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Monuments at Bartlett Pond Park dedicated.
Pearl Button Business Recalled by Fragments Found at Yaphank
Longwood students and staff volunteering during the annual Brookhaven clean up day
Veterans Day celebration held at Bartlett Pond
Middle Island News Articles
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Alberta, a familiar face in Coram
The East Middle Island schoolhouse
Davis cows
West Middle Island Class of 1932
Tombstone Project
Soldiers in the Service
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Customs and habits of Indians Recalled
The Long Island Indians
Pictures of students at the one room school house at Ridge (1945)
Passing It On
An interview that was done in 1979 with Hazel Clarissa Randall Wells
Elsie Manzoni tells what it was like to grow up on a farm in Coram. Do you have a story that you would like to tell? You can write it yourself or let us ask questions and we will edit it for you.
Believes in Long Island for Fruit and Peach Raising
The memoirs of Talbot Brewer of the 306th machine gun battalion.
Park Idea To Save Great Pines of Middle Island ---Grove Spreads
John Jones of Yaphank held the position of election Inspector for 43 years
HUNTER SEKINE HOUSE
John "Ed" Davis was the longtime constable in Yaphank. This interview appeared in the Middle Island Mail in March 1936.
Not everyone was happy with the coming of the Long Island Railroad. This is a news article recalling the Long Island Forest Fires and the Railroad Wars of 1845.
The Glover family were longtime Yaphank residents. The family farm took up much of Yaphank Avenue south of the railroad tracks. Family member Jon Backer has written a history of the family farm.
List of people in Brookhaven Town who agreed to set their slaves free (The Act of 1788) This list also includes the names of the slaves set free.
The 8th grade class of 1947 - Before clicking attempt to guess how many 8th grade students were in the class of 1947
Updates to the Obituary Page
World War I Veterans from the Longwood Community. The stories of the men who served from our area during the Great War. If you have any information about any of these veterans please contact us.
The drawings and story of Paul Lameyer, a detainee at the Camp Upton POW Camp
Camp Siegfried Postcards
Trench and Camp - August 26, 1919 - The Army newspaper at Camp Upton
The National Archives sent us the report made by the Swiss Legation about the POW camp at Camp Upton
We have added the years 1891 -1909 from the Patchogue Advance to our newspaper page.
A short history of baseball in the Longwood community
The World War One letters of Norm L. Feeter. Private Feeter was a member of Company A, 305th Machine Gun Battalion.
Jean Lauer's History of the Longwood Estate
We are now compiling a page with helpful hints for researchers. We have started with how to access military records.
The Elusive Legend of Icy Hollow
Gus Neuss has once again completed a story, this time telling of a number of Yaphank fires. Stories of the fires
New York Times articles about the activities of the Ku Klux Klan on Long Island during the 1920s
Copies of New York Times Articles about Camp Upton
Copies of New York Times Articles about the Lost Battalion
The story of Private Harold Spear Young
A tribute to Private Herbert Clark 307th Infantry-Machine Gun Company
A letter and photos of German POWs who were held at Camp Upton during WWII
Can you do the Colonial Math?
newspaper stories dealing with the Bund.
