___________________________________________________ LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL JOURNAL ___________________________________________________ Map by Willem Janszoon Blaeu based upon a 1614 manuscript by Dutch explorer Adriaen Block, the first European to circumnavigate Long Island. ___________________________________________________ Volume 19, Numbers 1-2 Fall 2006/Spring 2007 ___________________________________________________ Starting from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born… Walt Whitman Fall 2006/Spring 2007 Volume 19, Numbers 1-2 Published by the Department of History and The Center for Regional Policy Studies Stony Brook University Copyright 2007 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 editors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Office of the Provost and of the Dean of Social and Behavioral Science, Stony Brook University (SBU). 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Address articles, correspondence, books for review, and subscriptions to: The Editor, LIHJ Department of History Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York 11794-4348 Or e-mail: [email protected] We publish original studies of any aspect of Long Island history. Submit manuscripts in a Word file, preferably via e-mail. Files should be double- spaced with generous margins. Notes should appear at the end of the article numbered consecutively using the Word “endnote” function, and modeled on examples in the spring 2005 number of the LIHJ for which there is a link provided on this page. The LIHJ follows the Chicago Manual of Style. Stony Brook University is an affirmative action/ equal opportunity educator and employer. THE LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL JOURNAL Editor: Seth Forman, Stony Brook University Associate Editor: Ann M. Becker, Stony Brook University Assistant Editor: Kristen J. Nyitray, Stony Brook University Editor at Large: Richard P. Harmond, St. John’s University (Emeritus) Founding Editor: Roger Wunderlich Editorial Board: Catherine Ball, Smithtown Library; Floris Cash, Stony Brook University; Marie Fitzgerald, St. Joseph’s College; Bradley Harris, Smithtown Historical Society; Stacey Horstmann Gatti, Long Island University; Charles F. Howlett, Molloy College; Ned C. Landsman, Stony Brook University; Wilbur R. Miller, Stony Brook University; Natalie A. Naylor, Hofstra University (Emerita); Joel T. Rosenthal, Stony Brook University, (Emeritus); Chandrani Roy, Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education, Stony Brook University; Barbara M. Russell, Town of Brookhaven Historian; S. Joan Ryan, St. Joseph’s College; Ann Sandford, Regis College (ret.); Eli Seifman, Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education, Stony Brook University; Donald E. Simon, Monroe College; John G. Staudt, Hofstra University; Gaynell Stone, Suffolk County Archaeological Society; John A. Strong, Long Island University (Emeritus), Southampton Campus; R. L. Swanson, Marine Sciences Research Center, SBU; Marilyn Weigold, Pace University; Richard F. Welch, Long Island Forum (ret.). Cover: Willem Janszoon Blaeu, Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova (1635). The earliest map to depict Manhattan and Block Island. Courtesy of Special Collections, Stony Brook University. TABLE OF CONTENTS THE AUTONOMOUS COMMONWEALTH: SOUTHAMPTON, 1640-1644 John A. Strong — 1-19 THE GARDEN CITY HOTEL AND THE MODERN AMERICAN PEACE MOVEMENT Charles F. Howlett — 20-43 DEEPWELLS: A CROWN JEWEL IN ST. JAMES Bradley L. Harris — 44-63 THE DIMON FAMILY: BRIDGEHAMPTON HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ITS FOCUS ON ORDINARY PEOPLE J. Kirkpatrick Flack — 64-80 THE ORIGINS OF ADELPHI SUFFOLK COLLEGE: THE SAYVILLE AND SOUTHAMPTON INITIATIVES 1957-1958 Leroy E. Douglas — 81-97 BUILDING STUDENT POWER: A HISTORY OF NYPIRG AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK: 1974-1992 Dan Woulfin — 98-120 EARLY DISASTER MITIGATION POLICY ON LONG ISLAND’S SOUTH SHORE Jayme Breschard — 121-137 HUBBARD LATHAM FORDHAM: KEEPING AN EYE ON SAG HARBOR Stephen Longmire — 138-144 THE POSTSUBURBAN DEVELOPMENT OF RIVERHEAD, LONG ISLAND: 1970 - 2000 Eric Fauss — 145-163 REFLECTIONS THE PECONIC RIVER Richard