![]() ![]() But it is The Outermost House that stands out – as his daughter Kate has suggested – as the main contribution that Beston would make to a society which he felt was losing its connection to nature. Their Maine farmhouse was the inspiration for Beston’s other well-loved book, Northern Farm. Unlike Beston, who wrote slowly and painstakingly and liked to put down deep roots in beloved places, Coatsworth was a prolific writer and traveler. When he returned from Cape Cod in September 1927, Elizabeth Coatsworth was waiting for him, and he married her in 1929. One September in 1926, Beston came to this retreat – which he called the Fo’castle – and stayed on as autumn turned to winter.īeston wrote, “the fortnight ending, I lingered on, and as and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me so that I could not go.”ĭuring this time, he observed the cycles of nature and compiled many of the writings that would make up his classic memoir of the seasons, The Outermost House. ![]() ![]() It is here at Eastham beach on Cape Cod that Henry Beston found his first refuge, in a house that he had built for himself after returning, weary, from WW1. ![]()
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