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Henry Beston's Cape Cod to be Presented by Former Foxboro Reporter Sports Editor

Former local editor Don Wilding to lecture at Foxborough Senior Center March 27.

Don Wilding, the co-founder of the nonprofit Henry Beston Society on Cape Cod and author of the book, Henry Beston’s Cape Cod, will be returning to Foxborough to present his lecture, Henry Beston’s Cape Cod: Inspiration for a National Seashore, at the Foxboro Senior Center, 75 Central St., at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 27. The lecture is being sponsored by the Foxborough Historical Society.  

Wilding was an award-winning sports editor of the Foxboro Reporter from 1997 to 2005 and The Mansfield News, Sharon Advocate and Country Gazette in the early 1990s, and entertainment editor for The Sun Chronicle from 1995-97.

He has lectured on Cape Cod and across New England extensively over the past decade on the subject of the Quincy-born Beston and his book, The Outermost House, which was written in 1927 after Beston spent a solitary year in a 20x16 cottage on Eastham’s outer beach.

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Wilding will be available to sign copies of his book, along with copies of the new DVD, Henry Beston’s Cape Cod: Meditations of the Outer Beach. The DVD, a fundraiser for the documentary film project, includes samples of interviews and scenic footage that have been gathered so far.  

Another note of local interest: much of Wilding’s work that led to the creation of the Beston Society was influenced by longtime Sharon resident, Nan Turner Waldron (1922-2000). Waldron, who authored the book, Journey to Outermost House, stayed at Beston’s cottage for a few weeks each summer for 16 years. Her work included numerous interviews and hours of research, along with hundreds of photographs of Beston’s house. 

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