Popular Culture
- The New England social critic Edward Everett Hale in a lecture in 1903 suggested that Cuttyhunk Island, rather than Roanoke Island in North Carolina, is the setting for William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. Such theories are based more on folklore and supposition than historic documentation.
- On June 24, 2005, Cuttyhunk was the last stop of the Boston Red Sox World Series Trophy tour.
- The island is the subject of a song in William Finn's musical A New Brain. The song is entitled "Sitting Becalmed in the Lee of Cuttyhunk."
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