Jim Coogan is a Cape Cod Author. Raised in Brewster, he has spent a lifetime collecting stories about the Cape. Over the last three decades, Jim has written thirteen books, five for children. His book, Sail Away Ladies, received the U.S. Maritime Literature award for best sea-related non-fiction work in 2005. A former Cape Cod Times columnist, Coogan is a frequent speaker on topics related to Cape Cod History. His latest book, Cape Cod Passage, has over 50 stories written in novel form that cover the Narrow Land from the ice age to the Kennedys. He lives in Sandwich, Massachusetts.

Presented by Mike Parlante and the Wellfleet Historical Society

2023 Series: Building Relationships, Building Equity: Acknowledging the Continuing Wampanoag Presence on Cape Cod. We Still Live Here

All events are free.

"America" was built upon European contact and and the imposed colonization of Indigenous people.  These processes must be recognized and acknowledged for the history of this country to ever be understood in rightful context, or to develop a culture of balance, peace and respect. Understanding Wampanoag narrative and culture is part of the foundation to uplift outcomes for healthier communities on Cape Cod and the Islands. This series of events will help to make intentional efforts to address disparities in the greater community.

Join Linda Jeffers Coombs for a discussion of Delilah Sampson Gibbs who is known as a “widow and last of her tribe” in this vicinity. Delilah left us with very few but very intriguing and fascinating records. She is a mysterious figure in our town’s history. Linda Jeffers Coombs is an author and historian from the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah).

The MLK Action Team of Nauset Interfaith is excited to announce this series of events.

Live Here (Film and Discussion)
July 11, 2023
6:00 PM
Eastham, Chapel in the Pines
Linda Coombs

Mashpee Nine (Film and Discussion)
August 3, 2023
6:00 PM
Wellfleet Library
Paula Peters

Guided Walks and Stories
New Moon
September 16, 2023 (rain date September 17, 2023)
10:00 AM
Wellfleet woods and waterways
Marcus Hendricks

Poetry Reading and Visual Arts
September 19, 2023
6:00 PM
Eastham Library
Robert Peters

Before 1620, Who Was Here? and Delilah Gibbs, Wellfleet’s Last Indian?December 6, 2023
1:00 PM
Wellfleet Library
Linda Coombs

Wampanoag Museum Visit
October 20, 2023
1:00 PM
Mashpee Wampanoag Museum
Anita Peters

Holistic Healing: Indigenous Voices
Roundtable Discussion: Institutional and Systemic Disparities in the Health Care System
November 2023
Date, time, and location TBA

For more information email: capecodmlkactionteam@gmail.com

A perfect way to celebrate Halloween by exploring “haunted” Wellfleet! Be brave and join one of our lantern-lit walking tours. See places where people say they’ve encountered ghosts, and hear your guide tell stories of other local hauntings past and present. This eerie, one-hour tour departs promptly at 8 pm from the Wellfleet Historical Society & Museum on October 26 and 30.

Cost is $15 per person. To guarantee a spot, please book early as space is limited to 15, including children.

Thursday October 26 and Monday October 30 at 8:00

A perfect way to celebrate Halloween by exploring “haunted” Wellfleet! Be brave and join one of our lantern-lit walking tours. See places where people say they’ve encountered ghosts, and hear your guide tell stories of other local hauntings past and present. This eerie, one-hour tour departs promptly at 8 pm from the Wellfleet Historical Society & Museum on October 23, 26, and 30.

Cost is $15 per person. To guarantee a spot, please book early as space is limited to 15, including children.

Thursday October 26 and Monday October 30 at 8:00

2023 Series: Building Relationships, Building Equity: Acknowledging the Continuing Wampanoag Presence on Cape Cod. We Still Live Here

All events are free.

"America" was built upon European contact and and the imposed colonization of Indigenous people.  These processes must be recognized and acknowledged for the history of this country to ever be understood in rightful context, or to develop a culture of balance, peace and respect. Understanding Wampanoag narrative and culture is part of the foundation to uplift outcomes for healthier communities on Cape Cod and the Islands. This series of events will help to make intentional efforts to address disparities in the greater community.

2023 Series through December 2023: “Building Relationships, Building Equity: Acknowledging the Continuing Wampanoag Presence on Cape Cod”

The MLK Action Team of Nauset Interfaith is excited to announce this series of events.

