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e planned well for the post Labor Day traffic, and although still crowded in spots, things moved along smoothly as we headed around the arm that is


this Cape. The geologic history of Cape Cod mostly involves the advance and retreat of the last continental ice sheet (named the Laurentide, after the Lauren- tian region of Canada where it first formed) and the rise in sea level that followed the retreat of the Ice Age. The entire Cape is made of glacial


moraine and sand, and the geography here changes with the sea, storms and time, although man tries his best not to let it change too much. Along the main US 6 (the same US 6 that


crosses the NY/NJ/PA region on its way cross country) you will find salt ponds and tidal streams, and if you are my wife Shira, you will find Hallet’s Homemade Ice Cream. They have been making and serving ice cream here since 1889, possibly making it one of the oldest ice cream parlors Shira has yet found, and I will tell you this: It was the thickest and creamiest I have had in a long time…and we eat a lot of ice cream. Hey, everyone needs a vice! You could point bricks with this stuff. We did actually have a plan this day and


that was to find a certain U.S. Coast Guard Boat, Motor Lifeboat CG36500. On the night of February 18, 1952, during a raging 70-knot nor’easter snowstorm, four Coast Guardsmen (coxswain Bernard C. “Bernie” Webber, Andrew Fitzgerald, Ervin Maske


and Richard Livesey) set out on the 36500 to res- cue crewmen on the tanker Pendleton which had broken apart in a storm. Incredibly, they returned to the Cha- tham Life Saving Sta- tion with 32 survivors—on a boat designed to carry half that number safely. All the “Coasties” received the Gold Life Saving Medal for their bravery under these almost impossible conditions. The film The Finest Hours was a spectacular telling of these brave men and that fearful night. I had heard that the


boat was at the Orleans Historical Society, but although they had plenty of memorabilia of the boat and tales of that night in 1952, the 36500 would be found a few miles away, thank- fully once again in the water at Rock Harbor. To see the 36500


restored to her former glory and to think of what it and these men did nearly 65 years ago brought forth quite a feeling. If you


have never heard of this story, or the film The Finest Hours, do yourself a favor and just watch the trailer; that should lead you right to watching the film. Hey, the new Captain Kirk is in it, so you have that, if nothing else. Continuing on towards Wellfleet, we


spent some time at the Marconi Beach. It was here that Guglielmo Marconi broadcast the first transatlantic wireless communica- tion between the United States and Europe in 1903, changing communications for the planet forevermore. Today the first Marconi station is all but gone, with just remnants of the foundation left by the ever-changing coast and powerful Atlantic. Still, it was the coast and cape that we


came for, and the coast and cape does not get any prettier than here at Marconi Beach. Well, we came for that and some real sea- food too! Wellfleet is known for its oystas, its lobstas, and its chowdas, and we found all of that harbor-side in Wellfleet at Mac’s Sea- food, right on the wadda’.


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