Category: History

Town Profiles
Sites to See and Places to Be Across the Cape and Islands Upper Cape: Bourne • Sandwich • Falmouth •…
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Home is Where the Health Is
Cape Cod Healthcare: from dire beginnings to an essential present. On October 2nd, 1920, Cape Cod Hospital first opened its…
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The Eye of the Universe
Imagine a world in which the wealth of the richest towns and cities revolves around the pursuit and hunting of…
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Cape Cod Kitty Hawk
Before people began to take flying machines—and even space bound shuttles and rockets—for granted, the innovations in flight fascinated much…
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The Great Blue Way
Author Sue Mellen takes a look at the thriving theater community across the Cape & Islands in her new book.…
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“The way it used to was”
Restaurateur and art collector Anton ‘Napi’ Van Dereck told the story of Provincetown through art and food This summer in…
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Endless Summers at Craigville Beach
Some moments in a family’s history are especially significant, shaping the family’s destiny and reverberating through generations. For my family,…
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Gunkholing: Some “Best Of” Days
In this issue of Cape Cod Life my younger brother, Kevin, has written a fine article about our family’s memorable…
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A Century and Counting
Celebrating 100 years in Craigville, one family looks back on their treasured memories with a book filled with history, nostalgia…
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