"Legends Of Fire Island Beach And The South Side" 1895 SHAW, Edward Richard (SOLD)
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SHAW, Edward Richard
[212] pp.
Lovell, Coryell & Company
1895
7 3/8" x 5 1/4"
Ex-libris: Academic Library w/ usual stamp marks
*pages 39-42 w/ upper corner chips, pg 135-136 w/ bottom closed tear*
These stories embody only a small part of the folk-lore and tradition that pertained to the Great South Bay. They were told by a class of men now gone. Fact, imagination, and superstition—each contributed its part. In the tavern, among groups of men collected on shore from wind-bound vessels, at gatherings around the cabin fire, and in those small craft that were constantly going from one part of the bay to another, not only these tales, but others, irrevocably lost, were elaborated and made current in days homely and toilsome yet invested with an atmosphere of romance.