Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Water Babies and Coram, Long Island, NY?

This is an interesting play it seems. There was once a "Tea Room" in Coram, NY out on Long Island, about the middle, where Eleanor Roosevelt stopped during the Great Depression. The wooden house, now with a sign for the "Tea Room" was, its said, a place where needy people or families could go to get some assistance, at least a cup of tea, and built in the 18th century. It burned down, or was burned down in a controlled fire by the local volunteer fire department, it was often flooded. Coram was also an important site in the American Revolution, the British forces stockpiled hay there from all-over, burned in a Patriot raid, its said. There was a dirt airfield there. I wonder if Eleanor Roosevelt, then the First Lady, flew in and out or came by car. Next door was a brick building that was once the local justice and post office that is now also gone. The bricks for it were made from clay dug out of the ground across the street. My brother and friends once rented and lived in the "Tea Room" house, which at the time, I don't believe they or I knew its former reputation. It was also visited by now investigative reporter, Lou Young, with CBS News in NYC.

Coram Boy, a CurtainUp London review

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