Inner Voices
STEAMERS
Parkingtown
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Fight Like Josephine
We need to be reminded of the hard things Del Deo achieved
Our individual lives, so precious to us, are brief and then gone, like snow on the water, vanished utterly with barely a trace left behind. Those few throughout history who […]
ENCROACHMENT
Dishonoring a Provincetown Hero
Douglas Roach’s grave should have been protected
I am grateful to the Provincetown Independent for its coverage of the development of 27 Cemetery Road and the encroachment on the Roach-Watkins family gravesite. It is troublesome not just […]
VIGNETTE
Full Dance Card
STEAMERS
Tortured Numbers
OP-ART
Be Brave, Don’t Cave
ORGANIZING CHAOS
A Perilous Time for Public Libraries
Local community needs should not fall victim to politics
Libraries organize chaos. So wrote Nancy Kalikow Maxwell in her book, Sacred Stacks: The Higher Purpose of Libraries. And lately, or maybe always, there is plenty of chaos to organize. […]
VIGNETTE
Small but Mighty
STEAMERS
Taking a Dive
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
No Place Like Home
Belonging is fundamental to everyone’s welfare
In the 1970s, I worked to protect nesting least terns on the back shore. In those days, we did not close beaches to vehicles, but we did post areas where […]
OPTING IN
A Game-Changer for the Housing Crisis
Towns should adopt the ‘seasonal communities’ designation now
Twenty-five years ago, families who made $60,000 a year could afford to buy a house here. Today, households making less than $300,000 a year struggle to find housing on the […]
OP-ART
Social Insecurity
MAURICE’S MASTER PLAN
Keeping Wellfleet Wellfleet
‘This place is precious,’ the town’s planning consultants were told
Last summer, I facilitated three focus groups about the future of Maurice’s Campground in Wellfleet. Our consultants organized them to allow the Maurice’s Campground Planning Committee to hear directly from […]
