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Indulge during Provincetown's First Annual Restaurant Week in November

Grab your fork, tuck in your napkin and prepare for a week of inspired cuisine

The town at the Cape's tip is adding another signature week to its already busy schedule.  This year, Provincetown will be hosting the 1st Annual Restaurant Week from Friday, November 6 through Thursday, November 12, 2009.

Twenty of the towns best places to nosh will be offering a three course prix fixe dinner from $25 to $35 during the week.  What better way to sample sumptuous fare from the town's top chefs?  Try innovative dishes featuring the freshest ingredients and of course, local seafood including Braised Maple Field Farm Short Ribs from Jimmy's Hideaway, Pan Roasted Local Cod from the Red Inn, Grilled Wellfleet Oysters from Lorraine's and Chocolate Molten Cake from Fanizzi's.

Choose from the following restaurants or pick a different one each night of the week:

• Bayside Betsy's
• Central House at the Crown & Anchor
• Chach
• Ciro & Sal's
  Crowne Pointe Bistro
• Enzo
• Fanizzi's
• Front Street
• Jimmy's Hideway
• Lobster Pot

Go Guilt-Free & Burn Off a Few Calories

The Pilgrim Monument is offering a guilt-free special during Restaurant Week.  Present your receipt from one of the 20 participating restaurants in town and admission to the Pilgrim Monument & the Provincetown Museum is only $1! 
     According to the PMPM, the 252', 116 step, 60 ramp climb to the top will burn off 500 calories so there is no need to skip dessert!  Check out the PMPM website for details.

• Lorraine's
• Mews
• Michael Shay's
• Napi's
• Red Inn
• Ross' Grill
  Saki Sushi
• Waterford Tavern & Cafe
• Townsend Lobster & Seafood
• Victor's

And in pure Ptown style, other interesting events are also planned during the week.  On Saturday, November 7th a special Restaurant Week Gallery Stroll will be held from 5pm to 8pm. Click here for a complete list of participating galleries. Shops will also be extending their hours and lodgings are offering special packages. Visit the Provincetown Chamber site and the Provincetown Business Guild site for accommodations.

Visit the Provincetown Office of Tourism website here for a complete list of participating restaurants, addresses and menus. 

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Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver to speak at Cape Cod Community College

Renowned poet and author to read from her works in October

   Poet Mary Oliver. Photo courtesy of Beacon Press.

One of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America, named by the Boston Globe as one of the “Seven Wonders of Massachusetts,” Pulitzer Prize winning poet and author Mary Oliver will read from her works at the Tilden Arts Center on Cape Cod Community College’s West Barnstable campus, Wednesday October 14th at 7 p.m. 

“The College is very excited to partner with Titcomb’s Bookshop of  East Sandwich and Beacon Press of Boston as Titcomb’s celebrates its 40th year by offering the public this rare chance to hear Mary Oliver speak, read from her works, and greet the public at a book signing immediately following her presentation. This event is free and open to all, and we strongly urge the public to take advantage of this unique opportunity,” stated Kathleen Schatzberg, President of CCCC.

“This event is free and open to all, and we strongly urge the public to take advantage of this unique opportunity.” - Kathleen Schatzberg, President of CCCC.

Mary Oliver has been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She’s received The National Book Award, an American Academy and Institute of the Arts and Letter Achievement Award, a Lannan Literary Award, The Christopher and LL Winship/PEN New England Award, The New England Booksellers Association Award for Literary Excellence, and the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Prize.

Her most recent book of poetry, Evidence, again explores the wonder of the natural world around us. Oliver is a skilled guide to the rarest and most exquisite insights of the natural world. “After a few hours in her quiet, exuberant presence,” writes Los Angeles Times columnist Susan Salter Reynolds, “one feels as though the raw sunlight in the room, the brightness of the water, the white wood and flashing wings outside the window are bleaching unimportant details from the day.”

Ms. Oliver was born in Maple Heights, Ohio. As a teenager, she lived briefly in the home of Edna St. Vincent Millay, where she helped Millay's family sort through the papers the poet left behind.  In the mid-1950s, she attended both Ohio State University and Vassar College. She makes her home in Provincetown, MA.

Ms. Oliver’s talk is part of a 4-month long series of book related events scheduled by Titcomb’s Bookshop to celebrate the Bookshop’s 40th anniversary.   Ms. Oliver’s books will be available for sale at the event.  

For further information, or to reserve a signed copy of one or more of Mary Oliver’s books, you may contact Titcomb’s Bookshop at 508-888-2331.  Titcomb’s Bookshop is a family-owned independent bookstore selling new and used books since 1969.

Courtesy of Cape Cod Community College.

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International Peacemaker Padraig O'Malley returns to Cape Cod Community College

Expert on reconciliation to speak at the college Sunday, September 20

Internationally renowned authority on reconciliation and peace negotiations Padraig O’Malley returns to Cape Cod Community College’s Tilden Arts Center Sunday afternoon September 20th at 2 p.m. to continue his “conversation” on peace issues across the world, especially in Iraq. He’s chosen “Insights To World Peace” as his theme.

The public is strongly encouraged to attend free of charge. A reception with the speaker will follow immediately after.

Prof. O’Malley (right) will have just returned from another series of talks in Helsinki with leaders of various factions in Iraq, having been encouraged to continue by conversations with President Barack Obama.

