Commentary
STEAMERS
Waste Management
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
White Christmas Dreams
Provincetown winters — and much else — are not what they used to be
In December, I kept hearing the familiar Irving Berlin tune: “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know….” Of course, what we had was […]
VIGNETTE
Extra Cheese
STEAMERS
Son of a Beach
ACTIVISM
Bayard Rustin
“I ask that if you teach your children one new name from the heroes of black history, please let it be Bayard Rustin,” wrote Henry Louis Gates Jr. in The […]
VIGNETTE
Angry Birds
STEAMERS
No Shot Novak
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
In an Outer Cape Bubble
How can it be that we are so far out of the mainstream?
I have never written a political column and do not intend to do so now. We will see if I succeed in that. Provincetown is one of the bluest dots […]
STEAMERS
Getting Away
VIGNETTE
In Fashion
VIGNETTE
First Steps, 2022
SKETCHBOOK
On Being in the Presence of a Whale
Curiosity, awe, and guilt inspire a ritual for an animal lost at sea
It’s been more than a month since a juvenile humpback whale washed ashore, dead, on the inner beach near Long Point Light in Provincetown. News like this circulates and the […]
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
A Heritage of Nicknames
Reflections of a time when Dutras and Silvas were ‘as thick as the air’
A small notice in the Nov. 18 edition of this paper caught my eye and started me thinking. It announced a memorial for Joe Corea, a good man. The notice […]