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Smith Jr., Edward Elroy
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Buckingham, Daniel
King, Ezra
King, Joseph
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Sherry, Daniel
Bayles, Thomas
Bayles, Gertrude
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Yours Respectfully B.T. Hutchinson
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Buckingham, Jonas
Coomes, James
Davis, John
Floyd, August
Gerard, Edward
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Hammond, John
Hawkins, Jonah
Hawkins, Richard
Hawkins, Robert
Homan, Daniel
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Homan, Thomas
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Jayne, Robert
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Board of Education Adopted Budget - May 7, 2020
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For Parents /Para padres
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Concussion Management Program
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Home Instruction (Homeschool) Regulations
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Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE)
Atomic Learning
The Many Roles of Human Resources
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Fourth Grade Music Program
High School Marching Band
News - Art
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Links
Longwood Career Center
Pre-Referral
Preschool
SEPTA
Special Education Process
Transition
Transition Organizations and Information Timeline for NYSAA Students
Work Based Learning Program
Pupil Personnel and Community Services
Technology
1:1 Computing Handbook for Parents & Students
Acceptable Use of School District Computers
Approved Longwood - NYS Instructional Technology Plan 2018-2021
Educational Apps Login Instructions
Edmentum, i-Ready, IXL, and Learning A-Z
GoMath & SAM Login Instructions
Educational Software
Final Smart Schools Investment Plan Phase III Classroom Technology
Google Meet Recommendations
Smart Schools Investment Plan
NYS Approved LCSD Phase I Wireless Infrastructure
NYS Approved LCSD Phase II Classroom Technology
Transportation
Forms
3 Steps to Bus Stop Safety
Bus Rules
Here Comes the Bus - School Bus Tracking
Bus Routes 2020-2021
LHS Tech Students
Schools
Charles E. Walters
Coram
West Middle Island
Ridge School
Longwood MS
Longwood JHS
Longwood HS
Parents
Central Registration
2020-2021 New Student Registration
2020-2021 Private/Parochial Student Registration
Data Privacy/ Security/ Ed Law 2-D
Board Policy
Student Privacy
Information Security Breach and Notification
Parents Bill of Rights
ESSA Accountability
FERPA
Health Office Information
FAQs for Immunizations
Health Office Procedures
Health Forms and Information
Longwood School District Nurses
Here Comes the Bus - School Bus Tracking
MBK Family and Community Engagement
NYSED Parent Dashboard
Parent Portal
Parent Portal Log In
Parent Portal Overview
Creating A New Parent Portal Account
Adding Additional Children to your Account
Mobile App (English & Spanish)
Reopening Longwood: Stage II Resources and Updates
Stage 1 Reopening Plan
Frequently Asked Questions
Video of Parent Informational Sessions
Stage I Parent Survey
Plan for Contact Tracing
Plan for Distance Learning
Plan for Testing
COVID-19 Updates and Closures
Microcluster Testing Requirements
Educational Software
Parent Resources
NYS COVID-19 Dashboard
Right At School
Social Media Safety
Helpful Websites
Social Media Research
Upcoming Events
Sites to Avoid
Informational Flyers
Text Messaging
Transitional Housing
Universal Pre-K
Students
Career Corner
Driver Education
Spring 2021
Live HW Help
SAT and ACT Review
Educational Apps Login Instructions
Edmentum, iReady, IXL Login Instructions
Think Central, Holt McDougal Online and SAM Login Instructions
Login to Edmentum
Login to iReady
Login to IXL
Login to Think Central GO Math!
Login to Think Central Science Fusion
Login to Do The Math, iRead, Read180, System 44
Community
Child Abuse Hotline
Longwood Journey
Information
What's New?
World War II Memorial
Veterans Form
Date for Dedication
List of Longwood Veterans of Desert Storm
Local History Publications
Newsday story about dedication of memorials at park
Monuments at Bartlett Pond Park dedicated.
Pearl Button Business Recalled by Fragments Found at Yaphank
Longwood students and staff volunteering during the annual Brookhaven clean up day
Veterans Day celebration held at Bartlett Pond
Middle Island News Articles
Coram News Articles
Alberta, a familiar face in Coram
The East Middle Island schoolhouse
Davis cows
West Middle Island Class of 1932
Tombstone Project
Soldiers in the Service
Edwards Pond
Customs and habits of Indians Recalled
The Long Island Indians
Pictures of students at the one room school house at Ridge (1945)
Passing It On
An interview that was done in 1979 with Hazel Clarissa Randall Wells
Elsie Manzoni tells what it was like to grow up on a farm in Coram. Do you have a story that you would like to tell? You can write it yourself or let us ask questions and we will edit it for you.
Believes in Long Island for Fruit and Peach Raising
The memoirs of Talbot Brewer of the 306th machine gun battalion.
Park Idea To Save Great Pines of Middle Island ---Grove Spreads
John Jones of Yaphank held the position of election Inspector for 43 years
HUNTER SEKINE HOUSE
John "Ed" Davis was the longtime constable in Yaphank. This interview appeared in the Middle Island Mail in March 1936.
Not everyone was happy with the coming of the Long Island Railroad. This is a news article recalling the Long Island Forest Fires and the Railroad Wars of 1845.
The Glover family were longtime Yaphank residents. The family farm took up much of Yaphank Avenue south of the railroad tracks. Family member Jon Backer has written a history of the family farm.
List of people in Brookhaven Town who agreed to set their slaves free (The Act of 1788) This list also includes the names of the slaves set free.
The 8th grade class of 1947 - Before clicking attempt to guess how many 8th grade students were in the class of 1947
Updates to the Obituary Page
World War I Veterans from the Longwood Community. The stories of the men who served from our area during the Great War. If you have any information about any of these veterans please contact us.
