The Long Island Sound : a history of its people, places, and environment
"In 1613, a Dutch fur ship went up in flames near Manhattan Island. The stranded crew quickly rigged a new craft, and before starting home across the Atlantic, test drove the rickety boat, aptly named the Restless, through the roaring waters of Hell Gate. Surviving the whirlpool, they stumbled onto the journey's first piece of good luck and one of the most stunning landscapes in North America: the Long Island Sound." "In the first comprehensive account of the Long Island Sound, Marilyn E. Weigold brings the region's 400-year history to life with anecdotes and photography. The result is a medley of stories and a glimpse into one of the most beautiful and historically rich regions of the country."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2004
New York University Press, New York, ©2004
History
ix, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
9780814794005, 0814794009
54424959
Discovery and settlement
Revolution and war: 1775-1814
Steam comes to the Sound
Railroads and resorts on the Sound: 1848-1900
Agriculture, fishing, whaling and industry
The dawn of elegance: 1900-1919
The Great Gatsby and the roaring Twenties
The bleak years: 1930-1945
Everyman's sea: the postwar period
The ecology of the Sound: post-World War II through the early 1970s
Bridging the Sound
Second-guessing the future: a view from the 1970s
Long Island Sound in the twenty-first century
Revised edition of: The American Mediterranean. 1974