Author: Chris White
Chris White is a frequent writer for Cape Cod Life Publications and has written on topics ranging from the history of Smith’s Tavern on Wellfleet Island to the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria off Nantucket. Chris also teaches English at Tabor Academy in Marion.
Articles By Name:
Cleansing Tides
A new report of the quality of the waterways and ponds on the Cape reveals concerns as well as a path for hope.
Read MoreThe History of Heritage
Celebrating its 55th year, Heritage Museums & Gardens sheds light on the people who inhabited the historical grounds.
Read MoreComing Home To Bass River
The team at George Davis, Inc. transforms a dark, cramped house into a vibrant home for a storybook ending.
Read MoreThe Heights of Family
A collaboration between architect and builder Polhemus Savery DaSilva and interior designer Lisa Hilderbrand results in a family home for generations to come.
Read MoreCreating Camelot
JFK’s legacy and how it has shaped our understanding of an era 60 years after his assassination.
Read MoreGood Reads in LIFE: Rising From the Bunker
Local author Matt Fitzpatrick returns with a Chatham-based thriller.
Read MoreHidden Treasure
Writer: Chris White Photographer: Brian Vanden Brink
Polhemus Savery DaSilva explores unexpected acreage to create a private enclave on Nantucket.
Read MoreArtist Profile: Phyllis Dobbyn Adams
If Alice of Wonderland fame were to rent a cabin on the Outer Cape, she’d feel most at home in…
Read MoreArtist Profile: Karri Allrich
A woman stands, back turned on the beach, her right hand at her brow, elbow crooked just above the ocean’s…
Read MoreArtist Profile: Erna Partoll
“It’s hard to leave Provincetown,” says painter Erna Partoll. “Every season is beautiful, even the winters.” In her 53rd year…
Read MoreWhere the Bracing Atlantic Bites Back
Sharks deserve equal parts respect and fear as they circle back around the Cape this summer.
Read MoreSummertime, But the Livin’ Wasn’t Always Easy
How Nantucket became a cosmopolitan tourist destination is explored in the Nantucket Whaling Museum’s new exhibit.
Read MoreLeave the Light On: Heroic Women Who Lit the Coastal Lighthouses
Throughout history there have been women who have kept the lights burning strong in our coastal lighthouses.
Read MoreWhere None May Land
Nomans Land, south of Martha’s Vineyard, may not be suitable for humans today, but that was not the case in the past.
Read MoreBack to the Future
An iconic home in Truro, built and designed in the 1980s by Charlie Zehnder, finds a new path in the 21st century with the help of architect Carmi Bee and Truro’s Augustus Construction.
Read MoreThe Hero With 1,000 Colors
Painter Ed Chesnovitch vividly captures Scorton Creek.
Read MoreIsaac Snow: Revolutionary Pirate & Incorrigible Prisoner
Taking a step back into the Cape’s Revolutionary past reveals the story of Isaac Snow.
Read MoreWalking Home
Traversing in Thoreau’s Cape Cod footsteps, Ben Shattuck takes readers with him through one of life’s most important journeys; that of self-discovery.
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