August 11, 2026 - Ask E. Jean, Justin Crane on the McKinley School, and The Jack of Hearts Club
About The Episode
For decades, E. Jean Carroll dispensed advice as a journalist, television personality and Elle columnist. Then she took Donald Trump to court—and won twice. Director Ivy Meeropol joins us to discuss Ask E. Jean, her new documentary looking beyond the courtroom at Carroll’s unconventional life, career and refusal to be silenced. Ask E. Jean screens August 11 at 6 p.m. at Water’s Edge Cinema in Provincetown, followed by a Q&A with Meeropol, and August 27 as part of the Nantucket Film Festival’s NFF NOW Summer Doc Series.
Revere’s century-old McKinley School is being transformed into an unusual civic hub, bringing preschool classrooms, city offices and a regional 911 dispatch center under one roof. CambridgeSeven principal Justin Crane discusses the challenges of adapting the historic McKinley School for radically different uses—and designing it to serve its community for decades to come.
The new musical The Jack of Hearts Club travels back to Provincetown in 1963, where the regulars at a local gay bar gather for one last summer celebration as relationships and lives face change. Creator Jon Richardson, who wrote the book, music and lyrics, joins us to discuss his musical love letter to Provincetown. The Jack of Hearts Club runs at Provincetown Theater through September 6.
