Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are being held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions […]
Archives for 2022
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Rethinking the Housing Buy Down Program
Meetings Ahead Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to the eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn […]
THEATER REVIEW
Giving Thanks With a Woolly Weave of Family Ties
'The Humans' arrives at the Provincetown Theater
As adult children reunite with their parents for a holiday dinner, troublesome secrets and long-held tensions surface and ignite: it’s a spectacle we’ve most likely witnessed before, in art and […]
FELLOWSHIP
Meet the 2022-23 FAWC Writing Fellows
A diverse coterie of writers arrives in Provincetown for a seven-month stint
Ten writers — poets, essayists, novelists, and memoirists — arrived in Provincetown earlier this month to begin their seven-month-long fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center. FAWC fellowship writing coordinator […]
BOOK REVIEW
Bouncing Through the Filth
With Liarmouth, John Waters — screenwriter, director, visual artist, and cultural icon — adds novelist to his résumé
Anyone from John Waters’s legion of fans may be forgiven for cracking the spine of Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance with some trepidation. Has time mellowed his edges? Is a softer, […]
ARTISTS ON ART
Celebrating Five Decades of Castle Hill
Artists reflect on their work and the Castle Hill experience
This fall, the 50th anniversary of the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill has been marked by several group shows celebrating the vast network of artists associated with […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for October 27 through November 3, 2022
Things That Go Bump in the Frame “Night,” a group show at Four Eleven Gallery (411 Commercial St., Provincetown), features work by six artists that explores the dark side. Highlights […]
VIGNETTE
Leaf Peepers
STEAMERS
The Uncanny DALL-E
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
The Voice of Old Provincetown
Listening to six writers of a town’s living history
Last night I heard the voice of Provincetown. Old Provincetown. It was not one voice but six, each unique, yet they blended into a song of remembrance and regret. I […]
LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND
Animal Magic in the Marsh
A shamanic excursion to land’s end
Because she possesses a kind of shamanic animal magic, when Rina said she wanted to go for a bike ride with me, I let her lead the way. At the […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
A Time to Pick Up the Pieces
Make peace with Mars in retrograde
Fear not, Halloween revelers! Mars goes retrograde on Oct. 30, and it’s not as frightening as you think. Mars retrogrades only once every other year. While this one will linger […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Questions From the Campaign
Law enforcement and mental health have been in the news a lot recently. We know that a large percentage of the calls that our local police must respond to are […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Oct. 27, 2022
From Mary Moniz and L. Michael Hager
About the Obituaries To the editor: I love reading the obituaries in the Provincetown Independent. Does that make me a voyeur? Is it wrong that I come away from reading […]
OBITUARY
Adeline Duffy, a Lover of Music and Animals, Dies at 96
Music was Adeline Duffy’s middle name. Each of her children learned to play guitar, piano, violin, and wooden spoons as early as they could hold them. “There was always music in […]
