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2
MAY 2011
Ou r Th O u g h T s
Making friends while
watching Movies
For the second month in a row,
Joan Harrison has inspired me
to write about PrimeTime’s
Making Friends. This column
is intended to help people
find others who enjoy the same activity
in the hopes that new friendships
will blossom.
This is especially important in a
retirement community like Cape
Cod. Some people move here
after an illness or divorce, others
retire here, but almost all
washashores are faced with
rebuilding their network of
friends. Making Friends gives
you a way to reach out to
others in your area who
share your interests.
This month Joan talks
about her love of “films.” It
made me laugh out loud, first because
for two people with drastically different
tastes in movies there were actually
a few on her list that I agreed with, and
second, because there are people who
refer to movies as “films” and those
who call them, well, “movies.”
Perhaps my “film” tastes were hamstrung
by being exposed to such uplifting
numbers as “The Marriage of Maria
Braun” and “Fitzcarraldo” before my
formative mind was able to consciously
reject depressing European fatalism.
No matter how great a movie “Das
Boot” is, you’ll never again convince
me to spend two-plus hours of my life
with guys I come to care about, only
to be given two in the heart. Ditto,
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”
You said it, unbearable. I always end
up screaming, “What’s the point?” In
other words, I was reared on too much
Masterpiece Theatre and not enough
Disney.
But movies certainly are a fun topic
to share with people. Another way to
build on Joan’s discussion of how a
movie can remind you of an actor, who
in turn reminds you of another movie
or a different actor, is to add in the
book angle.
Joan likes “To Kill a Mockingbird,”
which I like too, especially since it was
so loyal to Harper Lee’s book. “Cold
Mountain” also did well by Charles
Frazier’s novel. That book I chucked in
the trash because the ending frustrated
Erin C. Healy
me so, but I bought it again and well, ...
he was a deserter.
I’m so lucky that more often than
not my husband and I agree on movies
we like – and don’t. We both roll our
eyes whenever someone mentions
“The English Patient” for example, but
we could, and often do, watch other
movies repeatedly. We both love “No
Country for Old Men,” even if
directors Joel and Ethan Coen
tinkered with the Tommy Lee
Jones character, making him
a doubting Thomas and a
bumbler with an aversion to
guns, none of which he was
in the book.
But that reminds me of
another Cormac McCarthy
book: “All the Pretty Horses,”
which Billy Bob Thornton
directed into a movie that definitely
warrants a second viewing. Speaking of
Tommy Lee Jones, he’s unforgettable
as Woodrow Call in “Lonesome Dove,”
a TV movie, but a classic none the less.
Now my tastes are starting to show.
If it’s a western, I’m liable to like it.
Have you ever noticed that Ethan and
his sister-in-law are in love in “The
Searchers”? Even though “Appaloosa”
steals from the Gus and Call relationship
of “Lonesome Dove,” Everett
Hitch is truly a unique character. The
dialog in the new “True Grit” is terrific;
the lack of dialog in “Jeremiah Johnson”
is also terrific.
I could relate to Joan’s dislike of
“The Silence of the Lambs,” which
I loved – because I did walk out of
“Hannibal” – and we all know why.
“L.A. Confidential” is a must-see, as is
“Zodiac” – notice how the color palette
shifts from yellow to blue as the trail
gets cold.
You get the drift. What a fun way
to make new friends: Start a movie
group (see Page 20). Just remember
that movies, like all art, are a matter
of taste, and we all have our opinions
about what makes one memorable – or
forgettable.
Editor
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Mo n e y & Ma r k e ts
You can’t just retire like
you used to – at least this
is true for many workers
out there. Older workers
staying employed, some
well past retirement age, is one of
the biggest trends of the recession.
And although it may not be as
comfortable for those forced
to stay in the workplace longer
than they expected, some
good news has come out of
the phenomenon.
“We need to stop thinking
of aging as going down
hill,” says Jacquelyn B.
James, director of research
at the Sloan Center on Aging
and Work at Boston
College, in her recently
publicized study. “The
ideas that older workers
are inflexible, unable to
adapt and costly to employers
is outdated in the
current context of longevity
and health.
“People in their 50s and
60s may well be at their
peak – on average they
are energized, reliable and
engaged. The real cost
that employers should
weigh is the cost of losing
experience. Older workers
Working into
retirement
About the author
Beth Seiser is careful not to call herself
a native: She moved to Wellfleet at the
ripe old age of 12. A graduate of Nauset
Regional High School and Hampshire
College in Amherst, Beth spent a year
in Beijing and a year in Singapore as
a Fulbright scholar and can now order
fluently any Chinese dish on the menu.
She writes for numerous local publications
and her fiction has been included
in “A Sense of Place: An Anthology of
Cape Women Writers.” She is a single
mother of two boys, and she spends a lot
of time procrastinating about going to
Beth Seiser
OLDER
WORKERS
staying
employed,
some well past
retirement
age, is one of
the biggest
trends of the
recession.
have typically accumulated valuable
knowledge and resilience and can be
vital contributors in the workplace.”
Elaine Argus, the district human
resources manager for local The
Home Depot stores, says that her
company is actively recruiting older
workers.
“From my personal experience,
definitely the one thing
that sticks out is the fact of
how reliable they are,” says
Argus of older staffers. “Their
work ethic stands out; the
mature workforce takes
reliability very seriously.“
She goes on to extol
their virtues: lots of experience,
very adept at
customer service and a
sense of enjoyment being
among the public. She
says that older people
come to her company
from all kinds of backgrounds,
ranging from
executives to tradesmen
and hobbyist.
“We actually have
incredible mentoring
going on backwards and
forward, with younger,
computer-savvy employees
helping the older
workers maneuver around
different systems, while
the older workers help the
younger ones learn some tricks of
the trade,” Argus says.
She also says that her Cape Cod
stores are particularly attracted to
retirement-age workers. “Since Cape
Cod has a large retirement population,
we’ve found that the mature
workers in Hyannis are phenomenal.
They’ve had great careers, they are
very personable, and customers tend
to like to have salespeople who mirror
them in age and experience.”
She says that spring and early
summer are similar to other stores’
Christmas season, as home repair
the gym. PlEAsE sEE woRkIng, on page 7
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4 MAY 2011
Peter Klaus,
pictured here
with his wife,
Paula, owns
Jake Rooney’s
Restaurant at
119 Brooks Road
in Harwich Port.
Peter installed
a new Stonegrill
system at the
restaurant; it
prepares meats
and seafoods in
a healthy way,
customized to
each customer’s
preference. The
couple first
tried food prepared
this way
while on their
honeymoon in
New Zealand.
Visit www.jake
rooneys.com for
hours, early bird
menu times,
entertainment
schedules and
more.
SToNeGRIllING
By Karla Carreiro
The people in Harwich Port know a
good thing when they see it: Peter
Klaus, a fun-filled entrepreneur,
who stops to talk to everyone at
his “very local” restaurant, Jake
Rooney’s. Peter and his family are no strangers
to Cape Cod. His four children (Kate,
Barbara, Kim and Daniel) sunbathed their
way to adulthood in the hot summers here.
When an opportunity too good to pass up
crossed his path in 1994, he jumped on it.
With the kids grown, he packed the family
belongings, sold his Tewksbury, N.J. house
and the rest is history.
“I used inheritance money to purchase the
business,” says Peter. “We named the restau-
Ta s T e s o f T h e Ca p e
New at Jake Rooney’s
rant for my deceased parents. My mom was
a Rooney and my dad’s middle name was
Jake.” Seventeen years ago marked a brand
new chapter for Peter: an exciting, first-time
run as a restaurant owner.
Why would this Wall Street guy trade-in
dress pants for a pair of Dockers on Cape
Cod? For what else, “a calmer life,” he says.
“It was supposed to be a nice, easy retirement.
It turned out to be harder than anything
I ever did on Wall Street.”
For Peter, town planning for three dining
areas and a tavern bar was like sifting
through pages of a well-written mystery
novel. “I went back and forth to the town of-
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Merrily Cassidy/Cape Cod TiMes
About the author
Karla Carreiro loves to travel, cook and write
about food. Her work has appeared in the Cape
Cod Times as a restaurant critic. She set off to
explore San Francisco’s slow-food movement and
stayed long enough to graduate from a Professional
Culinary Program. She’s recipe-tested with
America’s Test Kitchen in Boston and interned
with various cookbook authors. Her professional
writing spans a 40-year business career. She lives
in Chatham, personal-chefs for many summer
parties and attends culinary classes at Johnson &
Wales University.

Trythis!
Jake Rooney’s
Schepezzio Seafood Stew
(2 servings)
• 2-3 oz. olive oil
• 1/2 cup red bell pepper, roasted
and sliced
• 1/4 cup mild banana peppers,
sliced
• 1/4 cup tomatoes, diced
• 1 Tbs. garlic, chopped
• 1 Tbs. fresh basil, chopped
• salt and pepper to taste
Sauté above ingredients on
medium-high flame for 2-3 min.
Add:
• 6 oz. fresh haddock or cod fish
• 8-10 scallops
• 4-6 large shrimp, peeled and
deveined
• 1/2 cup calamari
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ten. They helped me a lot. Paula
Champagne was just great to work
with.” He opened eight months later
than planned. “I was close to throwing
the towel in.” But he ended up with
everything needed to open his restaurant.
This sharp-minded man knew a
good thing when he saw it: a spot on
the curve of Brooks Road and Route
28. “There were other restaurants,
Bobby Byrnes and the Chuckwagon,”
explains Peter. “Ours is the longest
running one in this building. We’re
part of the history in the neighborhood.”
Peter rises early every morning and
heads off to work with a smile on his
face. “My wife, Paula, is an original
Cape Codder,” he’s proud to say. “She
comes from the Eldridge and Bassett
families.” They got married at the
restaurant; a wall collage shares their
• 12-16 mussels, cleaned and
debearded (Debearding means
removing the outside thread on the
mussel.)
• 6-8 littleneck clams
• salt and pepper to taste
Lightly toss seafood and vegetables
together.
