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Inner Voices

    THE YEAR-ROUNDER

    Where Does the Eagle Fly — and Why?

    How we spend our free time defines who we are

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    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

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    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 […]

    THE YEAR-ROUNDER

    Too Late for Tea?

    Provincetown is more than a gay resort, Hannah

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    As if Provincetown needed any promotion going into August, the New Yorker magazine published a short profile of the town by Hannah Goldfield, titled “Beach Boys,” in its July 29 […]

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