A lot of us live on Outer Cape Cod because someone drew us here. My sister, Harriet Miller, was the one who got us to Wellfleet. She served on the […]
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, February 23, 2023
From Orianna Porter, Francie Williamson, Mary Hunter Utt, Daniel Holt, Andrea Pluhar, and Jim Rohrer
Defending ‘All Lives Matter’ To the editor: Your Feb. 16 article “ ‘All Lives Matter’ Sign Raises Questions at Nauset High” [page A7] was a misrepresentation of Nauset’s Black Student […]
VIGNETTE
Sunbath
STEAMERS
Wish You Were Here?
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Life Flows Through Us All
How the living behave and create meaning
On a cold gray day trying to be blue, large blowsy snowflakes swirl out of a pewter sky. There is no wind. The harbor and the bay beyond are calm […]
ANTI-RACISM
The Kids Are Watching Us
Teaching our students how to stand up to bigotry
Last week’s Independent reported the story of a student who withdrew from Nauset Regional High School because of anti-Semitic harassment. An unnamed girl who participated in that harassment was said […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Black Lives Matter
The indispensable historian Heather Cox Richardson wrote this week in her “Letters From an American” about the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, February 16, 2023
From Tatyana Knight, Lee Roscoe, and Edward S. Ebert
The Target for Housing To the editor: In response to Kathleen E. Bacon’s statement that “Truro is woefully behind” in reaching the state’s mandated 10-percent subsidized housing target [Letter, Feb. […]
VIGNETTE
Sending Valentines
STEAMERS
Road Diet
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Valentine’s Day
LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND
The Nearness of Swans
Observing the Royals, sort of
“He that steals the Eggs of Swans out of their nests, shall be imprisoned a Year & a Day, and fined at the King’s Pleasure.” —English Common Law It must […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Making Schools Safer
“By the early years of the twenty-first century, police had become a normal presence in sites ranging from mental health agencies to hospital emergency rooms to schools to welfare offices,” […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, February 9, 2023
From Amy Whorf McGuiggan, Steven Winnick, and Kathleen E. Bacon
‘Caveat Emptor’ To the editor: Re “An Art Collection with Wellfleet as Its Muse” [Jan. 19, page C1]: The image prominently featured at the beginning of this article about an […]
