While away on vacation last month, I received a text from my neighbor saying that a hawk had managed to get trapped in our screened porch. My husband had witnessed […]
Community
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GETTIN’ PORKY
Elks Put the Ham in Eastham
Dinner and community at the Elks Lodge annual pig roast
EASTHAM — Standing behind a row of plastic folding tables, seven Elks wearing matching black aprons are busy slicing hunks of whole roasted pig. Eighty or so onlookers keep a close […]
HOT WHEELS
Pan-Mass Challenge Rolls Into Provincetown
Cancer’s reach gives riders ‘motivation to raise the money and pedal the miles’
PROVINCETOWN — “Billy, why do we do this in August?” Truro farmer Dilys Staaterman recalls asking some years ago as she rested at a water stop during the Pan-Mass Challenge. […]
LOVE, ACTUALLY
For Family and Peonies
Morgan Wolfe and Michael Toomey
Morgan Wolfe and Michael Toomey were married in Wellesley on June 25, 2023 at the Gardens at Elm Bank, which are part of the state’s Elm Bank Reservation and tended […]
CAPE BASEBALL LEAGUE
Firebirds Advance to East Division Finals
Orleans wins first game of series on Trimble’s grand slam
ORLEANS — The Firebirds, seeded second, swept their playoff series with number 3 Harwich to advance to the East Division Finals this week, where they took game 1 against top-seeded […]
INCIDENTALLY
No Quesadillas?
We were having lunch on the upper deck of the Bookstore Restaurant in Wellfleet on a fine day in July. At the next table was a family with three young […]
KITCHEN AIDS
Chef’s Knives, Granny Forks, and Other Must-Haves for the Summer Kitchen
Two shops cater to those searching for the practical and the beautiful
A memory: the shady kitchen in a summer rental house in Wellfleet, cavernous — not due to size but to a feeling of emptiness. A single large knife faces off […]
CAPE BASEBALL LEAGUE
Firebirds Win 4 Straight in Title Run
Orleans clinches a playoff spot as season closes
ORLEANS — The Firebirds (24-19) secured a berth in the Cape Cod Baseball League playoffs with a win over Falmouth on July 26. The team has a shot at the […]
PADDLING
On the Pickleball Circuit
A nationwide obsession has made landfall on the Outer Cape
PROVINCETOWN — A light mist hangs over the 20-odd people who have decided to spend an overcast Saturday morning playing pickleball in Provincetown. Periodic exclamations cut through a rhythmic thwack-thwack […]
INCIDENTALLY
Come From Away
A couple of years ago, my husband and I decided to take a February weekend getaway in Provincetown. We booked an inn — the Brasswood, lovely — and made the […]
THE THREAD
Craft Becomes Art in Gretchen Romey-Tanzer’s Weaving Studio
A room full of looms is classroom, workshop, and gallery
BREWSTER — Eight big floor looms stand in various stages of use in Gretchen Romey-Tanzer’s studio. The walls are lined with vibrant spools of wool and cotton and with the […]
POSITIVE AGING
A World Traveler Finds His True Home in Provincetown
Larry Moodry is Provincetown’s Senior of the Year
PROVINCETOWN — Larry Moodry first came to Provincetown in 1960, hoping to spend a college summer waiting tables. He got more than he bargained for. “Provincetown,” he says, “became my […]
FARMERS
The Rais Turn a Borrowed Slope Into Fertile Terraces
Down Home on the Cape’s eccentric end
TRURO — The sun is setting at an angle that casts a cool shade over three stools in the grass in front of a garage-like barn, where piles of produce […]
PADDLING
On the Pickleball Circuit
A nationwide obsession has made landfall on the Outer Cape
PROVINCETOWN — A light mist hangs over the 20-odd people who have decided to spend an overcast Saturday morning playing pickleball in Provincetown. Periodic exclamations cut through a rhythmic thwack-thwack […]
CAPE BASEBALL LEAGUE
Firebirds Holding Onto 2nd Place Despite Falling Below .500
ORLEANS — Despite falling a game below .500, the Orleans Firebirds (17-18) maintained their second-place spot in the Cape Cod Baseball League’s East Division standings. The team dropped two straight […]
