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"From shipwrecks to wild storms -- if it happened on the coast of Cape Cod, prolific author Don Wilding has written about it." -- Chatham Living By The Sea Magazine, 2024
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Don Wilding
Feb 5, 20224 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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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Don Wilding
Apr 19, 20203 min read
Old Harbor Lifesaving Station Tour
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...
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Don Wilding
Dec 2, 20191 min read
When Underdog came to Cape Cod
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...
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Don Wilding
Dec 1, 20193 min read
Christmas in Ptown: the war years
Originally published in the Cape Codder, Dec. 11, 2017 When Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, it ushered in some of...
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Don Wilding
Nov 9, 20192 min read
Beston was there for veterans
“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...
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Don Wilding
Nov 2, 20195 min read
Tackling the Cape's tough terrain
Originally published in the Cape Codder, Dec. 1, 2015 Here on Cape Cod, there’s two classes of walkers: those who ‘stroll’ … and then...
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Don Wilding
Nov 2, 20193 min read
Eastham Hiking Club: Remainder of 2019
The Eastham Hiking Club continues its 2019-20 season in November and December. Below is the essential information for the group, which...
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Don Wilding
Nov 1, 20193 min read
Cape Cod and the Somerset's demise
During the American Revolution, one of the great adversaries of New England colonists was the fearsome presence of the British man-of-war...
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Don Wilding
Oct 31, 20193 min read
Spooky tales from the Cape tip
Originally published in the Cape Codder, Oct. 25, 2019 Since Cape Cod has quite an extensive history, it’s only natural that the...
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Don Wilding
Oct 30, 20193 min read
Touring Eastham's oldest graveyards
Originally published in The Cape Codder, Sept. 3, 2015 There’s a whole lot of history lurking between the headstones of Eastham’s Bridge...
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Don Wilding
Oct 28, 20193 min read
‘Perfect Storm’ legacy endures
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...
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Don Wilding
Sep 27, 20191 min read
Cape history walks, talks this fall
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...
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Don Wilding
Aug 28, 20192 min read
DW's Cape Cod booking talks now
Don is now booking walks and talks for the upcoming fall, winter and spring seasons. In addition to his popular Rum Running, Shipwrecks,...
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Don Wilding
May 5, 20192 min read
Hiking Club season winding down
The Eastham Hiking Club will conclude its 2018-19 season this month before taking a summer recess. Below is the essential information for...
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Don Wilding
Mar 1, 20191 min read
Back in the Saddle ... Sort of
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...
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