Category: Past Sunday Programs

17 Sept 2023: Water Service

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 … Continue reading 17 Sept 2023: Water Service

27 Aug 2023: “Remembering Good Harbor Beach” with Debra Wiess

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. Debra Wiess is a Boston-based … Continue reading 27 Aug 2023: “Remembering Good Harbor Beach” with Debra Wiess

20 Aug 2023: Our Queer Elders with Katie Castagno

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 … Continue reading 20 Aug 2023: Our Queer Elders with Katie Castagno

13 Aug 2023: “Edward Hopper’s Eastham” with Bob Seay

Sunday, August 13, 2023 at 10:00 AM  Recording available here: https://youtu.be/eyZHE2vnr4o Nauset Fellowship member Bob Seay continues his exploration of Edward Hopper’s sketches, watercolors and oils done in Eastham. Bob reveals the locations of many of Hopper’s subjects and speculates on what attracted him to the town.  This attraction mystified his wife Jo who wrote: “Eastham is his happy hunting ground and it’s the least attractive township on the Cape and could be Westchester or New Jersey.”  Nevertheless, she admitted … Continue reading 13 Aug 2023: “Edward Hopper’s Eastham” with Bob Seay

30 July 2023: Reading American Diaries

Join us as Steven Kagle discusses diaries as literature. Diaries are usually studied as sources of historical or biographical information and not as works of art. Steven will use a few New England diaries to explain how to read diaries as literature an explain their place in American culture. Steven Kagle is a former professor of English. He began studying diaries 60 years ago while working on the diaries of the Adams family, and went on to write and edit … Continue reading 30 July 2023: Reading American Diaries

23 July 2023: The Healing Power of Creativity!

Please join us for an experiential celebration of the expressive and creative arts- Storytelling, poetry, photography, nature connection, mindfulness, movement and more…All are welcome! Bring the whole family or just yourself and experience the healing gifts of creativity and art. Deirdre deer Sullivan is a community organizer/activist and an expressive and creativeart facilitator. She also serves as a counselor/advocate at the Independence House, serving victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Deirdre joyfully lives on the elbow of Cape … Continue reading 23 July 2023: The Healing Power of Creativity!

16 July 2023: Cape Cod Foster Closet

Join us as Sharon Palmer and Carla Koehl introduce us to the work of the Cape Cod Foster Closet. Cape Cod and the Islands are home to thousands of children who are being raised by a  foster family or grandparent. The Cape Cod Foster Closet is here for them, offering free, often new, footwear, clothing, baby gear, school supplies and much more for infants through age 18. In addition, families can access resources and can find a community among other foster … Continue reading 16 July 2023: Cape Cod Foster Closet

9 July 2023: Riding the Radio Airwaves – 3 Stories

Sunday July 9th, 2023 at 10:00 AM Recording available here: https://vimeo.com/845601505 With their combined 100 years in radio broadcasting, these three Eastham locals come together to share stories, some of which wound up on the cutting room floor! Spanning the decades from 1969 to this week, 3 on-air radio broadcasters share a few memories of exciting behind-the-scenes experiences working with community leaders from Provincetown to Cambridge, from DC to Truro, England, encounters with “movers and shakers” from Jesse Jackson, Bonnie … Continue reading 9 July 2023: Riding the Radio Airwaves – 3 Stories

2 July 2023: Music with Katie Castagno – CANCELED

10:00 a.m. Sunday, July 2, 2023 Update: Unfortunately, Katie will not be performing today at the Chapel. We hope to reschedule her soon. The Fellowship will hold a Business Meeting in the Chapel instead. All are welcome.  ============================================================================= Katie Castagno is 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. Whether it’s an account of Rachel Carson’s whirlwind romance with Dorothy … Continue reading 2 July 2023: Music with Katie Castagno – CANCELED

25 June 203 – “Cape Cod’s History Through the Lens of Energy, Work and Technology” with John Cumbler

10:00 a.m. Sunday, June 25, 2023 John Cumbler will present ways to understand our history through our different uses of its resources based upon different systems of organizing the harvesting and utilization of those resources from pre-white to the present. He has identified three “regimes of resource utilization” on Cape Cod. Given our present crisis of climate change, this provides an interesting perspective. This presentation will not be available via Zoom. Originally from Doylestown, PA, John Cumbler is a social … Continue reading 25 June 203 – “Cape Cod’s History Through the Lens of Energy, Work and Technology” with John Cumbler