Buzzards Bay riviera

Sippican Harbor, in Marion, Mass. on the South Coast

Adapted from Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocal24.com

I read in GoLocalProv the other week that Residential Properties, the Providence-based company that has a particular affection for high-end customers, has set up an office in Westport, Mass. No wonder! The South Coast region has drawn many more summer and year-round home buyers in the past few years, drawn by the beautiful rolling countryside (with vineyards and farms), Buzzards Bay, which is remarkably warm in the summer, and  the ease of getting to the area.

It’s lured a lot of people who in prior years might have gone to Cape Cod or the Hamptons.

This migration has shot real-estate prices through the roof on the South Coast (in which I’d include the coastal towns from Little Compton all the way to Marion (but excluding New Bedford). The big surprise to me is how long it took so many people to discover it.

Dartmouth High School logo

One man’s honor, another’s insult

The voters of Dartmouth, Mass., on the South Coast, have backed – 4,048 to 969 -- the retention of the almost-abstract face of a Native American brave as the logo for the town’s high school.

Some members of the locally dominant Wampanoag Tribe wanted it gone. But other members find it a dignified and respectful reminder of the original inhabitants of what became Dartmouth.  The logo was designed by  Wampanoag  Tribe member Clyde Andrews.

Taking offense can be an unpredictable and highly individual thing.