Highlights
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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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: Rentals, Asthma, Southern California Edison Company, Allergies, Environmental Pollution
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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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Best Translated Book Award finalists announced
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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: Calverton, Michael Williams, East Norwich, Portland (Middlesex, Connecticut), Greenlawn
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Two summertime cross-country adventures
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Justin Bieber's wax figure unveiled in London, Amsterdam, New York [poll]
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Online Dish: Murderer Will Inherit the Fortune of the Woman He Killed
KIAHA convicted murderer will inherit the fortune from the woman he murdered. Say what?! 24-year-old heroin addict, Brandon Palladino, will soon be the richest con in the can. Once he gets out of the joint, Palladino who is convicted of murdering his mother-...Tags: Criminals, KIAH, Suicide, Heroin, Murder
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Herman Melville was big in 2010
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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: Literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, New York, Arts and Culture
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Cops: Woman Pepper Sprays Cabbie Instead of Paying Fare
KTLA NewsMELVILLE, N.Y. -- Police in Suffolk County say a California woman took a cab from Manhattan to Long Island and then pepper-sprayed the driver instead of paying the fare. The incident started Saturday when the 22-year-old woman from Redwood City, Calif....Tags: Redwood City, Suffolk County (New York), KTLA, Long Island, Central Islip
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DA: Largest Seizure of Uncut Heroin on Long Island
Authorities on Long Island seized more than 17 pounds of uncut heroin during a drug bust in Melville - making it the largest seizure of the powerful drug in Suffolk County's history, officials said.
Two New Jersey men were arrested outside a Melville...Tags: WPIX, New Jersey, Suffolk County (New York), Drugs and Medicines, Thomas Spota
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Departing Suffolk firm's exec tips hat -- toward Nassau
Spin CycleA major drug company, OSI Pharmaceuticals, said last week it was bailing out of Long Island for Westchester County ??? but said Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi had worked hard to keep it here. Company CEO Colin Goddard said in......Tags: OSI Pharmaceuticals, Long Island, Steve Levy
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