Henry Beston's Cape Cod with Don Wilding

Wilding's presentation includes over 100 slides of Beston and his famous cottage, along with footage from the documentary film project. The program tells how the Quincy native, still shaken by his experiences as an ambulance drive in France during World War I, took to writing fairy tales and eventually found the peace of mind he was looking for on Cape Cod's outer beach. In doing son, he not only found himself as a writer, but the National Park Service later used  The Outermost House to cite why the Outer Beach of Cape Cod should be preserved as a National Seashore.