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Adam's body was never found, but a jawbone washed up on the beach at Nauset last month has been identified as his. The Med School compared Adam's dental x-rays with six molars remaining in the jawbone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Med School Confirms Death of '65 Alumnus | 11/7/1966 | See Source »

...head in the freakish Atlantic Where it pours bean green over blue In the waters off beautiful Nauset. I used to pray to recover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Blood Jet Is Poetry | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

When the Pilgrims first landed, they found the Nauset Indians using a bright red waxy berry that seemed good to eat as well as valuable for making poul tices and preserving game. The Indians called the berry sassamanesh; the Pilgrims rechristened it the cranberry. At first confined to New England, and mainly to Cape Cod, as a diet staple and profitable source of income, the cranberry gradually conquered the holiday tables of the nation. This month, when Americans buy more cranberries than at any other time of the year, no Thanksgiving dinner will be considered complete without them. The most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cooperatives: Spreading Sassamanesh | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

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