Tag: Riverhead

Long Island’s Endangered Historic Places

December 12, 2023
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Three story lighthouse made of red brick sitting on an outcrop of black rock surrounded by water.
The Stepping Stones Lighthouse in Long Island Sound. Photo by Robert Lincoln.

Every other year, Preservation Long Island compiles a list of historic places on Long Island that are endangered. Each list is a mix of structures from different periods of time, […]

The Arthur Murray Girls Baseball Team

July 27, 2023
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Short newspaper item with the headline "Girls Play Tonight."
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 30, 1952.

In 1949 nine women of the Arthur Murray Girls baseball team took the field against the all-male squad from the Patchogue Athletics. By that year, the Murrays had been together […]

Long Island Migrant Labor Camps

March 22, 2021
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Photo of author Mark Torres.
Mark Torres's new book is Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood.

Mark Torres has uncovered a little-discussed chapter of Long Island history, the conditions under which many migrant farm workers labored on area farms from World War II into the early […]

Baseball in Riverhead

August 3, 2020
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Newspaper headline from 1950 stating "Satchel Paige to pitch at Riverhead."
Riverhead County Review, July 20, 1950. From NYS Historic Newspapers.

A July night at Riverhead Stadium in 1950. Two baseball legends face each other without even realizing it. Satchel Paige, fabled Negro League pitcher, is on the mound for the […]