The Outermost House

[Swimmer]

Just finished reading Beston's book. I have known about it since I was a kid. Foolishly I always thought reading it was silly, because I was just going to find out it was about the same things I discovered all those summer days and nights I spent hanging out at Coast Guard Beach and Nauset Beach. I even stood on the porch of this beach shack several times, because a friend of mine whose parents owned a house back up the road by Doane Rock also owned one of the little getaway beach shacks a short distance away from Beston's Fo'castle on Coast Guard Beach. I just didn't understand the significance, ah youth. My surfing buddy always use to say, thats "the outermost house". I'd look at it and think, but there are other shacks further down the beach toward the opening, much farther away. Anyway, the book gave me more pleasure reading than I have had in a long time. It is no wonder the 1928 book has a cult-like following.