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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Earlier last month I lifted my rowboat into the van, drove out to a town landing in East Orleans, and shoved off into the waters of Little Pleasant Bay.…
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A writer I know recently addressed a group of other writers by proclaiming, in a somewhat scolding tone, “If you’re not writing about the coronavirus,…
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This week Bob continues his account of being a census taker in 1990.Most of our work as census takers was straightforward and unexciting. We visited the…
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Last Wednesday there took place a national ritual as venerable and significant as our national elections. –April 1 was the official National Census Day,…
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It was 57 years ago, in the winter of 1962, that I first walked the old New York – New Haven railroad bed from Provincetown to Orleans. Passenger service…
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In a remote corner of the Provincelands, there is a several hundred acre tract of stunted forest, sloping dunes, shallow ponds and extensive freshwater…
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Cape Cod is a place of small mysteries. Sometimes the mysteries are so obvious we don’t recognize them. Take Merrick Island.Merrick Island is one of a…
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This happened one day last November, a dark, damp day with a cold northeast wind blowing off the ocean. I had taken a walk across Duck Creek on Uncle…
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It looked old. It looked like something that was ready for retirement, though it still worked, still functioned. The oak handles, once varnished and…
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On Monday afternoon I went out to Newcomb Hollow, where an enormous amount of sand had been removed from the beach by the new moon tides and easterly…