The Depot Master: A Comedy of a Cape Cod Town
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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The stationmaster of a Cape Cod town — depot master, unofficial magistrate, and the only man everyone tells things to — is handed a runaway boy, a disputed will and a summer visitor with an alias. Lincoln built a whole career out of one place; the humour is in the talk, and the talk is transcribed from a village he had listened to all his life. Fifty-seven plates by Winslow Homer and Edvard Munch, among others, show boys, guides and village figures from 1841 to 1925, matching the small-town characters who fill the depot.
The stationmaster of a Cape Cod town — depot master, unofficial magistrate, and the only man everyone tells things to — is handed a runaway boy, a disputed will and a summer visitor with an alias. Lincoln built a whole career out of one place; the humour is in the talk, and the talk is transcribe...
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Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870–1944) was an American writer from Brewster, Massachusetts. He set many of his works in the Cape Cod region, drawing on its dialects and coastal life. His novels include The Depot Master, The Woman-Haters, and Galusha the Magnificent.
Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870–1944) was an American writer from Brewster, Massachusetts. He set many of his works in the Cape Cod region, drawing on its dialects and coastal life. His novels include The Depot Master, The Woman-Haters, and Galusha the Magnificent.
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