Old Orleans - Paperback

by Mary E. McDermott (Author)

In Old Orleans: Memories of a Cape Cod Town, Mary E. McDermott takes us to a time when scarlet fever could kill, doctors made house calls, and locals brushed shoulders with celebrities such as Anaīs Nin and Dr. Scholl in Provincetown. These and other poignant memories of a Cape Cod town are preserved in the stories of an Orleans family, bringing local characters and simpler times to life. Told in vignettes spanning from the 1920s to the Baby Boom, these stories preserve the grit and charm of Old Cape Cod.

Author Biography

Mary E. McDermott, a 13th-generation Cape Codder living in Orleans, is the author of Salt in the Veins and Old Orleans: Memories of a Cape Cod Town. She worked for 17 years in the Orleans Assessor's Office and 23 years as a commercial insurance broker at Pike Insurance Agency. She has been a justice of the peace to solemnize marriages since 1976 and has previously published two books of poetry, Tapestry and Handle with Care. Her poems have appeared in several publications including the Christian Science Monitor.