My latest comment to your comments on yesterday’s post was too long to be processed as a comment, so I am just making it into today’s post. Therefore, it is my continuing comment on those comments made on THIS post. Missfifi-isn't it funny how often the 50's are shown as the time of 'keeping up with the Joneses' and certainly that was somewhat true then, but not like today. Today it is all about who is the coolest, hippest with the latest gadgets or most ironic tshirt saying or lowest rise...

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These ladies are bringing pies to the Second Annual Truro AgFair. Huckleberry/raspberry, or blackberry/pear? Four more hours to go, so come on down! (Check back tomorrow for a full report...)

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Yesterday an old friend came up from New York City for Labor Day Weekend and, since he hadn't been to the Brewster Grist Mill in years, he wanted to revisit it. It was a gorgeous day- perfect to be out in nature. I snapped off a few shots and I kind of like how this one came out with the twisted tree in the foreground. I probably won't ever paint it because the tree would be too fake looking. Sometimes the most amazing things in nature don't look good as a painting, because they don't look...

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210 years ago Americans fought a war against tyranny, but today Hyannis residents tremble in fear of Klimm-autocracy. The ultimate goal of the idiom was not to get representation in Parliament, but...

A week ago Billingsgate Art & Antiques opened its doors in the IGA building at Cove Corner. The shop belongs to Antoinette Berger, who looks forward to sharing her knowledge of antique jewelry and art with folks on the Outer Cape. Furniture, linens and "objects of curiosity" will also be available for sale. "If it speaks to me, I buy it," she declares with a wink. "It's much easier to sell

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From the Cape Cod Times: HYANNIS – A man forgot to wear more than his waders when he went out clamming Friday afternoon off Harbor Bluff Road. Police arrested Savery Antone, 38, of Falmouth, for open and gross lewdness, after he was seen clamming in 2 feet of water completely in the buff around 4:30 [...]

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Since starting my project I have really come to wonder at the nostalgia of things. The look of vintage appliances and canisters on a kitchen counter. The feel of either a vintage fabric or a vintage cut dress and the swish of the petticoat. The sounds: The heavy click and bang of the manual typewriter, the jet-engine roar of my vintage Kirby vacuum, the pure crescendo of the old telephone’s ring. Why is it that these elements of the past, these visual and audible, even tactile, messengers from...

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