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Arts & Minds

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Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.

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CRAFT

Making Bayberry Candles

Look to the leaves for inspiration from the past

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Myrica pensylvanica, also known as bayberry, candleberry, and wax myrtle, is a native species that has long grown across the dunes and woods of the Outer Cape. Unfussy, it tolerates […]

ROAD POET

Metter

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This is for my second hometown I said this poem is for my second hometown Metter, Ga. It’s OK if you have to google it The first time I went […]

PLAYERS

Rachel Bay Jones Is a Broadway Baby

But the Art House has her to welcome in the New Year

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Tony Award-winner Rachel Bay Jones was born into a theatrical family. But her parents, who were both professional actors in New York City, gave up performing after they had her […]

ARTS LISTINGS

First Light Highlights

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Trip the Light Fantastic You can watch Provincetown’s First Light Fireworks off MacMillan Pier for free on Town Beach — the dazzlement begins at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 29. […]

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