A lie could travel from Maine to Georgia whilst truth was drawing on her boots. —attributed to John Randolph, 1844 A friend returned from a motorcycle trip last fall and […]
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OP-ART
Lady Liberty Wants to Go Home
TOUGH GUYS
On Power and Stupidity
We kids were not dumb, but we let ourselves be led
I remember hanging out on the corner with the tough guys, waving at passing cars, preening for girls, bumming Winstons, planning turf fights. Stupid stuff. I once was arrested for […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Can Wellfleet Survive?
The opponents of affordable housing in Truro have rallied around the slogan “Keep Truro Rural.” Now we are hearing the same line about the Maurice’s Campground project in Wellfleet. We […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, April 10, 2025
From Karen Friedman, Mike Trovato, Adrienne Troia, Shirley Spatz, & Stephen Greenberg
The Crisis To the editor: I appreciate Dennis Minsky’s description of his existential dilemma [“The Crisis Within,” April 3, page A3] and trust many of us share his current state. […]
TOWN MEETING
‘Seasonal Communities’ Goes to Voters in 4 Towns
Designation gives towns new options to encourage year-round housing
PROVINCETOWN — All four Outer Cape towns have at least one item in common on their town meeting warrants this spring: a vote on whether to accept the state’s new […]
VIGNETTE
Early Bird
STEAMERS
The Republican Potty
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
The Crisis Within
How does one respond to meanness and maintain a sense of self?
Many decades ago, I shoplifted a book, just for the hell of it. I do not remember the title (maybe Lady Chatterley’s Lover?) but do remember the thrill of stashing […]
TREES THAT FEED US
Why the Woods Must Be Burned
The National Seashore needs a fire management officer and crew
Last month, at Fort Hill in Eastham, a fire crew carried out the first prescribed burn in the Cape Cod National Seashore since 2021. It’s a moment I’ve been watching […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Out of the Doldrums
Saturday was a dreary day. A good example, I think, of what Wyman Richardson was talking about in the chapter of The House on Nauset Marsh titled “The March Doldrums.” […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, April 3, 2025
From Steven Seeche, Merrill Mead-Fox, & Robert F. Crook
The Joy of Foolishness To the editor: I hope it’s not that we are getting older but rather that we are becoming more accepting as we age. I read your […]
VIGNETTE
Swan Lake
STEAMERS
The Last Street Artist
INCANTATION
The Poem as the ‘Enemy of Despair’
Czeslaw Milosz knew that poets make dictators nervous
The history of the poem as an art form is very long, reaching back to at least 4000 BCE. It’s not surprising that the means by which the poem expresses […]
