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FEBRUARY
Our Town
S •T • J •A •M •E •S
& PEOPLE
2021
Volume 34
Number 4
Keeping you up to date on
SALES, HAPPENINGS
In Our Town - St. James
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I N T H I S I S S U E
MERCHANT SPOTLIGHT
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AROUND TOWN
STAFF Scout Troop 301 to Hold Food Drive ...... 6
Ruth Garthe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editor Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day
With Art, Good Food & Fun .................. 8
Robin Clark . . . . . .Associate Editor
Saving the Calderone Theatre –
Debbi Spiegel . . . . . Feature Writer
A St. James Legacy ........................ 10-14
William Garthe . . . . . . . Advertising
Sales HISTORICALLY SPEAKING .............................................. 16-23
THE WINE DOWN: Liqueur or Liquor? .................................. 24
OUR TOWN ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
The Atelier at Flowerfield Happenings.......................... 26-28
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A R O U N D T O W N
St. James
Residents –
Let’s
“FILL THAT
PICK UP TRUCK”
Scout Troop 301
to Hold Food
Drive at the
Lutheran Church
St. James Boy Scout
Troop 301, sponsored
by the St. James Lu-
theran Church, will be
holding A “FILL THAT
PICK UP TRUCK” Food
Drive on Sunday, March
21, 2021 from 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at the St. James Lutheran Church Parking Lot, 230 2nd Avenue in St. James
(corner of Woodlawn and 2nd Ave.) Please contribute any type of CANNED Meat, Tuna, Chicken, Mac & Cheese,
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A R O U N D T O W N
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day With Art, Good Food & Fun
by Tricia Busby corned beef and cabbage meal
In the past year, many of us to help you celebrate and per-
have rekindled old hobbies, or haps bring you some of that
ventured into new passions to Irish luck.
help cope with the isolation. Still not sure? There is art-
In some sense, it has been a work for everyone in all price
renaissance. Photography, ranges and a wide variety of
crocheting, painting and styles for your home. When
woodwork have become a the family can finally come to
pastime again. And even though visit, you can tell them that you
festivities such as the St. Patrick’s won the bid at an auction (mind
Day Parade are once again the gasps). But here is the most
called off, and we find ourselves important part – you will be par-
grappling with ways to celebrate comfort of your home. ticipating in a fun charity event
yet another occasion, Irish bless- Here’s how it works. Register that will help our community
ings still make their way to us. for the Celebrate St. James Virtual survive and thrive. The restau-
This year, it has taken a virtual Art Auction on our auction host’s rants of St. James are the land-
route to your doorstep. Celebrate website: bid.marlinart.com. scape or our great town, and
St. James is planning an evening Once registered, you can view they continue to need our sup-
of fun and excitement on Wed- the art in the gallery when the port. As for Celebrate Park, it will
nesday, March 17, 2021 to con- preview begins on March 12, become the centerpiece of the
tinue our efforts to build 2021. You can even pre-bid on Historic St. James Cultural and
Celebrate Park and also to sup- items, or wait to join the live Arts District as a central meeting
port our local restaurants. auction on March 17, 2021. Be place for a revitalized economic
Have you ever participated in sure to tell your friends near and community. It will celebrate our
an Art Auction? If you’ve only far to register as well, that’s the hometown heroes, our art,
seen them on television, you still beauty of a virtual event. music, history and culture.
have felt the excitement of an Participating restaurants in- You can learn more about
auctioneer, yelling out numbers cluding Villa Sorrento, Husk & Celebrate Park, as well as the St.
and announcing the highest bid- Vine, Patio Pizza, Basil Café, and Patrick’s Day Virtual Art Auction
der. But now, you can experi- Pietro are offering a special at celebratestjames.org.
ence a ‘live’ auction in the menu including (of course) a
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A R O U N D T O W N
Saving the Calderone Theatre – A St. James Legacy
by Natalie here and who entertained at Future was born in 2017. It
Weinstein, Deepwells, the home of New quickly became alive with
Allied ASID, York City’s Mayor Gaynor and his activities for our town – art
IDS family. St. James was a thriving shows, cultural events, meetings,
hamlet – the “Hamptons” of its and a movie museum about the
I am the day – a culturally rich and thriv- old Calderone days and those
owner of ing community. vaudevillians. This landmark
the historic In the 1940’s, the Calderone theatre was, and still is, a piece
Calderone family purchased the theatre to of St. James history.
