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EASTHAM Cape Cod’s Outer Beach has always been known for its shipwrecks. Between 1626 and the mid-20th century, this solitary 40-mile stretch of what is now the outer beach of the Cape Cod National Seashore saw the demise of more than 3,000 vessels.
It’s been said that if all the wrecks were raised, one could walk from Provincetown to Chatham without getting his or her feet wet.
Since 2015, Don Wilding has been writing the popular “Shore Lore” column for The Cape Codder, often focusing on maritime tragedies. He has now compiled some of those columns and more research for his third book, “Cape Cod Shipwrecks: Stories of Tragedy and Triumph.”
Ask Rufus: Walking Through an Architectural History of Columbus The Ole Homestead is a vernacular raised cottage that was apparently purchased or constructed by Charles Abert when he moved to Columbus in 1825. It is the oldest building known to have survived within the original town limits of Columbus. Courtesy photos
Rufus Ward
The South Side Historic District in Columbus is an architectural gem with about 250 homes on the National Register of Historic Places. It provides a place where in a less than an hour walk through the western part of the district you are carried through 200 years of architectural history. The neighborhood encompasses a delightful sampling of Columbus’ architecture, history and stories.
TAHLEQUAH â The Cherokee Nation is celebrating the life of Sequoyah and his influence as a cultural icon in an exhibit at the Cherokee National History Museum.
As part of the bicentennial celebration of the Cherokee syllabary, âSequoyah: An American Iconâ shares details about Sequoyahâs historic achievement and its impact on the Cherokee people. The exhibit will run through Dec. 31.
âSequoyahâs legacy continues 200 years after the introduction of the syllabary to the Cherokee people,â said Krystan Moser, CN manager of cultural collections and exhibits. âThis accomplishment, something not done by any other single person in recorded history, has cemented Sequoyah as an icon not just in Cherokee history, but American and even world history.â
Sam Whiting and Nora Mishanec February 23, 2021Updated: February 25, 2021, 10:24 pm
Lawrence Ferlinghetti at his apartment in North Beach in March 2018. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle 2018
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the first poet laureate of San Francisco, was so beloved that on Tuesday, Feb. 23, a day after his death at age 101, Supervisor Aaron Peskin closed the regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors with a four-minute memorial sermon that went uninterrupted.
Peskin touched on the great poet’s internal contradictions as both a Navy man and a pacifist, and his abiding belief that the funkiness of North Beach must be protected, which Ferlinghetti himself did by cranking his red jalopy truck up and down the steep hills and along Columbus Avenue. By the end of his speech, Peskin was visibly emotional.