Cyclists may especially appreciate the medicinal role the yellow-blooming plant growing alongside the Rail Trail in Eastham once played. Though this buttercup isn’t known these days for being anything but […]
Visual Stories
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, April 22 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Boys Tennis Falls to Monomoy on a Windswept Friday
The matches were hard fought, but the weather felt like an extra foe
EASTHAM — It must have been the wind. The boys varsity tennis team from Monomoy High School defeated Nauset 4-1 on Friday, April 18, triumphing over the home team during […]
GRAVEYARD SHIFT
The Little-Known Origins of Wellfleet’s French Cemetery
Acadian and Portuguese immigrants built the town’s first Catholic chapel
When Father Joseph M. Finotti arrived in Provincetown from Boston in 1852, he was the first priest assigned to minister to the town’s small Catholic population, most of whom were […]
MILLION-YEAR PICNIC
In Jupiter’s Moons, a Chance to Wonder What We’d Defend
Science denial is nothing new. Just ask Galileo Galilei.
I step outside after dark with my dogs for an evening walk. It’s a clear night. I look up, as I always do. Where’s the moon? What phase? What else […]
ASTRAL PROJECTIONS
A Taurus Season Turn Toward Community
Maybe you’re the reason you can’t really get what you want
As the planets move into Taurus, they suggest we come out of our isolation and reorient ourselves outward, toward community and ideals. Yet with the Sun square Mars and Pluto, […]
TRADITIONS
A Last Minute Pisanki Party
Sometimes, putting your eggs in one basket is just fine
You don’t have to spend hours preparing for an Easter egg decorating party. On a rainy Saturday morning before the holiday weekend, Agata Storer puts 24 white-shelled eggs on to […]
SPRING BREAK
A Practical Baker’s Strawberry-Rhubarb Tart
It’s OK if the magic of your mille-feuille is store-bought
After the harshness of this winter, signs of spring are more welcome than ever. The daffodils, tulips, and hyacinths I had forgotten we planted are thriving in our Cape light. […]
MORNING FLIGHT
Nesting Instincts
In the birds’ realms, construction gets underway
Every day, before I head into work, I go to see what’s swimming around MacMillan Pier. In the winter, this mostly involves looking at ducks, checking on that one thick-billed […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
Bonito and False Albacore Put Up a Fight
Surfcasting for bluefins: a thrill, then a buzzkill
Our spring weather remains very much like it was in early March, with ocean water temperatures still stuck in the low 40s. For that reason, the striped bass migration is […]
MILLION-YEAR PICNIC
In Jupiter’s Moons, a Chance to Wonder What We’d Defend
Science denial is nothing new. Just ask Galileo Galilei.
I step outside after dark with my dogs for an evening walk. It’s a clear night. I look up, as I always do. Where’s the moon? What phase? What else […]
GRAVEYARD SHIFT
The Little-Known Origins of Wellfleet’s French Cemetery
Acadian and Portuguese immigrants built the town’s first Catholic chapel
When Father Joseph M. Finotti arrived in Provincetown from Boston in 1852, he was the first priest assigned to minister to the town’s small Catholic population, most of whom were […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Baseball Falls to St. John Paul II at Home
Emmet Blatz pitches 6.1 innings in solid outing
ORLEANS — After a rocky start, the Nauset Warriors baseball team turned in a gritty performance, hanging in to the end against an undefeated (6-0) St. John Paul II squad […]
WARRIORS WATCH
Girls Tennis Tops Falmouth 3-2
Hayley Jackson wins deciding match in three sets
EASTHAM — Provincetown’s Hayley Jackson posted a clutch three-set victory over Falmouth’s Victoria Chbarbie to give the Nauset Warriors their second win of the season on Friday afternoon. “I am […]
ON TO BOSTON
Four Locals Will Toe the Starting Line Monday
Braving the Cape’s weather to train for the 129th Boston Marathon
In his book, 26.2 Miles to Boston, Michael Connelly writes, “The Boston Marathon is not run in April, but instead in the winter months prior, when there are no cheering […]
