Cape Cod - Index

Cape Cod - travel_guide_2008 - Index

■ cape & islands cultural coast
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Traverse the art, history and traditions of the
Massachusetts Cultural Coast
Within a short distance of the coastal beauty of Cape Cod and the Islands
lies the continuing story of the region’s history and culture. This region,
know as the Massachusetts Cultural Coast, embraces the entire area south of Boston
surrounding and including Cape Cod. When you visit Cape Cod and the Islands,
plan to extend your stay and take in the history, art and culture that spawned a nation.
There are few places in America like the Cultural Coast, where visitors can take
in hundreds of extraordinary sites in such close proximity - like the first landing place
of the Pilgrims at First Encounter Beach in Provincetown; the crossroads of the
village of Plymouth, home of the first sustaining colony in the New World; the once
thriving whaling capital of the world at the port of New Bedford; or the birthplaces
of two presidents, father and son, at the Adams homestead in Quincy. Out of those
momentous beginnings comes a legacy of art and culture dating back to the native
crafts of the Wampanoag people of Mashpee and the melodic sea shanties of the
fisherman of Nantucket. These are the treasures of the Massachusetts Cultural Coast.
The thrill of this place is not in the postcards of lighthouses, wooden ships, and
presidential mansions, but in the stories of the lighthouse keepers, the sailors and the
political architects that made this land south of the port of Boston their home.
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