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STEAMERS
Taking Flight
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Saving Land
The task is huge, and we are small
Somewhere in my disheveled archives sits a tattered yellow news clipping from the New York Times, circa 1980, that was pinned to the bulletin board over my desk for decades. […]
COMING OUT
The Congressman Who Rescued Stellwagen Bank
It’s time for NOAA to acknowledge the role of Gerry Studds
Provincetown is the gateway to the Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, but you’re forgiven if you didn’t know that. In 1995, Don Young (R-Alaska), chair of the […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Diagraming for Democracy
The statements coming from the Republican candidate for president are setting many people’s nerves on edge. Our correspondent Mike Rice gives one example this week of an absurd accusation, repeated […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, September 12, 2024
From Louise Watson & Mike Rice
Visitor Center ‘Nightmare’ To the editor: Re “Select Board Balks at Plan for Stellwagen Center” [Sept. 5, front page]: I am horrified by the proposed building of a huge visitor […]
VIGNETTE
Back to School
STEAMERS
Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’
OP-ED
Free Speech and Student Protests
Was Leonard Cohen right about democracy coming to the U.S.A.?
Leonard Cohen’s 1992 song lyrics suggesting that democracy might be coming to the U.S.A. have been very much with me lately. Ever since I sat under the Payomet tent with […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
An Endangered Landscape
I hope that readers have been noticing the collection of 34 essays by columnist Kai Potter that we published last month. His book is called Noticing, something that Kai does […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, September 5, 2024
From Anthony Garrett, Jayne Sheehan, & Donald Lathrop Petry
Part-Time Matters To the editor: Re “Truro Part-Timers Worry About Housing and Health,” [Aug. 29, front page]: Your article quoted a part-time resident advisory committee (PTRAC) member suggesting folks ask […]
VIGNETTE
One Last Shopping Trip
STEAMERS
Stuff a Fish in It
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Where Does the Eagle Fly — and Why?
How we spend our free time defines who we are
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
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 […]
