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Tiny Treasures Child Care Inc.

About the Provider

Description: Tiny Treasures Child Care Inc. is a Day Care Center in East Islip NY, with a maximum capacity of 120 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of Total Capacity: 120;Infants: 16;Toddlers: 20;Preschool: 48;School-Age: 36;. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.

Additional Information: Initial License Date: 9/5/2012; This facility is authorized to administer over-the-counter topical ointments only; There has been enforcement actions since 2003;

Program and Licensing Details

• License Number:
  703363
• Capacity:
  120
• Age Range:
  Total Capacity: 120;Infants: 16;Toddlers: 20;Preschool: 48;School-Age: 36;
• Enrolled in Subsidized Child Care Program:
  No
• Schools Served:
  East Islip School District
• Current License Issue Date:
  May 22, 2021
• Current License Expiration Date:
  May 21, 2025
• District Office:
  Long Island Regional Office
• District Office Phone:
  (631) 240-2560 (Note: This is not the facility phone number. )

Inspection/Report History

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Date	Type	Regulations	Status
2022-06-30	Violation	413.4(d)(2)	Corrected
Brief Description: Every licensee and registrant shall submit fingerprint images for each prospective director, employee, or volunteer, and any person age eighteen (18) or older prospectively living in a group family day care home or family day care home.
2022-06-30	Violation	418-1. 11(c)(1)	Corrected
Brief Description: The licensee must prepare a health care plan on forms furnished by the Office. Such plan must protect and promote the health of children. The health care plan must be on site, followed by all staff and available upon demand by a parent or the Office. In those instances in which the program will administer medications, the health care plan must also be approved by the program’s health care consultant unless the only medications to be administered are:
2021-11-15	Violation	418-1.7(q)	Corrected
Brief Description: Cribs, bassinets and other sleeping areas for infants through 12 months of age must include an appropriately sized fitted sheet, and must not have bumper pads, toys, stuffed animals, blankets, pillows, wedges or infant positioners. Wedges or infant positioners will be permitted with medical documentation from the child’s health care provider.
2021-11-15	Violation	418-1.7(q)	Corrected
Brief Description: Cribs, bassinets and other sleeping areas for infants through 12 months of age must include an appropriately sized fitted sheet, and must not have bumper pads, toys, stuffed animals, blankets, pillows, wedges or infant positioners. Wedges or infant positioners will be permitted with medical documentation from the child’s health care provider.
2019-08-27	Violation	418-1.11(c)(1)	Corrected
Brief Description: The licensee must prepare a health care plan on forms furnished by the Office. Such plan must protect and promote the health of children. The health care plan must be on site, followed by all staff and available upon demand by a parent or the Office. In those instances in which the program will administer medications, the health care plan must also be approved by the program’s health care consultant unless the only medications to be administered are:
2019-08-27	Violation	418-1. 15(c)(5)	Corrected
Brief Description: daily attendance records, which must be filled out at the time a child arrives and departs, and must include arrival and departure times;
2018-10-11	418-1.13(g)(3)	Corrected
Brief Description: To be qualified as a group teacher for an infant or toddler class, a person must possess either:
2018-10-11	418-1.4(h)	Corrected
Brief Description: The director or a designated qualified staff member must conduct monthly inspections of the premises to observe possible fire or safety hazards. Any such hazard must be corrected immediately.
2018-05-08	418-1.15(c)(6)	Corrected
Brief Description: children’s health records, including parental consents for emergency medical treatment, child’s medical statement and immunizations; any available results of lead screening; the name and dosage of any medications used by a child and the frequency of administration of such medications; and a record of their administration by child day care center staff; and a record of illnesses, injuries and any indicators of child abuse or maltreatment;
2018-05-08	418-1. 5(z)	Corrected
Brief Description: All window and door blind cords, ropes, wires and other strangulation hazards must be secured and inaccessible to children.
2018-01-12	418-1.5(b)(4)	Corrected
Brief Description: Each program must hold two shelter-in-place drills annually during which procedures and supplies are reviewed. Parents must be made aware of this drill in advance.
2017-05-23	418-1.10(a)	Corrected
Brief Description: Any abuse or maltreatment of a child is prohibited. A day care center must prohibit and may not tolerate or in any manner condone an act of abuse or maltreatment by an staff, volunteer or any other person. An abused child or maltreated child means a child defined as an abused child or maltreated child pursuant to Section 412 of the Social Services Law.
2017-05-23	418-1.8(a)	Corrected
Brief Description: Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher’s range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child’s age emotional, physical, and cognitive development.

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Tiny Treasures Child Care Inc. – Care.com Great River, NY

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In business since: 2012

Total Employees: 11-50

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Jennifer D’Ambrosio – The Institute Blog

QUALITYstarsNY joined the Leadership Initiative in inviting its participants to reflect on different aspects of leadership, bringing to light unique pathways, approaches, challenges and lessons learned. TLC hopes that through this series you get to know these diverse individuals and take away an appreciation for their journeys and leadership skills and its impact on the lives of children, families, their staff and communities.

Jennifer D’Ambrosio – Owner/Director
I am a New York State Certified Teacher and have been in the field of education for the past 18 years. I obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and Psychology as well as a Master’s Degree in Education, with a concentration in Language and Literacy. In 2012, I opened a NYS Licensed Group Family Daycare and cared for 12 children each day in my home in East Islip. The business quickly grew and soon enough my husband Louis and I opened Tiny Treasures Child Care, a licensed daycare center, in the Sunrise Business Center. I attribute our success to being able to relate to each parent that walks through the door. Being a parent myself, I fully understand how difficult it is to place your child in someone else’s care. As a child care director, I vow to provide a facility where each family will receive the best care possible each and every day.

1. What has been a significant factor, moment, person, etc. in shaping your leadership?

I have 10 years’ experience teaching in the Catholic School system prior to becoming a daycare owner/director and I have had multiple Principals who have had multiple different styles of leadership. One of the principals was a leader who was very clear in their expectations, was a personable leader who was very approachable, knowledgeable, and most of all, led with her heart. You could tell from the moment she took the position of principal that she was emotionally invested in her leadership role. All of the traits I mentioned made me feel that she was the type of leader I aspired to be and inspires me to be the type of leader I am and hopefully inspire others.  

2.  What is the biggest or most significant challenge you face in your leadership?

The most significant challenge I face as a leader is the “unknown” of COVID-19.   I live in constant fear and panic wondering the following questions….Are we doing enough? Are we cleaning enough? Are the children social distancing enough? When a child should be excluded from the program due to illness vs just a runny nose due to allergies?

3. Tell us how you are integrating School-Age Care into your program during the pandemic? 

Due to the pandemic, we had 2 open classrooms (a toddler and an infant classroom) because of low enrollment. We have used these two classrooms to open a School-Age care program for children in districts that are using the hybrid learning model. For the 2-3 days per week the school age children are not attending school in person, they bring their devices (Chromebooks), headphones and chargers and are able to complete their virtual learning here at Tiny Treasures.  

4. Tell us how you are dealing with different school districts and schools plans during the pandemic?

Right now we have children from 4 different school districts in our school age program.  For the most part, 3 of the school districts are using Google Classroom but the other school district is using Microsoft Teams. Luckily for us, the teachers are familiar with both applications. We have seen a significant difference not only in each school district but more so in the individual teachers, regardless of their home district.  

5.  What is a current successes you are celebrating?

We have celebrated how dedicated our staff members are during this difficult time. We had staff members who jumped into action back in May when we first re-opened. They have taken on more responsibility in their classrooms, such as cleaning more in depth (more so than prior to COVID), cleaning individual toys more frequently throughout the day, adjusting their daily routines to allow for social distancing, etc. We consider ourselves very lucky to have such great support from our wonderful staff.  

6. What are you doing to care for yourself and your staff during these incredibly stressful times?

I have been trying to take things one day at a time and try to remember that we are doing everything in our power to keep our children safe during this stressful time.  I have leaned on my colleagues (other directors/owners) to hear what they are doing and the stresses they are facing to make the best decisions possible and alleviate my concerns.

Andrea Bruno is an Institute coach serving QUALITYstarsNY programs.

Long Island School Closures for Tuesday, March 14th, 2017

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Cleaning up after the storm in Commack. Photo by LongIsland.com Staffer.

Though only a small amount of snow had fallen by the time most school districts would have started the day, icy conditions and the threat of more snow and freezing rain to come convinced schools across the Island to close for the day. With icy roads keeping school buses off the road, kids across Long Island got to enjoy a snow day, even if conditions were less than ideal for sleigh riding.