Add:
• 1/4 cup white wine
• 1/2 cup seafood broth or clam
juice
• 1/2 stick unsalted butter
Shake the pan, don’t toss. Cover,
cook the clams until they open.
Add:
• 1/4 cup baby spinach
Put the spinach on top. Cover,
cook for 1 minute longer. Shake
pan. Serve with bread sticks or foccacia
bread
story.
Peter smiles when he talks about
his staff, which is near and dear to his
heart. “The whole thing is about the
team, not me. We have a real friendly
staff. They make it happen.”
He remembers those difficult startup
days. “We opened in August and
went right into off-season. It’s a transient
area and hard to get good help.”
But a year later, “Arthur (Anderson)
showed up for a waiter’s position.” Peter
laughs, “He really interviewed me.
He’s the best cook on the Cape.” John
Chisolm (Peter’s confidant) tends bar
and is up for any request. “Can you
believe he’s got a Babson degree and
has been with me for 10 years?”
Peter’s known around town as being
a man of his word. He does what he
says and sets off to make things happen.
Take the restaurant’s new Stone-
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6 MAY 2011
Stone
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grill. “We first saw it when Paula and I
were honeymooning in New Zealand
at a waterside restaurant,” he says. “It
took us two years to get it here. It’s
an exclusive at Jake Rooney’s and
the only one in Massachusetts.” This
Australia-based product may be slow
to catch on in the States, but Peter
wasted no time heating things up at
Jake’s. “Stonegrilling is just a healthy
way to eat. It locks in the natural juices
and sears the food without burning.
There’s less shrinkage and fat.” He
calls it “a unique interactive experience.”
The meat (or seafood) shows
up at the table sizzling on a hot, volcanic
stone. Its small dense surface has
been sprinkled lightly with salt, which
prevents the protein from sticking.
“The patron cuts off a slice and lays it
flat,” he explains. “It’s cooked to your
own personal taste. The meat stays
hot, juicy and tender. Once you taste
it, there’s no going back.”
Even people on American Airlines
know what’s cooking in the Klaus
kitchen. “Back in 2009, we were
featured in American Way magazine
for our lobster stew. It’s our signature
dish,” says Peter.
But does he really cook at the restaurant?
“Absolutely,” laughs Arthur.
“But the more he does, the less I do.”
The chef calls their menu, “a scratch
menu” with everything made to order.
“It’s one of the largest menus on the
Cape,” says Peter. The menu is filled
with good all-American cuisine. The
baked haddock and cod are favorites.
“The salads are a meal unto themselves,
crisp local produce with house
dressings,” Arthur says.
“And our ultimate cheeseburger –
it’s like wearing construction boots,
a real manly meal but some women
come in and order it,” Peter says.
It’s hard to believe Peter once
scrambled to get people through the
door. Now his establishment stays
on the minds of his patrons. “We are
the winter spot,” he says. “We have a
tremendous group of local regulars.
We’re known for the quality of our
food. Our prices stay medium-to-low
to attract people in all price ranges.”
Peter does like to shake things up
– perhaps, a little Keno or karaoke?
“Thursdays are a big night at the res-
taurant. Fifteen to 25 teams show up
to play trivia. The winners take home
dinner gift certificates. It’s just great
fun.”
Peter loves to host a good party.
You may even see a few celebrities
sprinkled in the mix. His website
shows him sitting with Harry Koenig,
Jr. “He’s a real nice guy,” Peter says. Ed
Lambert and Don McKeag, WXTK
radio talk show hosts, signed their
names above the fireplace. Cape
Cod’s “first lady of jazz” Marie Marcus
(known for her “nimble fingers”)
played at many of their Sunday
jazz brunches before she passed on.
Pictures adorn the wall with patrons
dressed for Halloween, Oktoberfest
and other house parties.
Peter’s reputation speaks for itself;
he works hard and gives back. He
auctioned off a 25-pound lobster for
$2,200 to benefit a local family in
need. He added a bit of trivia: “How
do you age a lobster? Take the pounds,
times four and add four. Our lobster
was 104.” Was its fate to end up in
a pot of boiling water? “The highest
bidder chose. We set it free.”
Peter cares about people and they
seem to care about him. He remem-
bers the day their 3-foot statue of
Johann Sebastian Bach walked off
the shelf. “It showed up at the front
door one day with a red bow wrapped
around it,” he says. “We’re glad to get
it back.”
Peter’s spare time, hobbies and work
just blend together. “I’m interviewing
new entertainment this week,” he
says, which is fun and work combined.
He has everything lined up: In the
spring and summer, Geno stops by
and tips his black fedora to good “Ol’
Blue Eyes,” Frank Sinatra. The Christa
Dulude trio sets their strings to a contemporary
tune. Peter’s patrons can
dance to the house band, The Most.
And for those Grateful Dead followers:
“Once a month, the Big Rhythm
Wine band plays at the restaurant.”
Add to the mix five grandchildren
along with his children and employees,
and they’re just one big happy
family. “I went off last week to see my
grandson in a play, ‘Kiss Me Kate.’” A
few nights later Peter and Paula were
back at Jake’s having dinner alongside
their patrons. “We’re just a family
restaurant and bar. People can come
in, sit up at the bar and always be
comfortable here,” says Peter.

Working
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and maintenance get underway
after a hard winter. Wareham,
Plymouth and Hyannis stores are all
looking for help.
For those still on the job hunt,
Tory Johnson of Women For Hire in
New York makes a couple of suggestions
for making yourself attractive
to prospective employers.
First, she suggests gaining a
comfort level with technology – if
you haven’t already – to beat the
stereotype that older workers aren’t
tech savvy. “Include links to your
digital profiles on your resume,”
she says. “And be visible online so
employers can search for you and
find plenty of great information that
supports your candidacy.
“Or, if you’ve been out of work
for an extended period of time,
start something to show you’re
active and hungry,” Johnson says.
She suggests throwing a fundraiser,
forming a running group or anything
to show you’re engaged and
active.
She also suggests that you look
the part. “Freshen up, appear current.
This is true for any age, but
it’s especially true in a youth-obsessed
culture,” she says.
If you need more help on brushing
up on your skills or techniques,
Elder Services of Cape Cod and the
Islands offers a Mature Workers
Program. Betty Pease, the project
director, says that the program has
been active since the mid-1970s.
“The official government name is
the Senior Community Service Employment
Program, and basically we
offer internships for income-eligible
people 55 and over, who get paid
minimum wage while they work in
nonprofits and local governmental
offices,” she says. The interns also
receive training to update their
skills.
“One of the great advantages of
this program is that mature workers
are able to say that they are currently
working and keeping up their
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Quickhits
WebLinks
Elder Services of Cape Cod
and the Islands
508-394-4630
www.escci.org
The Home Depot
Apply at in-store kiosks (help is
available) or online at:
http://careers.homedepot.com.
edgesuite.net/?
Hyannis: 65 Independence Drive
Wareham: 2994 Cranberry Highway
Plymouth: 39 Long Pond Road
The Sloan Center on Aging and
Work at Boston College
http://www.bc.edu/research/
agingandwork/
skills. This makes them much more
attractive to prospective employers,”
Pease says.
The training also includes a
program called Job Clubs. During
these six-week sessions, members
meet once a week to hone their
job-searching skills. Intensive job
searches, resume polishing and
practice interviewing are some of
the topics covered. Some members
choose to receive extra training in
computer software and medical record
billing. Their internships take
them into nonprofits and other offices
and workplaces where they can
put their new-found skills to use.
Pease says that she gets a lot of
great feedback from those employers
who hire from her program.
“They are for the most part delighted
with them,” she says.
“One of the things that we teach
people in our program is not to
think about age so much,” she says.
“Very often, they are going to have
supervisors who are younger than
they are. We stress that they focus
on the persons’ position, rather
than their age. The mature worker
knows how to be respectful and
respond to bosses’ requests, even if
that boss is much, much younger.”

8 MAY 2011
Mary Anderson,
executive
director of the
Family Pantry
in Harwich, and
Don Milbier,
president
of Patrissi
Landscaping, are
coordinating the
construction of
an approximately
22,000-squarefoot
garden.
The yield will
be available to
Family Pantry
clients. Mary
was motivated
by the fact that
those of lower
income are often
more susceptible
to obesity and
its related illnesses
because
fresh produce
tends to be more
expensive than
prepackaged or
junk food.
THe FAMIly PAnTry
Bringing fresh produce to the table
By Patricia B. Bertschy
Think of a food bank and
you think of pre-cooked
pasta, canned vegetables
and instant potatoes.
Mary Anderson, executive
director of The Family Pantry in
Harwich, along with board member
Don Milbier, wants to change that.
Displaying bins of large naval oranges
and fresh green beans, this pantry
looks more like a neighborhood market
than a food pantry.
The Family Pantry provides food
and clothing to individuals and
families in need on the Cape. It was
He a lt H & We l l-b e i n g
started in 1989 as an outgrowth of
the St. Vincent de Paul Society of
Holy Trinity Church in Hyannis, and
is currently an independent not-forprofit,
nondenominational organization.
The Family Pantry is the largest
on the Cape that is open to all.
“A couple of years ago,” says Mary,
“there was a lot in the paper about
pre-diabetes and obesity. I found it
interesting that people who don’t
have a lot of money can have a
problem with obesity; you’d think it
would be the opposite. But it’s be-
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christine hochkePPel/caPe cod times
About the author
Patricia B. Bertschy is a self-proclaimed health nut
who was excited to move to the Cape in 2007 and
be surrounded by so much natural beauty. She
volunteers for the Brewster Conservation Trust and
spends her free time walking, biking and swimming.
Originally from New Jersey, she spent 20 years
with AT&T/Verizon as a data systems analyst and
marketing manager. Following early retirement, Pat
enjoyed a second career as a Certified Financial
Planner. Currently, she is working on her memoir,
contributes to an online magazine and is active in
several writing groups. She lives in Brewster with
her husband and two teenagers, who are keeping
her young.

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cause the cost of nutritious food is so
much higher than the [cost of] junk
food. That really struck me.”
