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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
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
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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
HousingHousing
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Half the Town Called It a Fool's Idea

Half the Town Called It a Fool's Idea

Ninety summers later, Days' Folly is one of the most photographed rows on the Outer Cape. The joke outlived the men who made it.

Arthur Radtke
SpotlightSpotlight
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Say Hopper and People Nod. Say Hofmann and They Pause.

Say Hopper and People Nod. Say Hofmann and They Pause.

The Outer Cape didn't make one famous painter. It made a century of them — and mostly went quiet about it.

Arthur Radtke
SpotlightSpotlight
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The Town Fed the Navy That Was Starving It

The Town Fed the Navy That Was Starving It

One bad night in 1778, hundreds of shipwrecked enemy sailors washed up cold on Truro's shore. Here's what the town did.

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Job Chase Built It. A Family Wants It Back.

Job Chase Built It. A Family Wants It Back.

A 1778 house that outlasted sea captains, half a century of white-tablecloth dinners, and years of neglect is finally getting some attention — from a family that remembers it full of people.

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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