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FOURTH OF JULY

The Outer Cape’s a Parade

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We asked our contributing photographers to show us what they were seeing on the streets on July 4th. They answered with candy scramblers, stilt-walkers, beachgoers, protesters, and flag-wavers (and wearers), all relishing the idea of independence. —The editors

Independence Day includes boogie boarding at Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro for Maeve Taylor of Wellfleet with friends Brooklyn, Imani, and Tenji, visiting from Brooklyn, Barbados, and Johannesburg. (Photo by Nancy Bloom)
Provincetown sitting pretty on the morning of July 4, 2025. (Photo by Elizabeth G. Brooke)

 

Sunworshippers take to the beach at Head of the Meadow in Truro. (Photo by Nancy Bloom)

 

Volleyball is back at Longnook Beach. (Photo by Nancy Bloom)

 

Visitors Hilary Lipson and daughter Josie see signs they aren’t in Pittsburgh anymore. They’re in Truro. (Photo by Nancy Bloom)

 

Heidi Koretz has a serious question for revelers at the Wellfleet parade. (Photo by Odie Adelson-Grodberg)

 

Candy tossed from passing floats gets the kids scrambling. (Photo by Edward Boches)

 

Subdued flag wavers watch the parade in Orleans. (Photo by Edward Boches)

 

So many ways to wear the red, white, and blue in Orleans on parade day. (Photo by Edward Boches)

 

The fireworks over Provincetown, seen from a kayak. (Photo by Kem Morehead)
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