Little Monsters delivers an elusive prize for those summering on the Cape: a book whose family drama is interwoven into the Cape’s microclimates, as inseparable from the landscape as mushrooms […]
Archives for 2023
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Saturday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery walk
AMZehnder Gallery (25 Bank St.) “I may be a little biased,” says Peter Ormsby, visiting from New York City. “My mom’s the artist.” When challenged to pick his favorite canvas […]
MUSEUMS
Jane Kogan’s Wide-Ranging Retrospective
In her current show at PAAM, the artist shows us how to change, in style
When viewers enter the two rooms at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum that comprise Jane Kogan’s retrospective show, they step into a staring match. At one end of the […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for July 13, 2023 through July 20, 2023
Acceptance and Art in A Man of No Importance Following their 1975 Broadway hit Ragtime, writer Terrence McNally, composer Stephen Flaherty, and lyricist Lynn Ahrens reunited in 2002 for A […]
VIGNETTE
Catch of the Day
STEAMERS
Bear Week
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
An Entangled Calf
Must baby whales be collateral damage for the tuna fleet?
The young humpback whale swam near his mother out on Stellwagen Bank in the Gulf of Maine. He had had many experiences in his young life, but that day three […]
INCIDENTALLY
Beach Rescue
I sat in the dark with two friends on the wet sand at Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet on the evening of July 4th. To our left, fireworks lit up […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
Investing in Local News
Our vision for the Provincetown Independent when we published our first edition almost four years ago was to create an exceptionally good newspaper. We thought the Outer Cape was ripe […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 13, 2023
From Tabitha Vevers, Buddy Perkel, Christine Markowski, Kathleen Cote, and Jim McDermott
The Dune Shack ‘Travesty’ To the editor: I find it both ironic and heartbreaking that the National Seashore is offering leases to the highest bidder for the very dune shacks […]
APPRECIATION
Holly Condit, 54, Was an Independent Proofreader
Catherine Olivia Morrow Condit, known as Holly, died at her home in Weston on June 29, 2023. A psychologist and special education teacher, she had also been a proofreader for […]
OBITUARY
Jacquelyn Boyd-Emond of Truro Was 81
Jacquelyn Ruth Boyd-Emond died suddenly of heart failure while driving on Route 6 in Wellfleet on April 19, 2023. She was 81. Jackie was born on March 8, 1942 to […]
OBITUARY
A ‘Maverick’ Police Chief and Master Shucker, Anthony Bouza Dies at 94
Anthony Vila Bouza, the former police chief of Minneapolis and a summer resident of South Wellfleet since the late 1970s, died on June 26, 2023 in Bloomington, Minn. He was […]
TIDE CHART
Provincetown and Wellfleet Harbors
Thursday, July 13 - Thursday July 20, 2023
Know when to hit the flats.
Real Estate Transactions
for the week of July 3, 2023
Recorded at the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds from July 3 to July 7, 2023. PROVINCETOWN July 7. Kara Gilmore to Brian J. Sugden Jr. 945 Commercial St., Unit D. […]