There’s a mass of native plants competing for that good, southern sunlight along the muddy shore of Wellfleet’s Silver Spring — cardinal flowers, elderberry, bramble, swamp loosestrife, jewelweed — all […]
Visual Stories
FOUND AT THE FARMERS MARKET
Fairies for the Windowsill
Aug. 6 and 11, Wellfleet and Truro August brings warm days and slightly cooler nights. The result? A vibrant palette of flowers is showing up at the farmers markets. Deep […]
WEATHER
A Remarkable August Roller Coaster
We’ve seen some pretty wild temperature swings over the last week. High pressure was sitting directly overhead this past weekend, yielding beautiful daytime weather but also setting us up with […]
DATE AND TIME
A Hop, Skip, and a Snort
From the Wellfleet section of the Aug. 18, 1875 issue of the Provincetown Advocate, selected and edited by Kaimi Rose Lum That old saying “Contrary as a hog” has been […]
VIEWFINDER
Smokin’ Hot
Ted Kurland's photo of a smoky sunset over Provincetown Harbor
ASTRAL PROJECTIONS
United We Stand
Thought and action align for the good
This week, the intellectual and the physical are connected in the cosmos. Mercury in Leo is sextile Mars in Libra, and this creates a positive feedback loop between the two. […]
LANDSCAPES
A Gardener Co-Evolves With Her Gardens
Building with stone and going native, a plantswoman learns to thrive
Landscaping on the Outer Cape is not for the faint of heart, says Megan Spoerndle, the bad ass, brown-eyed flower child behind Provincetown’s 16-year-old Stix and Stones Landscaping. There’s the […]
THE ESSENTIALS
How a Picnic Becomes a Moment
Just add rain and a thermos full of Pimm’s Cup
Something about the summer weather this year, the cool rainy days between the warm, bright ones, triggered a memory of picnics in England. I was 22 and living in Cambridge, […]
FARMERS MARKETS
Eastham Farmers Plant a Gathering Place
At the old T-Time lot, a summer harvest includes food, flowers, and friendship
Photos and story by Edward Boches It’s still early on the fourth Friday of Eastham’s new weekly farmers market when the vendors burst into song. It’s a chorus of “Happy […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
Water Temperatures Make a Groundhog Day Loop
Bass and blues can’t take the cold, but we’ve got whales, sharks, and art instead
Here we go again. It’s like the movie Groundhog Day, where the same scenario keeps playing over and over again in an endless loop. Once again, we got the fish […]
STREET STYLE
Everything You Need
You may think Rodrigo Hernández is just that guy mixing your Banana Farmer on Tiki Sundays at the Harbor Lounge. But when you see him sipping a coffee by day […]
BIRDWATCHING
This Bird Walks on Water
On watching a storm petrel at play on the waves
I was standing forward as the fast ferry flew from Boston to Provincetown when I saw the tiny, robin-size bird — or was it a water bat? — weaving frantically […]
SUMMER SCHOOL
What the Kids Did This Summer
Maybe it’s been rec or nature camp or soccer camp and even circus camp. There’s also that big stack of library books and art projects and the ponds and summer […]
CAPE COD SOCCER
Storm Tops Napoli 1-0 in Quarterfinal Marred by Overtime Fight
Referee ends game when Nauset captain falls from a hit to the face
EASTHAM — The Nauset Storm’s first game of the 2025 Cape Cod Soccer League postseason — held on the Nauset High turf on Aug. 3 — ended abruptly during the […]
CAPE COD BASEBALL
Orleans Captures Division Crown Despite Walk-Off Loss to Brewster
Firebirds drop 5-4 decision, snapping a seven-game winning streak
BREWSTER — Brewster center fielder Adam Magpoc laced a single to deep left-center field with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the 9th to give the […]
