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Housing

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Mac's Isn't Closing. Nobody Has Named Its 2028 Address.

Nov 5, 2026

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5 min read

Mac's Isn't Closing. Nobody Has Named Its 2028 Address.

Mac Hay plans to move within Provincetown in 2028. Local permitting on the 52-home plan at his address is on hold.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Spotlight

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$90 Opens a 300-Wine Tasting. The Gallery Pours Are Free.

Oct 29, 2026

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5 min read

$90 Opens a 300-Wine Tasting. The Gallery Pours Are Free.

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.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Chatham

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The Prize-Winning Chowder Has Flour. The Oldest One Had Wine.

Oct 22, 2026

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9 min read

The Prize-Winning Chowder Has Flour. The Oldest One Had Wine.

Mac's menu says no flour. The Lobster Pot's prize bowl has a little. A 1751 recipe used claret and no milk. Pick your side.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Spotlight

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Before the Beer License, Brewster Asked About the Onion Rings

Sep 24, 2026

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7 min read

Before the Beer License, Brewster Asked About the Onion Rings

One question was asked at a Brewster hearing. One line went into a Provincetown lease. Both were about what the new owners can't touch.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Spotlight

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They Floated Their Houses Across the Harbor. Some Are Still Wearing the Badge.

Aug 28, 2026

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6 min read

They Floated Their Houses Across the Harbor. Some Are Still Wearing the Badge.

A village of two hundred people packed up Long Point and rowed home — and a ten-minute walk in the West End will show you where the houses landed.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Spotlight

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Every Day of the Year, He Sat Down at 5:15

Aug 28, 2026

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3 min read

Every Day of the Year, He Sat Down at 5:15

Napi's began as a Wednesday night dinner party, got built out of tin garages, stayed open through forty-nine Provincetown winters — and then ended somewhere nobody expected.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Spotlight

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Forty-Eight Years of Carnival Themes

Aug 20, 2026

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9 min read

Forty-Eight Years of Carnival Themes

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.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Chatham

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Tip O'Neill Said They Hung Him in Effigy in Truro

Aug 13, 2026

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6 min read

Tip O'Neill Said They Hung Him in Effigy in Truro

Sixty-five years ago, much of the Lower and Outer Cape fought like hell over the park it now can't imagine living without.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Spotlight

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Say Hopper and People Nod. Say Hofmann and They Pause.

Jul 16, 2026

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4 min read

Say Hopper and People Nod. Say Hofmann and They Pause.

The Outer Cape didn't make one famous painter. It made a century of them — and mostly went quiet about it.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Chatham

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The Sandbar Was Empty When Your Parents Swam Here

Jul 16, 2026

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4 min read

The Sandbar Was Empty When Your Parents Swam Here

What came back to it changed the water off Chatham for good — and brought something with it.

Arthur Radtke
Arthur Radtke

Provincetown

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Provincetown's Fourth: An 11 O'Clock Parade, Quiet Fireworks, and a Town at Full Volume

Jul 2, 2026

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1 min read

Provincetown's Fourth: An 11 O'Clock Parade, Quiet Fireworks, and a Town at Full Volume

The tip does Independence Day the way it does everything — loud, generous, and on its own terms. Here's how to take it in without losing your car, your evening, or your mind.

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