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Taking a Thoreau look at the Cape

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19980725
Author:Michael Kenney, Globe Staff

In October 1849, well after whatever passed for a tourist season in those days, Henry David Thoreau set out from Boston to tramp the outer beaches of Cape Cod.

Thoreau was propelled by the same thing that has brought millions since his time to the Cape -- the wish, as he put it, "to get a better view than I had yet of the ocean."

Stephen Mulloney had seen plenty of the ocean as a vacationer and a Hyannis-based television reporter, so it was simply cabin fever and "the need to get a life" that prompted him to retrace Thoreau's tramp through 1990s eyes, in a late-summer ramble that he records in ...

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