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.
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Schulenburg’s Rising Tide
Artist Paul Schulenburg paints the inspiring life that surrounds him on Cape Cod. In Paul Schulenburg’s painting, Soon to Return, a…
Read MoreThe Cod-ification of the Cape
In an early chapter of the epic novel “American Gods” Neil Gaiman relates the story of a ship of sailors…
Read MoreA Voyage Fueled by Vision
Forty years ago Harry Holl imagined a place where the art and artists of Cape Cod could shine. Today the…
Read MoreWilliam R. Davis
William R. Davis never thought he could make money as an artist, but his outlook changed in 1988, when the…
Read MoreJonathan McPhillips
Route 6A is in many respects Cape Cod’s version of northern California’s 101—the scenic highway along the coast—and Jonathan McPhillips’…
Read MoreSteve Wardle
For one family of artisan goldsmiths, their Chatham store and gallery “was inevitable,” says owner Steve Wardle. His wife, Barb,…
Read MoreThe Lighthouse of Hyannis Port
One of the Cape’s most iconic lighthouses stands not upon the dunes of the National Seashore but at a bend…
Read MoreThe Message from the Messenger Man
Traeger DiPietro channels the beauty found around him into a beguiling statement about life on the Vineyard. Back in the…
Read MoreA Garden of the Greatest Generation
Falmouth’s Spohr Gardens provides an interlude between the past and the present. In the heart of Falmouth’s Spohr Gardens stands a…
Read MoreHome is Where the Health Is
Cape Cod Healthcare: from dire beginnings to an essential present. On October 2nd, 1920, Cape Cod Hospital first opened its…
Read MoreIt’s Hip to be Square
Writer: Chris White Photographer: Brian Vanden Brink
Huey Lewis was a kind of working class rock singer who played with a variety of musicians in the San…
Read MoreFrom Ranch to Cape, Dallas to Dockside
This ain’t the first rodeo for “The Young House” in Mattapoisett. Here on the shore of Buzzards Bay, near Ned’s…
Read MoreCollecting the Cape
Writer: Chris White Photographer: Peter Wanderwaker
“When you’re going to renovate a house, always hire an architect you’ve known for 50 years,” say the owners of…
Read MoreThe Eye of the Universe
Imagine a world in which the wealth of the richest towns and cities revolves around the pursuit and hunting of…
Read MoreChanging Yellow Blue
A Hyannis Port landmark takes on a fresh future. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s classic short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the…
Read More“We First Flew in Dreams”
Writer: Chris White Photographer: Nancy Bloom
Each fall, a trip to the Atlantic coastline in Wellfleet and Truro might just include a sighting of Flying Goblins. On…
Read MoreCape Cod Kitty Hawk
Before people began to take flying machines—and even space bound shuttles and rockets—for granted, the innovations in flight fascinated much…
Read MoreThe Surprenant System
Writer: Chris White Photographer: Brian Samuels
At the center of the Cape Cod dining universe, one man does things a bit differently. People often describe Cape…
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