Word: setauket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wanted to know all the answers," said Wanda J. Torres, Rebecca's mother, from her home in Setauket, New York. "I learned [while] trying to figure them...
Originally From: Setauket, New York...
...apprenticed himself to his brother, a sign painter, should have made a few early stabs at the Grand Manner; and even less so that he was wholly inept at it. Greece, Rome and Israel were very far from bustling, nouveau-riche young America. Mount, a farmer's boy from Setauket, Long Island (a suburb today, deep country then), was very much part of that America, a country inventor who made his own boats and believed that a "hollow-backed" violin he had designed was better than anything from Cremona. Sensibly, he set out to record (and idealize) what he knew...
...these, the most intriguing is Eel Spearing at Setauket, 1845. It is a painting not of Mount's own childhood memory but of someone else's. A New York attorney named Strong commissioned it from him; the little boy in the back of the boat is Strong, and the imposing black woman wielding her eel gig in the bow was his father's servant, Rachel Hart. With its strong diagonals of paddle and spear shaft, and the magical stillness of the water in which the figures, the landscape and the boat are doubled, this is the most resolved picture...
BORN: Oct. 13, 1950, Huntington EDUCATION: Cornell U, B.S., 1974 FAMILY: Husband, Jack Huttner; three children RELIGION: Unitarian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Legislator POLITICAL CAREER: Suffolk County legislature, 1992- ADDRESS: 203 Main Street, East Setauket...