The drawings and story of Paul Lameyer, a detainee at the Camp Upton POW Camp
Camp Siegfried Postcards
Trench and Camp - August 26, 1919 - The Army newspaper at Camp Upton
The National Archives sent us the report made by the Swiss Legation about the POW camp at Camp Upton
We have added the years 1891 -1909 from the Patchogue Advance to our newspaper page.
A short history of baseball in the Longwood community
The World War One letters of Norm L. Feeter. Private Feeter was a member of Company A, 305th Machine Gun Battalion.
Jean Lauer's History of the Longwood Estate
We are now compiling a page with helpful hints for researchers. We have started with how to access military records.
The Elusive Legend of Icy Hollow
Gus Neuss has once again completed a story, this time telling of a number of Yaphank fires. Stories of the fires
New York Times articles about the activities of the Ku Klux Klan on Long Island during the 1920s
Copies of New York Times Articles about Camp Upton
Copies of New York Times Articles about the Lost Battalion
The story of Private Harold Spear Young
A tribute to Private Herbert Clark 307th Infantry-Machine Gun Company
A letter and photos of German POWs who were held at Camp Upton during WWII
Can you do the Colonial Math?
newspaper stories dealing with the Bund.
The German American Bund
THE GOLD RUSH DIARY OF FRANK McCREARY part 2.
Ku Klux Klan Visits Yaphank
Stories of the Streets
The Motorcycle Track at Coram
Mailing List
Biographies
Coram Biographies
Chambers, Luther
Davis, Daniel W.
Davis, Grace
Hulse, Isaac Dr.
Overton, John
Norton, Cynthia
Norton, Nathaniel
Pension file from National Archives
Rovagna, Joseph
Smith, Lucy
Smith Jr., Edward Elroy
Middle Island Biographies
Bubb, Jerusha
Buckingham, Daniel
King, Ezra
King, Joseph
Randall, Admiral Albert B.l
Randall, Joseph
Sherry, Daniel
Bayles, Thomas
Bayles, Gertrude
Hutchinson, Benjamin
Yours Respectfully B.T. Hutchinson
Ridge Biographies
Randall, Captain Henry M.
Smith, William Sidney
Yaphank Biographies
Ackerly, Alfred
Baker, Dr. James
Booth, Mary Louise
Mary Louise Booth Historic Memories (Sixth Paper)
Buckingham, Daniel
Buckingham, Jonas
Coomes, James
Davis, John
Floyd, August
Gerard, Edward
Gerard, Robert H
Holden, Dr. Samuel
Hammond, John
Hawkins, Jonah
Hawkins, Richard
Hawkins, Robert
Homan, Daniel
Homan, Edward
Homan, Samuel L.
Homan, Mordecai
Homan, Thomas
Laws, Simmons
Mills, Edward
Mills, John
Norton, Samuel
Overton, Mordecai
Overton, Sereno
Phillips, William
Smith, Alexander
Sweezey, Daniel
Swezey, Daniel
Weeks, William
Obituaries
Coram Obituaries
Chambers, Luther
Davis, Margaret
Davis, Homer
Davis Lester H.
Elsebough, John
Gray, Eugene Rev.
Johnson, Edward
Overton, S.S.
Pfundstein, John
Plate, Domenick
Sekine, Hunter
Smith, Richard W
Still, Charlotte
Wittschack, Frederick
Middle Island Obituaries
Albin, Alice
Bayles, Richard M.
Clark, David
Davis, Clarissa
Dayton, John R.
Hallock, Rev.
Hutchinson, Minerva
Jayne, Robert
Messerole, Abbey
Overton, Hannah
Pfeiffer, Edward
Reid, John
Sweezey, Azel R.
Van Horn, Ogden
Ridge Obituaries
Randall, Orville
Smith, William Dr.
Yaphank Obituaries
Coomes, James
Hawkins, Robert H.
Glover, William
Holmes, Adam
Homan, Isaac
Howell, Charles E
Marshant, Frederick
Marshant, Ada.
Neuss, Gustave Sr.
