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Crockett, who throws a 92 mile-per-hour fastball and a nasty, biting curveball, had been tabbed as a major league prospect ever since he earned Pitcher of the Year honors in the prestigious Cape Cod League in 2000. Throughout his junior and senior seasons, his starts attracted crowds of pro scouts armed with radar guns...
...Because people are driving and taking shorter, cheaper holidays, many vacation spots, like Cape Cod, Santa Barbara and areas around the Great Lakes, are getting mostly "backdoor business"--travelers from neighboring states or towns...
...sanctions" as the reasons for the reforms, adding: "You can't be a friend of the fishing industry without first being a friend of the fish." Overfishing is the primary cause of the near collapse of a range of species that have been culinary staples across Europe, including cod, haddock, mullet, herring, tuna and swordfish. Fish populations are at perilously low levels: the population of cod in the North Sea has dropped 60% over the last 20 years, while stocks of breeding tuna in the North Atlantic have declined by 80% over the past 30 years, according to the Commission...
...cerebral tough guy who wrote The Armies of the Night and The Executioner's Song works daily on a long novel, though he won't say what it's about. He and his wife Norris Church share a big, brick house in Provincetown, Mass., on the tip of Cape Cod. Lumbering around the kitchen to fix you a tuna sandwich, he explains why Provincetown is a good place to concentrate: "Most of the people we knew up here are dead. We don't have to go out much...
Newkirk then began work gathering footage of Cabot House seniors for the documentary. Over Spring Break, Lawler and a five-person crew went down to Cape Cod to film his screenplay of Angel Walk. They had a cast that included Harvard students and some members of the Screen Actors’ Guild (SAG). The Screen Actors’ Guild has what they call a “Student Contract,” which allows student films to pay less than scale for actors. In the case of Angel Walk, this meant paying them nothing, since Lawler was personally responsible...