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The Changing Cape

Wall art at the Highlands Center at Cape Cod National Seashore, an abandoned mid-20th-century air force installation (see following half-dozen or so photos)

  • Sunday evening sunset, our second evening
  • Big bird, one of several Great Blue Heron shots from a visit to Lieutenant's Island in Wellfleet
  • Focused!
  • Preparing for liftoff
  • Liftoff
  • Gaining altitude
  • Reaching cruising altitude
  • Stroll
  • A recent casualty?
  • Symbol of simpler times?
  • Highland Light in North Truro
  • A study in angles
  • The Changing Cape
  • Mission statement of the Highlands Center as taken from the National Park Services website: "The Highlands Center fosters the unique cultural and natural heritage of Cape Cod by facilitating scientific research, the arts tradition, and educational programs atop the dramatic sea cliffs of Cape Cod National Seashore."
  • As part of the nation's cold-war defense system, the North Truro Air Force Station housed as many as 3,500 personnel from 1951 to 1985.
  • Slated for eventual demolition are decaying family housing units, among buildings presenting an environmental challenge with their hazardous deposits of asbestos, lead, and the pesticide chlordane.
  • Open to all
  • There are different kinds of decay. This kind is just plain ugly.
  • Searching out a spot of shade
  • Bus-stop shelter
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