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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 […]
STEAMERS
Close Encounters
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
A Silver Lining
Just when I find myself in an especially bad mood — because I forgot to renew the car registration and ended up with the car towed, or my computer somehow […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, October 28, 2021
From Bill Baldwin, Kathleen Miller, and Paula Erickson
Speeding Through Eastham To the editor: I read with interest “Eastham Wants a Main Street, Not a Highway,” about the town’s struggles with Route 6 [Oct. 21, front page]. As […]
VIGNETTE
Influencers
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Drinking in Provincetown
On the civic purpose of taverns
Roughly 80 percent of American adults drink alcohol. It is by far the most destructive drug in our society but also the most enjoyed, and many would agree its moderate […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
On Evolution
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Holding On to Town Centers
“Route 6 is horrible,” says Art Autorino, chair of the Eastham Select Board, in a report in this issue by Cam Blair. We’ve probably all had that same thought, while […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, October 21, 2021
From Drew Carnelli, Candace Perry, Dan Katz, and Michael Hager
Bartering With Klara To the editor: Regarding last week’s obituary for Klara Muller [page A16], I just wanted to say that I was able to experience a barter with her one […]
