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Provincetown
According to the Wikipedia page Dune Shacks of Peaked Hill Bars Historic District:
- These shacks were attractive to the many artists and writers who had begun to be attracted to the artist's colony in Provincetown [and] who would live in the spartan solitude of the shacks writing or painting. "Probably the most famous of these was playwright Eugene O'Neill, who purchased one and spent many summers there with his wife, Agnes Boulton. O'Neill penned Anna Christie (1920) and The Hairy Ape (1921) while living in his shack, and in doing so gave the whole collection of dune shacks something of an arty cachet."[1]
I also recollect reading (as best I can remember, in the now-defunct LIP [for Life in Provincetown] magazine) that O'Neill suffered a comic-opera citizen's arrest in Provincetown during World War II for carrying a "suspicious object" that turned out to be a portable typewriter in its black case. I also seem to recall that, even to this day, those dune shacks lack heat, electricity, and running water.[2] Dick Kimball (talk) 18:48, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
- ^ Repanshek, Kurt (October 12, 2009). "What to Do With the 'Dune Shacks' At Cape Cod National Seashore?". National Park Service. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
- ^ I just sent an e-mail about the dune shacks' lack of amenities to the Cape Cod National Seashore and will update this footnote if and when I receive their response.