{"id":190,"date":"2012-08-23T10:20:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T14:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=190"},"modified":"2012-08-23T10:28:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T14:28:42","slug":"the-red-dory-a-long-island-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"The Red Dory &#8211;  A Long Island Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Long-Island-garden-tour-2012-Greg-and-Davids-house.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-191\" title=\"Long Island garden tour 2012 - Greg and David's house\" src=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Long-Island-garden-tour-2012-Greg-and-Davids-house-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The Red Dory &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong>a Long Island Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>by Chris McDuffie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is not only the new books in our library which are interesting. I signed out <em>The Red Dory<\/em> by <strong>Hazel Wilson<\/strong> recently because I knew its author had spent a lot of time in her family\u2019s cottage next to ours in Beach Cove, the one now owned by her grand nephew <strong>Greg Brown. Hazel Wilson <\/strong>published about 20 books, mostly for young readers, and <em>The Red Dory<\/em> was her first, published in 1939. It presents the summer adventures of a boy, Donald, living with his grandparents on Long Island.<\/p>\n<p>In this book <strong>Wilson <\/strong>changed the name of Long Island to Pine Island, but there is no doubt as to the real location when she talks of Harbor de Grace where Donald lives, catching a lobster thief off the Stepping Stones, and taking summer people fishing off Outer Green Island.<\/p>\n<p>Pasted in the back of the library\u2019s copy there is a note from <strong>Hazel Wilson<\/strong> to a <strong>Mrs. Hewey<\/strong> which says, \u201cThe old captain in the book is partly modelled after <strong>Captain Ben Woodbury<\/strong>, whom I knew as a child. None of the happenings are really true, but his character was kind and dignified as I made Captain Eben in my book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201chappenings\u201d (like the day a swordfish takes Donald and his red dory for a \u201cNantucket sleigh ride\u201d) are things she may have made up to appeal to her young readers, but the book is so rich in details about the lean circumstances of a fishing family on Long Island in the 1930s that I think anyone who loves Long Island, as <strong>Hazel Wilson<\/strong> did, will find this a fascinating read.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s another <strong>Hazel Wilson<\/strong> book at the library, <em>Island Summer<\/em>, and again it is set on Pine Island (Long Island to those of us in the know). That\u2019s going to be my next read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Dory &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0a Long Island Book by Chris McDuffie It is not only the new books in our library which are interesting. I signed out The Red Dory by Hazel Wilson recently because I knew its author had spent a lot of time in her family\u2019s cottage next to ours in Beach Cove, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=190\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Red Dory &#8211;  A Long Island Book<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,78,76,77,75],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-ben-woodbury","tag-childrens-literature","tag-hazel-wilson","tag-long-island","tag-the-red-dory"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}