I’m sure I have forgotten more about fishing than I now know. Every time I go, I find myself remembering, usually too late, that I should be using a different […]
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ONE MAN’S TREASURE
A Holdout Survives on Eastham’s Shurtleff Road
There’s more to the Beyle house than the signs and the swine out front
EASTHAM — On Shurtleff Road, a roughly half-mile residential stretch that curves along Cape Cod Bay in North Eastham, immaculate lawns adorn large new houses. There’s not a pebble out […]
WORDS
Tyne and the Town
Emmy and Tony-winning actress Tyne Daly in three evenings of benefit readings
Tyne Daly might be best known to a certain generation of audiences for her costarring role as down-to-earth cop and working mom Mary Beth Lacey in the mid-1980s television show […]
THE THREAD
Craft Becomes Art in Gretchen Romey-Tanzer’s Weaving Studio
A room full of looms is classroom, workshop, and gallery
BREWSTER — Eight big floor looms stand in various stages of use in Gretchen Romey-Tanzer’s studio. The walls are lined with vibrant spools of wool and cotton and with the […]
POSITIVE AGING
A World Traveler Finds His True Home in Provincetown
Larry Moodry is Provincetown’s Senior of the Year
PROVINCETOWN — Larry Moodry first came to Provincetown in 1960, hoping to spend a college summer waiting tables. He got more than he bargained for. “Provincetown,” he says, “became my […]
CABARET
The Startling, Vulnerable, Wildly Theatrical Sandra Bernhard
She is bringing her new show, ‘A Spring Affair,’ to town hall
September 2012, somewhere south of Hell’s Kitchen and the end of my first night as a full-time citizen of New York City. I was crouched on a sidewalk corner cleaning […]
MUSIC
Aoife O’Donovan Channels Springsteen
A pandemic-era livestream of Nebraska becomes a national tour
Fresh off an international tour for his hit fifth album The River, Bruce Springsteen was a veritable rock star in 1982. But he had hit a personal wall, grappling with […]
KEEPING SCORE
Composing on the Outer Cape
Three women composers talk about their lives and their work
Classical concerts rarely feature pieces composed by women. Three women composers who draw inspiration from the Outer Cape discuss how they found (and are still finding) their ways in an […]
INTERVIEW
Eva Respini Talks About the Value of the Periphery
A former ICA chief curator is spending more time on the Cape
Eva Respini stepped down from being chief curator at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art last month. She hasn’t announced her plans, but on the heels of curating the U.S. pavilion […]
INCIDENTALLY
Beach Rescue
I sat in the dark with two friends on the wet sand at Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet on the evening of July 4th. To our left, fireworks lit up […]
CENTENARIANS
On July 4, Joseph Pellegrino Turns 100
A World War II veteran and Wellfleet legend reflects on a life well lived
WELLFLEET — Joseph Pellegrino, the World War II veteran, former selectman, and builder who turned 100 on July 4, can recall the milestones of his life with striking accuracy. Aug. […]
A TIME TO SOW
In Wellfleet, Hats Are a Summer Tradition
Oyster farmers set out cement-coated contraptions to catch the season’s larvae
WELLFLEET — When those perfectly shucked oysters show up at your table, and you lift the shell, tilt your head back, and let that sweet, briny bivalve slide between your […]
EVICTION
Del Deo Refuses Order to Quit His Dune Shack
Markey, Warren, and Keating ask Park Service to let him remain
PROVINCETOWN — Sal Del Deo, 94, who has spent 77 years caring for and seasonally inhabiting the dune shack he still calls “Frenchie’s” after his friend Jeanne “Frenchie” Chanel, refused […]
ARCHITECTURE
A Fun House and Modernism Inspire a Designer to Turn to Blueprints
In Wellfleet, Malachi Connolly builds big openings for landscapes and light
It was in Wellfleet that Malachi Connolly first became conscious of architecture’s potential effects. When he was growing up, his family spent summers in a Greek Revival house on Holbrook […]
