Provincetown Banner Staff
DON JAMES NEEDS A KIDNEY: The Somerset resident, and seasonal renter and visitor in Provincetown, is in need of kidney, and a GoFundMe campaign is underway to help: I am officially listed on the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) kidney transplant waiting list at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. I m trying to hang in there and am doing the very best that I can. Problem is that the wait is six years. It s doubtful I will live long enough so I need a living donor as soon as possible, according to the GoFundMe campaign. For information, visit https://gofund.me/ee9034ab
BILLY HOUGH, live-streamed Scream along with Billy, at https://www.facebook.com/billy.hough1
JON RICHARDSON WITH PETER DONNELLY, live-streamed virtual performances at https://www.facebook.com/donnellyrichardson
ERIC MAUL, live-streamed flute musical performances at https://www.facebook.com/ericmaulflute
PATTY LARKIN, see live-streamed music and announcements by the Wellfleet-based singer, songwriter and guitarist. Visit https://www.facebook.com/PattyLarkinMusic/
SARAH BURRILL BAND, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 11, streaming live from the Wellfleet Preservation Hall stage. Free. Visit Wellfleetpreservationhall.org for more info.
EMILY SKINNER, virtual musical performance at 3 p.m. (live) and 8 p.m. (pre-recorded) Sunday, March 14, in cooperation with https://thesethconcertseries.com/.
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Susan Blood, Banner Correspondent
Brendan Galvin stopped counting his published poems once he hit 900. The longtime Truro resident has new poems out at 18 different magazines.
“It doesn t do you any good to let them hang around the house,” he said.
Over the years, Galvin’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Harper’s Magazine, and Kenyon Review, among many others. Galvin’s latest collection, “Partway to Geophany,” came out in November.
Galvin first began writing seriously 57 years ago. “It felt like I had added a new room onto my house, and later that my whole life had moved into it. Now, as I read the galleys for my nineteenth book, ‘Partway to Geophany,’ I find myself believing that poetry’s nothing less than food for the soul,” reads his statement about the new book.
Jack Sheedy: Early Files
1861
The Season and the Sleighing: Now that the winter is half through, we have just had our first snow in quantity sufficient for sleighing. Only about four inches in depth, we presume it will soon disappear again, and sleighs freighted with both old and young are busy in the enjoyment of it. (Note: Winter being “half through” was a case of wishful thinking since it was only mid-January at the time.)
1871
Pickerel are quite plenty in the ponds in this town. Several hundred weight were caught last week, and sent to the Boston market, where they sell for 10 cents per pound, net …The ponds in this vicinity are very low. Hathaway s ponds have lowered some two feet on a level within three months, and are still falling.
PROVINCETOWN The Cape’s first two recreational marijuana shops opened their doors in 2020, and several more are hoping to follow suit in 2021.
A handful of shops in Eastham and Wellfleet are awaiting inspections and final approvals from the state and could be open within a few months. A recreational shop at a medical dispensary in Mashpee could open this year and several other adult-use stores are in the pipeline in Provincetown.
When a lot of these will actually open depends on when they get on the agenda of the Cannabis Control Commission, the state agency that oversees marijuana business in Massachusetts.
Susan Blood
PROVINCETOWN Since closing in March due to the threat of COVID-19, Waters Edge Cinema has still found ways to entice people to go to the movies. Initially offering films to watch online at home, through a platform called Cinesend, the cinema has since offered private on-site screenings for “pods” of up to 25 people, and is now looking at opening to the public.
But it all depends on science, data, and the community.
To gauge the local community’s interest in and comfort level for opening, Waters Edge is conducting a survey, linked on its Facebook page (facebook.com/watersedgecinema), covering questions from when patrons think they’d return to whether or not popcorn is non-negotiable. The survey takes about two minutes to complete.