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THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Taking Steps on the Breakwater
Much as people love it, the Long Point dike has no useful function
Is there a pile of rocks anywhere in this world as beloved as Provincetown’s West End breakwater? Generations of residents and visitors have clambered over it — it stretches more […]
COUNTY LINE
Shifting Sands: An Ongoing Challenge
The county dredge service has burned through its reserves
The glacial moraine left behind millennia ago underlies a fact of life for all of Cape Cod: we live on what is essentially a pile of gravel and sand. Given […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Small-Town Comrades
Unexpected connections here often take the form of discovering who is related to whom — that the furniture maker who lives down the road is the cousin of the guy […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, February 2, 2023
From Dan Katz, Bill Dugan, and Josiah Cole
Worries About Walsh To the editor: Regarding the Walsh Property Community Planning Committee’s vote to study a plan for 252 units of housing there [Jan. 26, front page]: That many […]
VIGNETTE
In for a Walk
STEAMERS
The ADU’s Out There
OP-ED
Mercy: A Canine Tutorial
Finn attends to a fallen fellow animal
From the time that Liz and I rescued him from the streets of Puerto Rico, Finn has been preternaturally attuned to the needs of others. He is a creature of […]
THE NATIONAL DEBT
Anatomy of a Looming Crisis
What a U.S. default would mean to you and me
The U.S. debt ceiling may seem an arcane, boring subject, but what will happen to all of us if Congress fails to raise it and the country defaults could not […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Public’s Editor
“All authority implies an extreme reluctance to admit past error,” wrote British novelist Patrick O’Brian in The Letter of Marque. O’Brian was writing about the Royal Navy, but the truth […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, January 26, 2023
From Joan Holt, David Charles Abell, and Annie Ditacchio
Rebuilding the COA To the editor: Thank you for highlighting the fact that Truro’s Council on Aging had withered to the point that not a single staff member remained to […]
QUEER ‘I’
Mapp and Lucia and Me
From coastal England to the shores of Provincetown, some things never change
At first glance, it’s a postcard-perfect seaside town, brimming with music, theater, and art. Look closer, though, and you’ll see that beneath the quaint village veneer lies a hotbed of […]
VIGNETTE
Is That You?
STEAMERS
Wearable Housing
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
In the Storm’s Aftermath
Thoughts on the tossed-up fragments of Provincetown’s past lives
That bleak morning just before Christmas, Provincetown was set back on its haunches by a roaring winter wind and a surging southeast 11-foot-plus tide. The beach and abutting properties glistened […]
