Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Wellfleet are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you are interested in on the calendar at wellfleet-ma.gov for details. All […]
Archives for 2024
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Voting Changes
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you are interested in on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for details. All […]
ARTISTS
Variations on a Theme
A Greenwich Village exhibit invites us into Pat de Groot’s studio by the sea
The gallery at the New York Studio School on West 8th Street was empty of people when I visited Provincetown artist Pat de Groot’s posthumous survey exhibition, “Sea Smoke,” the […]
THE PRESENT MOMENT
Building a Home and a Community Through Art
Fred Boak and Naomi Rush compiled their art collection by gift-giving in a ‘late romance’
In a sunny room of her Orleans house, Naomi Rush begins a tour of her art collection with a black-and-white linocut by Joyce Johnson titled Salt Pond — Winter. Rush’s […]
THE THOUGHT FOX
A Life in Poetry With No ‘Excess Stuff’
Keith Althaus discusses his past, process, and pursuit of the perfect line
“Pick a chair,” says poet Keith Althaus, welcoming me to his house on Shore Road in North Truro. He and his wife, Susan Baker, have lived in the house since […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for December 19, 2024 through December 26, 2024
Donald Beal’s Painterly Drama An exhibition of paintings by Donald Beal now at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center (715 Old King’s Hwy.) displays three bodies of work: landscapes of grand, […]
VIGNETTE
Walking in a Winter Wonderland
STEAMERS
The Clam on the Lam
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
The Lesson of the Weeds
We are in a cold time. Everything is brittle and liable to breakage. Despair comes so easily. A few days ago, it was warmer, but still we were pummeled. The […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Cyberattack Upside
Santa’s got me thinking: What is it that we most want the kids in our own and our friends’ families to have this year? Recent news reports suggest that it’s […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, December 19, 2024
From Louise Venden, Ross Sormani, Alexandra Grabbe, & Gail R. Kulp
The ‘Right Call’ on Visitor Center To the editor: Re “$15M U.S. Grant for Stellwagen Center Is Gone” (Dec. 12, front page): Concerns over the cost, size, and location of […]
OBITUARY
Nurse Sigrid Wiemers of North Truro Was 72
Sigrid D. Wiemers, who worked as an elder care nurse on the Outer Cape since 2012, died at her home in North Truro on Sept. 23, 2024. The cause was […]
OBITUARY
Family Therapist William Golden of Truro Dies at 83
William F. Golden, a builder, athlete, sailor, teacher, and therapist, died at his Truro home after a protracted struggle with cancer on Nov. 30, 2024. He was surrounded by family, […]
OBITUARY
Athlete, Traveler, and Bartender Stephanie Leonard Dies at 32
Stephanie Annabel Leonard, who was a popular server and bartender at several Provincetown restaurants, died on Oct. 5, 2024 at her parents’ home in Wells, Maine. Her family confirmed that […]
TIDE CHART
Provincetown and Wellfleet Harbors
Thursday, Dec. 19 - Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024
Know when to hit the flats.