Summer Embers
A swim alone off Surfside on the Tuesday after Labor Day becomes the starting point for a meditation on scale: how a tiny island and an endl...
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A Cape Cod Notebook from WCAI
A nature writer living in Wellfleet, Robert Finch has written about Cape Cod for more than forty years. He is the author of nine books of essays. A Cape Cod Notebook airs weekly on WCAI, the...
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20 of 37 episodesFamily Table Collaborative’s parking lot presence
Twice a week, the Family Table Collaborative's donated food truck pulls into Cape Cod parking lots, offering meals to anyone who shows up, n...
Great Whites to Spielberg: What Did We Ever Do to You?
New fishing restrictions on Nantucket extend protections for great white sharks that began on Cape Cod Bay and the Outer Cape. Tom Moroney c...
The oldest gravestone
A tiny, weathered gravestone in Sandwich's Old Burial Ground may be the oldest on Cape Cod, but its inscription was deliberately chiseled aw...
Augustitus
On Nantucket, the height of summer means being outnumbered by tourists two to one. A meditation on Augustitus, the exhaustion and thrill of...
The Restaurant Fee-for-All
A pizza order gone slightly sideways sends Tom Moroney down a rabbit hole of restaurant surcharges, tip-shaming, and the economics behind wh...
Zen and the art of painting a boathouse
Painting a boathouse turns out to have a lot in common with yoga: stretching, balance, and the patience of proper prep work. A meditation on...
When empty nest hits home
Turns out empty nest syndrome doesn't require actual children. Susan Moeller follows a gray catbird family that set up shop in the viburnum...
The Drought
Nantucket wakes most summer mornings wrapped in fog, yet the island is deep in drought. With a sole-source aquifer and no neighboring town t...
The Name Game or What to Call Our Cottage
From "Happy as a Clam" to "Squeezed Inn," a Cape Cod cottage-naming saga full of bad puns, a 92-year-old sign-maker's wisdom, and the realiz...
On Another Shore
After a long winter on Cape Cod, Mary Bergman laces up her boots and heads to Portugal's rugged Atlantic coast to hike the Fisherman's Trail...
What does America see?
A dog's unblinking vigil at a Cape Cod window becomes a quiet reflection on attention, perception, and all the things just outside the frame...
The People’s Stop on the Hydrangea Tour
From hydrangea fun facts to backyard storytelling, Tom Moroney shares a charming and humorous vision of what he calls “The People’s Stop” on...
The mysterious bottleneck
One of many mysteries that attends living on Cape Cod manifests in an unlikely location: Route 6, Harwich, around what most people still cal...
Waiting for the Lilacs
A quiet nighttime journey to count horseshoe crabs becomes an exploration of Nantucket’s seasonal transformations. From blooming lilacs to s...
Frozen in Place
In the middle of a snowy Cape Cod winter, a dog, an opossum, and a pair of neighbors create an unforgettable moment of surprise, humor, and...
The Herring Sentry
Tom Moroney explores the efforts to protect the herring population on the Cape and the volunteers and infrastructure that make its recovery...
April Sounds
Nantucket writer and historian Mary Bergman talks about the sounds of wildlife reemerging signaling the return of spring.
For the Love of Cranberry Bogs
Walk around the cranberry bogs of Cape Cod – cranberries.org says about 11,500 bogs in southeastern Massachusetts – in mid-winter, and it’s...
The bay scallopers leave in the dark these days
Nantucket historian and writer Mary Bergman speaks on the practice and tradition of scallop harvesting.