Classic and best overview of women's many signal contributions to the history of Long Island, and beyond its borders, under 7 themes: Women Challenging Boundaries; Broadening Domestic & Traditional Roles; Meeting Social Needs & Services; Creating & Sustaining Community Organizations; Expanding Women's Work; Achieving National Fame; Engaging Feminist Activism. Appendices list L.I.'s Nationally Notable Women, followed by a bibliography and index.
Focuses on the work of 6 luminaries, and 12 lesser known lights of the great age of landscape architecture. Talented women, between 1890-1940, designed half of the grand vistas on the L.I. estates creating and conveying for the owners and those they sought to impress, the sense of gardens of wealth and power and refinement.
A college grad of 1994 consciously pursues her family's potato farming, in Sagaponack, L.I., recording her varied experiences and reactions in the Southampton Press and in this book. Flashes of humor, outrage, attachment, and even genealogy range across these enchanting pages.