Mary Rogers Bangs

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Mary Rogers Bangs

A Cape Cod writer and local historian, she is best remembered for bringing the region’s people, coastline, and seafaring past to life in early 20th-century books. Her work blends storytelling with a strong sense of place, making old New England feel vivid and close at hand.

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Old Cape Cod : $b the land, the men, the sea

Old Cape Cod : $b the land, the men, the sea

by Mary Rogers Bangs

About the author

Mary Rogers Bangs was an American author known for writing about Cape Cod and New England. Her best-known book, Old Cape Cod; the land, the men, the sea, was published in 1920, and library records also show other works including High Bradford.

The surviving record available online is fairly limited, but her published work suggests a writer deeply interested in local history, landscape, and community memory. Rather than writing in a distant academic style, she helped preserve the feel of coastal Massachusetts through readable, place-centered books.

Today, she is chiefly remembered through those books and the historical picture they offer of Cape Cod in the early 1900s. For listeners drawn to regional history, maritime life, and New England settings, her work still has a quiet appeal.