Like most people who live in Provincetown ….the very glamorous speck of land at the tip of Cape Cod….. I am awashashore!  It’s a term that describes someone who lives in a coastal community but wasn’t born there. There’s nothing more enjoyable than being part of a whole group of them and discovering how/why they landed here.  One of the reasons for many people is that the town is the oldest artist colony in the US.  It all started back in 1907 when Charles W. Hawthorne opened his Cape Cod School of Painting and artists were quickly drawn to the area’s wind-swept dunes and enchanted by the Town’s wharves and sailing ships. 

Then, in the 1960s, gay and lesbian travelers began making Provincetown an essential destination and in their number were several artists who fell in love with the place, adding a new dimension to the art that was made.  Fast forward to the new millennium and their numbers swelled by one when  Izzy Berdan came here from Texas via Boston University to ‘find himself.’ He told Queerguru that it was love at first …..with the town he meant, as we never got around to talking about men.  And the town was a major influence on the art he created.