Courtesy Devil's Purse Brewing Co. (Tom Sperduto Photography)

Cape Cod Life Magazine • January 18 2025

Craft Beer Storm Brewing on Cape and Islands

Currently, seven brewers claim Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket as their home, with Cape Cod Beer, Devil’s Purse Brewing, Cisco Brewers, Offshore Ale and Bad Martha Beer physically brewing on the cape and islands. Although Farmer Willie’s Alcoholic Ginger Beer and Naukabout Beer employ off-cape contract brewers, they both have cape roots and are exploring the establishment of on-cape breweries. What follows are snapshots of a few of the cape’s brewers, and some sudsy suggestions.

AAA Horizons • October 29 2024

Salem's Haunted Happenings Offers Spooks, Specters, Will-o-the Wisps and Witches

Salem has long been synonymous with spooks, specters, will-o-the-wisps and witches. Since Judge Jonathan Corwin and other magistrates sentenced 19 women and men to be hung for witchcraft in 1692, The Witch City has had more than its fair share of haunted happenings.

Cape Cod Life Magazine • October 27 2024

Splash Into Summer

Get out on the water and gain a new perspective on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket -- from Cape Cod Kayak in Bourne to Moment Sailing in Provincetown to Catboat Charters in Edgartown.

Cape Cod Life Magazine • August 12 2023

Since 1923, Cape Cod’s ‘Summer Sons’ Have Always Come to ‘Play Ball!’

Unlike Brooklyn Dodgers fans, whose connection to their “boys of summer” is wistful, baseball fans on Cape Cod have a very vibrant, active relationship with their “summer sons,” the rotating cast of young men who compete in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) every summer.

AAA Horizons • October 20 2022

Salem Ghost Hunter Mollie Stewart Leaves Guests Spellbound

Former journalist Mollie Stewart thoroughly researches, investigates, and documents each haunted site featured on her Spellbound Tours, which include ghost, vampire and witch-themed sightseeing tours in Salem.

AAA Horizons • October 6 2022

Ghosts & Gravestones Tour Offers Spooky Alternative to the Freedom Trail

For those interested in more than what the Freedom Trail has to offer, Historic Tours of America has just the "fright-seeing" tour: Ghosts & Gravestones, a two-hour examination of Boston’s more infamous moments and spectral residents.

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AAA Horizons • October 5 2022

Enjoying a Tango by Moonlight, Over the Charles

Once a month – from June to October – the Tango Society of Boston hosts Tango by Moonlight, a monthly celebration of dance that takes place on the Weeks Footbridge, only a brief backstroke away from the Harvard Boathouse.

Cape Cod Life Magazine • September 29 2022

Seafaring Saviours

Under the watchful eye of the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Sea Tow and TowBoatU.S. provide maritime-support services for the region.

AAA Horizons • September 28 2022

Forest Hills Cemetery: Stories Behind the Stones

Founded in 1848, 17 years after Cambridge’s Mt. Auburn Cemetery, the nondenominational Forest Hills Cemetery has long had a reputation as a democratic burial ground. According to tour guide Al Maze, its meandering pathways are a metaphor for death.

AAA Horizons • September 28 2022

Forest Hills Cemetery: Boston’s ‘Open-Air Museum’

The one artist whose influence is felt most throughout Forest Hills’ meticulously manicured grounds is Daniel Chester French, who is best known as sculptor of the seated Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the Minute Man statue at North Bridge, Concord, Mass., and Harvard University’s John Harvard.

Cape Cod Life Magazine • September 27 2022

Foggy Memories

In the Cape Cod Baseball League’s famous ‘Fog Game,’ pitcher Andrew Miller tossed a modern masterpiece. Thanks to the league’s oral-storytelling tradition, the legend lives on.

Cape Cod Home Magazine • August 10 2022

Home Away from Home

Treating the Candleberry Inn and its landscape as their personal canvas, innkeepers Angelo Ferraro and Marco DiDomizio have turned this Brewster landmark into one of the nation's top bed and breakfasts.

AAA Horizons • September 3 2020

‘Magic Moments’ Still Available In Bay State’s Vintage Movie Theatres

While Massachusetts doesn't boast the quantity -- or the quality -- of California's classic "movie palaces," there remain a number of retro movie theatres scattered around Eastern Mass., including Cape Cod and the islands, where you can still "enjoy a show."

