Robert C. Hughes, the Huntington town historian, grew up in Cold Spring Harbor. He is president of the Eagle Dock Foundation, which operates the community beach, and also serves on the Cold Spring Harbor Board of Education and the Cold Spring Harbor Library Board of Directors. His quest to discover the history of his backyard led him to the Huntington Historical Society, the source of many of the photographs in this book. Photographs were also provided by the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum, the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, and the Cold Spring Harbor Library, as w...