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Bobby and Me: Keeping Piano Bar Traditions Alive in Provincetown Oct 12, 2020

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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 24, 2020

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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-time job at a rubber duck toy store in Chatham, and just months after, was asked to take over the business. Colette bought the store, despite warnings from her family. She’s now found something she was never able to find working in the corporate world.

Reina Del Taco: A Different Kind of Mother Goose Aug 03, 2020

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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, Tim has started to settle into a new phase of Reina del Taco’s trajectory: story time at the local library.

One Keeps Spinning: Saving Yiddish on Cape Cod Feb 24, 2020

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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 percent every decade. Even the United Nations has declared Yiddish an “endangered language.”

Living out Your Life on Cuttyhunk Island, or Trying To Feb 10, 2020

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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 out to tell their story.

Becoming a Mentor to a 10-year-old: Bob & Ethan Jan 27, 2020

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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 13, 2020

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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 changes school nursing has made to deal holistially with student health.

Rescuing the Pilgrim's First Church Dec 30, 2019

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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 the Pilgrims landed. Mayflower Meeting House is the fifth one, built in the 1890s after a fire decimated the previous one. But it’s gone largely unrestored since its completion, and the building was starting to show serious structural damage. As the 400 th anniversary of the Pilgrim landing approached, the congregation had some tough choices to make about their future.

A Different Kind of Prescription for Mental Health Dec 02, 2019

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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 18, 2019

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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 out of retirement a few years ago because she felt like she still had work to do.

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