In 2009, Anderson applied for and
obtained a grant from the Palmer
and Jane D. Davenport Foundation
of South Yarmouth to buy fresh
produce for the pantry. “It’s not
really enough,” Mary says, “we can
offer only one or two selections and
our clients are allowed to come only
once every three weeks, but at least
it is a start.”
Enter Don, president of Patrissi
Landscaping in Harwich Port. Don
is the visionary behind the new
three-quarter-acre organic garden
that is under construction behind
the pantry warehouse. His son, Kyle
Milbier, 29, who manages Patrissi
Landscaping, is also part of the
garden committee. Don’s daughterin-law,
Catherine O’Leary-Milbier,
a teacher at the Lighthouse Charter
School in Orleans, plans to bring
her class to help plant the garden in
May.
“In my six years on the board, I’ve
seen an incredible increase in need,”
Don says, “Many of our clients rent
their homes and do not have the
opportunity to experience a garden.
We want them to have
that experience.”
The garden will have
blueberries, strawberries,
tomatoes, beans,
lettuces and peppers, as
well as herbs, perennials
and fruit trees. “We
plan to have pick-yourown
days, a pumpkin
patch in the fall and
ultimately clientmaintained
sections.
The garden will be
inviting to all,” he says.
“We will have wheelchair access; we
want seniors to come and participate
or just enjoy the space. We are also
talking with Cape Abilities about
the potential of a joint effort.”
“We call it an ‘inspiration garden,’”
Don continues, “and I am inspired
by the number of people who have
come forward to help.”
Starting with the town of
Harwich, which granted a longterm
lease on town property for the
garden, the list of supporters is long.
The owners and staff of many local
companies have stepped up to help,
Don says. Some of these are John
Don is the
visionary behind
the new
three-quarter-acre
organic garden
that is under
construction
behind the
pantry warehouse.
Quickhits
Helping those in need
The Family Pantry Corp.
Mary E. Anderson, executive
director
133 Queen Anne Road
Harwich, MA 02645
508 432-6519
www.TheFamilyPantry.com
Hours: 10 a.m.–noon and 1:30–
3:30 p.m. Tuesdays; 10 a.m.–noon,
1:30–3:30 p.m. and 5:30–7:30
p.m. Thursdays; 10 a.m.–noon
Saturdays
Food donation drop-off hours:
Anytime after 7 a.m. Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays or by
appointment.
Our of Robert B. Our Co., Sassy and
Terrance Richardson of The Farm
in Orleans, Mike Mann of The Tree
Company, Robert and Catherine
Childs of Childs, Inc., Joe McLaughlin
of Pro Fence, Beth Codet of Two
Chicks Diggin’, Larry Hake and his
team from Habitat for Humanity,
Keith Mucha of Crowell Construction,
Richard Grout at Mid-Cape
Home Centers, Stephanie Shea,
Cape Electric, Central
Irrigation, Aggregate
Industries and many
more.
Don and his wife,
Cele, were married
on the Cape 36 years
ago and moved here in
2004 from Connecticut.
Their other three
children are grown and
spread from San Diego
to Portland, Maine. In
addition to the garden
committee, Don chairs
two other pantry committees. One
is a project to reconfigure the warehouse
space for more efficient operation
and the other a committee to
add solar panels to the building. The
renovation, Don says, has been in
the planning for two years. “We have
seen a 30 percent increase in clients
in the past six years; our hope is that
this redesign will last for decades.”
In his spare time, Don, almost
60, is a travel ambassador, taking
high-school students on ski, tennis
or ecology trips. An avid skier
himself, he is a board member of the
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10 MAY 2011
Yo u r Ca p e Ho m e
COOKIE’S PAINTING
Christine hoChKeppel/Cape CoD times
David Cook, owner of Cookie’s Painting, sands down old paint at a historical house called Grey Ghost on Shore
Road in Chatham. Cook is expanding into property management for clients who head south for the winter.
Help with home
maintenance
By Katharine Dalton
After 28 years in the painting
business, David Cook is planning
to expand into property
management. He hopes to
develop services for about
25 customers, people who seek warmer
climates in the winter months. He would
check the houses for leaks, break-ins.
“It’s in line with the work that I do now,”
he says. “I take care of their property by
painting their houses, fixing up their interiors.”
David Cook is an ambitious man. In
addition to interior and exterior painting,
Cookie’s Painting crew provides pressure
washing and carpentry repair work,
including replacement of rotted wood,
attic vents, decks and
windows.
He employs 10
men full time, including
two foremen and
two experienced
carpenters. “I have a
very good crew,” he
says. “They’re very
polite. They’re good
guys. They’ve been
with me for a while.”
David oversees all the work himself.
“Throughout the spring and summer
David had a
special housewashing
machine made
for him by a
company in
Tennessee.
we do all the exterior work,” he says. “We
do a complete sanding of the house. We
remove the old paint, do a full prime
with two coats of finish, do all the trim,
deck replacements and window replacements.
We do window cleaning as well.
Basically, we can do just about anything
the homeowner needs to have done. I do
sub some work out when I do big roofs.”
Cookie’s Painting is insured, licensed
and is a Better Business Bureau accredited
business. “I have a triple-A-plus rating
with the BBB,” David says, “and it’s been
that way for years.”
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Most of David’s work comes from
word of mouth and takes place in
Harwich, Brewster, Chatham, Dennis
and Orleans. Last year, he did work
on the Chatham police department
and fire station. He does all the work
for the Chatham Wayside Inn and the
Bradford Hotel, also in Chatham. His
company is doing interior work on
a house under construction near the
Falmouth Airpark. He just finished up
the Barley Neck Inn in Orleans.
“That building was really old,” David
says. “We had to strip all the old
paint. The new laws say you have to
be certified to remove lead paint.”
David and his foremen took an
eight-hour course in Braintree so
they’re certified to do lead removal.
“They explained the proper way of
de-leading, making sure that there’s
no lead paint on the ground when
you’re done,” David says. “It costs a
little more to do a house when it has
lead paint.”
The son of a painter, David is a
native Cape Codder, living in Eastham
for the first nine years of his life.
The family moved
❝
If the customer’s
not happy, I go
back and I make
sure they get happy.
to Martha’s Vineyard
for four years,
but he was mostly
raised in the Dennis-
Yarmouth area. He
graduated from
Cape Cod Regional
Technical High
School in 1982.
David’s wife,
Candace, does the
bookkeeping for the
company. She also
works at Chatham
Town Hall as the assessor’s clerk.
David has two sons from a previous
marriage; the younger, 20-year-old
Daniel, has been painting with his
father for a couple of years, and the
older, who now lives in Florida, used
to work with his dad.
David is a big Celtics fan. He also
likes to go out to dinner with his wife,
trying different Cape restaurants.
“We like to get away at least once
a year,” he says. “Two months ago I
bought a 32-foot sleeper trailer. Basically,
we can put it at a campsite in
the summertime, in Truro or Wellfleet.
We can go there for the weekends and
camp out.”
David had a special house-washing
machine made for him by a company
in Tennessee. “I invested about $8,900
for it,” he says. “It’s different. Nobody
on the Cape has that machine. It’s a
DAVID COOk, OWNER
COOkIE’S pAINTINg
Quickhits
WebLinks
Cookie’s Painting
www.cookiespainting.com
low-pressure system,” he explains.
He prefers a low-pressure system
because a power washer can burn or
damage shingles. “I do have a highpressure
power washer that’s built
onto the machine,” he says, “but I only
use it to clean mold and mildew from
concrete and decks. Basically you take
a house with old-looking shingles and
when I’m done washing, it looks like
it was just re-shingled.”
David is serious about satisfying
his customers. “If the customer’s not
happy, I go back and I make sure they
get happy, before I go on to the next
job,” he says. “We don’t start a job and
then go to another job. We do a job
start to finish. The reason why a lot of
people like my business is we don’t
tie up the place for weeks on end. I’ve
got a big enough crew that we come
in, get it done and get out. They’re not
in a mess or shambles
for too long. We try to
put everything back for
everybody, so everything’s
neat.”
When he’s painting
or staining a house, he
might notice rot, such
as in the attic vents.
He brings such damage
to the owner’s
attention and, with
his carpenters on the
team, is prepared to fix
the problem. He says
his carpentry rates are
$25 to $30 an hour. “It’s pretty costeffective
to have a house painted. You
can do an average house for anywhere
from $3,000 up to $10,000, depending
on the size and how many stories
high it is,” says David.
“Sometimes, when I do an interior,
they want this done, that done, it
might be a little more. I’ll give them
an hourly rate, so that we don’t lose,
either one of us, hourly plus materials.
Most of my prices are a contract price,
a flat price. I need a third down on all
my work and the rest on completion
and satisfaction.”
The hardest part of a paint job
is proper preparation, David says.
“That’s the sanding, puttying, caulking,
making sure everything’s done
right,” he says.
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12 MAY 2011
Painting
continued froM PAGe 11
The most complicated jobs, according
to David, are tackling older buildings
that have not been kept up.
“People wait a long time to do the
paint jobs, instead of getting them
done when they start to see peeling.
Then it creates some problems
because there’s a lot more prep work
involved, a lot more sanding. You go
through a lot more materials – sanding
pads, grinders, things of that na-
ture. Once you start getting peeling or
cracking or cracks in your woodwork,
a corner board starts rotting, the water
goes right through and it will hit your
wallboard on the back and eventually
you have mold and mildew problems
inside your home because you haven’t
protected the outside.”
The best part of a job, according
to David, is when the homeowner is
happy about the work, when he gets
compliments or referrals. He carries
letters of recommendation with him
to show people. “That’s the plus side
of doing the work I do,” he says.
About the author
Katharine Dalton moved to Chatham in the early 1980s after 17 years at Arthur
D. Little, a management-consulting firm headquartered in Cambridge. She operated
a bookstore in Chatham, Papyrus-Mostly Books, for seven years. She has been chair
of both the Chatham Public Ceremonies Committee and the Chatham Housing
Authority, as well as treasurer of the Chatham Cultural Council. She studied
journalism at Cape Cod Community College. Since 2002 she has worked at the
Chatham Senior Center, where she produces a monthly newsletter, helps in the
receptionist’s office and facilitates a book club. She enjoys reading, writing (but not
arithmetic) and spending time with her friends.
