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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…
117,366 Words or Less
Once again, we have a terrific edition of the Cape Cod Life Annual Guide for you to keep close by, all year round. And in the pages that follow, you’ll find some 17,074 words devoted to 18 interviews with folks that call our special region home. Each of these stories is the product of a one-, two-, sometimes three-hour-long conversation, reduced to the essentials. Just before we went to press, I tallied up the length of the unedited transcripts, and I shuddered at the total: 117,366 words. There are plenty of novels that don’t reach that length. Read more…
- Posted in Jeff Harder's Blog
Charlie Tilton
Cuttyhunk Classic
Bartholomew Gosnold came over in 1602 and set up a colony on an island in a saltwater pond on the west end of Cuttyhunk, and they lasted five or six months. That was the first English settlement in the New World . . . The old-timers, they had a tough time to survive, I’m sure. The only vegetables they had were what they grew and canned for the winter, and fresh fish in the summer. Read more…
John Bartlett
Island Legacy
Farming is really a way of life for us. It’s not something that you can pick up and put down—it’s something you’re involved with all the time. We always have our eye on the weather, we always have to keep track of things and be prepared. That can be stressful at times. But it’s also rewarding to be able to sew a seed and harvest the fruits of your labor. Read more…
Stina Sayre
Vineyard Couturier
I grew up in Sweden, in the middle north in a town called Östersund. My dad was an architect, my mother was a homemaker when we were small, and then she worked at the pharmacy in the hospital in our town. My grandfather, who had a bigger influence on me than I thought at the time, was a clothing merchant who had 10 to 15 stores. He came from the business side—he had clothing stores in my hometown, and I worked in those stores growing up. I’d be on the floor selling. Read more…
Alex Brown
Reel Lifer
I was born and raised in Port Washington on the north shore of Long Island. Tom Kaelin used to be a former harbormaster, and he was a bayman, as they called them down there. He had a big Garvey, and I used to go out with him all the time to haul lobster traps. Anything you could do on the water, he did it, and I just started learning with him. Read more…
The Roberts Family
Family Spirit
DAVID ROBERTS, SR.: I’m originally from Meriden, Connecticut. I first came out to Truro in the early 1950s with my father to go fishing. It was bass back in those days—we probably caught too many. And then shortly thereafter, we brought my mother out. She made a quick decision, and she and my father bought an acre of land out on Head of the Meadow Road. She lived out here until she passed away in ’87—she was the one that drew us all here. Read more…
Susie Nielsen
Cape Creator
Everybody assumes I’m from Connecticut or Colorado, but I’m originally from New York City. I grew up there, finished high school in New Jersey, and went to Boston for college at Northeastern University . . . As a kid, my dad would take us down to Falmouth in the summers. But it was always a big deal to come to Cahoon Hollow Beach and take our rafts into the waves. Wellfleet was on my radar pretty early. Read more…
Dave Crary
Park Protector
My father bought some property in Eastham in the ’50s, and my mother’s father bought some property around the same time or a little earlier—my parents both still own those original properties. After my parents got married, they built a cottage colony in 1959, the year I was born, on one of those properties. And I’ve basically lived here ever since. Read more…
Elizabeth Rowley
Creative Champion
I’m from Enfield, Connecticut, but I don’t really remember anything about living there—I went to a boarding school outside of Boston. But all of my childhood memories are of Cape Cod, and I’ve spent all of my adult life here. Cape Cod really is home for me. Read more…
