As she does every year, Paula Shengold put together this year's speakers for the well-attended affair at the Soundview Inn, Greenport.

Her lineup included Louisa Hargrave who pioneered the region's  wine-making agri-business, and has just written a book: The Vinyard She is a former owner of Hargrave Vineyard, established in 1973 in Cutchogue, New York.

Jodi Della Femina spoke about the book she co-authored with Andrea Terry called The Lobster Roll and Other Pleasures of Summer by the Beach, Her daughter, Annabelle, hung on her every word.

Barbara Hellering Ms. Hellering is the vice-president of the Jane Austen Society of North America and recently appeared on ABC's Good Morning America.  She quoted from Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility

Fresh out of Harvard in 1969, she and Alex Hargrave bought a run-down 1680-vintage potato farm in 1973, on Long Island's North Fork--and planted ten thousand vinifera vines. At the time, experts said that growing wine grapes on Long Island was impossible. Today, the region is famous for its premium wines.

Although the cook book she co-authored with Andrea Terry is called The Lobster Roll and Other Pleasures of Summer by the Beach, Jodi Della Femina confessed that she's allergic to shellfish.  Her contributions were to the salad recipes, in which she tried to be creative.  Annabelle was bemused.

Didi Goldenhar (left) called the winning tickets to a very extensive lottery.  At the end, Gayle Kaplan (right) found a quiet place to count the house's "take."

Barbara Hellering quoting from Pride and Prejudice, one of the five books from the English author Jane Austen, who lived from 1775 to 1817. Her novels are highly prized not only for their light irony, humor, and depiction of contemporary English country life, but also for their underlying serious qualities.