Word: eastham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ornithologist worth his Sterna dougalli (common tern) should trek back Route 6 to Chatham and visit the National Wildlife Refuge on Monomoy Island. Information about reaching the island--a permit is required--can be obtained at the Chatham Town Hall or at the Seashore's visitor center in Eastham...
...Orleans, 6A rejoins Route 6 and heads north. Most of the forearm (Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro and Provincetown) is part of Cape Cod National Seashore, a National Park. The beaches on the Atlantic are wonderful, always nice to walk on when there are no crowds. Even in the rain and wind, if you are dressed warmly, it is fun to explore the beaches. With a wet suit, March is not too early to surf...
...Seashore has a visitor center in Eastham which is helpful, interesting and attractive. Also in Eastham, and part of the Seashore, are Coast Guard Beach and the Red Cedar Swamp. There is a path through the swamp which few people know about even though it is publicized at the visitors' center, well worth the hour it takes to walk...
...house." The 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...
...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...