Mary Bergman
Mary Bergman's title is "Contributor, A Cape Cod Notebook"Originally from Provincetown, Mary now lives on Nantucket. She is a writer and historian, working in historic preservation and writing a novel.
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I hadn’t been out to the South Shore since last December, when weeks of high wind revealed the bones of an ancient shipwreck. -
Nantucket historian and writer Mary Bergman speaks on the practice and tradition of scallop harvesting. -
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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. -
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In this week's Cape Cod Notebook, Mary Bergman talks about October on Nantucket -
In this week's episode of A Cape Cod Notebook, Mary Bergman shares how she finds light in the depth of winter. -
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We are past the solstice, and I am trying not to get too down about it. The fog that rolls in each night is a welcome break from the heat. -
Isn’t everything we make temporary in the grand scheme of things? My day to day work is to promote historic preservation on Nantucket. We talk about preserving things in perpetuity. But on an eroding pile of sand, perpetuity is a relative term.
