Provincetown, Dec. 4, 1:41 p.m.: Norm Torvill is restoring benches on MacMillan Pier. He’s also getting ready to move to Iowa, where an old Army buddy tells him life is […]
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EDUCATION
Nauset’s Music Man Is a Master of Ensemble
Daniel Anthony finds ways to blend players at every level
EASTHAM — The Nauset High School pep band stood under the frosty stadium lights on the football field, golden brass clenched in their hands, waiting to welcome the Warriors to […]
IN PROGRESS
Jenny Humphreys Gets Away With It
Inside the painter’s winter of whimsy
In the center of a melancholy Norwegian landscape — with its brown mountain, cold sky, and rows of huddled evergreens — stands a massive chicken foot. It looks extraterrestrial, exploding […]
MIGRATION
Provincetown Beckons Those Fleeing Anti-Trans Legislation
From across the country, transgender people have sought safety and care on the Outer Cape
PROVINCETOWN — Lilith Tate and her mother, Lark, left Utah. Wren LaPlant left Texas. JC Rey left Florida. Each of them came to Provincetown seeking a haven amid the rise […]
EARTH BENDERS
‘You Can Make Anything You Want With Clay’
Ceramic artist Isabel Souza comes full circle in the studio at Castle Hill
TRURO — Teaching a pottery class to young artists at Castle Hill took Isabel Souza “full circle,” she says. “I was eight or nine when I got the scholarship to […]
THE COMMUNICATOR
Leggs Learns That Wild Turkeys Have Wings
A boxer’s run-in with a rafter of clucking freedom fighters
I’d forgotten how hard it can be to cross the dunes. “Cerdded â chŵn,” said Leggs, a boxer. Rhian Cull, one of his two human mothers, is Welsh. Leggs has […]
THE LOCAL JOURNALISM PROJECT
The Independent Welcomes Winter Fellow Aden Choate
Backpacking, fact-checking, and journalism inspired by Mary Heaton Vorse
PROVINCETOWN — Aden Choate began a five-month Mary Heaton Vorse journalism fellowship at the Independent on Nov. 1., inaugurating the third season of a winter program that brings young reporters […]
ARTISTS
Mark Adams Is Most at Home in the Dunes
Science and adventure color the artist’s vision of our place in the natural world
It was just after 5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 5, 1977, when Mark Adams and four other firefighters from the National Forest Service spotted a lightning storm coming in off […]
ARTISTS
Through Romantic Dunescapes and Stormy Seas, Anne Packard Paints Nostalgia
Still painting at 90, the artist has put her gallery up for sale
PROVINCETOWN — The light still blazes in artist Anne Packard’s blue eyes as she fixes her gaze on Long Point. She can see it through the wide windows in the […]
IN THE STARS
KT Fitz Reminds Us of Our Shared Reality
This ‘shock jock’ chart reader is serious about your rising sign
Astrologer KT Fitz calls her podcast Miss Guided, but she’s not out to steer anybody wrong. She just thinks astrology can be funny. Over the course of an hour, Fitz […]
THE INTERVIEW
Exhibit Designer David Perry Is Both Creator and Guide
The influencer just below the surface
David Perry flies under the radar. He’s an architect, designer, collector, and curator whose aesthetic decisions have made aquariums and zoos beautiful and more accessible. He now works backstage advising […]
HISTORY
Tiny Worthington and Truro’s Fashion-Forward Days
How a 1930s cottage industry grew from one woman’s belief in the beauty of fishing nets
TRURO — Ada Worthington, whom everyone called Tiny, created a national fashion trend during the Great Depression from the beauty she saw in a piece of fishing net she picked […]
THE COMMUNICATOR
Little Edie’s End-of-Season Ennui
After the lookie-loos leave, a Yorkiepoo longs for St. Tropez
“There’s something terribly sad about watching the patio umbrellas come down,” said Little Edie wistfully as some of the last of the seasonal workers cleared furniture from a nearby patio. […]
CIVICS
Former GLAD Director Is at Home in Truro
Lee Swislow, a seasoned advocate of queer justice, finds meaning in local politics
TRURO — You might call Lee Swislow a political animal. She has been a longtime advocate for gay rights and was, for nearly a decade, the director of GLAD — […]
PLACES
Where Bouffants and Beauty Culture Lived On
At Terra Luna in Truro, Tony Pasquale’s homage to his grandmother’s big personality
TRURO — Many mournful diners bid farewell last week to a favorite joint tucked away on the bay side of Route 6A in North Truro. Terra Luna was always more […]
