We are hosting a bike tour weekend on June 14th – 16th with the Woods Hole Inn and our good friends at the Captains Manor Inn as your home base. Come away to the sea-side town of Falmouth, Cape Cod and explore Falmouth’s coastline and villages as well as nearby Martha’s Vineyard island. Your getaway [...]
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Visiting Chez Panisse
Last week, Stephanie Mikolazyk and I were honored to “guest chef” at one of the most famous restaurants in America — Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. Head chef Cal Peternell invited us (as he will be coming to Woods Hole this summer for an epic farm-to-table dinner at our restaurant Quicks Hole on August 13th) [...]
Exploring the SEA
Yesterday, the Sea Education Association (SEA) opened the hatches to their primary Atlantic sailing vessel, the sturdy clipper ship Corwith Cramer, for an afternoon of guided visits. Students and teachers were on board explaining the ship, their scientific mission, and the logistics of day-to-day life on a floating school. SEA runs semester and summer learning [...]
New Rooms
While we renovated the inn this winter, we did not renovate our website, SO for the time being, this post will serve as an introduction to the look, feel, vibe of the “New Rooms” at the Woods Hole Inn. Some general comments: these rooms are all on the second floor of the inn. They all [...]
A Walk in Beebe Woods
Walking the Cape Cod woods in winter is a special treat, especially after a light dusting of snow. The jewel in Falmouth’s crown of conservation land is a 300+ acre property called Beebe Woods, which astounds the visitor with ponds, paths, ridges, hidden stone walls and wildlife. I wandered there for several hours yesterday, seeing [...]
The Journey is Half the Fun
Figuring out how to restore stuff from a creaky old house is complicated. Who can bring these aging beauties back to life? Where do you have to go to find old-world craftsmen? Who cares about worn and antique stuff anymore? I am headed down to New Bedford to the workshop of the “Tub Doctor” this [...]
High School Dating…
Construction blogging is like high school dating. You flirt, you kiss for the first time, and then all of a sudden you have nothing to say to each other. Yes, hard to imagine but I have run out of clever things to say about wood framing, Marvin windows and drywall. In truth, quite a bit [...]
The Second Dormer
As the walls come down at the Woods Hole Inn, new bright lumber is installed next to the aged, dark timbers of 140 years ago — marrying the old with the new. Vintage, restored. This week, they ripped the second dormer off the top of the building. I always knew these roofs would need to [...]
Farm to Table
At the Woods Hole Inn, we often spend a lot of time on the “table” part of farm-to-table but today I got to head out into the field and see one of the farms that we source food from in the summer. Coonamessett Farm was founded over 30 years ago by Ron Smolovitz, who along [...]
Going Green in Woods Hole
Woods Hole — Members of the Woods Hole Business Association were treated to a tour of the Woods Hole Research Center facility this week where they learned about the scientific organization’s cutting edge green building practices as well as the scope and nature of the WHRC’s research and policy initiatives. The morning started with a [...]
Great Reviews
Great Reviews
Pets welcome at Woods Hole Inn
Why leave charming Fido at home when you will both be happier if you stay together? Grab a leash and show Fido this quaint walking village. Cross the drawbridge and peek at the mansions of Penzance or head toward Surf Drive on the quiet bikepath. You will be amazed by the vistas across Woods Hole [...]
Keeping it local
Downstairs from the Inn, we are lucky to be neighbors with an amazing little restaurant called Quicks Hole. Open for lunch and dinner, this place is beyond the bomb-dot-com. Our favorite part about it is their commitment to going green. Like us, they support local farmers and fisherman, use compostable takeaway products and generally do [...]
Quicks Hole unites with water-loving community to celebrate Independence Day
Everything is genuinely wicked fresh and prepared daily by a chef who knows the water. Raised by a commercial fishing family, Stephanie Mikolazyk from Rhode Island can attest to the positive influence that Quicks is having on the community.
Divine Granola
A message from a recent guest, verbatim: I was a guest at your wonderful inn over the weekend, and TRULY enjoyed my stay. It was the icing on the cake for my weekend in Martha’s Vineyard, and I have not been able to stop thinking about it! I am emailing now to ask you a [...]
Spohr Gardens
I took a walk in Spohr Gardens the other day. It was so quiet in the woods, with these cool old millstones lining the path that leads down to the pond. Along the pond there is a spot to launch a canoe or kayak, and a collection of huge old metal objets like anchors and [...]
Daily Dish
All new breakfast at the Woods Hole Inn.
Keeping it Green
Living green — how do we do it?
