Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Provincetown are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option for both committee members and residents. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar […]
Archives for 2022
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Rental Assistance Program Extended
Meetings Ahead 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, Dec. 1 Local […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Call for Artists
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Business Facelift Finalists
Meetings Ahead Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting locations […]
IMAGE AND MEMORY
Life in the Dunes Through Jane Paradise’s Eyes
The photographer’s story of Provincetown’s dune shacks in pictures and the words of those who love them
The 19 dune shacks in the Peaked Hill Bars Historic District of the Cape Cod National Seashore might be the most famous Outer Cape landmarks that many people have never […]
INDIE SCREEN
When La Dolce Vita Is Anything but Sweet
Mike White takes The White Lotus to Sicily for its second season
In the National Archeological Museum of Naples, Italy, there’s a section known as the Gabinetto Segreto (“Secret Cabinet”). It contains all the erotic art and artifacts — depicting penises, omnisexual […]
SACRED SPACE
Continuing a Legacy of Art, Devotion, and Community
Once a ship’s galley, an art gallery in Orleans resonates with history and tradition
ORLEANS — There’s a cleaver clamped to the ceiling of the Galley West Art Gallery on Monument Road. It was left there by the cook of the Orissa, a ship […]
BOOK REVIEW
When Women Rule the Workplace
The story of the workers and organizers who inspired a movement and a hit movie
While the phrase “workin’ 9 to 5” immediately evokes the bouncy vocals of Dolly Parton, her song — and the movie it was written for — are indebted to a […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Dec. 1 through Dec. 8, 2022
First Fridays at the Fine Arts Work Center Last month, the Fine Arts Work Center (24 Pearl St., Provincetown) held a sneak preview of a new monthly program featuring open […]
STEAMERS
Town Seal
VIGNETTE
Wildlife
SKETCHBOOK
Letter From Patagonia
LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND
An Ode to Not Knowing
Try to remember what it was like to not have every answer close at hand
It is a familiar enough occurrence in my line of work: a client admits to being lost, without direction, not knowing where to go or what to do. It is […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Dec. 1, 2022
From G. Thomas Ryan and Kathleen Bacon
A New Encounter To the editor: The Independent’s coverage of Native American and colonizer issues — from town seals to book reviews — has been consistently sensitive to the local […]
OBITUARY
Rebecca Holmes, Director of Mass Appeal, Dies at 80
Rebecca Barbara (Wollison) Holmes, who engineered a successful campaign to keep the nonprofit Mass Appeal in its Wellfleet home, died on Nov. 5, 2022, at Care Dimension Hospice House in […]