QuizAnswers
Quiz, Page 34
1. The shower stabbing of Marion
Crane (Janet Leigh) in 1960’s “Psycho.”
Leigh said that shooting the
scene didn’t bother her until she saw
it on screen. She then took baths
until the end of her life.
2. 1951’s “Strangers on a Train,”
starring Farley Granger as a tennis
player and Robert Walker as the
psycho who believes they’ve reached
a “criss-cross” homicide pact. During
the climax, a real mechanic crawls
beneath a speeding carousel about
to jump its axis, and Hitchcock
vowed he’d never authorize such a
dangerous stunt again.
3. The crash of cymbals. Hitchcock
originally filmed this story in England
in 1934, but liked it so much he did
it again with Hollywood stars, color
film, a Moroccan locale and a score
that included Day’s theme song,
“Que Sera, Sera.”
4. Grace Kelly (“Rear Window,” “To
Catch a Thief’), whom Hitchcock lost
to the principality of Monaco when
she became its Serene Highness
Princess Grace, and Tippi Hedren
(“The Birds”), mother of actress
Melanie Griffith and a passionate
animal preservationist.
5. The self-penned silhouette from
which Hitchcock emerged to host;
his greeting, “Good evening;” the
jabs at sponsors when introducing
commercials; and theme music from
Charles Gounod’s “Funeral March for
A Marionette.”
PuzzleAnswers
Puzzle, Page 35

Joanne
Wallace, master
gardener,
plants another
flat of lettuce
at her West
Barnstable
homestead.
Joanne works
on clients’
gardens and
landscapes but
still finds time
to get excited
about her own
plantings. She
appreciates
traditional
plants, but
each year she
treats herself
to something
new. This
year it’ll be a
Hinoki falsecypress
and a
Korean fir.
The Joy
of The
(planting)
SeaSon
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Yo u r Ca p e Ga r d e n
By C.L. Fornari
It’s said that “the shoemaker’s children go barefoot,”
so you might think that professional
gardeners don’t spend much time on their own
property. Plant people, however, even those
who garden for others, can’t help but
be excited in the month of May. Joanne
Wallace is no exception. Joanne is a master
gardener who consults, designs, plants
and cares for other people’s gardens, but
looks forward to the growing season for
personal reasons as well.
“This gardener’s heart beats with anticipation
of the coming spring,” Joanne says,
“even when there’s so much to do.” She
loves tradition, ritual and hard work in the
garden, and knows that her efforts will
produce results on her client’s property as
well as her own.
Joanne came to the Cape in the 1970s. “I met
Stephen, the love of my life, here on Cape Cod.
We married on Valentine’s Day on trail 2 of Sandy
neck Beach and have homesteaded on our 5-acre
property in West Barnstable since 1982.” you might
think that someone who’s been gardening the same
PlEAsE sEE PlanTIng, page 14
Steve HeaSLip/Cape Cod timeS
About the author
C.L. Fornari is a garden writer,
speaker, consultant and admits
to being an out-of-control plant
person. She is the host
of GardenLine on
WXTK and author
of “The Cape Cod
Garden.” Fornari
has two sons, and
her husband, Daniel
Fornari, is a senior
scientist at Woods
Hole Oceanographic
C.L. Fornari Institution. In addition
to her love of plants
and gardening, Fornari is passionate
about the importance of
a strong arts curriculum in the
public schools. Her garden on
the Web can be found at www.
gardenlady.com.

14 MAY 2011
Planting
continued froM PAGe 13
property for nearly 30 years would be
finished with her planting, but Joanne
avows that this isn’t so.
“As the years pass,” she explains, “I
keep promising myself that I won’t
change or add much more to our
homestead gardens and landscape.
The reasoning might be that I have so
much to do for all the gardens I tend
to in my business, that I don’t have
time or energy to do my own. But
here I go again, adding to my collection
of trees and shrubs.” Joanne will
be planting a Franklinia tree so that
she can enjoy its fall
flowers. She’s also in the
market for two ever-
greens: a Hinoki falsecypress
and a Korean fir.
“I’m contemplating
ordering dahlia cuttings,”
Joanne says, “because I
am a dahlia-crazy girl.
My basement storage
area, where I have tubers
from previous seasons,
will attest to that fact.”
In addition to her affection
for that late-summer
annual, she is also
making plans for planting
a variety of topiaries.
“I love topiary, both
free-style and those
grown on a frame,” Joanne says. “This
year I have to find a permanent spot
for my lion frame and get it planted.”
Joanne has other topiaries as well,
including a turtle and a 3-foot-tall
rabbit.
Aside from specific plants that she’s
searching for or always enthusiastic
about, she also appreciates the unfolding
of the spring season. “There are
areas on our homestead that we look
forward to watching burst forth once
again from their long winter’s sleep,”
Joanne says. “We’re always awestruck
by the natural ‘PowerPoint presentation’
that’s happening outside our
windows.”
“The forsythias, camellias, weigela,
quince, Harry Lauder’s walking
stick and lilacs,” Joanne continues,
“all flower on their own timetable.”
Joanne especially values the lilacs for
their historical nature as well as their
blossoms.
These lilacs came from an abandoned,
overgrown homestead up the
road from Joanne, in a spot where
❝
The month of
May in garden
centers is like
participating in
the Running of
the Bulls, Cape
Cod style.
JoANNE WALLACE,
MASTER GARDENER
WEST BARNSTABLE
Lidia Whitman Crocker once lived in
the 1800s. “This is according to my
friend, Gay Black, who is known for
her historic research skills,” Joanne
says. “I often wonder if bouquets of
lilacs from the mother plants found
their way to the ancient cemetery on
Route 6A on Memorial Day. Lilacs
were the traditional flowers that were
brought to our New England cemeteries
for remembrance.”
While welcoming the unfolding of
the growing season in her own yard,
Joanne has been planning for this
period on her client’s behalf as well.
“As a professional gardener, I’m always
thinking and planning for the season
ahead,” she says. “All of my customers’
gardens are beautiful and uniquely
express the individual owners’ needs. I
enjoy collaborating with
my customers, because
they all garden and
know what they like and
what they don’t like.”
Joanne says that she
and her clients like
traditional plantings
with some experiments
or elements of surprise
thrown in. She plans
on planting King Tut
papyrus in containers to
remind one of her customers
about a recent
trip to Egypt. Another
wants a climbing rose,
but the amount of sunlight
on that property is
less than ideal. “In that
situation I’ll try a ‘Zephirine Drouhin’
rose. It has pink, Bourbon-style flowers,
which I’ve had success with in
similar situations.”
Joanne will be planting urns that
are located in dappled shade with
a variety of common houseplants,
adding some sedums and begonias to
provide more color. Because many of
the familiar houseplants come from
the rainforest, they are especially well
suited to growing in shady areas and
they are already known to do well in
containers.
Since she is always scouting for
plants on her “must-have” list, Joanne
visits many nurseries and garden
centers. “The month of May in garden
centers is like participating in the
Running of the Bulls, Cape Cod style,”
she says. It’s a wild and fun time.
I’m very particular about my blood
red pelargonium purchases, and I’m
always looking for unique colors and
large flowering in New Guinea impa-
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tiens.”
“After a winter of researching, I
can’t wait to find the new plant offerings
I’ve read about,” Joanne continues.
In fact, in her quest for just the
right variety, she’s willing to drive off
Cape to obtain the perfect plants for
herself and her customers.
There are two aspects of the season
that Joanne does not look forward
to, however. “Cold temperatures and
rainy days,” she laments. “I have absolutely
no control over them.” Unseasonably
cool or wet weather can set
both amateur and professional gardeners
back and make spring gardening
unpleasant or difficult. Bad weather
aside, Joanne recommends that home
gardeners pay attention to the soil and
garden from the ground up. “In all the
gardening that I do,” she says, “it all
begins with amending the soil to increase
fertility. A soil pH test is always
advised to get the baseline knowledge
of what your soil might need in terms
of acidity or alkalinity.”
“I ask a lot of my gardens,” Joanne
continues, “so I spoil them with some
composted manure and mulch.”
Because she has seen the importance
of soil amendment in her own garden
as well on her customers’ properties,
Joanne believes in using organic
amendments and mulch. “I liken it
to a healthy immune
system,” she says.
“Healthy immune
systems fight off
disease. Amend your
soil and your garden
will reward you with
lovely scents, sights
and tastes.”
Joanne also believes
in learning more about
plants and gardening
at every opportunity.
“The advice I’d give
to folks beginning their journey into
gardening would be to take advantage
of the many workshops and classes
offered at Meetinghouse Farm and
local garden centers,” she says. “Many
of these are free or at a low cost. Visit
your libraries and check out the reference
materials available. Visit public
gardens here on Cape Cod or elsewhere
for inspiration. Treat yourself to
a local garden tour.”
Like many passionate gardeners,
Joanne seems to be recommending
that we use the energy of the season
to learn something new about gar-
Unseasonably cool
or wet weather can
set both amateur
and professional
gardeners back
and make spring
gardening unpleasant
or difficult.
Quickhits
WebLinks
Learn more about Meetinghouse
Farm in West Barnstable: the educational
programs that Joanne
Wallace recommends, volunteer
opportunities, lovely landscapes
and community connections.
www.westbarnstable.org/
Meetinghouse_Farm.html
New plants for 2011. This post from
Birds and Blooms Magazine lists
some of the new varieties that will
be available to gardeners and home
landscapers this year.
http://bit.ly/fg8FKD
Sustainable gardening and ways to
sustain the gardener from blogger
Susan Harris. Learn about maintaining
a garden in an ecologically
responsible way, and find links to
other helpful websites.
www.sustainable-gardening.com/
how-to/sustainable/practices
dening and plants. At the same time,
she recommends having patience
and knowing that there is wisdom in
working with nature’s rhythms.
“As a gardener, I believe that to
everything there is a
season,” she says, citing
the Biblical verse from
Ecclesiastes. “This
speaks to me gently
and clearly and says it
all. Every season brings
its joys and challenges
and I take each day of
every season as a gift.”
