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My Own Cape Cod

For many years Gladys Taber has shared all the warmth and charm of Stillmeadow, her Connecticut home, with her thousands of devoted readers. Here she opens the doors of her Cape Cod home and invites her readers to share another part of her life.

"Still Cove," she writes, "is exactly my idea of heaven." Nestled on a cliff overlooking the sapphire waters of Mill Pond inlet, it is a low, one-story house with white cedar shingles weathered to a soft smoke gray.

Looking beyond Still cove, Mrs. Taber reflects on the Cape itself. Here are friends and neighbors, living in enviable closeness to each other and to the natural setting in which they have made their lives. Here are the tides and the fogs, the cranberry bogs, the beaches where visitors swim and Cape Codders dig for clams.

The book is divided into four sections, one for each season, and every page is alive with the author's presence and observations. "What is Cape Cod?" Gladys Taber writes. "It is an amethyst glow at the horizon over Mill Pond, announcing dawn." "It is the Full Flower Moon in May walking in gold on quiet water." "Honey locusts and honeysuckle weighing the air with sweetness and sea lavender signing the beaches with delicate purple." All of these, and much more, are Cape Cod, captured here as only Gladys Taber could express it.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 251
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780940160101
  • Genres
  • memoir, nature, history
  • Release date
  • 1982