Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town Paperback – December 3, 2014
by Esther Newton
Queer Places:
Beach Walk, Yaphank, NY 11980
Union Cemetery
Sayville, Suffolk County, New York, USA
Charles P. Dickerson (December 28, 1902 - October, 1986) was the author of A History of the Sayville Community, Including Bayport, Bohemia, West Sayville, Oakdale, and Fire Island. The life of this person has been researched by Esther Newton for her essay: "Cherry Grove, Fire Island", published by Duke University Press.
Charles Prescott Dickerson was the son of John Prescott Dickerson (1880-1963) and Delcie B. Newton (1879-1937). Charles (Charley) Dickerson, the son of a Sayville real estate entrepreneur, went to Harvard. He stayed in Sayville all his long life, living with his sister Florrie and her husband Lloyd Pugh, selling insurance and ultimately taking over his father’s business. He was drawn to the theater and in later life was the treasurer of Sayville’s amateur theater company. Dickerson owned a house on Beach Walk in Cherry Grove, whose first historian he became.
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