╨╧рб▒с>■  ■                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   ▄еhWр eKЦ+K$┬$┬┬'┬'┬'┬'┬' ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (─*C ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (╜(┐(┐(┐(?■(╘╥)╘ж*+X_+7─*┬' ( ( ( ( (─*Ц(┬'┬' ( (Ц(Ц(Ц( (v┬' (┬' (╜(@о√Тч┐╓'ъ'"┬'┬'┬'┬' (╜(Ц('Ц(EMILY'S PINES PHONE BOOK It's time I wrote the story of The Pines Phone Book. Emily and her father Charlie Ziff were residents of the Pines summer community years ago, and Charlie, who was liked by everyone who ever met him, conceived the idea of raising some school pocket money for young Emily. Emily's Pines Phone Book was born. The idea was to print and sell a book listing names by house, first name, and last name, and phone number. In short, you could locate anyone more or less if you had a vague idea of their name and where they lived. This was a great way to locate that special person you met yesterday at the beach, where you had no pencil to write things down with. Emily collected names by distributing forms to each house, and then went around with a wagon to do the deliveries. If you wanted your name in the book you would fill out the form, drop it off at their house, and Charlie would put it into his database, and print the book out on his Mac. The logo of the original book was a wagon. One way or another it would appear in every early edition of EmilyТs Phone Book. The little book quickly became a hit, every year more folks were asking how they could be listed, and where they might buy the book. Charlie and Emily had started something. Something the community wanted, and which gave it an identity as a unique residential place. It was still something which needed to be sold, however the idea was catching on. Selling advertising was the next innovation, which brought me into the picture, as a way for me to publicize my former restaurant, The Black Sheep, and to support my home community, The Pines. It went along fine for a few years, my ad would run, IТd draw it on an old copy of PageMaker, and it was the cheapest advertising I could ever do, and in my own home town, too! It went on until one year no notice came from Emily or Charlie regarding the book. I called Emily, time was getting late, "Dad's very ill, and we won't be doing the book this year." Indeed, Charlie was very ill, it was near the end, and he was already in the hospital, as it turned out for the last time. I get these inspirations some times. Was I looking for an ad venue, was I hoping to save something of Pines history? I heard myself saying: "The Pines needs that book, Emily, let me help you, I've got HIV, but I can do the book, and donate the funds to fight AIDS, in the name of Charlie Ziff, will you let me try at least? I promise to keep it the same way it always was when you did it." Little did I know what I was starting. Dinner that evening at The Black Sheep with Emily and Kay Reinhart, her mom, sealed the bargain, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. The book went to press a bit late that year, but it did get published, but only because the Pines Pantry owners, the brothers Schrader, Mark and Eric, were critical in assisting - their grocery store let us distribute forms, post posters, and when the book was published, they sold it and the proceeds, all of them, went to CRIA that year for their work with research. It was a wonderful team effort of business and residents in a community hit so hard by AIDS, and only worked because of the close involvement these businessmen have with their customers. In fact the entire staff of The Pines Pantry got involved. ItТs like a family. I had to personally enter onto my PC spreadsheet all the names addresses and phone numbers, and find a way to sort them, and print them, and finally glue them down into a book which would be Xeroxed for publication. I had never done any of it before, but with EmilyТs patient guidance I was able to figure out each painstaking step. I decided we needed a "Yellow Pages" so I created one so the book would not only list residents but would also be used by everyone who might need goods or services. I printed those listings on ultra yellow paper, and it became the center fold of the book. I also printed a map and a ferry and train schedule. We sold ads too. Emily made phone calls that first year, right on the heels of her painful loss of her father. She was one hell of a great trooper. She was doing it for Charlie. Some folks didn't want to actually pay for the ads, and well, you know, its really a charitable thing, the ads in these things don't really bring a lot of bucks to the advertisers, I save my copies every year,. They are good for reference. In 1993 my friend Eric Stilan came to my aid, he's a great humanitarian, and amazing graphic artist, a creative dynamo. In 1994 he did that book single handed at a time when I was suffering from encephylopathy - an HIV attack on my brain. He's not even a "Pines Person" but he believed in what we were doing, and he believed in me. WIthout Eric, and The Pantry, the Phone Book never would have happened. Four years ago another close friend came online. Matthew Bank, publisher of HX Magazine, philanthropist, and one of my best buddies. He agreed to use the HX facilities to publish the book. HX had everything that The Phone Book needed to make it work. It took a new look that year, more polished, more slick, overall better. We used work of local artists such as John Laub on the covers. It sold more ads and made some money too. The proceeds now are donated to The Stonewall Foundation, still to fight AIDS. The folks at The Pines are now clamoring for the book every spring, it usually gets printed by July Fourth. It sells out almost before the season ends, and IТll bet that if we didn't do it next year, I'd have to hide. This years book had over 3,000 names in it, that was a lot of proof-reading. You would not believe some handwritings we have to keypunch, and those are the ones who complain when we misspell or omit the names. Space limits have made it impossible to list all the names of the wonderful pets, and those long Latin drag-queen names, well, there just wasnТt room! Last year we initiated a separate book for Cherry Grove, our neighbor to the west. It was a long standing wish of mine, and it made sense, because I feel a book has a way of unifying the 2 Fire Island communities we all share here in the summer. The money raised was for a worthy cause, and the book would help Cherry Grove as it has helped The Pines. The initial response was less than enthusiastic Ц in fact it was pathetic, but its a new idea there, it got a slow start here in The Pines too. This yearТs Grove participation was double that of last year, so I have faith. The main reason for the Pines success was that the book was supported by the Pines Pantry, the best grocery store on Fire Island, bar none. There was no such commitment from any commercial enterprise in The Grove. Publicity was thus a problem. It will take time. 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