Don Wilding
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...
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Don Wilding
- Feb 15
- 5 min
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...
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Don Wilding
- Feb 14
- 3 min
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,...
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Don Wilding
- Feb 9
- 2 min
‘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....
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Don Wilding
- Feb 6
- 3 min
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,...
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Don Wilding
- Feb 5
- 2 min
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...
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Don Wilding
- Dec 31, 2022
- 1 min
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...
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Don Wilding
- May 25, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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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