House on Nauset Marsh

<p>Dr. Wyman Richardson lived the life of a busy and distinguished physician practicing in Boston and teaching at the Harvard Medical School but here is recorded his other lifethe one closest to his heart. Cape Cod and more specifically his humble farmhouse on Nauset Marsh was his refuge. First published in 1947 The House on Nauset Marsh presaged later authors who discussed such subjects as the intelligence language and emotions of animals. His observances of fog time bird language the wind and weather touch upon the philosophical. Little could escape Wyman Richardson's gaze in his activities and at restreflecting on the shifting moods of land and sea the denizens of salt marshes and woods and the personalities and stories of the Cape Codders of a gentler time.</p>