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, including "The Iambics of Newfoundland" (Counterpoint Press), and co-editor of "The Norton Book of Nature Writing." His new book, "The Outer Beach: A Thousand-Mile Walk Along Cape Cod’s Atlantic Shore," will be out in May.
His essays can be heard on WCAI every Tuesday at 8:30am and 5:45pm.
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I was walking in the backwoods with a friend the other day. He was waxing philosophical about trees, drawing lessons from life about them. “Look at the… -
Several years ago I did a radio program about a bronze plaque that was bolted to a large glacial boulder on the tidal flats of Nauset Harbor in Orleans.… -
There has been much singing down in the kettle hole tonight. Spring peepers and wood frogs are out in force, producing an electrical, amphibious chorus… -
I remember the first time I visited Walden Pond. It was a brilliant spring day, decades ago now, when I cycled out to Concord, Massachusetts. I had read… -
Last month, late on Valentine’s Day afternoon, I went out to Chipman’s Cove to see if I could get some oysters. Normally I don’t bother going out so late… -
One day last month, when the temperature crept above freezing and the wind dipped below ten knots, I decided to do a beach walk from Newcomb Hollow to… -
I had a pretty happy childhood, all things considered. Actually, most children growing up in America in the early 1950s experienced a general sense of… -
For the past several days I’ve been mapping a small area of woods in the southern part of our town known informally as “The Maze.” The area is about a… -
It was now 1:05, and still no sign of the Flex bus to Orleans. I stood in front of the Eastham Superette talking with the man in the electric wheelchair,… -
I seldom ride the Flex bus, which, for those of you not familiar with it, is that part of the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority that serves passengers…
