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    Chatham: From the Second World War to the Age of Aquarius
    Chatham: From the Second World War to the Age of Aquarius
    Chatham: From the Second World War to the Age of Aquarius
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    Chatham: From the Second World War to the Age of Aquarius

    By Debra Lawless

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    Picking up where Chatham in the Jazz Age left off, this exciting new book by Debra Lawless explores the history of Chatham, from the beginning of the Second World War to the end of the 1960s. Meet a brave group of people who rationed their food and mourned the loss of their sons, including Robert Scott Brown, the only soldier from Cape Cod killed at Pearl Harbor. As the military took over the Chatham Light and local radio station WCC, wartime security became so tight that Chatham's fishermen were photographed and fingerprinted. Experience the transition into the 1950s, when even as tourism boomed, Cape residents feared polio and called for zoning to ban hot dog stands. Finally, hang out with hippies as Chatham's sons were sent to another war, in Vietnam, and the nation geared up to begin its war on drugs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe History Press
    Release dateApr 16, 2010
    ISBN9781614231585
    Chatham: From the Second World War to the Age of Aquarius
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    Debra Lawless

    Debra Lawless is a freelance writer living in Chatham. She earned a BA in history and classics at Stanford University and an MS in journalism at Boston University. A native of Providence, Rhode Island, she has worked for several newspapers and as a political press secretary. Currently, she writes for the Cape Cod Chronicle, specializing in books and authors. She is interested in historic preservation and the visual arts. Her first book was Chatham in the Jazz Age.

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