Local History Book Stop: Adult Summer Reading Club

There's still time for Riverhead cardholders to sign up for Riverhead Reads: Seeking the Past. You may read or listen to any book for a chance to win prizes. Visit us at the reference desk to receive a kit containing raffle tickets. Fill one out and turn it in every time you complete a book. Drawings are held weekly beginning at noon on July 7.

Read a book from our local history reading list and double your chances of winning by filling out two raffle tickets! Here are a few of the books on our preferred reading list.

Dirt Under My Nails: An American Farmer and Her Changing Land by Marilee Foster
An eloquent memoir of a fifth generation Long Island farmer, Ms. Foster's book reflects in microcosm American farming nationwide even as the farm scene changes.

An Island's Trade: Nineteenth-Century Shipbuilding on Long Island by Richard F. Welch
The story of the North Shore Long Island shipyards and of the men who built the ships provides an economic, political, and social glimpse of life before the fast-paced suburban one we know today.

Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons by Steven Gaines
Masterfully told by a bestselling author and Hamptons insider, this fascinating story reveals how thirty miles of once inaccessible oceanfront farmland became the playground to the superrich.
Sign up now at the reference desk and start reading!