Category: Past Sunday Programs

17 May 2026: The Way We Were, Early 1900’s

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Cape Codders witnessed and embraced many changes during the early 1900’s. With the railroad, came thousands of “summer colonists” to boost a failing fishing-based economy. Along came the telephone and then electricity. Marconi came to Cape Cod and installed a “thunder factory” in Wellfleet that made more noise on dry dark nights than a horror movie. Motor cars drove alongside horse and wagon on the sandy roads. Come see a slide show of real Cape Codders and their visitors as … Continue reading 17 May 2026: The Way We Were, Early 1900’s

10 May 2026: Cape & Islands Trans Resource Fund

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Join Nauset Fellowship in person at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham or online via Zoom on May 10, 2026, for a talk by Ann Burke on the founding of the Cape & Islands Trans Resource Fund—a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the trans community across the Cape & Islands. She’ll discuss how the fund provides vital financial assistance and why this work matters now more than ever. Ann is a RN and has her master’s degree in counseling psychology. … Continue reading 10 May 2026: Cape & Islands Trans Resource Fund

26 Apr 2026: Human Rights on Cape Cod and You!

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“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home,” Eleanor Roosevelt famously said in a speech at the United Nations. As Coordinator of the Barnstable County Human Rights Advisory Commission, Leslie Dominguez-Santos knows the status of those rights here in our home community. In this program, she will share the data and the stories of how and where community members experience discrimination. In her overview of human rights on Cape Cod, she will focus on … Continue reading 26 Apr 2026: Human Rights on Cape Cod and You!

19 Apr 2026: Pay Less, Get More Care

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Join us as Bonnie Shepard from the Cape Cod Coalition for Universal Health Care discusses Medicare for All in Massachusetts, a bill which would provide universal health coverage for all state residents without co-pays, premiums, or deductibles, through a single payer — the Massachusetts Health Care Trust. The political obstacles to passage of the bill in the State House reveal a lack of democracy and transparency, and the role of industry lobbyists. The high costs and poor health outcomes of … Continue reading 19 Apr 2026: Pay Less, Get More Care

12 Apr 2026: Bach: Master Builder

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Led by our own Bob Seay, we will listen to the opening chorale of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, accompanied by commentary from Leonard Bernstein. Together, we’ll explore its structure and consider why it is particularly well suited for performance in a large church setting. Johann Sebastian Bach first performed his monumental St. Matthew Passion at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany, likely on Good Friday in 1727 or 1729. Bach wrote this masterpiece for two choirs and orchestras, specifically for the … Continue reading 12 Apr 2026: Bach: Master Builder

29 Mar 2026: Restoration Agriculture, Cape Cod to Malawi

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Join us as Rand Burkert discusses the work of the Food Forest Initiative of Cape Cod, a non-hierarchical eco-action group. Since 2016, FFI has planted and tended public food forests, inspired by the vision of permaculture and its outgrowth, Restoration Agriculture. Rand will give practical knowledge to enable home gardeners to apply these approaches. He will also present the global scope of the method and its usefulness in mitigating climate change and building local food security, with some discussion of … Continue reading 29 Mar 2026: Restoration Agriculture, Cape Cod to Malawi

22 Mar 2026: Who Tells the Story: A Cape Cod Reburial

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In spring of 1976 a skeleton that had been on display for many years in a local history museum was reburied. The ceremony was a collaboration between the Wellfleet Historical Society, the Wampanoag People, and the Cape Cod National Seashore. In attendance that day were members of all three organizations. What actually happened there, at that moment in history, depends upon who is asked! Storyteller Jim Wolf has tracked several versions of the story to present to you. “”Who Tells … Continue reading 22 Mar 2026: Who Tells the Story: A Cape Cod Reburial

15 Mar 2026: Historic Storms of Cape Cod with Don Wilding

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Sunday, March 15, 2026 10:00 AM Cape Cod has always been in the path of deadly hurricanes and ferocious storms. Unwelcome summer visitors include the “Long Island Express” Hurricane of 1938, the Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944, the twin Hurricanes Carol and Edna in 1954 and Hurricane Bob in 1991. These storms destroyed countless homes and left coastal communities under several feet of water. Surging tides carried away houses with residents inside who didn’t survive, and high seas sank the … Continue reading 15 Mar 2026: Historic Storms of Cape Cod with Don Wilding

8 Mar 2026: International Women’s Day with Julie and Denya

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Join us for a musical celebration of International Women’s Day with Julie Charland and Denya LeVine as they perform guitar, fiddle, flute and ukelele, with vocal harmonies that sparkle with joyous energy. International Women’s Day is celebrated annually on March 8, commemorating women’s fight for equality and liberation along with the women’s rights movement. International Women’s Day gives focus to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women. Julie is a Nashville recording artist, award-winning … Continue reading 8 Mar 2026: International Women’s Day with Julie and Denya

22 Feb 2026: Racial Justice Then and Now

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Several members of Pancheta Peterson’s long-running Racial Justice Study Group will join Pancheta—an educator and diversity pastor at First Parish Brewster UU, and throughout the Cape—to share reflections and “aha” moments from the books they’ve read together on U.S. history through the lens of racial justice and injustice, as well as the conversations those readings inspired. The program will include music from the Civil Rights Movement, stories, personal reflections, and time for Q&A and conversation with those gathered in the … Continue reading 22 Feb 2026: Racial Justice Then and Now