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Personal touches - and some unscripted surprises - charmed this Cape Cod wedding.
The september morning of the wedding was overcast, with wispy fog rolling in on an easterly wind from Cape Cod Bay. Read more…
Allure of the Figawi
Our writer recalls his favorite moments from 18 Figawi races across Nantucket Sound
“WE ARE GONNA HIT THAT BOAT!” The man yelling those words over the wind, out in the middle of Nantucket Sound, was my first Figawi captain. Read more…
A Timeless Retreat
Architect Bruce Miller restores an authentic Cape cabin in the woods of Wellfleet.
It’s not every day you come across a property that evokes a sense of charm and nostalgia for old Cape Cod. Read more…
All in Good Time
With more than 80 nonfiction books to his credit, history author Martin Sandler has hit his stride - with no plans to slow down.
What do you do when you’re an 80-year-old writer and so many voices—your critics’, your editors’, the one inside yourself—tell you that after more than 40 years in the business, you’re better than you’ve ever been? If you’re Martin Sandler, you scribble your rollerball pen across a yellow legal pad for hours on end, because you have a deadline looming. Read more…
Nantucket for the Holidays
From the first of November until New Year's Day, Nantucket lights up with fun, revelry, and good cheer.
As temperatures plummet and the countdown until the holiday season begins, Nantucket prepares for a festive season. Islanders blend the old with the new this year, mixing tradition with creativity. In addition to the eagerly anticipated Christmas Stroll and the Nantucket Historical Association’s Festivals of Wreaths and Trees, the island has a special surprise in store this year: the first community-wide Nantucket New Year’s celebration. Islanders invite you to be a part of their holiday season, from the first of November, until the last horn blows on New Year’s Day. Read more…
- Posted in Family Fun, Music, People, Seasonal: Winter, Social LIFE
Open Hearts and Open Homes
When local animal shelters fill up, foster families welcome abandoned pets—and often enjoy life-changing experiences.
What most people don’t realize,” Cassie Marischen says, “is how many animals we actually take in.” Marischen is the manager of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ Cape Cod Adoption Center, a Centerville shelter that cares for all kinds of animals that have been abandoned or surrendered by their owners, including cats, dogs, birds, hamsters, rabbits, and even chinchillas. When other shelters turn animals away because of old age, aggressive behavior, or because they’re full, animals need to go somewhere else. “We are the somewhere else,” says Marischen.’ Read more…
- Posted in Family Fun, People, Social LIFE
Fall into Place
Fall is the Perfect Season for exploring Cape Cod...
With warm weather and a fraction of the crowds, fall is the perfect season to explore Cape Cod. In this edition of our annual autumn activities round-up, we’ve compiled weekend itineraries outlining some of the best celebrations from the Upper Cape out to the Islands as well as must-do diversions to enjoy during your trip. We’ve also gathered insights from experts to make your experiences as rich as possible, like the physical characteristics of bird species making a southerly migration through the region to the flavors that distinguish one variety of oysters from the next.After another bustling summer, the off-season is here. Savor it! Read more…
- Posted in Autumn, Family Fun, People, Social LIFE
Wampanoag Wisdom
For Chief Flying Eagle, sustainability is as old as the dunes.
As he walks the rows of his bountiful garden outside his humble Mashpee home with shears and deadheaded blossoms in hand, Earl Mills, Chief Flying Eagle of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, is a man attuned with nature. A candid delight washes over Mills’s face as he points out the ivory-white hydrangeas and bouquet-ready zinnias that stand proudly among Black-Eyed Susans and delicate Yarrows, drawing in butterflies and bees. The fluttering, buzzing, rustling, and chirping of the fauna drawn in by the garden provide a pleasant accompaniment to the incessant drone of June bugs high above. Read more…
- Posted in People
Modern History
Forgotten furniture and abandoned antiques get a second life at Modern Vintage Design Studio in Sandwich.
No piece of furniture is as alluring or romantic as the vanity table, an artifact from a bygone era. Vanity tables, with elegant drawer pulls, large mirrors, and intricately carved legs, were once a staple in every bedroom, places where women spent hours primping. It’s not hard to imagine that every vanity was once the scene of an interesting personal story. Read more…
- Posted in Art, Interiors, People, Style & Fashion
Birds of a Feather
In the autumn, Cape Cod is a birdwatcher's paradise.
Last September, Mike O’Connor’s endless curiosity about the bird world and hunger for surprise sent him to Sandy Neck Beach in Barnstable, a birding locale that rarely disappoints. What winged creatures on this fall day would be making their way along the long stretch of sand as they eventually head further south, like so many (human) snowbirds? Read more…
- Posted in Autumn, Nature, People, Social LIFE
