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"The Henry Beston Society, who keep Mr. Beston's wonderful lessons alive."
Endicott Peabody Jr.

October 2004

LECTURES

About our lectures

Outermost House Lecture Video

Places we've lectured

AT HENRY'S OUTER
BEACH RIGHT NOW

The weather

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Image of Coast Guard Beach Cape Cod courtesy of MoreBeach.com

News & Features

Full house at Cape Cod National Seashore for Beston Society program, July 2011

Beston Society receives Cape Cod Five grant for documentary film footage

January 2011: New office space for Beston Society

Waldron family donates Outermost House window, artifacts to Beston Society

Waldron books donated by family to Beston Society

Board members sought

Outermost House tour

Honors for Beston's Maine
farm house, June 2009

Beston's 'Coronation'
remembered 40 years later (2004)

H.B.  at Eastham's
Windmill Weekend 2004-08

Exhibit, A Sense of Place:
The Works of Beston, Hay and Finch
(2008)

Inspiration for the Cape Cod National Seashore (text)

Additional interview footage of Beston biographer Dr. Daniel Payne



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Beston Society receives grant from Arts Foundation of Cape Cod

 

Beston's walking stick among Outermost House acquisitions made by Beston Society

 

Download the Winter 2012 edition of THE GALLANT VAGABOND, the Beston Society newsletter.

Documentary film now in production! 

Support our documentary film project!
Special DVD to be available via Kickstarter.com!

Support for this project has been provided by

Charitable
Foundation Trust


Watch samples here!

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Scenic footage and interview sample
(Featuring interview footage with Beston biographer Dr. Daniel Payne, author Joan Anderson, Cape Cod National Seashore historian Bill Burke, and Jonathan Moore, former legislative assistant to Senator Saltonstall)

 

In 1928, author Henry Beston wrote his Cape Cod nature classic, The Outermost House, after spending a year observing the elements in a 20x16 cottage on the dunes of Eastham’s Coast Guard Beach. The book became an inspiration for the establishment of the Cape Cod National Seashore by John F. Kennedy, and was acknowledged as such when Beston’s seaside shanty was dedicated as a National Literary Landmark in 1964.

Beston and his house are gone now, but his words echo still in the wilds of Cape Cod’s Outer Beach. This DVD of breathtaking scenics from the National Seashore marries a lyrical soundtrack with some of Beston’s most inspiring passages.

Bonus material includes sample HD video footage shot for the upcoming documentary Henry Beston’s Cape Cod: Inspiration for a National Seashore, plus interview segments with:

  • Bill Burke, Cape Cod National Seashore Historian;
  • Dr. Daniel Payne, Professor of English at State University of New York in Oneonta and author of an upcoming Beston biography;
  • Joan Anderson, author of the New York Times Best Seller, An Unfinished Marriage;
  • Jonathan Moore of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, who worked on the legislation for the Cape Cod National Seashore with Senator Leverett Saltonstall.
  • Segments of footage from the Outermost House National Literary Landmark dedication ceremony in 1964 are also included.

In association with Chatham's Christopher Seufert and Mooncusser Films, the Henry Beston Society is producing a documentary film about the legacy of Henry Beston and his classic nature book, The Outermost House, and how the World War I ambulance driver turned naturalist’s book became an inspiration behind the creation of one of the crown jewels of New England National Parks – the Cape Cod National Seashore.


Please consider an online donation to the Beston Society's documentary film project by clicking the "Donate" button below.

Thank you from all of us at the Henry Beston Society!

 

 

 

 

 

 

UPCOMING LECTURES ON CAPE COD

 

Saturday, May 26,
(Memorial Day Weekend) 4 p.m. at Seashore Point, 100 Alden St., Provincetown (free).

 

Thursday, Aug. 2,
7 p.m. at Brewster Ladies Library, Brewster.


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Business office:
Main Street Mercantile Plaza
3 Main St., Unit 31
P.O. Box 407
North Eastham, MA 02651
Phone: (508) 246-7242.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Nita Wilding, Don Wilding,
Jon March, Kerrie March, Robby McQueeney, Bob Seay, Tim Sweeney.

 

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"A Cape Cod Icon Returns"

 

 

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Beston Society co-founder Don Wilding tells the story of how the author of The Outermost House became the spiritual father of the Cape Cod National Seashore.

 

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Rebuild "The Outermost House"

 

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