A Chimney Farm Thanksgiving Video Card

While most of us on the Cape are familiar with Henry Beston's work on the Outer Beach (The Outermost House), the writer spent the last four decades of his life living a relatively simple existence with his wife, the writer Elizabeth Coatsworth, and his two daughters in their Maine farmhouse, known as "Chimney Farm."

Beston wrote a handful of books while living in Nobleboro, including Northern Farm, Herbs and the Earth, and American Memory to name a few. The house is now watched over by caretakers Gary Lawless and Beth Leonard, and is part of a project to protect the land from developers.

Jon March, one of the Beston Society's directors, stopped by Chimney Farm on Tuesday for a quick visit with Lawless. While snowfall has been slim and none here on the Cape, the flakes began to fly as March was leaving the farm. He managed to catch the snow falling over the grave sites of Beston and Coatsworth as he was leaving.

From of all us at the Beston Society, Happy Thanksgiving.

Thanks to Gary Lawless and the Damariscotta Lake Watershed Association, the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian (Santa Fe, N.M.) and the Thornton Burgess Society (Sandwich, Mass.) for the still photos.

Visit www.henrybeston.org and www.dlwa.org/ChimneyFarm2.htm for more information.

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