In addition to the
energy of spring,
Joanne finds satisfaction
in every month
of the year. “I welcome the fall chores
and the slower pace,” she continues. “I
love the crisp air and the warm colors.
Fall is our second spring. Winter
quietly thrills me with the stunning
starkness and trees’ barks and gnarled
limbs.”
Yet despite her love of the dormant
season, Joanne particularly anticipates
the growing season. “I look to this new
spring and summer with great expectations,”
she says. “And I am thankful
for having the energy and patience for
all the surprises that keep me doing
what I love.”
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16 MAY 2011

Pantry
COntinuED frOm PAGE 9
Cape Cod Ski Club and also serves
on two Cape Cod Foundation review
committees: grants and scholarships.
Don sees his involvement with nonprofits
as a way to give back.
He’s not the only one who feels
that way. One of the founders of the
Family Pantry was Mary Anderson’s
father, George Morris, who served as
president of the board for 10 years.
George was a construction manager
for Verizon before he retired and
moved to the Cape some 30 years
ago. Mary worked for Verizon also,
as a construction director. “My
father jokes,” says
Mary, “that he retired
before he wound
up working for me.”
George, now 85,
continues to serve on
the pantry board and
manages the cavernous12,000-squarefoot
warehouse. He
is currently at home
recuperating from
heart surgery, but remains
active. “Believe
me,” says Mary, “he
is still directing me
from his chair in the
living room.”
The pantry receives 40 percent
of its food from the USDA-backed
Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB)
and the Massachusetts Emergency
Food Assistance Plan (MEFAP).
The pantry warehouse serves as the
major drop-off point for the Cape.
Other pantries come here to pick
up their allotments. Walking past
the floor-to-ceiling pallets of food
and non-perishable goods that have
been delivered, one is struck by the
amount of work required to keep the
donations organized and the pantry
shelves stocked.
“We have a forklift and several
volunteers are trained to use it,” says
Mary, “and we just added a part-time
warehouse supervisor, Bill Baldwin.”
There are mostly seniors, busy
opening crates and stocking shelves.
Mary smiles, “Most of our regular
volunteers are in the 60-and-older
demographic.”
That includes Mary. Retired in
2000, Mary was working part-time
in a second career when the job of
❝
Most of our
regular volunteers
are in the
60-and-older
demographic.
MARY ANDERSON,
ExECUTIVE DIRECTOR
THE FAMIlY PANTRY,
HARWICH
executive director opened. A volunteer
at the pantry who knew Mary
suggested she apply. “You would be
very good,” she prophesied. Mary
interviewed and in 2005 got the
position. “So I followed my dad
twice,” Mary says, referring to her
career with Verizon, then her move
to the Cape to take the pantry job.
Speaking of her father’s legacy, Mary
points out that his energy, sense of
humor and knack for working with
everyone from kids to seniors is what
helped the pantry grow over the
past 22 years. On this busy Tuesday
morning, minutes before the pantry
opens to clients, volunteers occupy
three of the four desks in Mary’s
small office. It is obvious that Mary
has inherited George’s skill for working
with people.
The pantry has
more than 230 volunteers
who work
regular weekly hours,
and another 100 who
volunteer on a random
basis. Organizations
that volunteer include
University of Massachusetts,
Harwich
High School and Cape
Cod Regional Technical
School alumni
association, the Post
Office, and the Irving
Mobil in Dennisport,
which, along with the
Harwich and Dennis
transfer stations, provides a drop-off
point for recycling cans and bottles –
a $30,000 annual revenue stream for
the pantry.
Unlike most charitable organizations,
the 80/20 rule (80 percent
of funds come from 20 percent of
donors) does not apply here. The
largest portion of financial support
(48 percent) comes from individual
donations, another testament to
Mary’s ability to work with a wide
range of people. Other sources of
income are grants, the thrift shop,
events and sales of grocery store gift
cards.
An astonishing 900 individuals are
served by the pantry every week.
Most families have already qualified
for a government assistance program
such as food stamps or WIC.
If they are new, there is a confidential
interview and the pantry uses
the Federal poverty guidelines for
qualifying clients (approximate annual
income is $19,000 for a single,
PRIMETIMECAPECOD.com 17
$40,000 for a family of four). The
pantry staff also helps the clients apply
for food stamps and directs them
to other food programs in their area
when appropriate. Instead of prebagging
groceries, as smaller pantries
do, Mary points out that the pantry
is able to offer a choice to clients. In
addition to packaged foods and fresh
produce, Mary opens a large refrigerator/freezer
to show an abundance
of cheese, eggs and frozen meats.
Added to the food delivered by the
GBFB, 25 percent is donated by individuals,
stores or food drives. The
remaining 35 percent is purchased
with pantry funds by Mary, her
father or one of the other volunteer
shoppers. “We call one of our volunteers
the Jelly Man,” says Mary. “Ted
and Clare Monac find items on sale
and purchase them on our behalf,
like cases of jelly for 99 cents a jar.”
The paid staff is small, says Mary.
“We have tried to keep to the
(founders’) three guiding principals:
to be open to anyone, donations of
money would be used to buy food
and we would be all volunteerbased.
We have been able to remain
true to the first two, but in 2004, we
created the paid executive director
position and in 2010 we added two
part-time staff.”
Mary enjoys the flexibility of her
job, but says it consumes her every
waking hour. In addition to her position
with the pantry, Mary, along
with the director of the Falmouth
Food Bank, co-chairs the Cape
Cod Hunger Network, an informal
coalition of feeding programs on the
Cape.
Asked about hobbies, Mary lists
quilting, mah-jongg, reading and
traveling. She and her husband,
Bob, who retired from a career in
information technology and now
operates a handyman business in
Harwich, enjoyed a Mediterranean
cruise last year and are planning
one to Alaska this fall. Mary is also
looking forward to a girlfriends’
getaway to Charleston and Savannah.
Her overriding interest, like her
father’s, is her family, her son and
daughter, 31 and 34 respectively, and
her grandsons. Her brother has two
grandchildren also, making George a
great-grandfather to four boys.
“He’s working on a baseball team,”
Mary laughs. Or maybe the next
generation of Family Pantry directors.

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BETTYANN
LAURIA
She ran her way to a halfmarathon
debut at age 60.
About the author
Kathy Salzberg is an
award-winning writer,
pet groomer and business
owner who retired
to the Cape in 2005.
She has written many
articles on pets for
national magazines,
authored three books
and co-written a
fourth. She is the resident
grooming expert
on www.thedogchannel.com.
One of her
stories was recently
selected for Chicken
Soup for the Soul’s
“Loving Our Dogs-
Our 101 Best Stories.”
A widow with three
grown children and
five grandchildren,
Kathy is a member of
Nauset Newcomers
where she has made
many new friends and
met her new life partner,
artist/designer Lee
Ackerman. They share
their Eastham home
with a tabby cat with
serious control issues.
By Kathy SalzBerg
Love ’em or hate ’em, those
milestone birthdays do
tend to get our attention,
but BettyAnn Lauria of
Yarmouthport marked
her 60th with a rousing statement
about youthful vigor and vitality
by running her first half-marathon.
A longtime language arts teacher
at the Mattacheese Middle School
in West Yarmouth, she started running
a dozen years ago, completing
several 5Ks, 10Ks and the 7-plusmile
Falmouth Road Race, but the
13.1-mile half-marathon on Feb. 28
she signed up for would more than
double those previous accomplishments.
Part of the Hyannis Marathon,
which includes a 26.2-mile marathon,
the half-marathon, a 10K-race
and a marathon team relay, this
increasingly popular event drew
thousands to Hyannis, signing up
5,500 entrants. To BettyAnn, this was
the big leagues.
Nantucket residents for seven years,
she and her husband, Tom, moved to
Yarmouthport 17 years ago after Betty
had been laid off from her teaching
post there. The couple met and
married 28 years ago in Westchester
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ChriStine hoChKeppel/Cape Cod timeS
BettyAnn Lauria of Yarmouthport
ties up her trusty Mizuno Wave Rider
sneakers for a midweek run. She
recently ran her first half-marathon.
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County, N.Y. Tom is a renowned craftsman
who builds model ships. A member
and officer of the USS Constitution Model
Shipwrights Guild that meets in the shadow
of Old Ironsides in Boston, his models have
been displayed in several museums, including
the Cape Cod Maritime Museum in
Hyannis. Their son, Austin, is a computer
professional who lives off-Cape.
Betty was drawn to running when she read
about a group for beginners being started by
Kevin Petrovek, the owner of Hanlon’s Shoe
Store in Hyannis. “I had always thought
that if you couldn’t go out there and run a
mile then you couldn’t do it, but his whole
program was about starting slowly. In the
first week we did 30 seconds of running and
90 seconds of walking and we would practice
that for a half hour, increasing it every
week. We started in May and by the end of
June were ready to do a 5K.” A diminutive
brunette, her deep brown eyes sparkle as
she recalls that first triumph. “That was our
graduation from the class.”
“It really changed my life because I hadn’t
really been doing much
exercise,” she recalls. In her
school days, she had played
field hockey and still loved
playing tennis. “But you get
to that point where you get
too busy and stop doing
those things.” Gradually,
her stamina and endurance
increased and she was able
to do five miles, her signal
to enter a couple of 5-mile
races, then a 10K and the
hugely popular Falmouth
Road Race. “I did that one
for a friend of mine whose
daughter had passed away.
A bunch of us were running
in her honor.”
She delights in the legend
that goes along with that
event, as much a part of
Cape Cod tradition as cookouts, clambakes
and Fourth of July fireworks. Launched
in 1972 by Tommy Leonard, an avid runner
and popular bartender in Boston and
Falmouth, it was first held on his birthday.
It’s seven miles because that was the distance
from Captain Kidd’s Tavern in Woods
Hole to the Brothers Four in Falmouth
Heights where he tended bar. Over the
years, its winners have included such worldclass
greats as Alberto Salazar, Bill Rodgers
and Frank Shorter.
Betty started training for the half-mara-
❝
I had always
thought that if
you couldn’t go
out there and run
a mile then you
couldn’t do it, but
his whole program
was about starting
slowly.
