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The lingering aroma of printer’s ink may be succeeded by the scent of chocolate at 5 Namskaket Rd.  ED MARONEY PHOTO ORLEANS — Seventy-five years ago, Jack and Laura Johnson of Truro cooked up an idea for a weekly newspaper. Under its second owner, Malcolm Hobbs, The Cape Codder built a headquarters at 5 Namskaket Rd. in with ample space for a printery, including a giant ink tank. The building would shake as a press operator announced each run: “Caaaaape Cod-uh!” The press is long gone, stilled and sold by an off-Cape corporation that came to own the paper. Today, the Codder is print...

Don Wilding There aren’t many people who have been aboard a sinking vessel 390 miles at sea, then stayed adrift in stormy conditions for eight days and nights, and lived to tell about it. Not only did Ulah Deer of Chatham achieve just that, she and the crew of the Fred Richards managed to get back to land just in time to celebrate Christmas in 1890. According to a letter that she wrote to her mother on Dec. 23 that year (published in 1947 by The Cape Codder), Deer (who died in 1960) and her then-husband, Captain William E. Reed, were aboard the vessel Fred Richards when the stormy seas over...

comments Unwinding my scarf and sinking into a warm dive-bar booth for a long-overdue happy hour with old friends, the soft glow of neon transforming us into the people we were when we first met. Popping into that tavern with the good Hot Toddy next to the little shop that always has the perfect gift as I go over my shopping list one last time. Selecting the right signature drink for the holiday party. Ordering an elaborate concoction for no other reason than Mariah Carey and Wham! songs are playing in this hotel lounge, and I'm early for once and the menu makes it sound like a liquid...