My Ithaca

A Cape Cod Notebook from WCAI by CAI

Sep 29, 20263:46Government & Organizations

A childhood of six houses in four states left one writer craving the continuity other kids took for granted. Only after retiring to Dennis Port did he see that the Cape summers of his youth had been his home all along.

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