Ferry Tales

Karen Remembers the First Time

Ferry Tales

I met my first girlfriend on the ferry coming to Ptown. I don’t know anybody who’s stayed their whole lives with the

Amanda’s Arrival by Ferry

Ferry Tales

Jack and I got married back in 2013, but we were both pretty driven in our careers and weren’t thinking about much of

An Unexpected Courtship

An Unexpected Courtship

My parents courted on that ferry. People don’t say “courted” anymore, do they? Well, they should. It’s a good word.

Aaron’s Amazing Ferry Trip

Aarons Amazing Trip

So I didn’t actually plan to take that ferry. The plan was, drive down to the Cape and take the ferry across to the Vineyard. We always spent at least a week at the Vineyard, every summer, we’d been doing it practically forever. Well, Pete had been doing it all his life with his family, […]

The Bennetts’ Annual Tradition

Bennett's Family Tradition

Well, we never actually spent much time in Provincetown, to tell you the truth. My parents had a cottage in Wellfleet an

Kathryn’s Wedding Proposal

Kathryn's Wedding Proposal

So yeah, Missy and I were living together for like, I don’t know, ten or twelve years?

Peter Has a Fling

Peter Has a Fling

This was a long time back—in the 1970s, when Provincetown was still one of the only places you could go to be yourself.

Gray Seals

Grey Seal

If harbor seals are the cute “cocker spaniels” of the sea, then gray seals are more like the bulldogs–tough, muscular

Andrew Finds a Home

Andrew Finds a Home

Like everybody else, I’d been thinking about buying a place in Ptown. My boyfriend and I live in New Hampshire, but every chance we get we head out to the Cape, usually by car, which gets really old really fast, if you know what I mean. And we were spending a fortune on guest houses. […]

Leatherback Turtles

Leatherback Sea Turtle

There are multiple species of sea turtle here on Cape Cod, but out of all of them the leatherback is my absolute