Amagansett - Kelsey, Carleton; Mayo, Lucinda
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Amagansett is an intimate history of a coastal village whose Dutch and English settlers arrived in 1860 to farm, fish, and participate in ye whale designe, and which is now a colorful part of the Hamptons resort area. T his striking collection of images, dating from 1853, describes the communitys part in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and its very personal experience with the Spanish-American War, when 25,000 soldiers landed here to recuperate from tropical diseases.

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Amagansett is an intimate history of a coastal village whose Dutch and English settlers arrived in 1860 to farm, fish, and participate in ye whale designe, and which is now a colorful part of the Hamptons resort area. T his striking collection of images, dating from 1853, describes the communitys part in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and its very personal experience with the Spanish-American War, when 25,000 soldiers landed here to recuperate from tropical diseases.
Autorenporträt
Lucinda Mayo, a local historian as well as a thirteenth-generation descendant of one of the community's four original families, and Carleton Kelsey, town historian for fifteen years and village librarian for over thirty, have combined their talents to produce a work of vivid images with accompanying text that will interest both area residents and visitors alike. Whether the subject is whaling ships or the harvesting of cranberry bogs, Amagansett is a unique look at a unique area.