Biography
Marietta Nilson has been a MA licensed real estate broker since 1980. Recently, she developed this website to meet the needs of the computer-literate buying public.

She was born at Cape Cod Hospital & grew up in Harwich. Her parents started the Country Inn in 1948.

Her father, Bill Derwin, was a designer and builder of Cape homes noted for their colonial-style detailing and craftsmanship. Her mother, Rose Glynn Derwin, was a teacher in what at the time was a new subject: home economics. She says her dad was like Norm Abrams and her mom, Martha Stewart - but each more talented and ahead of their times. After working at Snow Inn, her parents purchased the Mitton farm on Sisson Road and turned it into the Country Inn in 1948.

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She attended the Harwich public schools and graduated from Kingswood School Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, MI and Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY.

Marietta's Parallel Street real estate office is located in a c.1859 dwelling built by Alvin Cahoon, a sea captain and father of the artist, Charles D. Cahoon. He lived and painted in this house until 1951. Marietta's father had an extensive collection of Cahoon's paintings, so she grew up with great knowledge and appreciation of these paintings. They portrayed the Cape, its citizens, sand dunes, beaches, marine life, and architecture in the last century.

Images of the CD Cahoon paintings courtesy of Diamond Antique Paintings.    

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