November 2020 If it weren’t for this awful virus, we would have spent this year celebrating the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims on Cape Cod. The 102 people who left the Mayflower included 50 men, 19 women and 33 young adults and children. Just 41 were Pilgrims, religious separatists seeking freedom from…
November 2020 In 1950, my older cousin, who had lived with my family for more than a decade, married a farmer from California who had been stationed at Newport while serving in the Navy. She immediately moved to his family farm, near Bakersfield, and started sending us clips from publications we had never heard…
October 2020 The recently announced machine gun range to be built at what used to be Camp Edwards has stirred up a hornet’s nest of objections. BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything) is alive and well and living on Cape Cod. The objectors have long lists of complaints. It will cut down a lot…
September 2020 How many times have you clicked on a button that says “I have read and accept the terms of use that accompanies this product or service”? How many times were you telling the truth? I recently skimmed what I think was five thousand words (about 15 typed pages), in flyspeck gothic, that Bank…
September 2020 Any time you have a group of people — whether it’s a family, a club, a sport, an association, a city, a state, a country, or even a planet — you have to answer this question: How do we decide how we decide? Making decisions is tough enough when we make them just…