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$830 a Month for a Seashore Studio. The Repairs Could Run $250,000.

$830 a Month for a Seashore Studio. The Repairs Could Run $250,000.

Three empty historic houses on the National Seashore are up for lease. The government lists every fault. It won't price a single one.

Arthur Radtke
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He Called the Titanic to Say Wellfleet Had Messages Waiting

He Called the Titanic to Say Wellfleet Had Messages Waiting

A routine batch of Cape Cod wireless traffic, a young operator with his coat off, and the question that turned Carpathia toward the ice.

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
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They Hatch, and Then They Run the Wrong Way

They Hatch, and Then They Run the Wrong Way

Terrapin hatchlings turn their backs on the marsh — and the year the clutches got smaller was the best news Wellfleet's volunteers had seen.

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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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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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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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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The Gates Under Chequessett Neck Are Not Open Yet

The Gates Under Chequessett Neck Are Not Open Yet

The valve is installed. Nobody has turned it. Here's what happens when they do.

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Wellfleet's Fourth: Classic Cars, a Circus Tent, and a Town That Improvises

Wellfleet's Fourth: Classic Cars, a Circus Tent, and a Town That Improvises

With its theater dark this summer, Wellfleet leans on what it does best — a hometown parade, a big top on the old WHAT campus, and a Canada Day concert the night before the Fourth.