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TABLE OF CONTENTS -
EDITORIAL COMMENT /
State of the Island: Peconic County Pro and Con -
Peconic County: To Be or Not To Be?
by Roger Wunderlich - 140 /
The Case for Peconic County
by Fred W. Thiele, Jr. - 145 /
Peconic County: The Myth and the Reality
by Lee E. Koppleman - 152 /
FEATURE ARTICLES:
The Long Island Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, Part Three: Militancy and Black Consciousness
by Chuck Howlett - 168 /
John P. Holland and the Creation of the American Submarine Fleet
by Richard F. Welch - 209 /
Walt Whitman's Long Island Friend: Elisa Seaman Leggett
by Joann P. Krieg - 223 /
Library Service at the United States Merchant Marine Academy: Origins and Development, 1942-1949
by Stephen R. Wiist - 234 /
EXHIBIT ESSAY:
The Last of the Mount Family Artists: Evelina Mount (1837-1920)
by Ita G. Berkow - 245 /
REVIEWS:
John A. Strong. The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island: From Earliest Times to 1700 and “We Are Still Here!” The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island Today
by Daria Merwin - 252 /
Suzannah Lessard. The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family
by Mark L. Taff - 254 /
Steve Wick. Heaven and Earth: The Last Farmers of the North Fork
by Laurel Stevenson - 257 /
Noel J. Gish. Smithtown, New York, 1660-1929: Looking Backward through the Lens
by David Burner - 260 /
John Jiler. Dark Wind: A True Account of Hurricane Gloria’s Assault on Fire Island
by Jim Papa - 262 /
BOOK NOTES - 264
