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Nine Lives
The first generation of young people following the Revolution were full of hope and anxious to stretch their wings through education and adventure. We know the Dering family's activities because the father Sylvester who saved his letters also wrote of family affairs to his son Nicoll who also saved his letters. These are stories of nine young people (all of whom are related, save one) told through their letters. Abraham Tuthill aspired to be a portrait painter; Frances Dering and Frances Sage would forge a deep bond; Sisters Catherine and Frances Huntington shared a school in New York; Charles Thomas Dering invested in the Union, a whaling ship; Mary L'Hommedieu suffered financially as a child; Margaret Dering married a man who was disowned by his father for seeking a career as a preacher; Eliza Gardiner found comfort in a kind man.
Dering Letters Volume 3
The Dering family of Boston moved to Shelter Island in 1762 and lived through crop failures, revolution, and the difficulties of a new nation. The three volumes consist of over 762 letters that deal with business and family matters. Over 220, or nearly 30%%, of them were written by the women of the family.
Dering Letters Volume 2
The Dering Family settled on Shelter Island in 1761 and endured crop failures, revolution, and the difficulties of a new nation. Throughout it all they raised their children, emphasizing good manner, civility and mostly education. These letters deal with business and family matters.
Dering Letters Volume 1
The Dering letters involve members of the family from 1733 to 1838. Henry Dering arrived in America in the mid-1600. He began as a bar keep in a small village in New Hampshire and ended up as a merchant in Boston, a business that he left to his only son, who in turn left it to his two sons. The business was lost to fire and bad credit and Thomas took his wife and child to the 1,000 acre estate on Shelter Island the wife and her sister had inherited.Three generations lived and worked there through the Revolution and the beginnings of a new nation before a tragic death caused the family to sell.
Women's Words
A compilation, with commentary, of letters written by women to members of the Dering family of Shutter Island, New York, between 1734 and 1838. The letters are primarily compiled from the Dering Collection of letters at the Shelter Island Historical Society. The compilation also includes a few letters written to women of the Dering family.
Frances Dering at Newark Academy
A compilation of letters written by and to Frances Mary Dering during the year that she spent at Newark Academy, from November 1807 to April 1808. Transcribed from a collection of letters owned by Hannah Steuart Dinkel; copies are available to be viewed at the Shelter Island Historical Society.
Island Voices, Shelter Island 1655-2010
"Island Voices," edited by Carol Galligan, choreographs the story of Shelter Island through the eyes of its inhabitants. From the words of former New York State governor, Hugh Carey, to John Miller's interview with Osama Bin Laden, Galligan takes the reader through the history of Shelter Island, past and present. In June of 2005, I started working at the Shelter Island Reporter as an editorial assistant. In March of 2006, our then-editor, Peter Boody, assigned me the Island Profile series, to appear weekly year-round. When our now-editor, Cara Loriz, was appointed in January of 2007, I was promoted to Feature Writer, the position I’ve held since.In 2007, I encountered the Shelter Island Hi...
My Life In Pieces—Writers, Rogues, The Road and The Rock
In the foreword to this collection, Robert Lipsyte writes that Ambrose Clancy “can uncoil a sentence like a silken rope, snap it like a whip, tie up a complicated thought. He can write long, he can write short, he can build a case, he can murmur a spooky tale …” In a career spanning four decades, Clancy’s feature writing for major publications—including GQ, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times—has profiled legendary writers, politicians (and other rogues); brought sharp-eyed views of Ireland, Venice, London, Amsterdam, Frank McCourt’s Limerick, the New York of Harlem, Queens and the Lower East Side; spent time with a Belfast prize fighter during The Troubles; and hiked...
Making Houston Modern
Complex, controversial, and prolific, Howard Barnstone was a central figure in the world of twentieth-century modern architecture. Recognized as Houston’s foremost modern architect in the 1950s, Barnstone came to prominence for his designs with partner Preston M. Bolton, which transposed the rigorous and austere architectural practices of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to the hot, steamy coastal plain of Texas. Barnstone was a man of contradictions—charming and witty but also self-centered, caustic, and abusive—who shaped new settings that were imbued, at once, with spatial calm and emotional intensity. Making Houston Modern explores the provocative architect’s life and work, not only thro...
Six Lives
Six members of the extended Dering family who experienced the Revolutionary War lived ordinary lives which are shared through their letters and diaries. With their own research, the authors bring focus, detail, fact, and new insights into a distant period of American history by making these few individuals accessible through stories from their lives. The reader will laugh with Hepzi, suffer with Thomas, sacrifice with Abigail, mourn with Anna's mother, weigh options with Sarah, and observe the ridiculous with Charles. Abigail wrote from London before the war and Charles from Paris at its end. Sarah's and Anna's stories remind us that British loyalists were not few or strangers but were fathers, husbands, and siblings.
