Featured Story Wind
Cape Cod and its people. When a Cape Codder steps out the door in the morning the first task is to look up at the weather vane to see the wind direction. The next glance is at the flagpole to determine wind strength. These two observations set the course for the day. Wind determines the extremes ...
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| Inroads
By any standard, ours was the poorest. We lived in a small hut built in the middle of a coconut grove. We also had a small outhouse and a woodshed where we kept our sow, chickens, and the big gecko with red eyes. I never got the chance to see the last but I knew it really lived there.
There were ...
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