Live Here (Film and Discussion)
Postponed

Mashpee Nine (Film and Discussion)
August 3, 2023
6:00 PM
Wellfleet Library
Paula Peters

Guided Walks and Stories
New Moon
September 16, 2023 (rain date September 17, 2023)
10:00 AM
Wellfleet woods and waterways
Marcus Hendricks

Poetry Reading and Visual Arts
September 19, 2023
6:00 PM
Eastham Library
Robert Peters

Wampanoag Museum Visit
October 20, 2023
11:00 AM
Mashpee Wampanoag Museum
Anita Peters

Holistic Healing: Indigenous Voices
Roundtable Discussion: Institutional and Systemic Disparities in the Health Care System
November 18, 2023
Wellfleet Preservation Hall

For more information email: capecodmlkactionteam@gmail.com

I Remember Wellfleet
The Arts

October 18th, 7 pm at the Wellfleet Public Library

For many years painting, singing, writing poetry, playing music, and acting have been deeply embedded in Wellfleet culture. Everyone has memories of music teachers, instruments played, their first time acting in a school play, and neighbors of exceptional artistry. 

Added to home grown talent, visitors have carved their niche in Wellfleet’s culture. Drawn by both a majestic ocean and the solitude of a cottage in the woods allowing for uninterrupted creativity, artists, writers, musicians, and actors found Wellfleet a place offering escape and community.

Come and share your stories as WHS&M Board Member Dwight Estey guides us through another hour of I Remember Wellfleet. 

The postponed Ropeless Buoy talk is now scheduled for October 16 th at 6pm at the Library.

Join Henry Milliken, NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole, and Regina Asmutis-Silvia, Executive Director of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation’s North American office, in Plymouth for a discussion of the ropeless buoy. This event will be held at 6:00PM at the Wellfleet Library and is free of charge with donations welcome.

Dwight Estey will present the life story of Wellfleet’s most famous resident - the oyster! having been both a wild-picker and a commercial shell fisherman, Dwight knows of what he speaks. For fifty years he’s walked the flats observing the changes in the Wellfleet oyster fishery. What he doesn’t know firsthand, he’s learned through research and talking to many “real old-timers.” His subject, the oyster, hasn’t changed. It was critical to sustaining native Americans and the colonists. As its popularity spread, so did the name Wellfleet, giving outsized importance to a small community on a fragile sliver of sand. The Wellfleet oyster continues to help drive the local economy providing livelihood for your families. As a current member, former president of the Wellfleet Historical Society & Museum Board of Directors, Dwight has given countless talks and walks focusing on his favorite subject - the oyster. This presentation will include new material, looking closely at the people who made the “Wellfleet Oyster” famous - or were made famous by it. The event is free to the public.

One of the best ways to see Wellfleet is to walk the village with a local historian. Beginning and ending at WHS&M, these 90-minute guided tours provide an overview of the town’s history, simple identification of architecture, and anecdotal accounts of long-ago local characters. Participants learn about historic buildings, pass beautiful landmarks, and explore charming hidden lanes.

The tour includes 1.0 miles of walking with occasional uneven ground.

One of the best ways to see Wellfleet is to walk the village with a local historian. Beginning and ending at WHS&M, these 90-minute guided tours provide an overview of the town’s history, simple identification of architecture, and anecdotal accounts of long-ago local characters. Participants learn about historic buildings, pass beautiful landmarks, and explore charming hidden lanes.

The tour includes 1.0 miles of walking with occasional uneven ground.

One of the best ways to see Wellfleet is to walk the village with a local historian. Beginning and ending at WHS&M, these 90-minute guided tours provide an overview of the town’s history, simple identification of architecture, and anecdotal accounts of long-ago local characters. Participants learn about historic buildings, pass beautiful landmarks, and explore charming hidden lanes.

The tour includes 1.0 miles of walking with occasional uneven ground.

One of the best ways to see Wellfleet is to walk the village with a local historian. Beginning and ending at WHS&M, these 90-minute guided tours provide an overview of the town’s history, simple identification of architecture, and anecdotal accounts of long-ago local characters. Participants learn about historic buildings, pass beautiful landmarks, and explore charming hidden lanes.

The tour includes 1.0 miles of walking with occasional uneven ground.

One of the best ways to see Wellfleet is to walk the village with a local historian. Beginning and ending at WHS&M, these 90-minute guided tours provide an overview of the town’s history, simple identification of architecture, and anecdotal accounts of long-ago local characters. Participants learn about historic buildings, pass beautiful landmarks, and explore charming hidden lanes.

The tour includes 1.0 miles of walking with occasional uneven ground.