Bobby Wetherbee has been playing piano in Provincetown every summer for the past 57 years. After years of hustling, he’s now helping the new generation find its voice. His mentee, Jon Richardson, is helping him keep an old tradition alive.

From Dresses to Ducks: One Woman’s Journey to Happiness

Aug 24th, 2020 4m 37s

Colette Cummings thought she had reached the peak of the fashion world. But that all changed when she was fired from her role as vice president of Talbots. Since then, Colette’s career has taken her in a totally new direction. She got a part-ti

Reina Del Taco: A Different Kind of Mother Goose

Aug 3rd, 2020 4m 50s

Some days, Tim McNerney is just Tim; a Master's degree graduate who delivers UPS packages on Martha’s Vineyard. Other days, Tim transforms into Reina Del Taco, a drag queen as transformative as Barbie. After travels to LA, NYC and Mexico City,

One Keeps Spinning: Saving Yiddish on Cape Cod

Feb 24th, 2020 4m 37s

Yiddish was once spoken by over 11 million Jewish people before it was nearly wiped out in the Holocaust. But it spread to the New World and flowered in places like New York and Boston. Today, however, it’s declining quickly—by about fifteen pe

Living out Your Life on Cuttyhunk Island, or Trying To

Feb 10th, 2020 5m 6s

Cuttyhunk is a tiny windswept island off the coast of Cape Cod -well known by game fishermen and sailors, but only a dozen people call it home year-round. Fisherman Bruce Borges and his wife Carolyn made their home there and Cariad Harmon went

Becoming a Mentor to a 10-year-old: Bob & Ethan

Jan 27th, 2020 4m 56s

5 years ago Bob Mailloux took a leap. He had noticed a lot of kids around the Cape were getting in trouble, and he was worried. He signed up as a mentor, through Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Bandaids, Ice and Thermometers Can't Begin to Cover it: Being a School Nurse in the 21st Century

Jan 13th, 2020 4m 18s

The usual or expected teenage angst is exacerbated today by concerns about the planet, affordable college, and the fear of school shootings. Joyce O'Connor is the school nurse for Mashpee Middle and High Schools. She walks us through the change

Rescuing the Pilgrim's First Church

Dec 30th, 2019 4m 46s

First Parish Plymouth is the oldest contiguous congregation in America. They trace their lineage all the way back to 1606, in Scrooby, England – before the Pilgrims even left England. They’ve had a church on the same land since the year after t

A Different Kind of Prescription for Mental Health

Dec 2nd, 2019 4m 44s

Proper diet and exercise is what every doctor recommends for proper health. For Amelia, an intense new workout experience helped exercise not only her body, but saved her life.

Reading Race: Understanding Racial Justice Through Literature

Nov 18th, 2019 4m 32s

Panchita Peterson has worked most of her adult life addressing racism on Cape Cod. She trained at the National Coalition Building Institute and worked as a Diversity Specialist in schools across the Cape. Panchita is in her late70's but came ou

On the Frontlines of EEE: How an Entomologist Controls the Threat One Step at a Time

Oct 28th, 2019 4m 20s

Summer 2019 was one of the worst on record for Eastern Equine Encephalitis in Massachusetts. Gabrielle Sakolsky is Cape Cod’s first line of defense when it comes to mosquito-borne disease. From the cedar swamps to the lab, her job is to search

The Ripple Effect of One Falmouth Couple's Good Deed

Oct 14th, 2019 4m 39s

John and Olivann Hobbie always thought of themselves as sensitive to social issues on the Cape, especially housing insecurity, but in 2012 they confronted the issue head-on by opening up their home.

