Friday Explorations Read-Aloud: The Outermost House" by Henry Beston, read by Joseph Coté

Every Friday, at 11:00 am, on the library’s UA-cam Channel and Facebook Page, the library will stream a brand new recording of local thespian, Joseph Coté reading aloud selections from a wide variety of fascinating and entertaining books of fiction and non-fiction. This is a program to help keep our community connected to books during the pandemic when we are unable to meet in person.
For September 3, Coté will read aloud from Henry Beston’s memoir, The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod. Summary: A chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach, The Outermost House has long been recognized as a classic of American nature writing. Henry Beston had originally planned to spend just two weeks in a seaside cottage, but was so possessed by the mysterious beauty of his surroundings that he found he “could not go.” Instead, he sat down to try and capture in words the wonders of the magical landscape he found himself in thrall to: the migrations of seabirds, the rhythms of the tide, the windblown dunes, and the scatter of stars in the changing sky.
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