“Henry Beston’s Cape Cod” Rough-Cut Screening with Writer & Filmmaker Don Wilding

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster presents a special rough-cut screening of footage from the “Henry Beston’s Cape Cod” documentary film project by writer and filmmaker, Don Wilding of the Henry Beston Society Saturday, November 7, 2015 at 1pm.

 The film, now in production, is an international story. Before writing his Cape Cod nature classic, “The Outermost House,” Henry Beston survived the horrors of World War I, serving as an ambulance driver for the American Field Service on the front lines of the Battle of Verdun. It’s also a Cape Cod story about a son of Massachusetts who, after his experience in the war, retreated to Cape Cod and wrote his nature classic while tapping into the healing power of nature on the Outer Beach. Years later, “The Outermost House” was cited by the National Park Service as to why the Outer Beach should be preserved. 

The film features re-enactment scenes, with Cape Cod actor Chris Kolb as Henry Beston, along with breath-taking scenic footage of Cape Cod and historic photographs from the archives of the Henry Beston Society.

Directed by Christopher Seufert of Mooncusser Films

Free with Museum Admission

For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext. 133.