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He Wanted to Sell Cape Cod Air in a Can

He Wanted to Sell Cape Cod Air in a Can

He never found a can for it. He found uses for a fruit stand, a doomed house and a chicken coop, and one still opens at 9.

Arthur Radtke
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Two Eastham Lighthouses Sold for $3.50. One Tower Became the Kitchen.

Two Eastham Lighthouses Sold for $3.50. One Tower Became the Kitchen.

The Three Sisters were retired, auctioned, turned into a cottage off Cable Road, and finally walked back together into the pines. The lighthouse that replaced them came from Chatham.

Arthur Radtke
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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
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There's a Federal No-Go Zone in Cape Cod Bay, and Almost Nobody Out Here Knows It

There's a Federal No-Go Zone in Cape Cod Bay, and Almost Nobody Out Here Knows It

A bomb squad blew something up in Orleans on Tuesday. The reason it was sitting on the beach involves a Liberty ship they shot at for years, an artillery range along the Wellfleet cliffs, and a thousand-yard circle of water you are still not legally allowed to enter.

Arthur Radtke
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A Ton of Onion Rings a Week

A Ton of Onion Rings a Week

Arnold's is in its fiftieth season. The line out the door is not the problem — it's the whole business model. And there are maybe three weeks left to stand in it.

Arthur Radtke
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The Stake They Left Behind

The Stake They Left Behind

Thirty years ago they dragged two lighthouses back from the edge. One of the estimates they made lands right about now.

Arthur Radtke
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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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Two Dollars and One Cent

Two Dollars and One Cent

What a small ice-cream order costs at six stops from Orleans to Wellfleet. Same Cape, $2.01 apart.

Arthur Radtke
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Watergate, Explained in a One-Room Schoolhouse

Watergate, Explained in a One-Room Schoolhouse

August 20, seven o'clock, Schoolhouse Road. Eastham apparently had a connection.

Arthur Radtke
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Everyone at This Beach Is Facing the Wrong Way

Everyone at This Beach Is Facing the Wrong Way

The sunset's behind you. The story's up the sand, on a tablet almost nobody walks over to read.

Arthur Radtke
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The Sandbar Was Empty When Your Parents Swam Here

The Sandbar Was Empty When Your Parents Swam Here

What came back to it changed the water off Chatham for good — and brought something with it.

Arthur Radtke
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Eastham's Fourth Is a Library, a Big Band, and a Borrowed Sky

Eastham's Fourth Is a Library, a Big Band, and a Borrowed Sky

The town saves its big parade for September, so Independence week here runs quieter — a Monday concert on the Green, a Friday market, and a library doing the real work of summer.