By Henry Beston
Back in the summer of 1926, writer Henry Beston planned to spend a couple of weeks in a small house, which he call The Fo'castle, on the beach in Eastham, Cape Cod. Compelled by the beauty of the sea and the changing seasons, he ended up spending a year, journaling about the birds, the tides, the experience of solitude. Like Henry Thoreau's Walden, The Outermost House has become a classic record of an individual's experience/observations of nature and it is a pleasure to read.
As the dunes supporting The Fo'castle started to erode in the 1940s, Beston moved the house back, but it was eventually carried off to sea in the Blizzard of '78.
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