Norton, Samuel
O'Reilly, Patrick
Rector, Alys
Robins, Harriet
Cemeteries
Coram Cemeteries
Baptist Cemetary
Bayles Cemetery
Davis Cemetery
Methodist Chuch Cemetery
Overton Cemetery
Old Middle Country Road Cemetery
Pauls Path Cemetery
Still Family Cemetery
Middle Island Cemeteries
East Middle Island Methodist Cemetery
Methodist Cemetery
Swezey Family Cemetery
Union Cemetery
Map of the Cemetery
Ridge Cemeteries
Aldrich Family Cemetery
Laws Family Cemetery
Randall Family Cemetery
Smith Family Cemetery
Yaphank Cemeteries
Buckingham-Homan Cemetery
Hawkins Family Cemetery
Old Yaphank Baptist Cemetery
Presbyterian Cemetery
Saint Andrews Cemetery
Yaphank Cemetery
Contact Us
Hamlets
Coram
Middle Island
Ridge
Yaphank
Longwood Books
Time Periods
Pre-Columbian
Colonial Period
French and Indian War
American Revolution
Slavery
Civil War
World War I
World War II
Korea
Vietnam
Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan
Resources
Diaries
Censuses (1776- 1900)
Newspapers
Maps
Research Links
Sports
Guestbook
Acknowledgements
Related Sources
Ongoing Projects
You can HELP
Modern History
Gordon Heights
Shirley
Camp Upton
Longwood Cares
Vaping
Alcohol and Substance
Local Links to Drug Awareness Resources
Local Support Group
Livestream
Reopening
Our Sons at War, Co. A. 308th Infantry
Today
War
Yesterday
You're in the Army now
We sail to France
On the high seas
England
We arrive in France
In a French village
Pete lets his rifle rust
We got into the lines
Just before the jump off
Our first battle
We Advance Again
Night Flares and Raiding
It's a Lousy Army At The Best
A Sniper's Duty
A Goddess Of Liberty
A Buddy Goes west
The Box Barrage
Across the Red Horizon
An Object Lesson
The Plan of Attack
The Attack is Launched
First day
Second day
Third day
Fourth Day
Fifth Day
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On our way to War
On our way to War
OUR SONS AT WAR
by,
Lee McCollum
1940
ON OUR WAY TO WAR
WE had hardly settled down in Camp Kearney when we were placed in "quarantine." That was about the best thing we seemed to do. Twice before at the camp which we had just left we had been quarantined, and here we were again right in the middle of it. A soldier's life isn't as easy as it looks on those recruiting posters. You can take that from one who was learning, and learning fast.
If adventure means being yodelled out of a sound sleep by a bugle call and working from five in the morning until ten at night, doing everything except fighting, then I'll take prunes for mine.
Just when a guy's muscles are getting hardened up so he stays put on his legs, then some officer or colonel slaps him in quarantine, because the army is afraid of a bug they can't even see. A fine business ... ! Sitting around in a tent that holds eight men and about two tons of fine sifting red desert sand. Some life ... huh!
Only thing that a guy can do in a spot like this is to join a quartet. Every squad has two of them, so that's nothing new. We had one like every other squad, except that ours was the best. We sang such stirring songs as "Keep your head down Fritzi Boy …, K…K…K . . Katy . . . Beautiful Katy, I'll be Waiting for you at the K . . K . . K . .
Kitchen Door ... . . . . 'You're in the army now, you're not behind the Plow . . . You'll never get rich . . .Just doing your hitch . . . You're in the army now and that old standby, "Sweet Adeline."
My specialty was "Silver Threads Among the Gold" and I sure knocked them for a loop with my old top-tenor. We must have been pretty good, because one night when we were singing extra low, the major sent over his top-sergeant to ask us if we were the owners of those "God-blessed Blankity ... blank ... gorgeous voices?"
We said, "We was. .
Then the top-sergeant said very gently, "Follow me! "
The next thing we knew we was in the guard house. The major said we were disturbing the peace and sleep of some real soldiers.
We knew the major was only kidding and that the whole thing was a frame-up by the other quartets who were jealous.
We hadn't been in the guard house but four days when an orderly came in and told us to get back to our company "toot-sweet," that we were leaving for France that night.
Naturally we thought it was just another "army rumor." This time we were mistaken and we rolled our packs and loaded on the trains bound for some unknown destination. By a zig-zag route over first one main trunk railway line and then another, we rode east-ward for seven days and nights.
Before we boarded the trains our quartet had their heads shaved by the company barber. What I mean he didn't leave a hair standing! As the troop train rolled across the nation we took our rightful place as the major's official quartet.
