Welcome back! Your entire face is a sight to behold, and it’s absolutely beautiful, but being with you — or any other person, outside of one’s own home — remains […]
Inner Voices
STEAMERS
Name That Thing
VIGNETTE
Summer Luncheon
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
How Critical Race Theory Explains a Harvard Professor’s Error
Reflections of a retired English teacher
In June 1935, Wellfleet summer resident Carleton Coons, a Harvard University professor and archeologist, helped supervise the excavation of Native American remains, stone weapons, and shell fragments in the Hemenway’s […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Conservation
SKETCHBOOK
Juneteenth in Provincetown
VIGNETTE
Going Out Again
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Blessing the Fleet
A tradition that still has meaning in this town
The things we celebrate reveal a great deal about us: who we are or who we would like to be. This weekend is the Portuguese Festival and the Blessing of […]
OP-ED
Alloparenting and Survival
An evolutionary perspective on cooperative caregiving
Surrounded by juveniles, that’s what we are. Whether it’s the ruffled chickadee balancing on the railing or the catbird that can’t stop singing. One of the thrilling things at this […]
STEAMERS
Lobsterman Roll
Juneteenth: A True Story
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Grave Thoughts
A composition on the inevitability of decomposition
The weather was strange that March day I first visited my future grave. The morning was clear and balmy, but by afternoon the sky had turned steel gray, and, as […]
SKETCHBOOK
The Weedy Garden
VIGNETTE
Hope
