While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Matinecoc. An Algonquian tribe which
formerly inhabited the northwest coast of Long Island, N. Y., from
Newtown, Queens county, to Smithtown, Suffolk county.
They had villages at Flushing, Glen Cove, Cold Spring,
Huntington, and Cow Harbor, but even before the intrusion of the whites
they had become greatly reduced, probably through wars with the Iroquois,
to whom they paid tribute.
In 1650 Secretary Van Tienhoven reported but 50
families left of this once important tribe. Ruttenber includes them in his
Montauk group, which is about equivalent to Metoac; but the
interrelationship of the tribes in the western part of Long Island has not
been definitely determined.
