PROVINCETOWN — The larger-than-life photographs of five Portuguese women on Fisherman’s Wharf are now down to only three images, but that will change this spring. The installation “They Also Faced the Sea” has suffered from the same harsh elements that have weathered the real-life faces of local fishermen. The portrait of Almeda Segura was destroyed by […]
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ARTS LISTINGS
Holly Folly Highlights
The Canteen’s Holiday Market and Winter Lodge, which returned on Thanksgiving weekend, will be operating weekends through New Year’s. The lodge is a pop-up chalet-style restaurant, in front of and behind the Canteen’s regular counter service, with a special winter menu. It’s open Friday-Sunday, 5-10 p.m. The market is in the Canteen’s beach back yard, […]
POETRY
Dogs of Truro
Selected by Katherine Hazzard
The first anonymous baying from those backlit hills petitions a single greeny-blue winter star. It silvers as I watch, tuning its sharpness. Deep January in the natural dark, and now another to the south is yelping, Sladesville trying to talk with Prince Valley, or Corn Hill calling Pond Village across the cold. This is their […]
POETS
Joy Priest Finds Provincetown Rejuvenating
The FAWC fellow experiments with form and colleagues
Last spring, Joy Priest had some big decisions to make. The Kentucky native, who had recently completed her M.F.A. in poetry at the University of South Carolina, was accepted to the University of Houston’s Ph.D. program in creative writing, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and the Fine Arts Work Center’s writing fellowship. Most emerging writers dream […]
WRITERS
Gbolahan Adeola Is at Home Abroad
The FAWC fiction fellow writes about hidden violence
A man with high cheekbones and translucent-frame glasses sits alone by the waterfront on a sunny late November day. The waves before him ripple onto the sandy shore in Provincetown’s almost-winter wind, and he pulls his jacket closer. He hails from a faraway land where the winds are warmer, though perhaps not gentler. Gbolahan Adeola […]
SCREENINGS
How the Wampanoags Brought Their Language Back to Life
The film 'We Still Live Here' documents the effort
The story of the Wampanoag nation, the confederation of Native American tribes who lived in what is now Cape Cod and the Islands, southeastern Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, is a constellation of tragedies, first among many in the English colonization of North America. But there is an uplifting thread to that history that is recounted […]
Movie Clock for December 5 through December 11
Playing now on the Outer Cape
PLAYING NOW: DEC. 5-11 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (PG). Wellfleet Cinemas, daily: 1:15, 4:15 & 7:15 p.m.; Tuesday: 10 a.m. Dark Waters (PG13). Wellfleet Cinemas, Friday-Wednesday: 1, 4 & 7 p.m.; Tuesday: 10 a.m. Ford v Ferrari (PG13). Waters Edge Cinema: Friday-Sunday and Tuesday-Wednesday: 4 & 7 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday: 1 p.m. Frozen II […]
Arts Briefs & Listings for December 6 through December 12
Gifts of David Murphy Collection at PAAM The exhibit “Recent Gifts From the David Murphy Collection” will have an opening reception at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum at 460 Commercial St. on Friday, Dec. 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. It will be on view through May 19, 2020. Sharing the opening reception is […]
theater review
It’s a Wonderful ‘Wonderful Life’ in Provincetown
Capra’s movie comes alive onstage as a radio play
The 1946 Frank Capra movie It’s a Wonderful Life is a touchstone of Americana. The title evokes thoughts of Christmas, moral reassurance and sentiment, small towns and loved ones, Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed. George Bailey’s prayers, after all, are answered — a trope that’s usually reserved for Touched by an Angel. But consider this […]
books
Joel Meyerowitz’s Provincetown Through a Local Lens
Photographs in search of a lost time
Eighty-one-year-old Joel Meyerowitz, éminence grise among Provincetown photographers, was in Manhattan in late October. The occasion was a narrated slide show and book signing hosted by Aperture, his publisher, at its Chelsea gallery, which was packed. Out since Sept. 24, Meyerowitz’s new 160-page monograph, sized for a coffee table, is titled, simply, Provincetown. After […]
HOLIDAY TABLE
Ecoprinting: Natural Dyes From Leaves and Flowers
Dyeing is a multi-step process. The first step is a visit with nature.
Even in these chilly gray days of November we find color everywhere on the Outer Cape. Marsh and beach grasses are golden fire. Junipers are deep green, their bright berries like tiny punctuation marks in the lush foliage. Scrub oak and pitch pine leaves litter the woods, a russet-colored blanket for winter. The sleeping garden […]
AT THE LIBRARY
Thanksgivings Every Day
Braiding Sweetgrass By Robin Wall Kimmerer Milkweed Editions: 2015 In Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, author Robin Wall Kimmerer asks readers to “imagine raising children in a culture where gratitude is the first priority.” This is the gist of Kimmerer’s stunning book, where she discusses our relationship to the […]
SURFING
At Home in a Portuguese Surf Town
The tide and the wind are the same in any language
The sun is warm on my shoulders. The salt is starting to pinch the skin at the corners of my eyes as it dries. A small white cup of coffee with a tiny round handle sits on the table. The steam from the cup dances in the low angle of the midmorning sun. The croissant […]
DEAR INDIE
A Bitter Halloween Candy Tax
Family conflict over a shrinking stash
Dear Indie, I put a lot of effort into my Halloween trick-or-treating and came home with a major haul of candy. Way more than my older sisters, who are now officially teenagers and can’t be bothered to work on their costumes and stick to going door to door the way I do. Last week when […]
COURSES
If It’s Thursday, It’s Clay With Paul Wisotzky
The former Truro Select Board chair fires away
“I started taking classes at Castle Hill when I was 15 years old,” Paul Wisotsky says in his comfortable Truro living room. “I’m 57, and now I’m teaching there in the very same studio. It’s a full-circle experience for me.” Along with Chris Watt, Wisotzky is teaching ceramics at Truro Center for the Arts at […]
