Pack patience along with your sunblock when heading to Cape Cod this summer
Record house rentals and booming hotel reservations mean the Cape could be busier than ever this summer. Hereâs what you wonât want to miss.
By By Susan MoellerUpdated April 30, 2021, 8:15 a.m.
Email to a Friend
A teenager does a handstand as the sun sets on Cape Cod Bay in Wellfleet.Stan Grossfeld/Globe staff/File
COME JUNE, Candace Bowen and her husband, John, will drive from northern Ohio to Eastham, to vacation in a rental house they rolled over from their canceled 2020 summer trip. Theyâll spend the next three weeks photographing sunsets at Rock Harbor, sitting on First Encounter Beach, grabbing a bite at Arnoldâs Lobster & Clam Bar, biking, doing jigsaw puzzles, hanging out with the kids and grandkids, and making their grown daughter listen one more time to that story about trying to eat Cape Cod sand when she was a child. After a year off, Bowen, a journalism professor at Kent
Editor s note: This story has been updated to correct the name of the committee that is helping to finance the parade in September.
YARMOUTH Desmond Keogh knew the Cape Cod St. Patrick’s Parade was popular, but he didn’t realize just how popular it was until this year.
Keogh chairs the committee that organizes the annual parade. When it was announced on Facebook in January that this year s event would be canceled, the committee was inundated with posts expressing people s disappointment.
“We didn’t realize how much it meant to people,” Keogh said. “We’ve been hearing for three months how devastated they are.”