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The Dune Shacks of Peaked Hill Bars Historic District is a historic district that includes dune shacks that were home to American artists and writers from the 1920s - today. The historic district, located in the Outer Cape towns of Provincetown and Truro, comprises 1,950 acres of the Cape Cod National Seashore. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. The name is derived from a Life-Saving Station known as Peaked Hill Bars that was established in 1882 on the lower cape. ==History of the Dune Shacks== Before the current shacks were built beginning around 1920, there were shacks built in the dunes to house members of the United States Life-Saving Service whose mission was to assist survivors of shipwrecks along the largely unpopulated coastline of the United States. These shacks were built by the Massachusetts Humane Society and were also designed to provide shelter and supplies to washed-ashore sailors whose ship might have been wrecked in a storm. The dune shacks are mentioned by Henry David Thoreau in his book ''Cape Cod'' published in 1865.〔 During the 1920s, the current shacks were beginning to be built, reputedly using the flotsam of washed up shipwrecks. These shacks were attractive to the many artists and writers who had begun to be attracted to the artist's colony in Provincetown who would live in the spartan solitude of the shacks writing or painting. "Probably the most famous of these was playwright Eugene O'Neill, who purchased one and spent many summers there with his second wife, Agnes Boulton. O'Neill penned ''Anna Christie'' (1920) and ''The Hairy Ape'' (1921) while living in his shack, and in doing so gave the whole collection of dune shacks something of an arty cachet."〔 Other artists and writers lived in the primitive dune shacks, including Harry Kemp who proclaimed himself "the Poet of the Dunes," Jack Kerouac, e. e. cummings, Norman Mailer, and Jackson Pollock.〔 The shacks have never had electricity, plumbing or running water.〔 Writers who wrote about the dune shacks, besides Thoreau, included Henry Beston whose The Outermost House chronicles a season spent living in the dune shacks and Hazel Hawthorne-Werner who wrote ''Salt House'' about her year in 1929 in the dunes. Today there are 19 dune shacks in the historic district, 18 of which are owned by the National Park Service. Private individuals are able to enter a lottery for an opportunity to reside for a period of time in the shacks. The only way to tour the Dune Shacks is through Art's Dune Tours in Provincetown. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dune Shacks of Peaked Hill Bars Historic District」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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