Tag: Pages of History
Day Dreaming
The 22 iconic Days Cottages dotting the shoreline in North Truro have attracted & inspired us for the better part of a century.
Read MoreLeave the Light On: Heroic Women Who Lit the Coastal Lighthouses
Throughout history there have been women who have kept the lights burning strong in our coastal lighthouses.
Read MoreWhere None May Land
Nomans Land, south of Martha’s Vineyard, may not be suitable for humans today, but that was not the case in the past.
Read MoreHarwich’s Heated Reckoning
One hot August afternoon in 1848, emotions and beliefs collide in what has become known as the Harwich Mob.
Read MoreThe French Dispatch
The French Cable Station Museum in Orleans occupies some of history’s most memorable moments.
Read MoreIsaac Snow: Revolutionary Pirate & Incorrigible Prisoner
Taking a step back into the Cape’s Revolutionary past reveals the story of Isaac Snow.
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 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 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 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 MoreHome 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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