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

Program for Sunday, October 31, 2021  Amy Whorf McGuiggan writes a monthly column about the Cape’s historic cemeteries for the Provincetown Independent. She will introduce us to several of them, sharing her research and a few of her favorite stories. We’ll discuss the current state of these sacred places and how more people can engage with them.  A longtime summer resident of Provincetown, McGuiggan has documented her Whorf family back to 1760. All but one generation are buried in Provincetown. … Continue reading 31 Oct 2021: Outer Cape Cemeteries: The Stories They Tell

Program for Sunday, August 22, 2021 Delilah Sampson Gibbs left us with very few but very intriguing and fascinating records. She is known as a “widow and last of her tribe” in this vicinity. She is a mysterious figure in Wellfleet’s history. Her step-mother-in-law was Patience Gibbs, a Negro woman born in Yarmouth, who lived on Patience Brook. Drusilla Cole Laha was a white woman who was a member of the Congregational church along with Patience. All three women were … Continue reading 22 Aug 2021: “Wellfleet’s Last Indian? Delilah Gibbs and her Contemporaries” with Sheryl Jaffe

Program for Sunday, July 11, 2021 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 11 Jul 2021: Shipwrecks of Cape Cod: Stories of Tragedy and Triumph with Don Wilding

“From Cape Cod to Plymouth and Back Again,” with historian Don Wilding. Program for Sunday, February 9, 2020 Since the start of the millennium, Don Wilding has been telling stories of Cape Cod Outer Beach history through lectures, video, and the written word.  An award-winning writer and editor for Massachusetts newspapers for 30 years, Don pens the popular “Shore Lore” history column for the Cape Codder newspaper of Orleans, and is the author of two books, “Henry Beston’s Cape Cod: … Continue reading 9 Feb 2020: Provincetown and the Pilgrims