About 600 demonstrators gathered along Route 6 in Eastham on Saturday, April 5 as part of a nationwide protest against the Trump administration’s cuts to government services and abuse of […]
Happenings / Festivals
SCENES
Pride Potluck Serves Up Good Company in Eastham
COA social groups are an antidote to isolation in winter months
EASTHAM — The Chapel in the Pines was a lively scene on the evening of Feb. 1 as seniors arrived from across Cape Cod bringing with them enough walnut and […]
FROZEN
Skating Days
On a few cold afternoons, the chance to teach our children one of winter’s joys
WELLFLEET — We hear from Jacob Dalby on the fourth cold day. He’s been scouting ponds. The deep ones are still wide open, but the small, shallow ones are beginning […]
RE-ROOTED
Not Carbon Neutral
PROVINCETOWN — Jay Critchley led the 42nd Re-Rooters Day ceremony on the beach in the East End, at a spot he says he chose for its embrace of the harbor […]
TIMELESS TOYS
Tiny Trains Traverse Miniature Worlds in Orleans
Imaginations chug along at the Nauset Model Railroad Club’s open house
ORLEANS — The grand plans of home-based hobbyists who tinker with model trains and the tiny landscapes they chug through are sometimes hindered by space limitations. But that’s not a […]
MEET THE MAKERS
A Community for Craftspeople, Customers, and Friends
Holiday markets bring out artisans by the dozens and shoppers by the hundreds
The holiday markets here celebrate a long history of handicrafts made on the Outer Cape. Where there were once bayberry candle makers, rug hookers, net weavers, beach plum canners, and […]
ROOTING AROUND
A Mage and a Bard Turn Up at a Library
21st annual Eastham Turnip Festival brings visitors from near and far
EASTHAM — Caroline DeBrota and Shawyoun Shaidani’s road to the Turnip Festival began in 2023, when the Medford pair decided to dress up as fish and chips for Halloween. They […]
LOCAL ROOTS
A Vegetable Heavyweight Has Its Day
Getting Eastham’s famous turnip to the festival created in its honor is no easy feat
Friends’ Marketplace sells a lot of Eastham turnips — more than you might imagine for a humble root vegetable. “They’re starting to go through over 200 pounds of our turnips […]
EAT YOUR FEELINGS
This Year’s Pie Fest Bests the Rest
Spirits were high, and so was the bidding, at Provincetown’s third annual Pie Fest
Downstairs at the Commons, three celebrity judges and two hosts eyed 14 slices of pie. One slice was naught more than a sliver; another bulged precariously. One spilled meat and […]
UP IN THE AIR
A Neglected History Gets the Spotlight
Professional juggler and author Thom Wall says the circus is ‘known by everyone and studied by no one’
Thom Wall enjoys holding a knife between his teeth and balancing objects like wine glasses and playing cards on the pointed tip. The trick falls under a discipline called “mouthstick.” […]
SHUCKER’S HOLIDAY
Fried Dough and Fast Shucking Take Over Wellfleet’s Main Street
A first-timer from Toronto wins the shuck off; Eastham’s Ben Morgan is third
WELLFLEET — Last Saturday dawned sunny and mild — rare weather for the first day of the annual OysterFest.
BRACKISH AND BOOKISH
Spellers Are Spare but Spar Anyway
The 19th annual OysterFest Spelling Bee crowns two in a small field
WELLFLEET — Main Street teemed with jubilant oyster appreciators last weekend, there to celebrate those bivalves. Courage — liquid or otherwise — spurred some toward the Wellfleet Public Library on […]
HAUNTINGS
Nauset Players ‘Spookify’ Preservation Hall
Just don’t expect the bloodsucking infestation to stay past Halloween
WELLFLEET — A host of vampires will descend on Wellfleet next week, courtesy of the Nauset Regional High School drama club. Preservation Hall director Kate Ryan personally invited them in. […]
GENDER EXPRESSION
Trans Week Has Its Golden Jubilee
A shift over 50 years from spectacle to personal development and politics
It’s the 50th year of Provincetown’s Trans Week, formerly known as Fantasia Fair, and tickets are all sold out, although some events including keynote talks and the annual Follies! fashion […]
REEL MUSIC
If You Give a Violinist a Fiddle
A community of musicians organizes ‘real music from the heart’
The crowd is smaller than usual tonight, I’m told. Most weeks, twice as many people are eating and drinking and talking over the musicians playing in the corner near the […]
