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Globe book review today had a big error in it

Co:author of Cape Wind - the book, alerts our readers
Bob Whitcomb's "day-job" is VP and Editorial Page editor of the Providence Journal

By Bob Whitcomb 

A note to CapeCodToday readers from Robert Whitcomb, co-author with Wendy Williams, of Cape Wind. There was a generally delightful review in the July 5 Boston Globe:

"This is not your typical beach read. It isn't light. It isn't even fiction. It is, however, a genuine page-turner, and if it is true, it is also a laugh riot." We thank The Globe for its attention to this book!

The review engages in some sloppy reporting in suggesting that Massachusetts shoreline property owners only own down to the high-tide markUnfortunately, as Wendy Williams notes in her blog,  the review is marred by misinformation at the bottom, which Globe  books editor James Concannon told Wendy Thursday morning that he would soon correct.

The review engages in some sloppy reporting in suggesting that Massachusetts shoreline property owners only own down to the high-tide mark.  The usually estimable Goldberg cites this as her one and only specific example of what she calls  “sloppy research’’ in the book.

As Wendy notes, in Massachusetts, “property owners own down to the mean low tide mark, although, according to the state's attorney general, some owners even dispute this, claiming that they own all the way down to the low low tide mark. We suspect that this seemingly petty point is one reason why so many of the world's wealthiest people live on Nantucket Sound -- they have the legal right to keep people from even walking along the beach in front of their houses. ‘’