WHO WANTS YESTERDAY'S PAPERS ?

The Rolling Stones asked that musical question back in 1967 on the flip side of their 45 rpm single "Let's Spend The Night Together" ....the one Ed Sullivan had them revise the lyric to, changing Night to Time, when they performed it on his show because of the supposed mores of the day???..... Well my answer is : I WANT YESTERDAY'S PAPERS and I'm glad enough others do too...to warrant the ever increasing digital archiving of many old news papers on "The Internets" .... 'cause to use a variation on another Stone's single as an example, Time Is NOT On My Side.....nor is it on anyone else's either. Without these digital archives, that not only preserve these great little treasure troves of both information and mis - information (nothing new there) this material would be lost both by the sheer human inability to have enough time just to find it (the miracle of optical scanning and instant retrival) and to the passage of time itself. Old microfilm gets as brittle as old movie film...lots of it was copied sloppily etc and there is no other way to research it than to sit bleary eyed for hours, squinting into a micro film reader screen sometimes yeilding nothing but Eye Aches, Back Aches, Buttock Aches etc. In the digital age I ask. "Who Has Time For It?"__ I certainly don't and I have more time invested into this website and book manuscripts than I would care to say ...so that said...here's a few more tidbits from various Suffolk County newspapers of long ago, courtesy of the Suffolk County Library System, that provide glimpses into areas of interest touched on in this website....

This first one up is from the South Side Signal, a Babylon LI paper, It is August Floyd's Obit published in October 1878, along with some Floyd Family history ... This August Floyd was the namesake unmarried uncle of the August Floyd who died in 1927 and lived in Mastic on Forge River (in the area now known as Mastic Acres) and allowed Home Guardian Company in 1926 to build Mastic Beach Road through his estate, so they could reach the Woodhull - Lawrence property they had just bought, turning it into the town of Mastic Beach.

And now moving along to the other of the two things in life you can be sure of .....

TAXES

The Brookhaven Town Property Taxes In 1905 Of Some Of The Fine Folks Featured or Mentioned On This Website

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Next : Here's A Real Oldie From 1845

The Long Islander Aug 8, 1845

FYI: The David Gelston Floyd's Moved Out East To Greenport And Lived Happily Ever After_ Perhaps To Get Away From The Noisy Crowds At Mastic!

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BEACH PARTY ANYONE? WELL WHEN IT COMES TO THROWING ONE ON THE FOURTH, aka "National Gala Day" NEITHER THE GRUCCI's OR ANNETTE & FRANKIE GOT NUTHIN' ON DEAR OLD MISS HALLOCK

PARTY BOATS TOO !

Feb 22, 1873

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NEXT UP : MORICHES AREA ACE CORRESPONDENT H. DEERY (any relation to Harry Deery Wm Floyd Class of '62?) WRITES IN THE SIGNAL ABOUT "A SAILORS LIFE FOR ME" & THE THOSE FABULOUS YOU KNOW EM' ,YOU LOVE EM , THE SINGING TERRY BROS. IN THE CHURCH AND LOTS OF EXCITEMENT AT CHARLES JEFFERY SMITH'S PLACE ....WHEN JOHN TOOKER ALMOST .....

South Side Signal 3/20/1875

Next : Here's One For The Save The Forge River Crowd....

How About A Sleigh Ride Right Down The Mighty Mastik ? As She Was Once Known

South Side Signal : January 23, 1875

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NEXT UP : WHAT WOULD ANY NEWSPAPER BE WITHOUT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ?

Kinda Brings Back That Old Saying Of Abe Lincolns

" ANY MAN WHO REPRESENTS HIMSELF HAS A FOOL FOR CLIENT"

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WINTER CLAMMING
FOR FUN & NO PROFIT

Speaking as one who "learned" how to be a clammer in the winter of 1972, I can speak with authority,

"It's No Time To Be Out On The Bay"

SS Signal FEB 16, 1878

Next : Hey Kids _ Meet "Uncle Ollie"

How about a Reel Fish Tale? About Oliver "Old Rock" Smith.... It's a genuine barnburner if you will and should give the reader no surprises to why the klan would fare so well on Long Island, 50 Years after this colorful gem of the good ole daze appeared in July of 1875 ...... As a former Long Island commercial fisherman myself ..... I'll Always Remember What Ole Ben Franklin Said ....

"Fish & Company Stink In Three Days"

HOW QUAINT!

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Next : BIG DISPUTE BETWEEN CONTRACTOR & HOMEOWNER

They must of settled it because Emma Rolfe Cooper Floyd aka Mrs. Augustus Floyd lived at her estate for another 50 years

until she died in 1933

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NOW : HERE'S BIG MOMMA LAWRENCE

NOW FOR THE ENQUIRING MINDS OUT THERE, WHO WONDERED HOW THE LAWRENCE NAME GOT ONTO SO MUCH MASTIC BEACH PROPERTY ? PRIOR TO IT BECOMING MASTIC BEACH PROPERTY ..... WELL

HERE LIES SARAH AUGUSTA LAWRENCE - MAY 19. 1794 - NOVEMBER 13, 1877. ONE OF 11 LAWRENCE CHILDREN & THE MOTHER OF MOST OF THE LITTLE LAWRENCES TO FOLLOW HER PATH IN THE GROVES OF MASTIC .... SARAH A. WAS THE GRANDAUGHTER OF BIG NAT WOODHULL..... MOTHER OF HANNAH N. LAWRENCE SHERMAN & CHARLES W. LAWRENCE, & GRANDMOTHER OF FRANK MAURAN LAWRENCE ( who went and sold his portion of the Lawrence estate to Dodi Knapp in 1916 thereby breaking the "Lawrence Lock" from Odull's Creek all the way west to Pattersqusah Creek, not to mention regrets down the road from dear Louise C. M. Lawrence, his cousin & widow ) ..... SARAH AUGUSTA LAWRENCE WAS AN ORIGINAL MASTIC NATIVE ,TURNED SUMMER RESIDENT____ ONE OF HER SUMMER HOMES BURNED DOWN IN THE HUGE FIRE AT MASTIC IN MAY OF 1862....... HISTORY PLAYED BACKWARDS SO TO SPEAK... GOT IT? _ GOOD.... STUDY HARD.....THERE IS A TEST ON TUESDAY

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And last but not least because there is always a Knapp Connection .......

THE INCORPORATION OF THE CARMEN'S RIVER CLUB IN FEB OF 1895

Port Jeff Echo Feb 16, 1895

Want More? Then Check Out :

SUFFOLK HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS HERE

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