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Town of Bourne MA Overview & Map
The Town of Bourne is a medium-sized rural community at the gateway to Cape Cod. Bourne contains the famous Cape Cod canal… -
How Can You Recognize an Original Cape Cod Style House?
How can you recognize an original Cape Cod style house? There are three types, which are very distinct, but they all follow the common Cape Cod pattern, a low, broad frame building, generally a story… -
Comfort Inn Cape Cod Whale Watch & Island Hop Packages
Check out our NEW Family or Couple Whale Watch Packages or Family or Couple Cape & Island Hop Package! -
A Local Perspective
Although I’ve lived on Cape for more than two decades, and my children were born on the peninsula, I’m a wash-a-shore, one of those not so quite endearing words used to describe folks not delivered… -
Whale Watching On Cape Cod - A Truly Spectacular Adventure
If you’re visiting Cape Cod between the months of April and October, one of the most thrilling ways to spend a few hours is on a Cape Cod whale watching trip. It is the quintessential Cape Cod… -
5 Favorite Cape Cod Kayaking Trips
There are dozens of places to go kayaking on Cape Cod from tranquil tidal rivers to crashing ocean surf. With spring just around the corner and people already starting to make plans for their Cape Cod… -
Cape Cod Beaches: Save on Those Pesky Parking Fees!
Cape Cod beaches are some of the best beaches in the world. So it should come as no surprise that there’s a price tag attached to visiting them. But ... if you know how, you can save on the parking… -
Massachusetts Paranormal Institute, Inc.
Headquartered on Cape Cod, The Massachusetts Paranormal Institute provides no-cost, professional and discrete, high-tech investigations into the cause and origin of known or suspected paranormal activity. -
How can I get an Address from GPS Coordinates?
Brian asked: Do you know how I can get an address from GPS coordinates? Obtaining an address from a set of GPS coordinates is known as reverse geocoding. -
Brrrrrrrr!
With the weather here in the single digits the last few nights, I thought it would be appropriate to dig this post out of the archives.… -
Rainy Day on Cape Cod: What to do?
The weather on Cape Cod during the tourist season is usually great for nothing better than going… -
Exclusive Country Clubs in the Rough
Hard economic times leave exclusive country club in a “forced carry” situation. -
How can you tell how old a codfish is?
To age a codfish you need to remove the fish’s otolith. An otolith is a bone located just behind the ear… -
How many tourists visit Cape Cod each year?
According to MA State sources, nearly 6 million people visit Cape Cod each year. 4+ million of those people visit the Cape Cod National Seashore according to the NPS visitor counts. -
Railroad Resurgence: Was The Cape Cod Rail Trail Shortsighted?
Did Cape Cod make a mistake by tearing up the railroad tracks to build bicycle trails? As fuel prices continue to be unstable and the nation’s highways become more congested, transportation experts… -
Declining Herring Stocks and Midwater Trawling
Over the last two decades local herring stocks have been on the decline. Both river herring and ocean herring (or sea herring)… -
Cape Cod Tourism Cooling Off?
Cape Cod tourism trends, Chamber of Commerce reports and season wrap-ups for 2006, 2007 and 2008. -
Cape Cod Railroad
The first railroad to serve the Cape was started in 1847, and ran as far as Sandwich. Ten years later it was extended to Barnstable and Yarmouth. It was originally called the Cape Cod Branch of the… -
Cape Cod Rail Trail
The Cape Cod Rail Trail which first opened in 1979, typically gets 400,000 users a year. The scenery along the bike trail, which used to be the old railroad line (see background), features forested… -
Cape Cod Scenic Tours
Welcome to Cape Cod Scenic Tours! Cape Cod Scenic Tours, based in the mid Cape, specializing in sightseeing tours throughout Cape Cod. Our sightseeing tours are fun filled and leave each visitor… -
Cape Cod Houses Most Popular
The most popular of all styles of houses in America today is almost surely our own Cape Cod style house. Go where you will throughout… -
Too Many Seals, Not Enough Sharks
The growing seal population on the Cape will be an ever increasing problem into the future. As a commercial… -
Driving Directions From New York City to Cape Cod
If driving to Cape Cod from NY City, you are going to take Interstate 95 North through Connecticut and Providence then take Interstate 195 East to Route 25. You will enter the Cape over the Bourne Bridge… -
Without Spirit
