Word: cod
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...Orioles fan who spent summers straining to hear faint radio signals from WBAL Baltimore while vacationing on Cape Cod, I never felt the pull of the nation's obsession with Ripken...
...combed the waters off the Canadian coast. Visibility was poor, and in hindsight it was for the best. "We picked up women's purses all blown to pieces as if you put them in a meat grinder," said Eugene Young, who usually fishes the waters for pollock, hake and cod in September. "You had to go awfully slow, because if someone was in the water, you didn't want to run them over." His image of an abattoir was apt. "There was not one bit of hope. Someone's belly here. Intestines over there." Despite the comfort of cove legend...
...appreciation is mostly unconscious, as it was when I was a boy wandering by myself in city parks where trees watched over me, or when I walked down sand-and-weed roads in Cape Cod and felt the sea grass brush against my thighs. I never studied nature, and I do not now. The closest I have come to study is to reread the great nature writers--David Quammen, Edward Hoagland, Peter Matthiessen, Annie Dillard and the poet Ted Hughes--and to pick up some sensory information through their wide-open eyes...
...miss the opportunity to get out on the water yourself. Ferries ply the waters between Boston and numerous small islands in Massachusetts Bay. Several groups run whale-watch cruises from Rockport and Gloucester on Cape Ann, and other leave from Cape Cod. Expect to spend about $25 for the trip...
While conventional wisdom holds that any sane person, given the chance, would depart Cambridge as soon as possible for Cape Cod or the Maine Coast or Martha's Vineyard or Newport, it just isn't the case. Cambridge's long hot months have a lot going for them...