On a chilly Friday morning in mid-November, before the sun had even peeked over the horizon, a dozen or so people straggled into Row America Rye on Milton Harbor for their last open water row of the season.
Once thought of as solely the province of Chinese and Jewish ladies of a certain age, the rummy-like game played with tiles instead of cards is now becoming a prominent social enticement appealing to younger and wider audiences.
Lee Sandford, who writes under her maiden name Lee Carey, started working on the novel seven years ago, even though she had never written fiction before.
Scott Jacoby, 53, graduated from Rye High School, attended Skidmore, and then enrolled at the Einstein Medical College before leaving to become a music producer.