Robert Finch has published eight collections of essays, most recently The Outer Beach: A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod’s Atlantic Shore (Norton, 2017), and is coeditor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing (Norton, 2002). Since 2005 he has broadcast a weekly radio essay, “A Cape Cod Notebook,” on WCAI, the local NPR station in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. Finch is the author of Summers in Squid Tickle, forthcoming from W. W. Norton, in which “The Bell(s) of St. Alban’s” appears in somewhat different form.
Nonfiction
Winter 2023
The Bell(s) of St. Alban’s
I. St. Alban’s, the Anglican church in Squid Tickle, Newfoundland, was built in 1934, in the depths of the Depression. It replaced the small wooden building that had served as […]