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Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town
Shirley seemed to be doomed from the beginning Founded by a Vaudevillian huckster who touted it as a seaside haven despite the sand bar that blocks access to the shore, the town has been plagued by one disaster after another—a UFO, a childhood cancer cluster, and a mysterious federal nuclear laboratory in nearby Brookhaven that leaked toxic nuclear and chemical waste into the aquifer from which the residents unknowingly drew their well water. This is Kelly McMasters' account of growing up in a cursed town and loving it anyway, and of a girl's awakening to tragedy and to a sense of mission. Told in a deliciously engaging voice, Welcome to Shirley balances the bitter with the sweet, the funny with the infuriating, in an unforgettable story of working class Long Island. .
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Suffolk County, Long Island, in Early Photographs 1867-1951
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Left at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of Bentwaters-Woodbridge Ufo Incident, Its Cover-Up, and Investigation
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Suffolk County, New York Atlas (Suffolk County Ny Atlas (Laminated))
This laminated atlas is fully street indexed and includes Interstate, State and County highways, Parkways, Long Island Railroad, airports, parks, beaches, golf courses, yacht clubs, school districts, hospitals, ZIP codes, federal and state lands, and other points of interest in the area..
Price: $37.96
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Suffolk Peanut Festival (VA) (Images of America)
With the popularity of P.T. Barnum’s circus and America’s game—baseball—peanuts became the snack food of the people across the country in the late 1800s. Sold hot from a roaster to the cries of “Peanuts, get your hot peanuts here,” this popular snack soon became a valuable cash crop. The farmland around Suffolk, Virginia was perfect for growing goobers, and the town was soon known as the “World’s Greatest Peanut Market.” Suffolk’s peanut star was already on the rise when an Italian immigrant named Amedeo Obici moved his chocolate and nut operation, Planters Peanuts, to town in 1913 to be in the heart of peanut country. Three years later, Mr. Peanut was born in Suffolk. The success of the goober gave the community cause to celebrate, and it did so on the first large-scale basis in 1941 with the National Peanut Festival and Exposition, complete with a parade and queen. Today the Suffolk Peanut Fest carries on the legume’s legacy. More than 200,000 people attend the fete each fall to enjoy family entertainment and pay homage to the humble peanut..
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