Jim Farley started his license plate collection in 1976. That year, the states were creating special plates in recognition of the nation’s Bicentennial. Farley, who grew up in Peru, Ill., […]
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TOWN LIFE
Eastham’s Art Autorino Dies at 77
Town leaders offer tributes to select board chair
EASTHAM — Art Autorino, 77, chair of Eastham’s select board and former chair of its planning board and strategic planning committee, died in South Carolina on Feb. 4, 2024. He […]
PLACES
Short Stories, Told Plate by Plate
A visitor is transported by a license plate collection at Provincetown’s Far Land Provisions
Jim Farley started his license plate collection in 1976. That year, the states were creating special plates in recognition of the nation’s Bicentennial. Farley, who grew up in Peru, Ill., […]
SNAPSHOT
Francine Williams’s First Winter on the Cape
Wellfleet, Dec. 30, 7:34 p.m.: Francine Williams is nearing the end of her 14-hour shift at the Mobil gas station on Route 6. She clocked in just before 6 a.m. […]
BEACON HILL
After 9 Terms, Peake Will Give Up House Seat
Housing bill, with real estate transfer fee, is a priority for her
PROVINCETOWN — State Rep. Sarah Peake’s ninth term on Beacon Hill will be her last, she announced last week. Peake, 66, a Democrat who lives in Provincetown and whose Fourth […]
SNAPSHOT
Michael Costa Combs the Shore
Provincetown, Dec. 11, 2:02 p.m.: Michael Costa’s metal detector is beeping. He drops to his knees and digs and sieves through the sand with an unselfconscious eagerness. The man is looking […]
IN THE ARCHIVES
Notes From a Native Daughter
Margaret Mayo, the subject of a Henry Hensche portrait, wrote her own early history
On the first floor of the Provincetown Public Library, in the magazine section, is Henry Hensche’s Portrait of Margaret Mayo Expecting Motherhood. The woman’s eyes are pained and sad yet […]
FLAMES
The Year of Saffron, Violet, and Coconut
Two Provincetown candlemakers calibrate the sweet scents of 2024
My friend Livi Bois made a beeline for the stand at the back of the Canteen craft market like a scent hound on the trail of its prey, leaving her […]
PIONEERS
Mayo Will Retire After 48 Years at Coastal Studies
Daniel Palacios will succeed Mayo as director of Right Whale Ecology Program
PROVINCETOWN — The Center for Coastal Studies is set to announce that Charles “Stormy” Mayo III, a cofounder of the organization and director of its Right Whale Ecology Program, will […]
CELEBRATIONS
An Encyclopedic Mind for People
Jill Stauffer, the first executive director of the Provincetown Commons, will retire in February
After four years as the first executive director of the Provincetown Commons, Jill Stauffer is retiring, set to leave the organization in late February. “She is so hard-working,” says Rebecca […]
LES MUST
What Locals Can’t Live Without: Winter Edition
Maybe we love it here because our must-have lists include library books, candlelight, and eye contact
We’ve all read those lists of things celebrities say they simply can’t live without — organic, small-batch chocolate; eye serum made from nearly extinct flowers; Ugg boots. But what about […]
2000
From ‘A Walk on Cape Cod’
Around the time of the millennium I lived on Cape Cod in Provincetown, in my girlfriend’s house, and I was glad to be back in my native state after twenty […]
WELLFLEET POLICING
LaRocco Sworn In as Police Chief as Hurley Retires
A new leader hopes to live up to his predecessor’s legacy
WELLFLEET — Kevin LaRocco was sworn in as Wellfleet’s new police chief during the Dec. 19 select board meeting. He is taking the place of Michael Hurley, who has retired […]
MAKER
A Gatherer Finds Her Canvas
Isabelle Quinn’s seaside landscapes go with the grain
On a colder-than-usual December Thursday, Isabelle Quinn roams the dunes of Wellfleet’s Newcomb Hollow Beach in search of driftwood. The wind nips at her, turning her knuckles purple, but Quinn […]
RIGHTS
Ngina Lythcott Is This Year’s Tim McCarthy Human Rights Champion
‘Right now is a time when we have to make some big decisions … we are not going backwards,’ she says
PROVINCETOWN — Ngina Ruth Lythcott has been named the 2023 Tim McCarthy Human Rights Champion. She’ll receive the award at a breakfast hosted by the Barnstable County Human Rights Advisory […]
