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Wellfleet Lost Its Theater Season. Then It Opened Up the Stage.

Wellfleet Lost Its Theater Season. Then It Opened Up the Stage.

The Julie Harris Stage has a fuller calendar and an older name than you'd think. What's missing from it is a theater season.

Arthur Radtke
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There's a 20-Minute Way Into the Turtle Lab. No Turtle Promised.

There's a 20-Minute Way Into the Turtle Lab. No Turtle Promised.

Saturday's open house comes in six separately listed pieces. Who should book which, and what the bay's buoy reads now.

Arthur Radtke
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Before the Playwrights Arrive, Wellfleet Weighs the Porches

Before the Playwrights Arrive, Wellfleet Weighs the Porches

Three 1948 cottages go before Wellfleet's Historical Commission on Nov. 5, a public step toward a 2028 playwrights' center.

Arthur Radtke
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The Turtle on Your Bay Walk May Look Dead. Don't Put It Back.

The Turtle on Your Bay Walk May Look Dead. Don't Put It Back.

Cold-stunned sea turtles strand on Cape Cod Bay beaches from November to mid-January. Mass Audubon's five steps, and why each exists.

Arthur Radtke
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There's Always Someone Walking at Your Pace

There's Always Someone Walking at Your Pace

The club's first walk, at Kent's Point in 2022, drew 11 people. It now counts 3,000-plus members and asks every newcomer to take a clinic first.

Arthur Radtke
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Wellfleet Chose the Land Over an 1802 House

Wellfleet Chose the Land Over an 1802 House

A family spent decades conserving land on Lieutenant Island. The last 2.5 acres come with a house the state grant won't allow.

Arthur Radtke
ChathamChatham
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The Famous Wellfleet Oyster Started Out as an Import

The Famous Wellfleet Oyster Started Out as an Import

OysterFest fills Main Street this weekend. The shell from your first dozen has a year at the transfer station ahead of it, and the town's founding oyster story has a neighbor's name penciled in the margin.

Arthur Radtke
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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
ChathamChatham
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Same Word on the Board. $18 Apart.

Same Word on the Board. $18 Apart.

Mac's prints both on one board in Chatham. One came out of the tidal mud in 1916, the other out of Ipswich because it could survive a freezer, and one of the windows closes Monday.

Arthur Radtke
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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