Provincetown, Massachusetts

For boaters, beach bums and anyone looking for summer fun in New England, Cape Cod has an irresistible call. Its graceful arc extending out to sea is the perfect place to fish, swim, hike, paint, write or just be.

Human settlements have a habit of supplanting nature. The villages that line Cape Cod realized early on that the natural world would not bend so easily to their will. If they wanted to call