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Off Season at Days Folly Poster
by Kate Hannon
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Off Season at Days Folly poster by Kate Hannon. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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In the mid-1910's, an enterprising young man named Joseph A. Days had a vision. He wanted to move his home in Provincetown to the beach along the... more
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In the mid-1910's, an enterprising young man named Joseph A. Days had a vision. He wanted to move his home in Provincetown to the beach along the state road in North Truro, and to help realize that dream, he purchased a strip of land along either side of the street.
The people of Provincetown thought he was crazy. "It's just a bunch of sand!" they would tell him, "What do you want THAT for?" At the time, the state road that would later become Route 6 (and still later Route 6A) was itself just packed-down dirt and beach sand, and the road was desolate for miles! But Joe kept his vision in focus while everyone else kept going on about the purchase that would come to be known in the 1920s as "Days' Folly."
Starting with nine little houses in 1931, Days' Cottages now includes twenty-three cottages, all exactly alike. Located slightly more than 100 miles by road from Boston, in the summer vacation community of North Truro, just south of the northern tip of Cape Cod, in an...
About Kate Hannon
American fine art photographer and writer.
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