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00000177-ba84-d5f4-a5ff-bbfc9baa0000Ways of Life airs every second Monday at 8:40am and 5:45pm.Our series Ways of Life is A collection of stories about people who live down the street... our neighbors: Fishermen, scientists, craftspeople, recovering addicts, surgeons, dog rescuers, motorcycle gang members, nursing home residents, musicians, the homeless, kid athletes, social activists, and all the others who share this place.Each portrait becomes part of the surprising, interwoven tapestry of our lives together here on the Cape, Coast and Islands. Ways of Life is edited by Jay Allison and produced by our production partners at Atlantic Public Media Ways of Life is made possible by The Circle of Ten, ten local businesses and organizations committed to local programming on WCAI.

Living out Your Life on Cuttyhunk Island, or Trying To

cuttyhunknews.net

Cuttyhunk is  a tiny windswept island off the coast of Cape Cod -well known by game fishermen and sailors, but only a dozen people call it home year-round.  Fisherman Bruce Borges and his wife Carolyn made their home there and  Cariad Harmon went out to tell their story.

Credit photo by Cariad Harmon 2019
Burce Borges

This piece came to us from our production partners at Atlantic PublicMedia through their media training program, The Transom Story Workshop in Woods Hole.  Cariad Harmon is a graduate of the workshop and you can find out more about that program at transom.org

Ways of Life is made possible by the Circle of Ten - ten local businesses and organizations committed to local programming on WCAI.the story.

Credit photo by Cariad Harmon 2019
Bruce Borges in his shop on Cuttyhunk