A Cape Cod Notebook can be heard every Tuesday morning at 8:45am and afternoon at 5:45pm.
It's commentary on the unique people, wildlife, and environment of our coastal region.
A Cape Cod Notebook commentators include:
Robert Finch, a nature writer living in Wellfleet who created, 'A Cape Cod Notebook.' It won the 2006 New England Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Radio Writing. He 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."
Mary Bergman, originally from Provincetown, now lives on Nantucket. She is a writer and historian, working in historic preservation and writing a novel.
Nelson Sigelman is an award-winning former reporter, outdoor writer and author. He has been honored by the Outdoor Writers Association of America, the New England Outdoor Writers Association and the New England Press Association. His most recent book is Martha’s Vineyard Outdoors, Fishing, Hunting and Avoiding Divorce on a Small Island. He currently works part-time for the Tisbury Shellfish Department and lives with his wife Norma in Vineyard Haven.
Susan Moeller - Susan Moeller is a freelance writer and editor who was a reporter and editor with the Boston Herald and Cape Cod Times. She’s lived on the Cape for 45 years and when not working, swims, plays handbells, pretends to garden, and walks her dog, Dug. She lives in Cummaquid.
Dennis Minsky's career as a field biologist began in 1974, at Cape Cod National Seashore, protecting nesting terns and plovers. A Provincetown resident since 1968, he returned full time in 2005. He is involved in many local conservation projects, works as a naturalist on the Dolphin Fleet Whale Watch, and tries to write.
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Today Robert Finch talks about the light of spring -- and how each day is brighter than the one before it. -
This week Naturalist Dennis Minsky of Provincetown turns his thoughts to spring and in particular – procreation.
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Maybe you saw that New York Times opinion piece about how we can be different people after the pandemic. “Our personalities are not set in stone,” Olga Kahzan wrote, “They are more like sand dunes.”
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Robert Finch shares his two-part series about his early connections with nature.
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Writer Robert Finch begins a two-part exploration of a question he has been asked repeatedly during his career as a nature writer.
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Nelson Sigelman looking for a bit of a change in scenery ventures up island from his home in Vineyard Haven.
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This week Dennis Minsky of Provincetown contemplates the language of gulls.
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As we look back on the year anniversary of the pandemic, writer and historian Mary Bergman remembers a crowd on Nantucket’s Main Street.
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Today on A Cape Cod Notebook, Robert Finch talks about the rich -- and also notorious -- history of a secluded valley on the Outer Cape.
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This week on A Cape Cod Notebook Robert Finch shares an insight about activities of some of Cape Cod's wildlife when people aren't around.
