Category Archives: Posts

More accidents: what’s going on?

Still more accidents on route 6, two within a couple of hours and a couple of hundred yards of each other last Saturday. Another fatality. Middle of the day, off season. Can’t blame tense tourist traffic this time. Early in the day to be driving drunk. These added to the two big ones in the […]

November 21, 2014 – 12:49 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , | Comments (0)

P’town leaders can’t afford to live in the town they lead.

After a long and exhaustive, as well as exhausting, search Provincetown recently chose a new Town Manager. But the newly anointed one turned them down. Reason? Can’t afford to buy a house in town. Couldn’t he find a cheaper place elsewhere and commute to work? Maybe, but that wouldn’t be allowed. P’town requires its town […]

November 16, 2014 – 2:18 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , | Comments (0)

NStar’s “rape” of the Cape.

On a walk I noticed NStar’s sub-contractor’s trucks parked in our neighborhood. I assume that means they are about to do it to us. That’s what it feels like. “Nstar’s Rape of the Cape.” Has a nice ring to it. But is “rape’ too strong a word for what NStar has been doing to this […]

November 6, 2014 – 3:41 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged | Comments (3)

Ocean View Drive’s surprisingly obscure origins

The other day I was walking on Ocean View Drive here in Wellfleet and realized that if I’d ever known when it was constructed I’ve forgotten that. OVD is the road that, as the name suggests, runs along the top of the dunes connecting four main town ocean beaches. I was surprised that I didn’t […]

November 1, 2014 – 2:11 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , | Comments (1)

OVD: how soon we forget

The other day I was walking on Ocean View Drive here in Wellfleet and realized that if I’d ever known when it was constructed I’ve forgotten that. OVD is the road that, as the name suggests, runs along the top of the dunes connecting four main town ocean beaches. I was surprised that I didn’t […]

October 30, 2014 – 8:32 am | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Civilly disobedient grandmothers

Ralph Waldo Emerson, famous 19th century idealist, upon finding his buddy Henry David Thoreau in the local jail: “Henry, what are you doing in there?” Thoreau (in there for protesting a poll tax): “Ralph, what are you doing out there?” Once again the clear will of the community is being spearheaded by a handful of […]

October 24, 2014 – 2:55 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , | Comments (0)

A bridge too many? The Vineyard state of mind.

If ever there was an issue crying out for a plebiscite, the proposed third bridge is it. The decision on this dubious improvement is crucial to the quality of life of everyone living on Cape Cod now and into the future. The people who will be most affected by it, for better or worse, should […]

October 20, 2014 – 12:49 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , | Comments (0)

The responsibility of the 99% to itself

All I’m getting these days is gloomy email about how, as bad as things have been with a small Democratic majority in the senate, it’s going to get worse because the Republicans are headed for a big victory. That’s gloomy for progressives; the Republicans are rubbing their hands in glee. The conservative billionaires seem to […]

October 14, 2014 – 7:46 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

“Boyhood”: the drama of life as we know it

I finally got around to seeing the movie “Boyhood.” I assume a lot of people have seen it by now since it’s been playing on Cape for weeks. Someone asked me what it’s about and it wasn’t so easy to say. As much as anything, it’s about the passage of time. Its uniqueness is in […]

September 30, 2014 – 1:46 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Ken Burns’ America: is there another one?

I assume a lot of us spent a lot of the evenings of last week watching Ken Burns’ latest American saga, “The Roosevelts.” By linking Teddy Roosevelt with his relatives Eleanor and FDR, “The Roosevelts” tells a story of our country covering more than a century— a lot more, if you think of us as […]

September 25, 2014 – 2:33 pm | By Brent | Posted in Posts | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)