Ruling discounts a Cape legacy

Provincetown shacks denied special status

One of 18 shacks of the Peaked Hill Bars Historic District. Some date to a seafaring era and now house solitude-seekers.

By Jenna Russell

Globe Staff / May 25, 2007

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PROVINCETOWN -- For close to a century, artists, writers, and solitude-seekers have retreated to the rustic, wind-battered shacks nestled in the sand dunes of Provincetown's back shore. Living in the remote dunes for days or weeks, with no roads, running water, or electricity, the shack-dwellers find inspiration. When they hand their shacks down to the next generation, stories and traditions ... (Full article: 783 words)