To get to Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, you take the exit to Route 6A and drive the winding road toward Dennis. After passing the Cape Cod Center for the Arts and the Bass River Rod and Gun Club, along with multiple cape cod–style houses, garden nurseries, and art galleries, you are reminded that you are in the heart of New England by streets named Oxford and Canterbury, Longfellow and Walden Way.
When you reach the Elegant Inn at Cape Cod you make an awkward left turn onto Summer Street, and just down the road you take the third entrance into the Woodside Cemetery. It’s not long before the names on the stones begin to sound less like the WASPish ones attached to those buried in the front of the cemetery and more like those who arrived on the Cape many generations later: Vogel, Ridman, Kaufman, and Epstein.
When you come to the simple dark stone covering his grave just off the narrow road, you realize that the person buried here was no ordinary summertime resident, but rather someone who lived through—and helped shape—a historic period of American history. The stone reads:
Morris Berthold Abram
June 19, 1918–March 16, 2000
He established “one man, one vote”
as a principle of American law