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    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...
    Provincetown History Snippet: The Outermost House
    June 7, 2019
    Outermost House
    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
    Massachusetts Cannabis
    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
    Provincetown Blackout
    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...
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