Town Historian John E. Hammond’s latest book, Oyster Bay: Images of America, brings late 19th and early 20th century Oyster Bay to life through period photographs and captivating captions.
Oyster Bay native John Hammond is probably best known to residents of the historic North Shore Long Island hamlet as the readable raconteur who for many years penned the “Village Views” column for the Oyster Bay Guardian newspaper. His new, fifth book, Oyster Bay: Images of America (softcover, 128 pages, Arcadia Publishing. $21.99) won’t disappoint Guardian readers or those who admire him as Town Historian.
Oyster Bay uses photographs from the author’s collection and from the Oyster Bay Historical Society, Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, and private collections to depict turn of the century life in the hamlet Teddy Roosevelt put on the map.
The book, which includes chapters on Village Life, Theodore Roosevelt, Schools and Churches, and the Gold Coast, has over 200 vintage images. Among them are photos of Typhoid Mary’s home, the setting for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and the volunteer fire companies organized in 1888 and1890.
Oyster Bay is available now at booksellers, and online in the Bookstore of the Oyster Bay Historical Society. The author will sign copies on Saturday, September 12 at 1:00 pm at the Matinecock Masonic Historical Society, 14 West Main St, Oyster Bay, and on Sunday, September 27 at 2:00 pm at the Borders bookstore in Syosset.
A portion of the proceeds of the book’s sales will go to the Angela P. Koenig Research and Collections Center Building Fund of the Oyster Bay Historical Society, and will be eligible under the Dolan Foundation’s Matching Grant.
The author is a Trustee of the Oyster Bay Historical Society, a Friend of Sagamore Hill, and Historian of the Matinecock Masonic Historical Society. He is a graduate of the University of the State of New York and the Institute of Far Eastern Languages at Yale.
For more information, visit the Oyster Bay Historical Society website at http://www.oysterbayhistory.org or call its Director, Thomas A. Kuehhas, at 516-922-5032.
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