Provincetown Legend Miss Ellie Dies at 79
by Hannah Clay Wareham
Bay Windows
Sunday Apr 10, 2011
http://www.edgeboston.com/news//news//118319/provincetown_legend_miss_ellie_dies_at_79Provincetown favorite Miss Ellie has passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer, Bay Windows learned Friday, April 8.
Ellie died peacefully on Thursday, April 7, at 5 p.m., surrounded by friends and family, her five children and other relatives reported via email.
Even occasional visitors to Provincetown could recognize Miss Ellie by her yearly-updated sign, "79 years old and living my dream." P-towners could often find her in front of Town Hall with her battery-powered karaoke machine, singing standards.
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Ellie December 1, 1931 - April 7, 2011
Friday, 08 April 2011 14:40
Rick Hines, Web Editor
http://provincetownmagazine.org/local-Obituaries/ellie-december-1-1931-april-7-2011Eliot moved to Provincetown in 2001. He performed his first concert as "Ellie" at the Unitarian Universalist Church in 2003. He started street performing as "Ellie- Ptown Showgirl, 74 Years Young- Living Her Dreams", regaling tourists and townspeople year round, in all weather, with Broadway show tunes, Amazing Grace, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett renditions, becoming a Provincetown icon as its unofficial ambassador/greeter. He performed in front of Town Hall, Chadington's, Whalers Wharf, and pulled a wagon carrying his sound equipment up and down Commercial Street as he sang.
Ellie's good friend, producer Tom Yaz, persuaded Ellie after three years to produce "Ellie in High Fidelity", in 2009, which sold out immediately. It is currently in it's third production run. Ellie won first place in Ryan Landry's Showgirls, for his signature song "My Way", and appeared in numerous youtube videos posted by Provincetown tourists who loved him. Ellie was the subject of several documentaries, short films, magazine and newspaper articles, including coverage in the New York Times.
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
Miss Ellie
http://telling-secrets.blogspot.com/2011/04/miss-ellie.htmlSometimes you have to go down - way down - down to the bottom rung and out to the margins of human existence - down where the streetwalkers and performers, the artists and musicians, the hotel maids and restaurant barkers, the alcoholics and 'recreational' drug users live and move and have their being, amidst the broken and not-quite-lost-but-not-quite found - to find the ones who carry the Light.
It's the place where the restorative mercies of unconditional love can be found.
The streets of 'end of the world' communities like Provincetown are such a place.
That's where you'll find people like Miss Ellie.
