title: The Kingdom of the Kid: Growing Up in the Long-Lost Hamptons (Excelsior Editions)
author:  Geoff Gehman 
description: "Geoff Gehman brings this gentle, long-ago time to life with astonishing detail and accuracy--I lived much of it too--and proceeds with a sweeping, beautifully written tale of these years with friends and family, bicycles, softball, swimming, the ocean, wealthy neighbors, locals, pranks, celebrities, scandal, legends, and divorce. How did he remember it all? It brought me back to that era of innocence in the Hamptons, and it will bring you there too." -- Dan Rattiner, Founder of <i>Dan's Papers and author of <em>Still in the Hamptons: More Tales of the Rich, the Famous, and the Rest of Us</em></i><em><br /><br />In this memoir Geoff Gehman remembers what it was like to be a ten-year-old growing up in a small, exclusive section of the Hamptons Wainscott and the Georgica Association in the late 1960s. He brings this gentle, long-ago time to life with astonishing detail and accuracy I lived much of it too and proceeds with a sweeping, beautifully written tale of these years with friends and family, bicycles, softball, swimming, the ocean, wealthy neighbors, locals, pranks, celebrities, scandal, legends, and divorce. How did he remember it all? It brought me back to that era of innocence in the Hamptons, and it will bring you there too. Dan Rattiner, Founder of Dan s Papers and author of Still in the Hamptons: More Tales of the Rich, the Famous, and the Rest of Us<br /><br />..".[a] deeply felt love letter to the East End." -- <i>Dan's Papers</i> </em>
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  # Table Of Contents
  
  
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  Lucy Fitch Perkins  
  I. THE LITTLE GRAY HOUSE ON THE BRAE  
  II. THE RABBIT AND THE GAMEKEEPER  
  III. THE SABBATH  
  IV. THE NEW BOY  
  V. EVENING IN THE WEE BIT HOOSIE  
  VI. TWO DISCOVERIES  
  VII. THE CLAN  
  VIII. THE POACHERS  
  IX. A RAINY DAY  
  X. ON THE TRAIL  
  XI. ANGUS NIEL AND THE CANNY CLAN  
  XII. NEWS  
  XIII. THE NEW LAIRD  
  GLOSSARY  
  SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # The Scotch Twins
  
  
  ### Lucy Fitch Perkins
  
  
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  * I. THE LITTLE GRAY HOUSE ON THE BRAE
  
  
  * II. THE RABBIT AND THE GAMEKEEPER
  
  
  * III. THE SABBATH
  
  
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