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Falmouth’s ‘Inconvenient Legend’: Melvin Reine Dies

Written by Laura M. Reckford

EAST FALMOUTH – As a light snow fell, the first of the season, six family members of Melvin J. Reine Sr. stood around his gravesite at St. Anthony’s Parish cemetery last Tuesday morning. The gravestone had been pre-carved with his name and 1939, the year of his birth. Space had been left for the date…

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About the author

Laura M. Reckford

Laura M. Reckford is co-founder of Cape Cod Wave. She has been a reporter and editor on Cape Cod for more than 20 years in magazines, newspapers and radio. She has also authored numerous Frommer's Travel Guide editions on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.

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