Life at the Edge: The Man Who Chose Solitude on Cape Cod's Shore

Part of the "Resilient Figures" series: Exploring the lives of those who dared to live differently

For the gifts of life are the earth’s and they are given to all, and they are the songs of birds at daybreak, Orion and the Bear, and dawn seen over ocean from the beach. - Beston

If you know me, you know I am kind of obsessed with naturalist writers and the lives they lead and the words they wrote. I found Beston's book The Outermost House, mentioned i…