New York’s Long Island is long on history from land to sea! Ralph Brady covers well known and unknown sites, events, homes, places and people.Everyone lucky enough to live on Long Island already knows that it’s like nowhere else in the world. From lighthouses and a one-hundred-year-old carousel to World War II camps and missile sites, Long Island native Ralph Brady reveals the secrets to what makes this little-big island so special with a tour of some of Nassau and Suffolk’s most historic locations. Walt Whitman, William Vanderbilt, Theodore Roosevelt and many others occupied remarkable homes around the island. Charles Lindbergh made his historic flight to France from what is now a shopping mall. For many years, a Long Island factory gave the world the game of Scrabble. Even the waters teem with history, with the modern submarine making its start off the coast. Come explore these and other settings from Long Island’s past.
المزيد من الكتب الإلكترونية من نفس المؤلف (المؤلفين) / محرر
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