I won’t tell you the exact location of my own personal pond, but it’s a cove attached to the oft-chosen pond of families visiting Wellfleet with small children. In summer, […]
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NATIONAL SEASHORE
A Short-Sighted View of the Parks
NPS budget cuts threaten our economy, environment, and quality of life
Watching the current administration eviscerate staffing and budgets in the National Park Service has horrified and sickened those of us who have spent years working in our parks. These short-sighted […]
OP-ED
Making Room for Piping Plovers
The quiet work of protecting one small endangered bird
Most of my childhood summers were spent in the sand and salt of the Cape Cod National Seashore. I remember taking my plastic shovel down to the shore, the bucket […]
OP-ART
Wheel of Misfortune
RECKONINGS
Frazzled in August
In heart-wrenching times, visitors are a welcome distraction
It’s a funny thing that the same influx of people that overwhelms so many of us in August is also what we love about living here: everyone comes to visit. […]
DATE AND TIME
They Talk, Think, and Dream Fish
From the Aug. 10, 1919 issue of the Boston Daily Globe, selected and edited by Kaimi Rose Lum So much for the excitement of war days in Provincetown. Now for […]
ON THE FLATS
Out of the Mud
A Pamet marsh ‘rescue’ leads to memories of fishing and baseball heroics
I was trying to take a nap, but I couldn’t ignore the cursing I heard below our rented cottage on the Pamet River marsh. I got up, looked out the […]
THE NITROGEN THREAT
Wellfleet’s Wastewater Choices
Science tells us the time to act has come
The state’s new requirements for towns like Wellfleet with coastal waters threatened by increased nitrogen pollution involve heavy financial burdens. It is important to understand why these new requirements are […]
SPEECHES
Keeping the Fascists Away
In Wellfleet, Congressman Raskin decries violations of the Constitution and research cuts
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland’s Eighth Congressional District, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, told a standing-room-only crowd at Wellfleet Preservation Hall on July 11 not to give […]
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Fourth of July Contradictions
Fearing for the future but loving a big, beautiful parade
On the evening of July 3, I and 69 million other Americans who get Social Security benefits received an email “celebrating the passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill, a […]
WATERCOLOR
F-Bomb
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Our Founding Documents
Ben Franklin and others admired the founding document that unified the Haudenosaunee peoples (who were called the “Iroquois” by the colonists), which some said had influenced the founding of this […]
WELLFLEET HOUSING AND TAXES
‘Creative Destruction’ Is Tearing the Fabric of Community
The short-term-rental tax should be dedicated to addressing the housing crisis
An article directing Wellfleet to dedicate 80 percent of its rooms tax revenue to affordable housing was narrowly defeated — the vote was 90 to 101 — at this year’s […]
OP-ART
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over it became a butterfly (after Picasso), drypoint and watercolor.
KEEPING WATCH
The Complexities of Eastham’s Wastewater Problem
Searching for a true community solution
Eastham has not made it easy for residents to vote without reservation for the financing of its Targeted Watershed Management Plan (TWMP). The $170-million cost of the project is an […]
