In this town, there is a white church on the hill. Mothers stroll with babies in carriages down sidewalked streets, gazing in store windows at pretty yellow dresses. Shopkeepers smile and wave a friendly greeting. The distinctive smell of a beauty salon curls in the air.
People come and go from the post office, linger at an Oriental lunch.
In many ways, it's your typical New England small town. But, in many other ways, it's not. Mashpee Commons is the result of a developer's dream to build a better mousetrap. Or, in this case, a dream to build a better mall. For many years ago on this same spot at the intersection of Routes 151 and 28, there was a regular old 1960s-style strip mall.