Exhibit recalls postwar Long Island
Photo credit: Newsday / Ed Betz | Cartoonist Mike Lynch discusses suburban Long Island and how it provided inspiration for some of the most famous 1950s comic strips at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages, in Stony Brook. (Oct. 21, 2012)
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Long Island: America's 1950s Frontier
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In one newspaper cartoon from 1955, a smiling -- personified -- shopping center hops from New York City toward two ducks, labeled "Nassau" and "Suffolk," delivering social commentary on changing times, as Long Island morphed from a sleepy outpost to a booming suburb.
The cartoon and other pictures and artifacts are part of the exhibit, "Long Island, America's 1950s Frontier" at the Long Island...
