Episode 120: Babylon Preservation Award

<p>Welcome back to the awards ceremony. Today we hit the beach to talk to Mary Cascone, Babylon Town Historian, about the Oak Beach Life-Saving Station.</p> <p>Perched between the Great South Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, the station withstood the ravages of wind, rain, and Superstorm Sandy. It has been moved a few times and gone through a number of uses but still retained much of its original details when the Town began its restoration in earnest in 2013.</p> <p>You’ll hear about Mary’s quest to uncover the full history of the building, the challenges of the preservation project, and the local, state, and federal support that made it all possible.</p> <p><strong>Further Research</strong></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li><a href="https://townofbabylon.com/142/Historic-Services">Town of Babylon Historic Services</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.nps.gov/maritime/inventories/lifesaving.htm#:~:text=Historic%20Life%2DSaving%20Stations%20to%20Visit&text=The%20Federal%20government%20began%20to,lifeboat%2C%20and%20houses%20of%20refuge."> Historic Life-Saving Stations to Visit</a></li> <li><a href="https://uslife-savingservice.org/">U.S. Life-Saving Service Heritage Association</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.livescience.com/50732-black-locust-tree-shaped-the-united-states.html"> Black Locust: The Tree on Which the US was Built</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nvTRzuVB6E" data-rich-text-format-boundary="true">OBI (The Oak Beach Inn)</a> Music Video by David Ippolito</li> <li>Music <ul> <li><a href= "https://freemusicarchive.org/music/US_Army_Blues/Live_At_Blues_Alley/0_-_10_-_The_US_Army_Blues_-_BugaBlue"> BugaBlue</a></li> <li><a href= "https://freemusicarchive.org/music/US_Army_Blues/Live_At_Blues_Alley/0_-_11_-_The_US_Army_Blues_-_Walk_That_Dog"> Walk That Dog</a></li> <li><a href= "https://freesound.org/people/unfa/sounds/207994/">People at a Party</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Audio Footnote <ul> <li><a href= "http://www.longislandhistoryproject.org/the-south-side-signal-newspaper/"> Interview with Mary Casc