Theatre, on expand their movie house syn- The Uniquely Natalie Quality
2nd Street in dicate. In 1985, after years of Consignment Store, which pre-
St. James. having fallen into disrepair, when sently resides on the main floor,
When my husband and I first we began the renovation, it was is about to meet its demise. The
purchased the building, the so nice to have older passers-by COVID-19 pandemic put the
condition it was left in from a hot share their stories of the theatre’s nails in its coffin as it did for so
tub company was disheartening. glory days and its place in their many other businesses. Now the
However, the original dressing courtship. Sadly, by then, the building needs to be rented or
rooms, stage and tin ceiling were Lake Avenue business district sold and I am faced with a
preserved – and still are. had fallen on hard times, as well. personal dilemma. What to do
The history of The Calderone After my husband passed with a part of the town’s legacy
mirrors the history of St. James. away, I briefly thought of selling that belongs to me? I truly want
In the early part of the 20th the building, but something to see the building restored,
century, the town was the home always seemed to stop me. It housing a small theatre (about
of many famous vaudevillians remained essentially vacant until 100 seats) and much more –
who summered and had homes Celebrate St. James Past-Present- continued on page 12
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A R O U N D T O W N
Saving the Calderone Theatre
continued from page 10
a cultural arts center for St. James
– a place where there are classes
for music, art, dance, drama,
(even a recording studio), and
where attendees could gather for
performances of historic recrea-
tions, movies, children’s events,
and visit a movie museum ded-
icated to its past.
A restored Calderone can
surely become the “go to” place,
the “happening” place, the “take
a trip down memory lane” place,
and the “bringing folks together”
place for St. James as it once
was. It can take on new life,
now, while helping the town do
the same. What a unique oppor- Calderone Theatre
tunity for new owners to enjoy
financial success while doing an towns and have met great possible scenarios include:
extraordinary thing for St. James! success doing so, the stars have • A party or parties interested in
What could be better than that? aligned for St. James, as revital- the arts could purchase and
As theatres have helped the ization efforts are scheduled to renovate the building.
rebirth of many Long Island be completed this spring. Some continued on page 14
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A R O U N D T O W N
Saving the Calderone Theatre
continued from page 12 Editor’s Note:
Meet Natalie Weinstein
• An interested party or through Online Design,
parties could purchase a new service that can take
it, partnering with you from inception to
another organization completion for your home and
patio. Contact us for online
to restore it. design or outdoor living ideas.
• A non-profit “Save the Natalie Weinstein, Allied ASID,
Theatre” organization IDS, is an accredited designer,
could be formed to acknowledged business
purchase and leader, entrepreneur, author,
media personality and
restore it. motivational speaker. Her
interior design firm, Natalie
We are in the midst of Weinstein Design Associates,
a pandemic – but as we has been creating lifestyle
changes in homes and public
hope to see its end in spaces, decorating for
2021, we will all want Theatre will remain as part of countless clients since 1973. In 2001,
to get out and have some fun. that legacy. They say “it takes a the Natalie Weinstein Home Decorating
Our town is on the cusp of village” – but perhaps it will be a Club was launched to guide “do-it-your-
renewal and revival because the “hamlet” – ours! So - won’t you selfers” with a little help from a pro.
Uniquely Natalie, a quality furniture and
people of St. James who live and help? Looking forward to hearing accessory consignment boutique was
work here are ready and willing from you. opened in 2014 to give every shopper an
to make it happen – to keep our Sincerely, opportunity to create a beautiful home
town’s legacy alive, culturally Natalie Weinstein no matter what the budget. For ques-
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and economically. I sincerely 516-242-9242 (cell)
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11 Gate Rd., Head of Harbor 147 New York Ave., Smithtown
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H I S T O R I C A L L Y S P E A K I N G
LIVES, LOVES, AND LAMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF ST. JAMES
The Smithtown and Port Jefferson Railroad Company
Builds a Railroad Through St. James in 1873
by Bradley Harris,
Smithtown Historian
Last month I wrote about the
village of St. James as it was in
the 1860’s. This article is about
the building of the L.I.R.R. to
St. James and how the arrival of
the railroad had an impact on
the community. Unless other-
wise footnoted, the information
contained in this article came
from the Town Records of Town
of Smithtown, by Harry D.
Sleight, published by authority
of the Town, 1929, pp.37-41,
pp. 121-123.
The LIRR’s main line to Green-
port, L.I., was completed in 1844
making it possible to travel from
Brooklyn to Greenport in three
and a half hours. But for St.
James residents, the trip was The St. James Railroad Station, built in 1873 by Calvin L’Hommedieu, is the
much more involved since they oldest station of the LIRR that has been in continuous operation since it was
had to ride by stagecoach from built.
St. James through Smithtown
Branch to Head of the River, then convenience of having a branch the construction of the railroad
down New Mill Road past the of the L.I.R.R. run through their themselves.
