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Brewster's Newest Gallery Is Two Feet Square, and You Keep the Art

Brewster's Newest Gallery Is Two Feet Square, and You Keep the Art

Monday, a glass-doored box goes up on the Brewster COA's front walk. The rules say anyone can add to it. They're quieter about the rest.

Arthur Radtke
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At the Men's Store, She Figured Out What Orleans Women Would Buy

At the Men's Store, She Figured Out What Orleans Women Would Buy

Two women left Watson's to start a boutique on the other side of Main Street. The racks are going now, and nobody has named the last day.

Arthur Radtke
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Harwich Got Its Town Hall From a West Harwich Coffee Man for $1

Harwich Got Its Town Hall From a West Harwich Coffee Man for $1

Caleb Chase left West Harwich, built one of America's great coffee brands, and handed the town the Exchange. Seventy-one years later, Harwich had to choose between the building and Bell's Neck.

Arthur Radtke
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Ninety Percent of the Questions Are About Squirrels

Ninety Percent of the Questions Are About Squirrels

Forty-three years behind the counter at Bird Watcher's General Store — a shop that opens at 9:17, and the man who hired himself when nobody else would.

Arthur Radtke
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The Clock Is Lying to You. Two Bells Means Nine O'Clock.

The Clock Is Lying to You. Two Bells Means Nine O'Clock.

Wellfleet's town clock keeps ship's time — and the man who built the mechanism by hand later asked them to tear it out.

Arthur Radtke
ChathamChatham
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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

Thirty-five years ago this week, Hurricane Bob came up Buzzards Bay and took the summer with it. We're collecting your stories — and running them next Thursday, with your name on them.

Arthur Radtke
ChathamChatham
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Santa Comes In by Coast Guard Boat. Hallmark Noticed.

Santa Comes In by Coast Guard Boat. Hallmark Noticed.

Chatham is on Hallmark's list of twenty-five Christmas towns — the only one in Massachusetts. Voting closes September 4, and there are two things about how it works you should know before you click.

Arthur Radtke
ChathamChatham
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Tip O'Neill Said They Hung Him in Effigy in Truro

Tip O'Neill Said They Hung Him in Effigy in Truro

Sixty-five years ago, much of the Lower and Outer Cape fought like hell over the park it now can't imagine living without.

Arthur Radtke
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The Family Story You Can Start Tonight

The Family Story You Can Start Tonight

No filmmaker, no memoir — just a phone and five minutes.

Arthur Radtke
Your inside access to the Lower Cape — Brewster to Provincetown.

Celebrate Lower Cape

Your inside access to the Lower Cape — Brewster to Provincetown.

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