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The ineffable humor of Cape Codders

10/07/08 · 6:04 pm :: posted by Paul     

That's a shell of a tree on Long Beach in Centerville

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2008918-beach_chair-a_520Cape Codders are a wry people, and much of our humor is ineffable and charming. How many gentle folk have contributed a chambered nautilus to the bare branch's of this bush we may never know, but the effect is pure Yankee humor.

 

 

And this chair, which I call "Summer is over - Long Beach loneliness" may simply be a beach chair forgotten on the strand.

 


But these bouys left, on the Cotuit Dock before sunrise, become art all by themselves without any help from a photographer...  except he was there at that improbable time to shoot it.
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10/08/08 @ 9:01 am
breeze [Member] writes:
That Paul Rifkin has a true artist's eye. His photographs help us all to see the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you Paul, and thank you CCToday.
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10/08/08 @ 6:08 pm
Monponsett [Member] writes:
I've lived in several beach communities over the course of my life, and each neighborhood has one person who is assigned the duty of leaving a chair out for the winter. It makes the place look more winsome.
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rifkin136_168Paul Rifkin was born 66 years ago and not a day too soon. Socialist Jewish blood flows through his arteries and veins - his  capillaries are getting clogged with the righteous indignation directed toward our fellow citizen's  complicity with the immorality of our government.

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., first kiss at the age of 14 at Pottstown (PA)  Community Camp, U.S. Army (1960-1962) honorably discharged but barely, graduated from  George Washington University (1965), San Francisco hippie (1965-1972), Zen  Buddhist monk (1972-1974), world traveler, hedonist and womanizer (1974-1979), ran Boston Marathon (1982) but barely, settled down with Ellen Mycock (1988) and stopped womanizing, co-owner of Moonakis Cafe in Waquoit, Falmouth (1989-present), photographer (1948-present),  professional videographer (1994-present) peace activist (seemingly forever), hot-tempered but  good-hearted (from birth).

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