Miss the show live? You can listen anytime! www.capeandislands.org/show/the-poi...

This morning at 9 AM EST the LIVE monthly book talk at @wcai-npr.bsky.social. The theme today … books featuring windows and doors. Always looking forward to talking about books in the studio!

@dapowell.bsky.social Delighted to see your poem in today’s The New Yorker!

Ghostly stories for Halloween via @wcai-npr.bsky.social … a repeat show from quite a few years ago. I am always delighted to be in the studio with Mindy & Jayne! www.capeandislands.org/show/the-poi...

@jdickerson.bsky.social So sorry to hear you are leaving CBS News. You will be missed.

A song I have been listening to for decades … and has just returned into my heart. I still deeply miss Nanci Griffith. What a gift to have seen her live at Passims so many years ago … m.youtube.com/watch?v=yBBi...

"(Reviews “are all a species of stupidity, even when they are not stupid,” [Updike] wrote in 1970, before he began to write them regularly himself.)" A very fine Dwight Garner piece on the big new edition of John Updike's letters. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b...

Red in the morning … sailors take warning …

Thoreau, Oct. 20, 1855. I find, here and there on the hill, apples, sometimes three or four, carried to the mouth of a striped squirrel's hole, 4 or 5 rods from the tree, with the marks of his teeth in them, by which he carried them, and the chankings or else fragments of the skin of others there.

This weekend's WSJ Fiction Chronicle leads with Lee Clay Johnson's "Bloodline," a story of gonzo small-town demagoguery in the vein of Coover, Gass, Crews and other chroniclers of the North American berserk. It is, to put it mildly, a timely subject. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Falmouth, MA, village green - more great pics from our 1000+ crown turnout!

"Call me Ishmael..." #MobyDick was first published in London #OnThisDay in 1851. This Armed Services Edition of Herman Melville's novel was distributed to US troops during #WWII. More info on @ransomcenter.bsky.social's IG feed: www.instagram.com/p/DP9ieE0CDU... #Melville #booksky #TheWhale 📚📜🐳

The bell in First Congregational Church in Falmouth, MA was forged in 1796 by Paul Revere. It has been rung over 30,000,000 times. Today the congregation rang it especially for the No Kings event.

#Falmouth MA takes No Kings seriously: On this day in 1775 Falmouth was bombed & burned by the British for saying No Kings!

FALMOUTH MASS IN DA HOUSE NO KINGS!!!!! TY

Even more signs from NoKings Falmouth MA #NoKings #FalmouthIndivisible #Falmouth #CapeCod

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Met some guys at #NoKings NYC who are definitely not immigrants, so Stephen Miller should be happy.

Some signs in No-Kings Falmouth MA #Nokings #falmouth #Capecod

Some more signs at NoKings Falmouth MA #NoKings #FalmouthIndivisible #Falmouth #CapeCod

Incredibly immediate portrait of a woman, a little copper painting by Cristofano Allori. Today is his day.

Hermann Rorschach’s Original Rorschach Test: What Do You See? (1921) www.openculture.com/2025/09/herm... #psychology #culture

Susan Stamberg joined NPR at its start, originally to cut tape — literal tape, with a single-sided blade — at a time when commercial networks almost never hired women. n.pr/493MG7W

Today a bunch of the RUCOOL team plus over 20 students visited Teledyne Marine up in Falmouth Mass to celebrate the launch of the Sentinel Glider Mission. What is it? More info can be found at: rucool.marine.rutgers.edu/sentinel-gli...

🥷Ninjas, 👨‍🚀astronauts and even 👻ghosts all have emojis. Why don't the delivery workers who keep us connected? We're part of a global effort calling on the @unicode.org to recognize these essential jobs with an emoji of their own. 🚚✉️📦👷‍♀️ #WorldPostDay #PostforPeople uniglobalunion.org/news/deliver...

My delight in Portland, Oregon many years ago ... things I loved about Portland ... www.flickr.com/photos/jilly...

Cape Light …

@wcvb5.bsky.social FYI … Cindy Fitzgibbon the rain has begun in downtown Falmouth, MA.

"’The Outermost House’ is strong medicine. I genuinely believe that it will live for other generations. It stands alone, not only in this publishing year, but in any year." — John Riddell, Vanity Fair, December 1928

The apple picking in Sandwich, Massachusetts was delightful and delicious last weekend!

The Emancipation Proclamation? Mr. Rogers? Star Trek? What do these have in common? They're among the stamps that are candidates for a return to "Forever" status - and voting ends September 30. Get in your vote, and make an additional statement on your mailings! www.stampsforever.com/vote

Our warehouse sale goes on some more, Some extra hours to browse the store, Find some books you've been longing for, One day more! We extended the hours of our fall Virtual Warehouse Sale! Shop the sale until 12 AM EST tonight, at HBSWarehouseSale.com.

Like, follow, and share if you love libraries and reading! Then, take action to support libraries and literacy at action.everylibrary.org

Long Shadow Season Begins …

Miss the monthly book show today on CAI? The theme was space, stars and planets ... here you go ... Illustration by Sophie Blackall. www.capeandislands.org/show/the-poi...

FINALLY!!! Rain on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This reminds me of the film My Brilliant Career with Judy Davis in the rain ... youtu.be/x07O06_Yzr8?...

This morning LIVE at 9 AM on @wcai-npr.bsky.social join us for this month’s book show on THE POINT with Mindy Todd. The topic today is stars, astronomy, and space! Joining us will be the delightful author Peter Abrahams known for his Chet and Bernie mysteries, as well as lots of other novels!

@corgilass.bsky.social As in a former FPL staff?!?!

@letterappsoc.bsky.social You might enjoy this collection of photos I have gathered over the years of letters and mailboxes ... here is the link: www.flickr.com/photos/jilly...

Magical light coming from outside to inside the house …

Looking for some books about fishes? Take a listen to The Point’s monthly book show … where the topic is fish. I join Mindy Todd on @wcai-npr.bsky.social with Dennis Minsky. Booklist: www.falmouthpubliclibrary.org/blog/books-a... Radio show: www.capeandislands.org/show/the-poi...

Summer must be over … a very red leaf!

"This was a woman who used the written word the way a highway patrolman uses his cruiser: as a work tool, instrument of power and control, weapon, badge of office, carapace, and home on wheels." Beth Gutcheon on the strengths and eccentricities of Edna Ferber. hudsonreview.com/2025/08/the-...

Morning Shadows …

All kinds of escapes exist, and books are full of them! Our book experts share their lists of picks on The Point.

You may not see hundreds of shearwaters and other seabirds, but it’s always worth getting out in a boat. Hear more on the Weekly Bird Report with Mark Faherty.