Forest Beach Tales — W. Matthew Hart

Growing up in South Chatham on Cape Cod in Massachusetts I lived on Forest Beach Road and during my younger years I heard many interesting but tragic sea stories about Nantucket Sound and the Atlantic Ocean that happened during the 1800 and 1900's. I expect some of those stories were true while others probably were not. Now years later I've forgotten which stories were which and if the characters were real or not? I wanted to create a series of fictional story based on two men talking about these factual and fictional mariner incidents and how during their weekly discussions a new friendship developed, even though there was a substantial age difference and life style between them provided. The pictures in the book are real, but unfortunately in most instances the photographers are unknown. I hope you will enjoy this mixture of fact, fiction and friendship.