Seth Rolbein
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People say half-facetiously that we should accept reality and change the name of this sandspit to Cape Dog.
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This is embarrassing, but maybe making a public admission could save me hundreds of hours of expensive psycho-therapy:I have a thing going on — with a tree.
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A white postcard showed up in the mail the other day. I had been summoned to Barnstable Superior Court – for jury duty.My immediate response? Great! Hope I can do it!
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Seen from space, it seems so obvious that Cape Cod is one. But we know better.
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People thought Luther Crowell was insane, but he wasn’t. He was the greatest inventor in Cape Cod history.
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Not included in the blockbuster J. Robert Oppenheimer movie is how a Cape Cod connection played a crucial role in Oppenheimer’s early life, including his eventual move to Los Alamos to build a bomb that can destroy the world.
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Plymouth rock is an imposter. No way was this the first terra firma the Pilgrims planted foot upon in the “New World” – that was some vanished swath of sand in Provincetown Harbor.
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People who serve on selectboards across the Cape — ditto for town council in Barnstable — are among my heroes.They subject themselves to elections that are intimate, demoralizing and embarrassing in defeat, full of elation in victory, inviting intense scrutiny and judgement from scores of people who are not as brave, or public-spirited.
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Seth Rolbein, a journalist living in Wellfleet, talks about an 1820 fire that had a major impact on the Cape’s 20th-century development boom.
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Seth Rolbein, a journalist living in Wellfleet, thinks back to the day a young lady special to him met the Governor.