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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 7 seconds
    A new perspective on an iconic piece of Cape Cod and the Islands
    I was leading a tour out in ’Sconset the Thursday before Labor Day when a local eyed us warily and said, “Summer’s over, it’s time for you people to leave.” Ouch! Now Labor Day has come and gone, the curtain falling on summer.
    17 September 2024, 12:16 pm
  • 3 minutes 46 seconds
    Inanimate aspirations
    My chum, who these days walks the Outer Beach more often than I do, commented that “high tides are reaching further up the beach than they used to.”
    10 September 2024, 1:42 pm
  • 4 minutes 42 seconds
    The hound versus the otter
    The hound has gifted me a new image of hope. And it looks like an otter.
    3 September 2024, 10:54 am
  • 3 minutes 51 seconds
    The true spirit of Cape Cod
    Where do you seek the soul of Cape Cod? The pounding surf on the Outer Cape? The stalwart beacon of Coast Guard Light? The broad stretch of the Great Marsh?
    27 August 2024, 12:42 pm
  • 2 minutes 46 seconds
    Alewives and eels
    It’s August on Nantucket, and to find a place where you will be alone and undisturbed, you need one of two things. You either need a four-wheel drive or a boat. The other Saturday, thanks to a good friend and some borrowed kayaks, we set off from Barrett’s Pier and headed for the Madaket Ditch.
    20 August 2024, 12:36 pm
  • 3 minutes 13 seconds
    Cape Cod shows up
    Among Cape Cod’s remarkable attributes is a way of surfacing when and where you least expect it – associations, affiliations, allusions, connections, a single degree of separation among strangers.
    13 August 2024, 12:20 pm
  • 4 minutes 35 seconds
    Holy cow, 50 years on Cape Cod
    We all mark time in different ways. For me, it’s the dry cleaner.I have been dropping off clothes to the same dry cleaner in Hyannis since a week or so after I moved here fulltime in 1974 – that’s 50 years ago.
    30 July 2024, 1:56 pm
  • 3 minutes 31 seconds
    Going to the dogs
    People say half-facetiously that we should accept reality and change the name of this sandspit to Cape Dog.
    23 July 2024, 12:43 pm
  • 2 minutes 59 seconds
    Answer hazy, ask again later
    The air is so thick, there’s little difference between walking and swimming these days. High summer fog brings a certain relief to the island.
    16 July 2024, 11:04 am
  • 4 minutes 5 seconds
    In praise of the lowly sweatshirt
    I come today to sing the praises of the simple sweatshirt.
    9 July 2024, 11:44 am
  • 1 minute 56 seconds
    Locust love
    This is embarrassing, but maybe making a public admission could save me hundreds of hours of expensive psycho-therapy:I have a thing going on — with a tree.
    2 July 2024, 11:17 am
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