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A Cape Cod Notebook

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.

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3:13

Perpetuity and horseshoe crabs

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/06/17

Isn’t everything we make temporary in the grand scheme of things? My day to day work is to promote historic preservation on Nantucket. We talk about preserving things in perpetuity. But on an eroding pile of sand, perpetuity is a relative term.

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4:10

The house that almost wasn’t

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/05/27

As we drove off, disappointed, I said I don’t want to JUST be on Cape Cod. I want to feel like I’m here, really here, sand between my toes, waves crashing, gulls calling out for a meal.

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3:12

You can’t save it all

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/05/20

We are running out of space at the Nantucket landfill. I spent the winter driving by dumpsters, unable to stop myself from looking over the edge.

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4:19

What happened to biking etiquette?

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/05/13

Despite what might be in your head, the 25-mile path from Yarmouth to Wellfleet is not just a bike trail. There are runners and skateboarders and walkers, many of us with dogs.

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3:58

What you learn while hitchhiking

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/05/06

The most important teacher I ever had was not some Harvard professor, or one of many newspaper editors who carved up my prose. It wasn’t even a person, a whole person anyway. It was an appendage.

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3:25

Lichen on a drizzly day

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/04/29

What really impresses me at this time of year, at any time of year, actually, are the lichens. These otherworldly beings, growing on tree bark and branches, spreading on the ground or on rocks or gravestones, seem to thrive in any weather.

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3:52

Don’t give in to panic

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/04/15

The other day I took some old friends up to Great Point. The weather wasn’t particularly good — Nantucket in March, we kept grumbling. I don’t think they’d mind me saying old friends, as it’s true. Both are older than me by a mile, and they don’t get around as easily as they once did.

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4:09

A detour to Scargo Tower

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/04/08

Those of you who travel the north side of Cape Cod know that Route 6A has been closed in Dennis for several months, and a detour sends drivers either north through Sesuit Neck or south to Scargo Hill Road.

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4:17

The baddest crab

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/03/25

The European green crab has quite the reputation. They’re smart ... in a dangerous way. They’re voracious, predatory and they eat their young!

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3:23

Echolocation

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/03/18

My father stands in the doorway of Henry David Thoreau’s cabin on Walden Pond. Of course, there is no cabin anymore, instead the cabin’s footprint is marked with narrow granite stones, giving the whole place an unintended funerary feeling.

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3:30

Pudelhund, meet Canis Latrans

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/03/11

My dog America, a full-on poodle, loves to stare into pines and oaks that quill out of a hillside down to the marsh. She’ll do this sitting on a comfy bed by a window, standing outside on a deck, or curled atop pine needles.

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4:08

My neighbor is a sly fox

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/03/04

We’ve all had one of those neighbors. You know what I mean. The ones that keep offbeat hours. Or they just wander onto your property without asking. Or they disturb your household with their comings and goings.

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4:20

The fascinating past of the island fisherman

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/02/25

Nelson Sigelman writes about a friend who is an island fisherman with a mysterious past.

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2:39

Optimist Atlantic Islander

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/02/18

After years of watching people leave Nantucket during the winter, I decided I wanted to be one of them. Not for the whole winter, just for a week

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2:30

Walter Baron

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/02/11

When Walter Baron built his workshop on a side road in Wellfleet 40-odd years ago, he knew what he wanted to do: Build boats.

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3:53

Winter, lost and found

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/02/04

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4:12

January, it’s time for the golf course

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/01/28

January is the time of year on Cape Cod when we really start to doubt some of our life choices. A couple of different decisions and I would be living in a place where the temperature rarely falls below 50 degrees, and there’s no such thing as ice.

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3:12

Gone 'Nantucket Native'

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/01/21

I spent many years as an objective observer of this place. An academic, a historian, a researcher. On my better days, an anthropologist or some kind of gonzo documentarian, snapping pictures and recording my observations on the yellow legal pads I took everywhere, even the beach.

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4:40

The intricacies of bird nests

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/01/14

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4:10

My Jimmy Carter stories

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2025/01/07

He already was becoming the most exemplary former President maybe in history, picking up hammers to help build Habitat for Humanity homes, donning a suit and traveling the world to encourage free and fair elections.

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