"Atoms For Peace" stamp designed by Bellport, NY artist

From the National Register of Historic Places: "Savannah, Newport News City, Virginia (Nuclear-powered merchant marine vessel associated with the Federal government's "Atoms for Peace program, late 1950s) [Listed in NR 11/14/82; Designated NHL 7/17/91] (Atoms for Peace was a non-military nuclear program sponsored by the U.S. government with indirect connections to Cold War military/political programs.)" Pupin Physics Laboratories, Columbia University, New York County, New York (First split of uranium atom, 1/25/39) [Listed in NR 10/15/66; Designated NHL 12/21/65] http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/publications/bulletins/ 01workshop/coldwar.htm NRHP Workshop @ NCSHPO Annual Meeting -- NRHP Cold War Resources It was once rumoured that John Lennon and Yoko Ono were going to move to Bellport, out on Long Island, NY, once a produce port for NYC, about the time the Rolling Stones made the album "Mystery Motel" about one it's said in Montauk, NY ("Montauk is the End" bumper sticker) where George Washington chatted up the locals (according to geologists) for the placement of the Montauk Point Lighthouse. Paul McCartney lived over in Connecticut (where his manager's town had the first Army high school JROTC, mine, Newfield, the Marines' and the "Brooklyn Bridge" so much music, Long Island ought to have a "rock museum" (The Young Rascals, Blue Oyster Cult, Billy Joel, John Tesh, Jonathan Edwards, The Good Rats, Foghat, Savoy Brown, the last band in the WTC, etc.) and would fly over for pizza sometimes. John traveled back and forth in a limo with Yoko and her mother (Japanese only) to NYC, according to Newsday from their limo driver. George Washington had been there back after the French and Indian War on his way to Boston, MA, as many did by way of the "other end" of Long Island. Orient Point is the site of the modern ferry to New Britain and New London, Connecticut, Plum Island, a Federal animal disease research and quarantine facility, and Fishers Island, by way of Connecticut, still part of Suffolk County. Greenport in Southold Town, was once a whaling town and railroad terminus, where George Washington stayed for three days before the American Revolution. "The original purpose of the LIRR was to create a rail/ferry/rail connection from New York to Boston. The route was to be via rail to LI's North Fork then by boat to Stonington, Connecticut where it would continue by rail through Providence and Boston. At that time, engineers had considered it impossible to build a totally overland route through the hills of southern Connecticut. On April 18, 1836 the B&J (Brooklyn and Jamaica) was completed and immediately was leased by the LIRR, which started laying its own rails east from Jamaica." http://www.lirrhistory.com/lirrhist.html He may have known Captain Hulbert who served with the Green Mountain Boys in Vermont and even submitted a design for the US flag, stripes and 13 stars in the shape of a "Star of David" or "Solomon's Seal" of which there is a poor "fake" in the Suffolk County History Museum, in Riverhead, the county "seat". The "Hulbert Flag" there was woven in the 19th century according to the Division of Textiles at the Smithsonian. There was also a Green Mountain flag with the stars arranged in a "random" (?) pattern on a blue field in the corner. Captain Hulbert also distinguished himself (his father was a cobbler in Bridgehampton, NY near the corner of the Montauk Highway and the old Sag Harbor Turnpike, parts along the turnpike are held by "The Nature Conservancy") by defending Montauk from the British Navy, who came to raid the sheep and cattle flocks kept there. He and what a hundred men (?) marched up one side of a hill, in view of the British Navy offshore, reversed their coats, out of view, and marched around the front of the hill. The British Navy thought there were too many "coats" guarding the place and made no effort to put ashore to take "fresh" provisions. The first steamship to cross the Atlantic, the "Savannah" named after the port it left in Georgia, that day, for Liverpool, England, ("Whereas on May 22, 1819, the steamship The Savannah set sail from Savannah, Georgia, on the first successful transoceanic voyage under steam propulsion, thus making a material contribution to the advancement of ocean transportation.") was declared "National Maritime Day" by former four times President FDR. It had later been stripped and sold to a British firm. It sank off Fire Island near Bellport, NY in a storm. Somewhat coincidentally, a sailing ship, the "Paragon" built on Shelter Island, in the Lord Shipyard, which I put a few shovel tests into awhile ago, in 1803, outran the blockade of Liverpool, England by "Emporer" Napoleon (crowned Dec. 2, 1804). A former channel through Fire Island also filled, where upwards of 100 ships carrying Long Island produce to NYC once entered the Atlantic Ocean from Bellport, when one and then another ship sank in the channel before the Long Island Railroad carried many to its shores for summer retreats. Considering that the Great South Bay is noticeably filling in (read in the "New Jersey Geologist") and the clams are going perhaps it might make sense to open it up? I wonder after the tragedy of Flight 800, deemed an accident by the NTSB, whereas all the underwater surfaces of the area off of Fire Island's Moriches Inlet were scanned and investigated, (I grew up near Moriches Road in Lake Grove, (Moriches was later renamed Eastport) a huge shopping mall straddles two towns where the road divided them, "The Smithaven Mall," between Smithtown and Brookhaven, a grape arbor I think once ran along its boundary in my mind's eye) if that information will ever be looked at for underwater archaeology? A National historical treasure might be out there, the remains of the "The Savannah" which has been searched for by others.