_{View from dormitory in Old Harbor Lifesaving Station.}

This is a quick entry from my Walking Cape Cod Project in Instagram on 25 May 2020.

The Old Harbor Lifesaving Museum is one of my favorite places in Provincetown. It was originally built in Chatham, and floated up to Provincetown on a barge in the late 1970s. One of a network of stations, situated two miles apart, it was home to members of the US LIfesaving Service. Men stationed in these buildings would walk the beach between stations looking for ships in distress — rendering aid when they found one. This stretch of coast, known as they graveyard of the Atlantic,’ was site of nearly three thousand shipwrecks between the 17th and 20th centuries — so their labor was critical to saving mariners throughout the 19th century. 

_{Entry to Dormitory}

_{Coat awaiting call to duty.}

_{Porch on oceanside of the station.}

_{Dormitory Bed.}