PROVINCETOWN — From early Beachcombers’ Balls to the Carnival Parade, people here have never been shy about dressing in costume. One of the latest opportunities, the Provincetown Arts Society’s annual Easter hat party and Easter egg hunt, took place on Saturday, April 19 at the Mary Heaton Vorse house. The idea, now in its third year here, says Gene Tartaglia, the society’s director, carries on a tradition that friends of his in New Haven, Conn. started 45 years ago. Only at that party, he says, “We originally required that everyone wear heels.”
Considering the steepness of the narrow staircases in the Vorse house, this relaxation of the dress code seems like a sensible move. Partygoers hunted for eggs and snapped photos of each other’s carefully constructed headwear, which included a beach charcuterie board hat with real salami slices, a snake-filled garden, a carrot bucket hat, and an emerging trend in dinosaurs — they did, after all, hatch from eggs.
