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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.A Cape Cod Notebook commentators include:Robert Finch, a nature writer living in Wellfleet who created, 'A Cape Cod Notebook.' It won the 2006 New England Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Radio Writing.

There's No Place Like Downtown

CAI | By Robert Finch

Published December 17, 2013 at 1:47 PM EST

Do you make a holiday-season pilgrimage to the Big City for the lights, the smells, the shopping? A nature writer turns his observational powers on the city, as Robert Finch considers Boston's Downtown Crossing. He finds surprises, and cause for wonder, in this urban commercial crossroads.

Audio essay is posted above - give it a listen. This is a rebroadcast of an essay that first aired in 2012.