Sand dunes and salty air and lobster stew — I love everything Patti Page sang about, though, curiously, “Old Cape Cod” fills me with nostalgia for a past I never […]
Archives for 2022
WARRIORS WATCH
Six Nauset High Teams to See Action Next Week
EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School varsity fall sports schedule gets underway this coming week with teams in six different sports ready for action. Nauset will field teams in […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
Ups and Downs of Late August Include a Boat on Fire
Provincetown’s first responders once again show their quickness and skill
The fishing community experienced some wild ups and downs last week. The earlier part of the week saw striped bass fishing as good as it has ever been, with many […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Aug. 30 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Venus in Virgo Presages Practicality
Tidy up now because Mercury retrograde is knocking, too
Do the dishes, launder the linens, and tend all else that makes for a happy home: Venus, planet of beauty, is settling into Virgo, sign of practicality. So, now is […]
PROVINCETOWN: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
About That Sewer
Meetings Ahead Some meetings in Provincetown are in person, some are online, and some are both. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at provincetown-ma.gov for a link to […]
TRURO: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
A Gift for the Cloverleaf
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, Sept. 1 Climate Action […]
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Maurice’s Goes to Town Meeting
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 […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Check It Out
Meetings Ahead 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 […]
KIND OF BLUE
Drawing With Light and Making Magic
Three Provincetown artists take one of the oldest photographic techniques in new directions
When a new medium was unveiled in 1839 that miraculously seemed to fix images from an ever-changing reality onto a permanent surface, the British scientist and polymath Sir John Herschel […]
POETRY
Looking Back at a Provincetown That Was
Gabrielle Rilleau layers family, place, and memory in a new collection of poems
Fishing villages know the sea will take what it wants. Storms roll in, boats sink, and accidents happen. In her new book of poems, No Room for Slippage, Gabrielle Rilleau […]
THEATER REVIEW
WHAT Presents a Feminist Fantasia on the Reign of Terror
Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists is a four-woman romp
The French Revolution that began in 1789, like the American one before it, is not known for its women fighters. The Enlightenment manifesto of the uprising is notably entitled the […]
BACK SHORE
Pete Hocking and the Embodied Experience
Through his painting, the artist takes viewers on journeys through land and sea
Pete Hocking is many things: image maker, teacher, community organizer, blogger, curator — and the possessor of one of the Outer Cape’s most notable beards. “And I’m a big walker,” […]
QUEER ‘I’
Ta-Ta for Now to All That
A writer reflects on returning to Provincetown after a year away
It is a showy move to begin a personal essay with a Virginia Woolf quote, but I am a showy person. So, here is Woolf: “What does it mean, then? […]
POETRY
Two Sonnets From the Pandemic
John Okrent’s first book, This Costly Season: A Crown of Sonnets, was published by Arrowsmith Press in 2021. Okrent is a family doctor who works at the Sea Mar Community […]
