Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 11, Number 1 (Fall 1998)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS -

EDITORIAL COMMENT /

FEATURE ARTICLES:

The Greater City and Queens County by Jeffrey A. Kroessler - 1 /

By a Margin of 277 Votes: The Consolidation of Brooklyn and New York by Donald E. Simon - 15 /

Deepwells: A Nineteenth-Century Farm for the Twenty-First Century? by Elizabeth Shepherd - 27 /

State of the Island: Sixty Years After The Hurricane: The Case for Replacing the Steeple of Sag Harbor's Old Whaler's Church by Paul Goldberger - 42 /

Congregational Autonomy and Presbyterian Discipline: The Immoral Ministry of Luther Gleason in Early Republic New York, 1789-1808 by Robert E. Cray, Jr. - 47 /

Recent Articles on Long Island History by Natalie A. Naylor with the assistance of Victoria R. Aspinwall - 64 /

SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS - 81:

The 1939 World’s Fair: Yesterday’s World of Tomorrow by Adrienne McIlvaine - 81 /

Four Dramatic Events that affected Long Island by Rajesh Parekh - 87 /

The Aeronautical Heritage of Port Washington by Daniel Pedisich - 96 /

REVIEWS - 106:

Natalie A. Naylor and Maureen O. Murphy, eds. Long Island Women: Activists and Innovators by Elizabeth Ewen /

David Yehling Allen. Long Island Maps and Their Makers: Five Centuries of Cartographic History by Edwin Burrows /

Clarence Taylor. Knocking at Our Own Door: Milton A. Galamison and the Struggle for School Integration in New York City by Kimberly Welch /

John A. Strong. “We Are Still Here!” The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island Today, 2nd ed. by Daria Merwin /

Hal B. Fullerton. Gardener of Eden: The Wit and Wisdom of Hal B. Fullerton. Compiled and edited by Anne Nauman. by Chet Chorzempa /

Jeffrey A. Kroessler. Lighting the Way: The Centennial History of the Queens Borough Public Library, 1896-1996 by Christine King /

Frederick W. Bone. Sands of Time: A History of the Sand and Gravel Operations in Port Jefferson and Nearby Harbors. Edited by Mildred Michos. by Henry Bokuniewicz /

Vincent F. Seyfried. Flushing Academy by Natalie A. Naylor /

BOOK NOTES - 124 /

COMMUNICATIONS - 126