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The Nantucket Historical Association recently added an unusual item to its map collection: an embossed outline map of Nantucket, tucked in the back of the…
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Just north of Route 6-A in West Barnstable, a narrow path runs through a nature preserve to the edge of what looks like a pond. It’s actually the flooded…
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Just off route 6A in Yarmouth Port sits a former Universalist Meeting House called Strawberry Hill, built in 1836. It was converted into a private…
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WCAI has operated from a former sea captain's house in Woods Hole since the station’s founding in 2000.“This building was called the Captain Thomas Davis…
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The Cape Cod musical group, the Solstice Singers, has been performing for over a quarter century. They sing mainly medieval and Renaissance songs,…
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Cape Cod’s fire towers –like the one at Howlands Park Hill in Falmouth - have played a major role in helping to detect fires for over a century – and…
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Later this week, most of us will sit down to a Thanksgiving meal, just as the Pilgrims’ did after their first year in Plymouth. But Thanksgiving as we…
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Last year, archaeologist Craig Chartier and his team of volunteers located the site of the original Chatham homestead of William and Anne Nickerson, two…
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A pre-Halloween event in Falmouth called ‘A Night with the Watchman’ presents local history with a lighthearted twist. It’s held at the Dr. Francis Wicks…
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The mural at the Cape Cinema movie theater is one of the Cape’s largest, most unusual works of art.The Cape Cinema opened in June, 1930. It was built by…