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Beginnings: Melville developed at the intersection of two Indian paths that became major roads. One was first known as Neguntalogue Road and later South Path. It was traveled by Indians and then settlers bringing salt hay from the South Shore to Huntington, and now it is Route 110. Indians originally called the area Sunsquams. After settlement by whites, it was first known in the 17th Century as Samuel Ketcham's Valley after one of the earliest residents. Later it was called Sweet Hollow, perhaps because early settlers found wild honey in the trees growing there.
Photo: The $100,000 Station at Pinelawn from "Long Island To-day" by Frederick Ruther, 1909
Photo: The $100,000 Station at Pinelawn from "Long Island To-day" by Frederick Ruther, 1909
Beginnings: Melville developed at the intersection of two Indian paths that became major roads. One was first known as Neguntalogue Road and later South Path. It was traveled by Indians and then settlers bringing salt hay from the South Shore to Huntington, and now it is Route 110. Indians originally called the area Sunsquams. After settlement by whites, it was first known in the 17th Century as Samuel Ketcham's Valley after one of the earliest residents. Later it was called Sweet Hollow, perhaps because early settlers found wild honey in the trees growing there.
Photo: The $100,000 Station at Pinelawn from "Long Island To-day" by Frederick Ruther, 1909
Photo: The $100,000 Station at Pinelawn from "Long Island To-day" by Frederick Ruther, 1909
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Best Translated Book Award finalists announced
Jacket CopyBest Translated Book Awards: 25 works of fiction are on the longlist for the 2012 Best Translated Book Awards.... -
Two summertime cross-country adventures
Jacket CopyA vintage VW Beetle or on foot: which way would you rather cross the country this summer?... -
Herman Melville was big in 2010
Jacket CopyHerman Melville proves among the most-valued authors sold by AbeBooks in 2010.... -
Book review: 'The Passages of H.M.'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Passages of H.M. A Novel of Herman Melville Jay Parini Doubleday: 454 pp., $26.95 "The time for me hasn't come yet: Some men are born posthumously," Nietzsche wrote in "Ecce Homo." It's a statement that might have provided comfort to Herman...Tags: John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, Literature, Middlebury, Charles Dickens
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Los Angeles Times Names Nicholas Goldberg Op-Ed Editor
This page has moved. If you are not automatically re-directed, please click here.Tags: Harvard University, Education, Bill Clinton
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Pushing for expansion of Suffolk's trade zone
NewsdayA Melville company hopes a proposed expansion of international trade benefits in Suffolk County will make its warehouses too small. International Warehouse Group has two buildings now with roughly 250,000 square feet of space. Jeffrey Heydt, chief...Tags: U.S. Department of Commerce
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School Notebook: State Science Olympiad winner
NewsdayThe Three Village Central School District swept the state level of the 2013 New York State Science Olympiad and will go on to compete nationally next month. Earlier this month, teams from Ward Melville High School and Paul J. Gelinas Junior High School,...Tags: Syracuse, South Side, Long Island, Longwood (Bronx, New York), Science and Technology
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Mailbag: Even those without clout can dislike fire rings
I read Chris Epting's perspective on the beach fire issue this morning and I wanted to give you another perspective. I live in Huntington Beach about two blocks from the beach. I am not a "wealthy person" who is trying to keep others from beach...Tags: Environmental Issues, Rentals, Asthma, Environmental Pollution, Population
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Best-known works, yes, but best?
Let's play the author/title association game. I'll give the author, you tell me a title. Herman Melville J.D. Salinger Alice Walker Joseph Heller Here's what you didn't say: "Mardi, and a Voyage Thither," "Franny and Zooey," "The Third Life of Grange...
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The God Squad: Commandment about taking another's life lost in translation
Question: I was raised in and still practice the Catholic faith. After high school in 1962, I enlisted in the U.S. Army, as I felt I needed to give back to my country some of what it had given me. Lo and behold, in late 1965, I was sent to Vietnam for...Tags: Murder, Judaism, Religion and Belief, Vietnam, U.S. Army
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The God Squad: Past those pearly gates, our suffering ends
Question: My question is about heaven, and in particular the belief that we're united in heaven with the souls of our departed relatives. My late wife of 59 years had a father who was a sadistic pedophile. Not only did he destroy her self-confidence but...Tags: Christianity, Aspirin (drug), Judaism, Religion and Belief, Anglicanism
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A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims
A list of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack victims from data compiled by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. The overall death toll from the attacks stands at 2,977 -- including 2,753 killed as a result of the attacks at the World Trade Center, 184...Tags: Springfield, Nesconset, Weston (Fairfield, Connecticut), Chelsea (Staten Island, New York), West Babylon
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