Also here: the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, with exhibits on Cape ecosystems. Route 6A through Dennis and Brewster, which boasts more 19th-century homes of sea captains. Nickerson State Parkįrom Yarmouth stay on Mass. Nearby, the oriental treasures carried home by its sea captain owner fill the 1840 Greek Revival Captain Bangs Hallet House. Longtime resident Mary Thacher bequeathed her collection of 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century furniture, along with the circa 1780 Winslow Crocker House, to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Continue to the Yarmouth Port, part of greater Yarmouth. In the 1800s, scores of sea captains lived in town many of their houses still stand.
Route 6A is Barnstable, settled in 1639 and for years thriving on fish caught in the Great Banks. Proceed east from Sandwich along Sandy Neck beach (off Sandy Neck Road), a splendid barrier beach of low dunes a 6.2-mile (ten-kilometer) trail leads to the Sandy Neck Light.
A look at Gary Cooper's 1930 Duesenberg alone is worth the price of admission (and a good deal more). Among the many exhibits is a working 1912 carousel, Currier & Ives lithographs, military firearms, and one of the nation's finest collections of classic automobiles. Set on the manicured grounds of a former estate just outside town, the Heritage Museums and Gardens of Sandwich showcase all kinds of reconstructed historic buildings. The author's colonial-era home contains early editions, original Harrison Cady illustrations, and a gift shop filled with Burgess books. Burgess Museum honors the Sandwich native who wrote The Adventures of Peter Cottontail and other classic animal stories for children. Also dating from the 17th century, the adjacent water-powered Dexter Grist Mill still turns out delicious stone-ground (organic) cornmeal, which can be purchased on site. Across Sandwich's tree-shaded village center stands the beautifully preserved Hoxie House, which dates from the 1600s and may very well be the Cape's oldest saltbox house. Reproductions are available in the gift shop. The Sandwich Glass Museum preserves much of the best works from all different eras. The many kinds of decorative and table glass-clear and colored, blown and pressed, cut and engraved-made Sandwich famous. Settled by Puritans in 1637, this town flourished in the 19th century as a glass-making center. Proceed east from Sagamore to Sandwich, the oldest town on the Cape.
Visitors can watch artisans blow, shape, and finish glassware. The first town will be Sagamore, where the Pairpoint Glass Company carries on the local tradition of hand blowing lead crystal into functional and decorative items. Start in SagamoreĬross the Sagamore Bridge from the mainland to Cape Cod. You'll proceed farther south to Chatham, then head back west toward the mainland, cruising through Hyannis and Falmouth. You'll begin this 160-mile (257-kilometer) circuit at Cape Cod Canal, on the Cape's northern coast, and follow the contour of Cape Cod Bay to the Cape's "elbow." From there you'll drift north to Provincetown, then retrace your way back south to Orleans. This drive takes in virtually all of Cape Cod: the quiet villages along the bay side, the beautifully desolate dunelands of the outer Cape's national seashore, lively Provincetown, and the busy resorts that face Nantucket Sound. There are capes all along the New England coast, but when anyone talks of "the Cape," the meaning is immediately clear. A drive around Massachusetts' vintage Cape Cod serves up miles of beaches, restful resort towns-and, yes, lobster and clam shacks.
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