Opinion
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LOCAL COLOR
Augustitis
WATERCOLOR
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THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Being With Whales
Why are people so drawn to these wild creatures?
You know what you’re doing, but do you know why you’re doing it? How often do we really think about our actions? How conscious are we of our motivation? We […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Kansas Raids, Redux
Two weeks ago, I wrote about police raids at the weekly Marion County Record in Kansas and the home of its editor. Since then, those events have generated a remarkable […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 31, 2023
From Robert Panessiti, Roz Diamond, Ronald A. Gabel, Chuck Steinman, and Chuck Leigh
Truro DPW Questions To the editor: Something called the “DPW Study Group” has been circulating a proposal for an “alternative” to Truro’s proposed DPW facility. It is described as “a […]
VIGNETTE
Business Unusual
STEAMERS
Buggins the Conqueror
SANCTUARY
The Peace of Ponds
Leaving the sturm und drang of our burning world behind
When the various weights of our world press at my shoulders, I head to one of Wellfleet’s hidden ponds. At the parking lot at Great, as children yelp and harried […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Silent Workers
We’ve made it to the downhill side of August, and the people who keep the tourism economy of Outer Cape Cod afloat are looking wearily at the calendar, dreaming of […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, August 24, 2023
From Ben Hood, Becca Smith, Melinda Krasting, Andy Gooding-Call, Jim Campen, and Lee Bartell
Stranded at the Rotary To the editor: On Aug. 8 at 4 p.m., a young woman holding a pizza box waited patiently to cross Route 6 at the northern edge […]
VIGNETTE
Garden Graffiti Artists
STEAMERS
Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler!
TRIBUTE
Josephine Del Deo, By Your Side
The woman behind so much of what Provincetown is fought hard against what it isn’t
Saturday, August 8, 1970 Just got into town yesterday, after quite a few years away. What a lot of exciting changes! Instead of taking boring Route 6, I took the […]
APPRECIATION
Paul Brodeur: A Complex and Creative Life
He was a passionate writer who changed our world for the better
Imagine what went through the head of a cub reporter at the Provincetown Advocate in 1978 when he was informed that Paul Brodeur, the prolific novelist, environmental journalist, and New […]
