My friend Arthur gave me a cd with some footage he took from the 60's on it. These are some stills.
I just read Bound East for Cardiff today. It's Eugene O'Neill's first play and it premiered at the Provincetown Players theater. The theater was an old fish house at the end of a wharf. What a setting it must have been for this moving play. The text is from a book called Time and the Town A Provincetown Chronicle by Mary Heaton Vorse.
George Bryant is a Provincetown local. He has lived in town for many years and he always has something interesting to talk about. He knows a lot about a lot. He has nailed boards to the outside of his fence around his property and frequently staples photos, articles, stories, maps and so on to them.
The photo of the pitcher is from this weeks paper. The article talks about the team only having ten players and how the coach is praying for no injuries. When I was a kid I was on a ice hockey team with about the same number of players. My friends convinced me to be the goal tender even though I couldn't skate . I remember getting injured in a game but having to keep playing because there was no one else to take my place.
Last time I was here I ask the town manager if I could use the second floor landing of the town hall as a studio to take portraits of locals. It has massive windows with loads of daylight streaming in. It also was a neutral place that related to every one I brought in. Since I've been away the building has been closed for at least 2 years to under go restoration. I need to find a replacement but it's going to be hard to match my first studio in town. The photo is of Karen, she's one of my favorites.
The Pilgrim Monument is the tallest building around, it's actually the only tall building around.
