by APCC | Oct 5, 2021 | Pond Stories
From Ellen Silsby Heher, Cotuit: Peter’s Pond Campground. What a PERFECT place for mom, dad, and my two granddaughters to spend a weekend or two or three during our Cape Cod Summer. A couple of years ago I joined them to swim in the pond for most of the day and then...
by APCC | Sep 24, 2021 | Pond Stories
Written by Marc Blesoff, July 2021 A few months ago, my granddaughter and I took a summertime walk to the local market. On the way home, the afternoon sun was at our back. In front of me I saw the shadow of an 8-year-old girl and her grandfather holding hands as they...
by APCC | Sep 13, 2021 | Pond Stories
From book author Mick Carlon, Centerville An evening swim in Osterville’s Joshua’s Pond is a bit of perfection in an imperfect world. The spring-fed water is as clear as a Cape Cod September sky, and the trees surrounding the pond remind me of upstate New Hampshire....
by APCC | Sep 7, 2021 | Pond Stories
From Skye Gibson: This one by William Butler Yeats is a treasure, and a poem my mother recited by heart frequently in her last years. It is not about a Cape pond, but part of the great sisterhood of freshwater across the globe. I later had the good fortune to go to...
by APCC | Aug 30, 2021 | Pond Stories
Thanks to Lisa Nagel for sharing this pretty poem with us. BY AN INLAND LAKE by William Stanley Braithwaite Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o’er the lake’s warm breast, And the ancient silence follows The burning sun to rest. The calm of a...
by APCC | Aug 24, 2021 | Pond Stories
Meghan Taylor of the Brewster Ponds Coalition recently sent this to us: “The boys and I have been working on a small project. With the help of our amazing neighbors, we’ve developed a simple pledge in order to help protect our beloved Sheep Pond and the waters...