Word: provincetowners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...south coast is a little pebbly, but the eastern Athletic shore is one uninterrupted beach from Provincetown to Chatham. The surf there after a nor'esst storm is the best within a day's travel from Boston. The top side, Cape Cod Bay, has wonderful sand dunes for picnics, especially around Barnstable and Wellfleet; but the water is just too cold for swimming until August...
Picturesque towns to visit are Sandwich, Wellfleet, and Provincetown. Sandwich has screnely escaped the summer trade. It neatles quaint and unspoiled to the northwest corner, right near the Canal...
...heart attack; in Austerlitz, N.Y. Daughter of a poor schoolteacher, Edna Millay was put through Vassar by a patron who admired her youthful verse. After graduation (at 25) she lived among the very poor, "very merry" bohemians of Greenwich Village, had a" fling at acting (she was briefly a Provincetown Player), wrote short stories (for Vanity Fair under the name Nancy Boyd). With the bittersweet impudence of her second book of verse, A Few Figs from Thistles ("Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!"), she caught the popular...
...cubists, particularly his friend Marcel Duchamp, had taught him to shatter shapes. He cracked the sky as well, painted Pennsylvania factories and Provincetown houses impaled, piecemeal, on diagonal slivers of blue, white and grey light...
Waugh, who lived by the sea in Provincetown, Mass., painted about 75 surf-scapes a year, sold almost all of them at fat prices. For variety's sake he kept-shifting the rocks in his pictures: sometimes they occupied the left-hand side of the canvas, sometimes the right, and now & again the center. Moderns who sniffed at his sticking to a proven formula overlooked the fact that such abstractionists as Mondrian did the same thing...