PROVINCETOWN — The town’s 46th annual Carnival parade moved down Commercial Street with its typical buoyance on Aug. 22: painted props and bodies glittered in sunlight, and floats sent out […]
Happenings / Festivals
INDEPENDENCE DAY
The Domino Effect
For Jamaicans, the game creates community, preserves culture, and passes the time
PROVINCETOWN — Jamaica’s Independence Day on Aug. 6 was celebrated in fits and starts here, as intermittent rainstorms moved across the sky and work commitments drew people away from the […]
ROOTS
Farmers Market Week Kicks Off With Song and Dance
Community, local food, and indigenous culture cycle through the Truro market
TRURO — The Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers performed here on Aug. 5 in front of a crowd that included the market’s usual Monday shoppers along with Mass. Dept. of […]
VPTOWN
Provincetown Was Final Event for Biden-Harris Campaign
Donors were energized by vice president, now leading the Democrats’ ticket
PROVINCETOWN — In a late-afternoon speech at a Biden-Harris Victory Fund event at the Pilgrim Monument on Saturday, July 20, Vice President Kamala Harris sounded practically presidential.
CIVICS
Worries and Waves at the Fourth of July Parade
Sidewalk talk with the crowd in town to celebrate
PROVINCETOWN — The Fourth of July parade unfolded with the usual pomp and circumstance last Thursday. The town crier and a drum corps led the procession down Commercial Street. Weary-looking […]
SOUND CHECK
Provincetown Celebrates With Low-Noise Fireworks
After a town meeting vote, this year’s display was engineered to be easy on the ears
PROVINCETOWN — Just after 9 p.m. on July 4, the lights of MacMillan Pier were shut off, fireworks began to launch from a barge in Provincetown Harbor, and hot streaks […]
FOURTH OF JULY
A Sweet Glimpse of Wellfleet’s Parade
PORTUGÁLIA
In Provincetown, a Celebration With History
PROVINCETOWN — The reds and greens of flags and scarves and the percussive sounds of drums and ratchets that accompanied the Provincetown Portuguese Festival all weekend brightened a foggy, windy […]
LEAPS AND BOUNDS
Young People Revel in the Blessings of the Day
PROVINCETOWN — MacMillan Pier was busy on the misty morning of the Blessing of the Fleet on Sunday as our family rushed past the twirling skirts of dancers in Lopes […]
GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK
Structure and Color for Every Season of the Year
In Eastham, a collection of maples and conifers grows little by little
Story and drawings by Abraham Storer Keri Thomas and David Smile’s garden comes as a surprise to a visitor arriving on Oak Ridge Road in Eastham, not far from Cooks […]
LIBERATION
On Juneteenth, Speakers Take Up the Question of Belonging
‘We have come a mighty long way, but there’s a mile and a half to go’
PROVINCETOWN — As drummers walked through the crowd to energize a Wednesday afternoon gathering, some 150 people converged on the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House to hear James Jackson Jr., Jordan […]
BLESSING OF THE FLEET
Lifting Up the Patron Saint of Netmakers, Shipbuilders, and Fishermen
Alex Brown and Nancy Silva talk about St. Peter and processions past and present
PROVINCETOWN — The 28th Provincetown Portuguese Festival begins Friday, June 28 with live music and dancing in Portuguese Square on Ryder Street. During the three-day-long celebration, there will be a […]
TALES AND TAILS
In Eastham, They Read Aloud to Dogs
On the first Saturday of every month, a chance to share devotion to literature and fur
EASTHAM — Dogs are not known for their literary prowess, their exceptional reading comprehension skills, nor for staying put for extended periods of time. Yet on the morning of March […]
QUICK DIP
Polar Bears Plunge for Sharks
Hundreds jump in to support CCS research
PROVINCETOWN — Renewal of spirit was on the minds of many of the 230 people who braved the icy waters of Provincetown Harbor for the 7th annual Polar Bear Plunge […]
MAKERS’ MARKET
A Visit to a Village Populated by Quirky Craftsfolk
String lights and spruce boughs, fiber art and Barbie heads
PROVINCETOWN — Celeste Hanlon’s Barbie-head ornaments are hard to miss at Canteen’s annual holiday market. She started making them before Barbie became a movie star. Years ago, Hanlon started buying […]
