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Provincetown :: Wednesday, January 7th 2009
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Photo by Lauren Ewing.
The Pilgrim Monument Set Alight
Don't Miss Its Illumination on November 26
By Kahrin Deines
November 8th, 2008
There are many different experiences to be had in Provincetown, as many as the different people who visit here. But everyone who visits walks away with at least one shared image: the sight of the Pilgrim Monument’s proud presence in the sky.
| The annual monument Lighting Ceremony will take place this year on November 26 from 5 to 7 p.m. |
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It’s a sight that turns ever more arresting every late fall, when the monument is draped in strings of white lights from its apex to its base.
Each year the monument is set alight to celebrate the Mayflower Pilgrims’ landing in Provincetown in November of 1620. It remains lit until January, bathing Provincetown in a festive illumination for the whole of the holidays.
The annual monument Lighting Ceremony will take place this year on November 26 from 5 to 7 p.m.
The Lighting Ceremony is itself a grand tradition, as every November Provincetown’s community gathers to celebrate the monument’s illumination and another year of living at Cape’s end.
For this year’s ceremony, the local composer and pianist John W. Thomas will be on site to provide entertainment, and the Provincetown Business Guild will offer refreshments. A raffle will also be held for a pair of round-trip tickets from Provincetown to Boston on Cape Air.
Although best viewed from the grounds of the Pilgrim Monument, the monument’s illumination can also be seen from a number of other spots in Provincetown, including Bas Relief Park on Bradford Street, Town Hall's lawn, and MacMillan Pier.
The monument, a 252-foot granite tower, was built at the turn of the century to commemorate the Pilgrim’s landing in the new world. While the Pilgrims gazed at the land before them from their vantage in Provincetown’s Harbor, they wrote the Mayflower Compact, a document that set down a new rule of law for a “new land.” Although they eventually moved on to Plymouth, the Pilgrims spent five weeks exploring the Cape region before deciding the terrain was too rough for settlement.
The lighting of the Pilgrim Monument will occur at exactly 6 p.m. To find out more about this annual tradition, visit www.pilgrim-monument.org.
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