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    It’s *Your* Radio Station!
    July 20, 2019
    WOMR Radio Provinceotwn
    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...
    Provincetown History Snippet: What Are The Mudheads?
    July 19, 2019
    Mudheads Provincetown
    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...
    Provincetown History Snippet: Useless and Ridiculous
    July 12, 2019
    Long Point Lighthouse Provincetown
    During the Civil War, two defensive batteries were built on Long Point to protect Provincetown’s valuable harbor from a possible Confederate blockade. The batteries were essential: Provincetown had strategic importance for the war and both the fishing fleet...
    Why Marijuana Affects Different People Differently?
    July 8, 2019
    Different Cannabis Qualities
    For some people, marijuana causes a rewarding high. For others, it produces serious psychiatric side effects. Whether a person enjoys the experience or adverse effects from cannabis may well be decided by which region of the brain it’s acting upon,...
    Provincetown History Snippet: Church, Museum…. Library?
    July 5, 2019
    Provincetown Public Library
    The building that is now the Provincetown Public Library started out in 1860 as the Center Methodist Episcopal Church, and was already famous: with a 900-person capacity, it was the United States’ largest Methodist church! The church was abandoned and then...
    A New Chapter in Provincetown Art & Community
    July 5, 2019
    Provincetown Commons
    The Colonial-style building is a phoenix, rising from the ashes of its previous incarnations, and today’s Provincetown Commons is possibly the most beautiful version of that fiery bird. The story of the Provincetown Commons’ rebirth starts, in fact,...
    Provincetown History Snippet: Who is Stanley Kunitz?
    June 28, 2019
    Stanley Kunitz Provincetown
    Kunitz attended Harvard University, where he earned a B.A. degree in 1926 and an M.A. in 1927. While working as an editor, he contributed poems to magazines, eventually compiling them in his first book, Intellectual Things. He served in the army during...
    Provincetown History Snippet: A Long-Lost Poem
    June 21, 2019
    Provincetown Poem
    Marie Louise Hersey was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1894 and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1916. In Modern Verse (1921), author Anita Forbes writes, “In few towns along the New England coast is the contrast between the old America and the...
    Scientists Find Ancient Humans Used Weed 2,500 Years Ago, Too
    June 17, 2019
    Weed History
    An association between weed and the dead turns out to have been established long before the 1960s and far beyond a certain ur-band’s stomping grounds in San Francisco. Researchers have identified strains of cannabis burned in mortuary rituals as early as...