‘Pain as Well as Joy’ To the editor: Coming into a nursing home is frightening when you are old and fragile. At least, that is what they tell you. Then […]
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VIGNETTE
Heading South
THIS WAS ENOUGH
The Summer and Winter Wetus of Our Predecessors
People of the First Light migrated with the seasons
We are moving deeply into November, the month now recognized as containing the National Day of Mourning for the Native Peoples of this land. Looking wistfully for optimism, or something […]
COUNTY LINE
Let’s Change the Power Structure
Short-term profits won’t allow us to strengthen our fragile electric service
The last week of October brought fierce winds, broken trees and poles, and power outages. In Provincetown, no one had electricity for the first day, and in large sections of […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Humpty Dumpty Policy
Five weeks ago, we published a story with the headline “Truro and Wellfleet Will Fail to Meet Their Housing Goals.” It summarized the four Outer Cape towns’ affordable housing production […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, November 11, 2021
From Barbara Carboni, Mike Rice, Anthony Garrett, and Elizabeth Brooke
Truro’s Housing Plan To the editor: Thank you for your recent focus on housing production on the Outer Cape, including “Truro and Wellfleet Will Fail to Meet Their Housing Goals” […]
UP A CREEK
The Five Stages of Power Loss
A helpful guide to the psychology of nor’easters
1. Denial Tuesday, 4 p.m. Child 1: “My French teacher said we probably won’t have school tomorrow.” Parent 1: “OK… Wait, what? Why?!” Child 1: “A storm.” Parent 1: “That’s […]
VIGNETTE
Blowers
STEAMERS
Storm’s a Brewing
SKETCHBOOK
The tides
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Dog on a Beach
The satisfactions of immeasurable love
The British inventor Lord Kelvin famously said that if you can’t measure something, “your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.” I heartily disagree. The most important things in […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Content Creation
I’m glad E.B. White is dead. The New Yorker staff writer and author of Charlotte’s Web famously wrote an impassioned warning against sponsored content in 1976. I wouldn’t want him […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, November 4, 2021
From Susan Reverby and Jim Campen and from Sara Blandford
Taking, and Not Taking, Positions To the editor: We have two responses to last week’s Letter From the Editor (“A Silver Lining,” Oct. 28, page A2). First, in response to […]
VIGNETTE
New Neighbors
LESSONS IN HUMANITY
A Gun Owner Reckons With the Costs of Our Compulsion
And makes a plan to beat a beloved collection into plowshares
I’m a gun owner. I don’t fit the stereotype of a gun-toting Second Amender decked out in camouflage protesting in front of a state capitol — although having grown up […]
