by oncapemagazine | Jul 21, 2023 | May 2021
By CHRISTINE LYNCH While walking along with your child, you hear some shrill alarm-like cries coming from overhead. Looking up, you see the wide wingspan of a soaring bird, and then a little voice asks, “What bird is that?” Most Cape parents are familiar with the...
by oncapemagazine | Jul 21, 2023 | May 2021
By DEBORAH G. SCANLON In June of 1871, Spencer Fullerton Baird, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and newly appointed US Commissioner of Fisheries, arrived in Woods Hole to set up the nation’s first Fisheries laboratory. The 150th anniversary of the...
by oncapemagazine | Jul 21, 2023 | May 2021
By CHRISTOPHER KAZARIAN When it comes to sports, kiteboarding is still in its infancy. While various forms of it existed in the 1970s and ‘80s, it wasn’t until the late 1990s that it became mainstream. Among those to jump onto the kiteboarding craze early on was Paul...
by oncapemagazine | Jul 21, 2023 | May 2021
By KAREN B. HUNTER Some people will not fly in a single-engine helicopter, probably for obvious reasons. Mashpee resident Paul Rifkin, however, does so every chance he gets, which amounts to about once a week when his pilot friend is in town during the summer months....
by oncapemagazine | Jul 21, 2023 | March 2021
By ABIGAIL NEHRING Many of Cape Cod’s seasonal homeowners have lingered long past fair weather this year. They are choosing the Cape as their domestic setting after American companies sent their employees home on lockdown, stationing themselves at their kitchen tables...
