The Center for Coastal Studies’ popular Napi’s Winter Lecture Series will resume Wednesday, January 22 at 5 pm with a talk by Dennis Minsky, author of the recently published “Peculiar and Superior, a Year-Rounder in Provincetown.”
Traditionally held at Napi’s Restaurant in Provincetown, the lecture series will now be hosted at the Center’s Hiebert Marine Laboratory, 5 Holway Avenue, Provincetown. Refreshments will be served. Admission is free.
A long-time resident of Provincetown after hitchhiking there in 1968, Minsky has worked as a wildlife biologist at the Cape Cod National Seashore, as a guide with Art’s Dune Tours, and, since 1995, as a naturalist with the Dolphin Fleet Whale Watch.
Since 2019, Minsky has chronicled the town, its people, history, and natural history in a column, “The Year-Rounder,” published in the Provincetown Independent. Those essays make up this new collection. According to author Philip Hoare, “Whales, birds, artists, plumbers, dogs, buildings, everyday frustrations, quiet successes: Minsky’s real-time cast and setting create a revealing mosaic of what it is like to live in the 21stcentury with all its joys and pressures, its forebodings and its ecstasies, and he does it with enviable empathy and a great deal of wry humour.”
The author will read several selections from the book, and discuss how he came to write it, with a focus on the natural and human history of the Outer Cape, and the work of the Center.
Reservations requested but not required. Click here to register.
Photo by Elias Duncan.