Rich Merriman
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President Rich Merriman,
Rich's love of Nantucket has deep roots, heightened by his late mother's fascination with Nantucket's history and the preservation of its historic homes. Jean Merriman was the author of a book about Nantucket's first silversmith, John Jackson, and also researched and wrote histories of several of Nantucket's early houses.
Rich first came to Nantucket with his parents and two brothers in the early 1950s, when the Merriman family rented the Brant Point house now known as Twin Hollys on Walsh Street. After their initial visit, the family made Nantucket their annual summer vacation spot, usually staying at The Woodbox, then owned by Mrs. Tutein. Rich remembers that the lodging arrangement was the American Plan, providing lunch and dinner, and that beach days were spent at Dionis and Surfside. In the early 1960s the family bought 14 Quince Street for $40,000, then, wanting an older house, bought 14 India Street. In the course of restoration, the India Street house burned to the ground, so the Merrimans bought the side-gabled c. 1753 John Jackson house at 37 Orange Street. During the Orange Street restoration evidence of the original gambrel roof was discovered. Rich and his wife Pam took their wedding trip to Nantucket and stayed at the Orange Street house, and then in 1989 bought their own family cottage in ‘Sconset.
When they are not at their home in Nantucket, Rich and Pam (who co-chaired the Starbuck Kilvert Show House this summer with fellow-Pennsylvanian Melissa Hancock) and their three children, Ted, Julia, and Peter, live in the Philadelphia area where Rich serves as President and CEO of The Pennsylvania Trust Company.''
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