Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 10, Number 2 (Spring 1998)

Abstract

TABLE OF CONTENTS -

EDITORIAL COMMENT /

FEATURE ARTICLES:

The Spanish American War and Montauk Point: Introduction to Charles Johnson Post’s Memoir of Camp Wikoff by Richard P. Harmond - 139 /

Montauk: A Chronicle of ‘98 by Charles Johnson Post - 143 /

Suffolk County’s Commemoration of the Spanish American War by Judith A. Gordon - 159 /

State of the Island: Councilmanic or At-Large Districts for Long Island Towns? by Edith L. Gordon - 163 /

Lion Gardiner, Long Island’s Founding Father by Roger Wunderlich - 172 /

The Many Lives of Sayville’s Lewis Noe by Hank Shaw - 186 /

“Barren and Waste Land”: Long Islanders and the Pine Barrens by Marsha L. Hamilton - 207 /

SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS:

How Separation of Church and State Affects Children on Long Island by Kimberly Horoski - 222 /

Blocker v. Manhasset Board of Education (1964): Long Island’s First Challenge to Public School Segregation by Kimberly Mockler - 227 /

BOOK REVIEW ESSAY - 236:

Lynda R. Day. Making a Way to Freedom: A History of African Americans on Long Island. Grania Bolton Marcus. A Forgotten People: Discovering the Black Experience in Suffolk County. Natalie A. Naylor, ed. Exploring African American History on Long Island and Beyond by Floris Barnett Cash /

REVIEWS - 244:

Robert Sisler and Patricia Sisler. Those Half-Thousand Great Ships Built in Port Jefferson. by Richard Welch /

Ebenezer Miller. Diary of Ebenezer Miller of Miller Place, Long Island, New York, 1762-1768, transcription and footnotes by Margaret Davis Gass and Willis H. White by Edward Smith /

Harry W. Havemeyer. Along the Great South Bay by Hank Shaw /

Bevery Tyler. Discover Setauket, Brookhaven’s Original by Gloria Sesso /

Horace Hallock, The Orphan Path: Journals of Horace Hallock 1819-1834. Compiled by Elizabeth M. Smith Doering. by Judith Hallock /

Thinking and Writing: A Guide for College Students by Christopher Gennari