"Only one major road wound its way through the village of Cape Porpoise. Thus, motorists traveling on U.S. Route 9 invariably found themselves in the heart of the community at what we called the Square. Generally it was a rapid experience. A store on their right, a fire station on their left, one moment of inattention and they were gone. As a friend of mine once said, "By the time I had figured out that I was there, I wasn't!" But for those of us who grew up at the Cape, the Square was a special place, a town common, interwoven into the fabric of our daily lives.-- It was also the place where all the children of the Cape would gather to catch the school bus each morning."
Tom Bradbury