It’s not unusual, on a walk in Provincetown, to be reminded of townspeople’s military service. There’s the Civil War Monument in the cemetery, the World War I Doughboy statue in […]
Inner Voices
VIGNETTE
Beach Party
THE WORKS
Going Undercover
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Just My Opinion
How to comprehend the incomprehensible
A column is a supporting structure. It can be made of wood, brick, stone, or marble. Columns support grand temples and meeting places, like the Parthenon. But a column can […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Virgo Offers Tough Love
The retrograde-inspired revolution begins within
With much ado about nothing and plenty of lamenting by Leos that their “birthday month” is over, the unstoppable Sun slides into Virgo, maiden of the zodiac. Typically depicted holding […]
VIGNETTE
Carnival Parade
OHMM!
An August Meditation
OP-ED
Finding the Old Peace Sign
A time for Howard Zinn’s ‘guerrilla warfare with the establishment’
Somewhere in this old house where I live, full of many generations of treasures and trash, I still have the CNVA pin that I wore in high school (that’s Nauset […]
VIGNETTE
Global Warming
INCLUSIONARY ZONING
A Disconnect at the Provincetown Planning Board
The board should help advance the town’s housing goals
The Provincetown Planning Board is considering a proposed housing project at 22 Nelson Ave. This project represents an inflection point for the Inclusionary Bylaw and for the ability of the […]
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
T-Shirts: Express Yourself!
A brief history of the easiest way to make a statement
I am going to tell you exactly how old I am: old enough to remember when T-shirts were white. I remember when they were essentially undergarments, worn with other shirts, […]
VIGNETTE
Cooling Station
ACCOMMODATION
Shouldn’t We Be More Alarmed?
Overall, Americans do not seem to be shocked by recent shifts in politics and society
I lie awake at night more often than I’d like to admit wondering if this is how it felt in 1933 at the end of Germany’s Weimar Republic. Did people […]
COUNTY LINE
Law Enforcement and Our Mental Health Crisis
Locking people up has never been a good approach to psychiatric illness
I was in a Brewster back yard on a recent sunny Sunday afternoon that was made for the beach but was instead an introduction to some unfamiliar — to me […]