Schools Closed On Tuesday, March 14th:

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  ACDS Plainview – Closed
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  ACLD-Spiegel Children’s Center – Closed
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  ACLD After School Therapeutic Recreation – Closed
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  ACLD Kramer Learning Center – Closed
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  AHRC Suffolk – Closed
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  Abiding Presence Preschool – Fort Salonga – Closed
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  Abilities, Inc. – Closed
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  Able Community Services – Closed
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  Academic Munchkins Nursery School of Valley Stream – Closed
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  Adelphi University Garden City Campus – Closed
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  Adelphi University – Suffolk County Centers – Closed
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  Advantage Testing of Roslyn – Closed for Testing
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  All Saints Regional Catholic School – Closed
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  Alphabet Kids – Closed
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  Alphabetland Day School and Camp – Closed
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  Alternatives Counseling Services of Riverhead – Closed
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  Alternatives Counseling Services of Southampton – Closed
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  Alternatives For Children of East Setauket – Closed
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  Alternatives For Children of Southampton – Closed
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  Alternatives For Children of Aquebogue – Closed
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  Alternatives For Children of Dix Hills – Closed
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  Alternatives for Children Daycare of East Setauket – Closed
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  Amagansett School District – Closed
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  Amityville School District – Closed
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  Ascension Lutheran Pre-school of Deer Park – Closed
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  Ascent School – Closed
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  ASK US After School Kids Under Supervision – Closed
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  Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Religious Formation – All activities canceled
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  B. E.S.T. Learning Center of Smithtown – Closed
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  BOCES Eastern Suffolk – Closed
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  BOCES Nassau – Closed
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  BOCES Nassau Adult Evening Programs – Closed
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  BOCES Western Suffolk – Closed
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  Babylon School District – Closed
• 
  Baldwin School District – Closed
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  Bay Shore Christian School – Closed
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  Bay Shore Day Care and Preschool – Closed
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  Bay Shore School District – Closed
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  Bayport-Blue Point School District – Closed
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  Bellmore Elementary School District – Closed
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  Bellmore Memorial Library – Closed
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  Bellmore-Merrick Central School District High School – Closed
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  Bellmore-Merrick Central School District Middle School – Closed
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  Bellmore United Methodist Nursery School – Closed
• 
  Bernice Jacobson Day School & Camp – Closed
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  Beth Ha Gan School – Closed
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  Bethpage Public Library – Closed
• 
  Bethpage School District – Closed
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  Big Chief Nursery School and Camp – Closed
• 
  Bishop McGann-Mercy Diocesan High School – Closed
• 
  Blessed Sacrament Religious Education – Closed
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  Brandeis School – Closed
• 
  Branford Hall Career Institute – Closed
• 
  Brentwood School District – Closed
• 
  Briarcliffe College Nassau Campus – Closed
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  Briarcliffe College Suffolk Campus – Closed
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  Bridgehampton School District – Closed
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  Bright Horizons Preschool – Closed
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  Brookhaven Country Preschool – Closed
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  Brookville Center SUNY Old Westbury – Closed
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  Brookville Center Westbury-Post Avenue – Closed
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  Brookville Center for Children’s Services AHRC – Closed
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  Brookville Center for Children’s Services New Hyde Park – Closed
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  Brookville Center for Children’s Services B C Wilson-Woodbury – Closed
• 
  Buckley Country Day School – Closed
• 
  Building Blocks Developmental Preschool of Commack – Closed
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  Building Blocks Preschool of Oceanside – Closed
• 
  CFA’s Preschool – Closed
• 
  CLASP Children’s Center – Closed
• 
  CP Nassau-Roosevelt – Closed
• 
  Calling All Kids, Again –  Closed
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  Calling All Kids, Too – Closed
• 
  Calvary Nursery School – Closed
• 
  Carle Place School District – Closed
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  Carousel Day School of Hicksville – Closed
• 
  Carousel of Learning of Baldwin – Closed
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  Carousel of Learning of South Freeport – Closed
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  Cathedral Nursery School – Closed
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  Center Moriches Free Public Library – Closed
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  Center for Developmental Disabilities of Hicksville – Closed
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  Center for Developmental Disabilities of Woodbury – Closed
• 
  Central Islip Union Free School District – Closed
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  Central Nassau Guidance and Counseling Services – Closed
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  Chaminade High School – Closed
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  Charles Evans Center – Health Services Program – Closed
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  Chatterbox Day School – Closed
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  Children of America of Smithtown – Closed
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  Children of America of Port Jefferson – Closed
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  Children’s Nest of Merrick – Closed
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  Children’s Nest of Wantagh -Closed
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  Childtime Hauppauge – Closed
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  Christ The King Religious Education Center – Religious Education Classes Cancelled
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  Church of the Holy Spirit Religious Education -Religious Education Classes Cancelled
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  Church of the Resurrection Religious Education – Religious Education Classes Cancelled
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  Cleary School for the Deaf – Closed
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  Cold Spring Harbor Central School District – Closed
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  Commack School District- Closed
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  Community Nursery School of Massapequa – Closed
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  Comsewogue Public Library – Closed
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  Comsewogue School District – Closed
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  Connetquot Central School District – Closed
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  Connetquot Public Library – Closed
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  Copiague Christian Academy – Closed
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  Copiague School District – Closed
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  Coram Child Care – Closed
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  Corpus Christi Religious Education of Mineola – Religious Education Classes Cancelled
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  Creations Pre-School at Sayville JCC – Closed
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  Crescent School – Closed
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  Crestwood Country Day School of Melville – Closed
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  Cross of Christ Lutheran Preschool – Closed
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  Crossroads School for Child Development – Closed
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  Cure of Ars Religious Education – Religious Education Classes Cancelled
• 
  Cutchogue-New Suffolk Free Library – Closed
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  DDI Adult Day Habilitation  (All Locations) – Closed
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  DDI School Age Program of Huntington – Closed
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  DDI School Age Program of Smithtown – Closed
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  DDI Starting Early of Huntington – Closed
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  DDI Starting Early of Ronkonkoma – Closed
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  DDI Young Autism Program of Medford – Closed
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  DDI Young Autism Program of Ronkonkoma – Closed
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  Day Haven Adult Day Services Program of Port Jefferson – Closed
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  Day Haven Adult Day Services Program of Ronkonkoma – Closed
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  Debbie’s Creative Child Care Center – Closed
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  Deer Park School District – Closed
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  Discoveries Preschool of Massapequa – Closed
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  Ducky Pond Pre-School – Closed
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  Early Discoveries Center of Ronkonkoma – Closed
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  East End Disability Associates Day Habilitation Program – Closed
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  East End Kids Academy – Closed
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  East Hampton School District – Closed
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  East Islip School District – Closed
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  East Meadow School District – Closed
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  East Moriches School District – Closed
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  East Northport Jewish Center Religious School – Closed
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  East Quogue School District – Closed
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  East Rockaway School District – Closed
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  East Williston School District – Closed
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  East Woods School – Closed
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  Eastport – South Manor Central School District – Closed
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  Eden II/Genesis Program – Closed
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  Elmont Union Free School District – Closed
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  Elwood School District – Closed
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  Elwood’s Little Einsteins – Closed
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  Emanuel Lutheran School of Patchogue – Closed
• 
  Emma S. Clark Library – Closed
• 
  Epic Long Island – Closed
• 
  Evergreen Charter School – Closed
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  Faith Nursery School – Closed
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  Family Center for Autism – Closed
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  Farmingdale Methodist Nursery School – Closed
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  Farmingdale School District – Closed
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  First Presbyterian Church of Port Jefferson – Closed
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  First Step Nursery School – Closed
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  Five Towns College – Closed
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  Five Towns Early Learning Center – Closed
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  Five Towns School of Faith Formation – Religious Education Classes Cancelled
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  Floral Park-Bellerose Union Free School District – Closed
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  Franklin Square Union Free School District – Closed
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  Freeport School District – Closed
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  Friends Academy – Closed
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  Garden City Community Church Nursery School – Closed
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  Garden City School District – Closed
• 
  Gateway Nursery School – Closed
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  Gersh Academy of West Hempstead – Closed
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  Glen Cove School District – Closed
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  Glitterbugs – Closed
• 
  Gloria Dei Nursury and Pre-K – Closed
• 
  Good Samaritan’s Center for Pediatric Specialty Care – Closed
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  Good Shepherd Lutheran School of Plainview – Closed
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  Grace Christian Academy – Closed
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  Grace Lane Kindergarten – Closed
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  Grace Lutheran Church – Closed
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  Grace Lutheran Preschool of North Bellmore – Closed
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  Grace Nursery School of Lindenhurst – Closed
• 
  Great Neck School District – Closed
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  Greenport Union Free School District – Closed
• 
  Greentrees Country Day School – Closed
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  Growing Tree North School – Closed
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  Growing Tree Nursery School – Closed
• 
  Gymboree Play and Music of East Northport – Closed
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  Gymboree Play and Music of Oceanside – Closed
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  Gymboree Play and Music of Westbury – Closed
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  Gymboree Play and Music of Woodbury – Closed
• 
  HabiTots Preschool & Child Care Center of Medford – Closed
• 
  HabiTots Preschool & Child Care Center of Middle Island – Closed
• 
  Half Hollow Hills Central School District – Closed
• 
  Hampton Bays Public Library – Closed
• 
  Hampton Bays School District – Closed
• 
  Hamza Academy – Closed
• 
  Happy Time Pre-School of Smithtown – Closed
• 
  Harbor Child Care of Glen Cove – Closed
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  Harbor Child Care of Hempstead – Closed
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  Harbor Child Care of Willis Avenue – Closed
• 
  Harbor Child Care at the Plaza – Closed
• 
  Harbor Country Day School of St. James – Closed
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  Harborfields Central School District – Closed
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  Harmony Early Learning Center – Closed
• 
  Harmony Heights Day School – Closed
• 
  Harriet Eisman Community School – Closed
• 
  Hauppauge Public Library – Closed
• 
  Hauppauge School District – Closed
• 
  Hayground School – Closed
• 
  Heart and Soul Community Counseling – Closed
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  Hebrew Academy for Special Children of Woodmere – Closed
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  Hempstead School District – Closed
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  Henry Viscardi School of Albertson – Closed
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  Heritage Christian Academy – Closed
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  Herricks Union Free School District – Closed
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  Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library – Closed
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  Hewlett-Woodmere School District – Closed
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  Hicksville School District – Closed
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  Hofstra University – Closed
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  Holy Angels Regional School of Patchogue – Closed
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  Holy Child Academy of Old Westbury – Closed
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  Holy Family Regional School of Commack – Closed
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  Holy Family Religious Education of Hicksville – Closed
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  Holy Name of Mary Religious Education – Closed
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  Holy Trinity Diocesan High School of Hicksville – Closed
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  Holy Trinity Lutheran Church Early Childhood Center – Closed
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  Hunter Business School of Levittown – Closed
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  Hunter Business School of Medford – Closed
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  Huntington Montessori – Closed
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  Huntington Public Library – Closed
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  Huntington School District – Closed
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  Imagination Preschool of Stony Brook – Closed
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  Immaculate Conception Religious Education of Westhampton Beach – Closed
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  Independent Group Homeliving Program – Closed, Staff Must Report
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  Infant Jesus R. C. Church Religious Education – All Activities Canceled
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  Island Drafting and Technical Institute of Amityville – Closed
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  Island Park School District – Closed
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  Island Therapies of Suffolk – Closed
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  Island Trees School District – Closed
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  Islip School District – Closed
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  Ivy League School – Closed
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  Jacob’s Ladder Preschool – Closed
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  Jericho Public Library – Closed
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  Jericho School District – Closed
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  Julie’s Storybook Nursery – Closed
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  Just Kids Early Childhood Learning Center of Baldwin – Closed
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  Just Kids Early Childhood Learning Center of Middle Island – Closed
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  Just Kids Early Childhood Learning Center of Cutchogue – Closed
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  Just Kids Early Childhood Learning Center of Hampton Bays – Closed
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  Just Kids Early Childhood Learning Center of  Lindenhurst – Closed
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  Just Kids Early Childhood Learning Center of Shirley – Closed
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  Kellenberg Memorial High School – Closed
