Welcome back to the awards ceremony. Today we hit the beach to talk to Mary Cascone, Babylon Town Historian, about the Oak Beach Life-Saving Station.

Perched between the Great South Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, the station withstood the ravages of wind, rain, and Superstorm Sandy. It has been moved a few times and gone through a number of uses but still retained much of its original details when the Town began its restoration in earnest in 2013.

You’ll hear about Mary’s quest to uncover the full history of the building, the challenges of the preservation project, and the local, state, and federal support that made it all possible.

Further Research

• Town of Babylon Historic Services
• Historic Life-Saving Stations to Visit
• savingservice.org/">U.S. Life-Saving Service Heritage Association
• black-locust-tree-shaped-the-united-states.html"> Black Locust: The Tree on Which the US was Built
• OBI (The Oak Beach Inn) Music Video by David Ippolito
• Music
  • BugaBlue
  • Walk That Dog
  • People at a Party
• Audio Footnote
  • Interview with Mary Cascone
  • Interview with the Barbash family on Robert Moses and Fire Island