How Provincetown Bear Week Rolls Out The Red Carpet For The Bears And Their Buddies

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With an estimated 35,000 bears, bear chasers, and their friends and allies packing themselves into the tiny area at the northern tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, that’s a whole lot of man meat per square kilometer.

“It’s more like a bear invasion than a takeover,” says Frank Mahoney, president of the Provincetown Bears. (Mahoney, as he confesses in an interview, is not a bear himself; he describes himself as an admirer.) “The most fun for me is seeing everybody interact with each other, the sense of community. It doesn’t matter if you’re a big furry guy, a younger smooth guy, a younger chubby, an older daddy—you’ll always find somewhere to fit in. It brings together all the generations—older bears, newer bears, everybody in between.”…read more.

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