Seeking Eco-minded Visitors to Wellfleet: Your Opinion Is Solicited

This pond is beautiful, no doubt about that. It's Long Pond, in Wellfleet, eastern end. No trash in view, thank goodness. Our town is fortunate to have a very active Recycling Committee, chaired by Lydia Vivante. Lydia has asked me to ask you a few questions today. She is holding a meeting next week to encourage seasonal renters and other assorted folks visiting Cape Cod to use the Transfer Station during their stay by recycling and composting whenever possible. How do you feel about these activities during vacation? Are you willing to make a few extra gestures on behalf of the environment? Would you like landlords and real estate agents to post friendly reminders? Have you seen any such signs? Do you bring your totes with you or use those provided at the rental? If you want your answers to be confidential, write Lydia, c/o Town Hall. Otherwise, please share ideas on how to improve recycling and composting in Wellfleet below. Thanks!

Who Is Really Celebrating this Oysterfest?

I know, I know. The photo above does not show crowds of revelers, but rather Long Pond in all its fall glory. Sven and I were not able to go to Oysterfest yesterday because we had guests arriving. That, too, is the life of the innkeeper. Let's hope we get down later today. The sun parted the clouds around noon for a couple hours of magnificent blue sky. No doubt many oysters were consumed as the town celebrated the end of tourist season. There was one person who much have been celebrating a bit more intensely than others: Jeff, yes, you! Congratulations to Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater on receiving an anonymous gift of one million dollars, divided into $250,000 for four separate years, which will allow Jeff's baby to grow and develop in marvelous new ways ...