While everyone else in New England got heavy snow yesterday, we got rain and lots of it, with heavy, heavy winds. With the ground frozen from the frigid temps the past couple of weeks, the water has no place to go, so the puddles on the streets were easily 12″ deep and more.
Bridge Road, near our home, was flooded. The salt marsh was washing right over the road from Cape Cod Bay inland. I have never seen it like this. Bridge Road was closed and the red cones were up so no one would try to venture across and get swept out to sea!
We took a walk around Provincetown and the docks the other day and the Christmas decorations were awesome! So much fun to see how a whaling and fishing town decorates for the holidays.
My favorite one is the huge Christmas tree made of lobster pots and red bows on the green by the dock. So cool, don’t you think?
The Eastham Windmill on the Village Green looks so festive with its holiday lights.
Eastham Windmill was built in 1680 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. About 1770, the windmill was ferried on a log raft across Massachusetts Bay to Highlands in Truro. The windmill made its appearance in Eastham by ox-cart in 1793 and was placed near Salt Pond. Subsequently, the windmill was sold and relocated to its present site on the Village Green across from Eastham Town Hall on U.S. 6. This site has a significant history. Eastham Windmill now sits on the site of Setucket Mill, which was probably constructed by Nicholas Paine in 1705. This land once belonged to Giles Hopkins who sailed here on the Mayflower.
This vintage fire engine is so festive with its holidays lights at the Eastham Fire Station on Cape Cod. It’s really fun to see all of the different holidays lights and decorations throughout the Cape.
We have driven by the Chatham Marconi Maritime Center many times on our way to Chatham but had never stopped in. What a gem!
“In 1914, Guglielmo Marconi built a high powered wireless station in Massachusetts. The receivers were here in Chatham. Our museum tells the story of Marconi, whose company built the station, and how the station’s Morse code operators were able to communicate with ships across the world even a hundred years ago. And it tells the story of the secret role that the station played during WWII.”
There is so much to see and learn at the Marconi-RCA Wireless Museum. What a wonderful place for adults as well as children! You can self-guide yourself through the museum or listen to some of the well-informed guided talks by their dedicated volunteers.
We could have stayed for hours! It is so interesting and a definite to visit if you’re on Cape Cod!
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