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BABYCAKES

Welcome, Henry

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Henry Frederick Waldo was born at 7:28 a.m. on May 1, 2021 at Cape Cod Hospital, weighing in at 5 pounds, 10 ounces and measuring 19 inches tall. His parents […]

OUTERMOST COLORS

Flag Day Is June 14

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Gray Brown, left, and Jim Vesper prepare to raise the American flag in their Provincetown yard on June 8. When they do, it will fly above their Canadian and Pride […]

MULLIGANS

The One Day a Year When Golf Is Only a Game

Peter Hall plots the return of his topsy-turvy tourney 

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WELLFLEET — Imagine playing a golf course backwards. Or using a putter to drive the ball off the tee. How about using a driver to putt the ball into the […]

THE SCUTTLEBUTT

The Bass Get a Bit Bigger

With the temperature, hopes are rising among fishermen

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What a difference a week makes. We went from a November-like Memorial Day weekend storm to a blistering July-like heat wave. Fishing has improved somewhat. Striped bass are filtering in […]

GRAVEYARD SHIFT

The Fates of Families

Truro’s cemeteries tell a series of heartbreaking stories

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TRURO — The fog was thick on Monday night, April 19, 1852 — what sailors call “pea soup.” Gale winds blew from the east. At midnight, after making Cape Ann […]

APPRECIATION

Joe Bones, Who Had a Million Stories, Is Gone

The legendary captain and musician was irresistible and esteemed

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PROVINCETOWN — So, this is back in the early ’60s, down in Connecticut, in some kind of factory. A bunch of guys eat lunch every day at the same table. […]

CHOP TALK

Chopper Young Can Take Care of Himself

Wellfleet’s champion shucker on selectmen, self-sufficiency, and what winning the lottery can’t change

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WELLFLEET — Chopper Young is waiting on a fish. He’s knee-deep in Sally’s Bottom (from him, this guarantees a smirk), two poles planted, a headwind niggling his lines. Six feet […]

OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT

New Chapter in an Old Book

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JODY MELANDER / EXPLORER & MAKER / TRURO In the ’80s, when Jody Melander arrived in Provincetown, it was love at first sight. But over the decades, P’town has changed. […]

GRAVEYARD SHIFT

A Life-Saving Beacon in the Fog of Politics

Nauset Light Society honors the memory of its keepers

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EASTHAM — The offshore waters of Outer Cape Cod, with their hidden sand bars, took so many vessels and lives that the stretch from Chatham to Provincetown came to be […]

ON THE LINKS

155 Hours of Golf. 9,845 to Go.

Practice might not make perfect, but maybe it’s what makes the game

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There’s a so-called rule, popularized by Malcom Gladwell in his bestseller Outliers: The Story of Success, that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert at something. The […]

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