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The White Fence

by Anton Prohaska
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781502388544
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 366
  • Original Price: USD 15.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 536 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

In East Hampton, NY during the mid-Twentieth century, author Anton "Tony" Prohaska spends hours of his childhood sitting on his family's white fence and observing the diverse and eclectic community around him. With an artist father, caught between making a living as an illustrator and a devotion to fine art, and a mother, a former actress and model who is also an artist, Anton had to find his place in the alternate world of the local fishermen, farmers, and tradesmen. Through the area's diverse lives, his personal memoir threads a larger history of how the Hamptons become what we know it as today.

Artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and James Montgomery Flagg (known for the "Uncle Sam Wants You" poster) represent only a few of the book's icons, but most of the folks are unsung heroes of the region. Experience their oral histories come to life-from smuggling, storing, and distributing alcohol during Prohibition to the community's close relationship with horses for both work and play. Complete with nearly fifty photographs illustrating the text and exhibiting the local art, The White Fence is a touching and vivid story of Long Island's East End, its effect on the world at large, and its shaping of a thoughtful and observant boy.

Anton Prohaska directed The History Project Inc. from 1997 to 2004. He personally conducted 176 interviews with East Hampton's older residents, and the interview transcripts are housed in the Long Island Collection at the East Hampton Library in New York, and also includes more than one thousand archival photographs donated by the interviewees themselves.

Prohaska is currently retired and lives in Delray Beach, Florida, with his companion of eighteen years, Martha Kalser.

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