I don’t know about anybody else, but I’ve about had it with snow this year. It seems as though every week since before Christmas we have had the threat of a significant snow storm. And although Cape Cod has managed to dodge the worst of it, we still have our fair share of the white stuff. It frustrates my husband, as he...
In my humble opinion, fall is the ideal time to visit Cape Cod. The air is crisp, summer traffic has abated, and what remains is the true Cape Cod: salt, sand, sea, and sky in all their glorious perfection! As innkeepers...
I’ve been collecting sea glass for years, as did my mother before me. It’s a passive hobby, one that can easily be combined with a gentle stroll along the beach. It does require an eagle eye, however, and the ability to grab and go, lest a wave roll in and wash away a treasure. My husband is not very good at it, and often grouses at me for spying the tiniest of glass fragments well-polished by the sea that simply elude him. At any rate, I have a pretty good collection after all these years, which I keep in a jar on the window sill in the living room of our
My father loved a good church supper. Whenever we traveled, especially among the New England states, he and my mother would canvass the area for a family-style supper offering at a local church. Perhaps their motivation was that it was an economical way to feed a family of four, but I think the real incentive was the wholesome goodness of real food cooked honestly and served with pride in a humble setting. Ham and beans were often the traditional fare found at these events, but once in a while if I was really lucky, the featured entrée would be my favorite, chicken pot pie. Served at long tables in...
On a gin-clear day you can see the Pilgrim Monument with the naked eye from the Sea Dream and Moonglow rooms at our Cape Cod Inn. Erected between 1907 and 1910 to commemorate the Pilgrims’ first landing in Provincetown in 1620, it sits on High Pole Hill, which was deeded to the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial by the town of Provincetown in 1902 to be used as the site for the...