The Friends will once again co-sponsor a beach clean with the Center for Coastal Studies, led by their Marine Education Director Jesse Mechling, on Saturday, April 25, from 10 AM to 12 PM at Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown. Bring sturdy gloves and drinking water, and wear sunscreen. There is no rain date. The chance of showers or drizzle does not cancel; only heavy rain. Register by April 23 by emailing info@fccns.org. 

On an inventor’s holiday for celebrating the radio, drop by the Marconi Station Site in Wellfleet to experience wireless communication around the world. The radio club, KM1CC, will have activities and presentations set up throughout the day.

10 am – 4 pm – KM1CC will be set up for broadcasting and receiving radio transmissions around the world.

10 am- 4 pm - View a world map of all the places contacted via radio.

Stop by the visitor center daily during the week for a special touch box of local shellfish, kids games, short films, museum and outdoor scavenger hunts, and the Junior Ranger program!

Spring is the perfect time to reflect and take in the beauty of nature. Would you like to share a wish for the coming year? What are you looking forward to the most? Stop by the Salt Pond Visitor Center to share your reflections on this self-guided program. See what others will share on the Spring Mural!

Stop by the visitor center daily during the week for a special touch box of local shellfish, kids games, short films, museum and outdoor scavenger hunts, and the Junior Ranger program!

Spring is the perfect time to reflect and take in the beauty of nature. Would you like to share a wish for the coming year? What are you looking forward to the most? Stop by the Salt Pond Visitor Center to share your reflections on this self-guided program. See what others will share on the Spring Mural!

Stop by the visitor center daily during the week for a special touch box of local shellfish, kids games, short films, museum and outdoor scavenger hunts, and the Junior Ranger program!

Spring is the perfect time to reflect and take in the beauty of nature. Would you like to share a wish for the coming year? What are you looking forward to the most? Stop by the Salt Pond Visitor Center to share your reflections on this self-guided program. See what others will share on the Spring Mural!

Stop by the visitor center daily during the week for a special touch box of local shellfish, kids games, short films, museum and outdoor scavenger hunts, and the Junior Ranger program!

Spring is the perfect time to reflect and take in the beauty of nature. Would you like to share a wish for the coming year? What are you looking forward to the most? Stop by the Salt Pond Visitor Center to share your reflections on this self-guided program. See what others will share on the Spring Mural!

Stop by the visitor center daily during the week for a special touch box of local shellfish, kids games, short films, museum and outdoor scavenger hunts, and the Junior Ranger program!

Spring is the perfect time to reflect and take in the beauty of nature. Would you like to share a wish for the coming year? What are you looking forward to the most? Stop by the Salt Pond Visitor Center to share your reflections on this self-guided program. See what others will share on the Spring Mural!

Walk through Cape Cod’s geologic past on this Nauset Marsh Trail hike. Explore how the Cape has been shaped by nature and people, and what may be in store for its future. Meet at the Salt Pond Visitor Center.

This 2010 version tells the story of Mattie Ross. Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested.—Jim Beaver Rated PG (1h, 50m)

Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore co-sponsors free films on Sunday afternoons on the big screen at the Salt Pond Visitor Center.

Bonnie and Clyde (1967) tells the 1934 Depression Era story of the infamous crime duo of Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie Parker, a waitress, and Clyde Barrow, a criminal just released from prison, decide to join forces to embark on a life of crime, holding up whatever establishments, primarily banks, to make money–and to have fun. However, the criminals’ lives change after their first fatal shot is fired. The Barrow gang went on a violent robbery and killing spree–and entered American folklore in the process. The film stars Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. Rated R (1h, 51m)

Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore co-sponsors free films on Sunday afternoons on the big screen at the Salt Pond Visitor Center.

As campaigning for the 1972 presidential elections takes place, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers a seemingly minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. When he attends an arraignment of the alleged burglars, he discovers that top lawyers are already on the defense case. Woodward then discovers ties between the burglars, the attorneys and the committee to re-elect President Richard Nixon. Washington Post Editor Ben Bradley assigns reporter Carl Bernstein to the story and the pair ultimately uncover a trail of evidence leading to President Nixon. The result of the scandal was the first and only  resignation of an American president. The film (1976) stars the late Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.  Rated PG (2h 18m)

Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore co-sponsors free films on Sunday afternoons on the big screen at the Salt Pond Visitor Center.

