From the July 4, 1918 issue of the Provincetown Advocate, selected and edited by Kaimi Rose Lum To write an honest article about a patriotic poster show wants, as our […]
DATE AND TIME
Of Wharves and Whales
From the July 1, 1856 issue of the Provincetown Banner, selected and edited by Kaimi Rose Lum Wharves Opposite to almost every man’s estate, in town, and extending more or […]
THAT WAS THEN
Launching of Steamer Provincetown
From the June 24, 1920 issue of the Provincetown Advocate, selected and edited by Kaimi Rose Lum Groton, Conn, June 19 — With water from the famous Pilgrim Spring, one […]
WILDLIFE
Giant Jellyfish Keep Scientists Guessing
Did they come to the Cape to eat other jellies?
The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes investigates a suspicious incident involving a jellyfish in “The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane,” a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published in 1926. […]
provincelands
The Bog Beckons on a Sunny Sunday
On a cranberry expedition, being small has its advantages
Atlantic to the left, Race Point behind us, we hauled our buckets and baskets and red and yellow plastic beach pails over dune-tops, into hollows, and along the overgrown sand […]
craft
Once a Boy With Toys, Now a Master Metalsmith
Lucas Burnley’s ‘Cypops’ benefit local tots
ORLEANS — You’re 16 years old, into metalwork, and a fan of “Rambo.” Choosing your first project at welding school is easy. “You make a knife,” says Lucas Burnley of […]
PROVINCELANDS
One Bird, One Man, One Boat
Watching a shorebird is like watching a comet: you have to trick your eye into detecting it. To find a comet, you look sideways at the sky until your peripheral […]
metaphysics
Ghost Hunters Are a Spirited Group
Cape-based paranormal detectives see their work as more science-based than sensational
Ghost hunter Joni Kosmach points a hand-held infrared camera into the shadows. Black, metallic, and blinking with strange energy, it looks like something a Navy SEAL might wield — or […]
ECONOMY
A Tale of Two Floatie Shops
Dueling Wellfleet stores weather zoning conflicts, no-name storms, and the arrival of the sharks
WELLFLEET — Along the pine-fringed stretch of Route 6 in South Wellfleet, farm stands have come and gone, motels have changed hands, and a clam shack has turned into a […]
people
Provincetown’s Master Storyteller
Beata Cook steals the show with tales of gay life in the ’40s
PROVINCETOWN — Bartender, bullet maker, bookkeeper — Beata Cook has been all these things. Not necessarily in that order. But who cares about chronology when you’re listening to a master […]
