Earlier today, New England Fishmongers reported spotting an orca off Cape Cod. Orca sightings aren’t all that common around here, but...

In her book, Journey to Outermost House, Nan Turner Waldron wrote of quiet places, “for what Victor Frankl called ‘creative loneliness,’...

Here in New England, and in particular, Cape Cod, you’re never completely safe from the grip of winter woes until, oh, maybe, Memorial...

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,...

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....

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...

The anticipation surrounding the arrival of winter storms in the northeast took on new meaning following the monster weather event known...

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...

“A northwest snow squall was blowing across the sedgy marshes and the dunes, ‘seeming nowhere to alight’ in the enormous landscape, and...

On Jan. 18, 1903, Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi made history on the bluff of South Wellfleet when the first wireless radio...

When Guglielmo Marconi transmitted the first wireless message across the Atlantic Ocean in 1903, it was an accomplishment that would...

As the mercury has plunged across Cape Cod since Christmas, memories of frigid winters past quickly come to mind. In recent years, who...

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...

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...

Originally published in the Cape Codder, Dec. 11, 2017 When Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, it ushered in some of...

“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...

Originally published in the Cape Codder, Dec. 1, 2015 Here on Cape Cod, there’s two classes of walkers: those who ‘stroll’ … and then...

The Eastham Hiking Club continues its 2019-20 season in November and December. Below is the essential information for the group, which...

During the American Revolution, one of the great adversaries of New England colonists was the fearsome presence of the British man-of-war...

Originally published in the Cape Codder, Oct. 25, 2019 Since Cape Cod has quite an extensive history, it’s only natural that the...