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PROVINCETOWN — The 31st annual Provincetown Swim for Life this year also marks the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Provincetown Community Compact, which was founded by artist Jay Critchley to serve as the nonprofit sponsor of the swim. The Compact has evolved...

PROVINCETOWN — A team from the Center for Coastal Studies freed an entangled humpback calf Saturday five miles west of Long Point after whale watch crews spotted it in distress. Roughly a year old, the calf had rope deeply embedded in the base of its flukes, which...

July 19, 2018 ptownie photo of the week from photographer Ric Ide. Ric is the staff photographer for ptownie and is also available for custom work!

Provincetown is often regarded as one of the gayest places on Earth, and this summer the Cape Cod resort town will uphold that reputation by hosting the inaugural installment of “Drag Camp,” a nearly two-week crash course on the ‘ins and outs’ of drag. Best of all,...

Girl Splash July 17, 2018 through July 21, 2018 throughout Provincetown Brought to you by Provincetown for Women, Girl Splash is a fun weekend for women to dance, talk, laugh, cry, and get revved up for the summer! Enjoy special women-only dune tours, beach bonfires,...

I guess you could say that I kept meeting my husband. I’d been introduced to him somewhere before, and he’d liked me from the beginning. He even told someone, “that’s the girl I’m going to marry.” I was sixteen and a half. It was August of 1946. We all worked so we...