Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 03, Number 2 (Spring 1991)

Abstract

TABLE OF CONTENTS -

EDITORIAL COMMENT - 153 /

FEATURE ARTICLES:

On the Floor by Helen A. Harrison - 155 /

The History of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Part One: The Graphite Reactor and the Cosmotron by Robert P. Crease - 167 /

Quashawam: Sunksquaw of the Montauk by Lara M. Strong and Selcuk Karabag - 187 /

Montauk Point Lighthouse: A History of New York’s First Seamark by Robert J. Hefner - 203 /

Maglev by Lee E. Koppelman - 215 /

American Quilting, 1780-1990 by Amy McKune - 223 /

Long Island Goes to the Auto Races: The Great Vanderbilt Cup Controversy of 1904 by Geoffrey L. Rossano - 229 /

The Pratt Experiment: The Early Years of the Library School by Anthony Cucchiara and Sandra Roff - 244 /

LOST AND FOUND:

by John A. Strong and Wilbur R. Miller - 253 /

REVIEWS OF BOOKS:

Robert F. Keeler. Newsday: A Candid History of the Respectable Tabloid by Peter B. Boody - 260 /

One Hundred Years Old Today: Anniversary Edition, the Easthampton Star by Barbara E. Austen - 265 /

Dennis Berthold and Kenneth Price, eds. Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman by Joann P. Krieg - 271 /

Jeffrey A. Kroessler and Nina S. Rappaport. Historic Preservation in Queens by Carol A. Traynor - 272 /

Mary Field and Van Field. The Illustrated History of the Moriches Bay Area by Donald E. Simon - 274 /

Nicholas Langhart, et al. Houses of Southold; the First 350 Years by Frank Turano - 276 /

EXHIBIT REVIEW:

Edward Lange Revisited by Thomas D. Beal - 278 /

BOOK AND EXHIBIT NOTES - 278