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A Cape Cod Notebook


Robert Finch 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 every Wednesday at 5:45pm.

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The following list contain essays from the past few months. Earlier essays - including audio - can be found in A Cape Cod Notebook Archives.



October 2009

ListenThe J-Stroke


September 2009

ListenFirst Contact

ListenAn Unpeopled Sky

ListenBeetlebungs, or, what's in a name?

ListenShelter on the Beach

ListenSwimming the Ponds - IV


August 2009

ListenSwimming the Ponds - III

ListenSwimming the Ponds - II

Listen Swimming the Ponds - I

July 2009

Listen Family Fun

Listen Musk Turtle

Listen A Galling Experience

Listen When Whippoorwill Calls IV

June 2009

Listen When Whippoorwill Calls III

Listen When Whippoorwill Calls II

Listen When Whipperwillcalls I

Listen A Gratuity

Listen June Bugs in the Dunes

May 2009

Listen Signs on the Beach

Listen Emergence of Spring Life

Listen A Child's Trees

April 2009

Listen Spring Thunder Anatomized

Listen Spring Thunder

Listen Death in the Open

Listen A Calm Day on the Bay

March 2009

Listen My Favorite Trip in the World

Listen Ethel vs. the Met

Listen An Old Hunting Camp

Listen Lilliputian Pioneers

Listen An Old Friend Visits

February 2009

Listen The Silence of the Ice

Listen Dancing With My Shadow

January 2009

Listen Rooting for Oysters

Listen Group Singing

Listen Oaks versus Pines

Listen Familiar Shapes on the Marsh

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