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The Listing Prices Everything at Van Rensselaer's Except the Name

The Listing Prices Everything at Van Rensselaer's Except the Name

The South Wellfleet restaurant across from the Marconi Beach road is listed at $2.95 million, and the seven rooms of staff housing out back may be worth more to a buyer than the raw bar. The name on the sign, it turns out, came out of the family.

Arthur Radtke
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Before the Beer License, Brewster Asked About the Onion Rings

Before the Beer License, Brewster Asked About the Onion Rings

One question was asked at a Brewster hearing. One line went into a Provincetown lease. Both were about what the new owners can't touch.

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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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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A Brewster Captain Asked Robespierre for a Meeting. The Reply Said 10 A.M.

A Brewster Captain Asked Robespierre for a Meeting. The Reply Said 10 A.M.

Elijah Cobb lost his flour to revolutionary Paris, rode 74 hours to get it back, and watched the man who helped him go to the guillotine. Then he went back to his paperwork.

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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They Floated Their Houses Across the Harbor. Some Are Still Wearing the Badge.

They Floated Their Houses Across the Harbor. Some Are Still Wearing the Badge.

A village of two hundred people packed up Long Point and rowed home — and a ten-minute walk in the West End will show you where the houses landed.

Arthur Radtke
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Every Day of the Year, He Sat Down at 5:15

Every Day of the Year, He Sat Down at 5:15

Napi's began as a Wednesday night dinner party, got built out of tin garages, stayed open through forty-nine Provincetown winters — and then ended somewhere nobody expected.

Arthur Radtke
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I Never Saw Them Open a Book

I Never Saw Them Open a Book

Sixteen years, five hundred people a day, and a traffic light at the door. This is the first August without it.

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