Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 01, Number 1 (Fall 1988)

Abstract

TABLE OF CONTENTS -

EDITORIAL COMMENT - 1 /

FEATURE ARTICLES:

Long Island as America by Richard P. Harmond and Geoffrey L. Rossano - 3 /

Daily Life from a Work in Progress - A Forgotten People: Discovering the Black Experience in Suffolk County by Grania Bolton Marcus - 17 /

Summer Comes to the Three Villages Neighbors by Louis Simpson - 35 /

Learning from Levittown by Barbara M. Kelly - 39 /

William Sidney Mount: “In the Morning I Wrote In Frost”: Passages from the Journals and Letters Arranged as Poetry by Vincent L. Clemente - 55 /

The Election of Long Island Delegates to the New York State Convention to Consider the Federal Constitution by Luise Weiss - 71 /

REVIEWS OF BOOKS:

Robert E. Cray, Jr. Paupers and Poor Relief in New York City and Its Rural Environs 1700-1830 by John A. Strong - 81 /

Joann P. Krieg, ed. Evoking a Sense of Place by Carol A. Traynor - 84 /

Martin Tucker, ed. The World of Brooklyn: An Appreciation by Brooklyn Writers by Gary Marotta - 86 /

“The Style of Long Island: 300 Years of Architecture and the Decorative Arts” by Deborah Johnson - 88