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The annual lighting of the Provincetown Lobster Trap Christmas Tree occurred last night. James Landry sent me a video link and this photo. It is so wonderfully New England; so perfectly Provincetown.
Last week, Alice Brock, the semi-famous Alice from Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving anthem “Alice’s Restaurant,” died. She had moved from the Berkshires to Provincetown long ago. I loved knowing Alice lived there whenever we visited. She had a small, unassuming shop on the quiet end of Commercial Street that we often strolled by.
Alice had this to say about Provincetown on her website:
“The light is so wonderful. The people are pretty wonderful, too, contrarians, cranks, queers, and curmudgeons. A great mix of round pegs that stopped trying to fit into square holes. Plenty of space to be yourself or invent a new self. I fit right in.”
That’s what I adore about PTown—the magnif…
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