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Eaten by the Tyvek

August 3, 2008

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OK, it's actually Typar, apparently a relative of the ubiquitous Tyvek, but Tyvek sounds so much scarier, like a dybbuk. Kind of... Don't you think? But I digress. On June 18, after visiting Provincetown for the first time this summer, I photographed PTown homes for a blog entry featuring houses before and after gentrification. And I used this house as the before picture. In-bleeping-evitably, I found last week that this very house has been invaded by the Tyvek. The new owner, who happened to be there as I surveyed the scene, assures me that he intends to be true to the original. I weep for the loss of the raffish, the raggedy-ass and the broken down, devoured in the maw of the Tyvek.

 
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