first things -- Academic institution under state supervision 1954: 63
first things -- automobile trip 1940: 214
first things -- baseball 1953: 28
first things -- bicycle railroad 1953: 2
first things -- carpet 1941: 286
first things -- carpet, woven 1953: 115
first things -- Christian flag 1947: 117
first things -- coal trestle east of Jamaica 1957: 237
first things -- commuter from Oyster Bay 1944: 102
first things -- corn, hybrid 1940: 27
first things -- Cradle Roll 1945: 194
first things -- dog show, Hempstead 1955: 190
first things -- English teacher 1953: 115
first things -- Episcopal Bishop in America 1954: 5, 6, 149

1956: 207
first things -- Episcopal, first parochial school 1968: 15
first things -- fire, Sag Harbor (1817) 1953: 126
first things -- first electric train, Hempstead 1960: 205*
first things -- fishing, steam 1957: 69
first things -- Flushing high school 1945: 180
first things -- foreign cargo 1953: 214

1954: 74
first things -- gas mart 1940: 61
first things -- horse racing, 1665 1938(October): 12
first things -- horse-drive treadmill 1947: 172
first things -- Huntington's first drug store --- by Bertha H. Funell 1977: 24*+, 50*+
first things -- Japan entered 1942: 3

1946: 105
first things -- Japan, first entry into 1952: 125
first things -- kerosene 1946: 120
first things -- Land boom, first in Suffolk 1987: 151
first things -- landing in Suffolk County 1957: 87
first things -- law school 1939(November): 261
first things -- library, Bridgehampton 1957: 103
first things -- Long Island's first skyscraper 1978: 169*, 172*
first things -- man sold 1953: 115
first things -- Masonic lodge 1941: 277
first things -- meat market, Southold 1955: 18
first things -- mills, grist --- Brooklyn 1954: 2
first things -- mills, grist --- Goldsmith's 1954: 163
first things -- mills, grist --- Shelter Island 1957: 236
first things -- mills, grist --- tide water 1954: 163
first things -- mills, grist --- Townsend 1953: 131
first things -- mills, woolen --- Cold Spring Harbor 1957: 162, 206
first things -- missionaries to Japan 1954: 235
first things -- monorail 1953: 2
first things -- Montauk express train 1946: 182
first things -- mosquito extermination 1942: 75-76
first things -- newspapers 1983: 85+*61*, 64*+
first things -- nine families, East Hampton 1957: 96
first things -- oysters 1942: 13, 17
first things -- parachute wedding 1956: 77
first things -- radio 1938(December): 22
first things -- Red Cross flag 1941: 93
first things -- schoolmaster, Jamaica 1956: 75
first things -- singing classes, Southold 1955: 4
first things -- slave freed 1941: 98
first things -- stained glass 1946: 113
first things -- Sunday school 1953: 206
first things -- teacher, Bridgehampton 1957: 103
first things -- telegraph, Suffolk 1945: 111, 120
first things -- telephone, first in Patchogue 1952: 137
first things -- trees --- locust, Sand's Point 1954: 1
first things -- vacationists, first 1943: 71-72, 73-74, 87-88, 95-96
first things -- whaler regestered, steam 1957: 235
first things -- whaler to clear Cold Spring Harbor 1953: 129
first things -- whaler to pass through Bering Strait 1954: 49
first things -- whaler to round Cape Horn to Pacific 1953: 126

1957: 208
first things -- white settlement, Brooklyn 1957: 88
first things -- white whalemen 1957: 97, 147, 154