PROVINCETOWN — After its approval by the Food and Drug Administration in December 2021, Apretude, an injectable medication for HIV prevention, was expected to be a game-changer for several high-risk […]
TOOLING AROUND
What’s Old Becomes New-ish at the Wellfleet Fix-It Clinic
Sewing machines, rotary phones, and other ways to turn back time
Lydia Vivante’s trusty 1964 Singer Featherweight sewing machine is acting up. “You can see the stitches are a little loose, a little bumpy,” says Vivante, holding a piece of cloth […]
SNAPSHOT
Francine Williams’s First Winter on the Cape
Wellfleet, Dec. 30, 7:34 p.m.: Francine Williams is nearing the end of her 14-hour shift at the Mobil gas station on Route 6. She clocked in just before 6 a.m. […]
PROTEST
Provincetown Marchers Call for Ceasefire in Gaza
On signs and in speeches, people gather to criticize American support for an ongoing war
PROVINCETOWN –– Around 40 demonstrators took to Commercial Street on the afternoon of Saturday, Feb. 3 to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. On signs and in speeches, they demanded […]
OVERBURDENED
Post Office Staffing Problems Delay Outer Cape’s Mail
A crush of Amazon packages has made matters worse, carriers say
PROVINCETOWN — Residents and business owners from Provincetown to Eastham are reporting issues with mail delivery, with some saying they are waiting days or weeks to receive their mail. Seven […]
INTER-MEDIATE
Jeff Gibbons’s Root Balls, Tiny Chairs, and Talking Rocks
An artist conjures surreal worlds that evoke whimsy and worry
Inside his studio off Pearl Street, Jeff Gibbons is mulling over his latest work, Orion’s Belty Button. The earthen sculpture, a helmet-size hornbeam root ball, rests on a wooden pedestal, […]
SNAPSHOT
Michael Costa Combs the Shore
Provincetown, Dec. 11, 2:02 p.m.: Michael Costa’s metal detector is beeping. He drops to his knees and digs and sieves through the sand with an unselfconscious eagerness. The man is looking […]
GOING PLACES
Out Here, Getting There Happens Thanks to Volunteers
Filling the Outer Cape’s transportation gap for medical care, errands, and social interaction
DENNIS — On a nippy Tuesday afternoon, Marianne Thomas, who lives in Wellfleet, picks up Nancy Yeaw of Provincetown from her dentist appointment in South Dennis. “They didn’t take the […]
THRIFTING
Putting Secondhand First
In Orleans, five stops on a search for sustainable style
The town you probably think of as specializing in staid shops for the Greatest Generation is becoming a thrifting mecca for Gen Z. In a little mustard-colored house on Orleans’s […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Eye on a Momentous Era
Eastham library showcases Rowland Scherman’s photographs of the civil rights movement
In the multipurpose room at the Eastham library, a small group of Nauset High School students are organizing a gift-wrapping station to raise money for their prom. Business is slow, […]
1937
Women’s Day
No photographer is identified in connection with this Associated Press photo of Mary Heaton Vorse, bloodied after a bullet grazed her head during the “Women’s Day Massacre” in Youngstown, […]
MAKER
A Gatherer Finds Her Canvas
Isabelle Quinn’s seaside landscapes go with the grain
On a colder-than-usual December Thursday, Isabelle Quinn roams the dunes of Wellfleet’s Newcomb Hollow Beach in search of driftwood. The wind nips at her, turning her knuckles purple, but Quinn […]
MAKERS’ MARKET
A Visit to a Village Populated by Quirky Craftsfolk
String lights and spruce boughs, fiber art and Barbie heads
PROVINCETOWN — Celeste Hanlon’s Barbie-head ornaments are hard to miss at Canteen’s annual holiday market. She started making them before Barbie became a movie star. Years ago, Hanlon started buying […]
SNAPSHOT
Norm Torvill Is Bound for Iowa
Provincetown, Dec. 4, 1:41 p.m.: Norm Torvill is restoring benches on MacMillan Pier. He’s also getting ready to move to Iowa, where an old Army buddy tells him life is […]
THE DIRTY WORK
The End Is Only the Beginning of a Garden’s Path to Summer Glory
Stormy Mayo and Laura Ludwig dig their not-so-visible autumn dahlia rituals
PROVINCETOWN — Stormy Mayo is kneeling in the withered remains of his dahlia garden, his hands tugging at something hidden beneath the decay. Beside him, Laura Ludwig throws down flattened […]
