Henry Beston's Cape Cod

In 1925, a writer from Quincy, Massachusetts built a sturdy 20x16 house on Eastham's outer beach on Cape Cod. From those experiences came the literary classic, The Outermost House, in 1928. Now, 75 years later, the story behind Henry Beston's search for the Great Truth is told in Henry Beston's Cape Cod. From his native Quincy to the horrors of the battlefield in Verdun, France during World War I, and finally to his mystical revelation in Eastham, Henry Beston's Cape Cod takes us back through history, retracing the writer / naturalist's footprints in the dunes of Nauset.

Don Wilding has spent the better part of the last two decades working as an award-winning writer and editor for newspapers in Southeastern Massachusetts, presently as sports editor for The Foxborough Reporter in Foxborough, Massachusetts. He created The Outermost Web Site, an online tribute to Henry Beston and The Outermost House, in 1999, then wrote and composed the 32-page magazine tribute, On its Solitary Dune, for Eastham's 350th Anniversary celebration in 2001. Mr. Wilding is also a founding member of The Henry Beston Society. He lives with his wife, Nita, in North Attleborough, Massachusetts.