EAST END STORIES

The spring edition of the Long Island Historical Journal, a publication of the State University at Stony Brook's history department, features two East End stories, both of particular interest in this, the 350th anniversary year of East Hampton's founding.

Charles Johnson Post was a young illustrator and journalist in 1898. He was also a soldier who went to Cuba to fight during the Spanish American War. After the guns ceased firing, Mr. Post wrote "Montauk: A Chronicle of '98," a bitter reflection on the horrible conditions aboard the transport ship that brought him from Cuba to quarantine at Camp Wikoff in Montauk, and only slightly better conditions at Camp Wikoff itself.

The journal also features the article "Lion Gardiner, Long Island's Founding Father" by Roger Wunderlich. The journal can be ordered through Roger Wunderlich, editor, department of history, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 11794-4348. The cost is $8.