Walk around the cranberry bogs of Cape Cod – cranberries.org says about 11,500 bogs in southeastern Massachusetts – in mid-winter, and it’s quiet. Desolate. Frigid. Filled with life.

Nantucket historian and writer Mary Bergman speaks on the practice and tradition of scallop harvesting.

Building a stone wall

Darkness

Trespassers

S’no garage for me….

Jonathan Walker, slave stealer

Standing at the Edge of the World

I spent many years as an objective observer of this place. An academic, a historian, a researcher. On my better days, an anthropologist or some kind of gonzo documentarian, snapping pictures and recording my observations on the yellow legal pads I took everywhere, even the beach.