Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.
J. R. MoehringerIt takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower. You will look back on this time and remember remarkably little of it, excpt the extent to which I tried or did not try.
J. R. MoehringerIn Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.
J. R. Moehringer