The retirement of our state representative, Sarah Peake, after nine terms on Beacon Hill marks a generational change that may affect the Outer Cape in unexpected ways. It raises an […]
PROVINCETOWN HISTORY
Teddy Roosevelt’s Prescient Denunciation of Corporate Power
The president’s speech, given 114 years ago, rings true today
On a splendid August morning 114 years ago, a yacht carrying President Theodore Roosevelt glided into Provincetown Harbor. He was welcomed by what must have been the loudest boom the […]
CAPITOL HAVOC
The Chickens Come Home to the Coup
Our deepest social and political crises are self-created
TRURO — By fomenting a violent uprising against democratic rule last week, President Trump did something unique in American history. He unleashed terror in his own country. Previous presidents have […]
THE BANANA MAGNATE
Wellfleet’s Most Famous Son and a Fateful Partnership
How Lorenzo Baker’s United Fruit Co. became ‘the octopus’
On a July day precisely 150 years ago, a Wellfleet sea captain unloaded a cargo that would shape the course of history. By bringing the first bananas into the U.S., […]
