Here it is, October, and I feel like I haven’t quite finished with my summer chores. Sure, it’s a chilly morn and I have my fuzzy socks and warm sweatshirt on while I sip my coffee, but my head is still swimming in a summer breeze of birds, butterflies, and tomatoes blushing on the vine.  Like many others, I’ve seen my schedule amp up day by day until I sometimes feel busier that I was pre-COVID. Artists and w...

An illustrated cookbook by a Chatham artist and a modern-day thriller, both by nonagenarian authors, prove that it’s never too late to paint, write and publish. Oil painter Nancy Whalen Rude, 92, has created a charming cookbook, “Cooking and Dining with Friends: The Art and Favorite Recipes of Nancy Whalen Rude” that is both a showcase for her own beautiful oil paintings and a tribute to 50-years of friendship...

Sometimes life just hands you a random bouquet of flowers and says, here, just enjoy this. It’s surprising and lovely and when it involves a friend offering a place away from it all in an incredibly beautiful location with no strings attached, the only thing you can do is pinch yourself and say thank you over and over again. This very thing happened to me last week and in less than two days I’d packed my sleep...

In Sweden, fishermen, regulators, and environmental organizations work with government funding dedicated to developing fishing gear that is safe for seals. In the United States, that doesn’t happen. There is a section of the Marine Mammal Protection Act that provides fishermen with the opportunity to deter seals, but to avoid penalties they are supposed to abide by a list of recommendations produced by National M...

CHATHAM – Traditionally, they travel by air on broomsticks, but next Saturday they'll take to the water, filling Oyster Pond with pointy hats, flowing black dresses and paddleboards. The non-profit Witches on the Water will hold a fundraising event at Oyster Pond beginning at 2 p.m. Oct. 2. Participants will be garbed in Halloween-style witchy attire as they paddle around the pond to raise money for the Family...

CHATHAM — Flip through the pages of John Whelan and Kim Roderiques’ book “I Am of Chatham: People and Their Stories” and you will read stories and see photographs that tell the tales of what makes the town so special.  Some of the 92 subjects included in the book shared stories of growing up in Chatham, while others chose to write about how the town helped shape them professionally or how it ultimately became ...

“Are you ready to empty your mind?”  “Blithe Spirit” at the Chatham Drama Guild beckons all to ghoulish happenings in celebration of Noel Coward’s 1941 comedy set in Kent, England and reprised for decades on stage and in film. Novelist Charles Condomine serves dry martinis, shaken not stirred, to his beloved second wife and dear friends Dr. George and Violet Bradman.  A sense of golden prosperity fills the ...

“The sharks do not disappoint.” That’s how author Tim Weller of Chatham summed up a November 2017 trip he took to Guadalupe Island off Baja to dive with great whites. After his “remarkable adventure” viewing sharks up-close from dive cages, Weller arrived home determined to learn more about the men and women of the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy (AWSC), whose mission is to “support scientific research, im...

Summer may be over, but that doesn't mean the theater season has gone into hibernation. Get ready for a Cape Rep Theatre world premiere, as “Miss Delta Township,” a new one-woman show written and performed by Joanne Callum Powers, takes the stage Sept. 22 to Oct. 3. Can your story be a coming-of-age tale when you’ve already reached a certain age? “Miss Delta Township” answers that question with a story about t...

CHATHAMPORT —"Tragedies drive marine safety reform, but they are written in blood."  Award-winning investigative journalist and author Bob Frump, along with Gene Kelly, one of three survivors of the February 1983 sinking of the SS Marine Electric in a vicious nor'easter, were on hand Thursday night for an emotional and riveting program describing in detail how that tragic event, in which 34 lives were lost, re...

In Sweden, fishermen, regulators, and environmental organizations work with government funding dedicated to developing fishing gear that is safe for seals. In the United States, that doesn’t happen. There is a section of the Marine Mammal Protection Act that provides fishermen with the opportunity to deter seals, but to avoid penalties they are supposed to abide by a list of recommendations produced by National M...

Many years ago, I became fascinated by the signs animals leave behind. This often happens to people that go out exploring in hopes of spotting animals in their natural habitat. If you are one of these, as I am, you know that most animals are very good at keeping themselves out of view, whether by camouflage or by silent flight, even through heavily wooded areas. Knowing their signs is the next best thing to actua...