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Resetting Expectations
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Midshipmen welcomed to the village By Reine Bethany rbethany@liherald.com
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u.S. naVal acaDemy midshipmen carefully backed their 44-foot-long sail training craft toward the dock behind the Esplanade on the Nautical Mile on Aug. 12, as two more sailboats made their way up Hudson Canal.
Under a brilliant midday sun on Aug. 12, three sailboats carrying 24 officers-in-training from the U.S. Naval Academy completed a 280-mile journey to Freeport that started from the academy’s home in Annapolis, Md. For 22 years, the village has been one of two docking ports for the sail training block of the academy’s summer program — with the exception of last summer, when the trip was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The excursion is far more than a pleasure ride. “This trip is 100 percent about leadership in a maritime environment,” explained Carlton Brown, a retired naval doctor who is the executive officer under retired Marine Corps Col. Jim Mead, the trip’s officer in tactical command. “It allows midshipmen to experience real-world danger and stresses in a smallteam environment.” Mayor Rober t Kennedy attended the event, as did Nassau County Legislator Debra Mulé, state Assemblywoman Judy Griffin and other village Continued on page 14
Impeached governor starred in film made in Freeport By Reine Bethany rbethany@liherald.com
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William SulzeR in 1911, while still in the U.S. Congress.
William Sulzer, the only New York governor to be impeached a n d re m ove d f ro m o f f i c e, brought dubious fame to Freeport by starring in “The Governor’s Boss,” a 1915 fictional film about an unjustly impeached New York governor. Sulzer himself had been removed from office only two years earlier. Freeport Memorial Library’s online History Encyclopedia recounts the film’s creation. “The Governor’s Boss” was based on a novel of the same title written by Indiana journalist and politician James
S. Barcus, who used Sulzer’s downfall as inspiration. Prominent Freeporters financed the movie. For the scenes that were filmed in Freeport, these well-known citizens also appeared in small roles and as extras. Ernest S. Randall was an extra in several mob scenes, a tongue-in-cheek role for the son of John Jay Randall, the “Father of Freeport,” for whom Randall Park is named. Ernest Randall subsequently served a term as Freeport mayor. The film was silent, so it did not make use of Sulzer’s notable speaking capability. Nonetheless, he distinguished him-
self, though not in a good way. According to the History Encyclopedia, newspaper accounts related that Sulzer “refused to attend rehearsals, objected to instructions, wasted hundreds of feet of film and drove the directors to despair a dozen times.” This description of Sulzer’s behavior accords with narra-
tives of his conduct starting in the spring of 1913, a few months after he became governor. The brilliant young lawyer and public speaker who had spent 25 years in politics prior to his impeachment had become as domineering as the Tammany Hall political bosses he was resisting. He so alienatContinued on page 11