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Arts
Nestled in the dunes above Cape Cod Bay is the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill,
a world class nonprofit arts center that has been offering professional-level workshops in
painting, ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, writing, jewelry, and photography for more than
48 years. The nonprofit Payomet Performing Arts Center presents top-notch live music,
theatre, circus arts, and humanities events under a large tent at Highlands Center during
the summer and off-season at venues from the mid-Cape to Provincetown.
Culture
Housed in a former turn-of-the-20th-century summer resort hotel, The Highland House
Museum offers a glimpse into the lives of the people of Truro over the centuries.
Operated by the Truro Historical Society, the museum’s collection includes permanent
exhibits about the local Native peoples, the salt mill industry, and the Old Colony Railroad,
which had an important depot in Truro. The museum is on the grounds of the historic
Highland Lighthouse, and nearby one of Cape Cod’s oldest and most scenic golf courses,
Highland Links. The Truro Public Library in North Truro has soaring ceilings, an outdoor
reading patio, a children’s garden, and wide collection of books for all ages.
Education
The Truro Central School provides public educational opportunities for children in grades
pre-k through sixth. After graduating from Truro Central School, students can attend
Nauset Middle School or the Provincetown International Baccalaureate Schools. High
schoolers can go to Nauset Regional High School in Eastham or the Cape Cod Regional
Technical High School in Harwich.
History
When the Pilgrims were anchored temporarily in Provincetown Harbor, exploration
parties traveled into Truro and discovered a store of corn buried on a hill. They helped
themselves to what was the local native people’s winter supplies, and thanked providence
for the bounty. Now known as Corn Hill, the site is commemorated by a plaque that
explains the corn allowed the pilgrims to survive their first winter on Cape Cod. In 1900,
visiting Bostonians built a series of cottages on Corn Hill as a seaside resort to take
advantage of spectacular views. Six of the original cottages remain and are now part of a
condo association.
Swedish born opera singer Jenny Lind was a sensation in the mid-1800s
and, as the legend goes, she once performed in a Boston auditorium
located on the second floor of a railroad depot building. To appease
hundreds of fans gathered outside, she supposedly walked out onto a
stone turret and sang to the crowd below. Many years later, in 1927, a
Boston lawyer who was a big admirer of hers, purchased the tower when
the depot was being demolished, and moved it to property he owned in
North Truro, where it still sits, incongruously, today.
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