Pilgrim's Monument Provincetown

 We journeyed up to Provincetown, which is the most northern point on Cape Cod. The monument to the Pilgrim Landing is so tall!

As the Pilgrims in the Mayflower were heading south, they found very rough seas & almost shipwrecked. They stopped here, but after 6 weeks continued to Plymouth. The soil was too sandy here.

But this is the place where the men signed the Mayflower Compact.

Like everyone else, Steve & I both have quite a few Mayflower people. One stands out of mine.  His name was John Alden & he was a Cooper (barrel maker) who worked his way over here. He was one of the first signers of the Mayflower Compact.

He became the Governor's Assistant for many years. He helped found the town of Duxbury & this is a pic of his house.

In 2015 when we went back east I got to see this house & the Graveyard.

OK back to the Museum.

President Taft attended this. Built 1907-1910

The Museum had a lot of displays on whaling.

When the Whaling industry was waning, Provincetown reinvented itself as an art colony & summer getaway.

This is a whale jawbone.

Many displays about the first people that lived here.

Then we took a tram car down to the old town. It is basically art shops, little shops & restaurants.

This was a long walk along the beach. This was Race Point Lighthouse.

Saturday, 28th

We went looking for more lighthouses.The first was part of a Coast Guard Station.

This is the Nauset Lighthouse.

This is about the first transatlantic cable in 1879.

The cable hut.

These 3 Lighthouses are the 3 Sisters. They were all together on a hill but had to be moved due to erosion.

1838-1911

Another Coast Guard Station

We went to the Salt Pond Visitor Center.

A picture of a original Cape Cod house. Seems to this day, that most of the homes are clapboard or siding that looks like clapboard. Also the gray shingles. They are almost all gray & 2 stories now. It gets kind of tiring!

A Lighthouse Keepers duties.

This is one of the ways they would rescue people off boats.

These news articles were at the time Marconi discovered & built towers for wireless for ship to ship & ship to shore.

Early buildings of Cape Cod.

Cranberries

Salt works.

The early Indian people

At Salt Pond VC.

Some pics along a beach.

We had a nice picnic lunch even though it was a little windy. We went back to the trailer to have a nap for our Saturday night adventure at the drive in.

This was really reliving the past. We picked up a pizza like we used to do with the kids & even when dating. The drive in played 50's 60's music & their commercials were retro. We saw "Top Gun" & "Lost City"  One thing that isn't the same is you pay per person at an exorbitant price, not by the carload.

We got back to the trailer about 12:30 am.