The Knapps Lived Here

On a Sunday afternoon in 1959 in a small town on Long Island 11 year old Ken Spooner watched along with most everyone as his personal playhouse the Knapp Mansion burned to the ground. Over 40 years passed before he would write a short story memoir of that day triggering a very long journey through the first decade of the 21st century to discover just who the Knapps were (no one seemed to know) and to find out who the arsonist was (that was the easy part). Through a folksy interwoven narrative the reader discovers as he did in realtime the unwritten history of one of the Highest-Society Lowest-Profile families America's gilded age has ever produced. Travel inside the many Knapp mansions where 5 US Presidents and many icons of the 19th & 20th centuries were guests. This is Spooner's third book.