03400cam a2200397 i 4500 547185142 TxAuBib 20220113120000.0 210429s2021||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2021020069 9781432890742 1432890743 (OCoLC)1251737485 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF HBP TxAuBib rda Fairbanks, Amanda M. The lost boys of Montauk [large print] : the true story of the wind blown, four men who vanished at sea, and the survivors they left behind / Amanda M. Fairbanks. Large print edition. Waterville : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company Gale, 2021. 529 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series. Thorndike Press large print nonfiction Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-521). "In March of 1984, the commercial fishing boat Wind Blown left Montauk Harbor on what should have been a routine offshore voyage. Its captain, a married father of three young boys, was the boat's owner and leader of the four-man crew, which included two locals and the blue-blooded son of a well-to-do summer family. After a week at sea, the weather suddenly turned, and the foursome collided with a nor'easter. They soon found themselves in the fight of their lives. Tragically, it was a fight they lost. Neither the boat nor the bodies of the men were ever recovered. The fate of the Wind Blown--the second-worst nautical disaster suffered by a Montauk-based fishing vessel in over a hundred years--has become interwoven with the local folklore of the East End's year-round population. Back then, on the easternmost tip of Long Island, before Wall Street and hedge fund money stormed into town, commercial fishing was the area's economic lifeblood. Amanda M. Fairbanks examines the profound shift of Montauk from a working-class village--"a drinking town with a fishing problem"--to a playground for the ultra-wealthy, seeking out the reasons that an event more than three decades old remains so startlingly vivid in people's minds. She explores the ways in which deep, lasting grief can alter people's memories. And she shines a light on the powerful and sometimes painful dynamics between fathers and sons, as well as the secrets that can haunt families from beyond the grave. The story itself is a universal tale of family and brotherhood; it's about what happens when the dreams and ambitions of affluent and working-class families collide. Captivating and powerful, The Lost Boys of Montauk explores one of the most important questions we face as humans: how do memories of the dead inform the lives of those left behind?"-- 20220113. Shipwrecks New York (State) Montauk. Fishing boats Accidents New York (State) Montauk. Search and rescue operations New York (State) Montauk. Large type books. Montauk Point (N.Y.) Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series. Thorndike Press large print nonfiction. TXCKT