Ever since Kevin Foley sailed the Wind Gypsy, his first charter boat, out of Wellfleet Harbor, he’s lived what he calls a nautical life. Foley — you may know him […]
OBITUARY
Ilona Royce Smithkin, 101, Painter, Teacher, Cabaret Singer, and Star
She sprinkled joy dust on everyone
Zoë Lewis recalled the first time they met. “It must have been 1998, or maybe 1997,” she said. A woman under five feet tall with flaming red hair, a flamboyantly […]
GOOD TIMES
Jasper’s Surf Shop Lingers in Memory
Fourteen years after closing, the business remains part of local surfing lore
EASTHAM — The origin story behind the Outer Cape’s most storied surf shop is a simple one. One summer day in 1967, after Kevin “Foggy” Foley ran out of gas […]
LOCAL HISTORY
Moe Van Dereck and Jot Small’s Inuit Racing Boats
Built in the ’20s and ’30s, Tarkoo and its siblings ruled the waves
PROVINCETOWN — In 1959, a Provincetown teenager named George Van Dereck Haunstrup, more commonly known in town as Moe Van Dereck, breathed life into a storied sailboat on its last […]
COMING UP FOR AIR
Slowly, Outer Cape Libraries Begin to Reopen
The ‘lemonade of Covid’: more remote services and collaboration
The orders from town officials came down suddenly and in quick succession: on March 13, 2020 for Provincetown, on March 14 for Eastham, on March 16 for Wellfleet, and on […]
BUFFETED BY HISTORY
The Class of 1965 Looks Back on 56 Years
13 classmates gather at the Provincetown Inn to reminisce
PROVINCETOWN — Stephen DeRiggs, a Provincetown High School junior, was getting off the ferry the day before the annual Nantucket-Provincetown football game when he heard the news. The president had […]
Dancer and Teacher June Finch Is Dead at 81
From the Red House on Commercial St., she taught summer classes for 30 years
June Finch, a celebrated member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company with deep roots in Provincetown, died peacefully in New York City on June 18, 2021 after a short illness. […]
