10:00 a.m. Sunday, February 12, 2023
Pancheta Peterson will use poetry from black life experiences to engage us in examining how
we ourselves think and feel about race at this moment. All are welcome.
Live at Chapel in the Pines and on Zoom.
Zoom registration link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvduCppjkqHNSVouz_2DyK9Wt6sOunxcFG
Pancheta has lived in Wellfleet for 40 years and raised her 4 children in the Nauset Regional school system. She was ordained as Community Outreach Minister at First Parish UU in Brewster and has provided diversity training by keeping conversations concerning race going. Her Racial Justice Study Group has been reading together and meeting to discuss books on racial issues for over 5 years.
She is co-convener of the MLK Action Team of Nauset Interfaith where she takes part in engaging conversations with police chiefs and others that started after the killing of George Floyd.
on the Lower and Outer Cape and not a single one of those helped ended up in a homeless shelter. Learn about the history of this phenomenal organization and breadth of its programs from CEO Hadley Luddy. Hadley will give us fresh insights into our area’s housing crisis and share ways the both full time and seasonal residents can be part of the solution. All are welcome.
and Nature. There is a connection between her work on understanding the aesthetics of human kinship language with Nature, and the work of the 60-year-old 
educator. From her studies and practice, she has derived an understanding of a primal and primary language, which humans have in kinship with all of Nature. She works with people of all ages in a deep movement-based experience of this kinship language. Her most recent publication is “Art as Ecology: A Mutual Nod.”
will read from her just published book, Stopping on the Bridge, which presents the wonder of the Eastham bridge on Bridge Road and the Boat Meadow River that flows under it. Cape Cod towns, marshes, and beaches are at the heart of this book, but Ashley presents a full life from many places. The morning will be enhanced by the reading of poems by Lucile Burt whose celestial poems are sure to delight, by Trevor the Juggler juggling a poem, and by the incomparable duo of Billy Hardy and Beth Sweeney playing and singing their lilting Irish music, appropriate to the solstice in the coming days.
coldest months at the Airport Rotary in Hyannis. They have done this for the last eight years. The group’s former President, Pat Hatch, will give a brief history of the group and introduce their latest campaign to prevent gun violence, “You Can Save a Life Now!” Like all of the group’s educational programs, this campaign raises awareness around issues of gun safety, extreme risk protection orders and suicide prevention. Hatch will also offer a brief update on the current legislative state of affairs both locally and nationally regarding gun violence prevention. All are welcome.
Raytheon when she retired to Cape Cod. She was enjoying retirement by taking art classes and helping at a wildlife center when Sandy Hook happened and changed her life. So, in 2012, she began Grandmothers Against Gun Violence, a nonpartisan nonprofit grassroots organization which strives to understand more clearly the effect of gun violence in our communities and to share that awareness with the public.
10:00 a.m. Sunday, November 27, 2022
contagious. Whether she is belting out a blues, caressing the melody of a delicate love song, encouraging social consciousness and change or singing about her pajamas, it is an experience that inspires courage, strength and hope. She does all of this while creating an atmosphere of playfulness and spontaneity that is disarming and uniquely Sarah. Join Sarah for a Sunday morning acoustic set sure to lift your mood.
Eastham Historical Society found when they searched for “The History of Turnips in Eastham” in the local archives. The focus will be on the process of the search, the sorts of historical records available, and the connections made to Eastham and the greater Cape Cod area. Using a historical perspective, researchers looked at Eastham’s reputation in agriculture and other industries, and listened to well-known Eastham residents explain the intricacies of turnip farming over the past one hundred plus years. All are welcome.
teaching both here on Cape Cod and abroad. She volunteers for the Eastham Historical Society in the archives and at their museums, and is also a member of the Eastham Historical Commission. When not involved with historical pursuits, she sings with the Outer Cape Chorale and Chamber Singers. 
Growing up, Ellen English spent part of her summers on Pond Road from toddlerhood on, after