Wellfleet Public Library

Many people know of Provincetown, but no one knows the real bones of the place quite like year-rounder and naturalist Dennis Minsky. He has observed its abundance of life - animal and human - since he hitchhiked here in 1968 and stayed. His new book Peculiar and Superior: A Year-Rounder in Provincetown, a collection of his Provincetown Independent columns, documents with compassion for his fellow inhabitants the rhythms, quirks, and delights of living at the end of the world.

Dennis Minsky's writings have appeared on the Cape Cod Notebook segment of WCAl and have been published in the Year-Rounder column in the Provincetown Independent and in the Provincetown Arts magazine. He has been active in the Provincetown Conservation Commission, the Open Space Committee, the Community Preservation Committee, the Tree Advisory Group, and the Provincetown Conservation Trust.