Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 10, Number 1 (Fall 1997)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS -

FEATURE ARTICLES:

Friends in the Spirit: African Americans and the Challenge to Quaker Liberalism, 1776-1915 by Lynda R. Day - 1 /

Environment vs. Development: Groundwater and Land Use Planning in Nassau and Suffolk Counties by Lee E. Koppelman - 16 /

“The Village of East-Hampton,” A Sketch by John Howard Payne edited with an Introduction and Notes by Robert P. Rushmore - 25 /

Who Says the Montauk Tribe is Extinct? Judge Abel Blackmar’s Decision in Wyandank V. Benson (1909) by John A. Strong - 39 /

Promises Kept: Empire State College on its Twenty-Fifth Anniversary by Barbara Kantz - 56 /

Presidential Elections in the Twentieth Century: Patterns on Long Island by Howard A. Scarrow, assisted by Dawn Walsh - 71 /

Who Has Done More? Vincent Seyfried and the Discovery of Queens History by Jeffrey A. Kroessler - 79 /

Julia Pettee’s Year in Brooklyn at the Pratt Institute Library School: 1894-1895 by Mario Charles and Sandra Roff - 86 /

SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS:

William Levitt: Businessman or Bigot? by Whitney P. Bowe - 97 /

The Algonquians of Long Island as an Agrarian Society by Danielle Lindemann - 104 /

A Sailboat for the Bay: The Narrasketuck and its Class by Kempton B. Van Hoff - 110 /

REVIEWS:

Robert B. MacKay, Anthony Baker and Carol A. Traynor, eds. Long Island Country Houses and Their Architects, 1860-1940 by Deborah J. Johnson - 116 /

Lynne Matarrese. The History of Levittown, New York by Barbara Kelly - 118 /

Margaret Lundrigan Ferrer and Tova Navarra. Levittown: The First 50 Years by Carol Hoenig - 119 /

Mary Parker Buckles. Margins: A Naturalist Meets Long Island Sound by Marilyn Weigold - 121 /

Claire Nicolas White. Stanford White: Letters to His Family by Mark L. Taff - 123 /

Thomas McGonigle. Going to Patchogue by Jim Papa - 125 /

Giacinta Bradley Koontz, ed. The Harriet Quimby Research Conference Journal, Volume Two-1996 by Frank Erk - 129 /

George A. Raisglid. Uprooted: the Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor by Edith Gordon - 130 /

Ebenezer Miller; Margaret Davis Gass and Willis H. White, eds. Diary of Ebenezer Miller of Miller Place, Long Island, New York, 1762-1768 by Edward Smith - 133 /

VIDEO REVIEW:

Ziggy Attias and Ofer Cohen. Traveling the Distance by Gaynell Stone - 133 /

BOOK NOTES - 134