Picturesque views, a thriving queer community, scores of eager tourists, and no shortage of performance venues attract dozens of drag performers to Provincetown every summer. But when the weather turns […]
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ARTISTS
MiYoung Sohn Makes Things — Whatever the Circumstance
An adaptable artist reimagines common materials
When MiYoung Sohn moved to Provincetown, it was the flowers that struck her. She arrived from New York in September 2021 to work as the visual arts coordinator at the […]
CAPE BASEBALL LEAGUE
The Firebirds’ Broadcasters Dominate the Field
Four of the last 9 Jim Nantz Award winners got their chops in Orleans
ORLEANS — Every year elite undergraduates from across the country come spend a summer with the Orleans Firebirds of the Cape Cod Baseball League. But not all of them are […]
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
On Locust Road, a 17th-Century House Is Lived In, Gently
Lucy and Tom Ott receive the Abbott Award for the Atwood-Knowles house
EASTHAM — Situated in the “Old Town Centre” historic district, the Atwood-Knowles house is actually two distinct dwellings — the second much older than the first. The first, a one-and-a-half-story […]
PORTUGUESE FESTIVAL
Peter Cook Tells Stories to Remember
Keeping a Provincetown heritage alive, one story at a time
Fishing hundreds of miles off the coast of Provincetown in 1979, the F/V Little Infant was caught in a raging tempest. Peter Cook, a crewman on the 90-foot scalloper, could […]
GRADUATES
Nauset Senior Athletes Recognized
19 of them have committed to continuing at college
EASTHAM — Parents, coaches, and teammates turned out on May 25 to celebrate the 19 Nauset High seniors who have committed to continue their athletic careers in college. “It’s a huge […]
HOME MAKING
Raising a Wetu in Truro
An indigenous dwelling proves weather-hardy on opening day at the Highland House Museum
TRURO — The wind blew ferociously on June 3, providing a fitting backdrop for the celebration held at the Highland House Museum that day. Annawon Weeden had just put the […]
THE ARBORIST
Eugene Zhukau Eyes Provincetown’s Trees
A walk among favorites and invasives, with pruners in hand
Eugene Zhukau has always been interested in trees. He had a favorite in the neighborhood where he spent his childhood, in Minsk, Belarus. It was a horse chestnut tree, and […]
DEPT. OF COMMERCE
What I Did Last Winter: A Pop-Up in W. Hollywood
The fact that Sal’s Place, the Provincetown Italian restaurant owned by Michela Murphy and her mother, Siobhan Carew, is a “very outdoors” restaurant is a plus in summer. But what […]
INCIDENTALLY
Pretty in Pink
I was the only customer in the Truro Post Office when I pulled my mail out of our box and found it included a large rolled-up Manila envelope. I didn’t […]
CENTENARIANS
Provincetown’s Ollie Ahmuty Turns 100
A former Rockette kicks up her heels for a big birthday party
PROVINCETOWN — The hottest event in town on the afternoon of May 22 wasn’t at the Boatslip or the A-House. It was at Seashore Point, the independent elder living facility […]
CHEF’S REWARD
Alice Gong Rolls Her Own
The perfect rice and economy of motion are all you need for sushi at home
Alice Gong is an accidental sushi chef. “I didn’t set out to do it,” she says. “It’s just one of those things where you get a job, and it allows […]
STREET FASHION
Rainbow Roller Skates
PROVINCETOWN — Kelly Drew drove to Provincetown from her home in Greenfield for a weekend-long celebration of a friend’s birthday and a chance to be out on the town. “I […]
LOVE, ACTUALLY
A Quiet Ceremony, Parties to Follow
PROVINCETOWN — Shawn Fiedler and Joshua Butts hopped on the morning ferry from Provincetown to Boston last weekend to elope. They were married at Old South Church next to Copley […]
READING ROOM
Choosing Brave: A Biography of Mamie Till-Mobley
At the Provincetown Schools library, Natoya Hermitt reads about Emmett Till’s mother
When she first picked up Choosing Brave in her school library in Provincetown, Natoya Hermitt thought it was going to be “about a mother and her son, living in the […]
