Sun Globes by Daniel Dejean
Visual Stories
OBITUARIES
Helen Purcell, 100, Was Passionate About Wellfleet History
WELLFLEET — Helen G. Purcell, an energetic Wellfleet Historical Society and Museum volunteer for decades, died on Feb. 20, 2020 at the Manor on the Hill, an assisted-living facility in […]
GALLERY
A Guide to Shelf Care
Reset them with edited vignettes and muted colors
Winter on the Outer Cape is a time to reset. While most people focus that effort on their inner lives, some of us go for an easier kind of reorganization, […]
TRACK
Nauset Girls Win First Ever Division Title
Monique Malcolm and Isabelle Nobili break school records
EASTHAM — The Nauset Regional High School girls indoor track team ran right through its regular season this winter, going 4-0 in league meets and then taking home the Cape […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Cheerleaders Take 2nd at Game Day
Thursday, Feb. 27 Co-ed cheerleading: The Warriors will compete in the Blackhawk Invitational at Bellingham High School at 5:30 p.m. The team placed second at the Game Day Cheer at […]
HEALTH
For Outer Cape Kids, Healthy Teeth Take Extra Effort
Care needs to start early, but awareness and access vary
Tooth decay is preventable but it’s still the most common chronic disease of children and adolescents, according to the Centers for Disease Control. With February being Children’s Dental Health Month, […]
DOVETAIL JOINT
Not Those ’70s Skylights
New technology adds energy efficiency and ease
The Question: I want to bring more light into my house without losing wall space. I’m thinking of installing skylights, but I have heard they can create more problems than they […]
RECIPE BOX
Midnight Pasta
A simple dish you can be endlessly creative with
For a time in the 1990s I lived in San Diego — in the Windansea neighborhood in La Jolla, to be precise. I had known nothing about San Diego, but […]
PAIRINGS
Wines for an Almost-Anything-Goes Dinner
This midnight pasta recipe is basically a version of spaghetti aglio e olio — spaghetti with garlic and olive oil. The dish is said to have originated in Naples, though […]
STEAMERS
When The Wild Doesn’t Call
BARDS
Much Ado About Molly
Nauset High senior is headed to nationals — in Shakespeare
EASTHAM — When to the sessions of sweet silent thought she summons up remembrance of things past, Molly Shafnacker may well be thinking about the last two summers that she […]
NATURA VIVA
Witch Hazel
HISTORY
Mary Heaton Vorse on the Marriage of Thought and Action
A Provincetown social critic who turned her eye on the world
In Time and the Town, her 1942 chronicle about Provincetown, Mary Heaton Vorse lovingly recounts her experience with this changeable “end of land” surrounded by sea. Far from quaint, this […]
MILLION-YEAR PICNIC
Watching a Red Supergiant Die
One of Orion’s stars could blow any time now, or in 100,000 years
Betelgeuse — the star with the funny name. Maybe you know it from the 1988 movie Beetlejuice, about the eponymous poltergeist-for-hire. Or maybe you’ve heard the name in the news […]
BODY/MIND
The Inner Marathon of a Silent Meditation
Embracing stillness, with an itchy nose
For as long as I can remember, there’s been a raucous dialogue in my head. Do this. Definitely don’t do that. Is that thing I said okay? Do they like […]
