Photos and story by Edward Boches The weather can be harsh, the winds frigid, the low tides so early it’s hard to get out of bed to work them. And […]
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BASKETBALL
Open Gyms Mean Hoop Dreams for Everyone
Pickup games show kids ‘how the game should be played’
PROVINCETOWN — Chris McKernan turns the key in the lock at the Veterans Memorial Community Center gym at 5:30 p.m. every Wednesday night for pickup basketball. Open gyms like this […]
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 […]
SEASON’S GREETINGS
Working the Winter Shift
Three year-rounders find new routines come fall
The door is quietly closing on the season. Rowdy townie weddings replace stressed-out summer talk of divorce lawyers. The pier parking lot goes from $4 an hour to free.
OBITUARY
Robert Finch, Acclaimed Cape Chronicler, Dies at 81
Robert Finch of Wellfleet, whose distinctive observations about life on Cape Cod and its nature and history drew comparisons to Thoreau, died on Sept. 30, 2024 at Liberty Commons in […]
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 […]
FIXING IT
Repairing Bikes and a Life in a Provincetown Shop
Liz Athineos ‘makes up for lost time’ with something more than mechanical skills
PROVINCETOWN — At the Bike Shack on Shank Painter Road, the squeal of mechanical parts harmonizes with the squawk of the house parakeets. “This bike’s been outside,” owner Liz Athineos […]
POND BY POND
A New Way to Be Happy: Fighting Garbage
A group of women comes into view by doing small things in great ways
BREWSTER — On their last dive of the 2024 season, Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage retrieved an abandoned anchor, a half dozen golf balls, and at least a cooler-full of […]
CHARACTER STUDIES
From Hat to Home, Channing Wilroy Makes His Own World
How the ‘Trash Trilogy’ actor built an oasis on Pearl Street
PROVINCETOWN — Channing Wilroy takes a brisk walk through town every day, his shoulders rolled slightly forward as if they, too, are in a hurry. He rarely stops, because he […]
IT’S RUFF OUT HERE
For Outer Cape Groomers, It’s a Doggy Dog World
Between blowouts, a word with two of the Outer Cape’s most sought-after professionals
There is perhaps nothing that more consistently occupies the minds and civic spaces of the Outer Cape than questions concerning our dogs. Between leash laws in Truro, dangerous dogs in […]
LIFE SAVERS
3 Young Sailors Come to the Rescue at Town Pier
They were prepared, thanks to Provincetown’s children’s sailing program
PROVINCETOWN — JJ Blake, Andrew Shope, and Kevin Woznac were biking down MacMillan Wharf on Aug. 19 to go pier jumping before their daily lessons at West End Racing Children’s […]
ON THE AIR
The Art of the Interview
Ira Wood on crafting a ‘directed conversation’
There are four rules that underpin a good interview, says Ira Wood, host and producer of The Lowdown on WOMR. Maybe the most important one, he says, is this: lavish […]
CHARACTER STUDIES
Finding Disco, Leather, and Love in 1970s Provincetown
Ardis Markarian has no claim to fame. She just loves it here.
Leading the way to her living room, Ardis Markarian adjusts a visitor’s view of Provincetown. “You don’t have to be a writer or artist to live here,” she says. “You […]
COVE WATCH
On and Off the Lifeguards’ Chair at Herring Cove Beach
A tight-knit team of students, entrepreneurs, and ‘lifers’ who love their Seashore jobs
PROVINCETOWN — Alan Weaver is a real estate broker in Hudson, N.Y. for most of the year, but this summer he’s a lifeguard at Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown. With […]
FORAGING
Where the Wild Things Grow
Sarah Naciri carefully ‘wildcrafts’ a way into the local economy
Across much of the Outer Cape, along wooded trails, the sides of roads, the edges of marshes, and the mouths of rivers, those who pay close attention to the land […]
