“I knew I had to write this book because I’m the only one who knows the story from beginning to end,” says Anne Peretz from her Truro home. The book […]
Archives for June 2021
DRAG REVIEW
Varla Jean Merman Gives Us a Chance to Breathe
And a calendar of drag for this week
The transition to a post-pandemic world happened at such breakneck speed that, to many, it didn’t feel like a transition at all. After spending 14 long months in quarantine, I […]
VIGNETTE
Summer Luncheon
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
How Critical Race Theory Explains a Harvard Professor’s Error
Reflections of a retired English teacher
In June 1935, Wellfleet summer resident Carleton Coons, a Harvard University professor and archeologist, helped supervise the excavation of Native American remains, stone weapons, and shell fragments in the Hemenway’s […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Conservation
LETTER FROM THE ARTS EDITOR
Self-Editing
I was always taught that a good writer takes a complex topic and reduces it to its most essential elements. Working at the Independent, I’ve learned that a good editor […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 1, 2021
From Ronald R. Fichtner, Ronald A. Gabel, Mike Rice, and David Pines
About Those CDC Data To the editor: Your June 10 Letter from the Editor [“The CDC’s Garbage Data”] could have benefited from more far-reaching explanatory and investigative journalism. Like all […]
TIDE CHART
Provincetown and Wellfleet Harbors
Thursday, July 1, 2021 - Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Know when to hit the flats.
Real Estate Transactions
for the week of June 21, 2021
Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from June 21 to June 25, 2021. PROVINCETOWN June 21. Geoffrey Greenstein and Jeffrey Polson to Matthew Frigault and Joseph Parseghian. 39 […]
William ‘Billy’ Vannoy, 58, ‘Lived the Hell Out of Every Second’
William David “Billy” Vannoy died suddenly in West Hartford, Conn. on June 11, 2021. He was 58. A talented mechanic who trained in the U.S. Air Force in 1981 and […]
Mylan J. Costa, 86, Bank Manager and World Traveler
Mylan J. Costa, former owner of Provincetown’s Moors Restaurant and a longtime local bank officer and board member, died on June 18, 2021 at Cape Cod Hospital. He was 86 […]
Dancer and Teacher June Finch Is Dead at 81
From the Red House on Commercial St., she taught summer classes for 30 years
June Finch, a celebrated member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company with deep roots in Provincetown, died peacefully in New York City on June 18, 2021 after a short illness. […]
CLASSIFIEDS
Classifieds July 1 – July 6, 2021
Neighborly connections about all kinds of stuff
JOBS Bustling downtown P’town used bookstore seeks night clerk. Ability to lift 50 pounds required. Knowledge of literature a plus. You’ll be busy waiting on customers and shelving — high-energy […]
LIBERATION
Juneteenth in Provincetown: Celebration and Education
‘What we asked for is for Black lives to matter’
PROVINCETOWN — Activists, vacationers, local residents, a handful of elementary school students, community elders, drag queens, religious leaders, business owners, and a few politicians gathered at the base of the […]
THE CRISIS
Leaders Issue Call to Action on Housing
Cyr wants ‘a fundamental reimagining of what we are willing to do’
PROVINCETOWN — State Sen. Julian Cyr and Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce CEO Wendy Northcross convened a panel of housing experts last week that focused on what individual towns can […]
