Dec 14, 2019 | Homepage Display, New to Provincetown 2019, News
PROVINCETOWN — Rachael Brister isn’t sure she believes in leaps of faith. But being named this week as the new CEO of the Provincetown Film Society and executive director of the Provincetown International Film Festival marks the second time she has jumped to follow...
Dec 13, 2019 | History, Homepage Display, News
He had lived alone for years in one of the dune shacks on Provincetown’s back shore, but poet Harry Kemp spent his last days in a cottage on Howland Street built by his friend Sunny Tasha especially for him. He died on August 8, 1960, of a cerebral hemorrhage. The...
Dec 11, 2019 | Homepage Display, News
nurturing a positive & curious relationship to death Wednesday, December 11 6:00-7:30pm Provincetown Commons 46 Bradford St. Death Café is an opportunity to come together as friends and community to discuss death and dying. It is a space where we can ask...
Dec 11, 2019 | Homepage Display, News
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — Donald Thomas, also known as “The Dancing Cop,” has died, according to the Provincetown Police Department. “Our community is waking this morning to the sad news that former Provincetown Police Officer Donald ‘The Dancing Cop’ Thomas passed away...
Nov 29, 2019 | History, Homepage Display, News
Between Lancy’s Wharf and the engine house of the Colonial Cold Storage plant is a three-story building that once housed the Old Reliable Fish House restaurant and pier, now a forlornly abandoned near-ruin. the structure was a prominent pier from the mid-19th through...
Nov 25, 2019 | Homepage Display, News
It’s time again for Boo Boo’s Backyard! As always, we local ptownies are hearing anecdotal stories—what a good season it was, what a slow season it was. Were there more day-trippers, more luxury super-yachts, more bridesmaids? What about the continued saga of finding...
Nov 24, 2019 | Homepage Display, News
If you’re a local year-round ptownie, you always hear about specials going on during the off-season. It changes every year, and it’s so hard to keep track of! Here’s our most updated list of who is doing what and on which night of the week. If you are a restaurant/bar...
Nov 22, 2019 | History, Homepage Display, News
The first Catholics in Provincetown were Irish, and had come here to work in fish-related industries such as salt works and flake yards. There were only 70 of them in 1851, but with the influx of Portuguese families, by 1887 there were 1,730 Catholics in Provincetown....
Nov 15, 2019 | History, Homepage Display, News
In December of 1773 the Boston Sons of Liberty destroyed three shiploads of tea in Boston Harbor, setting the fuse for the American Revolution. But did you know there were supposed to be four ships there? The William was wrecked off Provincetown on its way to Boston....
Nov 11, 2019 | Homepage Display, News
PROVINCETOWN — The Select Board made several changes that would affect town roads and parking at its annual traffic hearing, agreeing to close a section of Commercial Street to vehicles on weekend nights in the summer and increasing rates for parking permits. The...
Nov 11, 2019 | Art in Provincetown, Homepage Display, News
Art Provincetown, a designated week of arts, is reaching out to artists for your input as to what you would like to see, or how you would like to be represented. The aim of which is to give artists more of a presence here in Provincetown, and to reestablish...
Nov 8, 2019 | Homepage Display, News
PROVINCETOWN — A Provincetown-based real estate developer is looking to build workforce housing to alleviate the town’s crushing crisis in that area. Shankpainter Associates has proposed construction of 28 dormitory-style units, five studio apartments, nine...
Nov 8, 2019 | History, Homepage Display, News
The Pilgrims were landlubbers. When they arrived in Provincetown and then in Plymouth, whales were still plentiful and close to shore; native tribes hunted the whales in canoes, forcing them to beach themselves. The white settlers soon followed their example, but...
Nov 6, 2019 | Homepage Display, News
WOMR’s Fall Membership Drive November 1, 2019 – November 14, 2019 Even if you’re only in town part-time, chances are at some point you listen to our community radio station, WOMR. help support community radio year-round… S&S: Thursdays with Julia November 7,...
Nov 6, 2019 | Homepage Display, News
PROVINCETOWN – Redesigns and renovations to Shank Painter Road and a portion of Route 6 are beginning to take shape in Provincetown. The project calls for the addition of bike lanes along Shank Painter that would lead into a shared-use path that would be put on the...
