People & Businesses

Farm to Table: Farm.Field.Sea

By Julie Craven Wagner | July 2, 2019

Farm.Field.Sea What is the recipe for a perfect evening? The environment sets the mood, the guests contribute the story, and the host’s choices for sustenance and merriment feed the souls.…

Farm to Table: The Farmers Table

By Elizabeth Shaw | July 2, 2019

The Farmers Table In October of 2017, mother-daughter duo Lynn and Olivia Tripp opened The Farmers Table to bring farm-to-table freshness to Plymouth. While opening a café wasn’t always the…

Farm to Table: Truro Vineyards

By Haley Cote | July 2, 2019

Picture yourself surrounded by a sea of lush grape vines, sipping on a rich cabernet made from those very grapes while enjoying a five-course meal, live music and local art.…

Mimosas Aren’t Just For Brunch

By Allyson Plessner | July 2, 2019

“Ohza came to me as an idea two years ago while on a boat leaving Waquoit Bay in Mashpee,” says Ryan Ayotte, owner and founder of Ohza—a premium mimosa brand…

Richard Loud

By Julie Craven Wagner | July 2, 2019

Maritime painter Richard Loud paints scenes from another era with uncanny ease and insight Painter Richard Loud charts a course to yesterday each day. As he paints, he breathes life…

Picture this!

By Allyson Plessner | July 2, 2019

Each year we receive thousands of stunning photo contest submissions. Choosing the photography contest winners is a time of much excitement and much contention at the Cape Cod Life office—there…

Tony Pasquale and Terra Luna

By Rob Conery | July 2, 2019

Tony Pasquale brings a groovy flavor all his own to Terra Luna and the Outer Cape community Terra Luna only seems like a restaurant. It’s really a Truro crossroad where…

Artist Profile: Illya Kagan

By Allyson Plessner | June 26, 2019

The son of a needleworker and a furniture designer, Illya Kagan always knew he wanted art to be a part of his life. His passion carried him from his home…

Artist Profile: Adam Rhude

By Rory Marcus | June 25, 2019

Adam Rhude’s warm and realistic paintings invite you to share a quiet moment. You just might want to sit down, sip from a glass of cappuccino, and write a letter…

Artist Profile: Dianne Panarelli Miller

By Julie Craven Wagner | June 25, 2019

If anyone could be referred to as a renaissance woman, it would be appropriate to describe Dianne Panarelli Miller as such. Yet the word “renaissance” literally translates to “rebirth,” and…

Artist Profile: Ginny Nickerson

By Rory Marcus | June 25, 2019

“I’m really trying to paint the essence of the Cape,” says Ginny Nickerson. “I have a love of wild nature, the oceans and beaches.” It’s no wonder that the love…

Artist Profile: Cecilia Capitanio

By Rory Marcus | June 25, 2019

Growing up in picturesque Vina del Mar, Chile, Cecilia Capitanio was surrounded by vivid clothing and vibrant gardens, and she expressed her love of color through painting in school.  Her…

Artist Profile: Jane Eccles

By John Greiner-Ferris | June 25, 2019

It’s the 1950s, and Jane Eccles, with a degree in art history from Mt. Holyoke College and graduate work at Columbia University, is on a successful trajectory toward her ambition…

Artist Profile: Jeanne Rosier Smith

By Rory Marcus | June 25, 2019

So fascinated by the drama of the ocean, Jeanne Rosier Smith has been painting it for 10 years. “The ocean changes constantly,” she says. “I see a clash of opposites—motion…

Artist Profile: Joe Diggs

By John Greiner-Ferris | June 25, 2019

The complexities of race in America perplex, anger and sometimes even amuse Osterville painter Joe Diggs. “I want to be known simply as a painter,” Diggs says. “Not a black…

Artist Profile: Jonathan Earle

By Rory Marcus | June 25, 2019

Jonathan Earle always enjoyed drawing. He studied landscape architecture in college and so enjoyed the art classes he had to take that he considered becoming an artist. He decided against…

Artist Profile: Julija Mostykanova Feeney

By John Greiner-Ferris | June 25, 2019

When people ask Julija Mostykanova Feeney what she does for a living, she doesn’t tell them she’s an artist. “I tell them I’m a painter,” she says. “Then they usually…

Artist Profile: Kay Ritter

By Rory Marcus | June 25, 2019

Kay Ritter feels very fortunate that she started “living the artist’s dream” soon after graduating as a sculpture major from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1971. She began…