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Chris Busa of Provincetown Arts Dies at 73
PROVINCETOWN — As the 35th-anniversary issue of Provincetown Arts, the glossy and scholarly annual journal of Outer Cape art and literature, was preparing to go to press on June 20, Christopher Busa, its cofounder and editorial director, died from complications of a congenital heart defect at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, staffers said. Members of his family were at his side. He was
Chris told friends that he was feeling weak and under the weather shortly before he entered the hospital. He was not aware of the congenital condition; his death was sudden and unexpected.
He had founded the magazine in with Raymond Elman. “At first it was just newsprint,” said Sandra Hricko, Chris’s first wife. He and Sandy were living in Provincetown in the house they had bought at Commercial St., which would become the live-in office for Provincetown Arts Press. With the issue, which had Norman Mailer on the cover, the magazine began publishing annually, soon evolving into an integral part of the local arts community. Appearing on its cover was a rite of passage.
The importance of chronicling the Provincetown arts colony — and its connection to world history — was the very reason Chris founded the press, said Elizabeth Winston, an edi
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May 1Daniel Boone begins his exploration of what will become Kentucky.
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Christopher C. Augur
American military officeholder (–)
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Civil War
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