Trying to Put All America Behind | Dissident Voice
by Edward Curtin / July 20th, 2021 Cape Cod Sixty years ago this summer, on August 7, 1961, President John Kennedy signed the bill creating The Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts. It consists of forty miles of immaculate sandy beach, marshes, ponds, and upland along the Atlantic Ocean, with some portions stretching across the land to Cape Cod Bay in the west. Henry Thoreau walked this wild Outer Atlantic Beach in 1849. He said you can stand there and look out to sea and “put all America behind” you. I am trying to do that as I stand looking at the waves breaking on a foggy ...
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