by oncapemagazine | May 28, 2024 | May 2024
By NOELLE ANNONEN A seagull stole my sandwich on a Falmouth beach. As a lifeguard, our seats are tall enough to see out into the water so we can keep an eye on swimmers splashing in the waves. They also leave us vulnerable to the elements: Chapoquoit Beach is a...
by oncapemagazine | May 28, 2024 | Articles 2, May 2024
By DEBORAH G. SCANLON Legend has it that Mark Twain relished oysters, eating them from breakfast to a midnight snack. If you have sampled locally farmed oysters, you can understand why. These tasty mollusks benefit the environment, removing nitrogen from estuaries...
by oncapemagazine | May 28, 2024 | Articles 2, May 2024
Two seals circled their enclosure lazily and basked sleepily under a cloudy sky on the last day of August 1954. The pair had called their little pool close by Great Harbor in Woods Hole home since June, when a fisheries truck delivered the two, disoriented from the...
by oncapemagazine | May 28, 2024 | May 2024
By GILDA GEIST When I walk through Beebe Woods in Falmouth on a cool, misty and a-little-too-wet afternoon, it’s like stepping into a world of fairytales. I see a sapling with a little hollow. At the base of the hollow, polypores fan outward an inch or so. This is the...
by oncapemagazine | May 28, 2024 | May 2024
By JOANNE BRIANA-GARTNER Music and theater will dominate the cultural scene this summer, offering something for everyone with a wealth of choices ranging from classical music to recent Broadway hits. While the Lower Cape has been well known for years for its arts and...
by oncapemagazine | May 28, 2024 | May 2024
By CHRISTINE LYNCH The One-Classroom County Road was the north-south thoroughfare for Cataumet, albeit for horses and carriages, when school children first scampered through the doors of the little one-room schoolhouse. There are two doors, separate entrances—one for...