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  Kid Esteem Montessori School of Lindenhurst – Closed
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  Kiddie Academy of Bethpage – Closed
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  Kiddie Academy of East Setauket – Closed
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  Kiddie Academy of Greenlawn – Closed
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  Kiddie Academy of Hicksville – Closed
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  Kiddie Academy of Islip – Closed
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  Kiddie Academy Educational Child Care of Brightwaters – Closed
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  Kiddie Academy of Farmingdale – Closed
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  Kiddie Care Early Learning Center – Closed
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  Kiddie Fit Community Preschool – Closed
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  Kiddie Kampus of Medford – Closed
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  Kiddie Kollege Nursery School of Patchogue – Closed
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  Kids Campus of Lynbrook – Closed
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  Kids Connection Daycare at ACDS – Closed
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  Kids by the Bunch of Syosset – Closed
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  Kids of Miller Place – Closed
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  Kids of Mt. Sinai – Closed
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  Kidtastic Kids Preschool Unit 23 – Closed
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  Kings Park School District – Closed
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  L.I. Lutheran Middle and High School – Closed
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  LI School for the Gifted of Huntington Station – Closed
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  LIU BRENTWOOD – Closed
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  LIU POST – Closed
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  LIU Riverhead – Closed
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  LR Pre-School – Closed
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  Lawrence Woodmere Academy – Closed
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  Leeway School – Closed
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  Leonard E. Burket Christian School – Closed
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  Let’s Enjoy Math Learning Center – Closed
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  Levittown Public Library – Closed
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  Levittown School District – Closed
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  Lindenhurst Memorial Library – Closed
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  Lindenhurst School District – Closed
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  Little Flower Union Free School District – Closed
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  Little Gospel Lights Pre-School-Bethpage – Closed
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  Little Lambs Nursery School of Ridge – Closed
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  Little Pebbles Nursery School – Closed
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  Little People’s Child Care Center – Closed
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  Little Rascals Child Care – Closed
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  Little Scholars Day School – Closed
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  Little Treasures of New Hyde Park – Closed
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  Locust Valley Central School District – Closed
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  Long Beach School District – Closed
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  Long Island Children’s Museum  – Closed
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  Long Island Gymnastics Academy – All Activities Cancelled
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  Long Island Head Start (All Centers) -Closed
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  Long Island Lutheran Day School at St. Paul’s – Closed
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  Long Island Nail & Skin Care Institute – Closed
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  Longwood Public Library – Closed
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  Longwood School District – Closed
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  Lynbrook School District – Closed
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  Love of Learning Montessori School of Centerport – Closed
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  Loving and Learning Child Care of Oceanside – Closed
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  Lynbrook School District – Closed
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  Lyrical Children’s Preschool – Calverton Closed
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  M.A.T.S.S. Kids Gym & E.C.E.C. of Syosset – Closed
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  M.A.T.S.S. Kids Gym of Bellmore – Closed
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  Magic Circle Nursery School – Closed
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  Malverne Center For Play and Development – Closed
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  Malverne School District – Closed
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  Manhasset / Great Neck Head Start – Closed
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  Manhasset School District – Closed
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  Maplewood School – Closed
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  Maria Regina Elementary School – Closed
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  Marion Kenney Day Care Center – Closed
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  Martin C. Barell School – Closed
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  Mary Immaculate Religious Education – Closed
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  Massapequa School District – Closed
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  Mattituck-Cutchogue School District – Closed
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  Merokee Day School – Closed
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  Merrick Community Hebrew High School – Closed
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  Merrick Elementary School District – Closed
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  Merrick Jewish Center Hebrew School – Closed
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  Messiah Preschool & Day Care – Closed
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  Metropolitan Institute of Interior Design – Closed
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  Michelle’s Daycare of Shirley – Closed
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  Middle Country School District – Closed
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  Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf – Closed
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  Miller Place School District – Closed
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  Mineola School District – Closed
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  Miss Barbara’s Preschool – Closed
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  Miss Dawn’s Child Care Center of Huntington – Closed
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  Miss Dawn’s Child Care Center of Melville – Closed
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  Miss Mella’s Footsteps to Learning – Closed
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  Miss Shelley’s Upward Prep School – Closed
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  Molloy College – Closed
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  Montauk Childcare Center – Closed
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  Montauk Public School – Closed
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  Montessori Children’s School of Massapequa/East Meadow – Closed
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  Mothers’ Center of Southwest Nassau Nursery School – Closed
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  Mount Sinai School District – Closed
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  NIS Child Care of Yaphank – Closed
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  NSSA Adult Services – Closed
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  NYIT Central Islip Campus – Closed
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  NYIT Old Westbury Campus – Closed
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  Nassau Community College – Closed
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  Nature’s Kids Nursery School – Closed
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  New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Union Free School District – Closed
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  New Interdisciplinary School of Yaphank – Closed
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  New Life Community Nursery of Sayville – Closed
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  New Suffolk School District – Closed
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  New York Chiropractic College – Closed
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  New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine – Closed
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  Noah’s Ark Day Care Center – Port Jefferson – Closed
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  North Babylon Community Youth Services – Closed
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  North Babylon School District – Closed
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  North Bellmore Elementary School District – Closed
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  North Merrick Elementary School District – Closed
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  North Shore Central School District – Closed
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  North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center of Roslyn Height – Closed
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  North Shore Day School of Glen Cove – Closed
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  North Shore Hebrew Academy High School – Closed
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  North Shore Jewish Center of Port Jefferson Station – Closed
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  North Shore Montessori School of Stony Brook – Closed
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  North Shore Synagogue Religious School of Syosset- Closed
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  Northport / East Northport School District – Closed
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  Notre Dame Religious Education – Closed
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  Oceanside Library – Closed
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  Oceanside School District – Closed
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  Our Lady Queen of Apostles School – Closed
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  Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Religious Education – Classes Cancelled
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  Our Lady of Grace Day Care Center – Closed
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  Our Lady of Hope Religious Education – Classes Cancelled
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  Our Lady of Lourdes School – Closed
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  Our Lady of Mercy Elementary School of Hicksville – Closed
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  Our Lady of Mercy Regional School of Cutchogue – Closed
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  Our Lady of Mount Carmel Religious Education – Closed
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  Our Lady of Peace School – Closed
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  Our Lady of Providence Regional School – Closed
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  Our Lady of Victory Religious Education – Classes Cancelled
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  Our Lady of Victory School – Closed
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  Our Lady of Wisdom Regional – Closed
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  Our Lady of the Assumption Religious Education Classes Cancelled
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  Our Lady of the Hamptons (All Campuses) – Closed
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  Our Lady of the Snow Religious Education – Closed
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  Our Precious Angel’s Day Care Preschool – Closed
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  Our Redeemer Day Care Center – Closed
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  Our Savior New American School – Centereach Closed
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  Oyster Babies Early Childhood Center – Closed
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  Oyster Bay-East Norwich Public Library – Closed
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  Oyster Bay-East Norwich School District – Closed
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  Oysterponds School District – Closed
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  Park Shore Country Day School – Closed
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  Pat Kam School and Early Childhood Center – Closed
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  Patchogue-Medford Library – Closed
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  Patchogue-Medford School District – Closed
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  Patchogue-Medford Youth & Community Services – Closed
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  Peanuts Nursery School – Closed
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  Peconic Community School – Closed
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  Pee Wee Folks – Amityville / Smart Start – Closed
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  Plainedge Public Schools – Closed
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  Plainview-Old Bethpage School District – Closed
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  Planet Kids – Closed
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  Play Groups School of East Setauket – Closed
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  Port Jefferson Free Library – Closed
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  Port Jefferson School District – Closed
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  Port Washington School District – Closed
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  Portledge School – Closed
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  Precious Kids Country Day Care-N. Massapequa – Closed
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  Precious Spirit Child Care – Closed
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  Presbyterian Community Nursery School of Massapequa – Closed
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  Primarily 2’s and 3’s – Closed
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  Prime Time Preschool of Kings Park – Closed
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  Progressive School of Long Island-N. Merrick – Closed
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  Pumpkin Patch Day Nursery of Commack – Closed
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  Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Religious Education of Roosevelt – Classes Cancelled
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  Quogue Elementary School – Closed
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  Rainbow Chimes of Huntington – Closed
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  Rambam Mesivta Maimonides High School – Closed
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  Raynor Country Day School – Closed
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  Reach for the Stars Pre-School – Closed
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  Red Robin Country Day School – Closed
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  Remsenburg-Speonk School District – Closed
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  Rinx Preschool Academy of Hauppauge – Closed
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  Riverhead Central School District – Closed
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  Riverhead Charter School – Closed
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  Rockville Centre Public Library – Closed
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  Rockville Centre School District – Closed
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  Rocky Point School District – Closed
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  Rogers Memorial Library – Closed
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  Romper Room Nursery School – Closed
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  Roosevelt Children’s Academy Charter School – Closed
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  Roosevelt Union Free School District – Closed
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  Rosa Lee Young Childhood Center – Closed
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  Rose Garden Daycare and Preschool – Closed
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  Roslyn Union Free School District – Closed
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  Ross School – Closed
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  S. E.E.D.S. of the Willistons – Closed
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  SLCD Glen Cove – Closed
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  SUNY Empire State College – Closed
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  SUNY Old Westbury – Closed
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  Sachem Central School District- Closed
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  Sachem Public Library – Closed
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  Sacred Heart Academy of Hempstead – Closed
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  Sacred Heart Religious Ed of Island Park – Closed
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  Sacred Heart Religious Education Program of Cutchogue – Closed
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  Sag Harbor School District – Closed
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  Sagaponack Common School District – Closed
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  Saint Agnes Cathedral Religious Education – Classes Cancelled 
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  Saint Agnes Cathedral School – Closed
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  Staint Agnes Religious Education – Closed
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  Saint Anne’s Religious Education of Garden City – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Anne’s Religious Education Program of Brentwood – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Annes School Parish of Garden City – Closed
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  Saint Anselm’s Episcopal Nursery School – Closed
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  Saint Anthony of Padua Religious Education – Closed
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  Saint Anthony’s Preschool – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Anthony’s Religious Education of Oceanside – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint  Anthony’s Religious Education of Rocky Point – Closed
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  Saint Barnabas Parish – All Classes cancelled
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  Saint Barnabas Religious Education Program – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Boniface Martyr Church – Closed
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  Saint Boniface of Sea Cliff – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Catherine of Sienna Religious Education – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Christopher’s School of Baldwin – Closed
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  Saint David’s School of Riverhead – Closed
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  Saint  Dominic Elementary School of Oyster Bay – Closed
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  Saint Dominic High School of Oyster Bay – Closed
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  Saint Edward the Confessor School – Closed
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  Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Church of Lake Ronkonkoma – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Regional School of Bellmore/Wantagh – Closed
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  Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Religious Education of Lake Ronkonkoma – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Elizabeth Religious Education of Melville – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Frances Cabrini Religious Education of Coram – Closed
