Seth Rolbein

Holy mackerel: The “lowly” fish that created Cape Cod’s prosperity

Many of us have dog stories, dog relationships. One amazing thing we learn is that dogs live full lives within a compressed bracket of ours; we join them as puppies, share time as they mature, witness them grow old, then wish them goodbye.

For all who welcome solar and wind as our energy future, the past proves that futuristic, breakthrough innovations can harken back centuries.

One windy afternoon I was leaning into a shaky ladder, scraping blistered paint off a second-story window frame in Orleans, when the kitchen phone rang.

Seth Rolbein shares his essay, A Temporary Portrait, on this week's A Cape Cod Notebook.