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	Podcast:		A Cape Cod Notebook from WCAI
	Episode:		Hidden History of Lombard Hollow
	Category:		Government & Organizations
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	Publish Date:		2017-12-05 09:57:36
	Description:		Sometimes the history of a place speaks to us in indirect, or hidden ways. Yesterday afternoon I took a walk up Lombard Hollow, one of half a dozen or so glacial valleys that run roughly parallel from east to west along the Wellfleet-Truro line. I don’t remember walking up this hollow before in December. It is a different place now, so open and bare, like a room with the walls removed. Its contours seem alive, active. As you walk up the nearly flat, fairly straight road, the ridges on either side loom high and level. Their green shoulders and gentle dark ravines move toward and then away from you. Bleached swamps gape and then close, like sliding stage sets. At first glance there is not much human history to be seen here. Unlike the other hollows in this area, Lombard Hollow contains no houses, nor did it ever, as far as I can ascertain. None of the local histories mention any previous residents, or for that matter, any event of note that occurred here. Nonetheless, despite the lack of
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