What Wrongo saw on a short hike on Friday in Provincetown, MA:
Clapp’s Pond, Provincetown, MA – October 2021 iPhone photo by Wrongo
It’s surprising how much fresh water there is on Cape Cod. After all, it’s a thin sandy peninsula surrounded by salt water. It probably was a key factor for the indigenous people who made the Cape home for centuries before the invasion by Europeans. They could find oysters, fish and small game, and there was always plenty of water available.
That also was important to the Pilgrims when they sailed into Cape Cod Bay in 1620 after many months at sea. In Truro, they found fresh water at what we now call Pilgrim Spring. They found a cache of maize at Corn Hill and a place to camp onshore at Pond Village, now an area with $1+ million homes. After a tussle with the Pamet Indians, they hoisted anchor and sailed across the bay to what we now call Plymouth.
About two-thirds of Truro was added to the National Seashore in 1960, so a small portion of what the Pamets experienced and what the Pilgrims saw remains for us to see on our yearly visits.
On to cartoons. Covid is still a thing, and now there’s a fall variant:
The gift-buying season comes earlier and earlier:
The supply chain may impact Christmas:
Steve Bannon blew off the Congressional Committee. Now comes criminal contempt:
If Bezos’s next flight is one way, can he send these guys?
