Battling coastal storms and protecting both piping plovers and access to the beach
Wicked Local
DUXBURY — I discovered Duxbury Beach in the summer of 1966 when I moved to Boston and one of my roommates took a group there for the weekend at her late grandmother's house near the ocean.
We walked across Powder Point Bridge and I was captivated by the expansive, incredibly beautiful and dramatic vista of oncoming waves, clouds moving across the horizon, shore birds soaring and calling.
The six-mile barrier beach became one of my go-to places when I wanted to get away.
In 2009, I received a surprise in the mail: "The Duxbury Beach Book," sent by one of the co-editors, Margaret "Maggie" Kearney. She mentioned an article I had written about the beach and offered to give me "the grand tour, including a trip up into the Gurnet Lighthouse." It was a gift she gave to others; in 2016, Chris and Lynn Cadigan, of Rockland, marked their 19th wedding anniversary with a Kearney-guided trip to Gurnet.