Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 14, Numbers 1-2 (Fall 2001/Spring 2002)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS - FEATURE ARTICLES: Freaks and Geeks: Coney Island Sideshow Performers and Long Island Eugenicists, 1910-1935 by Tanfer Emin - 1 / Mohawk Sovereignty over the Long Island Indians: Fact or Fiction? A Re-Examination of Primary and Secondary Sources by John Strong - 15 / Robert Moses, Jones Beach, and the Legacy of Progressive-Era Conservationism by Michelle Kleehammer - 27 / Village School to City System: The Schools of the Town of New Utrecht by John F. Roche - 42 / Preserving “The Good Old Spirit”: Long Island in the Colonial Revival by Joshua Ruff - 62 / From Potato Patch to Wine Orchard: Southold Town’s Path of Rural Preservation by Michael Rokofsky - 86 / “The Devil's Own Imponderables”: Two Smithtown Men in the American Revolution by Elizabeth Shepherd - 86 / NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: “Long Island has been a School to Me”: The 1825 Letter of an Instructor at Schools at Rockaway and Great Neck Transcribed and annotated by James Greve - 119 / The Origin, Rise, and Decline of the Long Island Branch of the Ranger Family: An Update by Charles E. Squires, Robert J. Young, and Michael B. Ranger - 125 / SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST: Black Migrant Workers on the East End of Long Island during the 1950s and 1960s by Caroline Axelrod - 128 / The Birth of the United Nations in Lake Success by Erika Brown - 138 / Jupiter Hammon: America’s First Black Poet by Marshalette Gillings - 147 / BOOK REVIEWS: Frank Cavaioli. State University of New York at Farmingdale. by Sean A. Fanelli - 156 / John A. Strong. The Montaukett Indians of Eastern Long Island. by Gaynell Stone - 157 / Natalie A. Naylor, ed. “The People Called Quakers”: Records of Long Island Friends, 1671-1703. by Christopher Densmore - 160 / Tom Montalbano. Images of America: Syosset. by Karen Cooper - 162 / BOOK NOTES - 163 / FILM REVIEW - 164 Parsing Pollock by Helen A. Harrison / COMMUNICATIONS - 170