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ChathamChatham
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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
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
WellfleetWellfleet
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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
SpotlightSpotlight
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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
SpotlightSpotlight
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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
ChathamChatham
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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
Fourth of July 2026Fourth of July 2026
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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.

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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