So much smoke. Some welcome rain. Tropical storms. The “dog days of summer” on the Outer Cape may be numbered, but they’re offering plenty of things to consider. As the […]
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, Aug. 5 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
NATURAL SELECTION
Leader of the Pack
There are over two dozen species of the late-season genus Solidago in New England, many with similar golden-yellow inflorescences — you can be forgiven for not knowing which goldenrod is […]
FOUND AT THE FARMERS MARKET
Eat Your Purples
Aug. 2, Provincetown Do you go to the farmers market looking for a specific ingredient? Or do you go and see what sparks your interest? What you’re making for dinner […]
DATE AND TIME
They Talk, Think, and Dream Fish
From the Aug. 10, 1919 issue of the Boston Daily Globe, selected and edited by Kaimi Rose Lum So much for the excitement of war days in Provincetown. Now for […]
ASTRAL PROJECTIONS
Fire Signs Feel the Shifting Sands
Leo looks around and sees a world in flux
The cosmos waits for no one. Change is inevitable, and sometimes it’s subtle, though there are changes that come with a bang. This week, pay attention to the way things […]
CALL FOR ARTISTS
Brian Butler Draws Onlookers Into the Art of Play
Beach towels will be canvases at this year’s Oldtimers Longboard Classic in August
Brian Butler’s quest began with the Saugusaurus, a 12-foot-tall fiberglass T. rex looming over a miniature golf course in Saugus. In 2006, while he was studying printmaking at the Mass. […]
COOKING FOR COMPANY
Alchemy With Eggs
An adaptable breakfast dish for two or for a houseful
Having summer houseguests is one of the great pleasures of living on Cape Cod. But as anyone can tell you, the line between communing with old friends and feeling overscheduled […]
MEET THE MAKER
Florence Mauclère’s Magic
A sandal, perfected, bears a new signature of authenticity
Jeff Littrell, a summer visitor from Nashville, is a tall man with a low drawl. He recently got a pedicure, and his toenails are tidy and painted cerulean. On the […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
A Cold Front, Krill, and Other Signs of a Wacky Season
The bass are back in a big way, but bluefish remain scarce
Things were sure different this week on the fishing front. We saw a lot of strange things going on in our ocean. We had lights-out bass fishing for a few […]
STREET STYLE
Easy Breezy
I noticed costume designer and film producer Chester Algernal Gordon strolling through the West End on a warm day wearing an easy breezy two piece with an unusual pattern of […]
TOOLS
The Snips of Summer
A favorite tool brings you close to your plants to coax out a few more blooms
Sassy Richardson rolls her eyes as she looks around the shed-shop at The Farm, searching in vain for the picking and trimming snips she wants to nominate as her favorite […]
NATURAL SELECTION
Midsummer in the Muck
Growing along the perimeter of the mucky basin between Blackwater and Great ponds in Provincetown is Spiraea alba, the white meadowsweet, a native shrub still in bloom this week though […]
CAPE COD BASEBALL
Firebirds Drop a Nail-Biter to Harwich
Orleans leaves the bases loaded in 9th and loses 2-1
ORLEANS — This was a tough loss. The Firebirds held the division-leading Harwich Mariners to just 5 hits over the last 8 innings but could not overcome a 2-run homer […]
CAPE COD SOCCER
Breakers Lose to Independence, 5-1
Wellfleet drops third match in a row despite a gutsy effort
EASTHAM — The Wellfleet Breakers FC entered Sunday night’s regular-season finale against AC Independence knowing that they were facing an uphill battle. ACI sat in second place in the eight-team […]
