A Cape Cod Notebook
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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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United States
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Episodes
The eclipse on Nantucket, then and now
4/16/2024
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.
Duration:00:03:50
Downwardly-mobile washashores
4/9/2024
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.
Duration:00:04:10
Cape Cod’s greatest inventor created something we still use today
3/26/2024
People thought Luther Crowell was insane, but he wasn’t. He was the greatest inventor in Cape Cod history.
Duration:00:03:49
A remarkably unremarkable event, part 2
3/12/2024
This week Bob concludes his account of the stranding of a large fishing boat on the Outer Beach last month.
Duration:00:02:40
Yes, I have sand in the car. So what?
2/27/2024
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.
Duration:00:03:25
The ballad of Beach 21
2/20/2024
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.
Duration:00:03:38
Taking a trip on the Downeaster
2/6/2024
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.
Duration:00:03:31
J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Cape Cod connection
1/30/2024
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.
Duration:00:03:52
Looking at the calendar
1/23/2024
Beginning a new year in the middle of winter has always seemed ridiculous to me. But then no one asked me. I know, I know: it was Caesar’s doing, 4,000 years ago, to honor Janus, the god of new beginnings.
Duration:00:03:57
I guess you had to be there
1/16/2024
At the end of December, one of the Cape’s newspapers ran a special nostalgia issue. On the front page was Joel Meyerowitz’s iconic photograph of one of the Days Cottages on Beach Point in North Truro.
Duration:00:03:09
Old Wharf Road
12/12/2023
One of the most beautiful spots in Wellfleet, or for that matter, on the entire Lower Cape, is Old Wharf Road. It is one of those headlands that, along with Indian Neck and Lieutenant’s Island, thrust out into greater Wellfleet Harbor.
Duration:00:03:32
Savery Avenue, a template for future transportation
12/5/2023
Whenever I have occasion to go to Boston and don’t need to rush home, I often avoid the divided highways and take a different route back to the Cape. One of my favorite alternatives is to take Route 58 south from Abington to Carver just before the Bourne Bridge.
Duration:00:03:01
Reflecting on seasonal changes
11/21/2023
Late Sunday afternoon — it isn’t all that late, but now that it’s dark at 4:30, late is all relative. Landmarks change in the winter light. The boarded-up Surfside snackbar where teenagers spent the summer scooping ice cream haunts the empty parking lot.
Duration:00:03:01
A reliable old friend
11/14/2023
It looked old. It looked like something that was ready for retirement, though it still worked, still functioned.
Duration:00:04:11
Embracing Halloween on Cape Cod
10/31/2023
Cummiquid writer Susan Moeller talks about the thrill of trick or treating.
Duration:00:03:56
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10/24/2023
Seth Rolbein, a journalist living in Wellfleet, talks about an 1820 fire that had a major impact on the Cape’s 20th-century development boom.
Duration:00:03:44
Revisiting Captain Jack’s Wharf in Provincetown
10/17/2023
Nantucket Writer and Historian Mary revisits a place she wondered about as a child.
Duration:00:03:17
Death of a mimosa tree
10/3/2023
Duration:00:03:55
Paying attention to our smaller neighbors
9/26/2023
In the pale morning light I began to notice that the wooden wall of the shower was in motion: in fact, it was crawling! A closer look revealed dozens and dozens of pillbugs roaming about, exploring the surface, bumping into each other, and apparently having a fine old time.
Duration:00:04:15
Patiently waiting on Nantucket
9/19/2023
Right now, we are waiting to see what the impacts of Hurricane Lee will be. Caretakers are pulling boats out of the harbor, amateur forecasters weigh in on windspeed estimations.
Duration:00:03:01