Best Cape & Islands recipes: 44 creations from establishments voted “Best” by Cape Cod LIFE readers
Presenting Cape Cod LIFE’s second annual ‘Best of’ recipe section For this, our second annual “Best of” recipe section, we solicited original recipes from a variety of local restaurants, bakeries, B&Bs, and hotels that Cape Cod LIFE readers over the years have designated as…
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Gunkholing: Cape Cod LIFE launching new website, online general store
I don’t remember a time when I have not been very appreciative of good writing and great photography. Before starting Cape Cod LIFE 38 years ago, I enjoyed showing friends and family colorful slides of this area. Then I thought, if I could earn a…
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Changing Shape of the Cape & Islands: Chatham’s Monomoy Islands and Stage Harbor
Editor’s note: This is the 13th in a series of articles covering the region’s dramatically changing coastline. Click here to see all of the articles. *We have highlighted and numbered 16 locations described in the article to help readers locate them in the photos.* To…
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Sandwich archaeology: Family has found 10,000 artifacts in their backyard
In 2010, Tom and Melissa Keyes embarked on a new project in Sandwich, with their purchase of the “Old Lincoln House,” as some of the neighbors called it. The Keyes believed they were taking on a fairly common endeavor: a quest to restore the…
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Cape Cod’s Kindness Rocks Project
Finding just the right message of inspiration at just the right time might just change everything. For West Barnstable resident Megan Murphy—and countless others on Cape Cod and beyond because of her—these inspiring messages have come in the form of rocks. In the spring of…
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Cape Cod has long been a hot spot for birding enthusiasts
Race Point, Fort Hill and other locales on the peninsula are popular sighting areas “For birding, no other place on the East Coast of the United States can compare to Cape Cod,” claims Steve Arena, whose passion is seabirds. An engineering manager from Westboro, Arena…
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Yarmouth Port gardener has ‘flower power’
For Helen McVeigh, time spent in the garden is fulfilling, inspiring, and fun Helen McVeigh describes her gardens as “her bodacious dream,” and a visit to her charming Yarmouth Port home provides colorful clues revealing the dream’s nature. There are flourishing flowers, perennials aplenty, and…
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