Flanders Historical Society and Friends of Big Duck Host Book Launch Party for New LI Duck Farming Book The Big Duck and Eastern Long Island’s Duck Farming Industry Residents of Flanders and fans of The Big Duck all over the world are eagerly awaiting a new book, Read more »
——————————————————- Helen A. Harrison “An Accidental Corpse” Dunemere Books, August 2018 304 pages $15.99 paperback, $9.99 Kindle Available on Amazon.com and in bookstores This work of historical fiction is based on the true story of Jackson Pollock’s fatal car crash. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On the night of August Read more »
Helen A. Harrison Pollock-Krasner House director at Book Hampton Helen A. Harrison, director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, will read from her mystery novel, An Exquisite Corpse: Death in Surrealist New York, on Saturday, April 22 at 5 p.m. at Book Hampton, 41 Main Street, East Read more »
Reeves Bay ArtWorks Hatches First Book on The Big Duck Reeves Bay ArtWorks announces the official publication of A Duck’s Tail by Rose Nigro. Subtitled “The Story of The Big Duck and the Small Town that Loves Her,” the children’s book was introduced by the local author during an Read more »
Published by The Remsenburg Association, 2003 Available at Books & Books, Westhampton Beach www.booksandbookswhb.com ______________________________________________
The hamlet of Bridgehampton was settled in 1656 and aptly named for the bridge that was built to connect the settlements of Mecox and Sagaponack. Ninety miles from New York City, this rural farming community was transformed by the arrival of the Long Island Rail Road in 1870. Read more »
Author Mary Cummings was born and raised in Southampton. She has been associate editor at the Southampton Press, and, as a freelance writer, a contributor to The New York Times Long Island Weekly and many other publications. She is currently the manager of the Archives and Research Center Read more »
The large summer residences along South Main Street are just part of the reason why Southampton was once known as “the Newport of Long Island.” In July of 1887, The New York Sun proclaimed Southampton as “the most charming of all small cities by the sea.” South Main Street, Read more »
The beauty and stateliness of Southampton is captured in Gin Lane’s summer cottages. Founded in 1640 on the eastern end of Long Island, Southampton is New York’s oldest English settlement. In its seaside scenes and structures, it still exudes importance and historicism. Nowhere is this grandeur more evident than Read more »
By Robert Hefner. Photography by Jeff Heatley. With research by John Gibson. Book design by Colin Goldberg. Published by Zwirko & Ortmann Architects, P.C. Hampton Lane Press. When the architect Alfred A. Scheffer died in 1976, he was eulogized as the “dean of East Hampton’s architects” with more than 100 houses and public buildings Read more »