Robert Finch
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.
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I stopped by the other day to see my old friend Annie. Annie lives in a modest beach cottage which is fetchingly named “Off Plumb." I don’t know how old the cottage is, but its flooring is made of sections of an old bowling alley. -
Wellfleet writer Robert Finch spends a fall afternoon at the beach, and has an expected encounter with wildlife.
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Over more than a half-century of observing Cape Cod’s Outer Beach, I have seen many things thrown up by or coming out of the surf: seals, seabirds, jellyfish, a dead humpback whale, even, once, a live deer,
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Bob has been spending a few days at one of his favorite vacation spots in Vermont. And he has a thing for spiders.
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As we have for the past several summers, Kathy and I are spending the better part of August in western Vermont in a small cottage on Lake Dunmore, a mid-sized lake about five miles long and nearly a thousand acres in extent.
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After some forty-odd years of observing the natural world, one of the few universal conclusions I have come to believe is this: Nature has no shame.
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It’s not often that an obituary for someone you haven’t seen or heard from for over sixty years brings back a memory so fresh and vivid that it seems to have occurred only yesterday.
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This week Bob concludes his recollections of time spent in the Provincelands dune shacks in the fall. Such experiences may no longer be allowed under new regulations recently promulgated by the National Park Service which will limit stays in the shacks from June through August.
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The Cape Cod National Seashore has been in the news recently after announcing a set of new criteria for leasing eight of the eighteen dune shacks that it owns in the Provincelands.
