Events
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Nov 5, 2026
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18 min read
Celebrate Lower Cape · November 5–11, 2026
Beaches
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5 min read
Saturday's open house comes in six separately listed pieces. Who should book which, and what the bay's buoy reads now.
Spotlight
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Oct 29, 2026
Free gallery pours Friday, a $90 Grand Tasting Saturday, pie judging Sunday, and the Lobster Pot's last day of 2026 in the middle of it.
Chatham
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Oct 28, 2026
8 min read
Four days, Brewster to Provincetown, in start-time order, with two library parades and the hour the clocks hand back Sunday.
The Drift
Oct 22, 2026
19 min read
The first rule for this season’s beach find is the one that feels wrong.
Cold-stunned sea turtles strand on Cape Cod Bay beaches from November to mid-January. Mass Audubon's five steps, and why each exists.
7 min read
Kids in Holmes-era clothes work the aisles before curtain, a Chronicle critic writes. The theater is in season 75. Through Nov. 8.
Oct 15, 2026
11 min read
OysterFest fills Main Street this weekend. The shell from your first dozen has a year at the transfer station ahead of it, and the town's founding oyster story has a neighbor's name penciled in the margin.
+4
Sep 24, 2026
10 min read
Monday, a glass-doored box goes up on the Brewster COA's front walk. The rules say anyone can add to it. They're quieter about the rest.
+5
Aug 20, 2026
9 min read
From a one-night party in 1978 to a disco under the sea this afternoon — including the eleven straight years Provincetown didn't bother naming one at all.
3 min read
Chatham is on Hallmark's list of twenty-five Christmas towns — the only one in Massachusetts. Voting closes September 4, and there are two things about how it works you should know before you click.
Jul 16, 2026
One bad night in 1778, hundreds of shipwrecked enemy sailors washed up cold on Truro's shore. Here's what the town did.
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Jul 2, 2026
The Orleans Fire Rescue Association's annual Pancake Breakfast returns Sunday, July 5, 2026.
