Unlike other national parks a the time, the Cape Cod National Seashore was created from a combination of private, town, state, and federal lands. [This book] captures the political drama of the creation of this extraordinary seashore. Images detail an early Native American presence and the romance of whaling, shipwrecks, lighthouses, windmills, and dune shacks. -- P.[4] of cover.

Cape Cod National Seashore was authorized in 1961 to preserve a portion of this fascinating, ever-changing landscape. Four stories about Cape Cod have been assembled into a collection of classic short films prepared by the National Park Service.

Sonny Tasha talks about her association with noted dunes dweller, Harry Kemp, her subsequent ownership of his shack, and her dealings with the National Parks Service about that building. Seth Rolbein has a long standing association with the Peaked Hills Dunes shacks as a visitor, and an appreciation of the issues surrounding the inclusion of the Provincelands into the Cape Cod National Seashore.