Last week’s annual town meeting in Provincetown was a doozy — an efficient, productive one-night affair punctuated by a 90-minute tornado that swept over the warrant’s three short-term rental (STR) […]
Inner Voices
VIGNETTE
Traffic Jam
STEAMERS
Coyote O’Clock
LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND
Restoring the In-Betweens
In defense of the rhythmic realms where opposites meet
So many things to love in the Book of Genesis; so many things to take exception to. Here’s one of each. Love: the image of the world as being made, […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
The Whales and the Wind Farms
The arguments over strandings are weakened by lack of evidence
The development of offshore wind farms as a solution to our desperate need for renewable energy has become a hot topic, and endangered whales have gotten caught up in it. […]
VIGNETTE
Quick Change Artist
STEAMERS
A Better Lobster Trap
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Tide Line Mystery
On being confronted with a simple, inexplicable occurrence.
We all live our lives where the sea meets the land, and it does so every day, twice a day. This meeting is foreordained — it is an encroachment really […]
VIGNETTE
Spring
STEAMERS
Weed Whacked
KEEPING WATCH
Either Way: Taking a Broader View of Human Variation
Reflections of a retired English teacher
In 1969, when I was 19 and rode a motorcycle, there was a highway sign on Route 6 in North Truro alerting drivers that they could get to Provincetown by […]
OP-ED
Giving Before We Take
A prescription: notice what the trees and terns seem to know
I found myself skipping out to the mailbox on a recent bright day. Skipping is not as easy as it used to be, but the drive is long, and I […]
VIGNETTE
Daylight Savings Time
STEAMERS
Happy Spring!
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Away With Me
A meditation on ‘advance planning’
I knew there were not enough dead people in Provincetown to make their disposal profitable. I discovered recently that the same is true for Wellfleet. (Forget Truro — it’s a […]
