Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 18, Numbers 1-2 (Fall 2005/Spring 2006)

Abstract

TABLE OF CONTENTS -

FEATURE ARTICLES:

Steamboating Long Island Sound Style by Marilyn Weigold - 1 /

Rescue over the Soviet Ambassador’s Residence by Martin J. Ingram With Introduction by Charles F. Howlett - 8 /

The Actor’s Colony of St. James by Bradley Harris - 21 /

The Blurring of the Queens-Nassau Border by Patricia T. Caro - 43 /

Port Washington and Long Beach: Case Studies of Long Island’s First Wave of Suburbanization, 1900-1930 by Sean Kass - 54 /

Lopped Trees: The Living Fences of Old Long Island by Philip Marshall - 67 /

Elwood: Piecing Together History by Charlotte Muchnik - 81 /

The Origins of Adelphi Suffolk College: The Port Jefferson and Stony Brook Initiatives, 1953-1956 by Leroy E. Douglas - 92 /

William Sidney Mount: His Plans for the Stony Brook Harbor Area by R. Lawrence Swanson, Francis Turano, and Joseph Amondolia - 110 /

REFLECTIONS:

The Encyclopedia of New York State by Natalie A. Naylor - 123 /

LONG ISLAND PLACE NAMES:

Southold: What's in a Name? More Than You Think by Antonia Booth - 127 /

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Long Island Scholarship: A Bibliography Of Dissertations And Theses, 2000 - 2006 by Kristen J. Nyitray - 133 /

SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST:

The Taint is in the Blood: Long Island and the Eugenics Movement by Rachel Merker – 143 /

BOOKS AND CULTURE: REVIEWS:

Marilyn Weigold. The Long Island Sound: A History of the People: Places and Environment by Mildred E. DeRiggi - 153 /

Joseph S. Tiedemann and Eugene R. Fingerhut. The Other New York: The American Revolution Beyond New York City, 1763-1787 by Natalie A. Naylor - 155 /

Nedda C. Allbray. Flatbush: The Heart of Brooklyn by Garry Wilbur - 158 /

Slavery in New York, The New York Historical Society. Two part exhibit. Review of first part. October 7, 2005 by Alan Silver - 161 /

Elizabeth Shepherd. Head-of-the-Harbor: A Journey through Time by Catherine Ball - 163 /

Edward L. Dunbaugh. New England Steamship Company: Long Island Sound Night Boats in the Twentieth Century by Marilyn E. Weigold - 164 /

Corey Dolgon. The End of the Hamptons. Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise by Richard F. Welch - 168 /

Glen Williford and Leo Polaski. Images of America: Long Island’s Military History by John G. Staudt - 171 /

James E. Haas. Conrad Poppenhusen, The Life of a German-American Industrial Pioneer by Bradley Harris - 173 /

Michael Drinkard. Rebels, Turn Out Your Dead by Ann M. Becker - 179 /

Mark Mills. Amagansett by Ann H. Sandford - 180 /

BOOK NOTES:

Prepared by Ann M. Becker - 181 /

IN MEMORIAM:

John Allen Gable (1943-2005) by John G. Staudt for the Editors - 182 /

Barbara Ferris Van Liew (1911-2005) by Catherine Ball for the Editors - 184 /

Alice H. Fiske (1917-2006) by Natalie A. Naylor for the Editors - 185 /

LETTERS - 187