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BASEBALL
Dan Okrent Is the Father of Fantasy
The inventor of Rotisserie League Baseball on its strange legacy
Major League Baseball (MLB) returned to play last week with no fans in the ballparks but plenty of people watching on TV from their living room couches. Some of those […]
SOCIAL MEDIA
Are We Having Fun Yet? Not in Some Facebook Spaces
Moderators say the political climate and Covid are to blame for rising vitriol
Five years ago, Andrea Sawyer was asked to be a moderator of the Provincetown Community Space (PCS) Facebook page by a friend who was giving up the position. Sawyer thought […]
BABYCAKES
Welcome, Rugi
Olya Lowen Belmer was born on July 11, 2020, at the Montreal Royal Victoria Hospital in Canada. She gestated in Wellfleet, though, where her father, Aaron Richmond, was in residence […]
VOLLEYBALL AND BEYOND
Beach Games in the Age of Covid-19
Some suggestions for socially distant beach play
Many arriving on Outer Cape beaches this summer are bringing beach games with them — a reflection of people’s widespread but pent-up need to interact. Several popular beach games are […]
GRAVEYARD SHIFT
Remembering Rosilla: The Pilgrim Monument’s Sole Victim
The freak accident that killed the Widow Bangs on Bradford Street
PROVINCETOWN — On Aug. 5, 1910, after three years of construction, Provincetown’s Pilgrim Monument, commemorating the first landing place of the Mayflower Pilgrims, was dedicated by President William Howard Taft […]
HOT WHEELS
At Local Bike Shops, Demand Outstrips Supply
‘We’re basically buying futures’
“Bikes are the new toilet paper,” said Bill Meadows, who owns Ptown Bikes. That’s the big joke in his business. The national surge in interest in biking has definitely found […]
MASKED
All Eyes on Commercial Street
Sitting, strolling, and rolling through summer , behind a mask
On a hot Sunday in July, a walk down Commercial Street in Provincetown brought photographer Edward Boches mask-to-mask with a slow summer-paced wave of humanity. Whether seated in the shade, […]
LIBERTY & JUSTICE
Marching Fourth
On Independence Day 2020
THE UN-VIDEO GAME
Discovering the Joy of Ping Pong
A sport that keeps you nine feet apart
With team and televised sports fading out over these past four months, determined athletes have sought out new activities. Marla Rice and her husband, Kevin, who live in Wellfleet, decided […]
GREENING
Four Nauset Grads Win SEA Prizes
The award honors action for the environment
The Swapshop Ecology Action (SEA) Prize, awarded by the Wellfleet-based nonprofit Cape Cool, goes to graduating Cape Cod seniors who have demonstrated dedication to environmentalism both inside and outside the […]
PORTUGUESE FESTIVAL
This Fleet Is Blessed
On a glorious day, a quiet ritual
The harbormaster’s launch returns to the pier on Sunday after a sunny midmorning on the rounds with the Rev. Hugh McCullough, affectionately known as Father Mick. Though the event was […]
GRAVEYARD SHIFT
The Lost Crew: A Truro Mystery
Secluded Pine Grove Cemetery and its haunting secrets
Residents of and longtime visitors to Truro are surely familiar with a grisly, dark chapter of the town’s recent past involving Pine Grove Cemetery. Even now, decades later, just reading […]
SAILING
In Nod to Normalcy, PYC Kicks Off Racing Season
Where social distance is a way of life, it’s full speed ahead
When the Covid-19 pandemic touched down in full force, it made quick work of the Provincetown Yacht Club’s summer calendar. Spring meeting? Canceled. Season kickoff? Canceled. Sailboat racing clinic? Zoom-ified. […]
It’s a Sad Summer With (Almost) No Baseball
In the first round of this year’s Major League Baseball (MLB) draft, 35 percent of the players selected were alumni of the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL). June 13 would […]
