Henry Beston’s Cape Cod: Inspiration for a National Seashore

About Henry Beston’s Cape Cod: Inspiration for a National Seashore...Don Wilding, author and co-founder of the nonprofit Henry Beston Society on Cape Cod, will speak on Beston and his book, “The Outermost House,” written in 1927 after Beston spent a solitary year in a tiny cottage on Eastham’s outer beach. Wilding’s presentation includes over 100 slides of the author and his famous cottage, telling how the Quincy native, still shaken by his experiences as an ambulance driver in France during World War I, took to writing fairy tales and eventually found the peace of mind he was looking for on Cape Cod’s outer beach. In doing so, he not only found himself as a writer, but his prose found its way into National Park Service reports about Cape Cod, which sealed its establishment as a national treasure.