Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 02, Number 1 (Fall 1989)

Abstract

TABLE OF CONTENTS -

EDITORIAL COMMENT - 1 /

FEATURE ARTICLES:

“An Island of Mine Own”: The Life and Times of Lion Gardiner, 1599-1663 by Roger Wunderlich - 3 /

The Gardiners and Their Island, 1937-1972 by Richard P. Harmond - 15 /

Prosperity on the Ways: Shipbuilding in Colonial Oyster Bay, 1745-1775 by Geoffrey L. Rossano - 21 /

Shinnecock and Montauk Whalemen by John A. Strong - 29 /

African American Whalers: Images and Reality by Floris Barnett Cash - 41 /

The Montauk Steamboat Company by Edwin L. Dunbaugh - 52 /

Oystering on Long Island in Comparative Perspective by Lawrence J. Taylor - 64 /

Connecticut’s Changing Relationship with Long Island Sound by Andrew German - 76 /

The Brooklyn Bridge in Literary and Popular Imagination by Bernice Braid - 90 /

Bridges and the Urban Landscape by Jeffrey A. Kroessler - 104 /

Is Long Island an Island? by R. Lawrence Swanson - 118 /

REVIEWS OF BOOKS:

Peter Matthiessen. Men's Lives: the Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork by Gary Marotta - 128 /

Grania Bolton Marcus. A Forgotten People: Discovering the Black Experience in Suffolk County by Lynda R. Day - 130 /

Salvatore J. LaGumina. From Steerage to Suburbs: Long Island Italians by Frank J. Cavaioli - 132 /

Ronald G. Pisano. Long Island Landscape Painting, 1820 - 1920 by George M. Cohen - 134 /