When Nicholas Snow bought Billingsgate Island in the 1640s, he could not imagine where it would be today. Generations lived there and built homes, wharves, a school, and a lighthouse. By 1922, the sea swallowed this Wellfleet island, leaving nothing but a brickstrewn shoal, visible only at low tide.
In Wellfleet, Daniel Lombardo, dramaturg and literary manager for the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, shows the earliest romantic photographs of the town known for oysters and art galleries alongside contemporary photographs that reveal how rich in romance Wellfleet remains.