Podcast: Robert Finch's A Cape Cod Notebook

"Outer Beach Overnights,” the most recent audio essay in naturalist Robert Finch’s A Cape Cod Notebook, broadcast on WCAI radio, is available for listening or reading online.

Mr. Finch has lived on and written about Cape Cod for over thirty years. He is the author of several books, including Common Ground: A Naturalist’s Cape Cod (1981), Outlands: Journeys to the Outer Edges of Cape Cod (1986), and Special Places on Cape Cod and the Islands (2003).

His writings are featured in A Sense of Place: the Works of Beston, Hay & Finch, a new exhibit at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster.

Podcast: Robert Finch's A Cape Cod Notebook

"Millennium Grove I,” the most recent audio essay in naturalist Robert Finch’s A Cape Cod Notebook, broadcast on WCAI radio, is available for listening or reading online.

Mr. Finch has lived on and written about Cape Cod for over thirty years. He is the author of several books, including Common Ground: A Naturalist’s Cape Cod (1981), Outlands: Journeys to the Outer Edges of Cape Cod (1986), and Special Places on Cape Cod and the Islands (2003).

His writings are featured in A Sense of Place: the Works of Beston, Hay & Finch, a new exhibit at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster.

New Exhibit at Maritime Museum Examines Early Land Use on the Cape

Transformations: from Farmer to Seafarer, Cape Cod 1639-1739, a new exhibit at the Cape Cod Maritime Museum, opened on May 16th, 2008:

"Transformations will investigate several themes such as agrarian life on the Cape, Native Peoples' and Europeans' philosophies concerning land stewardship, early voyages from Europe to America, and drift and shore whaling. It will show how each of these enticed Cape farmers away from the land toward the sea and served as a catalyst to to the development of the rich maritime tradition that continues today."

Podcast: Robert Finch's 'A Cape Cod Notebook'

"God's Acre,” the most recent audio essay in naturalist Robert Finch’s ‘A Cape Cod Notebook,’ broadcast on WCAI, is now available for listening or reading online.

Mr. Finch has lived on and written about Cape Cod for over thirty years. He is the author of several books, including Common Ground: A Naturalist’s Cape Cod (1981), Outlands: Journeys to the Outer Edges of Cape Cod (1986), and Special Places on Cape Cod and the Islands (2003).

His ‘A Cape Cod Notebook’ won the 2006 New England Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Radio Writing. His essays can be heard on WCAI every Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. and every Wednesday at 5:45 p.m.

Mr. Finch's writings are featured in A Sense of Place: the Works of Beston, Hay & Finch, a new exhibit at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster.

First Baby Osprey Born at Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster has announced that the first baby of the museum’s resident Marsh Osprey couple was born on Tuesday morning, May 27, 2008!

If you have not had an opportunity to do so, please try viewing the museum's Osprey Cam.

John Hay's Prose Inspires Earth Day Readers

"Hay’s Prose Inspires Earth Day Readers"
The Cape Codder, April 24, 2008

BREWSTER -- Before there was an Earth Day, in 1969, Brewster’s John Hay penned In Defense of Nature, an early plea for conservation and preservation.

So it was fitting that in his old hometown (the 93-year-old Hay now resides in Maine) on Earth Day In Defense of Nature was the book for discussion at Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, which Hay co-founded in 1954. ... ©

Read the full article in The Cape Codder.

Note that the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History will unveil an exhibit, “A Sense of Place,” covering three Cape Cod naturalists, Hay, Robert Finch and Henry Beston, on May 28, 2008.

Book Discussion: In Defense of Nature by John Hay

Sue Marcus, a former librarian and bibliophile, will lead a discussion of the classic book In Defense of Nature, by John Hay (1969), at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History on Tuesday afternoon, April 22, 2008. The discussion will take place in the Museum’s Clarence Hay Library as a prelude to the upcoming exhibit, “A Sense of Place”, featuring Henry Beston, John Hay, and Bob Finch.

Note that the Museum has a Book Club that meets the second Thursday of each month, from 10 a.m. to noon, in the Hay Library and focuses on books with a natural history theme.