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9 unusual facts about Provincetown


California State Route 14

Route 14 was part of U.S. Route 6 prior to truncation in 1964, when U.S. 6 was a coast-to-coast route from Long Beach to Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Coast Guard Station Provincetown

United States Coast Guard Station Provincetown is a United States Coast Guard station located in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Florida Keys Marathon Airport

For a time in the early 1970s, Air Florida provided service to Marathon and Key West, followed by Provincetown-Boston Airlines (PBA) which used a combination of DC-3s and modern turboprop aircraft.

Justin Tussing

He later became a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

People Express Airlines

People Express also bought midwest commuter carrier Britt Airways and Provincetown-Boston Airlines (PBA), a regional airline serving New England and Florida.

Ronald K. L. Collins

In spring, 2010, Collins was a fellow in residence at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

U.S. Route 6 in Indiana

U.S. Route 6 (US 6) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway that runs from California to Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Varla Jean Merman

Merman's shows are a staple of summer entertainment in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Zoë Lewis

She started out as a member of the London Latin jazz ten-piece band Avanti, but has more recently been active primarily as a solo performer and as the title member of Zoe Lewis and her Rubber Band and currently resides in Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States.


Atlantic House

Cabral, a collector of art, graced the establishment with such decorative accents as a carved wooden figurehead said to come from the last whaling ship to operate out of Provincetown Harbor and signed works by Andy Warhol and Keith Haring.

Cape Cod Expressway

In 1953, the governors of New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts began to plan a 260-mile long expressway that would link New York City to Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Catherine Bowman

Bowman is Director of the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University, and also teaches at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Charles Tersolo

Subject matter covered by this artist includes Provincetown, Boston, Paris, the Grand Canyon, Santa Fe, Monument Valley, Valley of the Gods, New York City, San Francisco, Portland, Cape Elizabeth, and Mount Desert Island, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Chrysler Museum of Art

From 1958 to 1971, the Chrysler Museum of Art was a smaller museum consisting solely of Chrysler's personal collection and housed in the historic Center Methodist Church in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Henry Botkin

Botkin spoke on the radio, “The Voice of America,” television, lead panel discussions throughout the country, and lectured and taught privately in New York, California, and Provincetown, Massachusetts.

John Buffalo Mailer

He has freelanced for Playboy, New York Magazine, Provincetown Arts, Lid, Stop Smiling, Corriera De La Sera, The Norman Mailer Review, ESPN Books and The American Conservative.

Nancy K. Pearson

She is author of Two Minutes of Light (Perugia Press, 2008), and has had her poems published in many literary journals and magazines including The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. Her honors include winning the Perugia Press Prize, the 2009 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award and fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928–1960

Always interested in painting and drawing, Tate studied painting with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts from 1947 until 1950, and began showing his work in exhibitions of abstract art in New York City in 1952.

North Truro Train Station

North Truro (a.k.a. Pond Village) first saw train service in 1873, when the Old Colony Railroad extended the tracks from Wellfleet, Massachusetts to Provincetown, with a depot probably built the same year.

Of a Fire on the Moon

After spending time at the space center and mission control in Houston, and witnessing the launch of the colossal Saturn V rocket at Cape Kennedy in Florida, Mailer began writing his account of the historic voyage at his home in Provincetown, Massachusetts during marathon writing sessions to meet his deadlines for the magazine.

PBA Flight 1039

PBA Flight 1039 was an Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante that was operated by Provincetown-Boston Airline on a scheduled passenger flight from Jacksonville International Airport in Jacksonville, Florida, to Tampa International Airport in Tampa, Florida.

Robert Peters

He performed at Barnsdall Art Park in Los Angeles, at Carpet Company Theatre in Los Angeles, Fine Art Theatre at UCI, Provincetown’s Summer Theatre, St. Matthews Church near Broadway, New York and many college campus venues.

Robin Hemley

He has had artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Ragdale, and the Edward Albee Foundation.

Sarah Peake

Elected to the Provincetown Board of Selectmen in 2002, she first ran for state representative in 2004, facing Republican incumbent Shirley Gomes.

Shirley Gomes

Gomes did not run for reelection in 2006 and was succeeded by Sarah Peake, a Democrat from Provincetown.

Something Cloudy, Something Clear

Something Cloudy, Something Clear is an autobiographical play by Tennessee Williams that was originally written in 1941 as a short play titled The Parade, or Approaching the End of a Summer, which was produced posthumously in Provincetown in 2006.

William Houghton Sprague Pearce

He is also known to have painted in Rockport, Massachusetts with his friends, Lester Stevens and Marshall Johnson, Provincetown, the Berkshires and the Lynn marshes.

Yarmouth Train Station

The Old Colony Railroad built a new station in the Town of Yarmouth in 1878 at the junction where the Hyannis branch turns to the south towards Hyannis and the former main line continued east to Provincetown.


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