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...

Originally published in The Cape Codder, Sept. 3, 2015 There’s a whole lot of history lurking between the headstones of Eastham’s Bridge...

For many people, the “Perfect Storm” of 1991 was something experienced through the pages of a book or on the silver screen. But here on...

The temperatures are starting to drop, but my schedule of Cape Cod History walks and talks is picking up as we move into fall on Cape...

Don is now booking walks and talks for the upcoming fall, winter and spring seasons. In addition to his popular Rum Running, Shipwrecks,...

The Eastham Hiking Club will conclude its 2018-19 season this month before taking a summer recess. Below is the essential information for...

As many of you know, a pretty full schedule of Cape Cod history classes and lectures for January and February had to be abruptly canceled...