The New England Edition - GANT HOME

day, the family spends time together. Bobby
takes the kids to play paint ball or roller
hockey or go bowling or to the movies.
The return trip to the compound almost
invariably includes a stop at the world
famous ice cream parlor “Four Seas”,
which also provides cones and chocolate
sundaes on evenings when dinner guests
outnumber the desserts.
Fresh ocean breezes blow through open
windows and doors. The president of Waterkeeper
Alliance has spent his entire life
on rivers and by the sea, and was taught
from an early age along with the rest of his
cousins to never fear the ocean. Kennedy
gant home in hyannisport
boats can be seen on Nantucket Sound
even on the windiest days when the small
craft warning fl ag is battering the fl agpole
at the end of the Hyannisport pier.
Calmer days fi nd the children swimming,
diving from the pier, windsurfi ng, waterskiing,
wake boarding, kite surfi ng, kayaking
and surfi ng. All the children know
how to navigate and handle themselves on
a sailboat.
Bobby’s passion for the sea is evident
throughout his house. Navigational charts,
marine and nautical art adorn every wall.
The third fl oor is paneled in the style of a
wooden ship’s cabin. In those rare instances
when the house is actually quiet, Bobby gets
a chance to tell the children tales of Cape
Cod’s riveting history, pirate ships, the
Wampanoag Indians, whaling fl eets and the
pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock. Other
days the family goes diving with friend and
world-famous treasure hunter Barry Clifford,
searching for pirate treasure on the
wreck of the Whydah – Sam Bellamy’s ship
that foundered off Cape Cod in 1691. The
Kennedy children often return to the surface
with handfuls of gold pirate dubloons.
The idyllic paradise that patriarch
Joseph Kennedy found in Hyannisport
abides for generations of Kennedys. Each
year new members of the clan learn to
love nature and Cape Cod as their parents,
grandparents and great-grandparents have
during every magical summer since 1920.
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