This is an Archive of A Cape Cod Notebook. It was created in December 2012 and is no longer being updated. Enjoy exploring here. For current postings, please visit capeandislands.org.

by Robert Finch...

Robert Finch is a nature writer living in Wellfleet. 'A Cape Cod Notebook' won the 2006 New England Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Radio Writing.


Robert Finch has lived on and written about Cape Cod for forty years. He is the author of six collections of essays, most recently "The Iambics of Newfoundland" (Counterpoint Press), and co-editor of "The Norton Book of Nature Writing."

His essays can be heard on WCAI every Tuesday at 8:30am and 5:45pm.

 

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Life Under a Frozen Bog
In Praise of Downtowns
Fossils in Blue Clay
A Family Cemetery
A turkey question...
Piano
Prognostication
Little Things, part two
Little Things, part one
How Many Squirrels?
Salt Falls
Fireman and the Fish
Full Circle
Spiders in the House
Shellfish Memories
Canoe Journey
Summer Getaway, Part II
Summer Getaway
Blackberries
More Summer Reading
Summer Reading
Watching the Surfers
The Nature of a Tern, Part 2
The Nature of a Tern
The Cape Cod Bear - a Postscript
Brahms and the Printing Press
The Cape Cod Bear
A Place of Light and Motion
An Alewife Lesson
A Simple Wonder
The Reassurance of the Rain
Night Walk on White Crest
Whales and Art
Beginnings
Fulmar
Old Stone Walls
War and Dolphin Strandings
Frozen Puddles
Snow Tracks on a Cliff
The Snowy Owl
Rowena Myers - Rowena and Timothy
Rowena Myers - Sarah Crosby's Yard Art
Rowena Myers - Rowena and the Painter
Rowena Myers - Rowena and Edith
Rowena Myers - Battle of Nauset Heights
Definitions and Wrecking
Christmas Tree
"Natural versus Human Destruction"
Quahog Decoy
An Injured Visitor
Wellfleet Center
Closed Paths
Dark Visions in a Field
Peterman Ice Island
Autumn in Beebe Woods
A Story of Two Plaques
The Day After
Egrets
Hurricane Bob, Part II
Hurricane Bob
Cape Cod National Seashore
Contemplating a Pond
A Beach Erection
The Morning After
The Dunes
Buzzard's Bay Moraine
Wren Diary II
Wren Diary I
Mystery of the Disappearing Boulder - May 24
An Illusion of Red
Wild About Spring
Changes in Human Population
Super Moon
Stranger in a strange land
Shipwrecks #2 - March 29, 2011
Shipwrecks #1 - March 22, 2011
Remembering John Hay
March 15, 2011
Changes in Town
March 8, 2011
Beach Erosion
March 1, 2011
Snow Musings
Feb. 15, 2011
Ice on Cape Cod Bay - Feb. 1, 2011
Rowena Myers, part IV
Rowena Myers, part III
Rowena Myers, part II
Remembering Rowena
January 4, 2011
Selective Cutting
Traveling by Train
Remembering the Christmas Whale
Life and Death
November 16, 2010
Indian Summer Leaves
White Crest Beach
A Whale Skull
The J-Stroke
First Contact
An Unpeopled Sky
Grassroots
September 21, 2010
Cape Cod Seashore Thoughts
September 14, 2010
Creatures on the Beach
September 7, 2010
Bug Bites
August 24, 2010
Beach Time
August 17, 2010
Hawk sets off bird alarms
August 10, 2010
Night Scenes at Town Landing
July 20, 2010
Two Worlds: Part 2
July 13, 2010
Two Worlds: Part 1
July 10, 2010
Wellfleet Differences
June 29, 2010
The Dune Country of the Provincelands
June 22, 2010
Plover Nesting Cages
June 15, 2010
The Chuck-will's-widow
June 08, 2010
More From that Old Diner
June 1, 2010
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A Cape Cod Notebook: A Mystery 2/26/08
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A Cape Cod Notebook: Night Tracks 2/19/08
A Tactile Relationship 9/2/08
Beach
Beach Ball 3/11/08
Birds on the Pond 7/22/08 by Robert Finch
Familiar Shapes on the Marsh 1/6/09
God's Acre 5/27/08
Group Singing 1/20/09
Herring Fry on the Pond 7/15/08
In the Social Security Building 6/3/08 by Robert Finch
Millennium Grove I by Robert Finch 6/17/08
Millennium Grove II by Robert Finch 6/24/08
Mountain Wind 4/29/08 by Robert Finch
My First Whale 6/10/08 by Robert Finch
Naming the Land 8/19/08
On the Power Lines II 4/22/08 by Robert Finch
Outer Beach Overnights 7/8/08 by Robert Finch
Overlapping Layers of History 3/1/08 by Robert Finch
Presidential Primaries and Primary Feathers 3/4/08
Robert Jay Lofton - September 16, 2008
Rooting for Oysters 1/27/09
Rowena Myers, part IV
Sea Dawn by Robert Finch 4/15/08
Secret Summer Clammers 7/29/08 by Robert Finch
Spiders in My House 7/1/08 by Robert Finch
Stories of Rowena
Suze Orman: Women & Money
The Permanence of Change 3/25/08 by Robert Finch
The Stink of Spring 3/18/08 by Robert Finch
The Voice of Herring River 4/8/08 by Robert Finch
Thoughts on a Mourning Dove's Nest 5/13/08 by Robert Finch
Up a Tree 5/20/08 by Robert Finch