West End Bend
Let me offer, then, my praise to these photographs. If they offer,
as I have indicated, a magical recall of a night back in 1943
that provided me in turn with a sense of an eighteenth-century
evening, this is not to suggest that that is how the town appears
today. However, it is true that Provincetown hasn���t changed as
shamelessly and as corporately as other American small towns
in these last decades; it did not go along with their conscienceless devotion to stucco office buildings, parking malls, and
condominiums with in-built monotonies. Nor do we have new
glitzy hotels���ghastly in their lack of imagination. High-rises
and supermarkets do not dominate the core of the town. Our
place is still unique, and late at night, in quiet off-season time
it can still stimulate some reminiscence of our past.
HYLAND
