PLAYING NOW: NOV. 21-27 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (PG). Wellfleet Cinemas, Thursday: 4:30 & 7:15 p.m.; Friday-Wednesday: 1:15, 4:15 & 7:15 p.m.; Tuesday: 10 a.m. Frozen 2 (PG). […]
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in and out
‘Angie”
Observations of humans as they come and go from our town
In and Out: Observations of humans as they come and go from our town
PROVINCELANDS
One Bird, One Man, One Boat
Watching a shorebird is like watching a comet: you have to trick your eye into detecting it. To find a comet, you look sideways at the sky until your peripheral […]
film
Movie Clock for November 14 through 20
Playing now on the Outer Cape
PLAYING NOW: NOV. 14-20 The Good Liar (R). Wellfleet Cinemas, Thursday-Wednesday 4 & 7 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday 1 p.m.; Tuesday 10 a.m. Harriet (PG13). Waters Edge Cinemas, Thursday 4:30 & 7:30 […]
film
Movie Clock for November 7 through 13
Playing now on the Outer Cape
PLAYING NOW: NOV. 7-13 The Current War (PG-13). Wellfleet Cinemas, Thursday 4:15 & 7:15 p.m. Harriet (PG-13). Waters Edge Cinemas, Thursday 4 & 6:45 p.m.; Friday 4:30 & 7 p.m.; […]
dia de los muertos
Must Be the Season of the Witch
the season for feeling more alive, even for the dead
That which frightens us makes us feel more alive. Politics, sex, death, the unforeseen: all things outside our control serve this purpose. It’s the end of October, the season for […]
provincelands
Boris’s Dune Shack: Journal Notes
Where peace is broken by the urge to capture the limitless
I’ve bought time, the most beautiful thing for which we pay. Time to act out an old monkish dream of a spare cell facing out over water. Time apart, a […]
sketchbook
Autumn Makes Us All Foragers
Cranberries, bayberries, and apples
surfing
The Whale: Enlightenment on a Sand Bar
Dissolving the line between flesh and water
The alarm always comes too early. An anxious dream cut short of its unpleasant conclusion. The body knows that at any moment the sound will come, and so it is […]
the year-rounder
Looking for the Portuguese
Was immigration as accepted in the 1800s as it is discouraged now?
PROVINCETOWN — It is true that Provincetown was incorporated in 1727, but it was not much of a town then — more like an outpost. It really wasn’t until the […]
kitchen table
Boletes Ask for Butter
Layer them over pan-grilled bread for a well-foraged meal
It’s been a good fall for mushrooms, with plenty of rain followed by some warm, sunny days. I’ve been out in the woods looking for boletes — being careful not […]
transportation
Bike Safety Is a Class Conversation
Immigrants and the poor have not been a part of discussion on transportation
WELLFLEET — Increasingly, statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) indicate that America’s roads are safe only for those who drive on them. In 2018 for the second […]
sketchbook
Shorebird Migration
What we see. What they look like.
It’s fall. Migrating birds are flocking and staging along the coast.
POETRY
Selected Poem 2: ‘Shirt’ by Charles Simic
The poet’s empathy achieves the impossible
Shirt To get into it As it lies Crumpled on the floor Without disturbing a single crease Respectful Of the way I threw it down Last night The way it […]
the observer
A Model for Bridging Our Divides
Maine’s Island Institute is helping coastal communities adapt
PROVINCETOWN — Tell me if you have heard this one: A coastal community, remote, popular, seasonal, with a shrinking population because the year-round jobs are disappearing while housing costs climb, […]
