We call our home (7 Doane Way) “ The Big Cottage” or “The Barnes Cottage” and that’s because our parents Ellen & Jack Mahaney are next door in their home known as  “The Little Cottage”  and/or  “My Fair lady.”  In 1963 my parents rented a cottage on the Heights for a two-week family vacation.   It was called “The Salt Box” and the “Yoke” which is on the corner of Iyanough and Nauset Heights Road and now owned by Jan Smith.  That first summer we drove as a family (Mom and Dad and 4 little kids) from Waterbury, CT  to our first ever Nauset Heights family vacation.

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