Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 03, Number 1 (Fall 1990)

Abstract

TABLE OF CONTENTS -

EDITORIAL COMMENT - 1 /

FEATURE ARTICLES:

A History of Wine Grapes on Long Island by Louisa Hargrave - 3 /

The Pigskin Book: Records of Native American Whalemen, 1696-1721 by John A. Strong - 17 /

Scale Model of Liberty: The Thirteen Years of Modern Times (1851-1864) by Roger Wunderlich - 29 /

Shepard A. Mount, A Long Island Artist by Deborah J. Johnson - 47 /

Scenes of the Familiar, Emblems of the Eternal: Cultural Contexts of Shepard Alonzo Mount by Lloyd Becker - 58 /

Back to Nature: The Tile Club in the Country by Connie Koppelman - 75 /

Picture Windows: The Changing Role of Women in the Suburbs, 1945-2000 by Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen - 89 /

Public Spaces, Private Places: Images of Brooklyn by Bernice Braid - 109 /

A Plan for All Seasons: The Design of Brooklyn's Prospect Park by Donald E. Simon - 121 /

REVIEWS OF BOOKS:

Barbara M. Kelly, ed. Long Island: the Suburban Experience. Barbara M. Kelly, ed. Suburbia Re-examined by Eric E. Lampard - 136 /

Henry M. Christman, ed. Walt Whitman's New York, From Manhattan to Montauk by Wilbur R. Miller - 137 /

T. H. Breen. Imagining the Past: East Hampton Histories by Richard Welch - 139 /

Constance J. Terry, ed. In the Wake of Whales: The Whaling Journals of Captain Edwin Peter Brown 1841-1847 by Ina Katz - 142 /

Ron Ziel. The Long Island Rail Road in Early Photographs by Vincent F. Seyfried - 143 /

William E. Golder. Long Island’s First Inhabitants: Paleo-Archaic-Transitional Woodland: A 9,000-Year History of the Indian Occupation of Long Island by Peter Dunham - 144 /

Alison Hain. A School in Time and Place. VHS by Geoffrey L. Rossano - 146 /

EXHIBIT:

“The Blessed Isle: Hal B. Fullerton and His Image of Long Island” by Thomas D. Beal - 148 /

BOOK NOTES - 149