• Catering to the wedding crowd

  “Always the caterer, never the bride,” quips Cathy Cugini, who spends virtually all her time preparing and managing weddings. For all but the coldest weeks of the winter, Cugini will begin her day at 6 a.m. and often continue past midnight, seven days a week.

• What did you just say?

  She did not plan it this way, but Dr. Theresa Cullen could not have chosen a more fertile location for her audiology practice than Cape Cod. Consider that the average age of residents here is among the oldest anywhere in the nation.

• Bridging land and sea

  Karen Kraus has a view that spans Cape Cod’s geography and economy. It is a vantage that measures the region’s economic maturity and its poetic majesty.

• She envisions a new tourism built around food

  She is among the wave of corporate émigrés enriching the Cape. Along with her husband, Dianne Langeland has joined thousands of 45- to 65-year-olds who are saying “enough” to big-business stress and “yes” to quality of life.

• Meet Magnolia and Heather: These harps are Katie Lynch’s coworkers

  Katie Lynch may have one of the more unique home offices on Cape Cod. Her living room is bursting with music. A piano dominates one wall; an organ another. And two majestic harps claim its heart.

• Tending mind, body and the garden

  Take a dollop of horticulture; mix it with yoga; and for good measure, throw in some ‘ultimate’ stretch therapy and massage at a Mashpee spa. It is not your typical career – but it is one that is prototypically Cape Cod.

• No more clowning around

  Less than two years ago, Shafeena Rahman traded in her clown’s nose for a banker’s suit. At the time, she was helping her husband market his new company, Clown Around Town, and she frequently attended events at local chambers and associations.

• An Internet business built on passion and place

  Rachel Smith came home from Hollywood in 2002 to help her mother, Judith, during a busy July Fourth weekend at the Giving Tree Gallery and Sculpture Garden in East Sandwich. She never left.

• Demystifying technology

  From her windowless office in the basement of the Cape Cod Community College library, Teresa Martin has a clear, bold view of the region’s technology future.

• Getting the lay of the land

  Terry Warner has grown up, built a business and raised a family all within a block of where she was born in Harwich. To say she is rooted is quite an understatement.

• The rest of the year

  Two of the women featured in the ABWA calendar, shellfisherwoman O’Hara Martin and stable owner Micki Quinn, were not able to be profiled for this issue due to the seasonal nature of their jobs. They do provide added dimension to the breadth of fields embodied by the calendar subjects.

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