I had a pleasant conversation tonight with John Henry Dickson who has innovated a very unique map of Provincetown businesses. It's absolutely incredible the density of small business in Provincetown. At the risk of misquoting Thoreau, I remember him describing Provincetown as a place where people "lived by their wits." I always took this to mean that Provincetown is a place where you have to create your own opportunities, since there is little established year round industry. These days there's not a big fishing fleet, there's no more whaling, there's no commercial agriculture that I'm aware of... but there is small business. John Henry Dickson's small business is mapping out where everyone else's small business is located and then figuring out how to graphically display it, and of course figuring out how to make money doing this. You can view last year's version at http://www.mapofprovincetown.com . At some point he'll update the website with this year's version.
New in the store: the face table is back. This is a really cute 3 drawer table that with knobs for eyes and a mouth... it's the kind of thing people would see, then call a year later to order it because it had really stuck in their mind. It's from France and was discontinued by the importer for a while but now it's back in new colors! see it at our web-site: Face Table
Thursday, August 9, 2007
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