Word: setauket
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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That was how it began. The Reverend Charles A. Livingston, descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, approved of dancing and cigarets. Or at least he did not disapprove of them. In little old Setauket, on Long Island's North Shore, that set up eddies of talk behind green-shuttered windows whenever he walked down the street. Plump, rich Julia Smith, in whose backyard is the grave of an ancestor killed in the Revolution, was especially upset. She was president of the Ladies Aid Society and there the talk boiled up hottest. Gentle, white-haired Rector Livingston...
...Most of Setauket went over to Supreme Court in Riverhead for the trial. There it split physically as it had long been split emotionally, Livingston supporters lining up on one side of the courtroom, Smith supporters on the other. Everybody had a fine time. Miss Julia Smith cracked back at attorneys, insisted on standing up to testify, brandished a rubber at a photographer. Had she really accused Rector Livingston of misappropriating the money? "Mercy, mercy no!" All she had said was that some church money had been "diverted." By whom? Why, she had never said. Miss Nellie Prietzel and five...