But Napsha, who had 25 years experience at a public library in Westland, Mich., a city of 88,000, had trouble adapting to Provincetown. "She did not really fit into the community," Shabott said.

Imagine if a piledriver would dig into a tunnel and make it collapse!” The library portion of the structure will stand three stories, with the 36-story, 134-unit condo tower on top.

From staging Shakespeare’s “Pericles” on a fishing schooner inside the Provincetown Library to the first-ever production of “Talisman Roses,” a 1937 short play that foreshadowed “The ...