Poet in the Field: Working Through Grief by Picking Up Litter

Sep 30th, 2019 4m 42s

It’s hard to go anywhere on Cape Cod and not see litter. People leave plastic bottles and food packaging on the side of the road and along hiking trails. Trash washes onto the Cape’s beaches, from people but also strong storms and ocean current

All for One And One for All: In Troop 137 Girls and Boys are Simply 'Scouts'

Sep 23rd, 2019 4m 29s

Boy Scouts of America has been in the United States for over 100 years. Earlier this year it changed its policy to admit girls into Scouts BSA – that’s the program formerly known as Boy Scouts. Troop 137 in Falmouth is one of three troops with

The New Shepherds in Town

Aug 19th, 2019 4m 38s

Peterson Farm in Falmouth is one of the oldest farms on Cape Cod. It dates back to 1679, and was farmed by the same family for nearly 300 years. The town of Falmouth purchased the land in 1998 to preserve the open space. But after its last tena

A Man Leaves his Home in Poland Bringing his Puppet Theater to the Cape

Jul 1st, 2019 4m 42s

Jacek Zuzanski is an actor, director, and, above all else, a puppeteer. He's been performing with his theater company, Dream Tale Puppets, for children on Cape Cod area using various hand-crafted puppets to tell the stories like Rumpelstiltskin

An Artist Pursues the Unimaginable

May 6th, 2019 4m 31s

For emerging writers & visual artists, acceptance into the program is a dream. Rosana Ybarra is one of the Center's recent fellows and while art was one of her earliest passions, pursuing it as a vocation wasn't only unlikely — it was unimagina

Searching for the Atlantic's Most Elusive Whale

Apr 22nd, 2019 4m 44s

Danielle Cholewiak is a research ecologist at NOAA. She has spent her career becoming a leading expert on finding and interpreting whale sounds. This past summer, she set her sights on finding one of the most elusive whales in the Atlantic Ocea

Giving up your solid day job in science... for the challenges of wooden boatbuilding

Apr 8th, 2019 4m 46s

Athena Aicher is a boat builder on Martha’s Vineyard, but she wasn’t always. Seven years ago, Athena moved to Woods Hole to work in a lab at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Athena gave up life in the lab to work in a boat yard. Today,

Labor of Love: Practicing Midwifery Far Offshore

Mar 25th, 2019 4m 20s

About 100 babies are born every year on Nantucket Island- most of them at Nantucket Cottage Hospital. Parents who choose home birth can turn to the one midwife of the island. Sunny Daily has been training to be Nantucket's midwife for the past

How A Girl and A Horse Manage to Make Life Better

Mar 11th, 2019 4m 38s

Maggie Bernard is a teenager with cerebral palsy. She overcame her disability with the help of her best friend Noble, a 27 year old horse that works as a therapy animal on Martha’s Vineyard. He is great with kids and loves his job, but in the b

An Artist Struggles to Break Through the Mainstream Fare

Feb 25th, 2019 4m 17s

When you walk into an art gallery on Martha’s Vineyard you might see a painting of a lighthouse. Maybe two… Or ten. Along with many other classic paintings of island landscapes. What you won’t see in those galleries is Richard Limber’s art, but

Letters to a Young Generalist: You Can Have More Than One Dream Job

Feb 11th, 2019 5m 14s

Follow your passion. Singular – one passion. It’s a common piece of advice. By college, many of us have picked between the arts and sciences. For fun, we take personality tests that tell us whether we are thinkers or feelers. This is a story ab

A Wampanoag Life Shaped by Injustice and Blessings and a Voice that Gives Thanks for Them Both

Jan 28th, 2019 4m 50s

Earl Mills, Jr., is a Wampanoag tribal member and singer in Mashpee. In 1976, rising tensions between law enforcement and native people in that town came to a head after a three-day feast and celebration on Wampanoag tribal land. Police arreste

How Bodybuilding Shows Results on the Psyche as Much as the Muscles

Dec 31st, 2018 4m 41s

Bodybuilding is no easy feat. Bodybuilders spend endless hours in the gym. They count carbs and grams of fat meticulously. Why? To get ripped, maybe. But for Melissa Verdi, it’s more than that. Melissa’s past holds haunting memories of abuse an