I ka ʻoiaʻiʻo, ʻelua Cape Cods. ʻO kekahi Cape Cod he mea mākaʻikaʻi ʻo Meka. He wahi ia o ka ʻaina maikaʻi, nā iʻa a me nā ʻōpala, nā hale kiʻiʻoniʻoni waho, a me nā hale nani nani e nānā pono ana i ke kai. ʻO kēia ka Cape Cod i hoʻopiha ʻia me nā bungalows aloha a me kahi kiʻi maikaʻi loa i lilo ia i kumu no nā kiʻiʻoniʻoni Hollywood he nui. ʻO kēia ka Cape Cod o ka poʻe waiwai, i kaulana e ka ʻohana John F. Kennedy a me nā moeʻuhane. He wahi hamama ia i piha i na kanaka mai kela ame keia mokuaina, ka lahui, ka hoomana, a me ka moe kolohe e hele mai ana ka poe malihini e paani a lealea i kona mo'omeheu a me kona nani maoli. ʻO kēia ka Cape Cod o nā mea kākau, haku mele, a me nā mea pena.
Akā aia ka lua o Cape Cod. ʻO kēia Cape Cod kahi ʻāina kahi i haʻi ʻia ai ka ʻōlelo Pelekania wikiwiki me ka leo New England e hōʻike ana i ka heluna kanaka e noho ana ma ke kai. He ʻāina kēia i hoʻomaopopo i ka hāʻawi ʻana a me ka lawe ʻana o ka moana a hiki i ka ʻĀkelanika ʻĀkau ke anuanu a kala ʻole. Hana ka lawai'a i ko lakou ola mai ke kai mai, a hele pinepine i ka moana aole nae e hoi mai.
I loko o kahi honua ʻenehana, ʻo ka lawaiʻa maʻamau e hōʻike ana i ka wā i hala, he wā i hala e pono e hoʻokūkū me kahi manawa i piha i ka mākaʻikaʻi waena e ʻimi nei i ka wā i hala, akā i ka ʻimi ʻana i ka wā i hala e hoʻopilikia i kona ola moʻomeheu. Pehea e hoʻokumu ai i ka modus vivendi o ka wā e hiki mai ana he pilikia moʻomeheu, kino, hoʻokele waiwai, a me ke kaiaola. Pono nā mea i hala a me kēia manawa i kahi hula "Malthusian" ʻē aʻe o ke ola a me ka make, democracy, a me elitism.
ʻOiai nā pilikia, ʻaʻohe kānalua he nani ʻo Cape Cod. Nui a lokomaikaʻi nā hale o ka poʻe waiwai a hoʻomanaʻo i ka poʻe e hele aʻe ana i loko o nā hale mahiko "hema" i kūkulu ʻia ma ka ʻāina ʻEnelani o ka makahiki i hala, akā me ko lākou mau lau mua e nānā ana i ke kai. Aia nō i nā kikowaena kūlanakauhale ko lākou nani, a ua piha kā lākou mau hale kūʻai i nā mea a pau mai nā lole "penny" hoʻokahi a hiki i nā lole wahine nani a mai nā ʻupena lawaiʻa a i nā lako.
Hōʻike hou kēia ʻokoʻa pāʻoihana i ka ʻoiaʻiʻo he ʻelua Cape Cods e noho ʻaoʻao ana ma ka liʻiliʻi no kekahi mau mahina mahana i kēlā me kēia makahiki. A laila, pau ke kauwela i ka mea i kapa ʻia e ka poʻe kamaʻāina ʻo "Kauka India." ʻO kēia kahi hāʻule lōʻihi a nani kahi e hana ai nā kumulāʻau i kahi "symphony of leaves" i hoʻonohonoho ʻia i ke kua o ke kai hina hina. I ke anuanu o ka ea, hiki mai ka hau, haʻalele ka poʻe mākaʻikaʻi, hoʻomaka nā kauhale hiamoe e ala hou mai ko lākou moe ʻana, a ola hou ka Cape Cod o ka wā i hala.
I kāu huakaʻi huakaʻi, ʻo wai ʻo Cape Cod āu e koho ai e kipa aku?
He aha e lawe ʻia mai kēia ʻatikala:
- This Cape Cod is a land where the brisk and rapidly-spoken English pronounced with a New England accent symbolizes a population that lives by and from the sea.
- In an industrialized world, the classical fisherman represents the past, a past that must compete with a present filled with middle-class tourism which seeks the past, but in pursuit of the past also endanger its cultural survival.
- The homes of the rich are large and gracious and remind the passer-by of being in mythical “southern” plantation homes set in the English countryside of yesteryear, yet with their front lawns overlooking the sea.
