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Eels
Before his recent death, we were fortunate enough to capture some of the memories and insights of a local Vineyard legend. Our regular contributor, Eric Kipp, brings us another story from Edgartown blacksmith Milton Jeffers.

Oystercatchers
Eric Kipp, wound his way through to the barrier beach off Eel Pond where he lives in Edgartown. In search of a favorite bird, he brought his tape recorder and his love of the natural world around him--unfortunately he didnít have a windscreen with him.

Coyotes
The return of coyotes to suburban coastal Massachusetts is clearly established. At this time of year Carol Wasserman can hear at night, the evidence of their successful adaptation to their new home.

After Labor Day
Teacher and sometime poet Carol Wasserman lives along a highway in Wareham Massachusetts that used to lead tourists to Cape Cod. In the eighties they finished the turnpike and life along the old road mostly faded away... fried clam joints and cheap motels and places selling plastic lobsters -- closed up. But Carol and her neighbors still make their lives along Old Route 6, even in the off-season.

Winter Rentals
Writer Carol Wasserman lives in an old house near Buzzards Bay in Wareham Massachusetts. It's cold inside. Most of the rooms are unheated and closed off in the winter, often with duct tape wrapped around pipes that have frozen in years past. But it's her neighbors that Carol is concerned about.