On Saturday, September 18, 1926, Henry Beston, a thirty-eight-year-old writer and editor, boarded a train in Boston, heading to Cape Cod for a two-week stay at “the Fo’castle,” his small dune shack
Daniel G. Payne
Daniel G. Payne is the author of Voices in the Wilderness: American Nature Writing and Environmental Politics, and editor of The Palgrave Environmental Reader and Writing the Land: John Burroughs and his Legacy. He is an associate professor of English at Suny College at oneonta. His current project is a biography of American nature writer Henry Beston.