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Amanda Fairbanks

July 13, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Welcome to the Summer Author Series at the Ocean House featuring Amanda Fairbanks for the new book The Lost Boys of Montauk
Tickets to this event are $25.00 (plus taxes and service charge) and can be purchased by clicking the link below. Each ticket will include a copy of the event book.

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 downing of the Wind Blown has since become interwoven with the local folklore of the East End’s year-round population. Its tragic fate will never be forgotten.

In this “riveting man-vs.-nature story and compelling tribute to those who perished” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), journalist Amanda M. Fairbanks seeks out the reasons why 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.

About the Author
Amanda M. Fairbanks is a journalist and author of The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Atlantic, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Columbia Journalism Review, and the East Hampton Star. A graduate of Smith College and a former Teach for America corps member, she has two master’s degrees from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. The California native lives with her family in Sag Harbor. She is currently at work on her second nonfiction book.

Event date:
Wednesday, July 13, 2022 – 5:00pm to 6:30pm

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Date:
July 13, 2022
Time:
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Website:
https://www.banksquarebooks.com/event/summer-author-series-amanda-fairbanks

Venue

Ocean House
1 Bluff Avenue
Watch Hill, RI 02891 United States
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Phone
888.853.2919
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