Dune Town by JAK
Inner Voices
UNMASKED
The Real You
The Real You by Ellen LeBow
REFLECTIONS
Launch Day
A sailor’s view of ‘the great rhythms of nature’
WELLFLEET — We built her in a garage in Syracuse, N.Y., a 23-foot cat ketch dory, small for a cruising boat. Ignoring Capt. Nat Herreshoff’s dictum that the only suitable […]
HEY DAHLIN’
The Real Locals
OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
Philosophical Stuff
MOLLY SHAFNACKER / HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR, MUSICIAN / WELLFLEET
Molly Shafnacker has been making lemonade stands with friends since she was 11 years old. Here’s Molly in her own words, recorded last fall. Listen to the recorded interview here. […]
NOISEMAKERS
Joining the Wolf Pack
A journalist learns how to howl
WELLFLEET — When I first heard about the howling in Wellfleet, I was skeptical. I had seen a post on Facebook’s Wellfleet Community Space asking people to “share the love” […]
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
We Need a New Compact
The Pilgrims had the right idea; it’s time to update it
Exactly 400 years ago this coming November, the good ship Mayflower sailed into Provincetown Harbor and anchored (a fact infuriatingly underreported in our national media). There were 102 souls on […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Persistence Through the Mourning
Don’t let the urge to rebel lead to danger
The Sun enters Taurus this week in the 8th House of Sex, Death, and Other People’s Money. Whether you are mourning the death of loved ones or the demise of […]
SKETCHBOOK
Last Year’s Truro Honey
SKETCHBOOK
Window Birds
OP-ED
Hope in the Time of Covid-19
With a dysfunctional state, can we ‘feel to be a cog in something turning’?
EASTHAM — My grandfather was a Congregational minister. I never met him. He died of pneumonia in the 1920s. Two stories I heard growing up about Robert Hillis Goldsmith: in […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Scream and Howl
Acting up so our better angels can step up
With the Moon coming into relation with multiple planets this week, our emotional lives may feel more strained than they already are. Dear Reader: Channel that frustration. It is OK […]
SURFING
Nyepi, the Day of Silent Danger
A lesson in social responsibility on the island of Bali
We knew the waves were good. The surf reports showed it. There was a big south swell sweeping in from the Indian Ocean onto the reefs to the west. The […]
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Confronted by Caring
Reminders of how Provincetown responded to earlier crises
“A man who carries a cat by the tail,” wrote Mark Twain, “learns something he can learn in no other way.” I have shelves and piles of books in our […]
OP-ED
Sharks and Viruses
Why Islamic terrorism scared Americans more than pandemics
WASHINGTON, D.C. — If I had to pick the one thing that has changed most in the 28 years I’ve been coming to Truro, it would be the fear factor. […]
