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Past Beston Society lectures and events

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CAPE COD, MASS.

EASTHAM

Cape Cod National Seashore, Salt Pond Visitors Center, 2008, 2011*

Cape Cod National Seashore, led Beston / Outermost House-oriented walks at Coast Guard Beach, 2003.

Eastham Historical Society, 2005*

Eastham Public Library, 2006*

Nauset Fellowship (Universalist / Unitarian) of Chapel in the Pines, 2004, 2008.*

Eastham 350th Anniversary celebration, 2001.*

Performance of Marvin Einhorn as Henry Beston in Cynthia L. Cooper's script of Beston's book at Chapel in the Pines, 2003.

Booth at Eastham Windmill Weekend, 2004-08, 2011

The Inn at the Oaks for a literature class from Penn. State University, Nov. 2011.

WELLFLEET

Massachusetts Audubon Society's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary 2003.*

Massachusetts Audubon Society's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, part of special birthday party for Henry Beston, featuring Outermost House audio book narrator Brett Barry and Beston biographer Daniel Payne, 2008.

Wellfleet Historical Society (at the Wellfleet Public Library), 2009.*

TRURO

Truro Library, North Truro, 2008.*

PROVINCETOWN

Special 40th anniversary celebration of The Outermost House being dedicated as a National Literary Landmark, at Provincelands Visitors Center at Race Point, Cape Cod National Seashore. Featuring actor Marvin Einhorn as Henry Beston in Cynthia L. Cooper's script of Beston's book, 2004.

ORLEANS

Nauset Heights Association, East Orleans, 2004.*

CHATHAM

Chatham Historical Society, 2007.*

Chatham High School, 11th grade honors English class, October 2011 and March 2012.

BREWSTER

Cape Cod Museum of Natural History * (lecture on Sept. 12, 2008 was a feature of the exhibit, A Sense of Place: The Works of Beston, Hay and Finch, which was a joint effort between the Beston Society and the museum and ran from May through December 2008)

Brewster Ladies' Library, 2004.*

Brewster Men's Club, 2007.*

Cape Cod Sea Camps, 12th annual Leadership Weekend (for school teachers), 2009.*

Eighth grade class of Capt. Nathan Hale Middle School, Coventry, Conn. at Cape Cod Sea Camp (May 2004-07) *

Epoch Senior Center, 2004, 2005.*

HARWICH

Harwich Historical Society , 2004.*

Rosewood Manor, West Harwich, 102nd birthday for Helen Chalke (widow of Coast Guard officer Effin Chalke, who is mentioned in The Outermost House), 2009.

DENNIS

Cape Cod Museum of Art, 2007.*

Dennis Public Library, Dennisport, 2007.*

South Dennis Free Library, South Dennis, 2008.*

YARMOUTH

Mayflower Retirement Community, West Yarmouth, 2007.*

BARNSTABLE

Cape Cod Community College, West Barnstable, 2006, 2007.*

Cape Cod Writers' Center at the Cape Cod Maritime Museum, Hyannis, 2006.*

Tales of Cape Cod, West Barnstable, 2004.*

Barnstable Senior Center, Hyannis, 2003.*

Cotuit Library, Cotuit, 2008.*

Osterville Free Library, Osterville, 2009. *

Booth at Cape Cod Maritime Festival, Cape Cod Maritime Museum, Hyannis (2005, 2007)

SANDWICH

Thornton W. Burgess Society, 2002.*

FALMOUTH

Woods Hole Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, 2003.*

OFF-CAPE

BOSTON, MASS.

Emerson College , 2006.*

FOXBORO, MASS.

Foxborough Historical Society, 2012

WESTON, MASS.

Weston Senior Citizens Club, 2005.*

SALEM, MASS.

2003 annual meeting of Annie's Book Stop owners *

DAMARISCOTTA, MAINE

Damariscotta Lake Watershed Association, 2004.*

NOBLEBORO, MAINE

National Literary Landmark dedication for Henry Beston's Chimney Farm at Nobleboro Grange. Sponsored by Damariscotta Lake Watershed Association and the Nobleboro Historical Society, 2009.

HOPKINTON, N.H.

Friends of the Hopkinton Public Library, 2003.*

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