Don Wilding
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,...
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Don Wilding
- May 16
- 2 min
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...
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Don Wilding
- May 12
- 1 min
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,’...
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Don Wilding
- May 9
- 3 min
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...
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Don Wilding
- Feb 22
- 3 min
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,...
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Don Wilding
- Feb 13
- 2 min
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....
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Don Wilding
- Feb 7
- 2 min
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...
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Don Wilding
- Feb 5
- 4 min
1978: A place in the history books
The anticipation surrounding the arrival of winter storms in the northeast took on new meaning following the monster weather event known...
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Don Wilding
- Feb 4
- 3 min
Donald McMillan and a North Pole Pioneer
On the evening of Monday, Oct. 17, 1949, Provincetown icon Donald B. MacMillan was on hand at a meeting of the Orleans Rotary Club, and...
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Don Wilding
- Jan 22
- 2 min
The Snow of the Outer Cape
“A northwest snow squall was blowing across the sedgy marshes and the dunes, ‘seeming nowhere to alight’ in the enormous landscape, and...
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Don Wilding
- Jan 19
- 3 min
Marconi's Messenger: Wellfleet's Charley Paine
On Jan. 18, 1903, Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi made history on the bluff of South Wellfleet when the first wireless radio...
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Don Wilding
- Jan 15
- 2 min
Marconi's journey to Wellfleet
When Guglielmo Marconi transmitted the first wireless message across the Atlantic Ocean in 1903, it was an accomplishment that would...
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Don Wilding
- Jan 15
- 2 min
The ‘Arctic Winter’ of 1875
As the mercury has plunged across Cape Cod since Christmas, memories of frigid winters past quickly come to mind. In recent years, who...
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Don Wilding
- Apr 19, 2020
- 3 min
Old Harbor Lifesaving Station Tour
In August of 2019, I had the opportunity to go on a tour of the Old Harbor Lifesaving Station at Race Point in Provincetown. Here's a...
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Don Wilding
- Dec 2, 2019
- 1 min
When Underdog came to Cape Cod
It’s not often that mainstream cartoon characters make their way to Cape Cod, but it happened in Sandwich over a half-century ago. During...
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Don Wilding
- Dec 1, 2019
- 3 min
Christmas in Ptown: the war years
Originally published in the Cape Codder, Dec. 11, 2017 When Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, it ushered in some of...
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Don Wilding
- Nov 9, 2019
- 2 min
Beston was there for veterans
“Support the Troops.” It’s heard a lot these days. Henry Beston, author of the Cape Cod classic, “The Outermost House,“ knew what it was...
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Don Wilding
- Nov 2, 2019
- 5 min
Tackling the Cape's tough terrain
Originally published in the Cape Codder, Dec. 1, 2015 Here on Cape Cod, there’s two classes of walkers: those who ‘stroll’ … and then...
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Don Wilding
- Nov 2, 2019
- 3 min
Eastham Hiking Club: Remainder of 2019
The Eastham Hiking Club continues its 2019-20 season in November and December. Below is the essential information for the group, which...
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Don Wilding
- Nov 1, 2019
- 3 min
Cape Cod and the Somerset's demise
During the American Revolution, one of the great adversaries of New England colonists was the fearsome presence of the British man-of-war...
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