WEEKEND EVENTS ON STATEN ISLAND (2/22 – 2/26/17)
Posted by Joan Coogan on
In the 1950’s, my Dad would take us children to Sailors Snug Harbor (now called Snug Harbor Cultural Center), where aged, retired seamen "snugs" resided. I vividly remember cattle, horses and other animals in the fields that abut Henderson Avenue in Randall Manor. 
We never went into any of the buildings, which were the living quarters, a hospital, morgue, chapel, among others. Dad would engage the “snugs” in conversation as we sat with them on benches around the grounds of the Harbor. I can still hear the snugs’ voices as they entertained us with stories of their lives at sea which sounded so exciting, especially to someone young and impressionable, like me. After I watched old movies like “Moby Dick” “Captains Courageous” and “The Caine Mutiny”, I…
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