Tag: Pages of History

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…

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

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…

Cape Cod Healthcare: from dire beginnings to an essential present. On October 2nd, 1920, Cape Cod Hospital first opened its…

Imagine a world in which the wealth of the richest towns and cities revolves around the pursuit and hunting of…

Before people began to take flying machines—and even space bound shuttles and rockets—for granted, the innovations in flight fascinated much…

Author Sue Mellen takes a look at the thriving theater community across the Cape & Islands in her new book.…

Every spring, for thousands of years, the sites of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History and the Stony Brook…

Pocasset was the influential childhood home of one of America’s most accomplished figures who was present at some of the…

Take a trip back in time to the event that shaped our nation, and commemorate those who came before us…

Winter Storms may be a common occurrence for Cape Codders, but they certainly leave their mark. “Blizzard ’05 worst on…

Brother & Sister Of Liberty West Barnstable’s own James and Mercy Otis played integral roles in the founding of America…