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Inner Voices

    THE YEAR-ROUNDER

    Walking the Dogs

    The ‘movie stars’ of Provincetown and their fun uncle

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    The world is in disorder, our rights and freedoms are under threat, but some things remain unchanged: for one, dogs still need to be walked. Our dogs depend on us […]

    ADAPTATION

    Resilience Is About More Than Technical Skill

    Bridging policy and neighborly presence in Provincetown

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    In conversations about coastal resilience, we often hear about engineering, infrastructure, and timelines. We rarely hear about the relationships that everything else depends on — the ones between people, between […]

    THE YEAR-ROUNDER

    Fight Like Josephine

    We need to be reminded of the hard things Del Deo achieved

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    Our individual lives, so precious to us, are brief and then gone, like snow on the water, vanished utterly with barely a trace left behind. Those few throughout history who […]

    ENCROACHMENT

    Dishonoring a Provincetown Hero

    Douglas Roach’s grave should have been protected

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    I am grateful to the Provincetown Independent for its coverage of the development of 27 Cemetery Road and the encroachment on the Roach-Watkins family gravesite. It is troublesome not just […]

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