Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 19, Numbers 1-2 (Fall 2006/Spring 2007)

Abstract

TABLE OF CONTENTS -

FEATURE ARTICLES:

The Autonomous Commonwealth: Southampton, 1640-1644 by John A. Strong - 1 /

The Garden City Hotel and the Modern American Peace Movement by Charles F. Howlett - 20 /

Deepwells: A Crown Jewel in St. James by Bradley L. Harris - 44 /

The Dimon Family: Bridgehampton Historiography and its Focus on Ordinary People by J. Kirkpatrick Flack - 64 /

The Origins of Adelphi Suffolk College: The Sayville and Southampton Initiatives, 1957-1958 by Leroy E. Douglas - 81 /

Building Student Power: A History of NYPIRG at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1974-1992 by Dan Woulfin - 98 /

Early Disaster Mitigation Policy on Long Island’s South Shore by Jayme Breschard - 121 /

Hubbard Latham Fordham: Keeping an Eye on Sag Harbor by Stephen Longmire -138 /

The Postsuburban Development of Riverhead, Long Island: 1970 - 2000 by Eric Fauss - 145 /

REFLECTIONS:

The Peconic River by Richard P. Harmond - 164 /

LONG ISLAND PLACE NAMES:

Shelter Island: An Island Sheltered by Islands by Patricia and Edward Shillenburg - 167 /

PRIMARY SOURCE:

Conference on the Future of Nassau and Western Suffolk: Introductory Remarks, Robert - 172 /

BOOKS AND CULTURE - REVIEWS:

Ann Sandford. Grandfather Lived Here: The Transformation of Bridgehampton, New York 1870-1970 by Marilyn E. Weigold - 182 /

Newsday, Inc. Newsday’s Guide to Long Island's Natural World by John G. Staudt - 183 /

Leonard Benardo and Jennifer Weiss. Brooklyn By Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names by Garry Wilbur - 186 /

Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson, eds. Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York by Natalie A. Naylor - 188 /

Living the American Dream: Levittown and the Suburban Boom. Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, New York by Barbara Kelly - 189 /

Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Road to Recreation. Queens Museum, Queens, New York by Richard F. Welch - 192 /

Harry W. Havemeyer. Fire Island’s Surf Hotel and other Hostelries on Fire Island’s Beaches in the Nineteenth-Century by Marsha Hamilton - 194 /

Stephen L. Meyers. Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long Island. David Keller and Steven Lynch. Revisiting the Long Island Rail Road, 1925-1975 by Donald E. Simon - 196 /

Joshua Stoff. Long Island Airports by Charles F. Howlett - 199 /

Terry Wallace. Caroline M. Bell (1874-1970) and the Peconic Bay Impressionists by Natalie A. Naylor - 201 /

Robert G. Müller, Long Island’s Lighthouses, Past and Present by Natalie A. Naylor - 203 /

Three Village Historical Society. The Setaukets, Old Field, and Poquott by Charles F. Howlett - 206 /

William J. Switala. Underground Railroad in New York and New Jersey by Floris Barnett Cash - 208 /

Raymond E. and Judith A. Spinzia. Long Island’s Prominent North Shore Families: Their Estates and Their Country Homes by Myrna Sloam - 210 /

Mary Cummings. Hurricane in the Hamptons, 1938 by Ann H. Sandford - 212 /

Alexander Rose. Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring by Richard F. Welch - 214 /

Pascal James Imperato. Tudor Village, The History of a Unique Community in Queens County by Donald E. Simon - 218 /

James Driscoll. Flushing: 1880-1935 by Jeffrey A. Kroessler - 220 /

Toby Selda. Simply “Father”: Life with Theodore Roosevelt as Seen Through the Eyes of His Children by Natalie A. Naylor - 222 /

BOOK NOTES:

prepared by Kristen J. Nyitray - 224 /

IN MEMORIAM:

David A. Overton (1925-2005) by Barbara M. Russell, for the Editors - 229