All posts tagged "Cape Cod"
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3.3KArts and Leisure8 Fun Facts About the Striped Bass, the Fish That Fed Plymouth Colony
When it comes to fish, the striped bass ranks right up there with the cod. It has for centuries. It kept the...
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1.7KNew HampshireDaniel Webster Talks With the Fishes
Anyone who happened to go fishing on Cape Cod’s Mashpee Pond before the Civil War might have seen Daniel Webster there with...
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4.1KUncategorizedProvincetown Dune Shacks, Remarkable and Never Repeated
Never have so many world-famous artists and writers lived in such a collection of crappy huts as did the Provincetown dune shack...
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4.0KMassachusettsCape Cod’s Elmer Crowell, the First and Best Decoy Maker
In 1900, an Elmer Crowell decoy sold for $2. In 2007, an Elmer Crowell decoy sold for $1.13 million. And so did...
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4.4KArts and LeisureSandwich Glass Builds a Cape Cod Town
In 1907, a businessman named Cardenio F. King arrived in the Cape Cod town of Sandwich, Mass., to a hero’s welcome. He...
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5.3KMassachusettsJohn Billington Gets Lost: A Window to Plymouth Colony’s Early History
In the summer of 1621, the Plymouth colonists finally had reason for optimism — until 16-year-old John Billington wandered off and got...
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