This 1995 film is based on the events of the April, 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert were nearing lunar orbit when an oxygen tank exploded, threatening their oxygen supply that resulted in the mission being scrubbed. The follows the crew and NASA engineers as they problem solve to get the crew safely back to Earth. The film stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, the late Bill Paxton and Gary Sinise. Rated PG. (2h, 20m)

Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore co-sponsors free films on Sunday afternoons on the big screen at the Salt Pond Visitor Center.

Stephen Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012) chronicles the 1865 effort by the sixteenth president to abolish slavery before the end of the Civil War. The film tells the story of the passage of the landmark 13th Amendment to the Constitution and Lincoln’s political gymnastics to convince a reluctant Congress to end the practice of involuntary servitude in the United States. The movie has a stellar cast including Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. Rated PG-13 (2h 30m)

Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore co-sponsors free films on Sunday afternoons on the big screen at the Salt Pond Visitor Center.

RESCHEDULED FROM 1/25. A filmed version of the monster hit Broadway play Hamilton, starring the original Broadway cast, including composer Lin-Manuel Miranda. The filming of the performance took place in 2016; it appeared in theaters and on Disney+ in 2020. The musical is based on the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton. The play follows the first treasurer of the United States of America from his arrival in New York City in 1776, through the American Revolution, the government’s founding, until his untimely death by duel in 1804. Rated PG-13 (2h 40m)

Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore co-sponsors free films on Sunday afternoons on the big screen at the Salt Pond Visitor Center.

Hosted by the Atlantic Research Learning Center at Cape Cod National Seashore, the Symposium brings researchers and the public together. This popular event provides researchers an opportunity to present their work directly to the public while providing the public an opportunity to hear about the latest scientific research at Cape Cod National Seashore directly from the people conducting it.

Topics this year include: Seasonal Distribution and Relative Abundance of Fishes and Invertebrates in Nauset Harbor; Consequences of Historic Wetland Impoundment and Implications of Seawater Flooding after a Century of Tidal Restriction; “What’s that Sherd?”: Identifying Diagnostic Historic Ceramics; Migration Ecology of Cape Cod's Juvenile Whimbrel; Tracking the Shifting Shoreline: How Coastal Parks are Changing Over Time; and “Fourth of July” Butterfly Surveys: Diversity and Abundance Trends for the Outer Cape and National Seashore with Mark Faherty, Science Coordinator at Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

Complete the registration form to register for the event. Please register regardless of whether you plan to attend remotely or in person as all registrants will receive any updates about the event. Also available remotely through Microsoft Teams. Sponsored by Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore.

Now in its 17th year, the Center for Coastal Studies will hold its annual COASTSWEEP beach clean up, n. Volunteers will meet at MacMillan Pier for free Flyer’s shuttle service to Long Point.  Debris will be tallied for inclusion in the International Coastal Cleanup global database. Space is limited and registration is required (LINK).

We close out the Tuesdays at Salt Pond with a local group who will sing sea shanties, Celtic and folk music. The group is based in the Lower Cape. Their work features fiery fiddling, a sing-a-long and dance-a-long. They perform familiar songs and new songs from many countries and cultures! Denya is a Wellfleet singer who plays fiddle and ukulele. Mark O’Leary, from Orleans, sings and plays guitar and percussion [bones and bodhran, the Irish drum].

https://denya.us/

Weekly, Tuesday evening programs at Salt Pond Visitor Center are free and sponsored by Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Held at the Salt Pond Amphitheater, bench and lawn seating are available, picnicking is welcome, and bug spray is suggested.

For more than two decades, singer-songwriter Brian Sances has been writing music and performing all over Cape Cod and New England. Brian has performed at Cape Cod Melody Tent, Spire Center for the Performing Arts, Narrows Center for the Arts, and the Levitate Music and Arts Festival. Brian is available for booking private events, weddings, and other performances.

”Flurry” was chosen as a winner in the instrumental category of the 2024 New England Songwriting Competition.  Flurry will appear on the new album, “Rainbow” which is being released April 25th 2025. The release concert is being held at the Listening Room of Cape Cod in Mashpee
Commons on Cape Cod.
https://www.briansances.com/

Weekly, Tuesday evening programs at Salt Pond Visitor Center are free and sponsored by Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Held at the Salt Pond Amphitheater, bench and lawn seating are available, picnicking is welcome, and bug spray is suggested.