BETTYANN LAURIA,
RUNNER
Quickhits
WebLinks
Cultural Center of Cape Cod Run/
Walk for the Arts
www.cultural-center.org/
roadraceflyer10.pdf
Falmouth Road Race
www.falmouthroadrace.com
Hyannis Marathon
www.hyannismarathon.com
Thomas J. Lauria’s Model Ships
www.tjlauria.com
thon last fall. “I had two friends that I sort of
roped into doing it with me,” she laughs. “In
the back of my mind I was thinking about
my 60th birthday coming up in March.” By
then, Betty had been doing
40-minute runs three times
midweek with 5-mile runs
on Saturday. Once they got
that weekend outing to 10
miles, it was time to tackle
the actual race route, a
scenic course along Craigsville
and Kalmus beaches,
Hyannis harbor, Lewis Bay,
the John F. Kennedy Memorial
and Family Compound,
Officer Michael Aselton
Memorial Park and the villages
of Hyannisport and
Centerville.
Famously picturesque in
warm weather, the coastal
Cape Cod climate could be
harsh in winter and though
she did most of her running
outdoors to prepare for it,
one Sunday practice run on
the race course itself caused serious misgivings.
She knew her usual routes by heart,
both in Yarmouthport and Dennis where
fellow runner and close friend Pat Mahoney
lives, but this unfamiliar terrain was treacherous
due to ice underfoot. “We’re never going
to get through this,” she recalls thinking
that day.
But her perseverance paid off. Race day,
the 31st anniversary of the event, produced
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a full array of the Cape’s winter
conditions – snow, sleet, rain and
a gloomy chill – but despite this
typical fare, more than 4,000 of the
5,500 who had entered showed up to
complete their races, 3,700 of them in
Betty’s event alone. “It was not a nice
day”, she recalls, “but thankfully there
was no ice.” It took her two hours and
33 minutes, far longer than the winning
time of Brockton’s Caitlin Snow,
a 29-year-old triathlete who took
the honors for the fourth time in her
one-hour-and-17-minute finish, but
Betty was happy. Her run was about
completing her goal, not the time it
took to do it.
Her accomplishment was widely
publicized when her friend Kevin
wished her a happy
birthday in a quarter-page
Hanlon’s ad in the Cape
Cod Times. A smiling
Betty was pictured with
fellow Wednesday night
runners and congratulated
for her “half-marathon
debut at age 50” with a
P.S. tacked on for good
measure: “You certainly
don’t look or act 50!” Of
course the fact that she was actually
60 made it even more fun. Although
this soft-spoken teacher is prone to
downplaying her youthful appearance
and is too modest to indulge in bragging
rights, Betty got a huge kick out
of it. So did the friends and students
who mailed her several copies, some
tucked inside birthday cards.
Now planning to enter the June 18
5K Run/Walk for the Arts sponsored
by Yarmouth’s Cultural Center of
Cape Cod, she is shooting for a better
finishing time in this race, which she
has run every year since its inception
nine years ago. Still pursuing her
Saturday long runs and early-morning
40-minute ones, she has been joined
by her husband because one running
buddy was sidelined by an injury and
another sometimes gets sidetracked by
other demands. Since it’s still dark out
when her day begins at 5 a.m., Tom
does not want her running alone. As
a result, he has gotten back into the
sport, proudly accompanying his wife
on the last four miles of her milestone
half-marathon.
To complement their running, the
couple practices oi gong, an ancient
Her run
was about
completing her
goal, not the
time it took to
do it.
Chinese system of movement and
meditation that calms the spirit,
strengthens the body and builds the
immune system. Betty has also
studied yoga with Lynette Walker in
Dennis. “Sometimes my friends and
I would do a hot yoga class after our
long run. I’d be like a wet noodle by
the end of Saturday.”
Once she’s hit the road, Betty
would rather talk with her friends
than listen to music on an iPod.
“That’s too dangerous. I like to know
who is around me and what’s going
on. But when Tom runs with us, he
can’t get a word in edgewise.” She
does admit to being motivated by a
Bruce Springsteen concert she caught
on TV one day when bad weather
kept her inside on the treadmill and
was also impressed by a YouTube
video, sent by her sister-in-law, of
90-year-old runner Olga Kotelko, British
Columbia’s Master Athlete of the
Year in 2009 and still an avid runner.
“Now that’s an inspira-
tion!”
She’s not a big carboloader
and practices no
quirky race day superstitions
but swears by her
pink and silver Mizuno
Wave Riders, sitting at the
ready by her kitchen door.
Although the desire for
fitness and weight control
led her to running, the activity has
produced many more benefits. She
extols it as a stress reliever. “It definitely
helps me stay calm. There are
a lot of budget problems right now.
We get nervous about what’s going to
happen. They have already cut library
programs; it’s heartbreaking.”
Running’s also an energy booster. “I
have to be energized to keep up with
a classroom full of eighth-graders!”
Some students show up to cheer
her on while others have themselves
become runners. “I like to be a role
model,” she adds.
Another huge reward has been a
wealth of new friendships. Between
fellow teachers who are also runners
and the Wednesday night group sponsored
by Hanlon’s, she has widened
her circle.
“I’ve met some of the nicest people
and they have been so supportive.
When I first started out, it took me
forever to run three miles but they
were always so encouraging.”
Not surprisingly, BettyAnn Lauria
encourages everyone to take up running.
“I highly recommend it to everyone,
no matter how old,” she says. “I
don’t think it’s ever too late to start.”
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Film BuFFS, unite
My mother’s discussion
group came up with
a great topic recently.
Each member was
asked to list her alltime
favorite movies. As you can
imagine, hearing what everyone else
came up with sparked
additions to each person’s
list. After the meeting,
my mother and I got into
a lively discussion of the
movies we loved: “The
In-Laws” (“Serpentine
Shelly. Serpentine!”);
“The Great Race”
(“Push the button,
Max!”); “Gone with
the Wind” (“Frankly,
my dear ...”); “The
Ladykillers” (the original
with Alec Guinness,
not the remake); “The
Graduate” (“.. here’s
to you, Mrs. Robinson
...”); “The Wizard of
Oz” (“Pay no attention
to that man behind
the curtain.”); “The
Godfather” (“I’ll make
him an offer he can’t
refuse.”); “To Kill a
Mockingbird” (remember
Boo Radley?);
“Chicago” (“... and all
About the author
Joan Harrison has been happily
making friends on Cape Cod since
moving back to Massachusetts from
Oregon in 2002. She is a reader
who collects bookmarks, a movie
buff who loves foreign films, and a
believer in this prescription for emotional
well-being: Just add chocolate.
She is the president of the Cape Cod
Hydrangea Society and the author of
“The Colorful World of Hydrangeas:
a Hydrangea Handbook for the
Home Gardener.”
Joan Harrison
ONE MOVIE
reminds you of
another. One
actor reminds
you of another
actor who also
starred in... It
goes on and
on, like Six
Degrees of
Kevin Bacon.
that jazz ...”). I could go on and on
and on. But you get the idea.
We had recently seen “The King’s
Speech” and decided that had to
go on our list of all-time favorites.
Which reminded us of Colin Firth
and his amazing portrayal in last
year’s “A Single Man.”
(And don’t get me started
about his wonderful Mr.
Darcy in A&E’s presentation
of “Pride & Prejudice.”
Mention any actor and
specific movies immediately
spring to mind. Paul
Newman (“The Sting”);
Judi Dench (“Her Majesty,
Mrs. Brown”); Cary
Grant (“Arsenic and Old
Lace”); Elizabeth Taylor
(“National Velvet”); Maggie
Smith (“The Prime
of Miss Jean Brodie”);
Sidney Poitier (“Lilies
of the Field”); Katharine
Hepburn (“The Lion in
Winter”); Peter O’Toole
(“Lawrence of Arabia”);
Peter Sellers (“The Pink
Panther”); Alan Arkin
(“The Russians Are
Coming, The Russians
Are Coming”). OK, I’m
going to have to restrain
myself from going on in
this vein. But this is what
happens when you get movie lovers
talking about movies. One movie
reminds you of another. One actor
reminds you of another actor who
also starred in... It goes on and on,
like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
I challenge you to make, in one
sitting, a complete list of all the
movies you have loved. I don’t
believe it can be done. Other titles
will pop into your head at random
times. I asked my mother if she
had included “The Dinner Game,”
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a hilarious French film. “No. And
I loved that movie,” she said. Just
asking the question reminded me
of a trip to France when theaters
were playing “The Madness of King
George.” (I’d enjoyed seeing posters
along the Champs-Elysées for
“La Folie du Roi George.”) That
would definitely go on my list. Helen
Mirren played King George’s wife.
Helen Mirren ... “Calendar Girls,” of
course.
This column is designed to help
people with common interests get
together. How about people who
love going to the movies? Would
you be interested in joining a club
that goes to see current movies
and then meets to talk about them
afterwards? Better yet, would you be
interested in starting such a group?
What I have in mind is a loose organization
with no officers, no dues
and no agenda except to see movies
as often as desired. Many of us are
single and would welcome joining a
group rather than going on our own
all the time. I don’t mind going to a
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24 MAY 2011
Devon
Foley’s home
is decorated
with art that
she has created,including
these
three paintings.
As a
child, Devon
loved to draw
and paint
animals and
create works
of art from
objects found
in nature. Her
mother told
her she had
to get a real
job. Now in
the second
act of life,
after raising
her children
and a career
in nursing,
she gets to
be the artist
she always
was inside.
DEvON FOlEY
Realizing the artist within after motherhood
and a career in nursing.
About the author
Kathy Salzberg is an award-winning
writer, pet groomer and business owner
who retired to the Cape in 2005. She has
written many articles on pets for national
magazines, authored three books and
co-written a fourth. She is the resident
grooming expert on www.thedogchannel.
com. One of her stories was recently selected
for Chicken Soup for the Soul’s “Loving
Our Dogs – Our 101 Best Stories.” A
widow with three grown children and
five grandchildren, Kathy is a member of
Nauset Newcomers, where she has made
many new friends and met her new life
partner, artist/designer Lee Ackerman.
