We’re using our home isolation to look back – reading issues of the Suffolk County News of 1920 week by week. They had quarantines back then too, it turns out, along with corsets and a lot of poultry. Follow along as we highlight what was happening in Sayville, New York and the surrounding area one hundred years ago.

Stay tuned for more news of 1920 next week!

Further Research

• NYS Historic Newspapers
• NYC Mayor LaGuardia’s Legendary Radio Readings (NPR)
• Audio footnote: 
  Episode 69: We Bought a Newspaper