Camp Provincetown Goes Pop: 1st Annual Outsiders Festival
Situated on the ancient lands of the Wampanoag Tribe – People of the First Light, this colonized frontier town and whaling port lured disparate visitors streaming in from all corners of the world: Newfoundland, fisher folk, Portuguese sailors from the Azores Islands, whaling crew from the Hawaiian and Pacific Islands. Not to mention, oddballs and misfits who made it here before the railroad in 1873, wanderers and wealthy visitors seeking the historic roots of our young democracy, and then, Bohemians.
“Artists are queer ducks” headlines a newspaper article in the early 1900s. Seemingly a contradiction to the heralded First Landing of the Pilgrims and the Yankee and Portuguese roots of this historic town, Provincetown’s colorful identity was indeed a magnet for both unconventional sojourners, outlaws, outsiders. On the edge of the American experiment - remote and ocean-locked - it forged its image as an outpost of extremes.