P. Harmond — 164-166 LONG ISLAND PLACE NAMES SHELTER ISLAND: AN ISLAND SHELTERED BY ISLANDS Patricia and Edward Shillenburg — 167-171 PRIMARY SOURCE CONFERENCE ON THE FUTURE OF NASSAU AND WESTERN SUFFOLK: INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Robert Moses — 172-181 BOOKS AND CULTURE: REVIEWS Ann Sandford. Grandfather Lived Here: The Transformation of Bridgehampton, New York 1870-1970 Marilyn E. Weigold — 182-183 Newsday Inc. Newsday's Guide to Long Island's Natural World John Staudt — 183-186 Leonard Benardo and Jennifer Weiss. Brooklyn By Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names Garry Wilbur — 186-188 Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York, edited by Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson. Natalie A. Naylor — 188-189 Living the American Dream: Levittown and the Suburban Boom, Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, New York Barbara Kelly — 189-192 Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Road to Recreation. Queens Museum, Queens, New York Richard F. Welch — 192-194 Harry W. Havemeyer. Fire Island’s Surf Hotel and other Hostelries on Fire Island’s Beaches in the Nineteenth-Century Marsha Hamilton — 194-196 Stephen L. Meyers. Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long Island and David Keller and Steven Lynch. Revisiting the Long Island Rail Road, 1925-1975 Donald E. Simon — 196-199 Joshua Stoff. Long Island Airports Charles F. Howlett — 199-201 Terry Wallace. Caroline M. Bell (1874-1970) and The Peconic Bay Impressionists Natalie A. Naylor — 201-203 Robert G. Müller, Long Island’s Lighthouses, Past and Present Natalie A. Naylor — 203-205 Three Village Historical Society. The Setaukets, Old Field, and Poquott Charles F. Howlett — 206-208 William J. Switala. Underground Railroad in New York and New Jersey Floris Barnett Cash — 208-210 Raymond E. and Judith A. Spinzia. Long Island’s Prominent North Shore Families: Their Estates and Their Country Homes Myrna Sloam — 210-212 Mary Cummings. Hurricane in the Hamptons, 1938 Ann H. Sandford — 212-214 Alexander Rose. Washington’s Spies. The Story of America’s First Spy Ring Richard F. Welch — 214-218 Pascal James Imperato. Tudor Village, The History of a Unique Community in Queens County Donald E. Simon — 218-220 James Driscoll. Flushing: 1880-1935 Jeffrey A. Kroessler — 220-222 Toby Selda. Simply "Father": Life with Theodore Roosevelt as Seen Through the Eyes of His Children Natalie A. Naylor — 222-223 BOOK NOTES Prepared by Kristen J. Nyitray — 224-228 IN MEMORIAM DAVID A. OVERTON (1925-2005) Barbara M. Russell, for the editors — 229-230 CONTRIBUTORS 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. 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. His most recent book is History of the American Peace Movement, 1890-2000: The Development of a New Scholarly Discipline (Edwin Mellen Press, 2005). Bradley Harris has been the Smithtown Historian since 1978 and is the president of the Smithtown Historical Society. J. Kirkpatrick Flack retired in 2004 from the University of Maryland where he taught American History. A version of this paper was presented on July 13, 2006 at the Hampton Library as part of Bridgehampton, New York’s 350th Anniversary Lecture Series. Leroy E. Douglas is a retired high school social studies teacher and one of the founders of the Long Island Republic Airport Historical Society. He has published articles on educational history in the Long Island Forum and in the Nassau County Historical Journal. Dan Woulfin is a graduate of Rutgers University and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department of Stony Brook University. Jayme Breschard is a planner with Genesee/Finger Lakes Regional Planning Council in Rochester, New York. Stephen Longmire is a fine art photographer and an art historian. His book, Keeping Time in Sag Harbor, will be out in the summer of 2007 (University of Chicago Press). A companion exhibition will be on display in the summer of 2007 at the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum. Eric Fauss is an M.A. candidate at the University of Connecticut, where he will pursue his doctorate in American history beginning in the fall of 2007. Richard P. Harmond is an Emeritus Associate Professor from