NSTAR sent nearly identical letters to Eastham and Wellfleet late Wednesday afternoon announcing it would postpone spraying herbicides along power lines in these towns until June 2010. Eastham town officials expressed opposition to the spraying in a meeting with NSTAR August 19. Wellfleet followed suit September 1. Both towns have proposed legislating town-wide bans on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Outer Cape’
NSTAR Herbicide Update
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged herbicide, NSTAR, Outer Cape on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Off-Season Left-Turn Club
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged First Congregational Church, Outer Cape, Patty Larkin, Rte. 6, Wellfleet on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The ever-incandescent Patty Larkin celebrated life’s quirks and the guitar’s mysteries last night during her performance to a packed house at Wellfleet’s First Congregational Church. Larkin was at her best: one-quarter wryly observant stand-up comic, three-quarters extraordinary balladeer. She coaxed enough sound out of her voice as well as acoustic and electric guitars to fill [...]
Does The Flex Have Riders? Mystery Solved!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Outer Cape, The Flex, transportation on August 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Mystery solved. People really do ride The Flex on the Outer Cape. The windows of the shuttle buses are tinted dark. I couldn’t tell if the buses were Flying Dutchmen, empty ghost ships doomed to cruise Rte. 6. What’s an inquiring mind to do? Hop on.
I rode last Friday afternoon from Provincetown to Orleans and [...]
August and the Extremest Limit of the Land
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Outer Cape on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive. Strange! Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses will not suffice. No. They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling [...]
Baleen v. Antlers?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Demographics, Jackson Hole, Outer Cape, Teton County, Unemployment, Wyoming on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A silver lining on a quick trip this week to Jackson Hole, Wyoming: the rental car agency I’d booked with went belly up, giving me a chance to question locals as I rode public transport. My chats with a shuttle bus driver, two taxi drivers, the manager of a motel, a homeless man, and a [...]
An Outer Cape 4th
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fourth of July, Independence Day, Outer Cape, Parades on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A 4th of July celebration emblematic of the Outer Cape:
Like many small towns across America, Wellfleet’s parade incorporated classic cars, fire engines, Scouts, and the floats of small businesses to mark Independence Day. I especially liked a local vegetable market’s enormous papier mache carrot.
The Wellfleet Public Library’s float announced its fundraiser to install solar panels. [...]
Demography Is Not Destiny
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cape Cod National Seashore, demography, human ecology, Outer Cape on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New Hampshire demographer Peter Francese’s talk yesterday at Nauset Regional Middle School in Orleans crystallized problems and possibilities on the Outer Cape. “Demography,” he declared, “is a fourth of what you need to know.” Francese parsed bar graphs to convince educators to think about culture, the attitudes and values that have produced the numbers he studies [...]
