Personal notes, not from the book, specifically:
In Europe, the "lost generation" known as the "Generation of 1914," the year World War One began.
Some Americans stayed in Europe when war broke out (some becoming ex-patriots, and the "lost generation); but most returned to the states, many to Greenwich Village. About 1915, the Greenwich Village crowd was looking for an alternate location to, perhaps, escape attention. Somehow they happened upon Provincetown.
The "beginning" of the Provincetown "we" know occurred between 1915 and 1917. Eugene O'Neill arrived in 1916 and stayed for nine years. His first two years in Provincetown, 1916 through 1917, coincided with the birth of "modern-day" Provincetown.
July 28, 1916: the evening of Eugene O'Neill's successful debut as a playwright: Bound East for Cardiff.
Introduction:
Chapter One: Eugene O'Neill's First Stage: Provincetown:
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