Wicked Local
PROVINCETOWN – Memorial Day Weekend marks the start of the town’s summer season. It also is the end of year-long COVID-19 restrictions.
In pre-pandemic times, this meant hundreds of young women grouped together on boats and in nightclubs with six-packs on each shoulder in what has been dubbed as “baby dyke weekend.”
Last year the streets were quiet, as many retail businesses and restaurants were closed.
“The big word last year was ‘pivot.’ The big word this year is ‘reimagine,’” said the town’s director of tourism, Anthony Fuccillo.
Gov. Charlie Baker announced Monday, May 17, that the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend May 29 is the new target date for the end of nearly all remaining COVID-19 restrictions in the state. The town will continue to follow state guidelines, said Board of Health Director Morgan Clark during a remote meeting May 20.
Murder mystery part of “radio hour” fundraiser
In an unusual mix of eras and technologies born out of pandemic necessity, the theatrical fundraiser for the West Falmouth Library this year will be a 1940s radio play that uses 2021 Zoom virtual capabilities.
The library and writer/director Lisa Jo Rudy’s Not My Monkeys company will present “The Music and Murder Radio Hour,” a nostalgic virtual variety show featuring “vintage” ads, musical acts and a murder mystery/comedy.
Not able to gather in person for the fundraising party this year, Rudy reached out to local actors and got more than two dozen to participate via Zoom and video for a one-hour online presentation with two showings.
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By ARMANDO VAZQUEZ
Anthropology teaches us that our earliest ancestors were in constant migration on the hunt and search for food in order to survive.
About 30,000 years ago, our early ancestors began migrating across the Bering Strait. Between 15,000 to 20,000 years ago, these first migrants continued their journey into what’s now the Americas.
Fast forward to about the early 1400s, and the Norseman Leif Erikson is credited by anthropologists to have been the first European to land in North America. In 1492 the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, financed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, landed on a small of island of what is known today as the Bahamas. In 1607, the English pilgrims founded the first colony, in Jamestown, off the Atlantic coast.