Books Jul 10, 2026 Why Did Thoreau Walk To Provincetown? Long before Provincetown became America’s best-known art colony, Henry David Thoreau came here looking for something that couldn’t be found anywhere else. He wasn’t searching for beautiful scenery. He wanted… Jun 16, 2026 PROVINCETOWN 300: Ten Books That Made Provincetown From Herman Jennings and Nancy Paine Smith to Harry Kemp, Michael Cunningham, Norman Mailer, and the Provincetown Players, these are the books that best explain how a remote fishing village… Dec 12, 2025 THE WINTER OF MISSING TIME A Fable Cycle from Provincetown, 1620 This story is a work of fiction inspired by the landscape, winters, and winds of the Outer Cape. It is not drawn from, nor… Jan 5, 2025 GRACE GOUVEIA PHOTO: Grace Gouveia with Jay Critchley, 1985, before opening of Jay’s TACKItown show and performance at Steve Fitzgerald’s Hell’s Kitchen Gallery Aug 8, 2024 EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892 – 1950) BOOKS ::: POET ::: Edna St. Vincent Millay, was a prominent American poet and playwright, during the early 20th century. Millay’s connection to Provincetown began when she became involved with the Provincetown Players…. Jul 23, 2024 STANLEY KUNITZ (1905 – 2006) BOOKS ::: POET ::: Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Selected Poems: 1928-1958 Theodore Roethke. Stanley Kunitz was born on July 29, 1905, in Worcester, Massachusetts. He grew up in a… Jul 23, 2024 NORMAN MAILER (1923 – 2007) BOOKS: :::POLITICS: ::: JOURNALIST ::: Brooklyn tough guy who entered Harvard University at the tender age of 16. His active duty in the Phillipines inspired his first novel, The Naked and the Dead. Co-founded the counter-culture… Jul 23, 2024 DOMINIC FALCONE (1928 – 2009) ART ::: Dominic Falcone, along with his wife Yvonne Anderson, arrived in Provincetown during the mid-1950s. Their journey to this vibrant art colony was motivated by a desire to immerse themselves… Jul 23, 2024 EDMUND WILSON (1895 – 1972) BOOKS ::: AUTHOR ::: Edmund Wilson, a prominent literary critic and writer, had significant ties to Provincetown, Massachusetts, particularly through his tumultuous marriage to Mary McCarthy. Their relationship was marked by… Jul 23, 2024 JOHN DOS PASSOS (1896 – 1970) BOOKS ::: LOST GENERATION ::: John Dos Passos was another radical novelist shaped by Chicago grit and Harvard polish, a writer who came of age believing literature could expose the machinery of power…. 1 2 Next »
