The Long Island Home Front was an oral history project carried out as a partnership among the Long Island Radio & Television Historical Society (LIRTVHS), the Sayville Public Library, and the Sayville Historical Society. Conducted in 2018 and 2019, it features interviews with people who experienced the war years in and around Long Island, New York. Our narrators remember the war years from different perspectives: many were young children, some were teenagers, and one was a new mother. They lived all over the region, from Oakdale and Mt. Sinai to Freeport, Riverhead, Brooklyn, and Queens.
We undertook this project in collaboration with the Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College.