Long Islander News

Long Islander News is a local news organization that covers the town of Huntington, New York. The organization's flagship newspaper, The Long-Islander, was founded by American poet Walt Whitman in 1838.^[1] It is the oldest continuously-published community newspaper on Long Island.^{[citation needed]}

Currently, Long Islander News publishes The Long-Islander and Huntington Weekly newspapers:

• The Long-Islander reports on the entire Town of Huntington, including Huntington, Huntington Station, Greenlawn, Centerport, Huntington Bay, Cold Spring Harbor, Lloyd Harbor, Dix Hills and Melville, Northport, East Northport, Elwood, Asharoken, Eaton's Neck, and parts of Fort Salonga and Commack. This publication was founded by renowned poet Walt Whitman in 1838.
• Huntington Weekly is a lifestyle and entertainment publication that is included as a second section to The Long-Islander, and is also distributed as a standalone to select Newsday subscribers through a partnership.

Defunct publications:

• The Northport Journal, was an arts and culture publication.
• Half Hollow Hills, was a newspaper that covered the areas of Dix Hills and Melville
• The Record, was a newspaper that covered Northport, East Northport, Elwood, Asharoken, Eaton's Neck and half of Fort Salonga and Commack.

Sales

The flagship newspaper, The Long-Islander is available via subscription, and can be purchased in local stores. Circulation of The Long-Islander exceeds 7,000.

In 2016, the company launched Huntington Weekly, bringing readers more lifestyle and entertainment feature stories, and adding an additional 7,000 in circulation. ^[2]

Long Islander Newspapers' company office is located on Wall Street in Huntington village.

References

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Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass
(1855–1892)

• "Come Up from the Fields Father" (1865)
• "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (1855)
• "Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day" (1865)
• "I Sing the Body Electric" (1855)
• "A Noiseless Patient Spider" (1891)
• "O Captain! My Captain!" (1865)
• "One Hour to Madness and Joy" (1860)
• "One's Self I Sing" (1867)
• "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" (1859)
• "Patrolling Barnegat" (1856)
• "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" (1865)
• "Prayer of Columbus" (1900)
• "The Sleepers" (1855)
• "Song of Myself" (1855)
• "Song of the Open Road" (1856)
• "This Dust Was Once the Man" (1871)
• "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (1865)

Sections

Calamus

Sea-Drift

Drum-Taps

Other works

• List of poems
• Franklin Evans (1842)
• Life and Adventures of Jack Engle (1852)
• Democratic Vistas (1871)
• Passage to India (1871)

Adaptations

• Elegiac Ode (1884)
• Sea Drift (1906)
• A Sea Symphony (1909)
• Ode to Death (1919)
• Morning Heroes (1930)
• Sea Drift (1933)
• Dona nobis pacem (1936)
• Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song (1942)
• When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1946)
• The Wound-Dresser (1989)
• Lilacs (1996)
• Symphony No. 2 (1999)
• Dooryard Bloom (2004)

Life and
honoraria

• Walt Whitman Award
• Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln
  • Lectures
• Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site
• Walt Whitman House
• The Long Islander
• Walt Whitman Bridge
• Walt Whitman (Davidson)
• Walt Whitman High School (Maryland)
• Walt Whitman High School (New York)
• Walt Whitman Shops
• Whitman-Walker Health