The Post Family
Rev. Abner Reeve by George Borthwick
Rev. Abner Reeve by Richard Thomas
Rev. William H. Cooper Funeral Sermon by Epher Whitaker
Alice Boughton - Photographer
Gardner Rea Obituary
Nathaniel Miller, Jr.
Gardner Murdock  and the Gilded Age
The William Egbert Swezey Affair
Nine Suffolk Resorts Raided: Suffolk County News, 18 July 1930
Milton Irving Murdock - Child of the Gilded Age
Stanley: a Hamlet legend
Ellen Swezey - World's Longest Hair Lady
Helen Tiernan Murder
Mary Aldrich Fraser -- Sculptor
Emilie Wagner -  Music Teacher
William Edward Woodruff - Founder of the Arkansas Gazette
Leslie A. Davis ~ Harput
Dr. Alden J. Woodruff - Healer and Teacher
Charles M. Woodruff - Farmer and Merchant
Jeptha Avery Wilkinson, Inventor
Nelson Brewster - Melancholly Accident
Louise Forsslund - Ship of Dreams
George Tooker - Miniature Yachting
Thurston Gwynn Sketches
Death of Ira Gordon
South Haven "Goin' Over"
Old Inlet & Fire Place Beach Clubs
Wellington - Brook House
Vernon Tiger, Nursery Man
KKK on LI, 1920s

Louise Forsslund

lthough she was not a permanent Brookhaven Hamlet resident, Louise Foster, who used Louise Forsslund as her nom de plume,  lived for a time near Squassux Landing and gathered the folk tales of the baymen and other hamlet residents.  She was a Sayville native who wrote novels placed in the south shore of Long Island with characters closely drawn on the residents.  Her second novel "Ship Of Dreams" published in 1902 mixes and matches thinly disguised members of the aristocratic Tangier Smith family along with the area locals.  It is said that it was so closely drawn that the last Smith heirs looked into a possible lawsuit.

The full novel (pdf):  Ship of Dreams