Inner Voices
STEAMERS
Taking Flight
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Saving Land
The task is huge, and we are small
Somewhere in my disheveled archives sits a tattered yellow news clipping from the New York Times, circa 1980, that was pinned to the bulletin board over my desk for decades. […]
COMING OUT
The Congressman Who Rescued Stellwagen Bank
It’s time for NOAA to acknowledge the role of Gerry Studds
Provincetown is the gateway to the Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, but you’re forgiven if you didn’t know that. In 1995, Don Young (R-Alaska), chair of the […]
VIGNETTE
Back to School
STEAMERS
Cruisin’ For A Bruisin’
OP-ED
Free Speech and Student Protests
Was Leonard Cohen right about democracy coming to the U.S.A.?
Leonard Cohen’s 1992 song lyrics suggesting that democracy might be coming to the U.S.A. have been very much with me lately. Ever since I sat under the Payomet tent with […]
VIGNETTE
One Last Shopping Trip
STEAMERS
Stuff a Fish In It
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Where Does the Eagle Fly — and Why?
How we spend our free time defines who we are
We were out at Race Point, looking over the flocks of shorebirds, terns, and gulls on the beach, when suddenly the mass of them rose into the air in their […]
POSTCARD FROM THE BEACH
A Shadow Close to Shore
A fisherman’s late-August encounter at Newcomb Hollow
I walked north up Newcomb Hollow Beach, away from the lounging crowds packed together under brightly colored umbrellas. From extended families to old people pairs, nearly naked toddlers to equally […]
