The Snowy Winter

2020 ◽  
pp. 101-108
Author(s):  
David Gessner
Keyword(s):  
Landing Gear ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Cape Cod ◽  
Black Duck ◽  
Snowy Winter ◽  
Snowy Owl ◽  
Ocean Shore

This chapter describes the author's experience while staying on Cape Cod to finish a novel. The best moment came when the author was standing alone out on Coast Guard Beach — on almost the exact spot where the naturalist-writer Henry Beston lived for a year in his outermost cabin on Cape Cod's ocean shore — when the young snowy owl rose off the tundra-like marsh with a black duck in its talons. The duck hung down limp below the owl, and below that the duck's lifeless feet hung down even lower, like damaged landing gear. The author saw a couple who attempted to follow the owl. The couple were not birders, but they were considerate, giving the owl plenty of space. “Radiant” is a word the author had been using a lot during their last few days of owl-watching, though mostly to describe the white unworldly shine of the snowy owl's feathers.

Fuel Cell Demonstration at the u.s. Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Mark Halverson ◽  
William Chvala ◽  
Shawn Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Fuel Cell ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Cape Cod ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Operation and Application of a Regional High-Frequency Radar Network in the Mid-Atlantic Bight

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 133-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Roarty ◽  
Scott Glenn ◽  
Josh Kohut ◽  
Donglai Gong ◽  
Ethan Handel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Cape Cod ◽  
High Frequency Radar ◽  
Radar Network ◽  
Cape Hatteras ◽  
Ocean Observing

AbstractThe Mid-Atlantic Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System (MARCOOS) High-Frequency Radar Network, which comprises 13 long-range sites, 2 medium-range sites, and 12 standard-range sites, is operated as part of the Integrated Ocean Observing System. This regional implementation of the network has been operational for 2 years and has matured to the point where the radars provide consistent coverage from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras. A concerted effort was made in the MARCOOS project to increase the resiliency of the radar stations from the elements, power issues, and other issues that can disable the hardware of the system. The quality control and assurance activities in the Mid-Atlantic Bight have been guided by the needs of the Coast Guard Search and Rescue Office. As of May 4, 2009, these quality-controlled MARCOOS High-Frequency Radar totals are being served through the Coast Guard’s Environmental Data Server to the Coast Guard Search and Rescue Optimal Planning System. In addition to the service to U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue Operations, these data support water quality, physical oceanographic, and fisheries research throughout the Mid-Atlantic Bight.

George Wilbur: Otto Rank and Hanns Sachs

2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Roazen
Keyword(s):  
Cape Cod ◽  
Excellent Source ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Otto Rank

George Wilbur, a pioneering Cape Cod psychoanalytic psychiatrist, was a longstanding editor of the journal American Imago, and an excellent source of information about the Viennese analysts Otto Rank and Hanns Sachs. Wilbur was also knowledgeable about the early reception of psychoanalysis in the Boston community.

Vernacular American Landscape: Methodists, Camp Meetings, and Social Respectability

1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Robins
Keyword(s):  
Cape Cod ◽  
Church Members ◽  
White Mountains ◽  
Martha's Vineyard ◽  
Home State ◽  
American Landscape ◽  
Camp Meetings ◽  
Martha’S Vineyard ◽  
Religious Landscape ◽  
The Church

In 1822, from his Conway home in the shadow of New Hampshire's White Mountains, one Dr. Porter surveyed the nation's religious landscape and prophesied, “in half a century there will be no Pagans, Jews, Mohammedans, Unitarians or Methodists.” The prophecy proved false on all counts, but it was most glaringly false in the case of the Methodists. In less than a decade, Porter's home state became the eighth to elect a Methodist governor. Should Porter have fled south into Massachusetts to escape the rising Methodist tide, he would only have been buying time. True, the citizens of Provincetown, Massachusetts, had, in 1795, razed a Methodist meetinghouse and tarred and feathered a Methodist in effigy. By 1851, however, the Methodists boasted a swelling Cape Cod membership, a majority of the church members on Martha's Vineyard, and a governor in the Massachusetts statehouse.

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