Commentary
VIGNETTE
All Organic
STEAMERS
Thelma & Louising It
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Reasons to Be Positive
This is a good time to think deeply about why we are here
By my reckoning, this is my 73rd column for this paper. My first, in the inaugural issue, was printed under the heading “The Year-Rounder,” as has every column since then. […]
VIGNETTE
Know Your Enemy
OP-ART
Please let the girls go to school
VIGNETTE
Cold Shoulder Season
STEAMERS
Plan C Plane
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Sal Del Deo’s 75 Provincetown Years
The Red Inn will host a Sunday afternoon with a town treasure
According to Salvatore Del Deo, the first shellfish warden hired in Provincetown, back in the 1950s, was a retired Portuguese fisherman named Joe Ventura. Before that, Joe had worked intermittently […]
STEAMERS
86* Bradford
VIGNETTE
Town Meeting
VIGNETTE
This One’s Affordable
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Where Does Courage Come From?
Shocked out of normalcy, our true selves are revealed
This morning I awoke after a good night’s sleep. After a hot shower, I had a hearty breakfast and a couple of cups of coffee, while I perused a magazine […]
SKETCHBOOK
Cape Cod Catboat on the Provincetown Quadrangle
The map and sailboat are my interpretations in walnut ink on Quadrangle for Provincetown, Mass., 1972: U.S. Geological Survey. My work is overlaid on Eugene Zhukau’s cyanotype print of “Town […]
FLAG-WAVING
Stars, Stripes, and Sneetches
The ‘People’s Convoy’ calls to mind a Dr. Seuss classic
Barreling northeast on I-35 from Austin to Dallas in early March, my sister, husband, and I tried to ignore the flag-festooned caravan in the right lane. But we couldn’t avert […]