Brewster, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts, is something of a perfect moment captured in a lost photo. That’s a perfect metaphor for the place, because the town is still small enough that one can get pleasantly and gloriously absorbed into the network of social life that happens here. It’s also a place where one can find the most intimate relationship with solitude, and just spend some time being and breathing with the waves. These are both perfect circumstances for a vacation that feels like a postcard, but the good news is that it’s really not out of reach at all.

Thousands of visitors do come to the town in the summer months, and in the high season there’s plenty of things to do for all the members of the family. It’s also a pretty place to visit in the off-months, and fall is particularly lovely. But the summer is the time and the season for the hotels. Brewster engages its visitors with graciousness and a warm welcome, and it’s a difficult place to leave. It’s attracted people for a long time now, and the recent finding of a photograph that was thought to be lost in time attests to that.

In 2008, a family was going through their old photos, and found one of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan when they were vacationing here. The family remembers Helen, who felt the mother’s face , and seemed to approve. This was one of their favorite vacation spots, and she apparently loved Cape Cod because she could play in the water, and learned how to splash around without being afraid of it. The photograph is also very telling, and very important, because Helen is holding a doll in her lap. Anne gave her a few dolls in the years that they worked together, and in fact it was her first gift to the little girl. It meant so much to Helen, that “doll” was the very first word she would ever spell.

Keller Vacationing in Brewster is a post from: Your Moment is Now

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