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Provincetown: the good, the bad and the just strange July 8, 2009 Provincetown Harbor There is no place quite like Provincetown – the end of the road, where everything that didn’t adhere elsewhere comes to roost. There are lots of places all over the world where breathtaking natural beauty butts up against the most crass of commercial touristism – Carmel, Capri, Aspen, just to name a few. But there aren’t so many where the scraggly folk and the artists and the wildness of the protected dunelands manage to somehow continue to overcome, or at least to maintain a fragile balance. Pilgrim Monument Spank the Monkey Each year there is a new threat to the edge of the Cape, from mansionizers, commercial developers, price craziness, even the weather. There are endless meetings of endless commissions and boards, demonstrations, letter screeds to the editor. It changes, not always for the better, but it endures, so far.   < Prev   Next >