Unearthing the history of a neighborhood
Photo credit: Photo by Ed Betz | Chris Matthews, left, and Brandon Ungar work at an archeological site in Setauket. (June 29, 2011)
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Carlton Edwards, who at 83 takes pride in riding his bicycle seven miles each day, remembers.
So does 93-year-old Violet Thompson, and many of the other elders living near a half-mile stretch of Christian Avenue in Setauket that is now a historic district.
They remember growing up in a local community that dates back to Colonial times, a place where Indians and African-Americans intermarried...
