Wickapogue: Genius, Madness, and the Murrays of Southampton

In the mid-1920s, the author's great-grandfather, Thomas E. Murray, bought Wickapogue, a large "cottage" on a vast piece of property overlooking the ocean in Southampton, on the south fork of Long Island, New York. TEM was born into near poverty in Albany, New York, in 1860, in a working-class neighborhood of Irish immigrants. He was only nine years old when he had to drop out of school, after his father, older sister, and infant brother all died within five months from a cholera outbreak. ...