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3 unusual facts about Hyannis


E. Digby Baltzell

On August 17, 1996, while vacationing at his summer home, Baltzell was stricken with chest pains and hospitalized at Hyannis, then was moved to Boston, where he died at Brigham and Women's Hospital, aged 80.

G. Wayne Miller

Then he took a staff writer position at the larger Cape Cod Times in Hyannis, and subsequently worked at The Providence Journal.

The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority

Year round passenger and auto ferry, as well as freight service is operated to Nantucket from the mainland terminal in Hyannis, Massachusetts.


Colgan Air

Colgan Air Flight 9446, a Beech 1900D operated for US Airways Express as a non-revenue "ferry flight" hit the water off the coast of Yarmouth, Massachusetts shortly after taking off from Barnstable Municipal Airport in Hyannis, MA.

Continental Express

In the past, Trans-Colorado Airlines of Denver, CO, Royale Airlines of Shreveport, LA, Air New Orleans, of Birmingham, AL, Mid-Pacific Airlines, of Honolulu, HI, City Express, of Toronto, Ontario, Colgan Airways, of Manassas, VA, Southern Jersey Airways, of Atlantic City New Jersey, and Gull Air, of Hyannis, MA, have operated non-jet aircraft using the Continental Express brand name.

Howard Mitcham

James Howard Mitcham (1917 in Winona, Mississippi – August 22, 1996 in Hyannis, Massachusetts) was an American artist, poet, and cook best known for his books on Louisiana's Creole and Cajun cuisines and that of New England, with an emphasis on seafood.

Lego gun

On January 29, 2013 a Hyannis, Massachusetts parent reported that her 5-year-old son was threatened with suspension after making a lego gun in an after school program.

Miguel Pou

In 1906, he completed the methodology course in teaching drawing at the Hyannis Normal School (now the Hyannis State Teachers College) in Massachusetts, United States.

Nassau Broadcasting Partners

WHYA 101.1 Hyannis - Adult Hits (Now owned by Codcomm Inc. as top 40 station)

Old Colony Railroad

In the spring of 1854, construction continued, with the railroad reaching Barnstable village May 8, Yarmouth Port May 19, and finally Hyannis on July 8, 1854.

Theodore H. White

A week after the death of JFK, Jacqueline Kennedy summoned White to the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port to "rescue" her husband's legacy.

Yarmouth Train Station

The Old Colony Railroad built a new station in the Town of Yarmouth in 1878 at the junction where the Hyannis branch turns to the south towards Hyannis and the former main line continued east to Provincetown.


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