Honoring the works and philosophies of the author of The Outermost House
and opening the Windows of Cape Cod's Outer Beach to the World

P.O. Box 1343, South Dennis, MA 02660. Phone: (508) 246-7242. E-mail: henrybestonsociety@yahoo.com

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Download the Summer 2008 edition of The Gallant Vagabond, the official newsletter of the Beston Society

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GET YOUR TICKETS NOW FOR THE BESTON SOCIETY'S 2008 WINDMILL WEEKEND RAFFLE! Hurry, mail order entries need to be postmarked by Sept. 3, 2008! You can also get tickets on the Eastham Windmill Green on Sept. 6-7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Drawing on Sunday, Sept. 7 at 4 p.m.

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NEXT LECTURE:
Don Wilding, executive director of the Beston Society and author of the book Henry Beston's Cape Cod,
will present his lecture, The Legacy of Henry Beston and The Outermost House
at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 12 at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster.

EXHIBIT NOW OPEN The exhibit, A Sense of Place: The Works of Beston, Hay and Finch, has opened at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster, Mass. and continues through Dec. 20. The exhibit was developed by the museum and the Henry Beston Society. See excerpts from Robert Finch's keynote address at the exhibit's opening The Cape Cod Times profiles the exhibit

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A Cape Cod Icon Returns Find out more about the Henry Beston Society's efforts to bring back The Outermost House Outermost House Lecture Video See highlights of the Outermost House lecture by Don Wilding at the Dennis Public Library in Dennisport on Cape Cod (Sept. 21). Learn more about our lectures. See the list of organizations that have hosted Beston Society lectures.

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Coast Guard Beach Web Cam

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So what's that passage from The Outermost House?
"We need a more mystical concept of animals ... they are other nations?"

Henry Beston, circa 1920s. Take a tour of The Outermost House H.B.  at Eastham's Windmill Weekend 2005

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

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The Fo'castle, looking north
to the Coast Guard Station.
(Photo by Nan Turner Waldron)

Beston's 'Coronation'
remembered 40 years later

Beston Society gifts available now at CafePress.com