This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jUB.2ACI/1075.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Ned, People should be aware that NEWSDAY's version of a village's or hamlet's history has its good points and its bad points. These histories do have some interesting information but, at the same time, many do suffer from geographic illiteracy. The main geographic errors are that NEWSDAY tends to confuse postal zone borders for a community's true borders and NEWSDAY oftentimes refers to hamlets as villages. Looking at NEWSDAY history of Peconic, a hamlet, we find, "They took goose grease and skunk oil and applied it to the rails for about a mile west of the village." I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. L'Shannah Tovah* & Happy 5766, Walter Greenspan * L'Shannah Tovah (li-SHAH-nuh TOH-vuh; li-shah-NAH toh-VAH) Hebrew. Lit. for a good year. The common greeting during Rosh ha Shannah and the Days of Awe. This is a shortening of "L'Shannah tovah tikatev v'taihatem" (or, to women, "L'Shannah tovah tikatevi v'taihatemi"), which means, "May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year." This year, Rosh ha Shannah begins at sunset on Monday, October 3 on the civil calendar.