Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:28:55 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/ CCMNH Admin en-us http://ccmnh.org/images/logo.gif http://ccmnh.org/ info@ccmnh.org http://ccmnh.org/Article113.html The Coastal Explorer Van will be in the Museum parking lot on July 18, July 25, August 1, August 7, August 15 and August 22. From 10am to 1 pm KidSummer participants will be visiting the van. From 1-3pm Museum visitors are welcome to enjoy this special traveling exhibit of the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:28:55 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article112.html On Thursday, August 7 at 7:00 PM the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History will present Meet the Birds Of Prey! Adult: $8/M, $10/NM. Child under 12: $4/M, $5/NM. Reservations required. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:01:07 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article111.html On Wednesday, July 30 at 4 pm Gil Newton will speak on his book Seaweeds of Cape Cod Shores – A Field Guide at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster. The fee is $3/non-member and free to members. Proceeds will be donated to the Museum. A book-signing and refreshments will follow the lecture. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:15:55 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article110.html On Thursday, July 17 at 4:00 pm well-known author David Gessner will speak on the occasion of the paperback publication of his book Soaring with Fidel. Wine & Cheese Reception and Booksigning will follow. Member: $3.00; Non-Member: $5:00. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:38:35 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article109.html Run by the North American Butterfly Association (NABA), butterfly counts are taken all over North America. Information on the counts can be found on www.naba.org Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:40:49 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article108.html On Monday, June 16 at 7:30 pm Dr. Lawrence John Connor will present a highly informative lecture on the honey bee. Free to the public. Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:57:21 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article107.html At the Museum May 30 through December 20, 2008 Henry David Thoreau, "that inland dweller," as naturalist and author Robert Finch calls him in his work, A Place Apart, "once observed that the seashore was 'a most advantageous point from which to view the world.'"  Indeed, Cape Cod's fertile literary environment, Finch notes, "seems to have borne him out." Over the past 400 years the Cape's landscape and its people have probably inspired more memorable writing than any other nonurban area of comparable size," writes Finch.  It is, of course, not primarily the amount of writing about this place, but the extraordinary quality and wide appeal of so much of it that is remarkable." With Thoreau the guiding light in his 1865 masterpiece, Cape Cod, three singular nature writers emerged over time, inspired by the master in remarkable ways--Henry Beston, John Hay and Finch himself.  Their writings about the Cape have sustained an incomparable sense of place and have moved generations to walk in the peninsula's fragile splendor and preserve its uncommon beauty. This month at the start of a stunning, year-long exhibit, The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History off Route 6A in Brewster celebrates the contributions of Beston, Hay and Finch, whose collective writings are unequaled in the annals of nature writing.  To fully grasp Cape Cod's mysteries, one must drink in the words and lyrical eloquence that tenders this narrow land its sense of place. -- Greg O'Brien Wed, 28 May 2008 18:47:51 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article106.html The Marsh Osprey of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History are thrilled to announce they have two baby Osprey. The first was born on May 27, 2008 at 10:30 am and the second was born June 1 at 10:00 am. (Beginning of gestation: April 17, 2008) Wed, 28 May 2008 10:43:03 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article105.html On Wednesday June 11 and June 18 and on Saturday June 21 and 28 from 10 am-2 pm the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History will present The Amazing World of Plants with Sharon Ackland. Cost: $25/Member, $30/Non-Member each class; $80/Member, $100/Non-Member for the complete series. Bring a bag lunch and prepare for field walks after lunch on each day. Fri, 16 May 2008 14:58:53 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article104.html A course in Nature Photography with Stan Godwin will be held at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster. There will be six Tuesday lectures from 3-5 pm on June 10, 17, 24; July 1, 8, and 22. Two field trips are scheduled on Saturday June 28 and July 12 from 7-9 am. Limited enrollment. Registration required. Cost: $80/members, $100/ non-members. Wed, 14 May 2008 16:23:11 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article103.html The Crab Lady of Cape Cod We spot her as we crest the sand dunes that give onto the barrier beach of Cape Cod Bay. A solitary figure against the merging blues of sea and sky, she is pacing slowly back and forth beside an inter-tidal pool. Even from a distance, her body language – and what is an unmistakable and pragmatic Tilley hat – suggests both patience and purpose. Occasionally she stops, turns, and looks out to sea. And then, as if time were not of the essence, she peers into the tidal pool or scans the beachfront from which the sea has made its twice-daily retreat. There is something about the calm and careful way she moves that implies an expectation of things to come, in good time. Inter-tidal Life From our vantage point on the dunes, we look out over an uninterrupted expanse of tidal flats. Sandbar islets, shaped by rivulets of seawater flowing towards the