Thinking of Miller Place: A Memoir of Summer Comfort

In my memory . . . I am in a place where I can still, if only in my daydreams, take off my shoes and run barefoot up the hill.

Relive the magic of childhood in Ethel Lee-Miller's stories of summers spent at her grandfather's home in Miller Place, a town on the northeastern end of Long Island. Away from mysterious adult worries, Ethel and her identical twin enjoy carefree days diving in the waters of the Long Island Sound and nights chasing fireflies.

Coupled with their adventures are the wond...