The Occupy Chatham South Beach Shack had a close call with the high tides of "Winter Storm Grayson" (or whatever the hell that they're calling it) on Thursday, but the seaside shrine has survived to see another day. The shack's "front yard is full of sand, & we lost the sea saw, but The Shack still stands, flag flying in the Arctic blast," the shack's Facebook page reported on Friday. Much like the case of the Old Harbor Lifesaving Station in 1977, the surf made it to the sha

When one seeks the solitude and seclusion of a shack on Cape Cod's Outer Beach, the journey almost always involves a lengthy walk or four-wheel drive ride through miles of shore and sand, not to mention the arrangements that might need to be made weeks or even months in advance. It's not always a world that you can just reach out and touch. Yet, just about a quarter of a mile southeast of the Chatham Lighthouse, facing the "Cut" along South Beach, stands a shrine to that oute