Hicksville - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0738563439 ISBN 13 : 9780738563435

Editeur : Arcadia Publishing (SC), 2000

Synopsis

With Hicksville, local historians Richard and Anne Evers take us on a journey back in time from the area's 1648 land purchase from Native Americans and associations with Elias Hicks, the Jericho antislavery leader, to its transformation into a thriving twentieth-century Long Island suburb of New York City. Through evocative images and insightful text, we learn how the Long Island Railroad was dead-ended here in the Panic of 1837 and how German immigrants created a village and vacation spa in the area. Readers fly with the Lone Eagle as he coaches his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, to make good landings at the Long Island Aviation Country Club. We glimpse singer and songwriter Billy Joel learning his craft as a young Hicksville piano man. At General Instrument we watch as workers win a Navy E award for developing technology to guide the Polaris missiles on our Cold War submarines. Home to goldbeaters, a Heinz pickle works, the famous Long Island potato, and epoch-making Levitt-type homes near Grumman's (whose naval aircraft won the Pacific War), Hicksville has made large contributions to the nation's social, economic, and political sectors.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Authors Richard and Anne Evers have gathered the over 200 rare photographs presented here from the collections of the Hicksville Public Library, museum archives, and private collections. It is their wish to preserve and promote the history of their adopted home as a legacy for future generations of Hicksville residents and visitors.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0738563439
• ISBN 13: 9780738563435
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible