Category: History
Foggy Memories
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.
Read MoreOf Ink and Bone
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.
Read MoreYou Are Invited to Craigville’s 150th Birthday Celebration!
You are invited to Craigville’s 150th birthday celebration! The story behind the first vacation community on Cape Cod.
Read MoreHalcyon Days of Yore
Creating Cape Cod: A new exhibit is a tour of vacation history at Heritage Museums & Gardens.
Read MoreFrom PT Boats to Leisure Craft
Kingman Yacht Center has been at the center of Cape Cod maritime activity since 1932.
Read MoreHerstory of Discovery
For almost 100 years, women have slowly, but most assuredly, been making their mark on Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Read MoreA Century of Stars
For nearly 100 years, The Cape Playhouse has been home to idols of the stage and screen. Its storied history…
Read MoreA Celtic Fishing Legacy – Century Old Gear
Inspired by the stories he was told as a young boy, his love of fishing & Ireland, East End Eddie…
Read MoreA Holiday Showcase for the Ages
The Garden Club of Hyannis celebrates 400 years of Cape holidays with a magical transformation of South Yarmouth’s historic Cultural…
Read More400 Years of Gratitude
In the classic 1970 reggae song, “400 Years,” Peter Tosh of The Wailers decries the painful legacies of oppression, exile,…
Read MoreThree Centuries of Flowering
From the 1600s until today, this ancient Orleans ‘hundred-acre wood’ has flourished in hands that cherish the land with patience…
Read MoreTaking a Shine to Bradford’s Ace Hardware
As Jack Torrance completes his introduction to the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s 1977 classic supernatural thriller, “The Shining”, the “in-season”…
Read MoreWelcome to Cape Cod
Today life is all about speed and instant gratification. Innovations like smartphones, GPS, high-speed internet, streaming music and movies, have…
Read MoreA Homecoming to Remember
The intricate restoration of America’s most famous ship, the Mayflower II, and its journey back home to Plymouth. On April…
Read MoreThe Cod-ification of the Cape
In an early chapter of the epic novel “American Gods” Neil Gaiman relates the story of a ship of sailors…
Read MoreHistory of the Cape Cod Baseball League: The Sons of Summer
Unlike Brooklyn Dodgers fans, whose connection to their “Boys of Summer” is wistful, baseball fans on Cape Cod have a…
Read MoreThe Lighthouse of Hyannis Port
One of the Cape’s most iconic lighthouses stands not upon the dunes of the National Seashore but at a bend…
Read MoreTown Profiles
Sites to See and Places to Be Across the Cape and Islands Upper Cape: Bourne • Sandwich • Falmouth •…
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