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  Saint Frances de Chantal Religious Education of Wantagh – Closed
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  Saint Francis de Sales Religious Educationof Patchogue – Closed
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  Saint Francis of Assisi Religious Education of Greenlawn – Closed
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  Saint Gerard Majella Religious Education of Port Jeff Station – Closed
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  Saint Gregory’s Nursery School – Closed
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  Saint Hugh of Lincoln Religious Education – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Ignatius Loyola Parish – All Activities Canceled
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  Saint Ignatius Martyr Religious Education – Closed
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  Saint Isidore School – Closed
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  Saint James Lutheran Preschool of Saint James – Closed
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  Saint James Lutheran Preschool of Stewart Manor – Closed
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  Saint James Religious Education of Setauket – Closed
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  Saint James Religious Education of Seaford – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint John Nepomucene Religious Education – All activities canceled
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  Saint John the Baptist Diocesan High School of West Islip – Closed
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  Saint John the Baptist Religious Education of Wading River – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint John the Evangelist Religious Formation of Riverhead – All Activities Canceled
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  Saint John the Evangelist Religous Education of Center Moriches – All Activities Canceled
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  Saint John’s Lutheran Nursery School of Lindenhurst – Closed
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  Saint John’s Pre-School of Wading River – Closed
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  Saint John’s University – Closed
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  Saint Joseph School of Ronkonkoma – Closed
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  Saint Joseph The Worker Church Religious Education- Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Joseph’s College Patchogue – Closed
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  Saint Joseph’s Faith Formation of Babylon – Closed
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  Saint Joseph’s Nursery School of Babylon – Closed
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  Saint Joseph’s Religious Education of Garden City – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Joseph’s Religious Education of Kings Park – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Joseph’s Religious Education of Ronkonkoma – All activities canceled
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  Saint Joseph’s School of Garden City – Closed
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  Saint Kilian Religious Education – All Activities Canceled
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  Saint Lawrence the Martyr R. C. Church of Sayville – All Activities Canceled
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  Saint Louis de Monfort Religious Education of Sound Beach – Closed
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  Saint Louis de Montfort Pre-School – Closed
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  Saint Luke Preschool of Dix Hills – Closed
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  Saint Luke’s School of Farmingdale – Closed
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  Saint Margaret of Scotland Church of Selden – Closed
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  Saint Margaret of Scotland Religious Education of Selden – Closed
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  Saint Mark’s Bright Beginnings Preschool -Closed
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  Saint Mark’s Cooperative Nursery School of Rockville Center – Closed
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  Saint Mark’s Religious Formation Program of Shoreham – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Martin De Porres Marianist School of Uniondale – Closed
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  Saint Martin of Tours Religious Education of Bethpage – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Martin of Tours School of Amityville – Closed
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  Saint Mary School  of East Islip – Closed
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  Saint Matthew’s Religious Education of Dix Hills – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Patrick Religious Education of Bay Shore – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Patrick Religious Education of Southold – All Activities Canceled
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  Saint Patrick School of Bay Shore – Closed
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  Saint Patrick School of Smithtown – Closed
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  Saint Patrick’s Rel Education of Huntington – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Paul the Apostle Preschool of Brookville – Closed
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  Saint Paul the Apostle Religious Education of Brookville – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Paul’s Nursery School – Closed
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  Saint Peter of Alcantara School of Port Washington – Closed
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  Saint Peter’s Religious Education of Islip Terrace – Closed
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  Saint Philip Neri Religious Education of Northport – All Cctivities Canceled
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  Saint Pius V School – Closed
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  Saint Pius X Religious Education- Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Raphael Religious Education of East Meadow – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Raymond Religious Education of East Rockaway – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Rose of Lima School of Massapequa – Closed
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  Saint Sylvester R. C. Church – All Activities Canceled
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  Saint Thomas Religious Education ofWest Hempstead – Classes Cancelled
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  Saint Thomas the Apostle Elementary School – Closed
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  Saint William The Abbot Catholic School – Closed
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  Saint William the Abbott Religious Education – Classes Cancelled
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  Saints Cyril and Methodius Religious Education – Classes Cancelled
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  Saints Cyril and Methodius School – Closed
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  Saints Philip and James Religious Education – Closed
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  Saints Philip and James School – Closed
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  Sappo School – Closed
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  Sayville School District – Closed
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  Schechter School of Long Island of Jericho – Closed
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  Schechter School of Long Island of Williston Park – Closed
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  Seaford School District – Closed
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  Servisair Pre-School Transportation of Nassau – Closed
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  Sewanhaka Central High School District – Closed
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  Shelter Island School District – Closed
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  Shoreham-Wading River School District – Closed
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  Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center – Closed
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  Silverstein Hebrew Academy – Closed
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  Skills Unlimited – Closed
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  Small Steps of Hauppauge – Closed
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  Small Wonders Child Care Center of Hauppauge – Closed
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  Smithtown Central School District – Closed
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  Smithtown Christian Early Learning Center – Closed
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  Smithtown Christian School – Closed
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  Smithtown Special Library District – Closed
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  Social Skills for Children, Inc. – Closed
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  South Country Central School District – Closed
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  South Huntington School District – Closed
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  South Shore Children’s Center of West Islip – Closed
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  South Shore Country Day School – Closed
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  Southampton Montessori – Closed
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  Southampton Public School District – Closed
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  Southold School District – Closed
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  Springs School District – Closed
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  Stanford Care Center at Our Lady of Perpetual Help – Closed
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  Stanford Child Care Center – Closed
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  Starbright Children’s Center – Closed
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  Step by Step Montessori of Miller Place – Closed
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  Stony Brook Child Care Services – Closed
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  Storybook Kids – Closed
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  Stony Brook University – Closed
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  Stony Brook University Southampton Campus – Closed
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  Storybook Kids – Closed
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  Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center – Closed
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  Summerfield Child Care Center – Closed
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  Sunshine Alternative Education & Prevention Center – Closed
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  SuperKids Christian Day Care/Preschool – Closed
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  Sure Foundation Child Care Center – Closed
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  Sweet Tots Creative Child Care of Bellmore – Closed
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  Sweet Tots Creative Child Care of Bethpage – Closed
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  Swissport-School Age Children of Suffolk County – Closed
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  Syosset School District – Closed
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  TLC Daycare Inc. – Closed
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  Teacher’s Pets Child Care Center of Plainview – Closed
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  Teacher’s Pets Child Care Centers of Levittown – Closed
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  Teacher’s Pets Child Care Centers of Wantagh – Closed
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  Temple B’Nai Torah Religious School – Closed
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  Temple Beth David Nursery School – Closed
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  Temple Beth David Religious School – Closed
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  Temple Beth El Religious School of Huntington – Closed
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  Temple Beth El of Patchogue Hebrew School – Closed
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  Temple Beth Torah Nursery School of Melville – Closed
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  Temple Chaverim – Closed
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  Temple Isaiah Religious School – Closed
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  Temple Israel of Great Neck Religious School – Closed
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  Tender Garden ECLC – Closed
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  Tender Hearts Preschool – Closed
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  The Academy Charter School – Closed
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  The Anne Brower School – Closed
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  The Bridges Academy – Closed
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  The Children’s Center at Farmingdale State College – Closed
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  The Children’s Learning Center – Closed
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  The Childrens Community HEAD START Program of Port Jefferson – Closed
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  The Childrens Community HEAD START Program of Ronkonkoma – Closed
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  The Christian Nursery School of Christ Lutheran Church – Closed
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  The Day Care Center at Ivy League Smithtown – Closed
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  The Early Childhood Center of West Babylon – Closed
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  The Green School – Closed
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  The Hagedorn Little Village School of Seaford – Closed
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  The Iken STEM Science Academy/Jericho JC – Closed
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  The Jewish Academy – Closed
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  The Knox School – Closed
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  The Laurel Hill School – Closed
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  The Learning Academy Daycare Center – Closed
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  The Learning Experience of Centereach – Closed
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  The Learning Experience of Massapequa – Closed
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  The Learning Experience of Medford – Closed
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  The Learning Experience of Mt. Sinai – Closed
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  The Learning Experience of Northport – Closed
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  The Learning Experience of Rocky Point -Closed
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  The Learning Experience of Stony Brook – Closed
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  The Opportunity Preschool of Hauppauge – Closed
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  The Village Preschool of Northport – Closed
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  The Viscardi Center – Closed
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  The Waldorf School of Garden City – Closed
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  Three Village School District – Closed
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  Tiny Tots Learning of- Bayport – Closed
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  Tiny Treasures Child Care – Closed
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  Toddler Time at The Hagedorn Little Village School – Closed
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  Touro College Law Center – Closed
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  Touro College School of Health Sciences  – Closed
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  Town of Hempstead ANCHOR Program – Closed
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  Town of Oyster Bay GAP Program – Closed
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  Town of Oyster Bay Massapequa Pre-School – Closed
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  Town of Oyster Bay Syosset Pre-School  – Closed
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  Trinity Episcopal Church Roslyn Childcare Center – Closed
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  Trinity Lutheran School of Hicksville – Closed
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  Trinity Regional School – Closed
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  Tuckahoe Common School District – Closed
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  Tutor Time Baldwin – Closed
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  Tutor Time East Northport – Closed
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  Tutor Time East Rockaway – Closed
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  Tutor Time Holbrook – Closed
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  Tutor Time Islandia-Ronkonkoma – Closed
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  Tutor TimeLevittown – Closed
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  Tutor Time Melville – Closed
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  Tutor Time Nesconset – Closed
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  Tutor Time Ronkonkoma – Closed
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  Twin Oaks Country Day School of Freeport – Closed
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  UCP Suffolk – Closed
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  UCP Suffolk The Children’s Center – Closed
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  Uniondale Public Library – Closed
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  Uniondale School District – Closed
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  United Methodist Nursery School of Babylon – Closed
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  United Methodist Nursery School of Huntington – Closed
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  United Methodist Nursery School of Lake Grove – Closed
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  Upper Room Christian School of Dix Hills – Closed
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  Valley Stream Christian Academy – Closed
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  Valley Stream School District – Closed
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  Variety Child Learning Center -Closed
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  Variety Child Learning Center Levittown – Closed
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  Victory Christian Academy – Closed
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  Wainscott Common School District – Closed
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  Wantagh School District – Closed
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  Way to Grow Childcare Center – Closed
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  Wesleyan School of Smithtown – Closed
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  West Babylon School District – Closed
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  West Hempstead School District – Closed
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  West Hills Montessori – Closed
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  West Islip Public Library – Closed
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  West Islip School District – Closed
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  West Sayville Christian School and Pre-School – Closed
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  Westbury Friends School – Closed
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  Westbury School District – Closed
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  Western Suffolk Center – Closed
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  Westhampton Beach School District – Closed
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  Westhampton Free Library – Closed
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  William Floyd School District – Closed
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  Winners’ Academy – Closed
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  Wisdom Tree Preschool – Closed
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  Wooden Shoe Nursery – Closed
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  Woodbury JC Nursery – Closed
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  Woodward Children’s Center – Closed
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  Work of Heart Preschool – Closed
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  YAI -NIPD – Commack/Brentwood Day Hab – Closed

