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Tables of Contents for Provincetown
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
Provincetown History at a Glance
viii
1620
They Came Here First
3
6
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Helltown
9
2
Mooncussers
11
1
Sand Taking Over Provincetown
12
3
He Should Have Stayed Home
15
2
No Dogs in Church, No Methodists in Town
17
1
The Wreck of the Somerset
18
5
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Not Walking the Plank
23
2
Chip Hill
25
2
Telling the Locals Apart
27
1
Mount Ararat and Mount Gilboa
28
1
Floating Houses
29
2
Lost Laundry
31
2
The Voyage of the Alcyone
33
2
Lancy Mansion
35
2
A Dem Big Splesh
37
2
Fourteen Numbered but Unnamed Graves
39
1
Town Crier
40
3
Professor Ready and the Sea Serpent
43
1
Message in a Bottle
44
2
Names and Directions
46
1
Ghosts of the Portland Gale
47
2
Out with the Old, in with the New
49
4
TWENTIETH CENTURY
The Birth of an Art Colony
53
3
Viola Cook
56
3
The Building of the Pilgrim Monument
59
4
The Rose Dorothea
63
3
The Boston Post Cane
66
2
The Back Side
68
1
Surfman First Class Nancy, the Life-Saving Horse
68
3
The Provincetown Players
71
2
Eugene O'Neill, German Spy?
73
2
The Best Dressed House in Town
75
2
Judge Welsh's Wrong Number
77
1
The Margie III
78
3
The Trial of Little Timmy
81
1
A Late Christmas Present
82
1
An Ambulance Ride
83
2
Snow Days
85
1
The Wreck of the S-4
86
3
Skully-Jo
89
1
The Big Beach Cleanup
89
3
The Cross on Long Point
92
1
The Blessing of the Fleet
93
2
The Useful Barkeep
95
1
The ``Boys Problem''
96
1
Jan Muller's Wedding
97
1
The Birth of the Cape Cod National Seashore
98
3
The Night the Advocate Editor Got Busted
101
2
Desperate Living
103
1
Woman in the Dunes
104
1
A Whale of an Industry
105
2
A Night at The Movies
107
2
Life-Saving Station on the Move
109
2
The Meat Rack
111
1
The Flying Neutrinos
112
2
A Public Secret
114
1
Spiritus
115
1
Hurricane Bob
116
3
Carnival
119
1
The Dune Shacks
120
5
Sources
125