Provincetown News

Provincetown History Snippet: Who is Stanley Kunitz?

June 28, 2019

History

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

History

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

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...

Provincetown History Snippet: Who Are The Provincetown Players?

June 14, 2019

History

There’s community theatre… and then there’s community theatre. Only the Provincetown Players could boast producing one Nobel prize and five Pulitzer prizes, though as Mary Heaton Vorse said, “No group of people ever had less sense of...

Provincetown History Snippet: The Outermost House

June 7, 2019

History

Note: From time to time we venture farther afield than Provincetown to bring you history snippets. Today we’re going slightly up-Cape to remember Henry Beston in honor of the opening of Outermost Art & Objects in Ptown. American writer and...

Is Massachusetts Poised to be the Next Cannabis Powerhouse?

June 3, 2019

Weed

The West Coast has long had a steady hold on the marijuana industry, but as legalization spreads east, it may be losing its grip. Massachusetts is home to one of the fastest-growing markets, projected to reach more than $2 billion in the recreational cannabis...

Provincetown History Snippet: The Town Goes Dark

May 31, 2019

History

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and America was at war. While up until then the Pilgrim Monument had been lit with powerful floodlights, the day after the declaration of war, the Monument was no longer the beacon of light it had been...

What’s New in Provincetown?

May 29, 2019

View of Provincetown From Pilgrim Monument

What’s New for 2019? You know how it is: you turn your back on a place and, before you know it, everything’s changed! We want to keep you “in the knows” about what’s new in Ptown for 2019, and also about what changes are happening. We’re...

A Glimpse of Switzerland in the Middle of Provincetown

May 26, 2019

There’s something subtly different about the Benchmark Inn. It’s a beautiful boutique bed-and-breakfast, yes; but there are a lot of beautiful boutique bed-and-breakfast establishments in Ptown. And still this one stands out. That’s largely because of...

Provincetown History Snippet: Forum 49

May 24, 2019

History

In the late 1940s and 1950s Provincetown emerged as one of the nation’s première art locales for contemporary American art. The first major exhibition of Abstract Expressionists was held at 200 Commercial Street during Forum 49 in the summer of 1949. Forum...