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Where is Treasure Island? Four Stevenson Islands

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Treasure Island.

It all started with the map

Treasure Island. Original map created by Stevenson

A cross marks the spot! Stevenson drew his original map to entertain a child on one rainy Scottish summer, and his book Treasure Island was based on it. As he drew, the pirates seemed to be crawling out of the map, like Lanky John Silver with a cutlass in his mouth.

In the beginning there was a map. Robert Louis Stevenson painted her in the summer of 1881 to entertain his twelve-year-old stepson Lloyd Osborne during a rainy family holiday in Scotland. It depicts an island with a rough coast with forests, peaks, swamps and bays.

Several place names suggestive of adventure and disaster noted: Spyglass, Graves, Skeleton Island. The handwriting is deft, confident – on the southern tip of the island there is an intricate compass rose and a sketch of a galleon in full sail. The figures show the depth of the surrounding sea in fathoms, and there are warnings for sailors: “Here is a strong tide”, “Here is a swamp”. And in the very center of the island is a blood-red cross on which the legend is scrawled: “Most of the treasures are here.”

Stevenson’s map was drawn to make a child dream, but it had the most profound effect on its adult author, inspiring Stevenson to write his great pirate novel, Treasure Island. Studying the map with Lloyd, he began to fill his landscape with characters (Long John Silver, Captain Flint, Jim Hawkins) and complete it with a plot.

Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson, Cassel & Co. London, 1899

One of the most convincingly realized imaginary places appeared on this page. Countless children have come ashore on its luminous beaches, have carefully made their way through the gray forests and have seen the sunlight flash brightly on the wild stone spiers of its cliffs. After visiting the island, on the contrary, it populates you.

Maps start a journey for many authors and artists. This is a version of Stevenson’s classic illustrated by Monroe Orr in 1934. Treasure Island has been reworked and recreated many times.

We are now accustomed to viewing cartography as a science: the pursuit of high precision, the aim of which is to eliminate subjectivity in the depiction of a given place. It is difficult to refuse such an assumption, since we are used to trusting the cards, confidently investing in the data they provide us.

But before it became an applied field science, cartography was – as Stevenson knew and proved – an art. It was an art that mixed knowledge and speculation, told stories about places, and in which wonder, love, memory and fear were part of its projections. It is instructive to consider these earlier art forms of cartography, as they exemplify forgotten modes of movement in the landscape.

Broadly speaking, there are two types of maps: the grid map and the story map. A grid map places an abstract geometric grid into space, a grid where any element or person can be coordinated. The invention of the cartographic grid, which occurred more or less simultaneously with the advent of modern science in the sixteenth century, provided cartography with entirely new possibilities.

The power of such cards is that they allow any person or object to be in an abstract set of space. Their danger is that they reduce the world to data so much that they record space regardless of its existence. Everything can be found, recorded, mapped and tracked. Everything can be blocked with a grid.

Story cards, on the other hand, represent a place as it is perceived by the person or culture passing through it. They are records of specific journeys, rather than describing a space in which countless journeys can take place. They are organized around the traveler’s passage, and their perimeters are the perimeters of that traveler’s view or experience.

Event and place are not completely different because they often have the same essence. An example is the portolan charts of the Mediterranean cultures of the 14th century. “Portolan” means “pilot” and these charts were designed for use by navigators, usually Italian merchants, who rarely sailed on the high seas but kept coastlines in their travels between ports. Thus, early portolan charts tended to show only the edge of the land and the adjacent sea, rather than placing these routes in a larger context.

Portolan map by Bastian López, dated 1558, showing the Amazon River flowing into an unknown inner world. Invented by navigators, portolans were designed for direct observation and intended to go out to sea

Before sitting down to write Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson apparently sketched a map of his imaginary island:

When I studied the map of Treasure Island, the future characters of the book began to appear prominently among imaginary forests; and their brown faces and bright weapons looked out at me from unexpected directions as they moved back and forth, fighting and hunting for treasure, in those few square inches of flat projection. The next thing I remember is that there was paper in front of me and I was writing a list of chapters.

Even though Stevenson ended up touching pen to paper, he didn’t seem to want to take full responsibility for the book:

The map was a major part of my story.

