, and was taught from an early age
two dachshunds, Cupid and Cinnamon, add to along with the rest of his cousins to never fear the
the atmosphere of amiable anarchy. Kids box, ocean. Kennedy boats can be seen on Nantucket
dance, wrestle, paint pictures or play “anana- Sound even on the windiest days when the small
grams” on the floor while the older boys and craft warning flag is battering the flagpole at the
girls clean fresh caught bluefish on the outdoor end of the Hyannisport pier. Calmer days find the
patio. Somewhere someone is playing a few bars children swimming, diving from the pier, wind-
on a piano. surfing, waterskiing, wake boarding, kite surfing,
Between May and September, the house fun- kayaking and surfing. All the children know how
ctions as the hub around which the family’s life to navigate and handle themselves on a sailboat.
revolves. There is nothing ostentatious here. Bobby’s passion for the sea is evident throug-
The three-story house contains an astounding hout his house. Navigational charts, marine and
twenty-one beds scattered haphazardly over five nautical art adorn every wall. The third floor is
crowded bedrooms, a living room and study, all paneled in the style of a wooden ship’s cabin. In
served by a kitchen and four bathrooms. Stained those rare instances when the house is actually
pine floors complement beautiful windows che- quiet, Bobby gets a chance to tell the children
erfully lighting practical bedrooms strewn with tales of Cape Cod’s riveting history, pirate ships,
matching pillows, duvets and throws. Terrycloth the Wampanoag Indians, whaling fleets and the
robes and towels hanging in the bathrooms tas- pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock. Other days
tefully complete the casual country home feeling. the family goes diving with friend and world-
Shelves in the kitchen and the hallways over- famous treasure hunter Barry Clifford, searching
flow with plates, bowls and glasses, all anxiously for pirate treasure on the wreck of the Whydah –
expecting unexpected visitors. The combined di- Sam Bellamy’s ship that foundered off Cape Cod
ning room and study is too small for the perpe- in 1691. The Kennedy children often return to the
tual crowds and flows out onto a patio filled with surface with handfuls of gold pirate dubloons.
wicker and Adirondack chairs, which functions The idyllic paradise that patriarch Joseph
as the social center of the house. Kennedy found in Hyannisport abides for genera-
Even on the occasional Cape Cod rainy day, the tions of Kennedys. Each year new members of the
family spends time together. Bobby takes the kids clan learn to love nature and Cape Cod as their
to play paint ball or roller hockey or go bowling or parents, grandparents and great-grandparents
to the movies. The return trip to the compound have during every magical summer since 1920.
SUMMER TARTAN THROW
LOGO EMBROIDERY CUSHION
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SUMMER TARTAN CUSHION
GRAPHIC KNIT THROW
SOLID CABLE KNIT CUSHION
GINGHAM CHECK THROW
GINGHAM CHECK CUSHION
HYANNIS STRIPE RUG
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GRAPHIC STRIPE THROW
SUMMER SHIELD THROW
SOLID CABLE KNIT THROW
SUMMER TARTAN THROW
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NAUTICAL PRINT DUVET
NAUTICAL STRIPE PILLOWCASE
18 19COTTAGE STRIPE DUVET
COTTAGE STRIPE PILLOWCASE
NEWPORT FRAME PILLOWCASE
SUMMER BIG STAR CUSHION
CAPE COD EMBROIDERY CUSHION
20 21STARS & STRIPES BEACHTOWEL
ALLOVER STAR BEACHTOWEL
22 23LAUNDRY BAG
SIGNAL CUSHION “C” KNIT CUSHION
SIGNAL CUSHION “J” KNIT CUSHION
24 25EMBOSSED CERAMICS
GANT CREST CERAMICS
HERRINGBONE TABLELINEN
STAR BREAKFAST TEACUP & SAUCER
STAR TEAPOT
CHECK DISHTOWELS
CAPE COD CHECK DISHTOWELS
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“Everyone has the right to clean water.”
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is president of Waterkeeper Alliance.
The organisation is a growing international network of people dedicated
to protecting and improving the world’s rivers, lakes and coastal waters.
In order to share this magnificent heritage with future generations,
GANT Home encourages everyone to support Waterkeeper Alliance.
For additional information about Waterkeeper Alliance and its projects, please go to www.waterkeeper.org
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