A Farm Family on Long Island's North Fork
The Lost World of the Hallocks and Their Sound Avenue Community
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2024
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9983-3 (ISBN)
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9983-3 (ISBN)
Life, love, and scandal in a nineteenth-century Long Island farm community.
In A Farm Family on Long Island's North Fork, Richard A. Wines traces the history of a vital agricultural community on the North Fork of Long Island through the story of the last family to live in the old Homestead at the Hallockville Museum Farm. For well over two centuries, community members were almost all descendants of the same group of seventeenth-century Puritan founders. Yet, despite their shared heritage and complex interrelationships, cultural wars raged. Family members and the community divided bitterly on issue after issue, ranging from whether to allow a melodeon into the church to supporting abolitionism. The community weathered many changes—the Civil War, the emergence of new agricultural technologies, the arrival of Eastern European immigrants, even an attempt to build a string of nuclear power plants in the twentieth century. Wines's deep dives into one community's history uncover stories about slavery, racism, and prejudice that many have chosen to forget, as well as stories of compassion or human tragedy we want to remember. A Farm Family on Long Island's North Fork will appeal to those interested in Long Island regional history and the larger history of rural communities throughout New York and the United States.
In A Farm Family on Long Island's North Fork, Richard A. Wines traces the history of a vital agricultural community on the North Fork of Long Island through the story of the last family to live in the old Homestead at the Hallockville Museum Farm. For well over two centuries, community members were almost all descendants of the same group of seventeenth-century Puritan founders. Yet, despite their shared heritage and complex interrelationships, cultural wars raged. Family members and the community divided bitterly on issue after issue, ranging from whether to allow a melodeon into the church to supporting abolitionism. The community weathered many changes—the Civil War, the emergence of new agricultural technologies, the arrival of Eastern European immigrants, even an attempt to build a string of nuclear power plants in the twentieth century. Wines's deep dives into one community's history uncover stories about slavery, racism, and prejudice that many have chosen to forget, as well as stories of compassion or human tragedy we want to remember. A Farm Family on Long Island's North Fork will appeal to those interested in Long Island regional history and the larger history of rural communities throughout New York and the United States.
Richard A. Wines is the author of Fertilizer in America: From Waste Recycling to Resource Exploitation.
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Family Attic
2. The Young Halsey Hallock
3. Love, War, and Death: Daniel, Halsey, and the Civil War
4. Last Family in the Homestead: 1866–1885
5. Scandals in the Church
6. Life in the Homestead: 1885–1920
7. The Hallock Farm
8. Sound Avenue Prosperity
9. Love, Courtship, and Marriage on Sound Avenue
10. Holidays and Entertainment
11. What Did the Hallocks Eat?
12. Retirement and Old Age
13. Last Decades in the Homestead: 1939–1979
14. Epilogue: Hallockville Museum Farm, Keyspan Project, Hallock State Park
Appendix: Guide to the Hallocks
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.09.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 63 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 227 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-9983-3 / 1438499833 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-9983-3 / 9781438499833 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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