To the casual observer, Provincetown may seem an oasis of acceptance and peace, a place where one can escape the stresses of daily life. But those who live here know […]
History
1726
The Deed for Hector
Tucked away beside Highland Links, Truro’s golf course on the bluffs, sits the former turn-of-the-century hotel that’s now the Highland House Museum. There, a repository of local history documenting developments […]
1964
The UFO in Truro
An artist’s vision shapes a movement
If you’ve driven down Route 6 from Truro to Provincetown, you’ve experienced that breathtaking moment when Cape Cod Bay emerges all at once and the dunes raise their sandy heads […]
1903
The Marconi Mythology
On a blustery morning in late November, filmmaker and artist Tinja Ruusuvuori climbed over a fence at the ruins of the Marconi wireless station in South Wellfleet to fly a […]
1990
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: The ’90s
The photographs, thousands of them, all make the same assertion: It was better back then. The young were younger, happiness was happier, beauty more beautiful. The best of times. “If […]
1937
Women’s Day
No photographer is identified in connection with this Associated Press photo of Mary Heaton Vorse, bloodied after a bullet grazed her head during the “Women’s Day Massacre” in Youngstown, […]
1920
Betsey Moehlich’s Cabinet of Historical Wonders
Betsey Snow Horton Moehlich, 80, lives in Eastham, in the house on Pilgrims Path her mother built. She is the caretaker of her family’s history on the Cape, stockpiling photographs […]
1904
When the Finns Brought the Heat
Wellfleet’s sauna diplomacy years
Saima Tuominen arrived on Ellis Island in 1904, when she was six, accompanied by her mother and her younger brother. They had left Finland in the twilight of the Russian […]
1956
From ‘The Moors’
The Moors holds a hallowed place in the history of Provincetown restaurants, even though it has been gone long enough (it closed in 1998) that many latecomers may not know […]
THE MAP
Long Story Short
1975
From ‘Midnights’
Cars were sometimes stolen in Provincetown, reported missing, and spotted in Wellfleet, and chases ensued. They were very stimulating affairs. Speaking of a highspeed chase, Paul said, “If it’s a […]
POETRY
Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982
2000
From ‘A Walk on Cape Cod’
Around the time of the millennium I lived on Cape Cod in Provincetown, in my girlfriend’s house, and I was glad to be back in my native state after twenty […]
HISTORY
An Online Archive of Provincetown’s Past — and Future
Stefan Anikewich’s Instagram account holds a trove of historical images
The black-and-white footage zooms in on an elderly woman, her white hair tied back and a soft smile on her face, as she prunes an explosion of flowers beside her […]
HISTORY
An Online Archive of Provincetown’s Past — and Future
Stefan Anikewich’s Instagram account holds a trove of historical images
The black-and-white footage zooms in on an elderly woman, her white hair tied back and a soft smile on her face, as she prunes an explosion of flowers beside her […]
