Provincetown News

Cannabis with Confidence: Answering Questions

March 1, 2020

Weed

Cannabis with Confidence: Curaleaf Comes to Ptown (part two of a two-part series) Previously we introduced Curaleaf, Provincetown’s first adult-use dispensary for cannabis, along with its local connections and local social outreach. But now it’s time to...

Ask Us Anything! Curaleaf Comes to Ptown

February 28, 2020

Ask Us Anything! Curaleaf Comes to Ptown (part one of a two-part series) It’s the first adult-use cannabis dispensary to open in Provincetown, and Curaleaf is already doing a brisk business—for good reason: the room is bright and welcoming, the product it...

Provincetown History Snippet: What was the History of The Ptown Wharves?

February 28, 2020

History

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...

Provincetown History Snippet: Who is Tennessee Williams?

February 21, 2020

History

Less than three weeks after his lover Kip died in 1944 in Manhattan, Tennessee Williams was back at Captain Jack’s Wharf. The fleet was in, the streets and beaches were crowded, but Williams resented them with their “Lord & Taylor t-shirts.” That...

Provincetown History Snippet: The Decade of the Cocktail

February 14, 2020

History

The 1950s in Provincetown were years of rampant homophobia, what one innkeeper called “the witch-hunt days.” In 1952, selectmen tightened liquor and entertainment licenses in an attempt to discourage “the habitual gathering-place of homosexuals of...

Provincetown History Snippets: What is The Story of the Pilgrims?

January 31, 2020

History

On September 16, 1620, a ship called the Mayflower left from Plymouth, England, to voyage to America—the New World. Everyone on the Mayflower was looking for something. Some wanted a fresh start, an economic opportunity; others sought religious...

Provincetown History Snippet: World War I

January 24, 2020

History

A contingent of anti-submarine boats was stationed at the Provincetown Naval Base for the duration of the First World War—to the very vocal distress of townspeople, who complained that the submarine activity was interfering with the weir fishing going on in...

Provincetown History Snippet: Gosnold and Cape Cod

January 17, 2020

History

On May 15, 1602, English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold dropped anchor in a broad harbor he called “Shoal Hope,” meaning “shallow harbor”; we call it Provincetown. (Ironically, it’s one of the world’s deepest natural harbors; what did Gosnold know?)...

Provincetown History Snippet: The Maine Sea Captain’s Artist Son

January 10, 2020

History

Charles W. Hawthorne was the son of a Maine sea captain who arrived in Provincetown in 1899 after studying painting in New York; he was attracted to the light. Living here was cheaper than New York: fishermen’s wives and widows were renting rooms and sheds...

1st Retail Weed Shop to Open on Cape Cod in Provincetown

December 20, 2019

“Provincetown is poised to become the first town on Cape Cod to have a retail marijuana store. On Thursday, the company Curaleaf, of Wakefield, Massachusetts, announced it had received final approval for a storefront on Commercial Street. Massachusetts...