Constructed in the 1940s, with a runway first paved in 1948, the Provincetown Municipal Airport consists of developed airside and landside areas maintained for airport facilities and operations, surrounded by undeveloped areas that consist of grasslands,...
In a month-long residency, South African company Abrahamse and Meyer to perform their acclaimed Noh play September 12-22 World-renowned South African theatre artists Fred Abrahamse and Marcel Meyer have been bringing vibrant works to the Provincetown Theater...
Dorothy May Bradford was born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England, about 1597, the daughter of Henry and Katherine May. At the age of 16, she married 23-year old William Bradford in Amsterdam, and returned with her husband to take up residence in Leiden,...
How do you keep a legend alive? By embalming the body, of course, and that’s exactly what Josef Stalin (Robin Bloodworth) has decided to do: preserve the body of dead Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin (Robin Haynes) so that it may be viewed by the...
It’s definitely one of Provincetown’s best-kept secrets, but AWOL Hotel deserves to be secret no longer. Everything about it is different from what you’ve come to expect from a Provincetown inn, and at ptownie, we’re convinced it’s going to become...
Few people have lived through such earth-changing times; journalist John Reed famously wrote about “ten days that shook the world” in reference to the Russian Revolution, which he and Louise Bryant both observed first-hand; but before that, they...
The long line of Whorf fishermen and sea captains goes back to John Whorf, born in Provincetown in 1760. Thomas Ryder Whorf Jr, who lived between 1815 and 1887, built the famous 400-foot-long Whorf’s Wharf (apparently no one thought anything of the odd...
If it seems like you’re seeing CBD products everywhere, that’s because you are. Thanks to the passage of the US Farm Bill in 2018, which legalized industrial hemp, and the legalization of medical and recreational cannabis at the state level, CBD...
WOMR is Cape Cod’s only community radio station, and it’s located right here in Provincetown—How lucky are we? But, wait… What exactly does that mean? What’s community radio, and why do we need it? Consider the following… The...
In the late 19th century, summer art colonies were becoming increasingly popular. Charles Hawthorne selected Provincetown as the site for his summer school, and he taught his students to do plein-air paintings—paintings out of doors. A model would sit on a...
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