Category: History

Revisiting an iconic Cape Cod Baseball League Game, professional MLB players & well-known coaches reminisce about the way the Cape itself can influence the flow of a game.

At a new exhibit at the Cahoon Museum of American Art, history is recorded through scrimshaw by the whalers who knew their quest better than anyone else.

You are invited to Craigville’s 150th birthday celebration! The story behind the first vacation community on Cape Cod.

Creating Cape Cod: A new exhibit is a tour of vacation history at Heritage Museums & Gardens.

Kingman Yacht Center has been at the center of Cape Cod maritime activity since 1932.

For almost 100 years, women have slowly, but most assuredly, been making their mark on Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

For nearly 100 years, The Cape Playhouse has been home to idols of the stage and screen. Its storied history…

Inspired by the stories he was told as a young boy, his love of fishing & Ireland, East End Eddie…

The Garden Club of Hyannis celebrates 400 years of Cape holidays with a magical transformation of South Yarmouth’s historic Cultural…

In the classic 1970 reggae song, “400 Years,” Peter Tosh of The Wailers decries the painful legacies of oppression, exile,…

From the 1600s until today, this ancient Orleans ‘hundred-acre wood’ has flourished in hands that cherish the land with patience…

As Jack Torrance completes his introduction to the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s 1977 classic supernatural thriller, “The Shining”, the “in-season”…

Today life is all about speed and instant gratification. Innovations like smartphones, GPS, high-speed internet, streaming music and movies, have…

The intricate restoration of America’s most famous ship, the Mayflower II, and its journey back home to Plymouth. On April…

In an early chapter of the epic novel “American Gods” Neil Gaiman relates the story of a ship of sailors…

Unlike Brooklyn Dodgers fans, whose connection to their “Boys of Summer” is wistful, baseball fans on Cape Cod have a…

One of the Cape’s most iconic lighthouses stands not upon the dunes of the National Seashore but at a bend…

Sites to See and Places to Be Across the Cape and Islands Upper Cape: Bourne • Sandwich • Falmouth •…