The Henry Beston Society

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

October 2004

Additional Features

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)

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Mission Statement

Our mission is to honor Henry Beston by stimulating interest in and promoting education about his life, works and philosophy -- with emphasis on his time spent on Cape Cod in Massachusetts -- and his place in his world and ours, by coordinating research on his life and writings, by acting as an archive for material relevant to Henry Beston and by advocating for the preservation of the memory and historical importance of The Outermost House.

P.O. Box 407, North Eastham, MA 02651. Phone: (508) 246-7242. E-mail: henrybestonsociety@yahoo.com

BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Nita Wilding, Don Wilding,
Jon March, Kerrie March, Robby McQueeney, Bob Seay.

"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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