Sunday, November 19, 2023 10:00 AM
Visiting musicians will perform. Because of the difficulty of providing good audio over Zoom during live performances, this service will not be available via Zoom.
Doors open at 9:30 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham.
Sunday, November 12, 2023 10:00 AM
Recording available here: https://youtu.be/HaGT3ppMz5g
Join us as Pat O’Brien shares a very personal story. Through pictures and poetry, Pat traces her journey to and in Nepal to meet her birth daughter, Nancy, for the first time.
Pat O’Brien is a Nauset Fellowship member and former teacher and clay artist. She served on theNational Board of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), and after teaching in New York, Los Angeles and Boston, worked on several peace and justice organizations over many years.
Learn more at 10am on Sunday, November 12, 2023 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham. Doors open at 9:30. Also on Zoom. Register here.
Sunday, October 29, 2023 10:00 AM
Recording available here: https://youtu.be/qBpIGJ1kANI
Join us as Susan Abbott tells us of the life of Captain Edward Penniman: one of the most successful whaling captains of the 19th century. He lived his entire life on Fort Hill in Eastham — except for the 22 years when he w
as sailing the globe in search of whales. In his retirement, he helped to found the Eastham Universalist Society and was chair of the building committee. Learn about Penniman’s whaling career, his innovative home, and how the design of the chapel echoes the historic house on Fort Hill.
Susan Abbott is an Eastham resident and president of the Nauset Light Preservation Society. Her in-laws, George and Rosemary Abbott, were members of the Nauset Fellowship and helped to spark Susan’s interest in Eastham history. She gives tours of the Penniman House as a volunteer for the Cape Cod National Seashore, and also guides tours of Eastham’s lighthouses.
Learn more at 10am on Sunday, October 29, 2023 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham. Doors open at 9:30. Also on Zoom. Register here.
Sunday, October 22, 2023 10:00 AM
Join us for a unique musical performance with Jefferey Clayton on the stee
lpan. There will be performance, a discussion of the history of the steelpan and time for questions and answers. Come enjoy the sweet sounds of the Caribbean Islands in an intimate setting … in the Pines!
Jefferey Clayton is a retired Army musician with a BA from UMass @ Amherst and an MM from The New England Conservatory. He comes with many years of performing and teaching experience. He currently works for the Justice Resource Institute educating middle and high school students with social and emotional challenges. He uses music as a means to encourage self-growth and inclusion.
Learn more at 10am on Sunday, October 22, 2023 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham. Doors open at 9:30. Also on Zoom.
Sunday, October 15, 2023 10:00 AM
Edith Lake Wilkinson was an artist who lived and painted in Provincetown during the early decades of the 20th century until she was committed to an asylum for the mentally ill in 1924. Her belongings were packed up in a trunk w
hich was sent to relatives in West Virginia. It was not until the 1960’s that her art was discovered. “Packed in a Trunk” chronicles how Jane Andersen, a relative of Edith, worked to establish Edith’s art in the public view. It took many years, but Edith finally had an exhibit of her art at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in July 2022.
Please note that the film will run 1 hour and 17 minutes. There will be a short intermission.
Learn more at 10am on Sunday, October 15, 2023 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham. Doors open at 9:30.
Sunday, October 8, 2023 10:00 AM
Join us as actress Jarice Hanson portrays Frances Perkins, the first woman Secretary of Labor.
Best known for her crafting of the Social Security Act, 40-hour work week, and child labor laws, Frances Perkins, along with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, helped lift the country out of the Depression. Perkins was a strong advocate for immigrants, labor unions and women throughout World War II.
Hanson’s presentation focuses on Perkin’s awakening as an activist when she attended Mount Holyoke College that led her to become a social worker. 
Jarice Hanson is Professor Emerita from UMass Amherst, and has been active in theater for many years. Jarice is currently researching and writing about women who have made significant contributions to society. She says “…each of these women changed their fields and contributed to American culture in unique ways…..Performing their stories shows that history can come alive and enrich our sense of who we are and why things are the way they are.”
