by Steve Lam | Sep 11, 2014 | History
Cape Cod has long been synonymous with fishing. Yet up until the widespread adaptation of refrigeration and icing, the fishing industry was reliant upon salt to preserve its catch, simply put without salt there would have been no fishing. Before the railroad, the only...
by Steve Lam | Sep 5, 2014 | History
Sometimes the decline of Cape Cod’s fishing industry is referred to in a way that makes it sound like a recent development. In truth, the decline has been ongoing for over a century. By the time that this photo was taken in 1944 the effects of the long-term...
