Maine-based nonprofit with Haiti ties sheds light on unrest
"Unfortunately the situation in Haiti continues to deteriorate."
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"Unfortunately the situation in Haiti continues to deteriorate."
EASTHAM — Hundreds of angry emails and texts. Hundreds of critical social-media posts. Calls to boycott his business. And as of Monday night, death threats. That’s what greeted Nathan Nickerson, owner of Arnold’s Lobster & Clam Bar since he took part in the pro-Trump march to the U.S. Capitol last week and then talked “nonchalantly” to Boston radio personality Howie Carr about the experience. As he returned to his Washington, D.C., hotel on Jan. 6, Nickerson told Carr: "I was actually enjoying it all. It was kind of fun." At that point, Nickerson said Monday, he had listened to P...
‘It was beyond reprehensible’: Arnold’s Lobster & Clam Bar owner denounces events at US Capitol, didn’t know the full extent of events when on ‘Howie Carr Show’ Updated Jan 12, 2021; Facebook Share The owner of Arnold’s Lobster & Clam Bar in Eastham is receiving backlash, including death threats after being at the U.S. Capitol Building when it was breached by insurrectionists — but he was not part of that group, he said. “What they did was beyond breaking the law. I mean, people were killed,” Restaurant owner Nathan Nickerson III told MassLive. “I’m sad, so sad.” Ni...
On Jan. 6, Nathan Nickerson III, owner of Arnold’s Lobster & Clam Bar in Eastham, attended the pro-Trump rally in Washington, D.C. He marched to the Capitol as a violent mob sieged the government building, leaving five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer. He called into a conservative radio program to describe his experience. And then he apologized. In a now-deleted post published to the Eastham Community Space Facebook page on Jan. 6, Nickerson detailed his attendance and remorse for participating in what he thought was going to be “a peaceful protest.” “I would like my f...