While new gardeners are just now considering what to plant for the season ahead, their more experienced neighbors are already tending tomato seedlings in the greenhouse. Fluctuating temperatures and blustery […]
GALLERY
A Banana Baron’s Summer Home
Belvernon holds the history of local enterprise and summer fun
We wonder about the season ahead and what we’ll find at the other side. There are surely lessons to be learned from the historic houses around us and the people […]
GALLERY
Outer Cape Households Make It Work
Carving out space for the new work/life balance
Working from home. Like it or not, it’s a new reality for many of us. And while some may be lucky enough to have a dedicated space with an actual […]
GALLERY
The Comforts of Home
‘I simply remember my favorite things’
Now is the time to find ways to take comfort in being at home. Here we can surround ourselves with what’s most familiar. And look at these things anew: a […]
CREATIVE ISOLATION
Bridging Generations With a Memory Book
Questions, answers, and art tell a family story
Making a memory book is something like writing a memoir, but much more free-form. To make one, you gather stories and images that don’t have to fit together to recreate […]
film
Movie Clock for March 26 through April 1
Playing now on the Outer Cape
All movie theaters are closed in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
GALLERY
Provincetown Bracketology for the Win
On a walk downtown, details to look up to
Basketball fans won’t be filling out brackets this year. Instead, March Madness is taking on a whole new meaning. Meanwhile, Provincetown’s antique facades remind us of the town’s endurance. Intricate […]
GALLERY
Thinking Inside the Box
Peter McMahon’s designs turn simple materials into useful geometry
A few principles guided the planning for the Independent’s new office on the first floor of Provincetown’s Whaler’s Wharf: simplicity, versatility, and cost. The challenge was to create quiet work […]
film
Movie Clock for March 12 through March 18
Playing now on the Outer Cape
PLAYING NOW: MARCH 12-18 The Call of the Wild (PG13). Wellfleet Cinemas: daily: 4:10 & 7:10 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday: 1:10 p.m. Emma (R). Waters Edge Cinemas: Friday-Saturday & Wednesday: 1, 4 […]
GALLERY
A Guide to Shelf Care
Reset them with edited vignettes and muted colors
Winter on the Outer Cape is a time to reset. While most people focus that effort on their inner lives, some of us go for an easier kind of reorganization, […]
METAFICTION
In Trust Exercise, Choi Views Abuse Through a Literary Lens
The National Book Award winner will read at FAWC
“I have a preoccupation with locations and the landscape,” says Susan Choi, “almost to a fault.” She recalls her time as a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center […]
GALLERY
A Collage of Technicolor Curiosities
When you have hundreds, throwaway plastic objects are art
“We prefer to say that we’ve curated a collection rather than decorated a house,” Robert Rindler says about the Wellfleet home he shares with his husband, James Connors. To wander […]
GALLERY
Roadside Finds That Fit a Small Space
Setting the scene in 700 square feet
Saudade is a Portuguese word that roughly translates as “yearning for a lost time.” Marisa Felton uses the word as she describes gatherings at her childhood home in Provincetown, now […]
GALLERY
Wallpaper for Drama or for Charm
In Provincetown, John Golden’s artistry is appreciated
“I hang the wallpaper — I don’t take it down,” says John Golden, who has worked in Provincetown […]
GALLERY
At Home With Geometry and Light
The art of Grace and Budd Hopkins in a space by Charlie Zehnder
Grace Hopkins and her daughter Gigi moved to Wellfleet from Portland, Maine in 2012 after the death of Grace’s father, the artist Budd Hopkins, one of the founders of the […]
