Mar 31, 2020 | Homepage Display, News
On Friday, March 27, 2020, the Secretary of the Interior notified the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe that he has ordered the disestablishment of the Tribe’s reservation, an act that would take Mashpee’s tribal homelands out of trust status. This action is being taken despite...
Mar 27, 2020 | History, Homepage Display, News
The first recorded cases of virulent influenza in the United States occurred in Boston, making Massachusetts Ground Zero for the 1918 pandemic. On August 26th, several sailors at the Commonwealth Pier reported in sick with influenza. By the next day, there were eight...
Mar 16, 2020 | Events, Homepage Display, News
The Board of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival has decided to postpone the March 22nd Birthday Bash at Pilgrim House in Provincetown. If you have bought tickets for the event or the raffle, we will contact you directly to offer a full refund. In...
Mar 13, 2020 | Homepage Display, News
For Immediate Release A message from Provincetown Town Manager, Robin Craver Office: 508.487.7002 rcraver@provincetown-ma.gov The recent outbreak of COVID-19 brings concern and uncertainty to our visitors and residents. As a favorite and popular tourist destination,...
Mar 13, 2020 | History, Homepage Display, News
Restaurants with historic or distinctive names (and a reputation for good food!) always attract hungry diners. Located at 269 Commercial Street, across from Town Hall, the Viking Restaurant was originally called Christine’s Luncheonette when it was owned during the...
Mar 9, 2020 | Events, Homepage Display, Music, News, Theatre
***Mark Cortale’s famed Broadway @ series returns to P-Town, along with a music and comedy tsunami, including Rachel Bay Jones, Liz Callaway, Beth Malone, Melissa Ferrick, Judy Gold, Susie Mosher, Tori Scott, Jenn Colella, Edmund Bagnell, Miss Conception, Deven Green,...
Mar 9, 2020 | Events, Homepage Display, News, Theatre
The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival announces its birthday bash Sunday, March 22 from 3 pm – 6 pm Join us for another year of celebrating Tennessee Williams on the weekend before his 109th birthday (forever young). March 22nd is the day for your chance...
Mar 9, 2020 | Homepage Display, Music, News
Saturday, March 28, 7:70-9:30 WOMR performance space, 494 Commercial St., Provincetown Tickets at tickets.payomet.org GRAMMY Award Winner, Two-Time EMMY Nominee Dom Flemons is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, actor, music scholar, historian, and record...
Mar 7, 2020 | Events, Homepage Display, News
Democracy of the Land: reflections on nature and civic society April 3-12, 2020 Community invited to participate in the installation before demolition. The Provincetown Select Board approved a proposal from the Provincetown Community Compact to create a community art...
Mar 6, 2020 | Homepage Display, Marijuana in Provincetown, News, Uncategorized
Here is our list and a map of dispensaries in Provincetown, current and future. Currently the only shop open is Curaleaf. To buy pot, you’ll need to show a photo ID to prove your age. And here’s the tricky part: you can only legally consume it in private residences....
Mar 6, 2020 | History, Homepage Display, News
Join us at the Provincetown Public Library on May 14th at 6pm for a book club discussion of Nathanial Philbrick’s Mayflower. Excerpted from the book: The Mayflower was a typical vessel of her day: square-rigged and beak bowed, with high, castlelike superstructures...
Mar 5, 2020 | Events, Homepage Display, News
Winter Wednesdays Wednesdays in March at The Provincetown School It’s your last month to learn something new this winter, with offerings from calligraphy to yoga, from woodworking to improv. Cape Cab offers free transportation to residents of three Outer Cape towns,...
Mar 1, 2020 | Homepage Display, New to Provincetown 2019, News
Patrick Ian Patrick knows that the greatest immediate threat to the sustainability of Provincetown is the desperate shortage of housing that locally employed residents can afford. The lack of seasonal and year-round housing is the challenge at the root of most...
Feb 28, 2020 | History, Homepage Display, News
The first theatre groups in Ptown were the Wharf Theater and The Barnstormers; they opened in 1923 when Eugene O’Neill was still living out in the dunes. The Wharf Theater was destroyed in a storm in 1940, but that wasn’t the end of theaters on the wharves. Summer...
Feb 21, 2020 | Homepage Display, New to Provincetown 2019, News
Below is a note from Eric Martine (66daysllc) to the community concerning questions and concerns that have been raised in the community. Setting the proverbial record- from Eric Martin As integral year-round, long-term members of this community, a community that was...
