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Boston Globe
25-05-2025
- Boston Globe
The ultimate insider's guide to Cape Cod
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Hottest table in town 'It's hard to believe we're sitting in the service bay of an old gas station,' our companion, Paul Kelley said, as we spread perfectly salted butter onto a thick slice of house-made sourdough bread at LUNE ( Advertisement Families enjoy Coast Guard Beach in Eastham last July. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff The beach is everything Cape Codders pray for sunny weekends so they can pack up their guests for the beach. Forty-mile-long Cape Cod National Seashore gets all the love ( Coast Guard Beach . (The shuttle has room for beach gear and bikes.) Backed by low grass and heathlands, this long stretch of beach is one of the Cape's finest. Adjacent Nauset Light Beach is beautiful, too, and there's a trail to the Three Sisters lighthouses. Both beaches have lifeguards in season and bathhouses, plus matting that smooths the way to the sand for wheelchair users. Got little beachgoers in tow? Corporation Beach in Dennis is an inviting crescent of white sand backed by low dunes on Cape Cod Bay. Family-friendly features include a snack bar, lifeguards, and bathhouses, but you might have to walk a bit from the parking area to the beach. The view from Morris Island Loop Trail in Chatham in January 2024. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff Beauteous beach hikes Visitors adore the stunning walks at the Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, from 1.5-mile Atlantic White Cedar Swamp Trail to the more challenging 7.2-mile Great Island Trail. But we found a couple of intriguing hikes elsewhere: Morris Island Loop Trail ( Sandy Neck Nature Trail ( Advertisement In this Aug. 26, 1963, photo provided by the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, President Kennedy approaches a helicopter at the family home in Hyannis Port, Mass., for the first leg of his journey back to Washington. Cecil Stoughton Little museums that pack a punch The Cape has a surprising number of small, specialty museums that are worth seeking out. Some examples: Kennedy fans will be down for a visit to the John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum ($14; Cape Cod Museum of Natural History ($15; People bring lawn chairs and coolers to watch the Cape Cod Baseball League games. Danielle Parhizkaran/Globe Staff Bring on the boys of summer Considered the best summer league in the United States, the Cape Cod Baseball League ( Advertisement Scenes from the Harwich Mariners vs. Bourne Braves Cape Cod League Baseball game at Doran Park in Bourne in 2023. MARK STOCKWELL FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE Best brunch on the Cape Brunch is the best. It gets everybody up and out of the house, and relieves hosts from the pesky chore of cooking omelets to order. The Rooftop at the Pelham House in Dennis ( Best lobster rolls Everybody wants a lobster roll, the quintessential taste of summertime on the Cape. We've perfected the art of the homemade lobster roll, so we're super-picky about ordering them at a restaurant. Still, there are a couple of places that do it so well, we can hand over a credit card without cringing. In Woods Hole, that would be Quahog Republic Leeside Pub ( The traditional lobster roll with onion rings at Skipper Chowder House in South Yarmouth. Devra First/Globe staff Down South Yarmouth way, The Skipper Chowder House ( that good. Bonus points for the on-site ice cream window and views of Nantucket Sound. Best shopping on the Cape Honestly, the Cape isn't a shopper's dream, unless you're looking for an inflatable unicorn or chocolate (the Cape's chocolate shops are great). But if shopping is a treasured part of your vacation experience, head to Provincetown . Whimsical, artistic, chic, tawdry — you can find it all on Commercial Street. We love the crazy mish-mash that is Marine Specialties , the overstuffed shelves at Tim's Used Books , the gorgeous jackets at Cock N Bull Leather , the eye-popping art at Schoolhouse Gallery — add the great places to eat, excellent people-watching, and proximity to Race Point Beach and you've got the Cape's best day trip, too. Advertisement Classic resorts and a budget-priced option We'd love to have you stay with us — you're a delight — but sorry, we just don't have the room. When it comes to full-service resorts, the Cape has three biggies: Chatham Bars Inn, Wequassett Resort & Golf Club, and Ocean Edge Resort & Golf Club. Numerous Reddit threads have parsed their comparable virtues, but basically, all three are lovely and luxurious. (Note that prices listed are the lowest available — often midweek — and they go up, up, up in