1927 Video Shows Boat Passing Through Cape Cod Canal
The Cape Cod Times’ CapeCast video team has dredged up (pun intended) rare and historic footage from a boat passing through the Cape Cod Canal in 1927. The video including footage of the old Bourne,...
View ArticleExploring West Island off Little Compton, RI
If you’ve ever boated past West Island at the mouth of the Sakonnet River in Rhode Island, you might have noticed 3 stone pillars standing in a field of weeds. Believe it or not, these are the remains...
View ArticleWW II SPARS to Speak at Castle Hill, RI
Two members of the Coast Guard SPARS who served during World War II will speak at Station Castle Hill, Rhode Island, this Friday, September 12. Known as Semper Paratus Always Ready, SPARs was the...
View ArticleExhibit Showcases Staten Island Sailors
An exhibit currently at the Noble Maritime Collection on New York’s Staten Island examines the life of sailors living on Staten Island more than a century ago, according to an article on NYTimes.com....
View ArticleRon Howard Film Examines Ordeal of Whaleship Essex
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-BGufhQSLY Nantucket’s whaling heritage will soon be coming to a movie theater near you. Ron Howard, who has directed some of the biggest movies of the last 30 years, from...
View ArticleArticle Explores Hartford’s Relationship with the River
Hartford Courant: In the beginning, the people and their river were as one. Indeed, the Connecticut River and its fertile valley were the reason the first European settlers plunked themselves down in...
View ArticleCape Cod Man Recalls Sub-Hunting Days
CapeCodOnline: At 89, Samuel Abbott Jr. has some problems with his short-term memory; but he can remember the sounds and sights more than 70 years ago as if he were still sitting in a sonar hut...
View ArticleNew London to Host Dedication of USS Thresher Memorial
On November 29, 2014, from 1:00 to 3:00, the New London Public Library will host a dedication of a memorial in honor of the crew of the USS Thresher (SSN 593), which was lost at sea with 129...
View ArticleArticle Recalls Menemsha’s Harpoon Swordfish Heyday
The Vineyard Gazette posted an article on the passing of Herbert Slater, a former harpoon swordfisherman from Menemsha Harbor, a major source of swordfish landings on the East Coast in the 1950’s,...
View ArticleMystic Seaport to Restore Mayflower II
Mystic Seaport and Plimoth Plantation have announced a collaborative project to restore and repair Mayflower II, a full-scale reproduction ship owned byPlimoth Plantation in Massachusetts. Work on the...
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