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Who writes this
Everything published about Cape Cod on this site carries a name. Here is who those names belong to, what each of them covers, and how to read everything they have written.
Margaret Thorne
Senior Editor
Beat: Getting Around, Best Time to Visit, Towns of the Cape
Margaret has edited New England travel coverage for fourteen years and owns the practical pages here: which town sells a beach sticker to whom, what the Sagamore queue does to a Friday in July, and which half of the Cape is shut in February. She quotes fees as bands because towns revise them annually, and she says plainly when a number is unconfirmed.
4 guides · 4 news posts
Silas Crowell
Outdoors & Ocean Editor
Beat: Cape Cod National Seashore, Beaches, Things to Do
Silas crewed whale-watch boats out of Provincetown before he wrote about them, and still reads Massachusetts Bay by the wind rather than the calendar. He covers the National Seashore, the three coasts, the surf and the cold, and he treats the shark guidance and the federal approach distances as the law they are rather than as etiquette.
4 guides · 3 news posts
Nadia Petrakis
Culture & History Editor
Beat: Whale Watching, Beaches, Best Time to Visit
Nadia writes the Cape's older layers: Hawthorne's art school and the Provincetown painters, Marconi's wireless masts on the Wellfleet bluff, Sandwich glass, and the Kennedy summers in Hyannis Port. She has catalogued for a county historical collection, prefers a primary source to a plaque, and will tell you when a landmark's story has been tidied up for visitors.
2 guides · 1 news post
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