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Before the Pilgrims celebrated Thanksgiving, local Wampanoags and Indigenous people throughout North America, gathered to give thanks 13 times throughout the lunar, calendar year.
Phyllis Graber Jensen Published on May 28, 2021 Professor Emeritus of Biology Robert M. Chute, who served on the Bates faculty from 1962 to 1992 and as the first director of the Bates–Morse Mountain Conservation Area, died April 28, 2021, at age 95. Below is President Clayton Spencer’s statement to the Bates community. Robert Chute reads his poetry during a reading with other poets at Bates-Morse Mountain in October 2003. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College) Dear Members of the Bates Community, I write with the sad news that Professor Emeritus of Biology Robert M. Chute died A...
Wicked Local Samuel Adams EASTHAM — A document found in the archive room at Eastham Historical Society’s Schoolhouse Museum appears to contain the signature of Samuel Adams. The piece of paper was an official recognition of the appointment of Elijah Knowles as Justice of the Peace in Barnstable County. It is dated June 7, 1785. An article about the discovery was published earlier this week in the Cape Cod Times and noted that Adams was a pivotal figure in both Massachusetts and national history. A delegate to the First Continental Congress in 1774, he signed the Declaration of Independe...