Author Archives: Peter Zheutlin - Independent Correspondent

Second of two parts In late May, Plymouth oystermen Don Wilkinson and Sean Withington, receive the “seeds,” or spat — tiny juvenile oysters each no larger than a grain of sand — that will in two to three years become oysters ready for market. Shipped overnight from a supplier in Maine, the 2.4 million seeds […]

First of two parts Oysterman Don Wilkinson of Plymouth looks the part. The towering 83-year-old has been raising oysters in Cape Cod Bay for 16 years now and has the rugged, wizened look you might expect in a man who has spent many hours on the water in all kinds of weather. Piercing pale green […]

During the darkest days of his life, Chris Carazas, 41, of Kingston found daylight while walking along Grace Trail in Plymouth. Grace Trail is a section of the rail trail variously known as the Seaside Trail, the Plymouth Seaside Grace Trail, and the North Plymouth Rail Trail, that runs from downtown north for about a […]

(This column has been edited to address an incorrect assertion that Massachusetts Audubon’s Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary was the first cranberry bog in the nation restored to its natural state.) I was sitting in my dentist’s office in Needham the other day flipping through the latest issue of Boston Magazine, the annual “Top Places to Live” […]

When I moved to Plymouth a little less than a year ago, the Independent asked me to write a series of columns. The charge was to explore the town from a newcomer’s perspective. From Buttermilk Bay in the town’s far southwest corner to Saquish, its most northeasterly point, I wandered through preserves and along paths, […]

In 1928, Doubleday published “The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod,” by the naturalist Henry Beston. It became a classic of nature literature. Beston drew up the plans for a small beach cottage in 1925, intending to use it occasionally. He soon found he didn’t want to leave […]

Watch your step. And don’t wear flip flops. Those are my two pieces of advice if you decide, as well you should, to walk the entire length of the Plymouth Harbor breakwater, informally known as “the Jetty.” On a magnificent day last week, I did just that with my cousin Emily, visiting from Orlando. It’s […]

In part one of this series about summer eats in Plymouth, I visited Gellar’s in Manomet, now in its 100th year of operation, and Bramhall’s Country Store in Chiltonville, now in its 198th season. By comparison, Ziggy’s on Water Street is a relative newcomer. It opened its doors in 1957. Ziggy’s forte is ice cream. […]