Jim Sefcik retired as Director of the Louisiana State Museum system in 2004 following management positions at the NY State Museum, the Chrysler Museum, and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. He taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Early America in…

John Shuman is a theatre actor and director now based in Wellfleet. He began a New York career in Lanford Wilson’s “The Hot l Baltimore” for Circle Repertory and then appeared on and off Broadway and in regional theaters including Yale Rep, Guthrie Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre and Portland Stage. For many years he has performed the solo play,“Underneath the Lintel” by Glen Berger, last seen here at Payomet. Other Cape appearances have been with WHAT, Cape Playhouse and last year in “The Lady Hamlet” at The Provincetown Theatre.

John has taught at the Bread Loaf School of English (Middlebury College) in Vermont

and led improvisation workshops for adults and locally at Wellfleet Elementary School. For Open University John has co-taught courses on the playwrights A. R. Gurney and Thornton Wilder.

Jan Sidebotham has been an avid Open University student since she took the course on Middlemarch (and subsequent courses on Bleak House, The Golden Bowl, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Mrs. Dalloway, Absalom, Absalom, and War and Peace)…

Toby Simon retired 7 years ago from her role as the director of the Gertrude Hochberg Women’s Center at Bryant University. Serving as the first director, Simon’s responsibilities included providing leadership for programs addressing women’s concerns, collaborating…

Marc Strauss, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance, Holland College of Arts & Media, Southeast Missouri State University. Dr. Strauss has taught all levels of studio ballet, jazz, and ballroom and theory classes in the history of the musical, dance history…

George Swope earned a BA and MA in Russian Studies as well as an MBA from Northwestern University. He is a retired history and politics teacher who also served as the leader of several educational and other not-for-profit organizations.

Jeff Tash has owned a home in Wellfleet for the past quarter century. Prior to retirement, Jeff was an entrepreneurial CEO and, before that, a corporate executive at Hewitt, DEC and IBM. Nowadays, Jeff channels his twin passions for Wellfleet and computing into a popular website…

John Thornley has a Bachelor’s Degree in Art and Architectural History from Dartmouth College and a Master of Fine Arts Degree from The Princeton School of Architecture. He began his professional career working with Eero Saarinen, he…

Since the start of the millennium, Don Wilding has been telling stories of Cape Cod Outer Beach history. An award-winning writer and editor for Massachusetts newspapers since 1985, Don has contributed the “Shore Lore” history column for The Cape Codder newspaper of…

David Wright is the author of, "The Famous Beds of Wellfleet: A Shellfishing History," and has worked at the Wellfleet Historical Society and Museum for 20 years researching, interpreting and teaching Wellfleet's history. Having spent 22 years. as a summer resident and 38…