The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise

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Notes NOTES TO THE PREFACE 1. Alexandra Wolfe, “Dune, Where’s My Hampton?” New York Observer, 25 August 2003. 2. Quoted from ABC Web site. 3. New York Times, 29 August 2003. NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION 1. The “East End” refers to the five easternmost towns of Suffolk County on Long Island. These towns include Southold and Riverhead on the North Fork, Shelter Island in Peconic Bay, and Southampton and East Hampton on the South Fork. The towns of Southampton and East Hampton are usually referred to as “the Hamptons.” 2. Everett Rattray, The South Fork: The Land and People of Eastern Long Island (New York: Random House, 1979), p. 211. 3. Corey Dolgon, “Building Community amid the Ruins: Strategies for Struggle from the Coalition for Justice at Southampton College,” in Forging Radical Alliances across Difference: Coalition Politics for the New Millennium, edited by Jill Bystydzienski and Steven Schacht (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001); Geoff White, Campus, Inc.: Corporate Power in the Ivory Tower (New York: Prometheus Books, 2001); and Cary Nelson, Will Teach for Food: The Crisis in Academic Labor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997). 4. Karl Marx, The German Ideology, in The Marx-Engels Reader, edited by Robert C. Tucker (New York: Norton, 1972), p. 136. 5. A good example of the use of these documents is Nancy Hyden Woodward ’s selection in her East Hampton: A Town and Its People—1648–1992 (East Hampton: Fireplace Press, 1995). 6. Jeanette Rattray, Discovering the Past: Writings of Jeanette Edwards Rattray, 1893–1974, Relating to the History of the Town of East Hampton (New York: Newmarket Press, 2001), p. 159. 7. Lyman Beecher, “A Sermon, Containing a General History of the Town of East Hampton, L.I. From Its First Settlement to the Present Time” (Sag Harbor , NY: Alden Spooner, 1806). 231 8. George Rogers Howell, The Early History of Southampton, L.I., New York with Genealogies (Albany: Weed, Parsons, 1887), pp. 46–49; Steven Wick, Heaven and Earth: The Last Farmers of the North Fork (New York: St. Martin’s, 1996). 9. John Strong, We Are Still Here: The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island Today (Interlaken, NY: Empire State Books, 1996), p. 9. 10. Gaynell Stone, The Shinnecock Indians: A Cultural History (Lexington, MA: Ginn, 1983); Stone, The History and Archeology of the Montauk Indians (Lexington , MA: Ginn, 1979); John Strong, The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island from the Earliest Times to 1700 (Interlaken, NY: Empire State Books, 1997); Strong, The Montaukett Indians of Eastern Long Island (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001). 11. Grania Bolton Marcus, Discovering the African American Experience in Suffolk County, 1620–1860 (Mattituck, NY: Amereon House, 1988); Natalie Naylor , Exploring African American History (Hempstead, NY: Long Island Studies Institute , 1991); Lynda R. Day, Making a Way to Freedom: A History of African Americans on Long Island (Interlaken, NY: Empire State Books, 1997). 12. T. H. Breen, Imagining the Past: East Hampton Histories (New York: Addison -Wesley, 1989). 13. Rattray, Discovering the Past, pp. 136–145; Alastair Gordon, Weekend Utopia: Modern Living in the Hamptons (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001), pp. 9–24; Mary Cummings, Southampton: Images of America (Dover, NH: Arcadia, 1996); Robert J. Hefner, East Hampton’s Heritage (New York: Norton, 1982). 14. Bob Deluca, Interview with the Author, Bridgehampton, NY, 25 January 2002. 15. Breen, Imagining the Past, p. 71. 16. Tom Twomey, Awakening the Past: The East Hampton 350th Anniversary Lecture Series, 1998 (New York: New Market Press, 1999). 17. Breen, Imagining the Past, p. 12. NOTES TO CHAPTER 1 1. Robert Cushman Murphy, Fish-shape Paumanok; Nature and Man on Long Island (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1964); Mary Parker Buckles , Margins: A Naturalist Meets Long Island Sound (New York: North Point Press, 1997); John Hay, The Atlantic Shore: Human and Natural History from Long Island to Labrador (New York: HarperCollins, 1969). 2. John Strong, The Montaukett Indians of Eastern Long Island (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001). For more on these cultural differences see William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England (New York: Hill & Wang, 1984). 232 NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION 3. John Strong, The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island from the Earliest Times to 1700 (Interlaken, NY: Empire State Books, 1997). 4. Strong, The Algonquian People, p. 108. Also see Annette Silver, “Comment on Maize Cultivation in Coastal New York,” North American Archeologist 2, no. 2 (1980); Michael Stewart, “Late...