O'Malley is the John Joseph Moakley Distinguished Professor for Peace and Reconciliation at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and directs The Iraq Project, a collaborative between the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies at University of Massachusetts and the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) at Tufts University. The Iraq Project, with the assistance of the Crisis Management Institute (CMI), Helsinki, brings together leading figures from all the political parties and organizations outside the parliamentary process in Iraq with the leading negotiators from Northern Ireland and South Africa who were architects of their respective peace processes. Meetings take place at various locations in Finland for the purpose of facilitating political reconciliation among the political entities in Iraq as a prerequisite to national reconciliation.

A large group of Cape organizations have joined together to sponsor this event. The Rotary Club of Yarmouth is presenting the event in partnership with the College. Joining with Yarmouth are the Rotary Clubs of: Bourne/Sandwich, Harwich/Dennis Hyannis, Mashpee, Nauset, and Scituate.

Communities of faith are well represented by sponsors: Christ The King - Mashpee, Our Lady of the Assumption – Osterville, Our Lady of the Cape – Brewster, Our Lady of Victory – Centerville, St. Pius X -South Yarmouth, Pax Christi Cape Cod, Fellowship of Reconciliation - Cape Cod, and the Cape Cod Synagogue.

Community groups and organizations joining in sponsorship are: Academy for Lifelong Learning, Barnstable County Human Rights Commission, Cape Cod Chapter 041 Veterans for Peace, Cape Codders For Peace & Justice, and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

Individual sponsors include Rotary District 7950 Past District Governor Barry Clayman and his wife Gail, Dr. Mir and Rafia Shuttari, and Dr. Kathleen Schatzberg.

The Rotary Club of Yarmouth is sponsoring a student essay contest for area high school and Cape Cod Community College students, and is very pleased to have Wendy’s of Cape Cod as a corporate partner in that effort as Student Essay Sponsor.

The afternoon’s program is expected to run approximately 90 minutes. Individuals requiring auxiliary aids or services to access this event may contact The O’Neill Center for Disability Services at the College: 1-508-362-2131 ext. 4533.

Padraig O'Malley was born in Dublin. He was founder and editor of the McCormack Graduate School's New England Journal of Public Policy at University of Massachusetts Boston for over 20 years.  He has authored many books, among them the award-winning Uncivil Wars: Ireland Today, Biting at the Grave, and, most recently, Shades of Difference, Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa. His twenty years of research on the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa, “Heart of Hope,” is available at www.omalley.co.za. O’Malley is recipient of the International Association of University Presidents Peace Award (1985) and the Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Scholars (1985).

In 1987 O'Malley initiated a meeting in South Africa between the chief negotiators from all parties to the Northern Ireland conflict and their counterparts from all parties in South Africa who had participated in that country's historic settlement in 1994. The event, known as the Great Indaba, was hosted by Nelson Mandela. In 2007, he became the first to hold the John Joseph Moakley Chair of Peace and Reconciliation at the University of Massachusetts Boston’s John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies. In this capacity he delivers lectures each semester and directs a number of projects; for example, he convened a conference, "Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, Do They Do Justice to Justice?" in October 2007, which brought representatives from Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, and South Africa, all of whom had participated in some form of truth recovery process, to meet with the Northern Irish as they consider such a process.

Release courtesy of 4Cs.

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CG Heritage Museum Lobster Roll Cruise Fundraiser August 30th

Good cause, ocean breezes and lobster!

In their only fundraiser of this summer, the Coast Guard Heritage Museum is sponsoring a Lobster Roll Cruise on August 30th out of Sesuit Harbor Marina in East Dennis aboard the S.S. Lobster Roll.

Reservations must be made by Saturday, August 22, 2009.  Tickets are $47 per person ($20 of ticket price may be considered tax deductible).

Tickets are available for purchase at the Coast Guard Heritage Museum, 3353 Main Street (Route 6A) in Barnstable Village, Tuesday through Saturday from 10am to 3pm.

Boarding time is 11:30am on Sunday, August 30th--please don’t be late!  The cruise begins at 12pm noon and returns to the marina at 1:30pm. 

Menu features your choice of Lobster Roll, Roast Beef or Veggie Rollup and Chicken Caesar Salad. A cash bar will be available.

There is FREE parking in designated lots at Sesuit Harbor Marina, 351 Sesuit Neck Road East Dennis, MA 02641.

Support our mission to preserve and publicize the history and heroic legacy of the Coast Guard and its predecessors from the 19th Century into the modern era.

Contact the Museum at 508-362-8521 or by email or visit the website here.

Release courtesy of the Coast Guard Heritage Museum.

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5th Annual Provincetown Jazz Festival this weekend

Three day music festival to take place August 14, 15 & 16

The 5th Annual Provincetown Jazz Festival™ will be held on August 14 - 16, 2009 at the Provincetown High School in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

This is the only three day Jazz Festival on Cape Cod and will feature:

• New York's Finest Jazz Ensemble, The Police Jazz Ensemble from New York City, are making their Cape Cod debut. This Big Band is comprised of eighteen members and all are full time New York City Police Officers.
• Shawnn Monteiro (vocalist from Providence, RI, coming off a European tour).
• String of Pearls (vocal trio from New York City).
• Beat Kaestli (Swiss vocalist).
• Krisanthi Pappas (vocalist from Boston).
• Jim Robitaille (guitar) & John Harrison III (piano).
• With Andy Solberg (guitar); Fred Boyle (piano); Bryan Rizzuto, Bill Miele & Laird Boles (bass) and Bart Weisman (drums).

There will be three concerts at the Provincetown High School:

• Friday, August 14, 8 pm
• Saturday, August 15, 8 pm
• Sunday, August 16, 1 pm

Tickets will be $25 per concert and a portion of the proceeds are donated to worthy causes in Provincetown.

Schedules, sponsors and ticket information can be found at ProvincetownJazzFestival.org.

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