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"From shipwrecks to wild storms -- if it happened on the coast of Cape Cod, prolific author Don Wilding has written about it." -- Chatham Living By The Sea Magazine, 2024
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The Outer Cape and Pearl Harbor’s aftermath
Like much of the United States, Cape Cod was touched in many ways by the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, which opened...
Don Wilding
Dec 7, 20242 min read
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Farewell to a Cape Cod Hall of Famer
When I began to visit Cape Cod back in 1996, my first order of business to indulge in as many great literary works on the peninsula’s...
Don Wilding
Oct 1, 20244 min read
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Finch’s ‘The Outer Beach’ keeps tradition alive
Cape Cod essayist Robert Finch will be at Titcomb's Book Shop in Sandwich on July 20. Below is a review I wrote of Finch's book, "The...
Don Wilding
Jul 12, 20233 min read
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Stockton Rush and the Andrea Doria
Seven years ago, I had the opportunity to meet and interview Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate, after OceanGate’s Cyclops I captured images...
Don Wilding
Jun 22, 20234 min read
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Setting Sun, Rising Tide
It was a double feature at Paines Creek Beach in Brewster tonight, as the tide began creeping in just as the sun was dropping below the...
Don Wilding
May 19, 20231 min read
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Earth Day and The Outermost House
There might not have been a better way to observe Earth Day on Cape Cod than to take in Henry Beston's Cape Cod nature classic, The...
Don Wilding
Apr 23, 20231 min read
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Provincetown’s Grozier and the Boston Post
Provincetown can take credit for many noteworthy people calling the Cape Tip home, but one of the great icons of the media world isn’t...
Don Wilding
Feb 16, 20233 min read
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Tracking the 'Pamet Puma'
It was over 40 years ago that the Outer Cape added itself to the list of homes to cryp-tids, mysterious creatures such as Bigfoot, the...
Don Wilding
Feb 15, 20235 min read
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Shipwrecked in the Storm of February 1802
When three full-rigged ships from Salem set out on the sunny morning of Feb. 21, 1802, none of the men aboard these vessels knew that,...
Don Wilding
Feb 14, 20233 min read
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‘Honest Abe’ descendant in art colony
While the subjects of Cape Cod and Abraham Lincoln are both widely studied in history circles, it’s not often that the two are connected....
Don Wilding
Feb 9, 20232 min read
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Memories of the '78 Storm
On Feb. 5, 1978, Karen McLean found herself sitting on the front steps of Henry Beston’s “Fo’castle,” the seaside retreat where his book,...
Don Wilding
Feb 6, 20233 min read
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The VW bug and the ‘Blizzard of ’78’
Cape Cod’s Outer Beach has a long history of strandings during storms over its long history, but none were quite like the one that...
Don Wilding
Feb 5, 20232 min read
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Pre-order 'Cape Cod & The Portland Gale of 1898'
The year 2023 will see the release of Don’s fourth book, Cape Cod and The Portland Gale of 1898, on May 22. Nov. 26-27 will also mark the...
Don Wilding
Dec 31, 20221 min read
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Coast Guard Beach: What ‘Dr. Beach’ hasn’t told you
In a ritual that’s become as regular as northeasters, traffic jams at the bridges, and no left turns on Route 6 during the summer,...
Don Wilding
May 25, 20223 min read
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Orca spotted off Cape Cod
Earlier today, New England Fishmongers reported spotting an orca off Cape Cod. Orca sightings aren’t all that common around here, but...
Don Wilding
May 16, 20222 min read
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Moving Timelessly Into the Fog
In her book, Journey to Outermost House, Nan Turner Waldron wrote of quiet places, “for what Victor Frankl called ‘creative loneliness,’...
Don Wilding
May 12, 20221 min read
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1977: The Great May Ice Storm
Here in New England, and in particular, Cape Cod, you’re never completely safe from the grip of winter woes until, oh, maybe, Memorial...
Don Wilding
May 9, 20223 min read
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Shipwrecked in the Storm of 1802
When three full-rigged ships from Salem set out on the sunny morning of Feb. 21, 1802, none of the men aboard these vessels knew that,...
Don Wilding
Feb 22, 20223 min read
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Abe Lincoln descendant in Provincetown art colony
While the subjects of Cape Cod and Abraham Lincoln are both widely studied in history circles, it’s not often that the two are connected....
Don Wilding
Feb 13, 20222 min read
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Noel Beyle, the Blizzard, and the Bathhouse
To most people who got through the Cape Cod version of the legendary “Blizzard of ’78,” the night of Feb. 6, 1978, was one stormy...
Don Wilding
Feb 7, 20222 min read
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