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October 1, 2015
Volume 40, No. 31
Port Jeff goes pink
Also: ‘If I Were a Whaler’ exhibit in Cold Spring Harbor; ‘West Side Story’ in Northport; SBU Sports
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Northport bests Patriots County Executive ushers in SepticSmart Suffolk initiative seeks to improve water quality across Long Island
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The Ward Melville High School football team came up short in its homecoming match against Northport over the weekend despite an early lead. See story on page A8.
Photos by Mark D’Angio
Clockwise from top, Ward Melville High school Patriots take the field to start saturday’s homecoming game against Northport; Ward Melville’s eddie Munoz reaches for a pass but it’s deflected by a Northport defender; Ward Melville High school marching band performs on the field during saturday’s homecoming halftime show.
Preserving Three Village history By Giselle Barkley
It’s history in the making. Brookhaven’s Three Village Historical Society is continuing its quest to preserve the town’s history and educate the community after the Town of Brookhaven’s meeting on Thursday Sept. 17, at 5 p.m. That Thursday, the town established the Three Village Society’s Ebenezer Bayles/Stephen Swezey house in Setauket and the dismantled DominickCrawford Barn, which will be located nearby, as historic land-
marks in Setauket. The goal isn’t only to establish these buildings as historic landmarks but also classify them as a museum where residents can visit and learn about the history behind the house and the barn. But it may take some time before the society fulfills its goal. The society had the nearly 155- to 168-year-old Dominick-Crawford Barn dismantled as part of its Crawford Barn Renovation Project. According to John Cunniffe of Stony Brook, the architect of this project, the Village of
Old Field originally wanted to take the barn down and use the land. Cunniffe said the village received the deed for the property several years ago but it didn’t do anything with the property until it decided the barn was “in their way.” “The barn was left in a neglected state for quite some time,” Cunniffe said. “So the Historical Society found some funding to pay a contractor to carefully dismantle [the barn]. So it was that or watch the barn be demolished.” Cunniffe also said estab-
lishing the barn as a historic landmark was not only important because of the barn’s long history but also because there is a town code requirement to classify the barn as a museum as it will rest on a residential property. According to Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) the Society for Preservation of Long Island Antiquities used to own the property where the barn and the house will be located. They used to have an auction out of the barn that HISTORY continued on page A9