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2 months ago | 
fireislandnews.com | Rita Plush |Stella Sands |Shoshanna McCollum
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
fireislandnews.com | Rita Plush |Warren McDowell |Shoshanna McCollum
Blue Point Through the War YearsBy Warren C. McDowellHistoryNo stranger to research, author of “Fire Island Saga, How Fire Island Got Its Name,” Warren C. McDowell turns his fact-finding skills to Blue Point. A lifelong resident of this vest-pocket hamlet (pop. 5,156 at the 2020 census), he pays homage to its little-known but big role in our nation’s history—from the Secatogue Indians and the first Blue Point settlers to the modern era of the 1900s. How did his hometown get its moniker?
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
fireislandnews.com | Rita Plush |Shoshanna McCollum
“Mark Twain’s Tales of theMacabre & Mysterious”Edited by R. Kent RasmussenFictionLyons Press I was curious about how Samuel Clemens came up with Mark Twain as his pen name, so I did some internet sleuthing. “Mark Twain” is a nautical term (twain means two) for a measured river depth of two fathoms, the safe depth for a steamboat to pass. As a steamboat pilot, Clemens must have heard sailors cry out, “Mark Twain!” many times.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
fireislandnews.com | Rita Plush |Melinda Blau |Shoshanna McCollum
The Wisdom WhisperersGolden Guides to a Long Life ofGrit, Grace and Laughterby Melinda BlauNonfiction/Morehouse PublishingAward-winning journalist, author of 15 books and hundreds of articles on relationships and social trends, bestselling co-author of “Secrets of the Bay Whisperer,” Melinda Blau likes old ladies, and she doesn’t care who knows it.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
fireislandnews.com | Rita Plush |Connie Hampton Connally |Shoshanna McCollum
Fire Musicby Connie Hampton ConnallyHistoric Fiction/Coffee Town PressConnie Hampton Connally’s “Fire Music” connects generations, reveals hidden family secrets, and mends broken hearts. Lisa Varga, a modern-day young American, is intrigued when she finds a yellowed sheet of music dated 1944, belonging to her recently deceased grandfather, Sandor.
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
fireislandnews.com | Rita Plush |Becky Chalsen |Shoshanna McCollum
Book Review/Rita PlushSerendipity by Becky ChalsenFiction/DuttonLast summer, film and TV executive Becky Chalsen turned her writerly talents to a novel set on Fire Island. She liked the locale so much – she’s had a home on the Island for decades – she ferried a new crew of beach lovers to “Serendipity,” a summer share house in Ocean Beach. There, readers will find Maggie Monroe, 25, and at leisure from her screenwriting job (tinsel town didn’t turn out as planned).
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
fireislandnews.com | Shoshanna McCollum |Rita Plush |Skip Finley
Award winning journalist and former broadcast executive, Skip Finley became interested in black whalers while researching for an article on the “Charles W. Morgan,” the last wooden whaling ship (circa 1840’s), and discovered the captain was Black. Not only was that captain a man of color, Finley found out, but there had been dozens of Black captains commandeering whaling ships around the world before, during and after that time.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
sanctuary-magazine.com | Rita Plush
To celebrate the memory of Raymond J. Steiner (a.k.a. Ray ~ 1933 to 2019), his writings, critiques and love of the arts, Cornelia Seckel and Myrna Haskell have combined their efforts to create a resource space of profiles and features that were originally published in ART TIMES, an international arts literary journal co-founded by Cornelia and Ray, which celebrated the arts for close to four decades.
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Aug 19, 2023 | 
fireislandnews.com | Rita Plush |Linda Leuzzi
Award-winning journalist and former editor of the Long Island Advance, Linda Leuzzi sets her novel in Bellport Long Island, the story told from alternating points of view of Francesca, the Italian exchange student; Vivian, her host and editor of the local newspaper; and Keisha, co-captain of the high school Step Squad. Step, as in a form of dance with strong percussive beats, hand claps and footsteps that derive from ancient African tribal dances.
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Aug 5, 2023 | 
fireislandnews.com | Rita Plush |Andrew Kirtzman
By Rita Plush“Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America’s Mayor”By Andrew Kirtzman Nonfiction/Simon & Schuster Has Rudy Giuliani, the once world-class mayor revered by millions who cleaned up crime in New York City, put the brakes on Wall Street, and gave the free world hope after 9/11, become a joke of his own making?
