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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 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
  • 3 minutes 45 seconds
    Goodnight October. Goodbye summer.
    8 October 2024, 11:42 am
  • 3 minutes 21 seconds
    Marking the seasons with Orion
    We all mark seasons in different ways, often using holidays like Labor Day past, Thanksgiving upcoming. For me, the circle always wheels around the constellation Orion.
    24 September 2024, 11:07 am
  • 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
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