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Scenic footage sample
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)

Now available: DVD of documentary film footage!

You can support the Beston Society's documentary film project by purchasing this DVD of pre-production footage. 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.