Learn more at 10am on Sunday, October 8, 2023 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham. Doors open at 9:30. Also on Zoom. Please register for the Zoom call here.
“We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For”
Sunday, September 2023
Stephanie J. Briody, Esq is the CEO and Co-Founder of Behavioral Health Innovators, Inc. (BHI).
She will present her call to action for all of us to eliminate the stigma surrounding substance
abuse and mental health by engaging in “real” conversations with teens and families, in
addition to advocacy, fundraising and volunteer support.
BHI provides a continuum of programs, from prevention to recovery, to address the gap in
services for Cape Cod youth 13-24 years old, with a focus on substance use disorder and related
mental health conditions.
Stephanie will provide information about two programs developed by BHI:
Stephanie Briody is a co-founder of BHI and has extensive experience in advocating for
government services and benefits for individuals with cognitive, behavioral and mental health
challenges. She is also licensed to practice law in Massachusetts. She is also a Certified Yoga
Teacher committed to bringing the healing power of yoga to individuals with substance use
disorder and other behavioral health challenges.
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Hopi Elder’s Prophecy, June 8, 2000
Learn more at 10 a.m. on Sunday, September 24 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham. Doors
open at 9:30.
Attend via ZOOM by clicking here to register.
Join us as we gather in recognition of water, following the Unitarian Universalist tradition of celebrating water every September. Anyone who wishes to participate is asked to bring a jar of water from home, the ocean, the bay or any other water source that has significance for you. If you forget to bring water, you can use water from the chapel to symbolize your water.
Each person will then offer words about their water selection. This can be a few simple words, a poem, or any other form of description you would like. All the water will be combined in one jar, which will stay in the chapel and will represent all the ways we come together as a community.
Learn more at 10am on Sunday, September 17 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham. Doors open at 9:30.
This service will not be presented on Zoom.
Sunday, August 27, 2023
Please join us as Debra Wiess (author and director) presents a staged reading of Remembering Good Harbor Beach, a one-act thirty minute play. The play is starts off in the summer of 1923 when Josephine Nivison and Edward Hopper met in Gloucester, MA where they both came to paint. The play then fast-forwards to 16 years later at the Hopper’s summer home in Truro, as it delves into the complicated relationship of this artist couple.
The play will feature local actors Jarice Hanson and John Dennis Anderson and will be followed by a discussion on the subject.
Live at the Chapel and on Zoom. Zoom link here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckd-mpqjgjG9FO4MmFErUcA4IE8g5Z0gwn#/registration
Debra Wiess is a Boston-based writer of plays and poetry in English and French. Her work in both 
languages has been presented throughout this country and abroad, and several of her plays have won awards. She particularly enjoys presenting in non-traditional spaces and is currently presenting Remembering Good Harbor Beach at the Wellfleet Library.
Learn more at 10am on Sunday, August 27 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham. Doors open at 9:30.
OUR QUEER ELDERS
Sunday, August 20, 2023
Please join us as we welcome Katie Castagno, a geologist by day and a musician by night. Drawing on roots in rural New England and collegiate a cappella, Katie writes about people, places, and geological phenomena. Our Queer Elders is a project documenting in song the lives of queer women throughout history. Whether it’s an account of Rachel Carson’s whirlwind romance with Dorothy Freeman, a sweet love song about Mary Oliver, or a campy ditty about the first women to hike Vermont’s Long Trail, Katie will share stories and songs with warm melodies and quick wit. Come join and learn more about our queer elders.
Live at the Chapel and on Zoom. Zoom link below:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIof-utrjMpHdAKAWne8aJkN8NVLI60qeDT
Katie Castagno lives in Eastham and recently released an album, Every House I’ve Known, about what
it means to call a place home. When not making music, Katie is the director of the Land-Sea Interaction Program at the Center for Coastal Studies and spends most of the time in the salt marsh.
Learn more at 10am on Sunday, August 20 at the Chapel in the Pines in Eastham. Doors open at 9:30.