Blydenburgh Mills on Stump community. But 30 years were to In 1868, when the LIRR ex-
Pond, over to Old Willets Path, pass before the railroad was ex- tended its rail service by building
and south on Old Willets Path to tended to St. James, and when a North Shore railroad to the
Islip and the Suffolk Station. The the dream of having a direct rail communities of Syosset, Cold
trip was a long, torturous, dusty, connection to Brooklyn became Spring Harbor, Huntington,
stagecoach ride over rutted roads a possibility, the residents of St. Greenlawn, and Northport, the
and must have made the res- James discovered that they opportunity for extending the
idents of St. James long for the would have to finance the cost of continued on page 20
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A Railroad Through St. James
contiued from page 16 having the communities involved the executives of the L.I.R.R.
railroad even further into underwrite part of the cost of would be $20,000 and “a guar-
Smithtown looked promising. In construction. The committee antee of the right of way through
November of 1868, a meeting of brought the matter to the Smith- the town.” They petitioned the
the residents of Smithtown was town Town Board and asked that Town Board to hold a special
held “at the inn of B.B. Newton,” the question of the town funding meeting to consider the question
(the Riverside Inn). A committee the partial cost of the construc- of bonding $20,000 for this pur-
was formed for the purpose of tion through a bond issue be pose. At the meeting on April
conferring with the “president placed before the voters. Appar- 24th, the matter was hotly de-
and Directors of the Long Island ently this was done at the annual bated and then put to a vote. 177
Railroad” about the extension of town meeting held on April 24, voters approved the bond issue
service. But the committee’s 1869, and the voters registered while 86 voters opposed it. It
efforts were stymied. And in spite their opinion on the subject. In a was apparent that more people
of the urgent pleas from the res- close vote, 99 voters indicated it were beginning to favor the idea
idents of Smithtown, St. James, was a good idea and 95 were of a railroad in Smithtown.
Setauket and Port Jefferson, for opposed to subsidizing the cost With its inducements in hand,
an extension of rail service to of construction of the railroad. the committee of 12 resumed its
their towns, the construction of The Town Board then opted to discussions with the L.I.R.R. ex-
the North Shore Branch stopped choose its own committee of 12 ecutives. It immediately became
in Northport. distinguished members of the apparent that $20,000 was not
The committee of citizens re- community to pursue the matter enough of an inducement to get
fused to give up and discussed further. the L.I.R.R. to build a rail link to
the idea of finding a way of sub- This committee of 12 debated Smithtown. The ante went up to
sidizing the cost of the extension the question of subsidy and de- $80,000 in cash, and still no
of the North Shore Branch by cided that a fitting inducement to continued on facing page
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H I S T O R I C A L L Y S P E A K I N G
continued the St. James area, “Samuel Car- foundation for the bridge over
agreement could be reached. Fi- man, Joel L.G. Smith and Wil- the Nissequogue River was laid
nally President Oliver Charlick of liam H. Powell were the … many teams being employed
the L.I.R.R. presented a proposi- contractors” who “hired all the to haul the heavy stones. Snows
tion that finally became the basis local men they could find and and freezing weather greatly
of an agreement and made it worked through November.” The slowed down progress during
possible to build a railroad to work continued through the February and March, but fully
Smithtown. He suggested the res- winter. “Early in March the stone continued on following page
idents of Smithtown create an in-
dependent corporation that
would “raise $80,000 in cash,
lease its franchise to the Long Is-
land Railroad in advance, ex-
pend the money as far as it
would go in constructing the rail-
road, and raise the balance of
the money necessary to com-
plete it by issuing bonds, the
Bundle up
principal and interest of which
should be guaranteed by the
Long Island Railroad.” This sug-
for savings
gestion, “after much negotiation
was finally adopted.”
So it was that the Smithtown
and Port Jefferson Railroad Com-
pany was born. “The town of
Smithtown agreed to raise
$50,000 of the $80,000 cash re-
quired by bonding the town and
taking that amount of stock at
par, the bonds to run 30 years at
seven percent interest.” The rest
of the cash came from the res-
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H I S T O R I C A L L Y S P E A K I N G
A Railroad Through St. James
continued from page 21
600 men were kept busy never-
theless.” The work of preparing
the roadbed continued through-
out the spring and by the end of
June 1872, the rails were being
spiked down by the crews. (Vin-
cent F. Seyfried, The Long Island
Railroad, Salisbury Printers,
Uniondale, L.I., N.Y., 1966, p.
53-57.)
