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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.
Leisure boom in Plymouth as new restaurants, cafes, bars confirmed for city
Deals have been struck with several different leisure and hospitality operators as Plymouth and the rest of the country moved out of lockdown
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The reopening of the hospitality sector after months of lockdown has let to a huge demand for premises for restaurants, cafes, bars and takeaways in and around Plymouth.
Plymouth commercial property experts say they have been inundated with requests for space as the country moves out of Covid-related restrictions and pent-up demand fuels recovery.
Property consultancy Stratton Creber Commercial (SCC) has completed a number of recent deals with leisure and hospitality operators and said the hunger for premises is not yet sated.
PROVINCETOWN Carnival, Pride and other theme weeks are back on the town’s calendar for summer. The possible size and scope of the LGBTQ-friendly gatherings, though, is being gauged on an almost day-to-day basis.
“We’re in planning mode as opposed to cancellation mode, which is exciting,” said Bob Sanborn, executive director of the Provincetown Business Guild. “We will do anything that we are allowed to do that can be done safely.”
The theme weeks starting next month won’t be canceled as they were in 2020, Sanborn said, but they will likely look different than revelers remember because what can be done safely “is a fluid landscape at the moment.”
MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: April 7, 2021
A brief history…
Probably one of the most recognizable landmarks in the city of Carnation, the chapel wasn’t the original building for the church.
The first church was destroyed in a fire in 1936.
To help raise funds for a new chapel, Nan Fullerton Stuart, the wife of wealthy Carnation Farms owner Elbridge Stuart, started donating money. Her first contribution: $17.
She also raised funds by having garden parties and asking her Seattle friends to donate.
Unfortunately, she never saw the new chapel’s completion. She died in her sleep in 1937. She was just 40 years old.