I’ve used the real names for some of the iconic spots in town like Herring Cove Beach, Mojo’s, and the Portuguese Bakery, and made up others like the Blue Moon Café. The Jasper Street Art Center bears some similarity to the Fine Arts Work Center. Another of my inventions here is Dugan’s Cottages. No place that rundown has existed on the pricey bay beachfront for decades, but there are many longtime locals like the imaginary Mrs. Dugan who, if they’d owned such cottages, would have held out against the developers as long as they could. And, in fact, having a bunch of old cabins just down the beach from the Rosenberg mansion seems to me to describe the flavor of Provincetown perfectly. It is a three-mile-long hodgepodge of a town where variety is the spice and diversity is the norm. There is no place like it.
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