Out on the cape’s tippy tip, curling back toward Boston, there’s one of my favorite small towns in America, incorporated under the name as Provincetown in 1727 after having been in existence for a century already. After becoming a fishing and whaling center, and bolstered by immigration especially from Portugal, beginning in the late 19th and early 20th centuries it started attracting both artists and a certain element of the leisure class of the day. Then in the 1960s and 70s it was hippies and gays. Today the P’town tourism economy is firmly established, with most accommodations of the small, quaint, guesthouse variety. The LGBT scene is still going strong (with attendant nightlife), but the beaches, streets, and restaurants like The Lobster Pot are also full of families, couples, and seniors. It’s all very post-modern 21st-century Massachusetts indeed – small-town edition.
Read more about Massachusetts' appealing peninsula in my post Cape Cod Dreaming.
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