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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Resortification
Truro has been preoccupied in the past week by a campaign to persuade the select board to get rid of Town Manager Darrin Tangeman (see story on front page). As […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, June 15, 2023
From Amy Whorf McGuiggan
Racism and the Roach Family To the editor: Re “Private Family Burial Plot Sold With Developable Lot” [June 1, front page]: There is no evidence whatsoever to support the divisive […]
VIGNETTE
Feeling the Breeze
STEAMERS
Lib-Hard
LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND
The Menstrual Minstrel Visits Scotland
Jay Critchley and Lady Tampon Liberty ask, ‘Have we lost our desire for eternity?’
Scotland was the first country in the world to mandate the free provision of period products, and so it was a most fitting place for the second annual conference of […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Defending Drag
As the town gears up for summer, the lineup of entertainment on offer includes a lively array of drag shows — a time-honored Provincetown tradition. But the atmosphere surrounding drag […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, June 8, 2023
From Rachel White, Rob Swann, Thom Schwarz, Luna Brady, and Susan Reverby
Rachel White’s True History To the editor: Re “Rachel White Remembers” [2023 Summer Guide, page 34]: I thank the author, Michael Gaucher, and the illustrator, Mary DeAngelis, and the paper […]
VIGNETTE
Booked in Advance
STEAMERS
A Head of its Time
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Requiem for the Beech
What will we do when these eminently huggable trees are gone?
There is a sadness in Provincetown’s East End Dwyer Woods today. It is a beautiful morning, with bright sunshine and enough breeze to make the mosquitos work for their blood […]
HEALING
Remembering a Beloved Pediatrician
A bench at the Wellfleet marina stirs thoughts of Henry Seidel
I have planted three pink geraniums in the flower box next to Dr. Henry Seidel’s memorial bench at the marina overlooking Wellfleet Harbor. They are pink because I remember Dr. […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
With the Forests
Dennis Minsky is mourning the impending loss of Provincetown’s beech trees in his column this week. In their case, a tiny nematode seems to be the cause. Scientists don’t yet […]