They share their Eastham home with a
tabby cat with serious control issues.
By Kathy SalzBerg
What do you want to be
when you grow up?
Sometimes the answer to
this age-old question can
take a lifetime to realize,
but artist Devon Foley of Orleans, Mass.,
and Naples, Fla., was blessed with a second
chance to do what she loved best as
a child: express herself through art, drawing
and painting animals and creating art
from objects found in nature.
“I loved drawing as a child but my
mother told me, ‘You can’t be an artist.
You have to have a real job! You have to
be a teacher, a secretary or a nurse.’”
Now 64 and retired, Devon’s “real job”
was a nursing career to be proud of. After
graduating from high school in New
Jersey, she received a bachelor’s degree
in natural sciences from the University
Merrily CaSSidy/Cape Cod tiMeS
of Dubuque, then headed to Boston
Children’s Hospital School of Nursing,
where she trained for her profession and
met Jerry, her husband of 41 years, then a
student at Boston College.
Devon later worked as a medical/surgical
nurse at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
(now Brigham and Women’s), trained
nurses’ aides at a nursing home and
worked in labor and delivery at South
Shore Hospital, where she also taught
childbirth classes. When her husband’s
career as a CPA and eventual partner with
global financial giant Ernst and Young
took them to Albany, N.Y., Devon worked
at Wildwood, a private school for children
with developmental disabilities.
Along with their moves, the couple had
three children who are now adults, two
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married with children of their own: a
son in New Hampshire, a daughter in
New York and another son in nearby
Brewster. “He has a significant other –
and a puppy,” Devon announces with
as much joy as she takes in talking
about her grandkids, who range in age
from 10 years to 4 months. Since all
the Foley children are within driving
distance of her Orleans home with its
private beach on Pleasant Bay, summer
brings lots of company to the
spacious house they built 11 years
ago, designed by Devon herself.
Coming to Orleans was a family tradition;
her grandparents ventured here
from New York in the 1930s and she
has been coming since babyhood. “We
lived near the Jersey shore but we
didn’t want to go there. It was always
Orleans,” she says with a smile. Devon
and Jerry bought their first house here
in the 1980s and lived in Wayland,
Mass., while their current home was
under construction.
She didn’t pick up a paintbrush
again until she arrived in Naples, after
retirement. The condo the couple had
purchased was turnkey-furnished and
her ever-practical husband remarked,
“You don’t have to change a thing, do
you?”
“Well, maybe a little,” Devon
replied, jokingly referring to their dissimilar
way of looking at things: “the
two sides of the brain, the CPA brain
and the artist brain.” All the artwork
came down, packed off to thrift shops
and church fairs, replaced with a full
flowering of pet portraits all done in
her signature whimsical style, infused
with love and humor. She was following
the dictum of her Florida teacher,
Rona Steingart: “Paint what you like
best.”
Those beloved beings adorn the
walls in Orleans as well. There are
Abby and Kirby, her two English
bulldogs, seated on a red Queen Anne
wingback chair with floral tapestry
behind them and fancy collars adorning
their hefty necks. A tortoise tabby
peeks from behind one of the chair’s
curved cabriole legs. These pets have
passed away but the portraits keep
them forever close at hand.
On another wall is a distinguishedlooking
couple, Jewelius, an uppity
Boston terrier, and his female counterpart,
Jewelia, a black and white cat
with her own haughty stare. Sparkling
jewels adorn their background in a
delightful mixed-media embellishment.
“These two just seemed to go
together as a couple,” says Devon. In
another painting, her son’s bulldog
looks chastened after edging too close
to a kitty dish adorned with fish, the
property of a Persian princess who
fixes him with a cold stare.
“Each one of my paintings tells a
story,” says the artist, who does pet
portraits from photos, asking clients
to provide images of favorite toys
and furniture as well as indicating
the colors they prefer. Her current
commissions include a pair of Brittany
spaniels, the cherished pets of a
90-year-old friend.
Flowers, animals, fishes, birds and
insects abound on canvas, wood, furniture,
leather, prints, handbags, greeting
cards – even elegant salt and pepper
mills that sold for more than $200 at
last year’s Holly Berry Bazaar where
her painted rocking horses and picnic
baskets were also hot items.
As a member of the Cape Cod
Hospital Auxiliary’s Orleans chapter,
which holds the bazaar biannually,
this is one of the artist’s favorite
charities. The 2008 event raised over
$60,000 to benefit Cape Cod Hospital’s
cardiac care center. Proceeds
for the one held last November at
Orleans’ Nauset Regional Middle
School benefited the hospital’s mammography
and breast care center. For
that show, Devon worked on rocking
horses, shell boxes and wooden ornaments.
Devon paints in acrylics, her color
palette influenced by her love for
the hand-painted Mackenzie Childs
tableware she displays in her kitchen.
An old wooden chair is decorated
in this style while her antique washing
machine (half a tin drum with its
wooden plank top lovingly refinished)
bears a delightful beach motif, a fanciful
homage to life on Cape Cod.
Devon is equally famous for her
unique shell mirrors, two of which
are at the Cape Cod Museum of
Art in Dennis, where she has taught
workshops on their design as she has
done at the Naples Museum of Art in
Florida. A team of women gathered in
the Barnstable barn of her furniture
painting teacher, Ginny Boylan, to assemble
the extra-large mirror for the
Cape museum’s ladies room. Her mirrors
may start out as scratch-and-dent
bargains but by the time she’s finished
with priming, painting and Gorilla
Glue-ing, they are ornate masterpieces
containing shells, starfish, stones
and barnacles as well as jewelry, old
buttons, tie tacks, earrings and even
a strand of pearls. “Stuff that was in a
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Devon Foley’s mirrors start out as damaged
bargains, but they become works of
art as she adds layers of shells and trinkets.
This one hangs in her hallway.
drawer that nobody would ever look
at,” as she puts it.
Among the coral and “old maid’s
curls” shells from Florida on the mirror
in her hall you will find a pair of
her mother’s earrings and the padlock
to her girlhood diary. Devon has
donated some of these unique works
to the Holly Berry Bazaar and sold
them at various venues, including the
Cape Cod Museum, Adlumia and The
Hope Chest Consignment Shop, both
in Orleans, and at numerous arts-andcrafts
fairs.
As her nursing career wound down,
Devon dove headfirst into community
pursuits. She has been an active
member of several newcomers clubs;
served on hospital and museum
boards of directors; in Wayland, taught
workshops on painted birdhouses, tote
bags and mail boxes; and volunteered
at an adult day care center for Alzheimer’s
patients.
The Nauset Newcomers Club
provided her pathway to community
here on the Cape. Membership in its
Nurses Group led to membership in
the Cape Cod Hospital Auxiliary. Devon
is also an American National Red
Cross Nurse, a lifetime volunteer. In
Orleans, she’s a member of the Pond
Coalition, Improvement Association
and the Historical Society.
Quickhits
WebLinks
Samples of Devon Foley’s work
may be viewed at:
www.designsbydevonfoley.com
To commission a pet portrait,
painted furniture or shell mirror,
call Devon on Cape Cod at 508-
240-3555 or during the off season
in Naples at 239-514-4993.
Cape Cod Hospital Auxiliary –
Orleans Branch
www.capecodhealth.org/body.
cfm?id=382
Nauset Newcomers
www.nausetnewcomers.org
Devon’s life has come full circle
since her mother gave her that advice
long ago, but she has no regrets about
her career path. “I went to Children’s
Hospital because I thought I could
learn to take care of children – and
the ones I hoped to have someday. I
learned so much about childhood illness
around the world in the process.
It was just fabulous. I really enjoyed
my career as a nurse – and a mother.”
And her long-dormant creativity? “It
was in me from the time I was little
and it’s still there. My most influential
person was my high school art teacher
in New Jersey, Sherman Dance. He’s
long gone now, but I’ll always remember
how he taught us calligraphy, how
to make wallpaper, lettering and block
printing with linoleum – the old-fashioned
basics.”
Since most mornings find her out
and about or walking with neighborhood
friends, Devon spends afternoons
in her home studio. “Sometimes
Jerry has to remind me that it’s dinner
time,” she laughs. She sells some of
her work at the Sweet Art Gallery in
Naples and also designs her signature
avant-garde jewelry that seems to sell
better in that resort locale than it does
here on the Cape.
Her work reflects a playful and
optimistic spirit, perhaps because her
sea-blue eyes still view the world with
the wonder of a child. She turns to
her latest endeavor: two paintings of
Chinese vases, one depicting a mother
bird that chose to build her nest in
one of these ornate vessels. “I think
I’m going to name it ‘Don’t Mess with
Mama.’”
Her old teacher would be proud –
and her mother probably would be,
too.

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movie by myself, but I miss that
instant discussion you have afterwards,
especially if parts of the
movie have been somewhat murky
and you want to turn to someone
and say, “What was that all
about?”
Joining a group increases the
odds of finding a kindred spirit,
someone else who loves foreign
films, for instance, or someone
who wants to stay for all the
credits. I’m always surprised when
people dash out of a movie theater
as soon as the film is over. I want
to see who played what role (especially
if it was driving me crazy
where I saw that particular person
before), where the film was shot
and all the rest of frequently surprising
information you get when
you view the credits.
I once watched a movie with
Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton
at a movie theater in Dennis and
was amazed that I was the only
person who watched the credits all
the way through. I was rewarded.
Near the end of the credits Jack
Nicholson sang, to me and me
alone, “La Vie En Rose,” signature
song of Edith Piaf. It was a
lovely experience. I thanked him
profusely as I was leaving. (Could
you read the preceding paragraph
and not think about movies you’ve
loved with either Jack Nicholson
or Diane Keaton in them? I didn’t
think so.)
So, what do you say? Are you
interested? Send me an e-mail and
I’ll see if there’s enough interest
to get something going. I’m sure
you’d have ideas to contribute
and lists of favorite movies of
your own. It would be great if we
found interest in all parts of the
Cape. That way, everyone could
get together with people who live
nearby. You write to me and I’ll
put you in touch with each other.
