23355. McGuiggan, Amy Whorf. MY PROVINCETOWN – Memories of a Cape Cod Childhood. Beverly. 2003. 128 p. Soft wraps. Provincetown means many things to many people but to Amy Whorf McGuiggan, Provincetown means childhood. Every summer of the 1960s and early 1970s, her parents bundled the family into the car and headed for “A Home at Last,” the P-town cottage where the un-shaded deck sizzled under the sun and the railings were draped with bathing suits and orange life jackets. By accident of birth, McGuiggan was the granddaughter of legendary Provincetown painter John Whorf and the author brings a sharp eye to the landscape, the neighborhoods, and the people of her summer paradise. But My Provincetown is mostly a memoir, and an elegy, for a simpler time, when a child could come and go easily among divergent cultures, when a girl’s whole world “could be measured in mere yards.” McGuiggan lived and thrived in a space visible from her deck, a space bounded by sun and sky, sand and water. A rare memoir and a pleasure to read. (M). $17.95.