Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 16, Numbers 1-2 (Fall 2003/Spring 2004)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS - FEATURE ARTICLES: Crossing the Sound: The Rise of Atlantic American Communities on Eastern Long Island during the Seventeenth Century by Faren R. Siminoff - 1 / Shifting Sands: Long Island’s Barrier Beaches by Marsha L. Hamilton - 15 / Central Suffolk Pine Barrens Preservation - Part One by Lee E. Koppelman - 35 / Military Training at Camp Upton During The Great War: The Diary of Oscar I. Ostrow edited by Margery Cohen-Willard Introduction by Charles F. Howlett - 55 / A Brief History of the Nassau Hub: The Evolution of an “Old Line” Suburb by Bill Jensen and Seth Forman - 104 / A Long Island Yankee in King George’s Court: Elizabeth Sherman Lindsay and the 1939 British Royal Visit to the United States by Tim Barrett - 112 / Conrad Poppenhusen: A Biographical Sketch of the “Benefactor Of College Point” Emphasizing the Civil War Years by James E. Haas - 135 / LONG ISLAND PLACE NAMES: Introduction: American State Names by Richard P. Harmond - 145 / William Wallace Tooker by John A. Strong - 149 / LOST AND FOUND: William H. Moore’s History of St. George’s Church by Beverly C. Tyler - 153 / SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST: Michael Glynn’s Theater: The Making of a Cultural Institution in Patchogue, New York by Daniel Winkler and Crystal Vagnier - 155 / Social and Spatial Mobility of Irish and German Immigrants in Brooklyn in the Late Nineteenth Century by Vikram Chabra - 160 / An Overview of Plum Island: History, Research, and Effects on Long Island by Alexandra Cella - 176 / The Home of an American Poet: The Story of Walt Whitman’s Birthplace by Rachel Brandstadter - 182 / BOOK REVIEWS: Natalie Aurucci Stiefle. Looking Back at Rocky Point: In the Shadow of the Radio Towers Vol. 1. Robert F. Sisler. Long Island’s Contribution to the Development of Radio & Television by Barbara Kelly - 190 / Marilee Foster. Dirt Under My Nails: An American Farmer and Her Changing Land by Ann Sandford - 192 / Louisa Thomas Hargrave. The Vineyard: The Pleasures and Perils of Creating an American Family Winery by Marilyn E. Weigold - 194 / Ann M. Becker. Images of America: Mount Sinai. Antonia Booth and Thomas Monsell. Images of America: Greenport. Geoffrey K. Fleming. Images of America: Bridgehampton by Richard I. Barons - 196 / Tom Andersen. This Fine Piece of Water: An Environmental History of Long Island Sound by Michelle Land - 200 / Sylvie Murray. The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965 by Barbara Kelly - 203 / EDITOR’S NOTE AND LETTERS - 206