where is "the Cape"? why ""Cape" is capitalized? In Hyannis Port a cousin, Ann Gargan, had just put Joseph P. Kennedy down for his afternoon nap. They had watched the one o'clock news together—though an invalid, the tough old Ambassador wanted to know which of his children were making headlines—and Ann was about to leave the Cape for a visit with her sister in Detroit. The President's mother was also lying down. Ann was being zipped up by the Ambassador's nurse, Mrs. Rita Dallas.