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Archives for 2024
LAND MATTERS
An Artist Gets to the Truth of This Place
Pete Hocking turns experience into gesture
When Pete Hocking wanders in the dunes of Provincetown and Wellfleet, he stands quietly and listens to the ocean. He feels the cool air coming off the Atlantic, the heat […]
THE OUTSIDER
Father Figures
Behind the faces Cassandra Complex paints
The faces, all handsome, all angular, none smiling, stare right back at the viewer. The way the paintings combine glamour and danger, they might be models’ portraits or mug shots […]
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS FESTIVAL
Variations on the Theme of Memory
At this year’s theater festival, what is remembered about the past is not always what really happened
Actor and playwright Jacob Storms says that an extraordinary high-school experience of theater gave him the courage to write a one-man play in which he cast himself as an up-and-coming […]
QUEER ‘I’
The Provincetown Beauty Myth
On beauty and my broken brain, from Circuit Week to townie summer
I’ve been finding it difficult to write about Provincetown. This is, in part, because there already exists so much writing about the place. The territory is already charted. This town […]
RETROSPECTIVE
A Forgotten Artist Comes to Life
Hans Hofmann deemed Mary Rogers’s work ‘outstanding’
Provincetown, the 1950s: Billie Holiday and Barbra Streisand are booked at the Atlantic House. Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut are meeting for cocktails. And Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann, considered one […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for September 26, 2024 through October 3, 2024
Rediscovering the Life and Art of Earle Pilgrim A new exhibition at the Truro Public Library sheds light on a mid-century Black American artist whose life and work constitute a […]
VIGNETTE
Ready for the Storm
STEAMERS
Fat Rats
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Matters of the Mind and Body
Can they remain in sync into old age?
Last night a young friend (almost 27) said to me, “I am an old soul.” Those words got me thinking. Not about the soul — God help me from ever […]
EPIDEMIC
We Need to Talk About Drugs
Let’s kick the taboo surrounding substance use disorders
I joined the Provincetown Fire Dept. as a part-time emergency medical technician this year. Our job is to provide support to residents and visitors on what is often one of […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Prize in Providence
With this issue of the Independent, we complete Volume 5, our fifth full year of weekly publication — 261 issues in all. All those deadlines have kept us tightly bound […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, September 26, 2024
From Jenny Faw and Carl Sussman
In Defense of OCHS To the editor: I have been going to Outer Cape Health Services in Wellfleet for the past eight years and am very happy with the care […]
OBITUARY
Seashore Point Resident Arlene Reed Was 89
Arlene B. (Dunn) Reed, who lived at Provincetown’s Seashore Point Wellness Center for six years, died on Sept. 16, 2024. The cause was acute respiratory distress with underlying chronic obstructive […]
IN MEMORIAM
Ruth Anne Dykeman Memorial
A celebration of life for Ruth Anne Dykeman of Wellfleet, who died on Aug. 7, 2024 at 98, will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 6 at the […]
