Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to Truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, Oct. […]
Archives for 2023
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
The Slow Road
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
Cyclical Inspection Program
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in-person, typically with an online-attendance option. Go to eastham-ma.gov and click on the meeting you are interested in for details. All meetings are […]
WRITING LIFE
Margaret Shepherd’s Approach to an Ancient Sensual Text
Her calligraphic treatment of the Song of Songs reveals a lifetime of devotion to the artform
Margaret Shepherd’s calligraphy, now on view at the Wellfleet Public Library through Nov. 3, looks like it was created with ease. The lines of text, which are taken from the […]
BOOKS
In ‘How to Live,’ Kelle Groom Investigates the Meaning of Home
A Provincetown poet’s new memoir is an odyssey toward compassion
The moment Kelle Groom opens the gray door to her second-floor Brewster Street apartment, a hold-onto-your-hats breeze marking the change in seasons sneaks through. Poetry collections by Nick Flynn, Marie […]
MUSIC
Indie Playlist: Songs for Fall
Staff picks to listen to while you’re watching the leaves change color
For this latest installment of our Indie Playlist, we asked Independent staffers to tell about a song that puts them in an autumnal state of mind: a tune to soundtrack […]
WOMEN’S WEEK
Katherine Ann Power’s Story of Surrender and Redemption
Still looking to change the world, aware that ‘deep change takes time’
Katherine Ann Power is 74 years old and happily married to her wife of 15 years. She’s a proud grandmother. She has just gotten her hair cut, and on this […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for October 12, 2023 through October 19, 2023
Photos and Stories of All Kinds of Families “Love Makes a Family,” an exhibition of photographs of LGBTQ families on view at the Provincetown United Methodist Church (20 Shank Painter […]
VIGNETTE
Prepared to Fall
STEAMERS
Fruitful Flies
LEADERSHIP
The Housing Crisis Has Become Chaos
The laws of economics overwhelm the few tools of government
The dramatic loss of affordable housing on the Outer Cape has been called a “crisis” for more than 30 years. Naming it a crisis has not slowed the market forces […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Rebuttal
Our subscriber Elizabeth Perillo in Woodstock, Ga. was offended by two photographs in the Sept. 7 edition of the Independent. Her letter to the editor last week said the pictures […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, October 12, 2023
From Robert Panessiti, Brent Harold, and Susan Hanway
The DPW Decision in Truro To the editor: On Oct. 21, the citizens of Truro will be asked at a special town meeting to approve a number of articles that […]
OBITUARY
Theoretical Physicist Theodore Northrop Dies at 98
Theodore G. Northrop, a former head of theoretical physics for NASA and a 25-year resident of Wellfleet, died suddenly at Pleasant Bay Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Brewster on August […]
OBITUARY
Samuel Janoplis, Cook, Carpenter, and Social Butterfly, Dies at 86
Samuel S. Janoplis, a lifelong Provincetown resident, died on Sept. 22, 2023 at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. No cause of death was given. He was 86. Known as Sam, […]
