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1889 CHITA: A MEMORY OF LAST ISLAND BY LAFCADIO HEARN. HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS, C-P1 EDITION. 204 PAGES. SMALL CHECKMARK IN PENCIL INSIDE COVER. SLIGHT WATER STAIN INSIDE FIRST FEW PAGES AT EDGE. SLIGHT WEAR TO COVER
1902 TWO YEARS IN THE FRENCH WEST INDIES BY LAFCADIO HEARN, ILLUSTRATED. HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS, 431 PAGES. SMALL MARKS IN PENCIL INSIDE COVERS. SLIGHT WEAR TO COVER, MOST LIKELY A RESTORATION. SIGNED WITH A BEAUTIFUL INK AUTOGRAPH BY A FORMER OWNER, JONAS BLAIR BOWDITCH OF SHELTER ISLAND HEIGHTS, NEW YORK. HERE IS TREMENDOUS GENEAOLOGY OF HIM, AS HIS FAMILY WERE THE EARLIEST SETTLERS IN THIS AREA OF LONG ISLAND.
THE OLD COUNTRY STORE & OTHER EVENTS
Attributed to Thomas T. Young, Sr. From materials available at the Shelter Island Historical Society
When this store was built I do not know. To the best of my recollection it must have been built sometime in the 1880ís. Jonas Blair Bowditch owned all the property on the Dering Harbor side of the Ferry Road from Wilcoxís Coal & Grain & Wood yard to the bridge across Chase Creek. Mr. Bowditch also owned all the property from the Bridge on the west side of the Ferry road all the way to the property of Benjamin P. Conkling and to Chase Creek.
The store was only a frame building, 1 1/2 stories high in the middle with extensions on each side 1 story high with tin roofs. There was a small room in the rear of the main building which was used to store kerosene & barrels of vinegar and molasses. When Mr. Byron Griffing ran the store he used to handle "Breinigís Paint" and this was on shelves in this room.
The west wing of the building was reserved for Mr. Bowditch's use; he had a shop in a back room and he used the front room as his office. On the shore, just north of the bridge he had about a dozen bath houses which he rented; they were just abut big enough to undress in; I think that he charged 10¢.
The main store had rooms upstairs where Mr. Griffing used to live before he built his own house up the Ferry Road just to the south of the residence of Nathan Wilcox.
The store stood on locust posts, the land that it stood on was only meadow and the tide rose all round and under the building. There was a porch all across the front and the edge of the porch was at the edge of the public highway. There were hitching posts for hitching the horses.
The main room downstairs was the store proper. There were posts through the middle to support the second floor; on three sides were shelves which held the merchandise for sale. The west side was mainly used for dry-goods, mainly dress goods, material for making table cloths and dish rags. There was a large variety of oil-cloth which was used a great deal for covering kitchen tables and for shelves in the pantry.
1908 CONCERNING LAFCADIO HEARN BY GEORGE M. GOULD, FIRST EDITION AND PRINTING IN MAY 1908, GEORGE W JACOBS & COMPANY PUBLISHERS. 416 PAGES. SMALL MARKS IN PENCIL INSIDE COVER. SLIGHT WEAR TO COVER. SEVEN ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HIS DAYS IN CINCINNATI AND NEW ORLEANS.
1924 LAFCADIO HEARN'S AMERICAN DAYS BY EDWARD LAROCQUE TINKER. DODD MEAD AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS FIRST EDITION. DESIGNED AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR. 374 PAGES. SMALL MARKS IN PENCIL INSIDE COVER. SLIGHT WEAR TO COVER.
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (/hɜːrn/; Greek: Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν; 27 June 1850 – 26 September 1904), known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo (小泉 八雲), was a writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In the United States, Hearn is also known for his writings about the city of New Orleans based on his ten-year stay in that city.
Admirers of Hearn's work have included Ben Hecht,[23] John Erskine, and Malcolm Cowley.[24]
The Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi adapted four Hearn tales into his 1964 film, Kwaidan. Some of his stories have been adapted by Ping Chong into his puppet theatre, including the 1999 Kwaidan and the 2002 OBON: Tales of Moonlight and Rain.
Yone Noguchi is quoted as saying about Hearn, "His Greek temperament and French culture became frost-bitten as a flower in the North."[25]
There is also a cultural center named after Hearn at the University of Durham.
Hearn was a major translator of the short stories of Guy de Maupassant.[26]
The first museum in Europe for Lafcadio Hearn was inaugurated in Lefkada, Greece, his birthplace, on 4 July 2014, as Lefcadio Hearn Historical Center. It contains early editions, rare books and Japanese collectibles. The visitors, through photos, texts and exhibits, can wander in the significant events of Lafcadio Hearn's life, but also in the civilizations of Europe, America and Japan of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through his lectures, writings and tales. The municipalities of Kumamoto, Matsue, Shinjuku, Yaizu, Toyama University, Koizumi family and other people from Japan and Greece contributed to the establishment of Lefcadio Hearn Historical Center.
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