Word: provincetowners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Outer Cape--the final hook in Cape Cod that stretches 27 miles from Orleans to Provincetown--is a desolate place during the winter...
...been on the Cape a long time; years ago he lived in a mobile home on the beach in Provincetown, fishing and running his four-wheel drive over the dunes. Now, he runs a cottage colony in Wellfleet that stays open from the late spring to the early autumns. To relieve the boredom and loneliness, he paints and draws away the long January and February hours. Pete cautions anyone rash enough to think that staying in Wellfleet through the late fall and winter will not exact a cost. It does...
...year-rounders, the winter means isolation, bad weather and hardship. The small towns that line the Outer Cape--Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truvo and Provincetown--depend economically almost exclusively on tourism. The creation of the National Seashore in 1961 insured the tourist trade during the summer by protecting the beaches and ponds of the Cape, but after Thanksgiving, few visitors are attracted; the motels, shops and restaurants close, and unemployment soars. In the winter, food stamps become a common sight in Wellfleet's First National supermarket and the number of welfare recipients and those on unemployment climbs...
...Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, and Louise have lived in Wellfleet two years. They are fortunate in finding work year round, in the summer, they both work at a restaurant in North Truro, in winter he works construction, sporadically, and she is a bank teller is Provincetown, Neither of them enjoys the job, but feels it is worth...
Cottontail. Among the skinny-dippers across the country, men seem to outnumber women by about three to one. In some areas-Cape Cod's Provincetown and New York's Fire Island, for instance-male homosexuals pioneered public beach nudity. Now joining them are the straights, mostly young adults and teenagers, many of whom picked up the idea on the shores of Europe. Some, who have only recently unraveled their String bathing suits, still show the untanned, telltale skin area known as "the cottontail...