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I spent 20 years on City Island, almost enough to become a so-called clam-digger, although the clam-diggers are the people born on City Island. City Island has a long nautical history and – rather like Nantucket – and boats were made there and whale ships looked in and there was the sense of a village. I... I knew all my neighbours, I lived on a little street, I never locked the door and it was a very different sort of life. And one I miss now although for various reasons I had to move in to Manhattan. First, I maintained an... an office in Manhattan and would drive in every day. I would come in at five in the morning when there was no traffic, but it was awful getting back in the evening when there could be huge traffic jams and I always saw accidents on the road. I thought sooner or later something will happen to me especially as I was often dead tired when I was driving back. So with mixed feelings I moved from City Island, here, to the Village, in 2000.
Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) was born in England. Having obtained his medical degree at Oxford University, he moved to the USA. There he worked as a consultant neurologist at Beth Abraham Hospital where in 1966, he encountered a group of survivors of the global sleepy sickness of 1916-1927. Sacks treated these patients with the then-experimental drug L-Dopa producing astounding results which he described in his book Awakenings. Further cases of neurological disorders were described by Sacks with exceptional sympathy in another major book entitled The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat which became an instant best seller on its publication in 1985. His other books drew on his rich experiences as a neurologist gleaned over almost five decades of professional practice. Sacks's work was recognized by prestigious institutions which awarded him numerous honours and prizes. These included the Lewis Thomas Prize given by Rockefeller University, which recognizes the scientist as poet. He was an honorary fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and held honorary degrees from many universities, including Oxford, the Karolinska Institute, Georgetown, Bard, Gallaudet, Tufts, and the Catholic University of Peru.
Title: Moving from City Island to Manhattan
Listeners: Kate Edgar
Kate Edgar, previously Managing Editor at the Summit Books division of Simon and Schuster, began working with Oliver Sacks in 1983. She has served as editor and researcher on all of his books, and has been closely involved with various films and adaptations based on his work. As friend, assistant, and collaborator, she has accompanied Dr Sacks on many adventures around the world, clinical and otherwise.
Tags: City Island, Manhattan, Nantucket
Duration: 1 minute, 17 seconds
Date story recorded: September 2011
Date story went live: 02 October 2012
