Category: Culture

Linda and Frank Gigliotti’s first date was a Red Sox game at Fenway Park. “I should have known then,” Linda said. “Forty-five years later, our life is consumed with baseball.” This weekend, that first date will come full circle when the longtime Plymouth couple travels to Cooperstown, New York, where Linda will be inducted into […]

Anyone who has plodded around Plymouth long enough knows the shortcuts pedestrians take from one part of the downtown area to another. Strung together, these ancient alleyways, cracked blacktop parking lots, forgotten side roads and an occasional private property can save steps while trekking through the neighborhoods between the waterfront and shopping district. “It’s really […]

Plymouth residents heard the loud rumbling and looked skyward in surprise on July 6 as the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels made an unexpected pass over Plymouth Harbor. According to local pilot Michael Goulian, owner of Mike Goulian Aviation, who assisted in coordinating the event, the dramatic flyover wasn’t a practice run or a public performance […]

When Steven Karidoyanes drove to Plymouth for the first time in the early 1990s as a candidate for music director of the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra, he remembers cresting the rise on Samoset Street and catching his first glimpse of the ocean. “My lungs filled up with air,” he recalled. “I thought, ‘I have to have […]

Standing beside the keeper’s cottage on the tip of Gurnet Point, with Plymouth Harbor spread out below and Provincetown visible across the bay, Dolly Snow Bicknell began her tour not with a history lesson, but with a poem. Written by Edgar Guest, The Lightkeeper Wonders imagines a lighthouse keeper confronting automation after decades of tending […]

Long before the Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence, Plymouth was already a hot bed of revolutionary fervor. Patriots had hauled a chunk of Plymouth Rock to Town Square to protest British taxation without representation and exchanged cannon fire with a Royal Navy warship entering the harbor. Those still loyal to the Crown were […]

A sequel to the Amazon Prime series “The Summer I Turned Pretty” is set to film in downtown Plymouth on Tuesday afternoon and evening, leading to parking restrictions and some street closures, town officials said. Parking restrictions will be in effect throughout the day on portions of Court Street, Main Street, North Street, Brewster Street, […]

(Editor’s note: This narrative account of one college student’s interactions with the Twelve Tribes – first as a potential recruit and then as a reporter – offers an unvarnished yet nonjudgemental perspective from a typical recruit who began with no historical knowledge or pre-conceived notions about the group.) A chilly breeze pushed me down Main […]