The railroad proved to be a
very expensive venture. Many
difficulties were encountered
since eight iron bridges had to
be built. The railroad cost
$586,227 to build or almost
$35,000 per mile. But the Smith- Port Jefferson Railroad Company the railroad had been built that
town and Port Jefferson Railroad in June of 1872, it was reported “optimists hoped to see the road
Company managed to find that the contractor building the open by December 1.” However
buyers for their bonds and con- railway was ready to start laying it took until January 13, 1873 be-
struction of the branch line to the rails and the line’s locomo- fore regular passenger service
Port Jefferson was completed. At tive was due to arrive in the mid- was inaugurated on the Port Jef-
the annual meeting of the stock- dle of July. ferson line. “Two trains a day
holders of the Smithtown and By the fall of 1872, so much of continued on facing page
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continued the president Oliver Charlick for The St. James Railroad Station,
each way provided the initial a station at St. James, he sug- recently restored, stands proudly
service” and the price of a ticket gested that if they wanted a sta- in the heart of the St. James com-
for the 51 mile trip from St. tion they should raise $750 and munity today. But when it was
James to the James Slip in Brook- build it themselves. So the built in 1873, there was virtually
lyn was $1.70.” When the line people of St. James did just that. nothing to be found near it. It oc-
opened in 1873, St. James had The land for the depot site was cupied a lonely and forlorn spot
no railroad station. It was only a “given by Messrs. Edmund T. on a dirt road known as Gal-
“signal station, the location of Smith and Milton G. Smith, on lagher’s Lane that stretched away
which was marked by a pile of the condition that the station be to the south of the station. But
cordwood.” But this situation did located on the road dividing this was to change with the pas-
not last long. (Vincent F. Sey- their farms.” The money to pay sage of time and with the arrival
fried, op. cit., p. 59, p. 197.) for the construction of a suitable of newcomers that the railroad
By the spring of 1873, the station was raised by private con- now brought to St. James.
Smithtown and Port Jefferson tributions and was greatly aided
Railway was a reality and St. by a $500 contribution from Mr. Editor’s Note:
Brad Harris is the Town of Smithtown’s
James at long last had a rail con- Timothy C, Smith. With the official Historian. Brad was a High School
nection to Brooklyn. The com- money in hand, Mr. Calvin Social Studies teacher who spent 30
munity now had to find a way to L’Hommedieu was hired to build years teaching in Commack. As Historian
build a station in St. James. (Vin- the station and he commenced he has written many newspaper articles
cent F. Seyfried, The Long Island work in August of 1873. By Oc- on the history of our town, he has pub-
lished pamphlets and written histories of
Railroad, Salisbury Printers, tober he had completed the proj- Commack, Nesconset, St. James, Kings
Uniondale, L.I., N.Y., 1966, ect and St. James had a railway Park, Hauppauge and Smithtown Branch.
p. 53-57.) station. (Vincent Feyfried, op. He resides in St. James.
When the residents petitioned cit., p. 197.)
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Long Island Museum 2021 Calendar
1200 Route 25A SOMETHING TO school programs.
Stony Brook, NY 11790 LOOK FORWARD TO!
EXHIBITIONS
631-751-0066 Check out the new and exciting
mail@LongIslandMuseum.org exhibitions coming this year Twin Peeks: Scenes Seen Twice,
www.longislandmuseum.org to the Long Island Museum Paintings & Photographs
March 5 - August 1, 2021
HOURS: The museum complex is com- ART MUSEUM, Main Gallery
Thursday-Saturday, prised of nine acres with three Chosen entirely from LIM’s art
10 a.m.-5 p.m.; modern exhibition buildings and collection, Twin Peeks will pres-
Sunday, 12 noon-5 p.m. five historic structures. THE ART ent side-by-side views of nearly
(unless otherwise noted) MUSEUM houses a permanent col- 60 paintings, from the 1830s to
ADMISSION: lection of American art and two the present, placed beside pho-
$10/adults, $7/seniors 62+, changing exhibition galleries. tographs of the same or similar
$5/students 6-17 years and The 40,000-square-foot CARRIAGE locations and buildings. Prima-
college students with I.D. MUSEUM is home to the finest rily drawn from Long Island or
Children under 6/Free collection of American horse- New York City artists and loca-
drawn transportation artifacts in tions, this project has been an
Please Note: the world, most on permanent adventure in discovery and doc-
All events are free with museum exhibition. THE HISTORY MUSEUM umentation for LIM’s Art Collec-
admission, unless otherwise offers changing exhibitions on a tion. Artists did not leave behind
noted. Call 631-751-0066 x212 wide variety of subjects. Among GPS coordinates, titles can leave
to register where indicated. For the five historic structures on vague and uneven clues, and the
information about becoming a museum grounds are a one-room Museum has only recently at-
museum member call schoolhouse and a blacksmith tempted to more carefully track
631-751-0066 x246. shop, both used extensively in continued on page 38
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