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Brewster caroling started at the Old Town Hall, when in 1970 the selectmen asked Brewster artist Gordon Brooks to play his cornet there under the porte cochere. Later, the owners of the Brewster Store asked him to play there instead. You can see him in this painting playing as he has for many years. 

Co-sponsor for the event is the First Parish Church. Song sheets are distributed and after the carols, the store serves mulled cider and refreshments near its venerable pot-bellied stove. 

The Brewster Store was built in 1852 as a Universalist church and was converted to a general store in 1862, selling provisions, general merchandise, and gifts ever since. 

Karen has painted the Brewster Store in all four seasons and her cards of the paintings can be found at the store.

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Brewster caroling started at the Old Town Hall, when in 1970 the selectmen asked Brewster artist Gordon Brooks to play his cornet there under the porte cochere. Later, the owners of the Brewster Store asked him to play there instead. You can see him in this painting playing as he has for many years. 

Co-sponsor for the event is the First Parish Church. Song sheets are distributed and after the carols, the store serves mulled cider and refreshments near its venerable pot-bellied stove. 

The Brewster Store was built in 1852 as a Universalist church and was converted to a general store in 1862, selling provisions, general merchandise, and gifts ever since. 

Karen has painted the Brewster Store in all four seasons and her cards of the paintings can be found at the store.

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Looking much as it looked when Henry Thoreau walked the Cape some 150 years ago, this village of artists nestles in the curve of land overlooking the harbor and its tidal marshes, seen here in their winter uniform.

In the distance, the Wellfleet landmark, Uncle Tim's Bridge, can be seen linking the town to Cannon Hill.

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The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster, Massachusetts, stands in the pine woods that border Cape Cod Bay. This scene from the Marshview Room captures the marsh with its blanket of snow revealing Wing Island and the bay beyond.

For more information about the museum please call 508 896-3867 or visit their web site.

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The 1856 Country Store is an old-fashioned village store nestled among stately sea captains' homes on beautiful Main Street in Centerville, Massachusetts.

The store has delighted generations of youngsters with its huge selection of penny candies and it offers unusual gift items to visitors and year-rounders alike.

But snow…on Cape Cod! Most mainlanders are surprised to discover that the Cape's villages are occasionally adorned with snowy drifts and twinkling icicles for days, and weeks, at a time.

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When water power was king, New England thrived. Mills appeared wherever watercourses fell with enough force to turn heavy grindstones, sawblades, or manufacturing machinery. This mill, at Cape Cod's Town of Brewster, was for years the center of a thriving little industrial village turning out everything from overalls to ice cream. Today, only the mill remains, captivating visitors with the shady walks and quiet ponds.

In the spring, when millions of herring return from the sea to spawn, the noise of happy children almost equals the screaming of the gulls that arrive for their dinners of herring alfresco.

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You don't realize it until you step inside that heres is the center of the universe, right where historic Route 6A and the old Harwich Roat meet. Here, the fragrant aroma of freshly brewed coffee and the appeal of an earlier time make you feel instantly at home. Pastries, newspapers, groceries, gifts, toys, necessitities and coal-stove warmth make the store as inviting in winter as it is durin gthe blooming summer season when the Brewster Scoop is open underneath the store for fresh ice cream.

Karen has painted many versions of The Brewster Store in all seasons.

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Churches, houses and the Old Dexter Grist Millsurround Shawme Pond in Sandwich, Massachusetts, the oldest town on Cape Cod, incorporated in 1639. Several buildings from those early times still stand: The Hoxie House, the Sandwich Glass Museum, the Thornton Burgess House, the Heritage Plantation, the Boardwalk and the Mill. These structures draw many visitors from both on and off Cape—even in the winter when snowfalls sometimes enhance the New England charm of the town.

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Childhood memories of Christmastime, of a simpler era, are reawakened by scenes like this one of a "vest-pocket Victorian" library, one that's still very much alive in the village of South Dennis on Cape Cod. 

Like so many of us, Karen has been fond of "gingerbread" houses since childhood, and her painting reflects that storybook kind of fondness.

Karen bought these angels created by Doreen Jenkins and Patricia Jutras, at the Cape Cod Community College from members of the Ethnic Diversity Club. The Club was founded in 1993. Its basic mission is to enhance the awareness of, and to respect the differences and similarities between various cultures, ethnic, and racial groups.

Karen found these angels so charming she had to paint a watercolor of them, and she hopes you'll find that it reflects the appeal of the dolls themselves.