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Parker River Kayak Tour: Join Bobby Wilds and/or a naturalist guide of Great Marsh Kayak Tours for an easy paddle around Parker River and a bit of history & search for osprey, swans, and herons. Support the Barnstable Land Trust and enjoy the special 4-hour tour. Meet at ZooQuarium on Route 28 in Yarmouth. Rain date 9/12. Pre-registration is absolutely necessary.

When: Sep 11, 2010 1 PM
Where: Crocker Neck Conservation Area in Cotuit, Massachusetts
Cost: $60 (Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13 )
Crocker Neck Fall Walk: Join Gil Newton, professor, ecologist and author on an interpretive walk through the diverse ecosystems of the 97-acre Town-owned Crocker Neck Conservation Area in Cotuit. Learn about the salt marsh ecosystem and the flora and fauna that thrive at Crocker Neck. Park at the second gate of the Conservation Area on Santuit Road beyond the Cotuit Coves rock. For more information and to register call the Barnstable Land Trust at 508-771-2585 or go online to BLT@cape.com

When: Sep 12, 2010 10 AM
Where: Crocker Neck Conservation Area in Cotuit, Massachusetts
Cost: Free (Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10 )
Crocker Neck Fall Walk: Join Gil Newton, professor, ecologist and author, to explore the 97-acre town-owned Crocker Neck Conservation Area. Learn about the interesting salt marsh ecosystem and the flora and fauna that thrive in it. Watch for details.

When: Sep 12, 2010 10 AM
Where: Cotuit Bay/Ropes Beach in Cotuit, Massachusetts
Cost: Included in admission (Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10 )
Joanne Perry & The Unstoppables: Ages: All Ages

J. Perry & the Unstoppables are proud to play this event, "Reverse Through Music," benefitting the International Retts Foundation in honor of Charlotte Troy, Joanne's niece who was born with Retts Syndrome.

When: Sep 12, 2010 5 PM
Where: Cotuit Center for the Arts in Cotuit, Massachusetts (Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17 )
Joe Iadanza: Age Limit: All Ages

Joe Iadanza

When: Sep 13, 2010 7 PM
Where: Cotuit Center for the Arts in Cotuit, Massachusetts
Cost: $5 (Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19 )
Cotuit Bay Kayak Trip: Paddle around Cotuit Bay, North Bay and West Bay with Mass Audubon Sacntuary Director Ian Ive. Highlights include fall bird migrants and the natural history of the harbor. Actual paddling will be 2.5 hours. Park at Ropes Beach on Old Shore Rd. off Putnam Ave. See www.blt.org for more details. Difficulty: strenuous. Pre-registration is absolutely necessary, as the trip is limited to 12 people. To register call 508-362-7475, ext. 9355.

When: Sep 14, 2010 10 AM
Where: Crocker Neck Conservation Area in Cotuit, Massachusetts
Cost: $45 (Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10 )
Sandy Neck Kayak Trip: Fall is the best time to view wildlife at Sandy Neck. Join the Barnstable Land Trust and Mass Audubons Ian Ives for a paddle from Long Pasture to the tip of Sandy Neck (Beach Point). Then hike to a remarkable shorebird flocking area on the tidal flats with Sandy Neck Park Manager Nina Coleman. See the website for further details. Difficulty: moderate. Pre-registration is absolutely necessary, as the trip is limited to 12 people. To register call 508-362-7475, ext. 9355.

When: Sep 25, 2010 1 PM
Where: Crocker Neck Conservation Area in Cotuit, Massachusetts
Cost: $45 (Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13 )
Greg Loftus: Ages: All Ages

When: Oct 11, 2010 7 PM
Where: The Art Barn at the Cotuit Center for the Arts in Cotuit, Massachusetts (Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19 )
Kerri Powers: Ages: All Ages

with guitarist, Gary Goodlow

When: Oct 11, 2010 8 PM
Where: The Art Barn Barn Songwriter Series in Cotuit, Massachusetts (Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20 )
Turtle Island Fall Trek: Explore one of Barnstables special places, Turtle Island, which juts out into Prince Cove just below the mouth of the Marstons Mills River, with Red Bansfield, BLT Land Management Coordinator, and Holly Hobart, BLT member and history buff. We will then walk up Prince Avenue to view several interesting and historically important homes dating from the days when this area supported a thriving fishing, shell-fishing, and cranberry industry. Meet at the uppoer parking lot of the Prince Cove Marina. For more information and to register call the Barnstable Land Trust at 508-771-2585 or go online to BLT@cape.com

