This little (A5-sized) book describes the early history (from 1850s -1960s) of Long Bay (Middleton), a small farming community on the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, in southern Tasmania, Australia. It describes its early days of settlement (British, Irish, German and Scots, and the early industries they undertook: whaling, forestry and timber mills, fruit farming and orchards. The narrative, biographic text is supplemented with old newspaper clippings; original family photographs and illustrations by the author, who describes the thriving community as she experienced it, and as her parents and grandparents remembered it.