Word: capes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name on the mailbox-New Alchemy Institute-suggests that the small Cape Cod farm is dedicated to the ancient quest for a way of transforming base metals into gold. In fact, the farmers are pursuing an equally elusive but more modern goal: alternative methods of feeding the earth's billions without excess use of fertilizers and pesticides, waste of coal and oil, or reliance on the new hybrid grain crops, which despite their high yield are often vulnerable to disease...
...like many others on the Cape: have traded their economic security (both were successful teachers before coming to the cape) in exchange for an unhurried, solitary and peaceful existence. On the weekends they walk the beaches, or visit the ponds in Wellfleet that Thoreau made famous. And they enjoy driving to Race Point beach in Provincetown--the tip of the Cape--and photographing the sunsets...
...January and February on the Cape are brutal," Jimmy says. "especially February," Jimmy a dark Irishman from the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, and Louise have lived in Wellfleet two years. They are fortunate in finding work year round, in the summer, they both work at a restaurant in North Truro, in winter he works construction, sporadically, and she is a bank teller is Provincetown, Neither of them enjoys the job, but feels it is worth...
...Sandy, Pete, Jimmy and Louise miss a great deal--they are shut off from the outside world and are plagued by a seasonal economy--they also gain something by their stubborn refusal to leave. They remain in touch with the changing sea and the moody weather of the Outer Cape, closer to nature than the city-dweller. There is time for reflection and thought, for walking and reading, for watching the spring finally appear...
...wife of a New York professor who summers in Wellfleet once aptly observed that only the rich and the poor really get a chance to see the sun set over Cape Code Bay. The rich monopolize the view from their bayside summer homes, and when they leave, only the poor remain on the Cape to watch during the winter months...