high season. Two- or three-night minimum stays may apply. Resort fees are per night.) Chatham Bars Inn hosts farm dinners. Diane Bair Opened in 1914 as a luxury hunting lodge, the Forbes five-star Chatham Bars Inn (from $590 plus five percent resort fee; Wequassett Resort & Golf Club. Seven Roads Media The five-star Wequassett Resort & Golf Club (from $514 including five percent resort fee; Advertisement Everyone asks about resorts on the Cape. Ocean Edge Resort & Golf Club in Brewster offers guest rooms and villas on Cape Cod Bay at a range of prices. Diane Bair Located in the picturesque town of Brewster, 429-acre Ocean Edge Resort & Golf Club offers 122 rooms in its mansion-like hotel plus 220 villas set on a golf course and on Cape Cod Bay. (Villas start at $235 plus a $30 resort fee in season; mansion rooms start at $500 plus a $35 resort fee in season; Looking to go less spendy, since you won't be hanging out in your room much anyway? Family-owned, family-friendly Even' tide Motel (from $165; For more highlights, visit . 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Yahoo
04-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Tacoma Rainiers name Rylee Pay new radio broadcaster: ‘Such a great landing spot'
Rylee Pay gravitated to baseball from her earliest years watching America's Pastime with grandparents and family, and she hasn't left. A career path was born from the beginning: Pay studied sports journalism at UNLV, found a newfound love for play-by-play broadcasting in the Cape Cod Baseball League, and soon joined the radio booth for Double-A Portland, an affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. This year, she makes history in Tacoma. The Rainiers announced Pay as the team's new radio voice in a release Jan. 29, set to become Triple-A Baseball's first female lead broadcaster when Opening Day arrives on March 28. 'It's definitely never been the reason that I've gotten into this job,' Pay said. 'I've just always loved baseball. Growing up, I just really felt the magic of it. 'I've been a part of some other firsts before, and for me, it's never the reason that you do it. But it is so exciting knowing that once there is a first, it won't be the last.' Longtime Rainiers voice Mike Curto retired in November after 25 seasons in the Tacoma booth and 31 years in minor league broadcasting. Pay was eager to apply for the opening — for the opportunity, the market and the prestige of a Mariners farm system considered No. 1 in MLB. Two months and two interviews later, she received the congratulatory phone call and invitation to visit the stadium and city in late January. Team president Aaron Artman and the Rainiers selected Pay from a pool of more than 250 applicants, considering her the best fit for the club's culture and brand. It's something they weighed heavily in their search for Curto's successor. 'There's a legacy here in Tacoma that is unique,' Artman said, 'and I look forward to Rylee adding to that legacy on the airwaves when we kick off the season on March 28.' Pay studied an array of sports media at UNLV, ranging from public-address announcing to website building, and internship opportunities led her to the Cotuit Kettleers of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Supervisors believed in her baseball eyes and offered Pay play-by-play duties. 'It was originally never anything that was on my radar,' Pay admitted. 'But I never say no to an opportunity even if it scares me just a little bit. So I said yes, and I was hooked with just the challenge of it. … It all took off from there, really.' On Aug. 26, 2024, Pay and Double-A Portland voice Emma Tiedemann became the first female duo to broadcast a Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park, a 7-3 win for the visiting Toronto Blue Jays. Across all levels of professional baseball, Pay's historic hire in Tacoma might be the last box to check, she said. Last year, Athletics broadcaster Jenny Cavnar became the first woman to lead play-by-play calls at the major league level. 'It's pretty neat from a broadcast standpoint when you get to move up, as the players do, too, and make that next step,' Pay said. Her favorite broadcaster to listen to growing up? 'Vin Scully,' Pay replied, referring to the late legend and voice of the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers from 1950-2016. 'I think that he's just such an elite storyteller, and that goes without saying. He's just one of the best. 'To be able to entertain in that way… and in a way, bring in the personalities of the players and convey that to the fans. … And then also throwing in a little bit of humor and just being entertaining, because baseball obviously can be two and a half hours, three, so you never really know. You want to keep people entertained.'
