Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Monday, July 1 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
Visual Stories
ASTRAL PROJECTIONS
Seeing the Sky Behind the Fireworks
In a week for celebrating freedom, there’s still work to be done
Fireworks may fill the sky this week, but let’s not forget that behind them always are the stars, trying to express a message for us all. Saturn begins its four-and-a-half-month […]
DUST TO DUST
It’s Getting Easier, Being Green
On the Outer Cape, pursuing a plot to inspire natural burials
Tucked away at the southernmost end of the Truro’s Old North Cemetery, a small tract of land is girded by a split-rail fence where a sign reads: “Old North Cemetery, […]
FOURTH OF JULY
A Not-So-Straight-Up Potato Salad
Comforting yet zingy, a recipe that’s right for whatever kind of party you’re invited to
I attended a swanky dinner party on an early summer night when the weather was still cool enough to ward off mosquitoes and invite indulgent feasting. It was at an […]
GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK
Structure and Color for Every Season of the Year
In Eastham, a collection of maples and conifers grows little by little
Story and drawings by Abraham Storer Keri Thomas and David Smile’s garden comes as a surprise to a visitor arriving on Oak Ridge Road in Eastham, not far from Cooks […]
LIBERATION
On Juneteenth, Speakers Take Up the Question of Belonging
‘We have come a mighty long way, but there’s a mile and a half to go’
PROVINCETOWN — As drummers walked through the crowd to energize a Wednesday afternoon gathering, some 150 people converged on the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House to hear James Jackson Jr., Jordan […]
CAPE COD RAIL TRAIL NORTH
Pedaling an Unofficial Route to Provincetown
It’s possible to avoid the highway, but you can’t get away from cars or hills
Every year since I was 15 years old, I’ve biked the Cape Cod Rail Trail end to end. The tradition started when I was even younger; my best friend and […]
ON THE BEACH
A Fisherman’s Luck
Skill is one thing, but how to explain the hits and hookups that happen on the very last cast?
Knowing a backshore beach’s structures — the deeps, shallows, and river-like troughs between the shore and the first sandbar — is as important to catching fish as knowing the tides, […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
Of Flaky Fish and Future Storms
Warm waters in the Caribbean, bonito in the bay
The fish cannot seem to make up their minds about where they want to be for more than a day at a time. It looked like they were settling in […]
BLESSING OF THE FLEET
Lifting Up the Patron Saint of Netmakers, Shipbuilders, and Fishermen
Alex Brown and Nancy Silva talk about St. Peter and processions past and present
PROVINCETOWN — The 28th Provincetown Portuguese Festival begins Friday, June 28 with live music and dancing in Portuguese Square on Ryder Street. During the three-day-long celebration, there will be a […]
CENTENARIANS
Wellfleet’s Grace Ebert Finds a Happy Moment in Every Day
After 55 years here, a New Yorker at heart says, ‘You can tell I’m from the Bronx’
WELLFLEET — Of the past 100 years, Grace Ebert remembers only the exceedingly good and exceedingly bad days. “If I have to think hard to remember a day, it could […]
PROMOTED
Provincetown Schools Celebrate 8th-Grade Graduation
With wisdom, determination, and smiles, 14 students are heading to high school in Eastham and Harwich
PROVINCETOWN — Fourteen eighth-graders graduated from the Provincetown International Baccalaureate Schools at its annual promotion ceremony on June 21. Three of the newly minted middle-school graduates will attend Cape Cod […]
MILKWEED
A Commoner for the Monarchs
There are many threats to the survival of the monarch, that iconic orange-and-black butterfly that migrates each summer from Mexico to the Northeast and back over multiple generations. One is […]
CAPE COD BASEBALL LEAGUE
Temporary Players, Shuffling Rosters Mark Early Summer Ball
Temporary Players, Shuffling Rosters Mark Early Summer Ball
ORLEANS — Each year, while the best collegiate players are occupied in Omaha at the NCAA Division I College World Series in June, coaches across the Cape Cod Baseball League […]
IN VIEW THIS WEEK
School’s Out for Summer
Tradition has it that students from Wellfleet Elementary School head to Newcomb Hollow Beach on the last day of school for good times and a beach picnic. This year’s excursion […]
