Summer at the Outermost House
In the summer of 1927 as Beston approached the end of his year living on Cape Cod, life came to “flood tide” with the return of summer....
Upcoming Events
Now that it's summer, we've scheduled a few events (so far) to talk about Orion on the Dunes: A Biography of Henry Beston. On July 1st,...
HB and "Social Media"
It at the Fo’castle that Beston truly “found himself” as a writer, realizing that he needed, as Elizabeth Coatsworth recalled, “to...
Building the Fo'c's'le
During the summer of 1925, while he was finishing The Book of Gallant Vagabonds, Beston was also drawing up the plans for his new dune...
Henry Beston's Gallant Vagabonds
In May 1924 Henry Beston departed the United States for a trip to Spain, spending the next five months traveling throughout the country....
The Guardians of Cape Cod
Beston made a mid-winter visit to Cape Cod in early 1923 to spend some time with the coastguardsmen of the Cape, about whom he planned to...
Publication Date!
"Orion on the Dunes: A Biography of Henry Beston" will be released the first week of September 2016, with an inaugural publication event...
Henry Beston's Fairy Tales
In early 1919, Beston commenced another writing project, albeit one far removed from his war correspondence—indeed, one unlike anything...
Henry Beston With the Grand Armada
Understanding the crucial importance of the war at sea, sometime early in the autumn of 1917, Beston contacted Ellery Sedgwick, the...
Christmas on the Western Front, 1915
In his letters to Mae Davison, whom Beston came to call Marraine, (godmother; marraine de guerre is used to designate a female wartime...
