Just when we start enjoying epic weather and think we have a fall bass run commencing, here comes Mother Nature to slap us in the face with reality. In the […]
Visual Stories
MORNING FLIGHT
Turn Your Ear Skyward for Bobolinks
The birds that helped reveal migration’s secrets are overhead now
Bink! The sound pinged overhead as I walked along High Toss Road in Wellfleet. It was a crisp early autumn morning, and the north winds overnight had dropped a smattering […]
POND BY POND
A New Way to Be Happy: Fighting Garbage
A group of women comes into view by doing small things in great ways
BREWSTER — On their last dive of the 2024 season, Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage retrieved an abandoned anchor, a half dozen golf balls, and at least a cooler-full of […]
OFF THE SHELF
Fungi Are Our Friends
The spooky season has a way of arriving overnight: one day candy corn suddenly appears on the grocery shelf, the next day shelves of candy corn pop up along the […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Sept. 24 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
ASTRAL PROJECTIONS
Saturn and Mars Make Us Get Stuff Done
It’s time to tackle tedious tasks
Do you need to go to the RMV? I recommend you do it now. This week the stars are sending us all a major kick in the behind, urging us […]
PRESERVATION
At Nauset Light, the Chance to Live (a Little) Like a Keeper
Preservation society and Park hope rentals will help maintain the historic residence
EASTHAM — The small house on the edge isn’t everyone’s idea of a dream vacation home. There’s no air conditioning, and a constant stream of visitors crowds the front lawn, […]
STRANDINGS
Rescue Operation
DESIGN NOTEBOOK
This Place in Blue and White
Nicole Goveia captures local color in cyanotypes
Nicole Goveia tried painting and printmaking at school, but when she got a camera for her 16th birthday and taught herself the ins and outs of photography, it opened the […]
CROSSWORD #56
Mini Crossword
CRAVINGS
Hello, Halo-Halo
An all-mixed-up cupful of icy, creamy, fruity, sweet, tart tastes from the Philippines
Halo-halo, a beloved dessert from the Philippines — one that’s as valued as ice cream is in America — found me through PBS Kids and my Filipino godmothers, Rina and […]
CHARACTER STUDIES
From Hat to Home, Channing Wilroy Makes His Own World
How the ‘Trash Trilogy’ actor built an oasis on Pearl Street
PROVINCETOWN — Channing Wilroy takes a brisk walk through town every day, his shoulders rolled slightly forward as if they, too, are in a hurry. He rarely stops, because he […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
A Fall Bass Run
There’s Wicked Tuna and then there’s real-life tuna fishing
A fall bass run has evaded us for about six years, but this week there was clear evidence that one is underway. As everybody out here knows, the weather has been […]
MILLION-YEAR PICNIC
In Space, We See What Was
Where distance is time, the light from Sagittarius and Saturn spans ages
Distances in space are enormous. Look up on any night and pick a star, any one you like. Then consider this: the sparkling light you see began its journey tens, […]
SMASH HIT
When Jigglypuff, Pikachu, and Kirby Show Up on Saturdays at the Library
Game tournaments open to players of all levels can mean losing to a 7-year-old
EASTHAM — It’s the first round, and I’m already getting bodied by a little kid in a Minecraft shirt. Seven-year-old Wesley Spoor jumps out of his chair, laughing hard, his […]
