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TABLE OF CONTENTS -
FEATURE ARTICLES:
Freaks and Geeks: Coney Island Sideshow Performers and Long Island Eugenicists, 1910-1935
by Tanfer Emin - 1 /
Mohawk Sovereignty over the Long Island Indians: Fact or Fiction? A Re-Examination of Primary and Secondary Sources
by John Strong - 15 /
Robert Moses, Jones Beach, and the Legacy of Progressive-Era Conservationism
by Michelle Kleehammer - 27 /
Village School to City System: The Schools of the Town of New Utrecht
by John F. Roche - 42 /
Preserving “The Good Old Spirit”: Long Island in the Colonial Revival
by Joshua Ruff - 62 /
From Potato Patch to Wine Orchard: Southold Town’s Path of Rural Preservation
by Michael Rokofsky - 86 /
“The Devil's Own Imponderables”: Two Smithtown Men in the American Revolution
by Elizabeth Shepherd - 86 /
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS:
“Long Island has been a School to Me”: The 1825 Letter of an Instructor at Schools at Rockaway and Great Neck
Transcribed and annotated by James Greve - 119 /
The Origin, Rise, and Decline of the Long Island Branch of the Ranger Family: An Update
by Charles E. Squires, Robert J. Young, and Michael B. Ranger - 125 /
SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST:
Black Migrant Workers on the East End of Long Island during the 1950s and 1960s
by Caroline Axelrod - 128 /
The Birth of the United Nations in Lake Success
by Erika Brown - 138 /
Jupiter Hammon: America’s First Black Poet
by Marshalette Gillings - 147 /
BOOK REVIEWS:
Frank Cavaioli. State University of New York at Farmingdale.
by Sean A. Fanelli - 156 /
John A. Strong. The Montaukett Indians of Eastern Long Island.
by Gaynell Stone - 157 /
Natalie A. Naylor, ed. “The People Called Quakers”: Records of Long Island Friends, 1671-1703.
by Christopher Densmore - 160 /
Tom Montalbano. Images of America: Syosset.
by Karen Cooper - 162 /
BOOK NOTES - 163 /
FILM REVIEW - 164
Parsing Pollock
by Helen A. Harrison /
COMMUNICATIONS - 170
