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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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3:31

Going to the dogs

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/07/23

People say half-facetiously that we should accept reality and change the name of this sandspit to Cape Dog.

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2:59

Answer hazy, ask again later

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/07/16

The air is so thick, there’s little difference between walking and swimming these days. High summer fog brings a certain relief to the island.

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4:05

In praise of the lowly sweatshirt

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/07/09

I come today to sing the praises of the simple sweatshirt.

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1:56

Locust love

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/07/02

This is embarrassing, but maybe making a public admission could save me hundreds of hours of expensive psycho-therapy:I have a thing going on — with a tree.

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4:11

The white one

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/06/25

Lady Slippers are in a class of their own, so strangely shaped, with their pink pouched petals.

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2:55

Nantucket's forever shifting sands

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/06/18

Birdsong, five in the morning. A sign that my neighborhood — a relatively new affordable housing subdivision — has matured. My neighbors’ trees provide plenty of places for songbirds to perch.

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3:35

The unexpected and untimely passing of a great bird

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/06/11

About six o’clock one evening, as we were about to sit down to dinner, there came from the other end of the house a loud thunk, as though something had hit a window. I stepped outside to see what the noise was.

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3:10

In praise of the lowly huckleberry

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/06/04

During the third week of May, when the oak leaves are still just pink flickers in the forest canopy, and the pitch pines had not yet begun painting the landscape with their dry yellow swaths of pollen, then the lowly huckleberry spreads its emerald scarves far and wide throughout the forest floor.

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3:46

Jury duty

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/05/28

A white postcard showed up in the mail the other day. I had been summoned to Barnstable Superior Court – for jury duty.My immediate response? Great! Hope I can do it!

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2:59

Ode to the M/V Eagle

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/05/21

The other morning, I woke up early after a sleepless night. Luckily, we have reached the moment in the year where the days stretch on, if not quite forever, then pretty close to it.

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3:43

The return of the snowbirds

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/05/07

Over the past few weeks our local snowbirds have been returning from their annual winter sojourns in the south.

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3:50

Cape Cod as the Balkans

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/04/23

Seen from space, it seems so obvious that Cape Cod is one. But we know better.

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3:50

The eclipse on Nantucket, then and now

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/04/16

Nantucketers take pride in our long history of stargazing and astronomy. Maria Mitchell, the first woman to work as a professional astronomer, was born here and discovered a comet in 1847 from the roof of the Pacific National Bank at the top of Main Street.

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4:10

Downwardly-mobile washashores

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/04/09

People come to live on Cape Cod for a variety of reasons. I came because its landscape and history spoke to me in such a compelling manner as a subject for writing.

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3:49

Cape Cod’s greatest inventor created something we...

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/03/26

People thought Luther Crowell was insane, but he wasn’t. He was the greatest inventor in Cape Cod history.

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2:40

A remarkably unremarkable event, part 2

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/03/12

This week Bob concludes his account of the stranding of a large fishing boat on the Outer Beach last month.

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3:25

Yes, I have sand in the car. So what?

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/02/27

If you live on Cape Cod, you likely have sand in your car. And if you live on Cape Cod and don’t have sand in your car, I might question if you are really living life to its fullest.

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3:38

The ballad of Beach 21

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/02/20

I’ve never thought of any beach before as my beach. Maybe that’s because all those other beaches already had names. I thought this beach was nameless, marked only by it’s “Emergency Beach Location 21” sign.

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3:31

Taking a trip on the Downeaster

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/02/06

A few weeks ago, I had the occasion to visit my daughter and her family in Portland, Maine. I decided to go by train and booked a seat on Amtrak’s “Downeaster,” from Boston to Portland.

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3:52

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Cape Cod connection

A Cape Cod Notebook ·

2024/01/30

Not included in the blockbuster J. Robert Oppenheimer movie is how a Cape Cod connection played a crucial role in Oppenheimer’s early life, including his eventual move to Los Alamos to build a bomb that can destroy the world.

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