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Provincetown’s Art Colony Roots Shape Quiet Harbor Town
Provincetown at Cape Cod remains famed for fishing and oil stained artist studios. The Cape Cod School of Art founded by Charles W Hawthorne propelled the town to national artistic prominence by the early 1920s. The Provincetown Players nurtured Eugene O Neill and other writers. Today tourism growth tests the town while fishing and the arts stay its main draws.
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