What's In A Name?
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1849 HISTORY IS REPRINTED
Henry Onderdonk Jr.'s "Revolutionary Incidents of Suffolk and Kings Counties," first published in 1849 and long out of print, has been reprinted by a Massachusetts publisher.

ROUND SWAMP FARM: A FAMILY AFFAIR
Carolyn Snyder, a seventh-generation member of the Round Swamp Lester family (and the sister of Dianna Lester Catozzi, who writes about the family this week elsewhere on this page), lives in the circa-1740 Lester homestead at Round Swamp Farm on Three Mile Harbor Road, which was built of lumber probably brought from Gardiner's Island.

THE TASTE OF HISTORY
A hard toast, zwieback was popular among mothers of war babies as a means of soothing their teething toddlers. But it also was popular as the basis for pie crust, as the Ladies Village Improvement Society cooks suggested in their 1939 cookbook.

Vanished Places