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10 unusual facts about Cape Cod


Candace Hilligoss

She acted at the Cape Cod Playhouse, appeared in a touring production of Idiot's Delight with Nina Foch, performed in television programs produced in New York, and danced at the Copacabana nightclub.

Jane Hope Hastings

With the USO she traveled all over the world, from Cape Cod to Alaska, Brazil to Puerto Rico, and New York to California.

Margarites costalis

This marine species occurs in circum-arctic waters; from Labrador, Canada and Greenland to Cape Cod, USA; from the Bering Strait to Southern Alaska

Poltergeist

Skeptics such as Milbourne Christopher have found that some cases of poltergeist activity can be attributed to unusual air currents, such as a 1957 case on Cape Cod where downdrafts from an uncovered chimney became strong enough to blow a mirror off of a wall, overturn chairs and knock things off shelves.

The Cape

Cape Cod, a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts

The Freeze

The Freeze are a seminal punk rock band from Cape Cod, Massachusetts that came together in 1978 when they were teenagers.

The Golden Boys

The Golden Boys is a romantic comedy, set on Cape Cod in 1905, about three 70-year-old retired sea captains who try to lure an attractive middle-aged woman into marriage.

A romantic comedy, set on Cape Cod in 1905, about three 70-year-old retired sea captains who try to lure an attractive, middle-aged woman into marriage.

Union Planters

Polk became a vice president and oversaw bank operations during Hill's summer vacations in Cape Cod.

Weekly Reader

The most popular was a letter from Uncle Ben about a ride in a German glider on Cape Cod.


Andrew McCord

He was the son of John McCord who came in 1729 from Ireland to Cape Cod with Charles Clinton.

Barbara O'Neil

In July 1931 Bretaigne Windust, Charles Leatherbee (the grandson of Charles Richard Crane), and Joshua Logan, the three directors of the University Players, a three-year old summer stock company at West Falmouth on Cape Cod, were looking for a leading lady for their repertory season that winter in Baltimore.

Barnstable High School

Barnstable is also one of the most diverse schools on Cape Cod due to its population of Cape Verdean, Brazilian, and Portuguese-American families in the community.

Bernard Greenhouse

He died on May 13, 2011 at his home overlooking the Wellfleet, Massachusetts harbor on Cape Cod.

Bridle Path, Toronto

Forsey Page, a Toronto-based land developer, envisioned the Bridle Path as an "exclusive enclave of estate homes" and he built the neighbourhood's first home, a Cape Cod Colonial style home at 2 The Bridle Path.

Brittany Curran

Born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, she also lived in other parts of the Massachusetts area including Avon, Marstons Mills, Cape Cod and Hingham.

Catboat

Historically, they were used for fishing and transport in the coastal waters around Cape Cod, Narragansett Bay, New York and New Jersey.

Charles River Broadcasting

WKPE 104.7 Orleans, Massachusetts/Cape Cod (Classic Rock, not classical) (sold to Cape Cod Broadcasting)

Courtlandt Gross House

The design was influenced by the Dutch Colonial and Cape Cod styles; both styles are unusual in California architecture, and the house resembles 17th- and 18th-century houses in the northeastern United States.

Franklin Hooper

He participated in the first biological summer school at the short-lived Anderson School of Natural History, founded by Agassiz in 1873 on Penikese Island, Cape Cod.

Georges Bank

Georges Bank is a large elevated area of the sea floor between Cape Cod, Massachusetts (USA), and Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia (Canada).

Hutchins F. Inge

In 1970 Inge married Dorothy E. Helme and moved to Osterville, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.

James M. Kelly

He was reassigned in April 1992 to Otis Air National Guard Base in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, as part of Project TOTAL FORCE, where he continued flying the F-15 as an instructor and mission commander.

Linda Coombs

Born and raised in Martha's Vineyard, Coombs lives with her family in the Wampanoag Community in Mashpee on Cape Cod.

Patty Larkin

Patty currently lives with her partner and two adopted children in Truro, Massachusetts, a resort town on Cape Cod.

Pocasset Train Station

The former Pocasset Train Station was located on the Barlows Landing Road in Pocasset, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.

Quequechan River

By the late 1950s with the passing of the landmark Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, the location of the new highway was shifted south and included a high-level bridge across the Taunton River with a route through the center of Fall River through the Narrows and onto New Bedford and Cape Cod.

Renewable energy debate

29 June 2003: After the Cape Wind project was proposed several miles off the coast of Cape Cod, some people raised objections, including U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy who owned a summer home in the area.

Sagamore Train Station

The former Sagamore Train Station was located on Freight House Road in Sagamore, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.

STS-36

Flight rules that prohibited overflight of land were suspended, with the trajectory taking the vehicle over or near Cape Hatteras, Cape Cod, and parts of Canada.

Toward the Sea

The work is divided into three sections—The Night, Moby-Dick, and Cape Cod.