Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 09, Number 2 (Spring 1997)

Abstract

TABLE OF CONTENTS -

EDITORIAL COMMENT /

State of the Island: Peconic County Pro and Con -

Peconic County: To Be or Not To Be? by Roger Wunderlich - 140 /

The Case for Peconic County by Fred W. Thiele, Jr. - 145 /

Peconic County: The Myth and the Reality by Lee E. Koppleman - 152 /

FEATURE ARTICLES:

The Long Island Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, Part Three: Militancy and Black Consciousness by Chuck Howlett - 168 /

John P. Holland and the Creation of the American Submarine Fleet by Richard F. Welch - 209 /

Walt Whitman's Long Island Friend: Elisa Seaman Leggett by Joann P. Krieg - 223 /

Library Service at the United States Merchant Marine Academy: Origins and Development, 1942-1949 by Stephen R. Wiist - 234 /

EXHIBIT ESSAY:

The Last of the Mount Family Artists: Evelina Mount (1837-1920) by Ita G. Berkow - 245 /

REVIEWS:

John A. Strong. The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island: From Earliest Times to 1700 and “We Are Still Here!” The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island Today by Daria Merwin - 252 /

Suzannah Lessard. The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family by Mark L. Taff - 254 /

Steve Wick. Heaven and Earth: The Last Farmers of the North Fork by Laurel Stevenson - 257 /

Noel J. Gish. Smithtown, New York, 1660-1929: Looking Backward through the Lens by David Burner - 260 /

John Jiler. Dark Wind: A True Account of Hurricane Gloria’s Assault on Fire Island by Jim Papa - 262 /

BOOK NOTES - 264