I’m off to Cape Cod for the next week. I may try to post sporadically, depending on how often I am able to latch onto wireless connections. Ah, how the Cape has changed since Thoreau visited…
The inhabitants of Truro were formerly regularly warned under the authority of law in the month of April yearly, to plant beach- grass, as elsewhere they are warned to repair the highways…. In this way, for instance, they built up again that part of the Cape between Truro and Provincetown where the sea broke over in the last century…. Thus Cape Cod is anchored to the heavens, as it were, by a myriad little cables of beach-grass, and, if they should fail, would become a total wreck, and ere long go to the bottom.
– Henry David Thoreau (writings)