We sometimes forget about card strength. We have “too much to cover” and “we don’t have time for geography”. But we lose a lot by ignoring the charm and appeal of the cards.

Miles Harvey, author of The Island of Lost Maps, understands what a good map can do:

Sometimes the card speaks of physical geography, but just as often it reflects on the uneven surface of the heart, the distant expanse of memory, or the fantastic landscape of dreams.

This is what history can be… An emotional connection to the past that stirs the soul and lays the foundation for who we are.

Stevenson believed that cards have the power of “an endless eloquent sentence.”

How often do you start a new unit with such a good card? None of those crappy and sad schematic maps that come with your textbook or travel guide. We are talking about a map with depth, richness and mystery, full of questions and possibilities.

Perhaps we should start the way Stevenson started Treasure Island – by letting the big map talk about “faces and flashy weapons” peeking out from unexpected directions.

But if we have both a grid map and a story map at the same time, can we expand the boundaries beyond the old shabby document known to us from the most popular childhood book and see the surroundings of Treasure Island, the seas surrounding it, the continents adjacent to it and countries, and finally find out where the Treasure Island is located, to which the schooner “Hispaniola” sailed from Bristol.

Part one. Caribbean

Treasure Island to be found in the Spanish Main

References to Rum and Mexican Indians would seem to point to its location somewhere on the Spanish Main. But what about the rattlesnake that Jim encounters on the island, or the virgin oaks, or the sea lions he sees—none of which are in the area. Stevenson’s Island seems to be a hodgepodge of geographical detail, a place that can only be found in the imagination.

1708 Spanish Main Map

The map is very informative about the geography of Treasure Island, but disappointingly uninformative about where the island itself is geographically. Jim, as he coquettishly says in the first paragraph, is expressly forbidden from divulging the exact location of the island. As you can see on the map, it was Jim who removed these landmarks.

Leaving aside the exact location, the reader will assume that Treasure Island is somewhere on the Spanish coast. After all, Silver and his crew are the Pirates of the Caribbean. And a whole array of passed references supports this. They can be listed:

1. Throughout the story, the emphasis is on “rum” – the main drink of the West Indies.

Rum is the staple drink of the West Indies

2. Similar emphasis on “buccaneers”. Buccaneers were a type of privateer, or free sailor, characteristic of the Caribbean in the 17th and 18th centuries. They first arose in the north of Hispaniola as early as 1625, their heyday came during the Restoration in 1660, until about 1688, at a time when governments were not strong enough to constantly try to suppress them.

Captain Kidd’s Letter of Marque

Although corsairs, also known as filibusters, were mostly lawless, privateers were nominally authorized by the authorities—first the French, later the English and Dutch—to hunt the Spanish until their plundering became so vicious that they were suppressed.

3. The name of the ship is Hispaniola. Hispaniola is the historical name of the island of Haiti.

4. Chain of references in Silver’s memories of his and his parrot’s terrible career in the Caribbean.

5. Similar references in the memoirs of Billy Bones.

6. The fact that the Walrus crew ends up on shore in Savannah (or Young Faulks, Key West) – both are close to the Gulf of Mexico.

Savannah, Georgia, 1700s

7. The fact that when the Hispaniola makes her return voyage, she first comes into port, where she is “immediately surrounded by shore boats full of Negroes, Mexican Indians, and half-breeds.” It can be assumed that this is Havana.

All this together makes a stunning impression. How then to explain the rattlesnake that greets Jim on the beach in chapter 14? Or lush plantations of virgin oaks? Or, most tellingly, what Jim sees in Chapter 24 (“In the Shuttle”):

On the table-flat rocks some huge, slippery monsters crawled, some slugs of incredible size. Occasionally they jumped into the water with noise and dived. There were several dozen. They barked, and the deafening echo of the cliffs echoed their wild barking.

These are the famous sea lions that Stevenson himself admired during his visit to the Monterey Peninsula, off the foggy coast of northern California. It would be just as incredible to see a polar bear as a sea lion on an island in Spanish Main. No one will see the rattlesnakes of the Pacific coast or the characteristic virgin oaks of the American West there.

Where are the sea lions on Treasure Island from?

Thus, the treasure island, it would seem, is located both off the east and west coasts of North America. Stevenson suggested – with some justification – that “young people didn’t much bother their young heads with such geographical niceties.” In a May 1884 letter, he acknowledged that the island was “part California and part Caribbean.” This mixture, though it may offend geographers, works well.

But since it was much more difficult for the Hispaniola to get to Northern California than to the Caribbean, we will look for our treasure island in the Caribbean. Treasure Island is believed to be inspired by Isla de Pinos near Cuba, which served as a supply base for pirates for about 300 years. Our first candidate is Isla de Pinos.

Isla de Pinos. Pinos Island

Pinos Island. Modern name (since 1978): Youthud – Island of Youth, Cuba

Who among you has not read “Treasure Island” – a fascinating novel by Robert Louis Stevenson? It turns out that the island referred to in the novel is not a figment of the imagination of a famous writer, but actually exists. This is the island of Pinos.

During its history, it has changed many names: Parrots Island, Treasure Island, Isle Island, Pine Island (Island of Pinos, Isla de Pinos), but now it is called Juventud Island, which in Spanish means youth island or island of youth .

In the Caribbean, off the southern coast of Cuba, there is a small group of Cuban islands. Juventud is the largest of them. Until August 1978, it was known as the island of Pinos.

Treasure Island of Youventud on the map of Cuba

If you compare the map of the island in Stevenson’s novel with the map drawn up in the 18th century, you will see a significant similarity in their outlines. It is believed that it was on the coast of the island of Pinos that the events that formed the basis of the adventure novel took place.

Pinos Island is Treasure Island?

Discovered in 1494 by Christopher Columbus, the Spaniards called this picturesque piece of land Isla de Pinos (“Pine Island”). It is worth noting that the population of the island at that time was not particularly dense, and the Spaniards who discovered the island considered it uninhabited for a long time. After destroying the locals and making sure that there was no gold on the island, the Spanish invaders lost interest in it.

Treasure Island. Pirates on the island of Pinos

From the second half of the 16th century, the once peaceful island of Pinos became a refuge for pirates who from here carried out countless attacks on Spanish caravans in the Caribbean.

Henry Morgan

Pinos Island has been a base for pirates of all nationalities for almost 300 years and has seen all the members of the fraternity of sea bandits sail under the Jolly Rogers – Drake, Morgan, Dampier, Olone, Hall and many others.

Francis Drake

On the island of Pinos they rested after their bloody deeds and kept their stolen treasures. Such caches were kept in deep secrecy and marked on special maps.

François Holone, a cruel pirate eaten by savages

Stevenson has never been to the island of Pinos. He may have used descriptions in travelogues published in England by F. Drake and J. Morgan.

Only in 1830, after a pirate domination, the island of Pinos again passed into the hands of Spain. The Spaniards turned it into a place of exile. So the island of Pinos became a prison island.

Pinos Island on antique postcard

When Spain lost its possessions and the island of Pinos became part of Cuba, little changed – it continued to be a place of exile. Unless there were a large number of adventurers who from time to time searched in vain through the old yellowed maps for treasures hidden by pirates. One of the expeditions found a lot of old gold and silver coins on the flooded galleon.

Presidio Modelo prison on the island of Pinos

The island has left its mark in modern history – the future Cuban leader Fidel Castro was serving his sentence in the local Presidio Modelo prison in the early fifties.

Everyone has their own treasure island. May 15, 1955. Fidel Castro on the day of his release from the Model Prison of the Island of Pinos, along with his fellow Moncadists, who received amnesty as a result of strong pressure and popular campaigns

In the second half of the 20th century. the terrible prisons of the island of Pinos were finally liquidated, and the fertile, once marshy lands turned into a flowering garden. Hundreds of hectares of citrus plantations have become the beauty of this piece of land.

Two dozen reservoirs built on numerous rivers irrigate them during the dry season. In addition, pineapples and bananas are grown on the island, they are engaged in animal husbandry and fishing.

Treasure Island of Youventud. Photo from space

The island of Pinos has hundreds of kilometers of beautiful highways, deposits of marble and tungsten ore.

Tourists from different countries come to rest on the only beaches in the world with red and black sand, and only museum exhibits remind of pirates.

Norman Island. Norman Island

Norman Island Treasure Island?

Norman Island is an island at the southern tip of the British Virgin Islands archipelago.

The uninhabited and private Norman Island, only 2.5 miles long, is one of the “sister islands” of the British Virgin Islands.

Believed to be the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson’s famous novel Treasure Island. An abandoned key in Sir Francis Drake Sound, Norman Island holds hundreds of untold secrets accumulated over years of piracy.

Norman Island: Treasure Island

The island is said to have been named after a pirate who bought or leased it at some point in the early 18th century, although supporting evidence for this claim is hard to find.

Norman Island

However, Channel Island also has a documented history of pirate booty stored on the island. In August 1750, the Spanish treasure galleon Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe took shelter from a storm on the coast of North Carolina.

Treasure Island. Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Galleon

The crew mutinied and the treasure, said to have consisted of (among other things) 55 chests of silver coins, was loaded into two bilanders, one of which contained Owen Lloyd.

The first ship was lost, but Lloyd escaped to St. Croix. After getting rid of some of the money, he went to Norman Island, where he buried the treasure. Lloyd and his crew were later arrested on St. Eustatius, but word of the treasure spread and the people of Tortola went to Norman Island and dug it up for themselves.

