The secret heroes of World War 2 were sworn to a life-long vow of silence that all but wrote them out of history. They were young women covertly recruited and trained as code breakers whose work saved many thousands of lives and helped turn the course of the war.
Read More18,000 visitors descended on Wellfleet’s tiny village downtown for its annual Oysterfest this year. The town’s most entertaining historian tells us why the annual event is a lot more than an excuse for ecstatic beer drinkers from around the world to cheer on people opening mollusk shells.
Read MoreSarah Smarsh was raised on a Kansas wheat farm, the child of generations of teenage mothers and farmers whose hard work only dug themselves into deeper holes. In her bestselling memoir Heartland she talks about how these people are all but ignored as we pretend there is no social class system in America.
Read MoreRoy Cohn sent Ethel and Julius Rosenberg to the electric chair. He was the right hand of Senator Joe McCarthy and taught Donald Trump the deadly art of winning at all costs. And yet, he was at war with the IRS, a closeted gay man, and adored by a surprising number of liberals.
Read MoreThis year’s garden was a heartbreak. The tomatoes didn’t ripen, the weeds were rampant, and the rabbits ate everything. Is it climate change? Incompetence? The Eleventh Plague of Egypt? A horticulturalist explains all.
Read MoreWhile school was once thought of as age-based, people are now encouraged to learn throughout their lifetimes and no other institution on Cape Cod brings together such an array of serious continuing students and accomplished professors.
Read MoreIn today’s world, being dehumanized, and replaced by artificially intelligent machines, is a very real threat. But it can be checked, and even reversed, if we identify and integrate those uniquely human traits that no machine can duplicate.
Read MoreCan you imagine a democratic economy: one that builds prosperity for the many, not just the few? Probably not, but it already exists in businesses across the country…almost invisibly. And until we see what’s possible, we can never envision an alternate future.
Read MoreLenny Federico is a seasonal Recycling Supervisor but he has to deal with a lot more from people than their garbage, often using his professional skills as a teacher of children.
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