Don Wilding
For many years, this columnist has tracked down and chronicled all things related to Henry Beston’s classic book, “The Outermost House,” which was written during the scribe’s seclusion in a seaside cottage in Eastham during the mid-1920s.
The house, which Beston referred to as “The Fo’castle,” became a shrine of sorts to those who took his message to heart, even after it was destroyed by the great storm of Feb. 6-7, 1978.
Today, that message still shines through at places such as the dune shacks of Provincetown, the beach camps of Nauset Beach and Sandy Neck, and, yes, a tiny little shanty on Chatham’s Lighthouse Beach known as “Occupy Chatham South Beach” shack, which celebrated its sixth anniversary this month.