Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 20, Numbers 1-2 (Fall 2007/Spring 2008)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS -

FEATURE ARTICLES:

Moving In, Moving On: Lee Krasner’s Work in Jackson Pollock’s Studio by Helen A. Harrison - 1 /

A New Deal for Disaster: The “Hurricane of 1938” and Federal Disaster Relief Operations, Suffolk County, New York by Jonathan C. Bergman - 15 /

The Opening of Suffolk’s First Four Year College: Adelphi-Suffolk: 1959-1960 by Leroy E. Douglas - 40 /

John E. Gee and the Early Trucking Industry on Long Island by Bradley L. Harris - 60 /

Williamsburg, Brooklyn: The Home of the First Successful Commercial Submarine by Henry Silka - 71 /

Bridging the East River: The History of an Idea, 1800-1867 by Richard Haw - 83 /

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

“From Captivity to Freedom: Long Island During the American Revolution” Introduction - 112 /

Surviving the Ordeal: Long Island Women During the Revolutionary War by Natalie A. Naylor - 114 /

From Wretchedness to Independence: Suffolk County in the American Revolution by John G. Staudt - 135 /

Slavery in Colonial and Revolutionary New York: Complicity and Resistance by Alan Singer - 163 /

BOOK REVIEWS:

John Hanc with a foreword by Ed Lowe. Jones Beach: An Illustrated History by Paul D. Van Wie - 174 /

Adrienne Onofri. Walking Brooklyn by Donald E. Simon - 175 /

John R. Stevens. Dutch Vernacular Architecture in North America, 1630-1800 by Gaynell Stone - 176 /

Brookhaven Voices, 1655-2005 by Catherine Ball - 178 /

John M. Burns. Thunder At Sunrise: A History of the Vanderbilt Cup, the Grand Prize and the Indianapolis 500, 1904-1916 by Garry Wilbur - 179 /

Raymond E. and Judith A. Spinzia. Long Island’s Prominent South Shore Families: Their Estates and Their Country Homes in the Towns of Babylon and Islip by Charles F. Howlett - 182 /

Sara S. Gronim. Everyday Nature: Knowledge of the Natural World in Colonial New York by John G. Staudt - 185 /

Dorothy Ingersoll Zaykowski, and the Members of the Committee for the Old Burying Ground. The Old Burying Ground at Sag Harbor New York by Richard F. Welch - 188 /

John J. Head. With Brush and Bridle, Richard Newton, Jr. – Artist and Equestrian by Ann Sandford - 188 /

Kerriann Flanagan Brosky. Ghosts of Long Island: Stories of the Paranormal by Marilyn E. Weigold - 190 /

Daniel M. Hendrick. Jamaica Bay (Images of America) by Garry Wilbur - 194 /

Ruth Crocker. Mrs. Russell Sage: Women’s Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America by Natalie A. Naylor - 197 /

Geoffrey K. Fleming. St. James (Images of America) by Barbara M. Russell - 199 /

Dean F. Failey. Long Island Is My Nation: The Decorative Arts and Craftsmen, 1640-1830 by Marilyn E. Weigold - 201 /

Clement M. Healy. North Fork Cemeteries (Images of America) Clement M. Healy. South Fork Cemeteries (Images of America) by Gaynell Stone - 204 /

Gaynell Stone, ed. Native Forts of the Long Island Sound Area by John A. Strong - 206 /

Gary Lawrance and Anne Surchin. Houses of the Hamptons,1880-1930 Paul J. Mateyunas. North Shore Long Island: Country Houses, 1890-1950 by Natalie A. Naylor - 210 /

REVIEW ESSAY:

The Indians and the Dutch: Encounters on the Forgotten Frontier by John A. Strong - 214 /

OBSERVATIONS:

Who are We?: A Demographic Update for Nassau and Suffolk Counties by Seth Forman - 222 /

BOOK NOTES:

prepared by Kristen J. Nyitray - 238 /

PLACE NAMES:

Babylon by Richard P. Harmond - 243