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The diversity of villages and how history can shed light on the present

By Michael Campbell
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Posted on September 2, 2026

Tenth and last in a series.

A major theme of this article series has been that villages are incredibly diverse, and I wanted to end with a look at how disparate Long Island’s 96 villages are and why that might be.

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