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Opinion
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 13, 2023
From Tabitha Vevers, Buddy Perkel, Christine Markowski, Kathleen Cote, and Jim McDermott
The Dune Shack ‘Travesty’ To the editor: I find it both ironic and heartbreaking that the National Seashore is offering leases to the highest bidder for the very dune shacks […]
VIGNETTE
Warming Trend
STEAMERS
The Spirit of Justice
LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND
The Loss of Enchantment
The pink river dolphins don’t dance anymore
I think I might have been around 16 years old, so my cultural indoctrination was well underway. For years, I had been a devotee of Jacques Cousteau and his beautiful […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Sorry Apologies
Many questions remain about what happened on June 18 at the East End basketball court in Provincetown, when three police officers responded to a report of a kid with a […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, July 6, 2023
From Thom Schwarz, Brent Harold, Peg Ryan, Betsy Higgins-Steele, and Marcy Feller
‘Isn’t America Great?’ To the editor: Bravo to Paul Benson for his clear, concise, and readable reports on the dune shacks. And a hearty round of applause for U.S. senators […]
VIGNETTE
Seasonal Wildlife 101
STEAMERS
Cultural Currency
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Painting on the Seawall
The beauty of an act of public artmaking
Beauty follows us everywhere. The color of the harbor today is blue, the color of the sky above it, blue, too, but paler. Of course, they are just reflections of […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Our Cultural Diplomat
In the past week, the wider world has noticed that the Park Service is evicting Sal Del Deo from the dune shack that has been his refuge for 77 years. […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, June 29, 2023
From Brenda J. Boleyn, Ronald A. Gabel, Chuck Leigh, Elspeth Slayter, Christopher J. Snow, and Jeannette Belben
Reviving the Seashore Advisory Commission To the editor: Re “Amid Protests, Dune Shacks Eyed by Bidders,” June 22, front page: The maelstrom swirling around the new dune-shack leasing program bespeaks […]
PORTRAIT
Truth Speaks
VIGNETTE
Midsummer
KEEPING WATCH
Holtec Threatens a Common, Open-Access Resource
Reflections of a retired English teacher
We Americans, whether as individual consumers, small-business owners, or CEOs of large corporations, are locked in a free market system that rewards the exploitation of a wide swath of open-access […]
