A Indoor Sort Of Day

Light rain off and on today but it didn’t dampen our spirits a bit.  We headed to two museums and the public library.  First, the Pilgrim Monument Museum.  The monument completed around 1915, is the tallest granite structure in America.  We went to see an exhibit about the native peoples the Pilgrims encounter.  It was wonderful, dispelling racist myths too numerous to mention.  Then onto the Provincetown Art Association museum.  PTown, as it is affectionately called, is one of the oldest artist’s colonies in the US.  After a delicious lunch, we visited the PTown Public Library to see the amazing ship model right in the middle of the library.  It is a half scale model of the Rose Dorothea, a 19th century fishing schooner.  The amethyst  is embedded in a stone wall across from the library.  I’ve added a second collage of things that caught my eye, a whimsical mouse on a chicken, a sailor’s Valentine, the jaw bones of a whale and an assemblage I call “The Lobsters’ Revenge”.  I’ve also added a photo from the deck from yesterday so you can see the monument.  One last day in this wonderful place tomorrow.