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Del Deo, Josephine C.
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Josephine Del Deo was born Josephine Couch in Pierrepont, New York on October 24, 1925. She graduated from St. Lawrence University. She taught art at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and apprenticed at a theatrical repertory company in Moylan, Pennsylvania before moving to Provincetown in 1951. She was a writer and preservationist who helped safeguard the Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts and preserved the historic character of Provincetown. Her works included Compass Grass Anthology and The Watch at Peaked Hill: Outer Cape Cod Dune Shack Life, 1953-2003. She died from complications of a stroke on August 25, 2016 at the age of 90.
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