Beach Restoration
- Gordon Peabody points to a sand fencing field erected at Ryder Beach in Truro to help stabilize the path connecting the parking lot to the beach.
Implementing Appropriate Technologies
Hard Engineered Solutions
Soft Solutions
Work of Safe Harbor
Provincetown has long been a popular nuptial site for couples to get married at even before gay marriage was sanctioned in Massachusetts, which has exponentially increased the number of couples seeking a Provincetown marriage license. Local lore recounts that there used to be so many couples seeking marriage licenses that in order to attain one the couple had to kill a quota of crows for the service of the town, a species whose population had become rampant. Over time the requirement changed to the planting of dune grass. While this piece of oral history has not been verified for factualness it would have been an apt symbolic gesture for a couple seeking to put down roots and create a solid foundation, which the planting of dune grass can do for shifting sand. Presently there is no requirement for attaining a marriage license but dune grass is still routinely planted throughout Provincetown and the remainder of the Cape.
