24 Cemetery Road

John Rosenthal (1833-1915) and Irving Leopold Rosenthal (1869-1933). The idea of the Civil War coming as far as Cape Cod Continue reading →

24 Cemetery Road

Capt. Henry Ryder (±1804-1849). The weeping willow is a common motif on 19th-century gravestones, but it seems especially suited for Continue reading →

24 Cemetery Road

Jacob H. “Jay” Saffron (1911-1981). Napi Van Dereck’s mother, Catherine C. “Pat” (Murphy) Van Dereck Haunstrup (1911-1993), had been widowed Continue reading →

24 Cemetery Road

Carl M. Sawyer Jr. (1957-2009). There are few graveside tributes as expressive as this one of a toy firefighter climbing Continue reading →

24 Cemetery Road

Ilya Schor (1904-1961) and Resia Schor (1910-2006). Born in what is now Poland, Ilya Schor left that country in 1937 Continue reading →

24 Cemetery Road

Carrie A. Seaman (1905-1989). Perhaps no one in town is more closely linked to the issue of animal welfare than Continue reading →

24 Cemetery Road

Seamen’s Relief Society. Among the deadliest but least known of Provincetown’s shipwrecks was a triple disaster on the night of Continue reading →

24 Cemetery Road

Joseph W. Sears (1862-1949). Joseph Warren Sears was a fisherman and Provincetown native. In 1884, he married Margaret May McNally Continue reading →