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George’s grand tour of N. Shore New book recalls Washington’s visit BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN When George Washington toured the North Shore as president for the first time in 1790, it was a land not of Gold Coast mansions, but one of farmers and patriots. This is according to “George Washington’s 1790 Grand Tour of Long Island,” a book set to be released on Monday, which documents the five-day tour the former general took across Long Island, a place he once left in “great haste” 14 years earlier in the devastating Battle of Long Island. The book’s author, Joanne Grasso, an associate adjunct professor at New York Institute of Technology at Old Westbury who grew up in Great Neck, said that in the seven years after the war’s end, there had been considerable rebuilding. But his presence on Long Island “really worked a whole patriotic upsurge,” Grasso said, especially in the areas he had Continued on Page 114
PHOTO BY JANELLE CLAUSEN
Women hold up signs calling for children to not be detained and for the nation to be more welcoming to immigrants.
N. Shore rallies with immigrants Dozens gather in Great Neck to protest Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ policies BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN
and the separation of families at the southern border on a hot Saturday afternoon, in solidarity Dozens of people demon- with hundreds of protests going strated in Great Neck against the on across Long Island and the Trump administration’s “zero country. Protesters in front of the U.S. tolerance” immigration policy post office lined Middle Neck Road with signs like “Children don’t belong in cages,” “We were strangers,” and “families belong together.” They also led chants like “This is what democracy
looks like!” and “No ban, no fear, immigrants are welcome here,” as some cars driving by honked in support. The event drew a number of local officials like Town Councilwoman Anna Kaplan, a Democrat running for state Senate, and state Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso, who said he was compelled to come out because he was an immigrant who would have done “anything” to come to the United States.
“I couldn’t stand by the sideline and just witness the people that, based around good intention and human instincts, are here today to demonstrate against this zero tolerance policy,” D’Urso said. “And also because I’m an immigrant. I know what it’s like to walk in the shoes of an immigrant.” Veronica Lurvey, the copresident of North Shore Action, said the group decided to host Continued on Page 114
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