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The African Meeting House on Nantucket was consecrated in 1825. Two hundred years later, it still stands.

U.S. Coast Guard Certified Lampist Tom Cumella was on Nantucket this week lending his expertise to the Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum, which has a lens that's due for a checkup.

Linda Coombs lives in Mashpee and wrote Colonization and the Wampanoag Story, which came out last year. A committee in Texas moved the book to fiction after an anonymous complaint.

'The preservation of history is crucial,' says Provincetown historian Stefan Anikewich, who scours archives and curates his finds at @provincetownarcheology.

The 45,000 people who live in Cape Cod's Old Kings Highway Historic District are required to get approval from local committees for visible solar installations. Those who have had their solar plans challenged or denied have described the committees’ decisions as inconsistent, arbitrary, and subjective.

To get to the Wellfleet cottage designed by renowned Modernist architect Marcel Breuer, you drive a mile into the pitch-pine woods over a road of sand.

The overall goal of a new bill proposed by state senator Julian Cyr is to establish solar within historic districts across the state as a public necessity, just like utility poles and wires and other systems.

The brig, called Industry, was hunting for sperm whales when it went down in a storm in 1836. It’s a unique find — in part because of the multiracial crew, said Monica Allen, director of public affairs for NOAA Research, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Dave Garner of Orleans loves maps and he has an extensive collection of them. Every once in a while, he’s willing to give one up, and that will happen at…

Nearly 60 years ago, the Russians were the first to put a satellite into space. They were the ones to beat in the space race. But the collapse of the…