Stepping off at Wantagh

The chant of a conductor calling out stations is fixed in the American psyche. I can still hear it: Massapequa, Amityville, Copaigue, Lindenhurst, Babylon. That’s where I got off, Babylon. I lived in West Islip at a boarding school, but Babylon was my stop. After that there would be Bayshore and Patchogue, which sounded like [...]

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