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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Nantucket wakes most summer mornings wrapped in fog, yet the island is deep in drought. With a sole-source aquifer and no neighboring town to lean on, water restrictions have divided the island between lawns left to go golden and lawns kept impossibly green by private wells. A meditation on scarcity, privilege, and the strange beauty of a place learning to live with less water. -
After a long winter on Cape Cod, Mary Bergman laces up her boots and heads to Portugal's rugged Atlantic coast to hike the Fisherman's Trail. She travels through the last stretch of undeveloped coastline in Europe, where ancient cliffs, turquoise water, and fearless local fishermen offer a world apart from home. -
A quiet nighttime journey to count horseshoe crabs becomes an exploration of Nantucket’s seasonal transformations. From blooming lilacs to shifting shorelines, Mary Bergman reflects on the beauty, fragility, and resilience of coastal life. -
Nantucket writer and historian Mary Bergman talks about the sounds of wildlife reemerging signaling the return of spring. -
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
