Augustitus

A Cape Cod Notebook from WCAI by CAI

Aug 18, 20263:06Government & Organizations

On Nantucket, the height of summer means being outnumbered by tourists two to one. A meditation on Augustitus, the exhaustion and thrill of a place at its busiest, borrowed from a phrase coined nearly a century ago.

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