Behind him in the doorway of the station stood Captain Sol himself. The blue cap he always wore was set back on his head, a cigar tipped upward from the corner of his mouth, and there was a grim look in his eye and about the smooth shaven lips above the short, grayish-brown beard.
Captain Sol Berry, the Depot Master, won’t admit that he still loves Olive Seabury, the women he was too stubborn to marry thirty years before. Now a Wealthy banker from off-Cape wants to tear down her home to raise his own mansion on her lot, and everyone in the Cape town of Harnis (don’t look for it on a map) is waiting to see what the captain will do about it.
The story takes place on Cape Cod at the turn of the last century when the locals were starting to notice the changes in their world brought by the wealthy off-Cape visitors. Captain Sol hosts the locals every evening at the Harnis Depot where stories are traded while they wait for the evening train. The stories they trade bring these vivid characters, small-town Cape Codders to salty life as they relate an automobile journey that ends on a boat, a scandal at a football match, or the search for romance on a fog-bound river.
The story of Captain Sol and Olive winds around the stories traded at the Harnis Depot where Captain Sol holds court. The stories provide a rich image of the changing times. It is full of salty characters living in the Cape Cod of yesterday when locals gathered together every day to talk, trade stories and laugh over their successes and losses.
Table of Content
Table of Contents
At the Depot
Supply and Demand
‘Stingy Gabe’
The Major
A Baby and a Robbery
Aviation and Avarice
Captain Sol Decides to Move
The Obligations of a Gentleman
The Widow Bassett
Captain Jonadab Goes
In the Great Metropolis
A Vision Sent
Dusenberry’s Birthday
Effie’s Fate
The ‘Hero’ and the Cowboy
The Cruise of the Red Car
Issy’s Revenge
The Mountain and Mahomet
About the author
Joseph Crosby ‘Joe’ Lincoln (1870-1944) , the son of a sea captain, was born in Brewster on Cape Cod. Beginning in 1904 with Cap’n Eri, he wrote over forty novels spinning ‘yarns’ of the lives of the people who lived and worked on Cape Cod. He said of the Cape, ‘There is a serenity of life there and a friendliness that is nurtured by the peaceful surroundings. I love Cape Cod.’ His tales are filled with the wit, pastimes, romances and sometimes the prejudices that reflect a Cape Cod now gone by. He wrote over forty novels with sales ranging from 30, 000 to 100, 000 copies.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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