Provincetown and The National Seashore by Charles Fields

Price: $49.95. 11" x 12", 144 pages, hard cover.

Over a year in the making, this stunning and newly-released essay book features 137 color photographs by Provincetown resident and publisher Charles Fields.

As both a child and adult visitor from his native Connecticut, Charles Fields was captivated by Provincetown's magnetic beauty, natural light and colorful people. After visiting the town Labor Day weekend of 2000, Fields and his wife Gail continued to travel between their home in Connecticut and a Provincetown hotel room for an entire year to photograph the changing seasons and moving light of the outermost Cape. leaf

The experience changed the Fields forever and cast a spell on their workday lives, leading to their decision to live in Provincetown with their adventurous 19-year old cat Gypsy as full-time community residents. The result is: Provincetown and the National Seashore, A Photographic Essay by Charles Fields. The work artistically chronicles Fields' first year in Provincetown, taking readers on his journey of people, places and history in a highly personal and compelling essay.

Unprecedented in content, the book offers readers a cohesive collection and depth of town images and emotion, from candid portraits of town folk, ever-changing nature landscapes and wildlife compositions, to September 11th vigil memorials, and everyday street scenes from Provincetown's infamous summer season.