When: Oct 23, 2010 11 AM
Where: Crocker Neck Conservation Area in Cotuit, Massachusetts
Cost: Free (Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11 )
Brendan Hogan: Age Limit: All Ages

Brendan Hogan

When: Oct 25, 2010 7 PM
Where: The Art Barn at the Cotuit Center for the Arts in Cotuit, Massachusetts
Cost: $5 suggested donation (Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19 )
Christine Lavin and Don White: Concert and Comedy: Over the last 20-odd years covering folk music for the Boston Globe, I have often sung the praises of Christine Lavin and Don White, perhaps the two funniest performers on the folk circuit today.

Hearing that they are doing shows together is a dream-come-true for me, along with thousands of their other fans. That is not merely because they promise an evening of such fun and laughter. It is because of what they share, how they meld their comedic gifts with the best instincts of modern folk music.

I have laughed as hard at Don and Christine as I have at any comedians I have seen on stage, but I have never heard either of them tell a mean, scornful, or bitter joke. Always, their humor is fueled by the same empathy, kindness and universality that fuels their songwriting. Always, they look for the lyric, the poetic image, the gag, that reminds us what we share, not what sets us apart. Both their music and comedy is driven by a desire to tell the truth about the lives they live, and to find where those lives intersect with ours.

As you watch Christine and Don, you tend to feel like you're making a friend, rather than admiring some distant star. I can assure you that is no illusion. Don and Christine are very much what they appear to be on stage: genuinely goodhearted people who use their abundant talents to show us how much we have in common, as we all bumble and stumble through our own day-to-days.

Christine is renowned for treating her audiences less like fans than chums at a sleepover. It is a brave, almost naked, informality that only master entertainers can pull off; and it only works if it's genuine. Christine is able to treat her audiences that way, because that's how she feels about them. In her eyes, they are simply friends she doesn't know yet.

Don mines his workaday life as parent and husband, finding humor in the bad moments as well as the funny ones, always finding ways to make his experiences feel like ours. And somehow, once he lets us laugh at our dark moments and mundane struggles, they don't seem so dark, or so mundane.

Many comedians today offer their jokes at other people's expense: the convenience store clerk with the funny accent, the cab driver with the funny name, the stupid flight attendant on the airplane. The laughs that kind of humor produces are sharp, but fade quickly, followed by a certain feeling of emptiness, aloneness. We have laughed as an expression of how different - how apart - we are from each other. And we can't help but wonder if a comic like that would laugh at us, too.

Christine and Don, on the other hand, are both masters of the shared laugh. They turn their keen comical eyes on the foibles and pitfalls we all share. Where did I put my glasses this time? Why doesn't my daughter think I'm cool anymore?

As we laugh that shared laugh, we often eye those next to us, nodding in recognition: "You're that way, too," our eyes say? Then we nod and grin, suddenly feeling that warm, convivial pleasure that comes from knowing we're not quite as alone in this world as we sometimes think we are.

I have often noticed that the laughter Christine and Don receive lasts longer than it does for most comedians. I think that's because we enjoy the sound of all these people around us, expressing by our laughter that we are sharing something about ourselves, something that connects us to one another. The very sound of the laughter proves how much our experiences, our annoyances, peeves, and daily struggles, bind us together.

Because of that, when Christine Lavin and Don White make us laugh, there is always a warm shimmer of community beneath the silliness. Of all the gifts great entertainers can bring to the stage, I think this is perhaps the rarest and most valuable. Many can dazzle us; but only the very, very best can befriend us, and remind us that, in the end, we are all wary acrobats in the great human circus. And really, when have we ever needed laughs like that more?

Scott Alarik
Folk music writer, the Boston Globe, Sing Out, NPR
Author, Deep Community: Adventures in the Modern Folk Underground

When: Nov 19, 2010 12 AM to Nov 19, 2010 12 AM
Where: Cotuit Center for the Arts in Cotuit, Massachusetts
Cost: $25.00 (Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00 )
Bethel Steele - Dan Cloutier: Ages: All Ages

When: Nov 22, 2010 7 PM
Where: The Art Barn Barn Songwriter Series in Cotuit, Massachusetts (Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19 )