Across New England, the time-honoured charms of Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's ... houses and laid-back character. The beachy island of Nantucket has a reputation as a seaside playground for ...

which includes seaports Hyannis and Yarmouth facing Nantucket Sound to the south and Cape Cod Bay to the north. The Lower Cape (or more accurately the eastern side of the Cape) includes Harwich ...

Here, near the point where the relatively sheltered tides of Long Island ... Cape Cod peninsula (Summerland, the spectacular ...