Category: Culture

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 […]

Andrew Botieri bellows out a reporter’s name at the top of his lungs as the reporter drives up to Botieri’s West Plymouth condo. You would never know by the volume of his voice that Botieri, a wiry 67-year-old, is recovering from a double lung and kidney transplant. Botieri received his new lungs and kidney on […]

Second of two parts In late May, Plymouth oystermen Don Wilkinson and Sean Withington, receive the “seeds,” or spat — tiny juvenile oysters each no larger than a grain of sand — that will in two to three years become oysters ready for market. Shipped overnight from a supplier in Maine, the 2.4 million seeds […]

First of two parts Oysterman Don Wilkinson of Plymouth looks the part. The towering 83-year-old has been raising oysters in Cape Cod Bay for 16 years now and has the rugged, wizened look you might expect in a man who has spent many hours on the water in all kinds of weather. Piercing pale green […]

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