Dedicated
to Henry Beston's literary classic, The Outermost House,
and the spirit of life on the Great Outer Beach of Cape
Cod
Spirit
of Beston’s The Outermost House comes to Eastham
via actor’s reading Labor Day weekend
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Marvin
Einhorn
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The
spirit of the late Henry Beston will be alive and well over
Labor Day weekend when film, television and Broadway actor
Marvin Einhorn performs a reading of Beston's The Outermost
House, a script by New York playwright Cynthia
L. Cooper, at the Chapel in the Pines on Samoset
Road on Saturday, Aug. 30 and Sunday, Aug. 31 at 7:30 p.m.
Einhorn,
whose film credits include A League of Their Own
and A Beautiful Mind, will take on the role of Henry
Beston in this performance. The setting is Coast Guard Beach
on Oct. 11, 1964, when Beston's famous beach house was dedicated
as a National Literary Landmark by the U.S. Department of
the Interior. His Cape Cod literary classic, The Outermost
House, was published 75 years ago and is based on "a
year of life on the great beach of Cape Cod." Cooper eloquently
describes both the moods of Beston and his recollections
of his life. "Slowly, Henry steps off the podium, reaches
for sand and lets it run through his fingers, like a timer;
he smells the sand, and rubs it all around his hands," Cooper
writes.
Einhorn,
who was also a director (Mr. Wizard, The Today Show,
NBC Nightly News) at NBC for 30 years, was first introduced
to the works of Henry Beston nearly 50 years ago after reading
an essay, A Journal for Henry Beston, by Winfield Townley
Scott. This inspired him to contact Beston personally and
ask his permission to reenact his story, which the author
was more than happy to grant. "From that day forward, this
special story of a man who committed to a year of his life,
four seasons in solitude observing his natural surroundings
on the great beach of Cape Cod, became part of my life as
an actor, as an interpreter and as a man in the natural
world," Einhorn said.
Einhorn
most recently performed the reading of The Outermost
House at Backgate State in New York City. His performances
in Eastham will be as a benefit for WOMR-FM,
Outermost Community Radio, in Provincetown, and The
Henry Beston Society, organized in 2002 to stimulate
interest in and promote education about his life, works
and philosophy -- with emphasis on his time spent on Cape
Cod.
For
more information, call WOMR at (800) 921-9667, or the Henry
Beston Society at (508) 643-0887. Tickets are $15 at the
door.
