Building the Moon Buggy in Bethpage
Before silicon valleys and software, Long Island engineers built the machine that landed on the moon. The Grumman Lunar Module story — right off the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway.
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Riven or Sawn: The Chestnut Question in the Fire Island Life-Saving Stations and What the Planks Remember
Before the chestnut blight erased Castanea dentata from American forests, the Life-Saving Service built with it on Fire Island. The surviving planks still hold the answer to a question woodworkers debate.
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Coopered and Forgotten: The Barrel-Stave Furniture of Centerport’s Vanderbilt Marine Museum and the Cooper’s Trade That Built It
The Vanderbilt Museum in Centerport holds one of Long Island’s Gold Coast estate stories — including a furniture tradition tied to the barrel makers who fed the North Shore’s oyster trade.
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Tonnage and Tenon: The Shipwright Crossover in Port Jefferson’s Furniture Trade and the Joiners Who Built Both Hulls and Highboys
Port Jefferson’s shipbuilders did more than build hulls. The craftsmen of the Mather and Bayles yards transferred ship joinery logic directly into domestic furniture — and the surviving pieces still show it.
