WRITER
Brewster resident Debra Lawless, a former political press secretary, is a prolific freelance writer and published author. For this issue, she wrote about artists Tilda McGee Bystrom and Pati DuVall painting in their gardens and a history piece about the 100th anniversary of the NC-4 seaplane landing off Chatham waters. Lawless is the author of a two-volume history of Provincetown—“Provincetown Since World War II: Carnival at Land’s End” and “Provincetown: A History of Artists and Renegades in a Fishing Village.”