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Before you do anything rash consider Cape Cod. Like everyone else, I have been explaining my vacation plans for the last two weeks: "I'm going down to the Cape. My parents have a house there." Last spring in reading period everyone was begging me for an invitation but now they just look surprised. I am going to the Cape because that is where I live...

Author: By Dewitt C. Jones, | Title: Seaside Follies | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

...Cape Cod is synonymous with sun, beach, party, friendly cops and melting creamsicles. There are also crowds. In fact, Cape Cod in the summer is quite similar to Florida during spring break--any number of bars resemble the Eliot House Happy Hour...

Author: By Dewitt C. Jones, | Title: Seaside Follies | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

...Cape Cod does not go to college in September. It stays right there. Any real Cape Codder will tell you that he prefers the rain and wind of the winter to the sun and clouds of the summer. There is a very good reason. Most of the summer people come to the Cape for the parties or the beaches. But the Cape has great natural beauty which many of them miss. And late in November or early in April the weather is nice, there are no crowds and this natural beauty shines through. I think it is the best time...

Author: By Dewitt C. Jones, | Title: Seaside Follies | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

...Cape Cod is at the southern end of Route 3, a natural peninsula turned into a large island: the Cape Cod Canal separates the Cape from the rest of southeastern Massachusetts. Two bridges connect the rest of the world to us. Cape Cod is shaped like an arm flexing its bicep, and the bridges connect where the shoulder would be. There are 13 towns on the Cape. One highway, Route 6, runs the length from Bourne (the shoulder) to Provincetown (the fist); 6A runs parallel from the shoulder to the crook of the elbow. Route 28 runs south from...

Author: By Dewitt C. Jones, | Title: Seaside Follies | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

...decline in maternal and infant death rates; of bronchial pneumonia; in Cambridge, Mass. In 1921 Dr. Eliot left her private pediatric practice ("I never felt comfortable about asking for my fees") to study rickets, and along with Dr. Edwards Park of Yale discovered the preventive value of sunshine and cod liver oil. In 1947 she became the first woman to be president of the American Public Health Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 6, 1978 | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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