Word: wellfleet
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...Wellfleet, Truro, and Orleans have some of the nicest beaches on the Cape. Orleans, which is about 40 minutes by car from P-town, has a small town center with a first-run movie theater, a couple of really good restaurants, motels, and--my favorite--a bed-and-breakfast...
...Wellfleet and Truro are next to each other and about 20 minutes from Provincetown. Wellfleet has a drive-in movie theater (as well as an indoor one), a miniature golf course and a town center with antique shops, clothing stores and a couple of small, mediocre restaurants. But even in these places, like everywhere on the Cape, you can always get a good bowl of clam chowder. The Lighthouse, a restaurant in the center of Wellfleet, is worth a visit, though mostly for its friendly service and delicious blueberry pancakes...
After graduating from Yale in the early '70s, Wilkinson joined the police force of the small summer community that he had been visiting every July and August since he was a youngster. He began his new career in Wellfleet, Mass., as a special summer officer. He stayed through the season, got a more permanent position, saw the town's population shrink from 15,000 back to 2000 and began to get a glimpse of the real routine of small-town police work...
...Midnights Wilkinson was a self-conscious visitor, living life on the edge, discovering the seamy underside of Wellfleet. And while the little town was hardly bristling with sordid tales, the book is a fascinating study...
...Wilkinson didn't spend a year with Bunting, and this may be his greatest problem. He made several trips to Scotland Neck, N.C., but the minutely detailed reporting of Midnight is missing in Moonshine. Wilkinson became a part of Wellfleet, and described it with authority. The backwoods of Carolina aren't such comfortable turf for him; no number of summers on the Cape could have prepared him for the people and the culture he found there...