![]() ![]() Those few weeks turned into a year of solitude and writing. When it was finished, he went out to stay for a few weeks. He called it “the fo’castle.” It was built near Eastham, on the outermost spit of land against the Atlantic Ocean. He spent a great deal of time on Cape Cod, and in 1925, he drew up the design for a small getaway cottage for writing. After the war, he began a writing career. ![]() Henry Beston served as an ambulance driver during World War I. After forty-five years, I just reread it and found it even more beautifully written than I remembered. admired him and his beautiful little book, The Outermost House. Then I had to track down his book, read it, and finally understand more fully why A.M.L. I took a trip to the library to find out who he was and what he wrote. In those days there was no Google to instantly look him up. In my reading notebook from long ago, on a page with notes I took while reading a book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, there’s a sentence I wrote down that says, “Who is Henry Beston?” I love discovering new-to-me authors by finding references to them from other authors. ![]()
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