For a long time the raising of rooftrees on Cape Cod was a merry occasion, and then for long it was a sober, businesslike time, as witnessed by this dispatch from Wellfleet, August 30, 1829: -
Banking up Cape Cellars
In past times Cape Cod houses had no cellar beneath their main body. That left part of the house exposed below to the open air. When cold weather was seen coming, when leaves began turning and apples… -
Blueberry Paint
The strangely beautiful silver look to the shingles of an old Cape Cod house may sometimes be used as a measurement of its comparative age. -
Cape Half Houses
For purely economic reasons, a newly married couple usually built a half a house, with two front windows, a door to one side of the windows, and a chimney behind the door. -
Sulphur Salvaged From Canal Cargo
On May 5, 1951, despite all the excellent precautions which are taken by Cape Cod Canal officers… -
Cape Cod Ma vs Newport RI
According to Google Trends Cape Cod MA lags far behind Newport RI… -
Yarmouth’s Boast
The widespread interest that people have in the style of dwelling known as the Cape Cod house affords… -
Cape Cod Canal Vision
Miles Standish saw the Cape Cod Canal in his mind’s eye. He was the first person, so rumor has it, to propose that a canal should or could some day be dug from one side of the Cape to the other.… -
Footless Fowl
Just as there are “Cape Cod Cats”, so also is there what some folks call… -
Housing Problem
The early Cape houses varied greatly, according to men’s means, and became more elaborate from generation… -
Sea Captains’ Mansions
The square Georgian mansions of Cape Cod were built by the old-time sea captains. Like everything else on the Cape, they are modest and in good taste. -
The Cape Cod Cottage
An aged Cape Cod house is the first preference of every inlander who dreams of establishing a home here. Either a Half-House,… -
In Barnstable Bay
Typical of the hundreds upon hundreds of shipwrecks that have occurred along the great hook of Cape Cod is the sinking of the schooner Almira. -
The Front Door was for the Minister
Traditionally, a visitor to a Cape Cod style house did not announce himself at the front door. He would conform to one of the oldest native customs and go around to the kitchen or side door. (Most old… -
Canal Will Fail, They Said
The building of the Cape Cod Canal was not accomplished in a day — nor without a great deal of controversy. Skeptics asserted that it would be a failure and would never make enough money to achieve… -
Cape Cod Canal II?
Is the present Canal the second canal that Cape Cod has had? In one sense, yes. For, back in 1717, and doubtless before then, there was a narrow passage of clear water that found its way through “Jeremy’s… -
Half A Chimney Half A Door
We hope that the two persons who first owned the Cahoon House in Osterville got along well together. They would have been an unhappy pair had they not, for they were bound together by the house which… -
Wooden Chimneys
Since, even today, our well made chimneys are often sources of fire risk, it is astonishing to learn that early Cape Codders once used chimneys of wood. -
Inside a Cape Cod House
Cape Cod houses fool people. They are roomier on the inside than anyone judging from their outside appearance, would guess. -
Nary a Painter
An unpainted house today draws attention to itself by the very fact that it is unpainted. It is either a new house not yet ready to live in, or an old, neglected, weather-worn house that, once upon… -
Cape Cod Going North?
The following is a report from 1955 regarding the warming of local ocean waters and it’s effect on Cape codfish stocks: -
Provincetown Creamed Codfish
1/2 pound salt codfish 2 tablespoons butter or margarine 2 tablespoons flour teaspoon pepper 1 cup milk Dash of Tabasco sauce 1 egg, beaten -
Cape Cod Icecapade
Back in 1933-34 the Cape experienced a winter it has not yet forgotten. It was so cold that saltwater ice formed early, first in the various creeks, then in the harbors of Wellfleet and Provincetown,… -
Codfish Economy
Around the year 1750, there lived in Boston, John Welch, a patriot and citizen of importance, and a captain in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. Captain Welch realized the importance of the… -
Widow’s Walk
Widow’s walks or “captain’s walks” are found on houses by the sea, especially the sea captain’s homes of Cape Cod. -
Stovepipe Hole
Everyone knows what a thimble is, but besides the most familiar meaning there is also that of a covering for a stovepipe hole in a wall. Every parlor wall used to have a thimble where the “airtight”… -
The First Booths
When some of the men from Plymouth came to Sandwich to start a settlement of their own they are believed to have built shelters called “booths.” These were efficient but not luxurious.
