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Wicked Local EASTHAM -- Cape Cod’s Outer Beach has always been known for its shipwrecks. Between 1626 and the mid-20th century, this solitary 40-mile stretch of what is now the outer beach of the Cape Cod National Seashore saw the demise of more than 3,000 vessels. It’s been said that if all the wrecks were raised, one could walk from Provincetown to Chatham without getting his or her feet wet. Since 2015, Don Wilding has been writing the popular “Shore Lore” column for The Cape Codder,...

Cape Cod Times Gordon Peabody likes to say that his company, Safe Harbor, uses the power of the wind and waves to rebuild natural shoreline protections like beaches and dunes. One technique involves placing thousands of slats in random patterns on a beach mimicking stalks of beach grass. In theory, they slow down wave velocity causing the sand it carries to settle out and bulk up a beach instead of destroying it. If theres one trend Peabody has noticed in over 30 years of work, its the raw po...

“Pardon?” “I mean, what do they do all day? Where do they go? Do they just hunker down in the woods and wait for dark?” “Good question” I said. We often see them at dusk, and even more often at night, like the proverbial deer caught in our headlights, but I don’t think they’re strictly nocturnal.” “But, “she persisted, “I mean we never see them doing anything, though we often see the results of what they do: having grazed our garden or trimmed the lower limbs of spruce ...

Don Wilding For many years, this columnist has tracked down and chronicled all things related to Henry Beston’s classic book, “The Outermost House,” which was written during the scribe’s seclusion in a seaside cottage in Eastham during the mid-1920s. The house, which Beston referred to as “The Fo’castle,” became a shrine of sorts to those who took his message to heart, even after it was destroyed by the great storm of Feb. 6-7, 1978. Today, that message still shines through at pla...