If you’ve been wanting to catch my “Henry Beston’s Cape Cod” lecture presentations here on the Cape during the summer season, you’re in luck.
On every Thursday night from July 2 through Sept. 3, my presentation and I will be at the Eastham Historical Society’s 1869 Schoolhouse Museum at 6:30 p.m. It’s part of the Outermost House exhibit at the Schoolhouse, which will feature artifacts from the Beston Society collection and be on display from late June until September.
The lecture program will also be presented at the Hyannis Public Library on July 8 and at the Thornton Burgess Society’s Green Briar Nature Center in East Sandwich on Aug. 10.
The multimedia program features over 130 slides and rough-cut footage from the Henry Beston Society’s documentary film project.
It’s a local tale about Eastham and Cape Cod, but also an international story of World War I. Beston served as an ambulance driver in France during “The Great War,” and returned home to Massachusetts an emotionally scarred man. Returning from the horrors of World War I, Beston wrote the classic book, “The Outermost House,” while finding the peace of mind he was seeking on Cape Cod’s Outer Beach. Years later, “The Outermost House” was cited by the National Park Service as to why the Outer Beach should be preserved.
More details about the exhibit will be announced in the next week or so.
