SUFFOLK If walls could talk, the white mansion atop the hill off Everets Road would have a lot to say. The area has changed quite a bit since a local sea captain built the home using oak trees on ...

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Six hundred sea captains made their homes in the small town of Dennis from the 1600s to the early 1900s. ... Phyllis Horton, an 89-year-old native of Dennis Port, ...

A century or so after that brouhaha over witches, this Federal-style mansion overlooking Salem Common was built for a sea captain, and in the 200 years since, only six families have owned it.

When a retired medical provider from Florida and her daughter bought a 19th-century sea captain’s home in Searsport in 2019, they knew a lot of restoration work would have to be done to bring it ...

An unusual gate made of a finback whale’s jawbone at an old-time sea captain’s house on the Cape Cod National Seashore has been taken down because it was cracked and infested by insects and ...

Q. My grandfather received this sextant from a sea captain in Bouctouche, N.B. I am 88 years old. It is brass, ivory and wood and 38 cm in length (15 inches). I see no markings on it. I’m ...