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Provincetown :: Friday, March 12th 2010
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Laura Shabott
Notes from Land’s End - April 22nd
Phantom Shoppers GO WILD on Commercial Street with $20 Each
By Laura Shabott
April 24th, 2009
If someone walked up to you and said, “Here, take this twenty and GO WILD!” what would you buy on Commercial Street? Passionate to create economic stimulus in Provincetown, I got three crisp twenties and handed them out to three lucky people. Their challenge was to find cool stuff and come back in twenty minutes. Here’s what our team of shoppers came up with.
| If someone walked up to you and said, “Here, take this twenty and GO WILD!” what would you buy on Commercial Street? |
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Erica, Hyannis based banker extraordinaire, liked this project and took off with her trio. She had a great story about finding music by Ray Lamontagne ($18.00) at Muir CD’s (across from the Post Office). Rachael Yamagata’s Elephants was playing and purveyor Mellissa Yeaw said it was a tragic love song to this very Ray Lamontagne, so Erica bought that CD too. Touched by the magic of our fair village, she glided off on a shopper’s high.
Thor, artistic newcomer to Provincetown, was excited to see twenty bucks in April and headed out with great focus. The damp cold of spring got cured with a merlot sweatshirt from Cuffy’s (across from Puzzle Me This) for $11.99. Then, Thor went to Adam’s Pharmacy (at the corner of Gosnold) and bought a sale box of candy to cure a definite sweet tooth ($8.00). He was blissfully warm and on sugar! Wow.
My last contestant was the sixteen year old Brianna from Florida. At first, she didn’t believe me but the power of Andrew Jackson’s face inspired her to accept the GO WILD challenge. Brianna purchased a gorgeous pair of pearl ten disc earrings ($6.00) and a long sleeved groovy tunic ($9.95) from Marine Specialties. Then, she went nuts at The Little Store and spent $3.75 on little stuff. This took Brianna, a budding shopping master, ten minutes. She put her earrings on right there for the camera and strolled on down the street looking marvelous hand in hand with her beau. Ah, Youth!
Next Notes from Land’s End: The Provincetown New York Connection: Our century old tie to the Big Apple.
Laura Shabott is an artistic generalist with a degree in writing, acting and painting from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in consortium with Emerson College.
She washed ashore in 1992 and never left (for long).
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