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The Long Island Historical Journal THE LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL JOURNAL Long Island Rail Road Train Arrives in Patchogue, N.Y. c. 1910. Fall 2004/Spring 2005 Volume 17, Nos. 1-2 Starting from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born… Walt Whitman Fall 2004/Spring 2005 Volume 17, Numbers 1-2 Published by the Department of History and The Center for Regional Policy Studies Stony Brook University Copyright 2005 by the Long Island Historical Journal ISSN 0898-7084 All rights reserved Articles appearing in this journal are abstracted and indexed in Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life THE LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL JOURNAL Editor: Seth Forman, Stony Brook University Assistant Editor: Ann M. Becker, Stony Brook University Associate Editor: Richard P. Harmond, St. John’s University Book Review Editor: Marilyn Weigold, Pace University Founding Editor: Roger Wunderlich Editorial Board: Charles F. Howlett, Molloy College; Wilbur R. Miller, SBU; Joel T. Rosenthal, SBU; Eli Seifman, Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education (CEIE), SBU; Christine McCormick, CEIE, SBU; Donald E. Simon, Monroe College; Gaynell Stone, Suffolk County Archaeological Society; John A. Strong, Long Island University (Emeritus), Southampton Campus; Natalie A. Naylor, Hofstra University (Emerita); Marilyn Weigold, Pace University; Ned C. Landsman, SBU; Ann Sandford, Regis College (ret.); Stacey Horstmann Gatti, Long Island University; Kristen Nyitray, SBU Special Collections; Floris Cash, SBU; Barbara Kelly, Hofstra University; R. L. Swanson, Marine Sciences Research Center, SBU. Cover: First Long Island Rail Road train from Penn Station to arrive at Patchogue, September 8, 1910. Courtesy of the Queens Borough Public Library, Long Island Division, Howard Conklin Collection. The editors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Office of the Provost and of the Dean of Social and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University (SBU). We thank the Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education, SBU for their generous assistance. We appreciate the continuing support of the Stony Brook History Department, especially the work and support of Ms. Susan Grumet. Publication would not have been possible without the generous support of the Gardiner Foundation and that of the Center for Regional Policy Studies at SBU. The editors thank Dr. Lee E. Koppelman, Executive Director, and Ms. Edy Jones, Ms. Jennifer Jones, and Ms. Melissa Jones, of the Center’s staff. The Long Island Historical Journal is published annually in the spring. The table of contents for all past issues are on the world wide web at http://www.sunysb.edu/history/lihj/lihj.html. Special thanks to Dan Woulfin, who provides web site support for the journal. Annual subscriptions are $20.00, single copies $20.00. Address articles, correspondence, books for review, and subscriptions to: The Editor, LIHJ Department of History Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York 11794-4348 [email protected] We publish original studies of any aspect of Long Island history. Submit manuscripts in duplicate on 8 ½” x 11” paper, double spaced with generous margins and on an IBM-compatible disk. We also accept e-mail submissions in either Word or WordPerfect format. Notes should be numbered consecutively, assembled at the end of the text and modeled on examples in the Chicago Manual of Style. Stony Brook University is an affirmative action/ equal opportunity educator and employer. TABLE OF CONTENTS LONG ISLAND’S 106TH RESCUE WING: THE HISTORY OF AMERICA’S OLDEST NATIONAL GUARD UNIT Charles F. Howlett — 1-15 THINKING GLOBALLY, A CTING LOCALLY: THE W OMEN OF THE SETAUKET LIBRARY CLUB, 1896-1924 Stacey Horstmann Gatti —16-40 THE LEGACY OF NEW DEAL ART ON LONG ISLAND Natalie A. Naylor — 41-70 EXCERPT FROM THE VINEYARD: THE PLEASURES AND PERILS OF CREATING AN AMERICAN FAMILY WINERY Louisa Thomas Hargrave — 71-79 THE PROMOTION OF LONG ISLAND BY THE LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD, 1900-1930 Sean Kass — 80-100 HOW ADVANCED WERE LONG ISLAND’S NATIVE AMERICANS? A CHALLENGE TO THE TRADITIONAL VIEW Philip C. Weigand — 101-118 EARLY CHILD WELFARE IN NASSAU COUNTY Ruth Shackelford — 119-150 LESSONS FROM LONG ISLAND: PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURAL TRADE Justin Kastner, Douglas Powell, Jason Ackelson, Terry Crowley, and Karen Huff — 151-167 OBSERVATIONS THE STATE OF LONG ISLAND? Lee E. Koppelman and Seth Forman — 168-184 LONG ISLAND PLACE NAMES THE COUNTIES: KINGS, QUEENS, SUFFOLK, AND NASSAU T. A. Milford — 185-188 YOU’RE NOT WHERE YOU THINK YOU ARE: LONG ISLAND PLACE NAMES AND POSTAL ZONES Walter Greenspan — 189-193 SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST JACKSON POLLOCK IN EAST HAMPTON: SPLATTERING THE ART WORLD Alyssa Jakim — 194-204 THE STRUGGLE FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN FLUSHING Brian Tashman — 205-213 DEBATE JOHN STRONG VS. FAREN R. SIMINOFF REVIEW OF FAREN R. SIMINOFF. CROSSING THE SOUND: THE RISE OF ATLANTIC AMERICAN COMMUNITIES IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LONG