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A Cape Cod Notebook from WCAI

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A nature writer living in Wellfleet, Robert Finch has written about Cape Cod for more than forty years. He is the author of nine books of essays. A Cape Cod Notebook airs weekly on WCAI, the NPR station for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the South Coast. In both 2006 and 2013, the series won the New England Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Radio Writing.

  • 3 minutes 53 seconds
    Winter, lost and found
    4 February 2025, 1:35 pm
  • 4 minutes 12 seconds
    January, it’s time for the golf course
    January is the time of year on Cape Cod when we really start to doubt some of our life choices. A couple of different decisions and I would be living in a place where the temperature rarely falls below 50 degrees, and there’s no such thing as ice.
    28 January 2025, 1:21 pm
  • 3 minutes 12 seconds
    Gone 'Nantucket Native'
    I spent many years as an objective observer of this place. An academic, a historian, a researcher. On my better days, an anthropologist or some kind of gonzo documentarian, snapping pictures and recording my observations on the yellow legal pads I took everywhere, even the beach.
    21 January 2025, 1:09 pm
  • 4 minutes 40 seconds
    The intricacies of bird nests
    14 January 2025, 12:19 pm
  • 4 minutes 10 seconds
    My Jimmy Carter stories
    He already was becoming the most exemplary former President maybe in history, picking up hammers to help build Habitat for Humanity homes, donning a suit and traveling the world to encourage free and fair elections.
    7 January 2025, 11:05 am
  • 3 minutes 36 seconds
    Do not go gentle
    Bob McKeon, a 78-year-old retired state trooper, splits his time, as many do, between his primary residence -- his is in North Attleboro -- and his place on the Cape in South Dennis. A favorite activity is going out to dinner, and when he started posting restaurant reviews on a popular Facebook page years ago, he gained more and more friends -- many of them touched by his endearing references to his singular dining companion: The Bride.
    31 December 2024, 11:31 am
  • 4 minutes 30 seconds
    On Christmas Eve, it’s the churches’ chance to shine
    What is it that pulls so many of us to a Christmas Eve service, even if we are nonbelievers or haven’t stepped foot in a church since our cousin’s wedding in 2019?
    24 December 2024, 11:19 am
  • 2 minutes 52 seconds
    Preparing for winter on Nantucket
    17 December 2024, 1:30 pm
  • 3 minutes 48 seconds
    When nuclear weapons came to Cape Cod
    With all the ongoing controversy about whether a machine gun range should be built on the Upper Cape, it seems fitting to go back in time and revisit some history that in retrospect seems all but impossible, but true:Cape Cod once was home to an arsenal of nuclear weapons, 56 bombs located about 600 feet from a residential subdivision, in what was then called Otis, now Joint Base Cape Cod.
    10 December 2024, 3:20 pm
  • 4 minutes 48 seconds
    Being with the bird
    I am a genuine birder but a somewhat old and lazy one, with limited ability and ancient binoculars. I have some idea what is out there- soaring, skulking, or flitting about- but it is woefully incomplete compared to the information possessed by the array of gifted and obsessed observers that roam the Cape on a regular basis with powerful optics and awesome cameras.
    3 December 2024, 1:06 pm
  • 4 minutes 13 seconds
    A rabbit hole trip to an earlier Cape Cod
    Cummiquid writer Susan Moeller takes a rabbit hole trip to an earlier Cape Cod.
    26 November 2024, 1:02 pm
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