outgoing tide, provide a visual perspective for the reckoning of time and distance. Having receded several hundred metres, the low tide has uncovered a marine habitat that is accentuated by nutrient-rich sea grasses and other aquatic plants, all of which in the fullness of sea time will soon be inundated again with marine life. This is a time and space for examining what the sea leaves behind; and on this bright, cool May morning we are among the few visitors or residents who have come to the shore to do so. At the moment however we are unaware that lying buried in the wet sand that stretches for kilometres are many members of a unique marine species to which we will shortly be introduced. Wed, 14 May 2008 15:43:56 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article102.html On Saturday, June 7th from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM. the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History is holding a major BOOK SALE. This special sale will include marvelous contributions from members, a superb collection of recent gardening books AND a huge pile of “Oldies But Still Goodies” from the Clarence Hay Library. Wed, 14 May 2008 11:37:58 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article101.html Award-winning author Michael J. Tougias will give a narrated slide presentation on his book Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea at the May 13 Friends Meeting. A booksigning will follow. Mon, 12 May 2008 14:22:14 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article100.html On the weekend of Saturday, June 7 and Sunday, June 8 the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History will present Come Paint the Landscape!, a two-day workshop with noted Brewster artist Karen North Wells. Each day the workshop will be from 9:30 AM-3:30 PM at the museum. The cost is $100/non-member, $85/museum member. Limited to 12 participants. Registration is required and must be confirmed with the museum office staff at 508-896-3867, Ext. 133 Tuesday-Friday. Fri, 02 May 2008 12:20:49 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article99.html Saturday, May 3 and Sunday, May 4 from 9:00 AM-3:00 PM the Friends of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History will hold a Flea Market to benefit the museum during Brewster in Bloom weekend. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:57:26 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article98.html On Sunday, May 18 at 4:00 pm the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History will present a special spring benefit for the museum-- Silvard in Concert to be held at the Brewster Ladies Library, 1822 Main Street, Brewster, MA. Admission is $15. Prepaid reservations are highly recommended and must be confirmed with the Museum office staff at 508-896-3867, Ext. 133. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:12:50 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article97.html On Saturday, May 24 the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster will present a special free MARITIME DAYS program: 10 AM Mudflat Mania and 1 PM The Cape Cod Stranding Network/IFAW and The National Marine Life Center. Everyone bring a lunch and spend the day! Lemonade provided. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:57:11 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article96.html On Tuesdays, from May 6-May 27 at 7:30 PM the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History is presenting a Natural History Speaker Series. Cost: $5/Non-Members; Free to Members and Field Guides Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:01:14 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article94.html Time: 10 am-12 noon Approximate length of walks: 3-4 miles $4/M; $6/NM $1.00 extra for van trip Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:50:51 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article93.html TRAINING SESSIONS Auditorium/Class Sessions Thursday, May 15 9:30 am-12 noon Thursday, May 22 9:30 am-12 noon Outdoor Sessions - required: attendance at least one Wednesday, May 28 12 noon-2:30 pm Thursday, May 29 1-3:30 pm Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:33:33 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article92.html Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:11:41 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article91.html By Robin Lord STAFF WRITER April 05, 2008 BREWSTER — Like a resurgent tide, the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History has recovered from the brink of closure in 2003 to become debt-free. Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:41:06 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article90.html Sure sign of spring: Ospreys are back By Matthew Belson Thu Apr 03, 2008, 10:31 PM EDT Soaring above the marsh, a male osprey glides effortlessly in the wind blowing in from Cape Cod Bay. Eventually he lands on a nest high on a pole where a female osprey, his mate, awaits his return. Naturalists at Cape Cod Museum of Natural History first spotted the pair of ospreys March 14. Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:28:57 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article89.html The Chatham Chorale presents MISSA GAIA (Earth Mass) Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. at the Barnstable High School Performing Arts Center, 744 West Main Street, Hyannis. [Get directions] The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History encourages its members to attend this performance. Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:04:03 -0400 http://ccmnh.org/Article88.html On April 18 at 7:00 pm Leonardo DiCaprio's film "The 11th Hour" will be presented by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and Cape Cod Broadcasting. at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster. Admission: free. Advance reservations required. Seating is limited – go to www.wqrc.com to register. Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:56:31 -0400