The primary focus is Shinnecock Hills where open air studio is sited (Note 1). It is a social and cultural perspective displayed chronologically in historical maps and newspaper clippings. Beginning at the transition from stagecoach transportation for LIRR passengers traveling east from “Suffolk Station” as the Railroad’s service to the east end was built over lands following the seizure in 1859 of the land from The Shinnecock Indian Nation by the Town of Southampton (Note 2).

Through the years when “the Hills” land was sold privately, including by LIRR subsidiary Shinnecock Land Company President, Samuel L. Parrish to himself and his brother James Parrish,  LIRR president Austin Corbin, The Colt Family, and others. The residency of plein air painter, William Merritt Chase from 1891 to 1902 and his Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art (established June 15, 1891) created a subsequent relationship to gentrification. From when the first automobile was reported on the early roads to the passage of the Women’s Right to Vote (1920) by the U.S. Congress, it was a timeframe parallel to Sandrow’s great, great grandparents and their children who were confined to shtetl’s to when many family escaped Russia, leaving all possessions behind to start a new life within the confines of antisemitism in Philadelphia, Penn. (Sandrow’s mother’s father Morris) Her grandfather (Note 4), his parents and siblings immigration memorialized in the words of his first cousin Eliza Greenblatt