The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
Cotuit Library 871 Main St,, Cotuit, MAAfter steaming out of New York City on December 1, 1917, laden with a staggering three thousand tons of TNT […]
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Cotuit Library 871 Main St,, Cotuit, MAWhile much has been written about the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, battled the British, and framed the […]
The Soul of America: The Battle for our Better Angels
Cotuit Library 871 Main St,, Cotuit, MAOur current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham […]
Cape Cod’s Water Quality & What You Can Do About It
Cotuit Library 871 Main St,, Cotuit, MAWhat can we do about Cape Cod's water quality? Andrew Gottlieb of the Association to Preserve Cape Cod will explain […]
Women of Barnstable
Cotuit Library 871 Main St,, Cotuit, MAAlthough women have been half of the population of the town of Barnstable, and often the most influential half, historians […]
Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War
Cotuit Library 871 Main St,, Cotuit, MAIf the United States couldn’t catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? […]
Snowy Owls, Wildlife & Nantucket Sound
Cotuit Library 871 Main St,, Cotuit, MAJoin Zak Mertz, Executive Director of the Birdsey Cape Wildlife Center, for a presentation on birds, like the popular snow […]
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
Cotuit Library 871 Main St,, Cotuit, MAMore than one thousand homes and businesses. Restaurants and movie theaters, churches and doctors’ offices, a hospital, a public library, […]
Cotuit Oral Histories
Cotuit Library 871 Main St,, Cotuit, MASpeakers: Speaker: Phil Odence & Larry Tye Communities have rip-roaring and enriching stories to tell, but they often wait too […]
A History of Howard Johnson’s
Cotuit Library 871 Main St,, Cotuit, MAHoward Johnson created an orange-roofed empire of ice cream stands and restaurants that stretched from Maine to Florida, and all […]
Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
Cotuit Library 871 Main St,, Cotuit, MAIn 1898, in response to a speech calling for white men to rise to the defense of Southern womanhood against […]