Wellfleet

Nov 5, 2026

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4 min read

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

Beaches

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

Nov 5, 2026

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5 min read

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

Wellfleet

Oct 29, 2026

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6 min read

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

Beaches

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

Oct 22, 2026

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8 min read

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

Wellfleet

There's Always Someone Walking at Your Pace

Oct 22, 2026

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7 min read

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

Wellfleet

Oct 15, 2026

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3 min read

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

Chatham

The Famous Wellfleet Oyster Started Out as an Import

Oct 15, 2026

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11 min read

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

Wellfleet

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

Oct 1, 2026

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3 min read

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

Chatham

Oct 1, 2026

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11 min read

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

Wellfleet

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

Sep 24, 2026

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11 min read

$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

Wellfleet

Sep 17, 2026

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3 min read

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

Wellfleet

The Clock Is Lying to You. Two Bells Means Nine O'Clock.

Aug 28, 2026

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7 min read

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

Wellfleet

They Hatch, and Then They Run the Wrong Way

Aug 28, 2026

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6 min read

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

Chatham

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

Aug 20, 2026

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8 min read

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

Wellfleet

There's a Federal No-Go Zone in Cape Cod Bay, and Almost Nobody Out Here Knows It

Aug 20, 2026

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10 min read

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

Chatham

Tip O'Neill Said They Hung Him in Effigy in Truro

Aug 13, 2026

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6 min read

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

Wellfleet

Aug 13, 2026

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3 min read

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

Wellfleet

Aug 13, 2026

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4 min read

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

Wellfleet

The Gates Under Chequessett Neck Are Not Open Yet

Jul 30, 2026

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2 min read

The Gates Under Chequessett Neck Are Not Open Yet

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

Wellfleet

Jul 2, 2026

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1 min read

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.

Wellfleet

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

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

Before the Playwrights Arrive, Wellfleet Weighs the Porches

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

There's Always Someone Walking at Your Pace

Wellfleet Chose the Land Over an 1802 House

The Famous Wellfleet Oyster Started Out as an Import

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

Same Word on the Board. $18 Apart.

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

He Called the Titanic to Say Wellfleet Had Messages Waiting

The Clock Is Lying to You. Two Bells Means Nine O'Clock.

They Hatch, and Then They Run the Wrong Way

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

There's a Federal No-Go Zone in Cape Cod Bay, and Almost Nobody Out Here Knows It

Tip O'Neill Said They Hung Him in Effigy in Truro

I Never Saw Them Open a Book

Two Dollars and One Cent

The Gates Under Chequessett Neck Are Not Open Yet

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

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