At every little town where we stopped we would give our lungs some exercise. The first stop was at San Bernardino, which was better known to us as San Ber-doo. There we were met at the station by a swarm of beautiful young California girls. Boy, there were some honies in that bunch. They were acting as canteen girls and meeting all the trains. They would pass out cigarettes, home made delicacies, and once in a while a kiss or two. That is, if you were good looking enough to come up to their new standards of what it took to be a hero.
Did we go to town with our songs? And how we did! I sang four encores to "Silver Threads Among the Gold," myself! We finished our stirring repertoire of songs with the sure fire number that ended with the words . . . "with your hair-cut just as short as . . . with your hair cut just as short as . . . with your hair cut just as short as mine!" Then on the final bar we would all four of us bow as gentlemen should, and with a courtly gesture sweep off our hats, exposing our bald domes.
We crossed high and dry Arizona and New Mexico, where we saw many wooden like Indians draped in colorful blankets, together with a scattering of cowboys and a few girls at the desert stations. Then we swung north into Colorado, and there again we met beautiful young ladies who were helping us "win the war."
Our first stop of any importance was La Junta, or La Hunta, as it was called. As usual, our humble and meek quartet, who by now figured that they were "some pumpkins," put on our singing act. The rest of the troop on the train must have been waiting for this to happen. No sooner had we finished our "finale song," and were sweeping our hats from our baldheads, than it happened. Without warning about forty of the soldiers piled on top of us and bore us to the ground.
The next thing we knew both the doughboys and the canteen-girls were giving us a watermelon shampoo, seeds and all, from the famous La Junta melons, which the girls were passing out to the soldiers. The sweet, sticky juices ran down the tight fitting collars of our woolen khaki shirts and stuck to our bodies like glue. It felt like a bunch of ants covering you from head to feet. There was no way of taking a bath until we hit our destination, and we didn't even know where that was or when we would land there.
That tamed us down for the rest of the trip. One of the quartet said he wondered if the major himself had wired ahead and fixed up that surprise for us. That he "had seen him sending a lot of wires all along the line." Personally, I don't think any major would treat his quartet that way.
About the fourth or fifth day we landed in Chicago, on the South Side. There wasn't a white man in sight except ourselves. For exercise the major had the whole troop doing double-quick time up and down the thickly populated streets adjoining the troop trains.
There again we were met with the cheers of the bystanders. Only here the cheers were interspersed with some good old-fashioned "Down South" dialect, and such expressions as these . . . "Man, lookah at them thahr solduah boys . . . umh . . . umh . . . ain't they scrumpshus? . . . jist lookah at them boys strut . . . umph . . . umph . . . man . . . ain't that sumpfin? ... Go gits the Kizer, boys ... we uns is right back of you . . . don't forgit to bring home the bacon ... and . . . save the rine foh me . . . won't youh, honey-bunches ... !"
They meant what they said and we sure got a kick out of them. After about two hours of this, we loaded, and the trains started rolling again. We continued eastward, and many of our boys who had been born and raised in the Far West and Pacific Coast States got their first glimpse of the great factory districts of the East.
I will never forget to my dying day the reception we received as we passed through the town of Bethlehem. The whistles of the great steel factories never stopped blowing all the time our train was slowly passing through the city . . . Boy, did we get a thrill out of that! How proud we were to be Americans, and that we were in uniform and on our way to fight a war
to end wars-at least that's what we thought then.
Later we were to learn that the blowing whistles of the steel mills of Bethlehem was a form of patriotism that could very well be likened to the spouting of some of the patriots and Liberty bond salesmen.
We were to learn also that the patriots who held truest to their words and ideals were those who made few promises and had little to say at the time of our going.
As the shrieking whistles of the steel town faded in the distance, one of our quartet said ...
"Hear that, boys? . . . that ain't nothing . . . just wait until we come home ... wait until we come home . . . then you'll see a real reception!"
That poor devil never came home, but he never lost his illusions.
On the evening of the seventh day we landed at Jersey City, New Jersey. Within a few hours we were transferred on ferry boats to Long Island, and many of us got our first glimpse of New York City. Waiting at the docks were trains that took us to Camp Mills, located near Garden City, Long Island, a distance of about twenty miles from the lights of Broadway.
Completely tired out from our long ride in the overcrowded troop train, we were led to our new headquarters, where we were to rest and wait for a boat to be readied to take us to France. As we lay there three thousand miles from home, we wondered . . .
"How long before we are loaded on the boats?"
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