Founding member Bob Seay will discuss why the Nauset Fellowship was formed, who was behind it, and the decision to purchase the Chapel in 1979. Older members may know the story, but newcomers may be curious about the Fellowship’s origin story. Our beginnings shaped our future and makes us different from many other congregations on the Cape. It may also reveal some of the reasons for our success in establishing and sustaining a Unitarian Universalist presence in Eastham for almost 50 years.

Bob Seay, an Eastham resident, is recently retired as the transportation reporter for GBH News. He formerly hosted Morning Edition for GBH News, and worked as a broadcast journalist for more than three decades. Before joining GBH, Bob was Morning Edition host at Rhode Island Public Radio and the director of community radio station WOMR in Provincetown. For more than 15 years, he was the news and public affairs director at WQRC in Hyannis covering Cape Cod and the islands. Bob has also worked as a host on WBUR.

Learn more at 10 a.m. on Sunday, August 23, 2026. All are welcome.

At the Chapel in the Pines, 220 Samoset Road in Eastham.  Doors open at 9:30.
Also on Zoom via this Zoom program link.

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 they, along with the rest of the world, adapted to the big changes of a new century.

Irene M. Paine has a family tree that rooted on Cape Cod in the 1620’s. She writes prose, poems, and historical fiction, with details garnered from the hundreds of family photos dating back to the early days of photography. Originally from Paine Hollow in South Wellfleet, she lives in Yarmouth with her husband Jim Wolf, and three canine companions.

Learn more at 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 17, 2026. All are welcome.

At the Chapel in the Pines, 220 Samoset Road in Eastham.  Doors open at 9:30.
Also on Zoom via this Zoom program link.

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 the Story”” is dedicated to the memory of the late Wamsutta, also known as Frank James, former Nauset Regional High School music teacher and catalyst of the indigenous people’s National Day of Mourning, now observed annually at Plymouth, MA. According to Jim, “Frank was an important mentor to me, and we had many discussions about the differences between oral and written traditions.”

Learn more at 10 a.m. on Sunday, March 22, 2026. All are welcome.

At the Chapel in the Pines, 220 Samoset Road in Eastham.  Doors open at 9:30.
Also on Zoom via this Zoom program link.