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Nicky Gioia was born in the thirties in the historic villa Torre a Cona near Florence in Tuscany. She was destined to live a remarkably eventful life. At an early age she endured the privations, traumas, and tragedies of World War II. While still a young woman, her first marriage ended with the untimely death of her beloved husband, Carlo, Marchese Pes di Villamarina del Campo. Years later she married Craig Knowlton Mitchell, an American socialite and sportsman. Throughout, she travelled the world meeting a variety of famous and interesting people.Nicky Gioia Mitchell is a Hamptons artist well known for her landscapes and paintings of the beaches and ocean near her home. Her work has brought her much success. She has had 32 one-woman exhibitions in France, Belgium, Italy, Canada, and the United States-particularly in New York City. This is her vivid memoir of a rich and colorful life.

Though a relatively small town, Sag Harbor on the East End ofLong Island, New York, has a fascinating history. Members ofthe Algonquin Indian tribe lived and summered here thousandsof years ago. English colonists arrived nearby in 1645, found thesoil ideal for farming and established some of the earliest settlementsin the New World.At one time, Sag Harbor commerce was busier than New YorkCity's and led to establishment of the first Custom House on LongIsland. Sag Harbor may be best known as one of the leading whalingharbors on the East Coast. At the industry's height in the 1840s, it washome port for some 60 whaling ships that roamed the world's oceans, supported by the village's rope works, coopers, blacksmiths, sailmakers, and shipbuilders. Revenue from the industry built distinctivehomes that still line Main Street. The first Long Island newspaper was published here in 1791. The Revolutionary War and Civil War affected Sag Harbor and its people like hundreds of other small towns in young America. The endof whaling in the latter half of the 1800s brought a period of decline, other businesses unable to keep up with modern advancements. In later years, writers and artists began coming here for respite from the City, and a freer, less expensive lifestyle. Now, close to, but still separate in spirit from the fabled Hamptons, Sag Harbor attracts visitors from all over the world.These stories which originally appeared in the Sag Harbor Express over the last ten years create an intimate picture of some of the events and people that created the unique personality of an "American Beauty

Sag Harbor Is an inspired collection of pieces from the past and present - from Melville to Steinbeck, James Fenimore Cooper to Betty Friedan to Spalding Gray - that celebrate the many eras and facets of the town of Sag Harbor, a literary mecca for 200 years. With dozens of striking photographs by Kathryn Szoka.

Why an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essay on Montauk?One of the world's great fishing ports; site of the first cattle ranch in the US; refuge for Teddy Roosevelt's Roughriders back from San Juan Hill; rum-runner headquarters during Prohibition; very nearly the Miami Beach of the north; site of the premier US lighthouse; home to unique, endangered species and second home to generations of New York firefighters, police, teachers, artists, and writers; a major defense installation during World War II and the Cold War-Montauk packs more history, culture, nature, and mystery into its few square miles than perhaps any other locale in the US.Now, more than fifty writers and photographers celebrate this unique place, just at the moment when it is chalenged on the one hand by an invasion of entrepreneurs, and on the other, by rising seawaters that threaten its homes and beaches.

"A singularly effective guide. Inspired concept. Highly recommended!" George Plimpton noted on the first edition of John Turner's classic guide to the natural world of Long Island. Now Turner, one of New York's most knowledgeable and eloquent naturalists, has produced a new edition, greatly expanded and thoroughly updated. With more than 80 photos by leading nature photographers and 24 line drawings by artist Maria T. Hoffman, the new edition offers a rich experience of the "Other" Long Island-the one far removed from the malls and highways, developments and office parks. It's remarkable that so much of the natural world remains to explore in this limited space that is also home to nearly eight million people (as well the native fauna Turner so affectionately describes). Turner discusses nearly 300 species of flora and fauna that call Long Island home-an abundance that is due in no small part to the island's unusually varied ecology. Exploring the Other Island offers 41 chapters and 14 additional essays divided by season. But it is also truly a guidebook. Each section concludes with notes on Where to see what has been discussed, and When. The Index of Species is a valuable reference. The Index of Locations lists a remarkable 116 local, county, state, and national parks and other destinations. If you find yourself, for example, in Caumsett State Park just turn to the Locations Index to discover what to look for. There are also four appendixes to guide you to further study.

The dramatic and eloquent story of America's only blacklisted film. Director Herbert Biberman and his colleagues Michael Wilson and Paul Jarrico struggled for a dozen years to get their film shown in the U.S. Biberman's account of the making of Salt of the Earth and the lengthy battle to get the film seen was first published in 1965. The film is now regarded as an American classic--one of the first films to be added to the National Film Registry. This new edition, with an introduction by James Monaco, will be of interest not only to filmgoers but also to feminists, union organizers, and those interested in Latino issues because of its unique subject matter.

In 1970, as a young marine biologist, Clarence Hickey won a position on the staff of the New York State Ocean Sciences Laboratory, Montauk, NY. For the next five years he was involved in landmark studies of Long Island's then-thriving fisheries. He developed deep bonds with the Baymen and ocean fishers who called the East End of Long Island home, and worked closely with them as he and the Ocean Sciences Lab studied the habits and prospects of more than one hundred species of fish and shellfish that call Long Island waters home. This is his loving, anguished memoir of those years, replete with vivid portraits of the traditional fishers and scientists he worked with, their habits and discoveries, and their history-suffused community. Like their brethren to the north and south on the East Coast, Long Island's Bonacker fishing community represents a long and colorful tradition celebrated most famously in Peter Mattheissen's classic Men's Lives. Hickey's memoir is an elegiac complement to that book.Perhaps more important, Hickey calls for our deep attention to the destruction