I came out at 20 while I was living in Provincetown, and I didn't realize at the time how lucky that was. The clubs were amazing. My friends and I danced, drank too much, and then stumbled down Commercial Street to Spiritus Pizza to hang out after hours, night after night, like it was our job. The clubs were so fun, but that isn't where the community got built. It got built in all the hours in between. It was going to the beach with friends in the afternoon, and sitting on the post office...

The Story Behind the Poster One of my favorite parts of running Twin Ponds is something most people never think about. I make our graphics. All of them. The website, the Facebook posts, the event posters, the emails, the bar menus, the signs around the pool telling you not to drown. I pick every font, every color, every layout. I built the logo and the brand. I even kern my own type, which, if you don't know what that means, is adjusting the space between individual letters so a word sits...

Summer camping is great. Warm water, long days, nights where you can sit outside in as few clothes as you want till midnight — there's a reason it's the season everybody thinks of first, and it's a season I love too, and some of my favorite nights at this place happened in July. But fall ... Is its own thing, and it's not a lesser version of summer, it's a different game entirely. The bugs are gone, the woods go quiet in that specific way they only get once the leaves start coming down, and...