Word: wellfleet
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...been on the Cape a long time; years ago he lived in a mobile home on the beach in Provincetown, fishing and running his four-wheel drive over the dunes. Now, he runs a cottage colony in Wellfleet that stays open from the late spring to the early autumns. To relieve the boredom and loneliness, he paints and draws away the long January and February hours. Pete cautions anyone rash enough to think that staying in Wellfleet through the late fall and winter will not exact a cost. It does...
...like many others on the Cape: have traded their economic security (both were successful teachers before coming to the cape) in exchange for an unhurried, solitary and peaceful existence. On the weekends they walk the beaches, or visit the ponds in Wellfleet that Thoreau made famous. And they enjoy driving to Race Point beach in Provincetown--the tip of the Cape--and photographing the sunsets...
...some, the Cape his always been home. For David, and his wife Sandy, until recently these had never been a question of where they would live. In Wellfleet's cemetery many of the gravestones from the nineteenth century bear David's last name. His roots are deep. He first left Wellfleet for four years to attend the University of New Hampshire, where he not Sandy, and they returned together when he graduated...
...they have contemplated leaving their small one-story house which is Midden on the bay side of Route just before the Wellfleet. Truro town-line. Rising building costs have prevented them from buying a larger home, a move they have wanted to make for their two children. So late last fall. David, who teaches math in a public high school, applied for jobs in western Massachusetts. Their plans fell through, however, and with the economy in its present shape he cannot afford to give up his present job and hunt...
...January and February on the Cape are brutal," Jimmy says. "especially February," Jimmy a dark Irishman from the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, and Louise have lived in Wellfleet two years. They are fortunate in finding work year round, in the summer, they both work at a restaurant in North Truro, in winter he works construction, sporadically, and she is a bank teller is Provincetown, Neither of them enjoys the job, but feels it is worth...