Cape Cod

Warm ocean water isn’t good to support fish or plants, they need cooler ocean water. In darker water, like around Cape Cod and Maine, there is more nutrients to support fish life and it is cooler water. Because of this, there is an abundance of food for the fish, so they just constantly eat and eat. The fish North Atlantic are much fatter, contain more muscle, protein/nutrients…

European settlers came from a variety of social and religious groups. Englishmen fled to the New World from a society they found displeasing in many ways with economic and political values being at the forefront. As well as religious turmoil. Adventurers, soldiers, farmers, and tradesmen arrived at the New World. By the time that European settlers arrived around 1600-1650, a significant percentage of the Native Americans living in the eastern United States had been ravaged by new diseases…

During migration, they are found in coastal and deep oceanic waters. They do not come into coastal waters until they reach the latitudes of Long Island, New York, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Humpbacks are divided into several populations. These are for the most part isolated, but with a little interchange in some cases. There are two stocks in the North Atlantic Ocean and two in the North Pacific. There are also seven…

When addressing certain periods in history, historians are keen on focusing their attentions on a few key figures. Granted, those key figures will usually be the ones that stand out the most in era of study. Key figures usually express some or all of these characteristics: leadership, bravery, independence, and confidence. In the early 1600s, we see multiple figureheads with these characters, but John Smith and William Bradford are two who stand out. Both are remembered for their presence in…

My father had a lobster trap and also would dig Quahogs to steam open. He would grind up leftover clams and make his owned stuffed quahogs which were really good. He had the trap in the Cape Cod Canal by the train bridge where he worked for the Army Corps of Engineers. He was always complaining that “somebody” was checking his trap for him at night and on weekends. It didn’t really matter if that was true or not. He would get so many lobsters we would throw the bodies away and just eat the…

When he and the rest of his crew arrived at shore, in Cape Cod, they were almost immediately faced with inaccessibility to the shore and the climate absolutely unbearable. In the midst of the winter, many people were sick and dying. The few people that were spared the pain from sickness took care of the sick…

Many toxins, as I am sure you are aware, originate from plants or animals. The whale ingests lead to stranding to death, seems to depend upon the toxin involved. In 1988, for example, 14 humpback whales examined after stranding along the beaches of Cape Cod were found to have been poisoned after eating tuna that contained saxitoxin, the same toxin that can be fatal in humans. Alternatively, it has also been suggested that some animals strand accidently by following their prey ashore in the…

Abraham Lincoln once said, “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” My mother-in-law, Kathy Litke, lived this quote every day. She was an extraordinary woman who shared her many positive traits with those around her through both her words and actions. She aspired to please others and inspired those of us who knew her to follow her example. When asked to describe her, I created a list of the “top seven” words that portray who Kathy Cockayne Karish…

Capes’ had the ability to persuade, but most importantly, he appeared to be a rare normal server that Japes would collaborate with during his hotel career. To Japes, a normal server was someone that could have thrived in many different fields. Capes fit right in and was extremely organized and disciplined in hotel operations. He was brought in to organize the food and beverage…

Kurt Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana to Kurt Sr. and Edith Vonnegut. His father was an architect and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy brewer. Kurt Jr. was the youngest of their three children. The Depression brought many changes to the Vonnegut household. Kurt Sr. had to sell the house and Kurt Jr. was taken out of private school. In his teen years, Vonnegut wrote for the student paper, The Echo, and he continued his interest in journalism at Cornell,…