Some of the booty was later returned by Gilbert Fleming, Lieutenant General of the Leeward Islands, who went to Tortola with two companies of soldiers.

Fleming persuaded Abraham Chalville, the acting Lieutenant Governor of the British Virgin Islands (who coincidentally led the Norman Island treasure hunt), to issue a proclamation that the treasure would be returned and the people who dug it up would receive a third share as a reward.

The historical record ends here, but rumor has it that a member of a prominent local family was fishing near Norman Island and took refuge in one of the caves on the west coast of Norman Island during a storm. A wave repeatedly hit his small boat against the walls of the cave, while a storm surge caused the water level to rise several feet.

When the lucky fisherman awoke the next morning, a large amount of stones were showered into his small vessel, as well as a small chest, presumably filled with golden doubloons. This story is impossible to verify as no legal claims were ever made for the treasure, but it is known that family members ceased being fishermen and left Tortola around the same time to open several shops in Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas.

Treasure Island in the British Virgin Islands

Among the playful rumors of the locals of the British Virgin Islands, stories still circulate about treasures discovered on the Channel Island from the 18th century, and they say that there is still riches to be discovered. Many even credit the Channel Islands and the tales of its treasures as the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous novel Treasure Island.

Some of the loot is believed to still exist for persistent and hopeful treasure hunters. The amount of production is estimated in the range of twenty-five to thirty million dollars.

Part two. Shetland Islands

Looking for Treasure Island in the Shetland Islands

Unst: The Real Treasure Island

Unst: The Real Treasure Island

Legend has it that Robert Lewis Stevenson’s visit to the Scottish island in 1869 inspired his classic adventure novel, Treasure Island.

At the northern tip of Anst, the Shetland Islands, the northernmost inhabited island in the UK, offer stunning views. The tiny island of Muckle Flagg, surrounded by gannets, rises dramatically above the North Sea.

At the top of jagged rocks pointing upwards like a single candle in a birthday cake and an exclamation point signifying the end of Great Britain, stands Scotland’s northernmost lighthouse. It is painted in colors – creamy white with a pale yellow ring – that identifies it as a Stevenson lighthouse.

Treasure Island. Muckle Flugga, off the northern tip of Anst in Shetland, is the northernmost lighthouse in the UK

Scottish writer Robert Lewis Stevenson was familiar with this view. As a young man in 1869He accompanied his father, the pioneering lighthouse engineer Thomas Stevenson, on a trip to Unst and Muckle Flagg to inspect the lighthouse that Thomas and his brother David had begun building in 1854.

Each of the brothers designed over 30 lighthouses on the coast of Scotland. Robert Lewis was expected to work on lighthouse design with his family, and this trip was part of his early education.

Unst Treasure Island is located at the far end of the UK, closer to the Arctic Circle than London

“They sailed around the lights of the east coast,” writes Bella Bathurst in The Stevenson Lighthouse, her biography of the three generations of the Stevenson family who all built lighthouses, “to Scapa Flow and then to Muckle Flagg.” She continued, “But [Robert] Lewis seemed to be much more interested in the landscape than their light.”

Robert Lewis never became a lighthouse engineer, but legend has it that his visit to the area inspired the classic adventure novel Treasure Island, published in 1883.

Little evidence survives of Stevenson’s visit other than his brief entry in the visitor’s book for the North Unst Lighthouse (as it was then known), which simply states: “R.L. Stevenson, Edinburgh, 19 June 1869.”

But the association is plausible: Look at the fictitious map of Treasure Island, described in the book as a “standing fat dragon,” and you can’t help but notice its resemblance to the Anst map, an outline Stevenson would have seen on maps used by lighthouse engineers during sailing around the coast of Anst to the rocks of Mackle Flagg.

It’s easy to see how Unst can be so inspiring to the imagination. This is a place that is on the farthest edge of the UK, closer to Tórshavn, Oslo and the Arctic Circle than to London.

Initially, while awaiting his journey to Treasure Island, Stevenson’s protagonist talks about “thinking” over a map he found in an old sea captain’s chest, “full of nautical dreams and most charming expectations of strange islands and adventures. ” These words, no doubt, can inspire even a devoted land person to set sail for distant shores.

At the northernmost point of the island is the Hermaness National Reserve. The state organization Scottish Natural Heritage, which manages the reserve, describes Hermaness in the summer as “the New York of the seabird world: a bustling and often smelly metropolis that is home to over 100,000 nesting seabirds.”

Treasure Island. More than 100,000 breeding seabirds flock to Unst every summer

Thousands of gannets, known as “solans” in Shetland, occupy every face of the rocks, while others, coming out on land after a day of fishing, glide over them in search of free rock area. At the top of the cliffs, puffins (or “tammy norries”) hobble in or out of their burrows. It’s a place that’s full of life0003

Around the corner is a small chain of skerries that look like stones sliding on the water: Vesta Skerry, Rumblings, Tipta Skerry, Muckle Flugga and, finally, Out Stack, which officially marks the very end of the UK.

The visitor center is inside the old Muckle Flugga Lighthouse shore station where the lighthouse keepers slept when they were off duty. the largest settlement on the island. A rocky, almost lunar landscape, Kin Hamara may seem barren, but it is home to an extraordinary array of plants.

Unst Treasure Island is only 12 miles long and 5 miles wide, but feels like a world of its own

Here you have to lean forward against the rocks to make out the often tiny plants in the area: bubblegum pinks, tar flowers, delicate Norwegian gerbil and Edmondston starwort, Britain’s rarest plant, blooming here (and nowhere else) in June and July.

Unst Boat Haven is a small museum with an extensive collection of carefully maintained small wooden fishing boats and the stories of the diehard fishermen who sailed in them, sometimes up to 30 miles from shore.

Treasure Island. Bobby’s Bus Shelter takes on a new theme every year and becomes an unlikely tourist attraction

Nearby is the carefully appointed Bobby’s Bus Shelter, a bus stop that has become a tourist attraction that locals decorate every year, in real life it was even more cozy and charming than in the pictures , and Shetland ponies graze in the gardens nearby.

Bobby’s Bus Shelter is named after Bobby Macaulay, a child who used to ride his bike to the bus stop in the morning to catch the bus to school. The local council had plans to demolish the bus stop at 7 p.m.’96, but after a seven-year-old boy sent them a letter telling them not to, and explaining that it was a hideout where he kept his bike while at school, the council furnished it. The shelter is equipped with a sofa and TV. It is furnished and periodically renovated.

Little Shetland ponies graze in the meadows and gardens all over Unst

Wherever you go on Unst Island, various businesses proclaim themselves to be “the northernmost in Britain”: tea rooms, post office, distillery. But then you begin to feel that this qualification is nowhere needed, that the island itself is full of treasures, and all of them are located in an area of ​​​​only 12 miles long and 5 miles wide – not far from Treasure Island “nine miles long and five miles width”.

So this is the island’s treasure, but is Unst really Treasure Island?

Legend has it that Unst inspired Stevenson’s famous book Treasure Island, but the author was shy about the true setting of the fairyland

Although Robert Lewis never followed his family in designing lighthouses, it is likely that their work lighting the Scottish coast, surrounded by maps, instilled in him a love for cartography. “I was told that there are people who do not care about cards,” he wrote in his essay 1893 years “My first book” – and I find it hard to believe.

When asked to compare the two maps, Paula Williams, curator of the National Library of Scotland’s Maps, Mountaineering and Polar Research Collection, agreed that the outline of Stevenson’s Treasure Island from the novel does indeed resemble that of Anst, “as if it were from the south, complete with a small island called Skeleton Island [as it is called in the novel], or Ouya [real name].”

Treasure Island from Stevenson’s drawing and Unst Island. The coincidence of the contours is obvious

The sketches, Williams said, are “as accurate as some of the early nautical charts,” such as the one from 1787. She added that there are also small hills at Cape Ansta that could easily be turned into a mizzen mast and fore mast hills, notable features of Treasure Island that Captain Smollett points out when the expedition schooner, Ispianola, approaches the island in search of treasure.

However, later maps, such as the 1833 Shetland map, tell a different story, showing that the sea around Anst is much deeper than Treasure Island.

Stevenson took care to detail the depth of the water around Treasure Island, Williams said, describing it as “less than five fathoms until it deepens to 12 or so farther from the island.”

But on the Anst charts “it can reach 26 in the bay and more than 40 fathoms further from the coast”. Finally, Williams added that “Unst is also narrower on an east-west axis than Treasure Island, and longer from north to south.”

The legend is still saved. Like local businesses making the most of their northern outlets, the island seems to be keen to highlight Unst’s Treasure Island affinities and Stevenson ties, which are cited everywhere from Unst’s official website to the National Trust for Scotland.

Regarding the position of the island in the book, the author told the Sydney Morning Herald in 1893, “I just wish I knew where it was. ” Possibly anticipating the coming challenge of global “over-tourism,” he said he “took care not to indicate its location for fear that there might be an unjustified pilgrimage to it,” before adding that “it is generally assumed to be in the West Indies.” .

Inquisitive Web visitors have not neglected even Stevenson’s most important connection to the island: finding the equivalent location of Unst Island marked with an “X” on the Treasure Island map to point to the treasured location hidden by the infamous pirate captain Flint.

