Editing Cape Cod (section)

===Modern era===
[[File:Cranberry Picking on Cape Cod.jpg|thumb|[[Cranberry]] picking in 1906]]

Cape Cod became a summer haven for city dwellers beginning at the end of the 19th century. Improved rail transportation made the towns of the Upper Cape, such as [[Bourne, Massachusetts|Bourne]] and [[Falmouth, Massachusetts|Falmouth]], accessible to [[Boston]]ians. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Northeastern mercantile elite built many large, shingled "cottages" along [[Buzzards Bay]]. The relaxed summer environment offered by Cape Cod was highlighted by writers including [[Joseph C. Lincoln]], who published novels and countless short stories about Cape Cod folks in popular magazines such as ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'' and the ''Delineator''.

[[Guglielmo Marconi]] made the first transatlantic [[wireless]] transmission originating in the United States from Cape Cod, at [[Wellfleet, Massachusetts|Wellfleet]]. The beach below the bluffs where his station was located is now called [[Marconi Beach]]. In 1914, he began construction of a new transatlantic wireless receiver station in [[Chatham, Massachusetts|Chatham]] and a companion transmitter station in [[Marion, Massachusetts|Marion]]. In 1920, the stations were acquired by RCA and, in 1921, Chatham began operations as a maritime radio station communicating to ships at sea using the callsign [[WCC (radio station)|WCC]]. WCC supported the communications of [[Amelia Earhart]], [[Howard Hughes]], [[Richard E. Byrd|Admiral Byrd]], and the ''[[LZ 129 Hindenburg|Hindenburg]]''. Marconi chose Chatham due to its vantage point on the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded on three sides by water. [[Walter Cronkite]] narrated a 17-minute documentary in 2005 about the history of the Chatham Station.

Much of the east-facing Atlantic seacoast of Cape Cod consists of wide, sandy beaches. In 1961, a significant portion of this coastline, already slated for housing subdivisions, was made a part of the Cape Cod National Seashore by President [[John F. Kennedy]]. It was protected from private development and preserved for public use. Large portions are open to the public, including the Marconi Site in [[Wellfleet, Massachusetts|Wellfleet]]. This is a park encompassing the site of the first two-way transoceanic radio transmission from the United States. ([[Theodore Roosevelt]] used Marconi's equipment for this transmission.)

The [[Kennedy Compound]] in [[Hyannis Port, Massachusetts|Hyannis Port]] was President Kennedy's [[summer White House]] during his presidency, and the Kennedy family continues to maintain residences on the compound. President [[Grover Cleveland]] maintained a summer home in the Gray Gables section of Bourne. Other notable residents of Cape Cod have included actress [[Julie Harris]], US Supreme Court justice [[Louis Brandeis]], figure skater [[Todd Eldredge]], composer and radio personality [[Canary Burton]], and novelists [[Norman Mailer]] and [[Kurt Vonnegut]]. Influential natives included patriot [[James Otis, Sr.|James Otis]], historian and writer [[Mercy Otis Warren]], jurist [[Lemuel Shaw]], and naval officer [[John Percival]].