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, May 12 Economic […]
Archives for May 2022
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Campground Working Group
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
Family Support Package
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 locations and any […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Rowland Scherman Focused on Hope, Not Darkness
Talking his way into a job as the first Peace Corps photographer
Ukraine, Covid, the GOP, the radical right’s takedown of the Supreme Court — take your pick, or feel free to add your own favorite bogeyman that keeps you up nights. […]
ARTISTS
A Public Exploration of Privacy
Kamrooz Aram’s Chicago exhibition reflects his Wellfleet experiences
Iran and Wellfleet are worlds apart, yet the painter Kamrooz Aram managed to find memories of his native country in the reflections of Wellfleet’s kettle ponds on two visits to […]
SET PIECES
The Art of the Honest Fake
For Arthur Egeli’s 'Art Thief,' John Clayton captures the feeling of lost works
Duplicating a painting that vanished in 1990 might sound challenging. But Provincetown painter John Clayton, who is creating reproductions for Art Thief, a film by artist and gallery owner Arthur […]
MARATHON
Finding Theater, Blubber, and Community in Moby-Dick
A town reads aloud for everything from esoteric insights on blubber to racy bits
PROVINCETOWN — “We don’t want thunder, we want rum!” bellowed reader Larry Williams, channeling the urgency of a stormy scene from Herman Melville’s classic novel, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. When […]
CONSTRUCTIONS
Bz Charts Stories of Home and Elsewhere
An architect with an artist’s eye explores the layers of place-making
“Much of my work reckons with home and elsewhere as two foundational stories we tell to explain who and where we are,” says the visual artist and architect known as […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for May 12 through May 18, 2022
Castle Hill’s Upcoming Season The Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill has announced its 2022 summer program, with a 50th anniversary gala planned for July 23. The center […]
VIGNETTE
Cold Shoulder Season
STEAMERS
Plan C Plane
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Sal Del Deo’s 75 Provincetown Years
The Red Inn will host a Sunday afternoon with a town treasure
According to Salvatore Del Deo, the first shellfish warden hired in Provincetown, back in the 1950s, was a retired Portuguese fisherman named Joe Ventura. Before that, Joe had worked intermittently […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Does Hope Lurk in Your Pandora’s Box of a Heart?
Under a full Moon lunar eclipse in Scorpio, suss out the stuff within
While the full Moon may be dramatic in itself, layer on a lunar eclipse and it’s a full-on Greek tragedy — or comedy, depending on how you look at things. […]
LETTER FROM THE SPORTS EDITOR
Music and Sports
As I prepare to leave the Independent for a new journalism job in the city, I think back over more than two years at this newspaper, amazed at the variety of subjects […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, May 12, 2022
From Bruce Mason, Edina Kopits, Kevin Grunwald, Jim McDermott, and Ronald A. Gabel
Greed and the Common Good To the editor: Re “Wellfleet Offers $6.5M for Maurice’s Campground” (April 21, front page): My wife and I tented some 45 years ago at Maurice’s […]
