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...Wellfleet, the summertime invasion of thousands of tourists is now nothing more than a memory; the population has dwindled to under 2000 people. The doctors, lawyers and businessmen who own summer homes on Indian Neck and Lieutenant Island are gone to their warm offices in Boston and New York and their equally comfortable homes in Wellesley and Scarsdale. But some, the year-rounders, remain for the cold winter months...
...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...
Psychohistory is the attempt to fuse the insights of psychology and psychoanalysis with those of history, and the big league of the burgeoning academic movement is the annual Wellfleet seminar on Cape Cod. At this year's closed meeting, such luminaries as Kenneth Keniston and Robert Jay Lifton were there. So was Erik Erikson (Young Man Luther, Gandhi's Truth), the founding spirit of the movement and the group. But the center of attention this year was Doris Kearns, probably the first aspiring psychohistorian to be prodded into print by her subject...
Kearns, 31, an associate professor of government at Harvard, is a former protegee of Lyndon Johnson. Unlike some psychohistorians who have roused skepticism with their long-distance analyses, she knew her subject at firsthand, and well. Her Wellfleet report on her book in progress on L.B.J., hailed as brilliant by several in attendance, grew out of the extraordinary role she played in Johnson's last years...
Washington sprouted with talk that L.B.J. and Kearns were lovers; but Kearns told the Wellfleet group Johnson's needs were psychic-and historical. The President poured out stories of his inner life, urging Kearns to write them, apparently in the belief she was his last best hope of reaching "you Harvards" who would write the histories...