 "Your book is one of the reasons that the Cape Cod National Seashore exists today," Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody declared.It was also revealed during this ceremony that the National Park Service (part of the U.S. Department of the Interior) referred to "The Outermost House" on several occasions in its reports that were filed when making its evaluation of the Outer Cape land for National Park status in the 1950s.Today, there are still "Outermost House" types of structures on the Outer Beach, where occupants live in the same fashion that Beston did in the 1920s.