Throughout his illustrious career, filmmaker Martin Scorsese has been obsessed with the powerful pull of family, culture, and faith. Their power can be frustrating and repressive — leading to explosions […]
Archives for 2023
POETRY
Two Poems and an Invitation
Strange creatures and other miracles of summer
Summers By Robert Kuttner I’ve often wondered How the summer of ’39 felt People savoring ordinary joys The dread of doom just over the hill Or the summer of 1914 […]
BOOKS
‘Our Strangers’ Offers Big Provocations in Bite-Size Stories
Lydia Davis finds wit in the senselessness of 21st-century life
In the story “Caramel Drizzle,” Lydia Davis begins with a simple but disorienting question, rendered in quotation marks and without attribution: “Caramel syrup or caramel drizzle?” How are those choices, […]
THE INTERVIEW
Resurrecting Susan Dimock, a Shipwrecked Heroine
Susan Wilson’s story of a nearly forgotten pioneering woman surgeon
Susan Dimock was a celebrated surgeon in the 19th century who died in a shipwreck in 1875 at age 28. In her short life she’d become a light of her […]
IN THE WOODS
Poets From Mexico Build New Worlds in Wellfleet
A Modern House Trust residency on development and design
WELLFLEET — When five Mexican and Mexican-American poets, artists, and architects arrived at the modernist houses that dot the seashores and backwoods here in early October, they had “the best […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for November 2, 2023 through November 9, 2023
Printmaking Without Limits A wide range of printmaking techniques — from monotypes and silkscreens to woodcut and solar plate prints — are on view in the current exhibition at the […]
VIGNETTE
Trojan Squirrel
STEAMERS
Street Art
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Identity and Ethnic Specialness
Dehumanizing divisions are tearing our world apart
I can still see the resplendent genuine Sioux war bonnet in the window of Fitch’s Trading Post down on Third Street in Harrisburg, Pa. Even though it has been almost […]
INCIDENTALLY
On the Lookout
We are lucky to have the kind of neighbors who send us a text on a Saturday night to say we should come over and watch the Moon tow Jupiter […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Crime in Provincetown
The first time I met Provincetown Police Chief Jim Golden, back when I was an editor at the Banner, he told me his reason for refusing to answer questions about […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, November 2, 2023
From Ken Field, Lili Flanders, Lorraine Kujawa, Evan P. Provisor, Stephen Greenberg, Alison Siegel, and Lisa Jablow
‘Taking Back’ Truro To the editor: As a homeowner, taxpayer, and part-time resident of Truro, I’m disappointed in the small number of vocal neighbors who seem to be focused on […]
OBITUARY
Environmentalist Jane Cole Geisler Dies at 100
Wellfleet summer resident, botanist, and environmentalist Jane Cole Geisler died on Oct. 25, 2023 at her home in Verbank, N.Y. “She was very active until three weeks before she died,” […]
OBITUARY
Eastham Oysterman Jared Collins Dies at 35
Eastham native and oysterman Jared Kenelm Collins died suddenly and unexpectedly at home on Oct. 21, 2023. The cause of death has not yet been determined, said his wife, Alana. He […]
OBITUARY
Art Teacher and Summer Recycling Guru Leonard Federico Dies at 67
Leonard C. Federico, who taught art in several Boston-area schools and spent summers tooling around Wellfleet on a red Vespa and enjoying nature and friends here, including many made at […]
