Word: provincetowners
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Back in New York in 1916, Hartley was stunned when his German military paintings were received with hostility by a public that was increasingly anti-German. His confidence seemed shattered. He sat out the war in Provincetown and Bermuda. In 1921 he returned to Europe, wandering from Paris to Berlin to Florence to Rome...
...Please, no more letters to honor that scoundrel and rogue who frequently exhorted Boston voters to 'Vote early and often,' " replied Jean Rogers, languishing in Provincetown. Curley was no "scoundrel and rogue," sniped George Morrissey from Newton. And furthermore, "The true exhortation was 'Vote often and early for James Michael Curley...
...remains to be said (or rather, seen) in Meyerowitz's Cape Cod pictures, that despite innumerable glories and pleasures, pain, suffering and psychological ambiguity are persistently present in the world, even in Provincetown; that to live in a salubrious vacuum like Cape Cod is something of a luxury and a privilege, with all the possible, complacent delusions attendant to luxury and privilege at full work; that most women are not bathing beauties, and that this fact is not necessarily a misfortune; that to see, in Wordsworth's phrase, into the life of things, requires a particular kind of mental firmness...
...Pilgrims landed at Provincetown, at the very tip of the Cape. The Pilgrim Museum and Tower, if they are open, should not be missed. From the top of the Tower you can see the entire Cape on a clear...
...Provincetown is a thriving artistic and literary colony. In the summer there are more famous authors than in English 175. Even in the winter, P-town is one of the cultural centers of Cape Cod. It also has a large gay population...