Mamaroneck

My family has deep roots in New York on both sides.

My parents were high school sweethearts in Mamaroneck, three out of my four grandparents from the area, which is why you saw me in Greenwich, 'cause I was home seeing family.

And now I live in a tiny town in Vermont near where my husband's from, which is very different in a lot of ways to my own childhood.

And I always wanted to be a writer, I think since I was 18.

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That is not this book at all.

all.Yeah, I think it's, you know, I come from a family where there's like so much love and there was a specific energy because my grandmother, Lucia, she was born Lucia Quaglietti in Mamaroneck, first generation American, and she was one of four sisters.

And so I felt that big energy between all five of them, and I wanted to kind of distill it and concentrate it down into, into one person who was larger than life.

I said it's difficult for me to read in Spanish, it's true, but this one is not because it's actually written...

Well, it's a collection of short stories, very short stories in Spanish written by an Argentinian Jewish writer named Tali Goldman, and my favorite story in it is, uh, an exchange of emails between an Argentinian Jewish... two Argentinian... elderly Argentinian Jews, one who lives in Mamaroneck in Westchester and one who is still living in Argentina.

And it's about aging and about loss and family, and it just reminds me a whole lot of what my own grandparents are going through and have gone through and what all kinds of families that are separated by migrations and long distances go through in terms of missing home and being nostalgic, but also growing old and not being able to travel as much.

So that book is, uh, meaning a lot to me right now.

And not to be forgotten, western Long Island Sound with that east northeast wind funneling the water into the western part of the sound.

There could be some moderate flooding in a place like Stamford, Connecticut, maybe over toward Mamaroneck as well.

Look at the wind gusts overnight tonight.

Again, as we get closer to the center of this storm, they increase.

That is the story very commonly.

It's like, 29 guys got together and found some land in Mamaroneck, New York and started Wing Foot or whatever it is, right?

Exactly.

So, um, that's very cool.

Where is Harrison, New York?

Eastern Westchester, right above Mamaroneck.

Oh, near Larchmont?

Near Rye.

Today, we're doing part two of a deep dive.

We're going from his Bronx, Mamaroneck roots to the guitar theory workshops in Los Angeles, through the high-stakes world of touring with legendary acts, right into his recent work with the 60-year legacy of The Blues Project and his brand-new single, Ghosts.

All right.

Grab a seat, grab a drink, and let's get into it.

This is until 1030.

This includes Mamaroneck.

It includes Rye, Scarsdale, White Plains into Greenwich, Stanford, Darien, New Canaan, over through Weston, Trumbull, Bridgeport, all included in this.

North of the warning, you're seeing a slightly different shade of green over places like Golden's Bridge, Shrub Oak, Ridgebury.

Putnam County, you are also under a flash flood warning in the majority of Westchester.

Where we've seen that flash flood warning the longest in Westchester is the southern portion of the county.

So that's going to be Mamaroneck, New Rochelle, White Plains, Rye, you've all seen a flash flood warning for hours and that heavy rain is still falling.

Fairfield County, same story.