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There is something incongruous about the meter-lined streets where nobody's walking, the Howard Johnson's where you don't have to wait for a table. But Hyannis is a quick stop, having neither beauty nor excitement to recommended it now, and you speed along to Provincetown...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: 'The Cape of Winter | 2/21/1966 | See Source »

...Provincetown that Eugene O'Neill made popular does not exist in winter. There is no carnival atmosphere, no theatre, no artists of dubious character from Greenwich Village...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: 'The Cape of Winter | 2/21/1966 | See Source »

...tiny winding streets are empty. The houses of Provincetown, for all their beauty and quaintness, don't quite match their renown. The ridiculous splotches of color on the old New England clapboard make them look garish rather than festive. Lewis' New York Store is closed. About the only scene of activity seems to be the wharf, naturally enough in a fishing town. It's calmer here, on the inside of the tip, and the tide is low, very low. A dinghy stands adrift on the black silt, waiting for the cold waters to come back; the rickety, nearly rotten legs...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: 'The Cape of Winter | 2/21/1966 | See Source »

...most of the best facilities?golf courses, tennis courts, docks, private beaches and clubhouses. (Oyster Harbors' members include Paul Mellon and A. Felix du Pont Jr.) This actually causes little concern to the theatrical people and artists who summer at the unsocial lower Cape towns of Wellfleet, Truro and Provincetown, or to affluent visitors who summer at fashionable Chatham, which has one of the best harbors for small-boat sailing and one of the finest golf courses on the Eastern seaboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Splendors at Home | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

David F. Leone, a first year graduate student in English, died Wednesday night in Provincetown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Student, 22, Dies in Provincetown | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

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