Between 1960 and 1985, Bohemia underwent a massive transformation. Discover how a hamlet once known for hand-rolled cigars and scrub… Read More »Cigars, Supplements, and Circuits: The Evolution of Bohemia
In April 1942, the Town of Islip signed a contract to build an airfield in the pine barrens north of… Read More »How MacArthur Reshaped Bohemia
He arrived at 18 as a tinsmith, built Bohemia’s very first habitation, fought for the Union, plumbed the mansions of… Read More »The Legacy of Joseph Jedlicka
When the weather turned bad, the undertaker’s wife would load Bohemia’s schoolchildren — bikes and all — into the back… Read More »Neighbors First: The Adamec Family
A sandy dirt road, rows of young trees, and a family name on the sign — one photograph of John… Read More »A Look Back at John Seidl’s Nursery
Before the Central Hotel, before the MacArthur Field Hotel, there was William Wild’s — likely the very first hotel in… Read More »William Wild’s Hotel and the Birth of “Hotel Row”
Saloon, boarding house, wedding hall, “old man’s bar,” and finally a disco — the building at Smithtown Avenue and Church… Read More »MacArthur Field Hotel
He cut hair on Smithtown Avenue and served as the town’s fire warden. On April 20, 1937, when the worst… Read More »The Barber and the Blaze: The Sacrifice of Frank Cizek
When the cigar factory on Ocean Avenue went dark in the Depression, a garment man who’d lost everything in the… Read More »The Rise and Fall of the American Robe Company