10:00 a.m. Sunday, June 25, 2023 John Cumbler will present ways to understand our history through our different uses of its resources based upon different systems of organizing the harvesting and utilization of those resources from pre-white to the present. He has identified three “regimes of resource utilization” on Cape Cod. Given our present crisis of climate change, this provides an interesting perspective. This presentation will not be available via Zoom. Originally from Doylestown, PA, John Cumbler is a social … Continue reading 25 June 203 – “Cape Cod’s History Through the Lens of Energy, Work and Technology” with John Cumbler

10:00 a.m. Sunday, April 16 Coordinator of the Wellfleet Historical Society & Museum, Sheryl Jaffe, will speak about the re-interpretation of Wellfleet Historical Society & Museum Native artifacts exhibits: “Before 1620, Who Was Here?” and “Delilah Gibbs, Wellfleet’s Last Indian?” Jaffe will address how working with Wampanoag educator and historian Linda Coombs has helped to re-frame the stories of our shared history on the Outer Cape.

10:00 a.m. Sunday, October 16, 2022 Through stories and pictures, Ellen English will take us deep into the little known history of Pond Village, the neighborhood around Pilgrim Pond in North Truro. In the 1900s, vibrant industries thrived in Pond Village including candle making, weir fishing, fish freezing and canning. Ellen, a member of the Truro Historical Society’s  board, will share her research, drawing on many sources including the Society’s rich collection of documents and artifacts. All are welcome. Live … Continue reading 16 Oct 2022: “Pond Village, North Truro” with Ellen English

Program for Sunday, July 10, 2022 Cape Cod’s outer beach has always been known for its shipwrecks. Between 1626 and the mid-20th century, this solitary 40-mile stretch of beach and sandbars saw the demise of over 3,000 vessels. It’s been said that if all the wrecks were raised, one could walk from Provincetown to Chatham without getting his or her feet wet. Join Cape Cod historian Don Wilding, author of the new book, Shipwrecks of Cape Cod: Stories of Tragedy … Continue reading 10 Jul 2022: “Shipwrecks of Cape Cod: Stories of Tragedy and Triumph” with Don Wilding

10:00 a.m. Sunday, June 26, 2022  American Realist Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is most often associated with Truro, where he and his wife, Josephine, spent their summers and where Hopper did some of his most well-known paintings. But in her diaries, Jo remarks that Eastham was one of her husband’s favorite towns on the Cape. In this illustrated talk, broadcast journalist Bob Seay shares insights gleaned from years of researching Hopper and his paintings of Eastham locations and landscapes, and in particular Hopper’s … Continue reading 26 Jun 2022: “Edward Hopper’s Eastham” with Bob Seay

Chapel in the Pines Sunday Program for June 19, 2022 via Zoom only Abolitionist Frederick Douglass famously asked, “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” On Sunday, June 19, Meadow Dibble will ask members of the Nauset Fellowship and their guests to consider “What to the Cape Codder is Juneteenth?” What, in other words, do we have to do with slavery? As the Founding Director of Atlantic Black Box, Meadow will share the discoveries that caused her to launch this … Continue reading 19 Jun 2022: Atlantic Black Box: Researching New England’s Complicity in Slavery