OT: Leftwing insanity never ends.
islanders
By Brian McGrory, Globe Columnist | November 29, 2005
Winter must come awfully early to that little spit of sand called
Provincetown.
How else to explain the bizarre behavior of a majority of the town's
selectmen at a meeting earlier this month?
To wit, Selectwoman Sarah Peake spun her chair around near the end of
the Nov. 14 meeting, gazed up at an oversized oil painting depicting
the Pilgrims voting on the Mayflower Compact when they first landed in
Provincetown, and declared that she wanted it removed.
Mind you, it's not that she didn't like the look or the colors or the
style. It's not that she thought it was too big or too small for the
Judge Welsh Hearing Room. It's not that it clashed with anything around
it.
No, what Peake didn't like was that the painting didn't include any
women. That and the fact that the painting's only Indian -- Native
American, I'd better call him -- wasn't holding a ballot like everyone
else.
If you don't believe me, let's go straight to Cheryl Andrews, the
chairwoman of the Board of Selectmen. She also happened to cast the
only vote against the painting's removal, making her a rare voice of
sanity on the board.
''There's this lovely oil painting," she said yesterday. ''The thing is
huge. It's been up there since forever. It was painted by Max Bohm,
who's considered quite something in local art circles.
''And Sarah Peake turns around and faces it, and it's government.
They're voting. She says, 'I'd like to talk about this painting. I find
this painting disturbing.' That's a quote. She said it's disturbing to
her because there are no women in the painting and the only one not
holding a ballot is the Native American Indian. And I thought, 'Here we
go.' "
In other words, William Bradford and the rest of those piggish,
prejudiced Pilgrims had the audacity to exclude Indians from their
civic affairs and, like the rest of the Western world, had yet to give
women the right to vote. So, get them out of here.
The selectmen took a vote, and three of the four supported removal of
the painting. By my count, that's 75 percent in favor of politically
correct insanity, 25 percent opposed.
I called Peake and asked her why. She sounded normal, even pleasant,
and explained that her proposal was mostly born of a tremendous pride
in the town's vast art collection, and she wanted to give other
paintings the chance to hang in such a prominent spot behind the
selectmen.
''I feel it's somewhat of a tempest in a teapot," she said.
Others don't think so.
The former head of the town's Art Commission wrote to the local paper
that the vote was ''an act of idiocy." Bohm's granddaughter, Anne
Packard, herself a noted local artist, said, ''It offends me because
they're trying to change the history of the town, or just history."
Who knew that the Pilgrims actually landed in Provincetown before
arriving in Plymouth? Not me. So I double-checked with Plimoth
Plantation historian John Kemp, who confirmed this fact and also said
that only male colonists signed the document. He did say, though, that
there was never a vote on the Mayflower Compact and that it was signed
by passengers before they landed in Provincetown.
No matter. Andrews, the chairwoman, said she plans to try to overturn
the painting's removal.
''Instead of P-Town, we'll be PC-Town," she said. ''Some of the things
that are PC aren't bad, having sensitivity to different groups. But
this feels strained, horribly strained."
I'm just glad the statue depicting the flag-raising at Iwo Jima isn't
in Provincetown. There's not a woman in it, meaning that the selectmen
would order it melted down for scrap.
cugina
homosexuals, with a proportionate number maybe higher than San Francisco,
and is about the highest resort destination for homosexuals, what would she
expect in the picture than all men?
So that's how it all began up there!!! The pilgrims must have got lonely on
that long voyage and started cuddling each other.
Give it up, lady...the fruits outnumber you in Provincetown.
in article 1133490946.1...@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, islanders
at islan...@aol.com wrote on 12/1/05 8:35 PM:
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, islanders <islan...@aol.com> wrote:
> To wit, Selectwoman Sarah Peake spun her chair around near the end
> of the Nov. 14 meeting, gazed up at an oversized oil painting
> depicting the Pilgrims voting on the Mayflower Compact when they
> first landed in Provincetown, and declared that she wanted it
> removed.
Good for her. Bloody degenerate art.
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Bill Schenley
> just about all male homosexuals, with a
> proportionate number maybe higher than San
> Francisco, and is about the highest resort
> destination for homosexuals, what would she
> expect in the picture than all men?
> So that's how it all began up there!!! The pilgrims
> must have got lonely on that long voyage and
> started cuddling each other.
> Give it up, lady...the fruits outnumber you in
> Provincetown.
Just a wild guess ... But I kind'a think they'll all be on her side:
MWB
friends in Plymouth, Massachusetts who can't drive worth a shit, but they're
COOL. I camp with them and for a whole week I try to explaine to them the
principls of a ROTARY. They don't get it.
They tell me, Plymouth Rock, what is left of it after every school child
since 1493 has chisled away at isn't as big as we thought it was. It's the
shrinkage thingy.
I will make a point of to take a bike ride down there this Summer and take a
photo of.....a rock.
Mark