Joseph C. Lincoln

Biography

Joseph Crosby Lincoln drew his first breath in 1870 on the salt-stung edge of Cape Cod, and the region’s tides never left his prose. Between 1915 and 1924 he conjured three silent-film landmarks—Cap’n Eri, No Trespassing, and Idle Tongues—turning fishermen, farmers, and village gossip into screen stories that kept America leaning forward in its seat. When the final reel of his life flickered out in 1944, the Cape lost its quietest chronicler and the movies lost one of their earliest New England voices.