Monday, August 20, 2007

Today was the 100 year commemoration of the towering Pilgram's monument in Provincetown. A granite tower which is the tallest in America of similar substance, was built in 1907 by Theodore Roosevelt's administration and he himself dedicated it then, to acknowledge the Pilgram's first landing here in Provincetown. Today it was rededicated with musket blasts and dour black cloaked Masons and Shriners in parade. Almost no women or pilgrims were present to the strange display of patriotic fanfare. Startling in their absence, were the original people, the Native Americans.