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...Island looked like home. They searched no farther. To Cape Breton's coves, its evergreen hills and misty glens, they transplanted names like Beinn Bhreagh. Lochaber, Tantallon and Skir Dhu. The Macdonalds, MacIntoshes, MacLeods, and members of many another Scottish clan settled down to raise sheep, fish for cod and till the soil...
Afterthought. In Plymouth, Mass., someone inserted a classified ad in the Guide to Cape Cod offering to swap a twin baby carriage for twin beds...
...churchman ever since its founding in 1855. Last week the trustees of the Concord (N.H.) prep school broke precedent by picking a layman to succeed the Right Rev. Norman B. Nash, now Bishop of Massachusetts. The new (and sixth) rector: Henry Crocker Kittredge, 57, historian of Cape Cod, self-styled spare-time beachcomber, son of Harvard's late, great Shakespearean Scholar George Lyman ("Kitty") Kittredge. To St. Paul's the choice was scarcely a surprise. Kittredge has taught Shakespeare and Latin there for 30 years, has been vice-rector for 18. He and his predecessor went to school...
Advancing Fish. In the 19th Century only a few cod were caught off southwestern Greenland. Now they are schooling far north of the Arctic Circle, where grateful Greenlanders and Eskimos are hauling them up by the ton. Many times in geological history, over long periods of years, the ice has piled up in the north and crunched down into the temperate zones...
Bill of Fare. Summer boarders at Peggy's eat well. For breakfast there are bacon & eggs, toast, marmalade or jam, home-made bread or rolls, home-made butter, and coffee. The noon meal, the biggest of the day, offers steak or fried haddock, cod or halibut (taken out of the water a few hours earlier), cream-topped pies. The evening meal starts off with native clam or fish chowder, followed by a roast, hot rolls, more pie. Board and keep run from $15 to $17 a week...