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Arthur Radtke
⚓ Five dollars cash, handed to a stranger at the gate

May 29, 2026

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4 min read

⚓ Five dollars cash, handed to a stranger at the gate

What it opens into is worth knowing about.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
Under the Laminate — concrete, curious, earns itself in the piece

May 29, 2026

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1 min read

Under the Laminate — concrete, curious, earns itself in the piece

The Lights Are Back On — names the three closings, creates immediate stakes

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
Mid Cape Weekender: Mahler at the PAC, the Cape Playhouse Opens & a Shark Scientist Takes Over Devil's Purse

May 29, 2026

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7 min read

Mid Cape Weekender: Mahler at the PAC, the Cape Playhouse Opens & a Shark Scientist Takes Over Devil's Purse

Cape Symphony closes its Masterpiece season Saturday and Sunday with Mahler 5. The Cape Playhouse stages its first show since fall, Wednesday night. And Greg Skomal explains what the white sharks are doing offshore — at a party in South Dennis.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
Put These on the Calendar Before Something Else Takes the Slot

May 29, 2026

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5 min read

Put These on the Calendar Before Something Else Takes the Slot

The Yarmouth Seaside Festival is already at vendor capacity. The Hydrangea Festival gardens go fast. Don't wait.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
Put Your Kid on Lewis Bay. Send Them to the Stage in Dennis. Here's How.

May 29, 2026

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5 min read

Put Your Kid on Lewis Bay. Send Them to the Stage in Dennis. Here's How.

The Mid Cape's five best summer programs for children — from a co-ed overnight camp on Elisha's Pond to the oldest working theater in America.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
⚓ The parking lot was 2010. Saturday I'm at Kalmus Beach.

May 22, 2026

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5 min read

⚓ The parking lot was 2010. Saturday I'm at Kalmus Beach.

My daughter won a trophy I didn't see. She coaches at Bowdoin now. 4th at nationals. The Figawi is this weekend.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
Sixteen Years Between Phone Calls

May 22, 2026

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3 min read

Sixteen Years Between Phone Calls

In 2010 I wasn't anywhere near Sippican Harbor when my daughter won. When the O'Day Trophy came to Lewis Bay on May 9–10, I was paying attention from a lot closer.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
The Store on Main Street That Has Never Changed Its Mind

May 22, 2026

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2 min read

The Store on Main Street That Has Never Changed Its Mind

The building went up in 1840. Cranberries were stored here. Shoes were sold here. A general store opened in 1856. The Uchman family took it over in 1975. Somehow, the place still knows exactly what it is.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
The Old Gas Station on Dennis Port's Main Street Is Now a James Beard Semifinalist

May 22, 2026

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2 min read

The Old Gas Station on Dennis Port's Main Street Is Now a James Beard Semifinalist

Mick and Charlotte Formichella took over a building that had been a filling station, an ice cream shop, and a bakery. Eight months after opening, the James Beard Foundation noticed.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
Flags, Brass, and the Pause Before Summer

May 22, 2026

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4 min read

Flags, Brass, and the Pause Before Summer

Three towns. Five ceremonies. One race fleet heading east toward Nantucket. Here's what the Mid Cape does with Memorial Day when it does it right.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
Mid Cape Weekender: Figawi's 55th, Bob Dylan Turns 85 & A Century of COMM Fire

May 22, 2026

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11 min read

Mid Cape Weekender: Figawi's 55th, Bob Dylan Turns 85 & A Century of COMM Fire

The fleet leaves Hyannis for Nantucket Saturday morning. Cotuit turns up the music for a birthday. And a local fisherman explains why horseshoe crabs are moving toward the shoreline right now.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
⚓ they raised the fare quietly...

May 15, 2026

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6 min read

⚓ they raised the fare quietly...

Right before Figawi weekend.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
Mid Cape Weekender: Wampanoag Foodways, Open Streets, America 250 Ceremonies & the Season's First Outdoor Festivals

May 15, 2026

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12 min read

Mid Cape Weekender: Wampanoag Foodways, Open Streets, America 250 Ceremonies & the Season's First Outdoor Festivals

A Wampanoag historian cooks on a nature trail in Yarmouth Port. Main Street loses its cars. Dennis puts 250-year-old names in stone at the village cemetery. This is the week.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
⚓the covers were always too polite

May 8, 2026

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6 min read

⚓the covers were always too polite

The orchestra has opinions.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
The Bass River Bridge Doesn't Take Reservations

May 8, 2026

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2 min read

The Bass River Bridge Doesn't Take Reservations

Some Mother's Day traditions require a nice shirt. This one requires a rod, an early alarm, and a call to Riverview.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
Low Tide Is the Appointment

May 8, 2026

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2 min read

Low Tide Is the Appointment

You need a permit. You need boots you don't care about. Everything else the tide will handle.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
THE KING TAKES WEST MAIN

May 8, 2026

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2 min read

THE KING TAKES WEST MAIN

Cape Symphony gives Elvis the full-orchestra treatment in Hyannis

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
The Night the Beach Starts Moving

May 8, 2026

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3 min read

The Night the Beach Starts Moving

A horseshoe crab watch for Mid Cape locals — Saturday, May 16

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
Mid Cape Weekender: Elvis, Mother’s Day Stops, Beach Cleanups & Small-Town Stages

May 7, 2026

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9 min read

Mid Cape Weekender: Elvis, Mother’s Day Stops, Beach Cleanups & Small-Town Stages

From CapePOPS at the Barnstable PAC to Mother’s Day museum visits, shoreline cleanups, library talks, and live music tucked across Dennis, Yarmouth, Hyannis, and the villages — here’s the week worth planning around.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
⚓He never asked for much. Just the edge of the river.

May 2, 2026

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9 min read

⚓He never asked for much. Just the edge of the river.

Thirty years. This Saturday he —

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
Hyannis Is Changing Block by Block. The Real Question Is Who It's Changing For.

May 2, 2026

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8 min read

Hyannis Is Changing Block by Block. The Real Question Is Who It's Changing For.

Apartments, condos, a library renovation, and a street redesign are all landing in downtown Hyannis at once. The question now is not whether the village should change. It already is.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
The Gulf Stream Once Jumped 125 Miles North. A WHOI Scientist Wants to Explain Why That Matters Over a Beer.

May 2, 2026

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2 min read

The Gulf Stream Once Jumped 125 Miles North. A WHOI Scientist Wants to Explain Why That Matters Over a Beer.

There are some Cape Cod evenings that sound more useful than they first appear.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
The Drive-In Lot That Sat Empty for Forty Years Just Became Yarmouth's Best New Park

May 2, 2026

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4 min read

The Drive-In Lot That Sat Empty for Forty Years Just Became Yarmouth's Best New Park

The former drive-in site on Route 28 becomes a waterfront park — with trails, a kayak launch, a boardwalk over the salt marsh, and a town full of people who have been watching that lot for a very long time.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
Where to Take Mom When the Train Is Already Gone

May 1, 2026

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7 min read

Where to Take Mom When the Train Is Already Gone

A Mid Cape Mother's Day guide for the family group text that waited too long

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
⚓My trunk refuses to commit... and now I have questions

Apr 25, 2026

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19 min read

⚓My trunk refuses to commit... and now I have questions

The car says spring. The shoes say beach. The jacket says don’t get cute.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke
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