Tricia Vita
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NewsDear Readers, Thanks for visiting my website. If you'd like to receive occasional news and previews of forthcoming publications, please sign up for my newsletter. Though I continue to write for longtime clients, I’ve taken a sabbatical from journalism to work as administrative director of the Coney Island History Project. This summer you'll find me at the History Project’s exhibition center under the Cyclone Roller Coaster. We're open on weekends from Memorial Day through Labor Day. For more info, visit our website or read Eleanor Bader’s “Coney Island History Project Preserves the Past for Future Generations” in the summer issue of The Brooklyn Rail. I'm also involved with efforts to save Coney Island's amusement zone. What can you do to help? Visit the Save Coney Island website. Learn the truth! Don’t be fooled by the developer's glitzy renderings or the city’s spin on the revised rezoning plan! Email Save.Coney@ Read about the issues and join the ongoing discussion on the message boards at Coney Island USA. If you are a resident of New York City, write, email, or phone Mayor Bloomberg, City Council President Christine Quinn, and your City Council Member. If you have visited Coney Island and live in another city, state or country, send a postcard to Mayor Bloomberg, telling him what you enjoyed about your visit, and why you won’t come back to visit a Coney Island where amusements and authenticity have been replaced by generic retail stores, formula restaurants and so-called “entertainment retail.” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, City Hall, New York, NY 10007 Phone 311 (or 212-NEW-YORK outside NYC) Fax (212) 788-2460, E-MAIL: http:/ See you on the Cyclone line! Tricia Vita |
Selected WorkFeatures
Canned Wonders
Charitable competitions produce remarkable feats of Canstruction® Greetings from
Coney Island!
A former carny kid casts an insider's eye on the world's most famous beach amusement park Bet on the Thin Guy
Upon examining recent advances in speed-eating techniques, we would like to offer you the following advice... Art Awhirl!
An Empire State carousel maker's dream machine is almost set to spin Conjuring Houdini
Searching for the spirit of the great escape artist in his American hometown Step Right Up!
For one fairground art collector it's always a banner year Log Home Lifestyle
Perfect Harmony
Milled logs of northern white pine from Quebec's Outaouais forest and a holistic design system that originated in India come together in a Vedic-style chalet in the cornfields of Iowa Blossoming
in the Blue Ridge
A city girl finds a new lifestyle, a new career, and recognition as an artist in a picturesque mountain town A Natural Beauty
A red cedar home blends perfectly with its surroundings in Montana's Stillwater Valley Short Takes
Sherlock's Home
Sleuthing the mysteries of Gillette's Castle in Connecticut Molten Energy
Q & A with globe-trotting landscape painter Diane Burko, whose passion for volcanoes has taken her to Alaska, Hawaii, Iceland, and the Aeolian Islands Rediscovering
Governors Island
Among the first to sign up for guided tours of New York's newest national park were former Army and Coast Guard "brats" eager to revisit the place they once called home Stories for Children
The Ten-Woman Bicycle
"A tribute to the role of the bicycle in women's history...humorously told...wittily illustrated," Children's Book Bulletin (UK) Translations
One Thousand and One-Second Stories
A gem of early modernism by the Japanese Dadaist Inagaki Taruho |
