About this ebook
If you like horror and suspense, history and mystery, or if you simply enjoy Fire Island and the Great South Bay and want to take home a piece of it home with you, then you will love this anthology. These stories will kindle your interest in visiting new beach locations and spur your imagination with thoughts of what was, and what might well have been. Even if you have never visited the area before, these tales of universal human experience are bound to fascinate. You are certain to want to share 13 Legends of Fire Island and the Great South Bay with friends, after you can put it down, that is.
About the author
Jack Whitehouse has spent most of his life on or near the water. He first visited Fire Island as a child in the early 1950s and remains a regular visitor to this day. In 1955 he took his first sailing lesson on the Great South Bay eventually teaching sailing for the Wet Pants Sailing Association in the early 1960s. Receiving his commission in the U.S. Navy in 1968, he then served aboard the destroyer U.S.S. Buck for two cruises to Vietnam. In 1971 he became the Executive Officer and then the Commanding Officer of the patrol gunboat U.S.S. Chehalis sailing out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In the early 1970s, following Norwegian language training, he became the first U.S. Navy exchange officer with the Royal Norwegian Navy serving for a combined total of 20 months in Norwegian frigates, patrol boats and submarines in waters north of the Arctic Circle. Jack is currently working on a second book: a history of the home for children, known as the “Cottages,” in Sayville, Long Island. He also writes for the Fire Island Tide under the pen names Jay D. Raines and Lee Jouvet.
