WEEKEND EVENTS ON STATEN ISLAND (3/2 – 3/6/16)
Posted by Joan Coogan on
When I was a teenager working part-time after school at the New York Public Library as a PAGE, I would sometimes get lost in the volumes of books I returned to the shelves. I was an avid reader as a kid and not a big history buff, but I would just eat up anything about the history of Staten Island and New York City. The books had wonderful pictures of Staten Island as a wilderness. My Dad would walk us to Sailor’s Snug Harbor in our neighborhood--a home for retired merchant seamen. There were cows, horses and other livestock grazing on the property along Henderson Ave. and great “old” buildings (which still exist) where the snugs lived. We would listen to the sailors relate stories of their lives and travels and how they came to retire on Staten…
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