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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 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
  • 2 minutes 45 seconds
    Embracing the seasonal change on Nantucket
    The dark comes early. At first, I fought it. Disoriented, dazed. And doesn’t it feel like midnight, the moon pooling on the ocean, spilt milk reaching for the shore? At least the clock in the stove, the one I cannot figure out how to reset, is right again.
    19 November 2024, 1:31 pm
  • 3 minutes 42 seconds
    The Great Island re-burial
    Great Island in Wellfleet is a beautiful pearl on the Cape Cod National Seashore’s necklace, the most dramatic of a handful of islands strung along Cape Cod Bay, linked by sandy strands.
    12 November 2024, 11:13 am
  • 3 minutes 48 seconds
    The Dennis Port Fab Four
    They appeared suddenly one night on our patio, four young raccoons, a quartet of rumble-tumble trouble. They pressed their little bandit faces against our glass sliders, scratching to get inside our tiny cottage.
    5 November 2024, 2:52 pm
  • 4 minutes 24 seconds
    Following the lupine: a wildflower journey in Harwich
    It started with the lupine.Last spring, I started taking the hound to Thompson’s Field, a 57-acre conservation area off Route 137 in East Harwich managed by the Harwich Conservation Trust.
    29 October 2024, 12:29 pm
  • 3 minutes
    You are here
    I’ve always thought Nantucket was rather flat — elevation-wise, that is. Our highest point is the Madaket Landfill, and after that is Altar Rock in the moors.
    15 October 2024, 1:07 am
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