WELLFLEET — The addition of two big screens brought the Bakers Field crowd closer than ever to the action on the stage at the finals of this year’s OysterFest Shuck […]
Happenings / Festivals
OYSTERFEST 2022
Volunteers Pull Off Wellfleet’s Big Party With Panache
With room to roam and slurp, the Fest at Baker’s Field is a success
Photos by Agata Storer The OysterFest moved to Baker’s Field this year, giving the 7,000 or so people who gathered on Saturday and again on Sunday to celebrate the town’s […]
HALLOWEEN
Nauset High Schoolers Haunt the Crosby Mansion
BREWSTER — The Nauset Players have created a first-ever haunted house at the Crosby Mansion at 163 Crosby Lane, Brewster. The carefully restored historic house, built in 1888 by Albert […]
THE RED CARPET
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard at the 2022 Washashore Festival’s ‘Net Gala’ opening party at the Crown & Anchor
WOMEN’S WEEK 2022
Highlights of Weekend Number 2
The 10-day festival has music, comedy, and dykes on bikes
Women’s Week in Provincetown began in 1984 as a clam bake. It is now a 10-day affair with 270 individual events, including more than 14 musical acts, 10 comedians, 10 […]
THE PET SET
Seen and Heard at the Blessing of the Animals
Dog and cat days in Provincetown
PROVINCETOWN — Townspeople and visitors put their love of pets on parade with extra verve during Pet Appreciation Weekend this year. While animal magnetism was on display at events like […]
WINDMILL WEEKEND
Once Upon a Time There Was a Parade
IMMERSION
The Swim Is This Saturday
PROVINCETOWN — The 35th Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla is this Saturday, Sept. 10. You can still sign up to swim at swim4life.org (procrastinators may join the morning of, […]
HIT PARADE
Swamp Things and Satyrs Say Carnival Was Swell
Thirty floats and some 60 groups of costumed friends rolled, marched, twirled, and otherwise made their way down Commercial Street on Thursday, Aug. 18 in the first real live Carnival […]
LEGENDARY
Carnival Brings a Mythic Mood to Provincetown
Local businesses and artists pair up to design floats for Thursday’s parade
PROVINCETOWN — From now through Aug. 20, expect a Commercial Street flooded with Medusas, Bigfoots, and Barbra Streisands. The theme of this year’s Provincetown Carnival, which is organized by the […]
HOT WHEELS
2,950 Cyclists Finish the Pan Mass Challenge in Provincetown
PROVINCETOWN — The Pan Mass Challenge, which took place during a heat wave on the weekend of Aug. 6 and 7 this year, calls itself a fundraiser first and a […]
FAMILY VALUES
For LGBTQ Families, a Week That Brings ‘a Sigh of Relief’
Stacey Stevenson wants to ‘fight for, not fight against’
PROVINCETOWN — When Stacey and Cheralyn Stevenson first visited Provincetown during last summer’s Family Week, their sons Duke and London, who were six, immediately noticed the pride flags, the Black […]
STORIES
Drag Queen Story Hour Gives Mainstream Songs a Twist
Lil Miss Hot Mess’s joyful approach to challenges
PROVINCETOWN — When she reads aloud to children, Lil Miss Hot Mess often finds herself singing. At first, bursting into song with kids was just a way to make story […]
FOURTH OF JULY
Fifes, Funk, and Fireworks
Provincetown puts summer traditions on parade
SHARING THE HERITAGE
Celebrating the 75th Blessing of the Fleet
and the 26th Portuguese Festival
A percussionist with the Highland Light Scottish Pipe Band, which normally practices in Wareham, proves you don’t have to be Portuguese to join in Provincetown’s festival. The band is named […]
