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Meanwhile, on the East coast, there is Fantasia Fair, which I attended for the first time this year. When I say "meanwhile" I don't really mean they are going on at the same time. Actually you could go to both since Fantasia Fair, 1978 will be October 13 to 22, while DREAM is the latter part of September, probably the 23rd to October 1, I don't know exactly. So if you were rich in both money and time you could get them both in. The Fair is held at Province- town, Massachusetts, on the tip of Cape Cod. Boston is the point of entry for most people who arrive there from all over the United States and transfer to the little airline that hops across to the Provincetown airport. I didn't come that way, so I don't know about that flight, but I did take a sightseeing flight around the cape in a 35-year-old Stinson for about 15 minutes and as we used the same airport, I saw the planes that are used on the Boston run. Although they are small by airline standards, they look to be perfectly O.K. Certainly a lot better than that old Stinson with its noisy propellor right out there in front of you. I flew up from New York on New England Air and landed at Hyannis, which is at the base of the cape and 25 or 30 miles from Provincetown. My old friend Linda was kind enough to suggest that connection and good enough to drive down and pick me up for the drive out to Provincetown.

Now a word about the location of Provincetown before getting into the Fair itself. It is almost on the tip of Cape Cod. It is the place that the Pilgrims actually landed first on arrival from England and where they stayed for several months before going across the bay to Plymouth in order to step on the famous rock. As a result, there is a very interesting museum of the history of the area located at the base of a tall granite monument erected to the memory of those first settlers. The history of the place is fascinating and the town itself well worth exploring That exploration will largely involve walking up and down Commercial Street which is the waterfront street on the lee side of the cape and where all of the hotels, restaurants and other stores are. Bedford Street is one block inland and it runs for the length of the town, too, but it is jut a road with little of interest on it. Cape Cod also boasts a lot of sand dunes, which can be explored by dune buggies and some wooded areas that can be explored by bicycle. If you wanted to do it by horseback, they are available, too.

The town is very quiet and old-fashioned. I think that with the exception of the monument, the highest structure in town is three stories. There are all kinds of leather, silver, ceramic, copper, needle-

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