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...generally win the $200 popular prize awarded at the end of the show. But Carnegie's three conservative jurors picked a far from conservative trio of official prizewinners. First prize ($1,000) went to hulking Karl Knaths for his gray-green, deftly tangled Gear, a composite of the Provincetown, Mass, waterfront...
Knaths and his wife live in a shingled cottage near Provincetown's breakwater...
Died. Edwin Meade ("Ted") Robinson, 67, literary critic, Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist since 1910; of a heart attack; in Provincetown, Mass...
London Indian. Of the 104 passengers on the Mayflower when she rounded the hook of Cape Cod and dropped anchor in Provincetown harbor, none knew anything about farming or fishing. Forty-one were members of the Separatist sect, which had fled to Holland from Scrooby England, a dozen years before. Another 40 were good Anglican churchgoers, shopkeepers and clerks from London and Southwestern England, who had jumped at the chance offered them by the expedition's London backers to pick up a fortune in the new world. The remaining 23, like cooper John Alden, were bonded workmen or indentured...
After five weeks in Provincetown harbor, during which exploring parties were sent out to find a suitable settlement, the Mayflower finally moved across the bay to Plymouth. For almost four months the Pilgrims stayed aboard while the men went ashore daily to build their daub and wattle houses...