EASTHAM — Wellfleet is world-famous for oysters. Neighboring Eastham is not. But there are folks in town who are trying to change that. One is 31-year-old Jared Collins, whose family […]
eastham currents
Commemorating the ‘first encounter’
EASTHAM — Some 16 months before the 400th anniversary, plans are well under way to commemorate the Dec. 8, 1620 “first encounter” between Native Americans and European pilgrims. Perhaps the […]
metaphysics
Forest-Dwellers on the Outer Cape
The enchantment of living on borrowed time
TRURO — “Autumn is over the long leaves that love us,” wrote William Butler Yeats. The first harbingers of autumn are suddenly over the Outer Cape, as we see the […]
civics
Wellfleet Struggles With Leadership Crisis
With no quorum, select board can’t discuss HDYLTA decisions
WELLFLEET — The select board’s efforts to address citizen concerns about the process leading to the signing of a purchase and sale agreement for 247.5 acres of shellfish flats off […]
housing
Abutters Sue Again to Halt Habitat Project in Wellfleet
Plan for 4 affordable homes is back in limbo
WELLFLEET — The long-delayed plan to build four affordable single-family homes on Old Kings Highway has hit another wall: a new lawsuit filed by a group of abutters. The zoning […]
people
Provincetown’s Master Storyteller
Beata Cook steals the show with tales of gay life in the ’40s
PROVINCETOWN — Bartender, bullet maker, bookkeeper — Beata Cook has been all these things. Not necessarily in that order. But who cares about chronology when you’re listening to a master […]
the year-rounder
Peculiar and Superior
Why is it that people are so happy to be here?
PROVINCETOWN — It happened again the other morning: walking my dog on the beach I met a couple and we began talking. I mentioned something about last winter’s storms. There […]
