Lost Freeport

Presented by Regina G. Feeney and Cynthia J. Krieg

SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012, 2 p.m.

at the Freeport Memorial Library

This presentation will feature locations in Freeport that no longer exist and others that are in danger of disappearing. Included are Guy Lombardo’s house, the Brooklyn Water Works building, the Elks Club, the Freeport Theatre, and more. The history of the Meadowbrook Bank building, which has been empty for several decades, will also be discussed.

Digitization Statistics

Long Island Memories Digitization Statistics

March 2012

Since 2004, the Freeport Memorial Library and Freeport Historical Society have been scanning and making historical material pertaining to Freeport available online through the Long Island Memories Digitization Project: www.longislandmemories.org

Items Available as of March 2012 for Freeport

4,341 Pictures/Pamphlets

7 Newspapers

50 Years - Village of Freeport Newsletters

Hits for March 2012:

21,822 Freeport Leader

17,395 Nassau County Review

16,868 Nassau Post

9,402 Photographs/Pamphlets

7,988 South Side Messenger

5,570 Daily Review of Nassau County

3,558 Queens County Review

973 Freeport News

172 Village of Freeport Newsletters

83,748 Total Hits

Titanic Hits Iceberg!

100th Anniversary

Resources at the Freeport Memorial Library

Books

• Fiction
• Nonfiction

Local Newspaper Coverage

• From the Long Island Memories Digital Project

1940 Census is Released Today!

The Freeport Memorial Library provides free access to the census and other genealogical resources through Ancestry.com.

If you had family living in Freeport in the 1940s and are having trouble accessing the newly released 1940 census, try the Freeport Leader for that decade: www.longislandmemories.org.

The library also has Freeport High School yearbooks from the 1940s in our Long Island Room.

Book Recommendations

Book Recommendations: Old New York

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Nonfiction

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Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-loving New York by Richard Zacks (2012)
In the 1890s, New York City was America’s financial, manufacturing, and entertainment capital, and also its preferred destination for sin, teeming with forty thousand prostitutes, glittery casinos, and all-night dives. Police cap­tains took hefty bribes to see nothing while reformers writhed in frustration. Zacks paints a vivid portrait of the lewd underbelly of 1890s New York, and of Theodore Roosevelt, the puritanical, cocksure police commissioner resolved to clean it up. Writing with great wit and zest, Zacks explores how young Roosevelt goes head to head with Tammany Hall, takes midnight rambles with muckraker Jacob Riis, and tries to convince two million New Yorkers to enjoy wholesome family fun. When Roosevelt’s crackdown succeeds too well, even his supporters turn on him, and TR discovers that New York loves its sin more than its salvation.
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Fiction

Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye (2012)

Timothy Wilde tends bar near the Exchange, saving every dollar in hopes of winning the girl of his dreams. But when his dreams literally incinerate in a fire devastating downtown Manhattan, he finds himself disfigured, unemployed, and homeless. His older brother obtains Timothy a job in the newly minted NYPD, but he is highly skeptical of this untested "police force." He is also less than thrilled that his new beat is the notoriously down-and-out Sixth Ward-at the border of Five Points, the world's most notorious slum. Onenight while returning from his rounds, heartsick and defeated, Timothy runs into a little slip of a girl—a girl not more than ten years old—dashing through the dark in her nightshift . . . covered head to toe in blood.

Timothy knows he should take the girl to the House of Refuge, yet he can't bring himself to abandon her. Instead, he takes her home, where she spins wild stories, claiming that dozens of bodies are buried in the forest north of 23rd Street. Timothy isn't sure whether to believe her or not, but, as the truth unfolds, the reluctant copper star finds himself engaged in a battle for justice that nearly costs him his brother, his romantic obsession, and his own life.

Find It On The Web

Find It On The Web
As Suggested by Library Journal
March 1, 2012 pages 40-41

Arab Spring: An Interactive Timeline of Middle East Protests
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/mar/22/middle-east-protest-interactive-timeline
Compiled by the British daily newspaper The Guardian, this timeline traces the prodemocracy rebellions in the Middle East beginning in December 2011.

Biodiversity Heritage Library
www.biodiversitylibrary.org
This collaborative project involving national history and botanical garden libraries began in 2009. Participants are making available her collection through digitization. Today, this collaboration includes information on more than 1 million species in more than 53,000 titles and 102,000 volumes.

GetHuman
www.gethuman.com
Tired of getting lost in voicemail hell? Try the web’s largest database of customer-service information with a catalog of direct phone number for large companies in 50 companies.

Philosophy Bites
www.philosophybites.com
Noted philosophers David Edwards and Nigel Warburton engage some of the world’s leading philosophers on various topics. This site includes over 168 podcasts on all aspects of philosophy.

Occupy Wall Street
www.occupywallst.org
This is the unofficial site of the movement that began in September 2001. It serves as an online resource for the growing occupation movement happening on Wall Street and around the world.

Science Daily
www.sciencedaily.com
Since 1995, this site has provided breaking news about scientific discovery. It now includes over 65,000 research articles, 15,000 images, and 2500 encyclopedia entries, 1500 book reviews, and hundreds of education videos.

Lecture

History of the Magic Lantern Slide

On Friday March 19 at 1:30 p.m., librarians and archivists, Vanessa Nastro and Regina Feeney with present a lecture on the History of Magic Lantern Slides at the Freeport Memorial Library. Magic lantern slides were the forerunner to Kodachrome slides. Although their origins are not entirely known, primitive versions were employed as early as the fifth century B.C. This fascinating lecture will trace the history of the magic lantern slide and its use and relevance to the field of photography, with examples from the Freeport Memorial Library’s own extensive collection of slides.