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Girls Got Gills

By Kelly Cloonan   |   April 19, 2023

After nearly 10 years of coordinating programming for young girls interested in sharks and marine life, coordinators of the Gills Club are seeing their efforts pay off in incredible ways. During the pandemic, the Lower Cape-based Gills Club wasn’t able to do in-person activities, but found a silver lining in virtual programming. With social media and online podcasts, they have reached a wider audience around the region, the nation, and the world. Now in its third season, the “Gills Talk” podcast features interviews with female shark scientists, sharing the scientists’ ...

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Good Folk

By Julie Craven Wagner   |   November 13, 2023

Yarmouthport artist Marieluise Hutchinson brings a simpler time and straight forward values to life in her inimitable scenes of New England life. Everyone has done it at some point in their life, either as a child or in the midst of being a responsible adult who still feels the child-like wonder of a make-believe world—picked up a snow globe, given it a quick back and forth shake, and steadied the trinket to peer inside to the wondrous scene where cascades of snowflakes settle and blanket the fairytale within. That is ...

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Season of Lights

Celebrating 20 years of Gardens Aglow at Sandwich’s Heritage Museums & Gardens.

Gunk’holing: The Changing Coast Line 

gunk’holing is the art of getting a boat into any small shallow cove, forbidden to boats of deeper draft and…

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Embracing the Light

Interior Designer Irina MacPhee uses smart design, and confident choices to transform a family’s way of living.

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A Place in the Sun

A family takes their time to plan, build and maximize space in their forever home.

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Embracing change as they write their next chapter, a couple builds their dream home. Any new construction project comes with…

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Artist Profile: Amy Heller 

“It’s everything,” Amy Heller says about Cape Cod. “I think in my daily existence, I need to be surrounded by…

Artist Profile: Yukimi Matsumoto

Glass artist Yukimi Matsumoto grew up in the bustling city of Osaka, Japan. Her extended family ran a sushi restaurant…

Artist Profile: Tamalin Baumgarten 

Musician Bob Dylan is often credited as saying, “The purpose of art is to stop time.” For artist Tamalin Baumgarten…

Artist Profile: Neil McAuliffe

Oil painter Neil McAuliffe was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and moved to Hyannis in ‘68 when he was four…

Artist Profile: Jackie Reeves

Jackie Reeves finds herself “working back to front on a canvas rather than left to right, top to bottom,” she…

Artist Profile: Paula David

After a long career as a senior-level marketing executive and brand strategist in financial services and higher education, Paula David…

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Emerging Artist: Clementine Nicholas

Emerging Artist: Beth FitzGerald King

Emerging Artist: Devon Cogan 

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By King or Storm

Two Cape growers, Sandwich’s Bob King and Provincetown’s Stormy Mayo, share the straight scoop on growing magnificent Dahlias.

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Sea & Soil and Frost & Found

Two floral designers interpret their passion for flowers and the natural world with unique perspectives.

Blooming at the Water’s Edge

Landscape Designer Maria Hickey sets a seaside embankment ablaze with blooms!

Encompassed by Nature

Sudbury Design Group transforms a tranquil property on Fox Island in Osterville, a project that reflects the natural allure of this Cape gem.