Ben Thacher and his family have enjoyed a long history on Cape Cod. Thacher, who lives in East Dennis, is a native and calls himself on the cover of this memoir “an
old Cape codger.” In this memoir, which primarily covers the 1920s and 30s and moves into World War II, readers will find the really old Cape Cod, the one where the houses we now revere as antique were just somebody’s grandpa’s house. The book is dotted with photos and Thacter’s prose and the poems he includes are dotted with a type of authentic down-home humor that’s practically gone out of style.