Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, April 21 Climate […]
Archives for April 2022
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Amnesty Day
Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are being held in person. Go to wellfleet-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
For Reference, a New Librarian
Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]
ARTISTS
For Christine Niles, Bigger Isn’t Better
Capturing Provincetown’s light in small paintings
Christine Niles’s narrative challenges the myth, mostly believed by nonartists, that artists are born and not made. “I always enjoyed the arts, but I didn’t feel myself drawn to them […]
CRYPTO-CONOMY
Valuing the Intangible and the Non-Fungible
For Outer Cape artists, NFTs mostly don’t live up to the hype
To those unfamiliar with cryptocurrency and NFTs, the term “non-fungible” sounds more like a type of mushroom than an economic term. But the buzz around non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, has […]
CLOSE LISTENING
A Thousand-Year-Old Text Enters the Auditory Realm
J. Keith Vincent’s new abridged translation of The Pillow Book
A thousand years ago, Sei Shōnagon set down on paper her wry observations of court life in Kyoto, the capital of Heian Japan. What was awkward to Sei? “The back […]
BOOKS
A Walk in Thoreau’s Shoes
Ben Shattuck finds transcendence in the people met along the way
Beginning in the Cape’s dunes, Ben Shattuck’s Six Walks is a meditation on nature in Henry David Thoreau’s footsteps. Desperate to escape recurring nightmares, Shattuck turns Thoreau’s Cape Cod into […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for April 21 through April 27, 2022
Erna Partoll ‘Captures Time’ A show celebrating Erna Partoll runs through May 7 at Berta Walker Gallery, 208 Bradford St. in Provincetown. At age 90, Partoll says, “Painting is capturing […]
FLAG-WAVING
Stars, Stripes, and Sneetches
The ‘People’s Convoy’ calls to mind a Dr. Seuss classic
Barreling northeast on I-35 from Austin to Dallas in early March, my sister, husband, and I tried to ignore the flag-festooned caravan in the right lane. But we couldn’t avert […]
ON POLITICS
Why Rob Galibois Should Be the Next District Attorney
Balancing punishment and prison with intervention and treatment
The role of district attorney is crucially important in our civil society. It offers a unique opportunity to protect citizens, help people when they need it most, and build a […]
VIGNETTE
Garden Helpers
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Broadband on the Narrowland
Weeks ago, I wrote about the lack of progress in bringing better internet service to the Outer Cape. One question that has been raised but never answered in these discussions […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, April 21, 2022
From Steven Stahl and Bob Weinstein
The ‘Docs’ and the Cloverleaf To the editor: The article about the May 10 Truro Planning Board election in the April 14 edition of the Provincetown Independent [“Planning Board Hopefuls […]
OBITUARY
Marie Allene Thibeault, 93, of the Joshua Paine House
Marie Allene Thibeault died on April 9, 2022, in Fairfax, Va. She was 93. Born on April 15, 1928, in Canton, Ohio to Marie Helene (Hickey) and Albert James Smith, […]
OBITUARY
Eleanor Munro, Feminist Art Critic and Writer, Dies at 94
Early in her career in the 1950s and ’60s, Eleanor Munro spent summers in the Litchfield hills of western Connecticut. But in 1969, she married E.J. Kahn Jr., the noted […]
