Category: History

The survival of some of the best-known architectural structures around the globe…can all be credited to good masonry. One doesn’t…

Designer Michael Ferzoco of Eleven Interiors breathes new life into a Truro antique. It’s not often one comes across an…

When Thomas A. Baxendale and his wife purchased Amrita Island in the late 1890s, they must have envisioned erecting their…

Robert Finch’s commentary, “Two Windows,” which appears in The 1858 Map of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, & Nantucket, tells us…

Monomoy Island’s fascinating history includes tragic shipwrecks, wily mooncussers, and acts of selfless heroism. There is no sign of life…

Their age makes them all the more impressive. They are crisp, clean, and expertly framed. They are slices of life, dwelling…

Of Splendid Views, Tough Lies, Fresh Oysters on the Half Shell – and Dollar-a-Day Caddies There isn’t much to see…

Festive crowds lined streets draped in patriotic regalia at Provincetown’s impressive Pilgrim Monument dedication ceremony 100 years ago. Provincetown is…

The Barnstable Bat Company hits a homerun with their custom baseball bats Baseball, the tribulations of the Red Sox aside,…

This article originally appeared in Cape Cod LIFE Arts Annual, 1997. Photography courtesy of Provincetown Art Association & Museum These days,…

Our harvest being gotten in, our Governor sente four men out fowling that so we might, after a more special…

  For decades, one of the Cape’s most memorable summer attractions has been its own amateur baseball league. An organization…

CAPE CODDERS REMEMBER COOLIDGE, CLEVELAND AND KENNEDY “I always come back to the Cape and walk the beach when I have…

‘SELDOM ANY SPLENDID STORY IS wholly true, thought Samuel Johnson. The official version of the Cape Cod Baseball League’s history…