Maybe the cattle of Europe and western Asia, where Leucanthemum vulgare is native, once upon a time had striking yellow eyes with thick white lashes. Otherwise, it’s hard to imagine […]
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, June 17 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
WEATHER
Cape Cod Summer Starts at the Solstice
Welcome to summer. At 10:42 p.m. on June 20, the earth’s tilt toward the Sun will reach its maximum point in the Northern Hemisphere, with the sun passing directly over […]
THAT WAS THEN
Launching of Steamer Provincetown
From the June 24, 1920 issue of the Provincetown Advocate, selected and edited by Kaimi Rose Lum Groton, Conn, June 19 — With water from the famous Pilgrim Spring, one […]
IN VIEW THIS WEEK
VIEWFINDER
ASTRAL PROJECTIONS
Can You Relate?
As the Sun moves into Cancer, it’s time to tend your emotional life
It’s been real, Gemini, but the Sun moves into nurturing Cancer on June 21. Get ready for a shift from immersion in the social and intellectual realms to contending with […]
SUMMER GEAR
A Different Kind of Beach Board
Tony Muto builds a table that goes where the good times are
Tony Muto grew up on Nauset’s outer beach. “I’ve been out there since I was in diapers,” he says, and he means that quite literally. Among his baby photos is […]
CLASS OF 2025
Nauset Seniors Celebrate Their Graduation in a New Space
‘We are blueprints in motion,’ says the class president
EASTHAM — Nauset Regional High School’s seniors — 203 of them — marched from the school’s new auditorium down a hall lined with applauding teachers and into the new gymnasium […]
GROWING WILD
A Trust Tends a Sanctuary of Native Plants
At the Garden in the Woods (and meadows and bogs), ideas that will thrive in a Cape Cod garden
“Right plant, right place.” This mantra, good for muttering to oneself at the nursery so as not to waste money on temptations that, though beautiful, have absolutely no business being […]
ONE FISH, TWO FISH
Creatures of Her Imagination
For a ‘shingle nerd,’ painting is a form of play
In her small, bright shop on Wellfleet’s Commercial Street, Nicole Gelinas holds up two thin pieces of wood: old shingles from Cape Cod houses. On one, a gold-and-black octopus sports […]
THE ESSENTIALS
Lettuce and Peas for Lunch
An unexpected pairing that perfects a late spring garden menu
It won’t be long now. Most anyone who keeps a vegetable garden is waiting and watching for the first peas, that fresh, green taste of springtime that means the weather […]
BIRDWATCHING
The Happiness of the Other Blue Bird
Thanks to fieldwork abroad, a naturalist comes to admire our local tree swallows
It wasn’t yet light out. This was the best time to get hands on the bird. This expert flier certainly wouldn’t allow capture if she could see me coming. My […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, June 10 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
THE SCUTTLEBUTT
Another Washout, but This One With a Bite
The bass are here and so are the bottlenoses
We had another weekend washout with clouds and cool temperatures, but this time the weather didn’t stop the fish from biting. Striped bass moved north of Billingsgate Shoals and smack […]
BOYS LACROSSE
Warriors Win Two to Advance to Final Four
Jack Peno notches 7 goals to power Nauset over Nashoba, 16-10
EASTHAM — Spurred by freshman attackman Jack Peno’s five-goal first-period outburst, the second-seeded Nauset Warriors (17-4) defeated Nashoba 16-10 to reach the Division 3 Final Four in boys lacrosse for […]
