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 […]
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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 […]
ROAD TRIP
From Provincetown to Bishop, on and off Route 6
A road warrior meanders his way to cross-country happiness on a nostalgic route’s fragments
When Charlie Bates departed from Provincetown on Dec. 16, 2022, he took a selfie with the Route 6 sign on the way out of town. “Bishop, CA 3,205 miles,” the […]
THE COMMUNICATOR
Lula at the Banquet of Life
A pig who loves a party is also an artist’s muse
Lula the Pig said she would buy the flowers herself. “We’re having a party,” she said in a startlingly deep voice, one you might expect from a bear rather than […]
THE COMMUNICATOR
Lula at the Banquet of Life
A pig who loves a party is also an artist’s muse
Lula the Pig said she would buy the flowers herself. “We’re having a party,” she said in a startlingly deep voice, one you might expect from a bear rather than […]
FOR THE BIRDS
Adopting a Parrot? ‘Get Out of the Way’
Parrots are smart, funny, loud, and annoying; living with them is a labor of love
EASTHAM — Kerry Reid is conflicted about the fact that she keeps a parrot at her house. “I don’t encourage people to do it,” she says. “It’s a cool thing, […]
FOR THE BIRDS
Adopting a Parrot? ‘Get Out of the Way’
Parrots are smart, funny, loud, and annoying; living with them is a labor of love
EASTHAM — Kerry Reid is conflicted about the fact that she keeps a parrot at her house. “I don’t encourage people to do it,” she says. “It’s a cool thing, […]
COLORFUL QUARRY
Emma Motta, age 3, of Truro encounters easy hunting on the lawn at the Pilgrim Monument on April 2. Clear skies but lots of wind greeted about 80 families who […]
