Local Author Visiting Huntington Book Revue

Janet Emily Demarest will read from her new book, “Tales from the General Store: The Legends of Long Island” at Book Revue Huntington on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m.

Demarest says she’s traded a career as a business professor to performing and educating at Old Bethpage Village Restoration. That experience, along with audience enthusiasm, inspired her to write the book.

Published in September, Demarest’s book shares 25 stories about Long Island’s past, ranging from the North and South Shores to the East End.

“They range historically from even before our earliest white settlements in 1639 to Mile-A-Minute Murphy’s race against the LIRR in 1899,” she said. “But in between, because they are stories and anecdotes and legends, there is a sense of how people lived and worked, what they cherished and feared.”