Looking Back on Fire Island Pines As the Pines is rebuilt after damage from a fire and a hurricane, photographers and others revisit the years before both AIDS and, later, broader social acceptance of homosexuals. A number of the modernist homes that dot the Pines and are featured in the book "Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction," an overdue monograph about a little-known architect to be released this week.