Inner Voices
STEAMERS
Age of the Scooter
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
The Seawall Revisited
Living on borrowed time
It has been two years since I discovered David Read’s painting on a seawall in the East End of town (“Painting on the Seawall,” June 29, 2023). That amounts to […]
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Fourth of July Contradictions
Fearing for the future but loving a big, beautiful parade
On the evening of July 3, I and 69 million other Americans who get Social Security benefits received an email “celebrating the passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill, a […]
VIGNETTE
Wait for Me
STEAMERS
Stuck with the Bill
WATERCOLOR
F-Bomb
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Our Founding Documents
Ben Franklin and others admired the founding document that unified the Haudenosaunee peoples (who were called the “Iroquois” by the colonists), which some said had influenced the founding of this […]
WELLFLEET HOUSING AND TAXES
‘Creative Destruction’ Is Tearing the Fabric of Community
The short-term-rental tax should be dedicated to addressing the housing crisis
An article directing Wellfleet to dedicate 80 percent of its rooms tax revenue to affordable housing was narrowly defeated — the vote was 90 to 101 — at this year’s […]
VIGNETTE
Good Old Jaws
STEAMERS
Whale Watch
OP-ART
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over it became a butterfly (after Picasso), drypoint and watercolor.
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Reading at the Old Colony
For one night, a sacred watering hole becomes a literary salon
Many years ago, I attended a reading by Michael Cunningham at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. I think he was reading from his then-just-published book, Land’s End. In […]