With performances for groups large or small, of all age ranges, Jackson incorporates song, story, comedy, dance, mime and sign language into his own intimate style of theatre. Being in the business of speaking and performing since 1978 has given Jackson an enormous amount of material from which to draw as he customizes an engaging program for any event. Jackson believes that humor can enliven and enlighten any group, meeting, or gathering, and his is based on a foundation of beneficence, hope, and a belief in the enduring power of the human spirit.
https://jacksongillman.com/

Weekly, Tuesday evening programs at Salt Pond Visitor Center are free and sponsored by Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Held at the Salt Pond Amphitheater, bench and lawn seating are available, picnicking is welcome, and bug spray is suggested.

The Geography Gameshow is an interactive educational event that involves the creator and host, Neal Nichols, Jr., drawing geographical maps entirely from memory. This program challenges and enhances the comprehension and learning skills of students through the use of geographical knowledge. Specific lessons can be incorporated into shows that are adjustable for all ages.
www.geographygameshow.com

Weekly, Tuesday evening programs at Salt Pond Visitor Center are free and sponsored by Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Held at the Salt Pond Amphitheater, bench and lawn seating are available, picnicking is welcome, and bug spray is suggested.

In the heart of New England, a musical revelation was born. The GroovaLottos, a soul-funk-Afrobeats jam band, emerged from the synergy of seasoned touring players and studio maestros, reshaping musical traditions into a dynamic fusion that transcends genres. Their story began with jam sessions, evolved into rehearsals, and swiftly ignited the stages of bars, clubs, events, and festivals.

https://www.thegroovalottos.com/

Weekly, Tuesday evening programs at Salt Pond Visitor Center are free and sponsored by Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Held at the Salt Pond Amphitheater, bench and lawn seating are available, picnicking is welcome, and bug spray is suggested.

*** Date pending , confirmation coming soon!

For more than two decades, singer-songwriter Brian Sances has been writing music and performing all over Cape Cod and New England. Brian has performed at Cape Cod Melody Tent, Spire Center for the
Performing Arts, Narrows Center for the Arts, and the Levitate Music and Arts Festival. ”Flurry” was chosen as a winner in the instrumental category of the 2024 New England Songwriting Competition.  Flurry appeared on the new album, “Rainbow,” which was released in April, 2025.

https://www.briansances.com/

Weekly, Tuesday evening programs at Salt Pond Visitor Center are free and sponsored by Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Held at the Salt Pond Amphitheater, bench and lawn seating are available, picnicking is welcome, and bug spray is suggested.

Annual Meeting Agenda:

6:00 - 6:30 Join us for a walk on the Buttonbush Trail to learn about
recent updates & potential improvements

6:30 - 7:00 Light refreshments in the Salt Pond Visitor Center

7:00 Business Meeting: President’s Remarks, Treasurer’s Report, Membership Vote

Featured Presentation : Jennifer Flynn, Superintendent
Current Status of Park Operations, Planned Activities and Future Challenges and Opportunities

RSVP by July 10 to info@fccns.org

Lesley Smith and Edward Redonnet began their musical collaboration in 2020, when the stillness of pandemic lockdowns offered the unexpected gift of time to play together. What started as a way to pass long hours at home quickly became something more. “It’s one of our favorite ways to hang out and have fun,” says Smith — and that spirit still drives their performances today.

Together, they form the heart of LEd and Company, a project rooted in the joy of making music with friends. Their sets weave through favorite covers — from the timeless melodies of Hank Williams to the soulful grooves of Jerry Garcia — all grounded in the rich textures of American roots music. Alongside these classics, they mix in their own originals: songs with groove, warmth, and plenty of heart.

Lesley Smith is a versatile songwriter, bassist, and vocalist whose musical path has spanned genres from alternative rock to world music and reggae. She released her debut solo album Waves in October 2024, showcasing her lyrical voice and rhythmic foundation. Edward Redonnet brings decades of experience as a dynamic guitarist, best known for his long-running work with The Equalites, a roots-rock-reggae band with deep New England roots dating back to the early '90s. His energetic playing style and love for improvisation make him a powerful musical partner. They hail from Central Massachusetts and Wellfleet.

Weekly, Tuesday evening programs at Salt Pond Visitor Center are free and sponsored by Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Held at the Salt Pond Amphitheater, bench and lawn seating are available, picnicking is welcome, and bug spray is suggested.