ISLAND – 214-221 RESPONSE FROM SIMINOFF – 222-226 BOOKS AND CULTURE: REVIEWS Ron Ross. Bummy Davis vs. Murder Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Mafia and an Ill-Fated Prizefighter Gary Wilbur — 227 Thelma Jackson. African Americans in Northport: An Untold Story Durahn Taylor — 229 Floris Barnett Cash. African American Women and Social Action: The Clubwomen and Volunteerism from Jim Crow to the New Deal Prudence D. Cumberpatch — 231 Antonia Booth and Thomas Monsell. Images of America: Greenport. Geoffrey Fleming. Images of America: Southold Caroline MacArthur — 236 Belle Barstow. Setauket, Alias Brookhaven: The Birth of a Long Island Town With Chronological Records 1655-1679 John Strong — 237 Three Village Historical Society. Images of America. Stony Brook Floris Cash — 241 Steven Petrow, with Richard Barons. The Lost Hamptons Ann Sandford — 243 Vincent Seyfried. The Rockaway Trolley: The Story of the Ocean Electric Railway, 1886 to 1928 Vincent Seyfried and William Asadorian. Old Rockaway, New York in Early Photographs Natalie A. Naylor — 245 Joel T. Rosenthal. From the Ground Up: A History of the State University of New York at Stony Brook Joshua M. Ruff — 247 Donald M. Bayles. The Civil War Letters of Albert and Edward Bayles, and the History of Their Regiment, the 139th Wilbur R. Miller— 251 Joshua Stoff. Images of America: Long Island Aircraft Crashes, 1909-1959 Giacinta Bradley Koontz, The Harriet Quimby Scrapbook: The Life of America’s First Birdwoman, 1875-1912 Natalie A. Naylor — 252 Helen A. Harrison and Constance Ayers Denne. Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach Stacey Horstmann Gatti — 254 Running Scared, Running Free. Ward Melville Cultural Organization’s Educational and Cultural Center, Stony Brook, New York (February 15 – March 31, 2005) Lynda R. Day — 260 Eye of the Storm: The Civil War Drawings of Robert Sneden. Virginia Historical Society. Long Island display developed by Joshua Ruff, History Curator, Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages, 1200 Rte. 25A,Stony Brook New York (February 19 – May 30, 2005) Harrison Hunt — 262 IN MEMORIAM ROBERT DAVID LION GARDINER (1911-2004) Honorable Peter Fox Cohalan for the Editors—265-268 KENDALL A. BIRR (1924-2004) Chuck F. Howlett for the Editors—269 CONTRIBUTORS Dr. Charles F. Howlett is Assistant Professor in the Graduate Education Department at Molloy College. He retired as social studies coordinator after twenty-seven years of service at Amityville Memorial High School. He is the author of numerous books and articles in the field of American History. Stacey Horstmann Gatti is an Assistant Professor of History at Long Island University Natalie A. Naylor taught Long Island and American social history at Hofstra University and was director of its Long Island Studies Institute from its founding until she retired in 2000. She has been editor of the Nassau County Historical Society Journal since 1996. Louisa Thomas Hargrave is currently the Director of Stony Brook University’s Center for Wine. Ms. Hargrave is also a Suffolk County appointee to the Long Island Regional Planning Board. Sean Kass graduated from Yale University in 2004. He is currently a paralegal at the law firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP and will attend Harvard Law School beginning this fall. Philip C. Weigand was Professor in the Anthropology Department at Stony Brook University from 1975 to 1988, and chair of the department from 1977 to 1987. He is currently a Research Professor at the Colegio de Michoacan, a research and graduate institution in Mexico. Ruth Shackelford is an Assistant Professor of History at Long Island University in Brooklyn. Justin Kastner is an Assistant Professor in Food Safety and Security at Kansas State University Douglas Powell serves as scientific director of the Food Safety Network, a Canada-based research center providing international research, policy evaluation and public information on issues related to food safety, animal and plant health, and agricultural security. Jason Ackleson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at New Mexico State University and Associate Director of the University Honors College. Terry Crowley is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Karen Huff is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Business, University of Guelph. Lee E. Koppelman is a Leading Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University. He is also the Executive Director of the Center for Regional Policy Studies at Stony Brook Seth Forman is Research Associate Professor at Stony Brook University’s Center for Regional Policy Studies and the editor of the Long Island Historical Journal. T.A. Milford is Assistant Professor of History at St. John’s University. Walter Greenspan is a specialist in local geography and government and a former resident of Jericho, Long Island. John A. Strong is Professor emeritus at the Southampton campus of Long Island University. His most recent publication is The Montaukett Indians of Eastern Long Island, Syracuse University Press, 2001. Faren R. Siminoff is an Assistant Professor of History at Nassau County Community College.
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