David Weidner is jubilant greeting inclined elevator riders at the top of High Pole Hill. David Weidner, executive director of the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum (PMPM), which owns and operates the elevator. It is the first major change to High Pole Hill since 1910, when the 252-foot granite Pilgrim Monument was completed to honor the first landing of the Mayflower Pilgrims, said K. With almost no fanfare, the funicular, or the inclined elevator as it is technically called, began to operate on Friday, April 1 after five years of planning, construction, permitting, a lawsuit, and general handwringing. The town hall clock chimed, tourists rolled suitcases down Commercial Street, and there was something new: a glass elevator glided up and down High Pole Hill. PROVINCETOWN - The sun broke through a dense fog.
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