Provincetown: From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort (American History and Culture)
&8220;Krahulik offers a fascinating and lively account of how Provincetown, Massachusetts, became America's most famous gay resort. The book is both a celebration of the community's embrace of freedom and a reminder that Provincetown—despite its vaunted tolerance for sexual nonconformity—faced problems of racism, sexism, and economic exploitation. . . . Krahulik shows how the different and sometimes overlapping constituencies of Provincetown shaped compromises that allowed the community to persist and prosper. But this important book also reveals that being a gay resort did not protect Provincetown from class, racial, ethnic, or gender conflicts.”-American Historical Review,“t;Krahulik combines traditional research methods and oral histories to record and interpret this journey in a respectful, scholarly manner.”-Choice, Highly Recommended,“At the end of curling Cape Cod, Provincetown has gone through several transformations since the Pilgrims landed there—from Yankee whaling town to Portuguese fishing village to bohemian artist enclave to, today, one of the world's most popular gay resorts. Surprisingly, each of those segments of society contributed to the ‘P-town’ of today.&”-Chicago Sun-Times,&“Karen Krahulik’sProvincetownis the definitive book on the history of that mysterious and magical place. It’s a singular accomplishment. I’m grateful to her for writing it, as I suspect many others will be for years and years to come.”-Michael Cunningham, author ofThe Hours,“This book performs a service by judiciously compiling the facts of Provincetown’s history.”-Gay & Lesbian Review,