Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands - Part 2
From: WCAI / WNAN
Series: Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
Length: 05:23
Each story is set in one of the fifteen towns on Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
Part 2 -- Hunger in Chatham: Food pantries are distributing record amounts of food as more and more families find themselves unable to earn a livable wage.
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Each story is set in one of the fifteen towns on Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Part 2 -- Hunger in Chatham: Food pantries are distributing record amounts of food as more and more families find themselves unable to earn a livable wage.
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Monomoy Island is Lynne Fletcher O'Brien's favorite spot in the world. As many of the mainland's residents leave, this is where the gray seals come from as far away as Canada to spend the winter. When she's away, O'Brien daydreams about being here with the seals, at home in Chatham.
Lynne Fletcher O'Brien: "Probably my best memories are the band concert on Friday nights, with penny candy and balloons, the Fourth of July parade, going to The Squire in my college years."
Cape Codders would call O'Brien a "wash ashore," a summer resident raised someplace else. It's true that the 41-year old mother lives in Virginia, and grew up in New Jersey, but Chatham is where she baptized her three children. It's where she was married and where she would prefer to die. So it came as a great surprise to her when she learned just recently that there were hungry people in Chatham.
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