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Middleboro has hopes; Grey Gardens in Falmouth?

TODAY's quote: “Land that a tribe owns, but has not been granted federal trust status by the Secretary of the Interior, is not eligible for tribal gaming... a commercial casino cannot be converted into a tribal casino, nor can a tribal casino be operated on non-tribal lands."
- C. Stanley McGee, Massachusetts assistant state secretary for policy and planning in The Enterprise.

Middleboro's casino dreams

In a prepared response to a letter from C. Stanley McGee, Assistant State Secretary for Policy and Planning, Wampanoag Tribal Council Chairman Cedric Cromwell said, “We are finalizing our plans for a destination resort location in southeastern Massachusetts, which will then be included in our land in trust application currently being processed by the (federal) Bureau of Indian Affairs.”
     Read The Enterprise here.

Jackie O's aunt's home moves to Cape?

Or maybe a replica of "Grey Gardens"

Every family has a "closet relative", someone they don't talk about unless you insist upon it.

Even Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis had a couple, and they were beauts. Worse, a major movie was made about them starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore, and now the Falmouth Enterprise reports that a local home owner remodeled his house to replicate the famous "Grey Gardens".

Michael E. Jaye told the Enterprise, "It’s only the front of the house, but from top to bottom and side to side, it’s almost exactly Grey Gardens."

Some exterior details and the interior layout do not match the original mansion, he said, which has an additional wing and is twice as big, but from the street it is a near match for the late 19th-century mansion. On right is a still from the 1970s documentary by the Maysle brothers.

"Big Edie", Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (1895–1977), and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale (1917–2002), known as "Little Edie", were the aunt and the first cousin, respectively, of former U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The two women lived together at Grey Gardens for decades with limited funds in increasing squalor and isolation.

"Big Edie" died in 1977 and "Little Edie" sold the house in 1979 to former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and his wife Sally Quinn. "Little Edie" died in 2002 at the age of 84.

According to a 2003 article in Town & Country, after their purchase, Bradlee and Quinn completely restored the house and grounds (the sale agreement forbade razing the house).

Read the Enterprise story here.