In the heart of the Hamptons, located on the South Fork of eastern Long Island, is the community of Hampton Bays, which was founded long ago as Good Ground. As the name implies, the area was settled because of the fertile land and the plentiful fish...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Mar-2013, Paperback, Leidėjas: History Press (SC), ISBN-13: 9781626190030)
In the mid-nineteenth century, James Wickham was a wealthy farmer with alarge estate in Cutchogue, Long Island. His extensive property included amansion and eighty acres of farmland that were maintained by a staff ofservants. In 1854, Wickham got int...Daugiau...
Though Long Island has produced many artists of note, few have had the devotion of Charles Henry Miller (1842-1922). He ensured that future generations would know his Long Island through the hundreds of paintings he completed during his sixty-year c...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
At birth few could have possibly known that another member of the Wiles family, a boy named Irving, would grow up to become a noted American artist. Like his father, the Hudson River school painter Lemuel M. Wiles, he would teach others to paint whil...Daugiau...
Co-published with the Southold Historical Society, this volume presents a complete inventory of the paintings of this early New Yorker. Born in western New York state, Wiles painted landscapes of the area and went on to be an influential instructor o...Daugiau...
By the early twentieth century, the coastal bays of the North Fork were filled with new and enterprising hostelries. From the Miamogue and the Great Peconic Bay House in Jamesport to the Clark House and Wyandank in Greenport, the area offered some of...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
This collection of essays offers historical accounts of many of the painters, sculptors, and printmakers who lived and worked in the North Fork of Long Island, New York from the 17th century until 1969. Editors and contributors Fleming (director, Sou...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Aug-2008, Paperback, Leidėjas: History Press (SC), ISBN-13: 9781596295469)
When the primary value of bay-front property was the privilege of harvesting seaweed, state legislator and Southold newspaperman Joseph Nelson Hallock was stealing watermelon from "Peter Gils" Wells patch and fighting for the privilege to...Daugiau...
St. James sits among a variety of old and intensely interesting communities that dot the north shore of Long Island, many of which date to the mid-1600s. After being named in the mid-1800s, it quickly became one of the hot spots that stars of the Ame...Daugiau...
Out on the North Fork of Long Island, Southold claims to be the oldest English settlement in New York State, with Europeans arriving here prior to 1640. This first photographic history of Southold contains striking images dating from the mid-nineteen...Daugiau...
Bridgehampton is a fascinating look at one of the prime resort areas on the South Fork of Long Island. The history of Bridgehampton was captured magnificently by studio and itinerant photographers whose work from the mid-1800s to the late 1900s is re...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
A second volume of historical speculation by experts in the field wonders what if Socrates had died on the battlefield at Delium or Eisenhower had finished off the Nazis in 1944, among other intriguing scenarios. The second volume of historic...Daugiau...
