PROVINCETOWN — As Alex Hanelt closes up shop for the evening, he carefully removes the precious jewelry from each display case. Then he retreats to a little workshop in the […]
Generations
MAYDAY
The Petterutis Remember Their ‘Nana Noon,’ a Titanic Survivor
April 14 marked the 110th anniversary of the maritime tragedy
PROVINCETOWN — Until her death at age 73, Bertha Mulvihill Noon had nightmares in which she heard the screams of those who went down with the luxury liner Titanic. Mark […]
FAMILY HISTORY
From Ukraine to Provincetown
Today’s news echoes a family’s century-old story of flight
The picture at right is a family photo. It was taken in 1898 in Kyiv, Ukraine and is the original cabinet card — a thin photograph mounted on a 4¼-by-6½-inch […]
IN THE STACKS
A Family Portrait Lost and Then Found
The story behind a haunting trio at the Eastham library
The Eastham Room of the town’s library is brimming with archival records. But just outside the room hangs a trio of 19th-century portraits of residents whose lives were rich with […]
INSCRIPTIONS
Benches Are for Remembering
Memorial benches bring to mind people and their beloved Outer Cape places
WELLFLEET — Each summer, thousands of people drive down Chequessett Neck Road from the center of town and bear right onto Griffin Island Road. They’re on their way to Duck […]
Young Voices
A special issue
In our weekly marathon of trying to keep up with what’s going on in town halls and virtual committee meetings about schools and budgets, health and housing, we stop now […]
FAMILY
Covid Changes Connections Across Generations
Ironically, it’s harder when grandparents and grandchildren live near one another
Every Monday night, Sue Eldredge meets her daughter and granddaughter over Zoom for dinner. In a way, that’s a lot more togetherness than they had before the pandemic, when she […]
HISTORY
Mary Heaton Vorse on the Marriage of Thought and Action
A Provincetown social critic who turned her eye on the world
In Time and the Town, her 1942 chronicle about Provincetown, Mary Heaton Vorse lovingly recounts her experience with this changeable “end of land” surrounded by sea. Far from quaint, this […]
early learning
Truro’s Free Preschool Will Not Expand for Now
Eastham voters may be asked to provide preschool vouchers
TRURO — The school committee, which agreed last spring to completely eliminate tuition for preschool at the Truro Central School, decided on Feb. 13 not to enlarge the program to […]
graveyard shift
Three ‘Strangers’ Rest in the Cove Burying Ground
Eastham cemetery is the only known Cape Cod gravesite of Mayflower passengers
EASTHAM — We can probably thank Hollywood (and maybe Dickens) for the creepy reputation of burial grounds. What would a horror film be without a desolate graveyard overgrown with weeds, […]
