Situated on the beautiful north shore of Long Island, the city of Glen Cove is known as “the heart of the Gold Coast” and has a long and intricate history, dating back to its founding in 1668. The city’s unique history follows a community that has been simultaneously rural, industrial, and suburban, with great factories alongside the sprawling country estates of wealthy families such as the Pratts and Morgans. Irish, Polish, and Italian immigrants came to work in the factories and build the estates, settling in the community and creating one of the most ethnically and economically diverse communities in America.

Glen Cove (Images of America)

Arts & Photography

Harrison, Joan

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

Since its founding in the late 17th century as a mill town, Glen Cove has been simultaneously rural and industrial, patrician and working class. A city of multiple ethnicities and close family ties, Glen Cove has been home to generations of immigrants who came to work and stayed to live, as well as to the children of America’s elite who built their summer homes on the shores of Hempstead Harbor. In Glen Cove Revisited, “The Heart of the Gold Coast” is seen as only insiders know it, through images of the mill ponds and barnyards, estates and factories, schools and neighborhoods, and the people, famous and unknown, which make up this microcosm of America.

Glen Cove Revisited (Images of America)

Locust Valley, a hamlet on the North Shore of Long Island with Quaker roots, grew from an agrarian settlement into a tight-knit community in the exclusive Gold Coast enclave. With its natural beauty, great estates, and elite clubs, Locust Valley and the surrounding villages of Lattingtown, Matinecock, and Mill Neck became a playground of the famous and cultured. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor were frequent visitors, and notable residents included H.P. Davison, Frank Nelson Doubleday, and internationally renowned artists Ray Johnson and Elizabeth Shoumatoff. In Locust Valley, 200 carefully selected photographs reveal a proud community steeped in traditional values and the private world behind the gates that have made the area legendary.

Locust Valley (Images of America)

Driscoll, Amy Dzija

Over 340 striking color photos introduce readers to the quintessential flower of the Cape and the Islands, the hydrangea. The lucky people who live in the region revel in these lush flowers flourishing in a maritime climate. Residents and visitors alike enjoy the beautiful displays of hydrangeas in home gardens, outside restaurants and inns, and especially in waterfront areas, where hydrangeas thrive in the sea air. Blue blooms predominate, their naturally cheerful colors echoing the blue of the sea and the sky. Regional gardeners also delight in creating tapestries of color in shades of pink, purple, and blue. This book captures the beauty of hydrangeas and their wide range of uses, both outdoors and indoors, including their frequent appearance in wedding bouquets. From the lacy white flowers of climbing hydrangeas in early spring to the rich burgundy blooms of late fall, hydrangeas bring accents of beauty throughout the growing season.

Hydrangeas: Cape Cod and the Islands

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Schiffer Pub. Ltd

Hydrangeas are booming in popularity as home gardeners appreciate their long season of bloom, ease of maintenance, and dazzling variety of flower colors and forms. This book reveals the best species for landscaping uses and the best varieties for both fresh and dried flower arrangements. Unique in their ability to change flower color depending on soil composition, hydrangeas are the chameleons of the plant world. Color mysteries are cleared up along with recommendations for achieving the best blues, pinks, purples, and whites in the home garden. With more than 250 vivid color photos, the book offers clear and expert advice on planting, pruning, and providing basic care. Learn the best time to cut hydrangeas for fresh bouquets and when and how to harvest them for dried flowers. With single-topic chapters and answers to frequently asked questions, this is a handy and easily accessible guide for both beginning and experienced gardeners.

Heavenly Hydrangeas: A Practical Guide for the Home Gardener

Schiffer

Marvelous Mopheads: Hydrangeas for Home & Garden

With so many hydrangea choices currently available to gardening enthusiasts, the selection process can be a challenge. Which hydrangea should I buy? What are some of the possibilities? This book, by members of the Cape Cod Hydrangea Society, is here to help in that process. Members have come up with a compendium of favorite hydrangeas, complete with explanations about why each variety has become a personal favorite. Seventy-two different varieties make up the collection, each with at least one accompanying photograph. The collection includes all the species typically available in local garden centers: the macrophylla mopheads and lacecaps, oakleaf hydrangeas, the serratas, arborescens, and paniculatas, climbing hydrangeas and more. The book, filled with over 200 color photos, is a source of inspiration and beauty.Because the book is organized into sections according to hydrangea species, it makes clear the distinct options available to the home gardener. It serves as an easy-to-understand overview of the world of hydrangeas. Readers are likely to find the personal comments of hydrangea society members valuable guides to making their own choices.One of the goals of the Cape Cod Hydrangea Society is to learn all we can about hydrangeas. A second, and very important, goal is to share what we learn with everyone else. This book is our way of sharing with all of you who don't live here with us on the Cape where hydrangeas thrive. We hope you love reading our hydrangea stories as much as we enjoyed compiling them.

Our Favorite Hydrangeas: The Cape Cod Hydrangea Society

Independently published

Glen Cove, the only city located on Long Island's Gold Coast, has long been reinventing itself. After World War II, the farms and estates in the area gave way to suburban development. Modern advancements like the zoom lens, the dimmer switch, and X-ray technologies were all developed within the city limits, while factories on the creek supplied the world with carbon paper, typewriter ribbons, and graphic arts film and cameras. Albert Einstein, Nikita Khrushchev, and the Kennedy families stayed in the community, and stars of stage and screen performed about town. In 1968, Glen Cove celebrated its tricentennial. It was followed by urban renewal and the rebuilding of the old downtown. In the final years of the 20th century, the industrial era ended, and under the auspices of Mayor Thomas Suozzi, environmental cleanup and waterfront revitalization began.

Glen Cove (Images of Modern America)

Rebecca

Literature & Fiction

Sherwood, Robert E.

Genre Fiction

Maple Spring Publishing

Plants Named for People: Creating a Personalized Garden

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