Now that I think about it, this
idea doesn’t have to be restricted
to going to current movies in
theaters. With the wide range of
movies available on DVDs, specialty
groups could develop with
members meeting in each other’s
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Ron SchloeRb/cape cod TimeS
Martin Sandler of Cotuit sits in his home office surrounded by his work. Martin is the author of the “Through the Lens” series, which presents
history to young adults through pictures.
MArTIN SANdLer
A historian makes his own history.
by SaRa Webb QueST
Picture a steadily developing
minor league baseball
player whose career is cut
short by injury. Now picture
the man becoming a
history teacher who finds his class
text so boring, he creates his own,
one that brings history to life. The
book becomes an instant best seller
(“The People Make a Nation,” Allyn
and Bacon, 1971).
These are just drops in an ocean
of captivating events in the life of
77-year-old Martin Sandler, a man
who decided to make history what it
should be – about people and what
motivates them – by letting them
tell their own stories.
Martin already made history with
his detective work, which has led to
new historical revelations in modern
literature, as well as producing
award-winning photographic books.
Martin and I talked in a quiet
conference room at the Osterville
Village Library. I asked how he – a
book author – had come to receive
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Now picture the man
becoming a history
teacher who finds
his class text so
boring, he creates his
own, one that brings
history to life.

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Sandler
continued froM PAGe 29
seven Emmy awards for television.
Martin, a man with laughing
eyes, reflected: “Years ago I did a
book called ‘This Was America’
(Little Brown, 1980) that was very
popular. I told much of the story
using photos from the turn of the
century. At the time, I was naive
about television, but I knew someone
at Channel 5 in Boston. They
knew I was an author, and we ended
up making a 13-part series of ‘This
Was America.’”
“The New York Times,” he continued,
“called
it one of
❝
For me, it’s
a detective
hunt and it’s
exciting.
the best TV
documentary
series ever
produced, and
it still plays
all over the
world. I wrote
the script
and got the
pictures. The
executive producer,(Stephen)
Schlow,
was the one
who taught
me about TV
and screenwriting.”
President Harry S. Truman,
MArTIN SANdLEr,
CoTUIT
AUTHor,
“THroUgH THE
LENS” SErIES
once said, “The only thing new in
this world is the history you don’t
know.” While Martin has been
highly successful at screenwriting,
he now focuses on his love of
writing books about “the history we
don’t know.” In fact, Martin responded
ambitiously to that need in
his recent anthology, “Lost to Time:
Unforgettable Stories That History
Forgot” (Sterling, 2010).
“‘Lost to Time’ is about historical
events that are incredibly important,”
Martin explains. “For me, it’s
a detective hunt and it’s exciting.”
As researcher, he went straight to
the Library of Congress to discover
little-known facts. Included in “Lost
to Time” is the story of an eighthcentury
black slave named Ziryab.
Ziryab adored music, manners,
cuisine and fashion, and his influence
on these aspects of society still
resonates today. Also included is
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the 1865 sinking of the Sultana on
the Mississippi. And Martin’s own
favorite: “My favorite story in ‘Lost
to Time’ is the Gustave Whitehead
story. To document that someone
flew three years before the Wright
brothers and why it was suppressed
... .” He trailed off, dismayed that
this fact was never documented in
the annals of history.
Martin always felt history was
“about the people, how they felt,
and making it all come alive,” and
grew excited anytime he identified
“something in a historical photo
from the Library of Congress – or
from a museum collection – that
history books failed to disclose.”
Although Martin grew up in New
Bedford, he expressed his passion
for living on Cape Cod. “As
a youngster, I snuck down to the
Cape whenever I could. In 1972,
my wife and I were living in Boston.
We built a weekend house in
Marstons Mills, which we had for
30 years. Twelve years ago, we sold
the Boston house, sold our office in
Waltham and the house in Marstons
Mills. And we bought a permanent
home in Cotuit, where we’ve been
very happy ... and over the years, we
had five children!” he laughed.
“I am lucky; I have two ways of
giving back: by giving talks to kids
in schools – which I adore – and,
one semester a year, I give a course
at The Academy of Lifelong Learning
at 4Cs.”
He grinned, admitting, “Each
morning, I bounce up my stairs,
seven days a week, to my office, and
I write.”
I imagined him skipping two
stairs at a time up a staircase to a
peaceful, sunlit room with a desk,
as he continued. “I just have incredible
joy in bringing history to life.”
He created his current series,
“Through the Lens,” which tells
photographic stories to young
adults. His latest book, “Kennedy
Through the Lens: How Photography
and Television Revealed and
Shaped an Extraordinary Leader”
(Walker Books for Young Readers,
January 2011), is a part of the
series. “Kennedy used the camera’s
lens and TV to influence his audiences.
Most of my research for this
book came from Boston’s Kennedy
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32 MAY 2011
Sandler
continued froM PAGe 31
library and museum, its archives,
which I use a lot.”
Martin had lugged a few of his
books to Osterville to show me.
One of his “Through the Lens”
books, about President Abraham
Lincoln, lay before us. I felt a
familiar yearning to learn more
about this president. Martin generously
signed the book, included
a thoughtful letter and gave it to
me. As he wrote, he said, “The
publisher came to me, asking for
a book that would celebrate the
president’s 200th birthday.” The
wonder of it all was still fresh on
Martin’s face. “Lincoln through the
Lens: How Photography Revealed
and Shaped an Extraordinary Life”
(Walker Books for Young Readers,
2008) for middle-graders and young
adults, was thus born. Like all his
photographic books, he’d “carefully
chosen each of his photographs to
make sure they offered something
fascinating and fresh” to his readers.
As he sat next to me at the table,
Martin flipped to a photo he’d
included from Lincoln’s second Inaugural
Address. His eyes twinkled
mischievously. He pointed to a man
with a moustache and stovepipe
hat. The man peered down at the
president from a railed platform.
“Can you guess who that is?”
Martin asked me.
I couldn’t.
Martin identifed John Wilkes
Booth, “Who,” he explained, “only
41 days later, shot and killed the
president.” Then he indicated a
second amazing fact about the same
photo: The five assassin-conspirators
stood beneath the president’s
podium.
I realized that this two-time
Pulitzer Prize nominee is painstakingly
inquisitive and loves sharing
all discoveries.
Martin has also received the Boston
Globe-Horn Book Award and
the CINE Golden Eagle Award. Every
book of his has been published
– an achievement in and of itself.
But I really wondered: Which of his
awards thrilled him the most?
He joked, “I’m such an egoist, but
when my children’s book ‘The Story
of American Photography’ won the
Horn Book Award, that was the first
big one, so it was the most exciting.”
“My favorite part of all this is
going into schools and sharing my
books with kids,” he said. “I love to
see their faces light up over interesting
people in our history.”
“I’m very lucky,” he reiterated. “I
don’t know what I’d do if I couldn’t
do my research and writing.”
His current project is another
book about John F. Kennedy, the
president who, like Martin himself,
cherished his Cape Cod home and
was a fan of photos. “I’m working on
one for adults, which will be out in
2013: ‘The Letters of John F. Kennedy.’
No one has ever published
these millions of letters to the
president. It’s an enormous project,
but there are letters from kids,
celebrities and ordinary people, and
readers will learn all about the man,
his presidency and the times.”
Martin has become a leader of
new information from old firsthand
written and picture accounts,
and from direct quotes of those
who lived and spoke before us – a
result of his joy in sharing historical
discoveries. And alongside these
discoveries, is an engaging man who
enriches readers young and old by
leading us down paths of history we
otherwise would have never known.
About the author
Sara Webb Quest lives in South
Yarmouth with her husband, daughter
and cat. Her stories have appeared in
Fandangle, Woman’s World, Parenting
and various Cape Cod publications.
She has written several children’s
books, including “Aydil Vice and
Her Disgustin’ Hair Knots” and an
adult poetry book, “The Other Side
of the World.” She is a member of the
Society of Children’s Book Writers
and Illustrators, and you can visit
with her at www.authorsden.com/
sarawebbquest. She is also a writing
tutor for ages K-adult.

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homes. Groups could concentrate on
classic films or foreign films or comedies
or horror films. (Count me out
of the latter category. The last scary
movie I went to was “The Silence
of the Lambs,” which was, for me, a
mistake. I didn’t know what it was
about; I only knew Anthony Hopkins
was in it and I liked Anthony
Hopkins. That taught me to get
some idea of the content of a movie
before going to see it.)
When I go to my hairdresser we
always end up talking about movies
and, more often than not, a title will
come up with which I’m not familiar.
I like getting movie recommendations;
most of my Netflix queue
is made up of films friends have
told me I must see. Once I see these
films, I know people I can discuss
them with. It’s that desire to discuss
that a movie group can satisfy. You’d
Quickhits
How to contact the author
e-mail: joanofma@hotmail.com
like to be part of a movie group, now
wouldn’t you? “Go ahead, make my
day” and e-mail me saying you’re
interested.
Think of the entertainment value.
Get together with others who share
your favorites and introduce yours
to others. Talk about wonderful
performances. Imagine yourself
sitting with a group of congenial
people talking about Meryl Streep,
Judy Garland, Spencer Tracy, James
Cagney, the Marx Brothers, Jimmy
Stewart, Myrna Loy. What about
animated films? Did you see “Up”?
Who was the best James Bond?
Talking about movies is a natural
icebreaker, the perfect way to make
new friends. And that’s what it’s all
about, “Alfie.”
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Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
directed some of the most riveting
moments on film. How big a fan are
you?
1. This iconic scene involves the
sound of slashing a casaba melon
and the sight of chocolate sauce
whirling down a drain. What is it?
2. 1987’s “Throw Momma from
the Train,” starring Danny DeVito,
Billy Crystal and Supporting Actress
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comedy-noir nod to which Hitchcock
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the actress who played “Marnie.”
Identify both.
5. Name one trademark of the
“Alfred Hitchcock Presents/Alfred
Hitchcock Hour” TV series (1955-
1962).
About the author
Alison Comey is a freelance writer who lives in East Falmouth with her husband
and cat. She enjoys reading, writing, gardening and trading on eBay, and she
admittedly watches entirely too much television.
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