People & Businesses

Vermont Pure, Cape Cod Quality Service

By Elizabeth Shaw | May 6, 2020

At JMJ Beverage, customer service is the family business For 20 years, JMJ Beverages has been providing Southeastern Massachusetts with fresh, clean drinking water. Vermont Pure water is bottled straight…

The Next Wave: Allen Furman

By Brenna Collins | May 6, 2020

When a path was unclear, Allen Furman took action to pave his own way in the building industry. After creating his own major at UMass Amherst, Furman constructed hundreds of…

A New Spin on an Old Classic

By Elizabeth Shaw | May 6, 2020

Sudbury Design Group took a unique approach to a Cape Cod favorite in Chatham. There’s something so quintessentially Cape Cod about an outdoor shower. It’s perfect for leaving the beach…

The Delight is in the Details

By Julie Craven Wagner | April 30, 2020

Osterville’s JuliaGarden Design is creating gardens that live, breathe + inspire For Julia Esteves, founder and garden designer of JuliaGarden Design in Osterville, the path that has led to the seaside…

The Next Wave: Zachary Bannon

By Brenna Collins | April 30, 2020

From a young age, Zachary Bannon has witnessed the visions of architects and builders coming to fruition in homes across the Cape and Islands. His journey began as a laborer…

The Best Neighbors Ever

By Julie Craven Wagner | April 30, 2020

Local fence purveyors and builders offer their collective wisdom on the right fence for anyone’s home. In Robert Frost’s poem, Mending Wall, Frost tells the story of his springtime ritual…

Welcome One & All

By Elizabeth Shaw | April 30, 2020

2020 welcomes the second year of the Universally Designed McGraw Family Garden of the Senses at Heritage Museums & Gardens Strolling through a garden, basking in the warming sun, and…

The Color of Linen

By Chris White | April 30, 2020

Leveraging old world sensibilities and a solid understanding of design, interior designer/textile artist Beth Odence creates a cozy home in Cotuit. Flax plants flower in pentamerous petals, delicate as silk,…

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.

By Scott Lajoie | April 29, 2020

In response to a global emergency in recycling, Cape Cod is working to find destinations for its recycling closer to home, eliminate contamination, and reduce plastic use overall. Do you…

Photography for Good

By Elizabeth Shaw | April 29, 2020

“Small Works, Big Cause” helps photographers of Nantucket give back to the beautiful community that inspires them The Nantucket Daffodil Festival weekend is known for its bright flowers, brighter outfits…

Let Them Eat Cake (and pastries and cookies!)

By Elizabeth Shaw | April 29, 2020

After four years, Brewster hot spot Eat Cake 4 Breakfast has a new home, and owner/chef Danielle Nettleton shows no sign of slowing down Julia Child said, “To be a…

2020 Visionaries: Changing the Cape and the World One Person At a Time

By Elizabeth Shaw | March 17, 2020

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” -John F. Kennedy The dawning of a…

Forging Past Fifty

By Julie Craven Wagner | March 16, 2020

For a half century, Ross Coppelman has been crafting jewelry for the ages. What does a life’s passion look like? For those who are fortunate enough to create, it can…

What Dreams are Made Of

By Allyson Plessner | March 16, 2020

Chef Tyler LaChance and winemaker Joseph Carr make a formidable duo, outlining a spirited wine dinner to warm up even the coldest winter night on Cape Cod. It might sound…

Allison Argo

By Elizabeth Shaw | March 16, 2020

Documentary filmmaker  \\  Giving a voice to the voiceless, one film at a time Growing up in Orleans, Allison Argo didn’t have a classic Cape Cod childhood. Her parents rented…

Jitka Borowick

By Stefanie Celata | March 16, 2020

Business owner  \\  Making the Cape green with every clean Jitka Borowick came to the United States in 2003 from the Czech Republic with the goal of becoming fluent in…

Buff Chace

By Julie Craven Wagner | March 16, 2020

Place Maker  \\  Insightful Planner of Mashpee Commons It is a bit of a chicken or egg scenario as far as which has come first: the town of Mashpee or…

Darcy Creech

By Brenna Collins | March 16, 2020

Hat Maker + Philanthropist  \\  Spreading joy on Nantucket and beyond Moving thirty miles out to sea over twenty years ago, Darcy Creech had a vision to open a successful…