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. 22 Economic […]
Archives for 2022
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Rebuild to Reappear in January
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 instructions on […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Flood Insurance Discount
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 […]
AT THE MUSEUM
Margo and Zimiles: Ukrainian Roots Both Subtle and Explicit
Two exhibitions at the Cape Cod Museum of Art reflect the heritage and resilience of the Ukrainian people
DENNIS — The Ukrainian flag — unfamiliar to many before this year but now ubiquitous — is an abstract landscape: a brilliant blue sky above the golden expanse of a […]
STAR POWER
Christine Ebersole, With Love From Easy Street
The two-time Tony-winning star comes to Provincetown to ring in the New Year
PROVINCETOWN — Christine Ebersole’s résumé includes notable roles in films like Amadeus, Tootsie, and The Wolf of Wall Street, and her television credits require a deep scroll on IMDb: from […]
ART AND ACCESS
Castle Hill and Morgan State Join Forces for Equity
A new residency in Truro is designed to extend professional opportunities to young Black artists
TRURO — Andre Davis, 23, graduated this month from Morgan State, a historically Black university in Baltimore. His first steps out of college have brought him to Truro, where he […]
BOOKS
Samuel Adams, Fake News, and the Founding of America
In a new biography, Stacy Schiff recovers the ‘Machiavelli of chaos’ who made the revolution
In their affectionate geriatric correspondence, old political rivals Thomas Jefferson and John Adams agreed that it was “difficult to say at what moment the revolution began.” Was it in 1765, […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Dec. 22 through Dec. 29, 2022
Small Is Good “It’s About Size,” a group show of small works of art in various media, is on view at Bowersock Gallery (373 Commercial St., Provincetown) through Jan. 4. […]
VIGNETTE
Solstice
THE LAPSED
Home for the Holidays
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Ebenezer Scrooge Revisited
There is a bit of this classic misanthrope in most of us
It is time to confess: you have never actually read Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. This work is so ingrained in our culture that it lives in the collective subconscious, […]
LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND
The Blessing of the Shearwaters
Late on a fall day, an unpredictable wonder of the sea is revealed
In Edinburgh, the cherry trees have lost their leaves. Golden and carnelian-colored, they carpet the grass and fill the gutters like heaps of slender sunset fish. We will watch the […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Artificial Snow Job
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Dec. 22, 2022
From Thom Schwarz, Joe Cavicchi, Priscilla Jenkins, Amy Whorf McGuiggan, and Joel Chaison
The Hospital Affair To the editor: Your clear and readable coverage of the rancor and legal battles at Cape Cod Hospital (“Doctor Sues Cape Cod Hospital,” Dec. 15, front page) […]
OBITUARY
Teacher Charles Gareau Dies at 76
Charles B. Gareau, formerly of Truro, died peacefully at his home in Millbury on Nov. 21, 2022 with his family by his side. The cause was Lewy Body Syndrome. He […]
