Salvatore Del Deo and his family worked out an agreement with federal officials that allows them to live in and maintain the shack for five years.
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — A 95-year-old painter and his family threatened with eviction from the Provincetown, Massachusetts, dune shack they have helped care for and occupy for nearly eight decades have won a reprieve.
The family was abruptly evicted by the National Park Service during the summer when the agency opted to start a bidding process to let the public apply for up to 10-year-leases to occupy eight of the shacks. The shack occupied by the Del Deos was not among the eight, but could be included in future bidding rounds.
“He’s painted at that location for 77 years,” Del Deo said. “His connection to the place is very, very deep.”The shacks have attracted artists, writers and thinkers for more than 100 years and are haphazard constructions by design, he said.He said that despite the eviction notice, the family refused to take their possessions out of the shack.
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