by oncapemagazine | Mar 21, 2025 | March 2025
By DEB SCANLON In 1951, Charles and Margaret Spohr purchased a six-room house on two acres of overgrown wooded land looking out over Oyster Pond in Falmouth. “It was just a small house surrounded by a jungle,” Mr. Spohr recalled in a 1989 Enterprise article. They...
by oncapemagazine | Mar 21, 2025 | March 2025
By BARBARA CLARK He’s an adolescent, as tall as his mom, and he enjoys many of the strengths and smarts of an adult. But when it comes to getting his next meal without working for it, he’s still nagging at Mom to provide him with food and other comforts that he...
by oncapemagazine | Mar 21, 2025 | March 2025
By BARABARA CLARK The mystique of bats has played a major role throughout history, in our folklore traditions and in thousands of captivating stories about these denizens of the night. In “Aesop’s Fables,” a famous collection of moral tales that dates back more than...
by oncapemagazine | Mar 21, 2025 | March 2025
Spading Fork The ideal tool for turning soil the spading fork’s tines easily bite into compacted soil and the tines are thicker, shorter and fewer in number than its cousin, the pitchfork. When turning beds early in the season or at the parched height of summer, the...
by oncapemagazine | Mar 21, 2025 | March 2025
By CHRISTOPHER KAZARIAN With the state of Massachusetts setting a goal of reducing carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2030, 75% by 2040 and net zero by 2050, it is providing generous incentives for homeowners to convert to heat pumps. Offered through Mass Save, the...
by oncapemagazine | Mar 21, 2025 | March 2025
By MICHAEL RAUSCH I can remember, clear as day, the first time I picked up a golf club and went to play on a real golf course. Like most kids I had played miniature golf, but this was the real thing, and I was quickly hooked. At the age of 13, on an uncommonly warm...
