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...sidewheeler Peter Stuyvesant, which formed part of Anthony's Pier Four Restaurant, was torn from its concrete pilings and wrecked in Boston Harbor. Outside of Boston, the storm destroyed some of New England's best-known landmarks. Among them was the seaside dwelling in Eastham on Cape Cod that was made famous by Naturalist Henry Beston's 1928 bestseller The Outermost House. The surf in Rockport, Mass., demolished a red fishing shack known as "Motif No. 1," a favorite subject for local artists. In Maine, the losses included three lighthouses and the amusement pier at Old Orchard...
...Cape Cod, Gornick talked to a 70-year-old Polish-born Catholic, a former labor organizer and Spanish Civil War volunteer, who today is a folk hero to vacationing liberals. There are old Wobblies from Idaho, miners from West Virginia, women who left their families to go "underground," fiery daughters of dirt farmers, rebellious sons of the rich, and even an ex-Communist who now works for organized crime...
...LATEST BOOK, The Zapping of America, Paul Brodeur relates a poignant experience during his Cape Cod vacation last June. He was reading the Provincetown Advocate and draped across the front page was the wary proviso: "TRURO RADAR COULD FRY HANG-GLIDERS...
...bedroom house in Providence's east side and often takes a bus to work. He normally lunches at his desk on crackers and Campbell's soup. About the only luxuries the Millers allow themselves are a regular winter vacation in the Bahamas, a summer place near Cape Cod and a weekly seat at New York's Metropolitan Opera...
...Clair, former attorney for former President Richard M. Nixon who is now representing the town of Mashpee, said in his final argument Tuesday that the Indians only are the descendants of the "remnants of other tribes" who converted to Christianity, shed their tribal affiliations and settled in the Cape Cod seashore community, in the 1660's. Lawrence D. Shubow, attorney for the Indians, summed up his case Tuesday saying, "Don't deny these people their identity. They have been fighting for this identity for 350 years. Are you going to say 'You've been a living fraud...