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A LOCAL DIG: From left to right are Roy Latham, Nat Booth and William Griswold, excavating the remains of an Indian settlement in Southold. They were among those who helped found the Long Island Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association. See page 4...

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Reader Response To Once Upon a Town, Hurricane of 1938, PBS of October 2013.

We’d like to thank all our responding readers! Marjorie Llewellyn of Mattituck called to say that she has a picture of almost the same scene and that written on the back are the words “Center and Main”. She also noted that as a result of the wind, uprooted trees fell to the west. Carlos X. De Jesus of Greenport identified the site as “Main Street, Greenport, just north of Center Street, on the west side of the street as one looks to the north.” Another reader who was helpful was former Greenporter, Alice Jester. Alice called from her home in Groton, Connecticut to say that the pictures of the hurricane were probably taken by Sherwood Rouse. Residents of the street in the large picture were Dr. Sperling, Sonny Glickman and Harry Armstrong….her mother was born in the house with the half-moon window, seen through the toppled trees. Halsey Staples of Greenport stopped by, identifying many of the street residents and identifying the house visible under the tree as Richard Walkden’s house.


...a monthly presentation of old pictures of our town, photos and information courtesy of Antonia Booth, Southold Town Historian

The thread that unites these pictures is the lives of Alfred E. Dart, a science teacher in Southold Schools, and his

wife, Alice Downs Dart. Alice was a Southold native and high school valedictorian who met her future husband when he

came from upstate New York to teach here. The Darts lived for years in the Fregift Wells house, a 1753 double Cape Cod

house on Bayview Road that Alice had lived in from the time she was seven years old. Her husband was a charter member

of Custer Institute and a trustee of the Long Island Chapter of the New York State Archeological Society and Indian

Museum in Southold.

SOUTHOLD INDIAN MUSEUM: First organized in 1925 by local men with an interest in archeology, the group was incorporated in 1943 as the Long Island Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association. From its earliest days, the aim was to build a museum to house the collections of (among others) Nathaniel E. Booth, Roy Latham, and Charles F. Goddard. Goddard, an attorney from Mattituck, was elected first president. It was after his death in April of 1954 that the Association received a generous bequest enabling it to buy a site fronting on Bayview Road for a museum. Ground was broken for the building in 1962 during the presidency of Dorothy Raynor. It was dedicated on September 15, 1963 with Alfred E. Dart serving as Master of Ceremonies. Themuseum celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2013.

Alfred E. Dart at the podium for the museum dedication, 1963.


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1963 DEDICATION OF INDIAN MUSEUM IN BAYVIEW:

Left to right: Dr. Ethel Wortis, Edward Prellwitz, (back to camera), Gladys Mott, Stanton Mott (back to camera), Mr. Dart.

Alfred Dart taught biology, chemistry and physics at Southold High School as well as the seventh and eighth grades of Southold elementary school. He also experimented with improving seeds such as the “Rock Hard” Brussels sprouts planted by the Donahue Brothers who farmed in Southold, as well as tomatoes and beach plums.


TOM’S STUDIO OR “THE BANDBOX” AT PARADISE POINT, SOUTHOLD:

Born in Edinburgh, Thomas Currie-Bell met his future wife, Ann Hallock, in Normandy while she was on a trip to Europe. After their marriage, the couple lived mostly in Southold where Ann’s father J.N. Hallock was, at vari-ous times, editor and publisher of the Travel-er-Watchman, New York State Assemblyman for three terms, and Southold Town Clerk.Ann Hallock was artistically inclined and studied theatre at Vassar College, Harvard, and the Leland Powers School of Expression. She gave lessons in voice, gesture, panto-mime, story-telling, public speaking and play directing. An hour’s lesson was $2.After their marriage Ann and Tom Currie Bell had a getaway studio called the Bandbox. A bandbox is a rounded box used to hold articles of apparel or, (this is a more likely explanation of the studio’s name), “a structure, as in a baseball park, resembling a bandbox especially in having relatively small interior dimensions.”

In this picture, Alice Dart is at the easel in the studio. To her left is Ann Currie-Bell and behind Mrs. Currie-Bell is a portrait of Joseph N. Hallock, her father. The woman on the far right may be Kay Salmon – of the group on the left I am only sure of Fred Dart, standing in the center on second step. Readers may be able to identify the rest of the company.


50TH ANNIVERSARY:

The Indian Museum, with 150 foot frontage on Bayview Road, was dedicated on Septem-ber 15, 1963. Alfred E. Dart was Master of Ceremonies. Board members Stanton Mott, Harrison Case, and Dr. George Cottrell helped set up displays of what has been called, “the finest collection of Long Island aboriginal artifacts in existence.”

The first regular meeting of the Incorporated Long Island Chapter of the New York State Archeological Association was held at the home of Charles F. Goddard, in Mattituck in August of 1926. The slate of officers elected was: Mr. Goddard as president, Nat E. Booth, vice-president, Bennett De Beixedon, secretary and Roy Latham, treasurer. Museum trust-ees in 2013 are: Ellen Barcel, Judy Hallock, Joe Wall, Martha Waide, Jean Cochran, David Elliston, Corey Hennessey, George Monahan, Lisa Stevenson and Joseph Townsend.

At the piano is Charles F. Goddard, the Mattituck attorney whose bequest made possible a permanent home for the Long Island Chapter of the New York State Archeological Association’s collections. President for many years, Goddard died, aged 92, in 1954.



RAILROAD CENTENNIAL PLAY: The railroad came through Southold Town to Greenport in 1844. This play was probably performed at Southold High School. The cast, from left to right: John Montgomery, Graham Glover, Constance Kendrick, Mary H. Wells, Hope Meredith Albertson, Lester M. Albertson and Alfred E. Dart. Theatre has had a long history in Southold Town, from performances at Foresters’ Hall in Cutchogue, ca. 1909, with clog dancing, farces and humorous sketches, to the traveling Trahern Stock Company appearing in both Riverhead and Greenport that utilized a Long Island Railroad car to carry its players, props and orchestra. Additionally, there were the Old Town Players, directed by Charles F. Kramer; summer stock at Belmont Hall in Southold; the Stirling Players in Greenport founded by Thomas Monsell; Northeast Stage with plays written and directed by Peg Murray; and today’s North Fork Community Theatre (founded in 1958). (Photograph by Henry N. Cordes.)


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It has been over a year since the Paradise Point house was destroyed by Superstorm Sandy and we have been able to track down very little information about the Southold Yacht club that was located at that site. We would love to document some of its history in a story. Once again we ask you, our readers, to share any photos or documents that you might have and help us preserve this bit of local history. — Call the Academy, 631-765-3346 or email [email protected].


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