Boston Baseball Magazine • July 28 2020

Boston Baseball Opinion: Fenway Must Go

Progress, with a respectful nod to the past, is good. As much as I hate to admit it, the Red Sox seem to have actually done something right. HOK Architects of Kansas City and the Red Sox have designed a wonderful, comfortable new Fenway that retains most of the dimensions and quirks of the beloved original.

New England Sports Network (NESN) SportsCircuit Website • May 31 2020

Mondor’s Midas Touch Transforms PawSox into Major Minor League Success Story

After amassing a fortune as a bankruptcy turnaround expert, Ben Mondor was lured out of an early retirement by a former Boston Brave to rescue the then-Rhode Island Red Sox. After some tactical business maneuvering, the Pawtucket Red Sox were born, and Mondor and lieutenant Mike Tamburro went on to build one of minor-league baseball's greatest franchises.

AAA Horizons • May 23 2020

Museum Exhibit to Commemorate 50th Anniversary of Historic Worcester Tornado

The Worcester Museum is collecting oral histories, artifacts and written witness recollections to paint a more vivid portrait of the F4 tornado and its after-effects. Hailstones the size of baseballs, 300 mph winds, and a debris field that stretched into Massachusetts Bay are among the hallmarks that made this twister the worst storm in recorded New England history.

Boston Herald • April 5 2019

USO-Style Show Takes Audience on Sentimental Journey

Thanks to For Sentimental Reasons, the big band sound of the World War II era is alive and swinging throughout New England. Fronted by Dorchester native and Quincy resident Sean Roper, For Sentimental Reasons is a performance group that re-creates a "live" USO-style radio broadcast, circa 1944, via Armed Services Radio.

Live Tweeting of Mass. Eye and Ear fundraiser. • March 27 2019

New Kids Rock Mass. Eye & Ear's Sense-Ation Gala

In one of my more enjoyable assignments while at the Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary, I live-tweeted the New Kids on the Block (NKOTB) performance at the 2015 Sense-Ation Gala, the hospital's annual fundraiser.

AAA Horizons • March 2 2019

Mass. Hysteria Comes to Salem

Few of Salem's "frightseeing" tours stand out like Mass. Hysteria’s Haunted Hearse Tour. Instead of a tour bus, Mass. Hysteria ferries guests around town in Angelique, a 1969 Cadillac hearse. Like the raven of Poe’s imagination, Angelique is black, yet glows a deep purple when viewed from an angle. With fire-belching dual exhaust pipes and a roaring motor, she’s the star of this show.

AAA Horizons • March 1 2019

USS Salem, Veterans, Bring Neglected History to Life for Local Students

To pay homage to the men and women who worked at Fore River, and to Quincy’s role in defeating the Nazis and curbing Communism for 40 years, former Quincy Mayor Jim Sheets led the effort to create the United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum, which is housed on the USS Salem.

Breezes (Employee Newsletter of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) • March 1 2019

Gibson, Hollywood Hit Dewey Square

Thanks to recently enacted tax breaks for film companies, movie shoots are an increasingly common sight in and around the Hub. So, early on the overcast morning of October 16, a film crew was setting up shop on Dewey Square, and rumor quickly spread that Mel Gibson would be shooting a scene or two.

AAA Horizons • February 23 2019

Good Food, Conversation Abound in Bay State Diners

When one thinks of diners, two things come to mind: good food and good conversation. One usually surpasses the other, and rarely, if ever, do both reach the pinnacle of perfection.

Currents (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Employee Newsletter) • September 5 2018

Bureau of Engraving and Printing Exhibit Highlights National Money Show in Boston

Visitors enjoy currency exhibits, tall tales of mutilated money at World’s Fair of Money in Boston.

DFCI Online (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Intranet) • August 10 2018

Annual Jimmy Fund Radiothon Surpasses $1.5 million

Moments before the third annual radiothon ended at midnight, a last-minute cavalcade of callers pushed the total raised for patient care and research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to more than $1.5 million, far surpassing the $1 million total targeted by the Jimmy Fund.