Word: capes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Outer Cape--the final hook in Cape Cod that stretches 27 miles from Orleans to Provincetown--is a desolate place during the winter...
...been on the Cape a long time; years ago he lived in a mobile home on the beach in Provincetown, fishing and running his four-wheel drive over the dunes. Now, he runs a cottage colony in Wellfleet that stays open from the late spring to the early autumns. To relieve the boredom and loneliness, he paints and draws away the long January and February hours. Pete cautions anyone rash enough to think that staying in Wellfleet through the late fall and winter will not exact a cost. It does...
...year-rounders, the winter means isolation, bad weather and hardship. The small towns that line the Outer Cape--Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truvo and Provincetown--depend economically almost exclusively on tourism. The creation of the National Seashore in 1961 insured the tourist trade during the summer by protecting the beaches and ponds of the Cape, but after Thanksgiving, few visitors are attracted; the motels, shops and restaurants close, and unemployment soars. In the winter, food stamps become a common sight in Wellfleet's First National supermarket and the number of welfare recipients and those on unemployment climbs...
...some, the Cape his always been home. For David, and his wife Sandy, until recently these had never been a question of where they would live. In Wellfleet's cemetery many of the gravestones from the nineteenth century bear David's last name. His roots are deep. He first left Wellfleet for four years to attend the University of New Hampshire, where he not Sandy, and they returned together when he graduated...
...most of Western Europe, for example, the fashionable look for the '75 woman is layered, long-skirted, booted and topped off with a cape; and much of it came together in the drawing rooms of Paris and Rome couturiers. The soft-goods departments in stores from Tokyo to Beirut are beginning to look less like hospital wards than fashion salons, with towels by Pierre Cardin, sheets by Saint Laurent and table linen by Finland's Marimekko...