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Born 66 years ago and not a day too soon
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A peaceful promenade through the Mashpee Indian Meeting House Cemetery

11/27/08 · 5:07 am :: posted by Paul     

“There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!”
                                                                                                   - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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   Wild turkeys wander around the Mashpee Indian Meeting House Cemetery.

The Old Indian Meeting House was built in 1684 on Santuit Pond by Deacon John Hinckley and was moved to its present location on Route 28 in 1717. 

rifkin_thanksgiving4_241_01It is the oldest church building on Cape Cod and was used by the Mashpee Wampanoag at the time as a Christian church.  It was also used as a school.  The meeting house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

The Mashpee tribe still uses this site for worship, meetings, and social activities.

The Old Indian Meeting House, at 410 Meetinghouse Road in Mashpee, is currently undergoing renovations.

A walk around the burial grounds revealed the following interesting headstones:

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   Russell Peters' headstone

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   Aikens headstone

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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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