Talk:West Sayville, New York

Lack of history
No history on West Sayville? No mention of the Dutch immigrants (the community was largely Dutch until recent years; now only about 2-3%), or of other early 20th century ties to Zeeland in the Netherlands? Nothing of the baymen and the clams/crabs/oysters which for most of the 20th century were its economic heart? Or PJ Grady's car dealership, which in the late 20th/early 21st century became a central repository for used DeLorean cars until very recently? (Those have a cult following, thanks to movies such as *Back To the Future*.) Or the central part of the culture played by what were the two Dutch Reformed churches in town, the Reformed Church in America (which moved to Lakeland Avenue in Sayville proper and is now called "New Life") and the Christian Reformed Church on Rollstone Av (which seceded from the CRC over its being too 'liberal' - not the first time 'secession' defined it).

C'mon. You all can do better than that. 24.45.154.41 (talk) 01:09, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/dutch-baymen-blue-points-and-oyster-crazed-new-yorkers https://www.newsday.com/long-island/history/oyster-was-their-world-south-shore-1.27306667 https://voices.nmfs.noaa.gov/collection/long-island-maritime-museums-baymens-oral-history (8 pages) https://library.calvin.edu/omeka_old/items/browse%3Ftags%3DNew%2BYork&psig=AOvVaw2oERJD7kxoaPsUS9e3wn_L&ust=1620782370978000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCLiz2o67wPACFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD (the old post office)

https://longislandtraditions.org/baymens-homes/

https://urcpsalmody.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/works-of-power-and-grace-the-story-of-new-netherland/ (post-colonial immigrant churches, different than the Hudson Valley Dutch)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Oyster_House (a primary oyster processing site or 'cullhouse') https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerseke (along with Bruinisse and Kruiningen, a town that West Sayvillites came from, though they drew baymen from many inland delta communities)

September 13 1876 - First Christian Reformed church organized in West Sayville. (This would be the one on Rollstone).

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27500366?seq=1 (a review of Dutchmen On the Bay by Lawrence J. Taylor)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Seerveld (a prominent professor and author regarding the philosophy of the arts - although the Wiki does not mention Sayville High (valedictorian) or West Sayville for some reason. Also, he went from there to Calvin College in Michigan; the ethnic ties to that college led some WS students to go there or strongly consider going there over the years.)