In the computer overlay of Treasure Island and Unst Island, the cherished cross is superimposed on Clay Burn Creek

They made a rough overlay on Google Maps – it was projected onto Clay Burn, the stream marked running inland from the bay containing Skeleton Island on Stevenson’s map – but we didn’t We know if this will prove to be a suitable place to store treasures.

Part three. Oceania

Upolu – Stevenson Treasure Island

Upolu, Samoa.

Stevenson Treasure Island

Sterling Hundley’s illustration from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island published by the Folio Society

His own life was full of contradictions, and he revealed good and evil in all his characters.

Danny Heitman

At the age of 30, the Scottish writer began looking for a place to save himself from his cursed body. In Upolu and the Samoans he found a hospitable refuge to which he gave his whole heart and soul.

The author of Treasure Island, Robert Lewis Stevenson, was a sick man with a strong imagination. His own life was full of contradictions and he brought out good and evil in all of his characters.

The late William Zinsser called it “perhaps the most inaccessible grave with English letters.” He was talking about the top of a small mountain in Upolu, Samoa, where the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson was buried in 1894.

View of Upolu’s tree-lined coastline from the top of Mount Vaeya

Stevenson was only forty-four when the mourners climbed the mountain to lay him to rest, but he accomplished a lot, writing many poems and essays, vividly concocted adventure novels such as Kidnapped ” and “Treasure Island”, as well as the groundbreaking work of science fiction “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”.

He even managed to write his own epitaph, a small poem inscribed on his headstone.

Stevenson had many reasons to think about his own mortality. Frequently ill since childhood, he suffered from a chronic lung disease with symptoms typical of tuberculosis, including breathing problems and hemoptysis. Some commentators have suggested that Stevenson did not have tuberculosis, but rather a rarer lung disease such as bronchiectasis or Osler-Weber-Randu syndrome.

Stevenson in his youth

Whatever the root of Stevenson’s health problems, the result was essentially the same. He was on the verge of death several times and traveled most of the world on an odyssey to find a climate ideal for his health. In Samoa, he made his last great attempt to restore his health, although a glance at any of Stevenson’s portraits underscores how relentless the disease pursued him.

In the portrait of John Singer Sargent, he looks stretched to distortion, like a reflection in a distorted mirror. People were often shocked by his thinness.

Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson by John Singer Sargent, 1887

“Imagine a man so thin and emaciated he looked like a bundle of twigs in a bag, with a painfully intelligent and restless look and a painfully intelligent and restless person,” remarked historian Henry Adams after visiting Stevenson in Samoa.

The physician called to see Stevenson in the last hours of his life could not believe that such a frail man had done so much. “How can you write books with such thin hands?” – he asked.

But those who knew Stevenson often thought not of his physical weakness but of his emotional vitality. Despite his infirmity, he looked aggressively alive. He was five foot ten and was prone to eccentric fashion. “The whole world knows what Stevenson looked like,” noted writer William Maxwell.

“Velvet coat, long straight hair, thin mustache, charming brown eyes that seem to be capable of great changes in expression and color. ” Writer Edmund Goss recalled how exciting Stevenson was when he first met him in London.

They agreed to have lunch, but a few hours later, as sunset approached, Stevenson was still talking. “When dusk fell,” Goss recalled, “I broke out, but Stevenson walked with me through Hyde Park and almost to my house. […] I walked with him a mile or two ago. The fountains of conversation opened up and drowned out the conventions. I came home dazzled by my new friend.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

As a university student, before becoming famous as the author of Peter Pan, J. M. Barry bumped into Stevenson in the middle of an Edinburgh street and then skipped class to spend a few hours in a tavern with Stevenson. “Some writers, not necessarily the most outstanding, have an indescribable charm to which we give our hearts,” Barry wrote.

“Part of the blindness,” writes scholar Jenny Calder of Stevenson, “came from his brilliant conversation. He liked to talk, and during the conversation he walked around the room, gesticulating expressively, smoking almost continuously, smoothly and restlessly . .. He was spontaneous and completely unconventional.

His strangeness sometimes bordered on affectation; in some photographs, he wears a sash that appears to have been taken from a Treasure Island pirate… “Depending on one’s point of view, Stevenson was either extremely charismatic, madly narcissistic, or both,” explains scholar Jenny Davidson.

“It’s clear that he liked to always be in the spotlight, and if he wasn’t, he would have done outrageous things to put himself back in his rightful place,” biographer Frank McLynn noted. Stevenson once took off his coat in the living room—a clear breach of etiquette—because he felt the conversation was drifting away from him. “You could put on your coat again, no one pays attention to you,” the hostess told him.

“I would like life to be an opera,” Stevenson wrote to his mother when he was a young man. “I would like to live in one place, but I don’t know in what part of the world I will find a society organized in this way. ”

From an early age, Stevenson indulged in a rich fantasy. “When he was a child and could not sleep because of night terrors and fever,” wrote Maxwell, “his father sat by his bed and spent hours in amusing conversation with imaginary coachmen, innkeepers, etc. His voice and the strangeness of what he said they were putting a little boy to sleep.”

Thus, quite possibly, Stevenson came to understand the imagination as a way to survive, like the mythical heroine of the Arabian Nights. Stevenson learned again and again to use stories to get himself out of bed.

Illustration for Stevenson’s poem “The Patchwork Valley”

This theme underlies Stevenson’s deeply autobiographical “The Land of Counterpane” from his famous collection of poems for young people, Kindergarten of Poems. In The Valley, which takes its name from an old-fashioned term for a bedspread, a recovering child, cut off from the world, creates a new one:

When I was sick and lay in bed,
I had two pillows at the head of the head,
And all my toys lay next to me,
To make me happy all day.

And sometimes for an hour or so
I watched my lead soldiers go,
In various forms and with exercises,
Among the bedclothes, over the hills;

And sometimes sent my ships in fleets
All up and down the sheets;
Or pulled out my trees and houses,
And planted cities everywhere.

I was a giant, great and motionless,
Who sits on a hill of pillows,
And he sees before him a valley and a plain,
A pleasant earth covered.

Stevenson was born in 1850 as an only child in a fashionable area of ​​Edinburgh. His father, Thomas Stevenson, belonged to a distinguished group of engineers, and the young Lewis, as friends and family knew him, was to follow suit. After Lewis admitted that he was not interested in continuing the family tradition, he became a law student, but this direction turned out to be fruitless. More than anything, Lewis wanted to write.

Stevenson’s questionable career choice, along with his doubts about his father’s orthodox religious views, caused serious tension in their relationship, although the elder Stevenson continued to financially support Lewis during his literary struggles. After these family conflicts, Stevenson left for France, ostensibly in search of a better climate for his lungs. He found the change of culture even more invigorating than the change of air.

As the prototype of the hippie, Stevenson loved the laid-back sensibility of the French. Hear how Stevenson, dependent on his father’s support and still dissatisfied with his family’s Presbyterian propriety, romanticizes his lack of money:

What I love about France so much is that everyone acknowledges their luck without reservation. They all know which side their bread is spread on and are happy to show it to others, which is undoubtedly the best part of religion. And they despise their poverty, which I consider the best part of manhood.

However, in France Stevenson also saw an opportunity to earn some money for himself. He recorded a long canoe trip that ended in Pontoise, a community northwest of Paris, and translated his impressions into his first book, Travel Overland. The book was well received, and literary critic Sidney Colvin, a close friend, praised Stevenson’s “landscape painting” as “like the landscape painting of the Japanese.”

Using the technique that would become his trademark, Stevenson doesn’t just write down geography; he’s faking it. Here, as he approaches Pontoise perilously, Stevenson takes the reader by the scruff of the neck and takes him on board:

The canoe was like a leaf in a stream. He picked it up, shook it, and expertly carried it away, like a centaur carrying off a nymph. To keep some semblance of a course in our direction, stubborn and persistent use of the oar was required. The river was in such a hurry to the sea! Every drop of water ran in panic, like many people in a frightened crowd. But what kind of crowd was so large or so purposeful?

Stevenson quickly capitalized on the success of An Inland Voyage with his book Traveling with a Donkey in the Cevennes. This is a sometimes comical account of his journey into the mountains of south-central France with a recalcitrant brute called Modestine. He somewhat softened his attitude towards Modestina, which included frequent blows to push her. However, not all criticisms were toned down. “Damp legs and bleeding skin do not touch him at all,” one observer lamented Stevenson.

Traveling with a donkey, Robert Louis Stevenson, 1948 British edition Falcon Press Ltd

But the book attracted more fans than detractors, and Stevenson needed professional success more than ever. In France, he began an affair with Fanny Osborne, a married American woman with two children who was separated from her husband.

Eventually Stevenson followed Fanny to America, the trip almost killed him. They married in San Francisco in 1880, shortly after Fanny’s divorce, leaving Stevenson in charge of a rapidly expanding household.

Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife Fanny

Biographers are generally vague about Fanny’s role in Stevenson’s life, blaming her and her son, Lloyd Osborne, especially for draining him physically, financially and emotionally. McLynn, lead prosecutor for the anti-Osborne school of Stevenson biography, expresses this explicitly in his account of Stevenson’s life in 1993, concluding that “it is impossible to argue with the thesis that Robert Louis Stevenson was a martyr to the greedy, clinging Osborne family.”

Stevenson (right) with stepson Lloyd Osborne

Stevenson really worked hard to keep his family solvent, even when it included stamping manuscripts on his hospital bed. Doomed to cash after getting married in California, the Stevensons improvised a bizarre bargain-priced honeymoon, staying in an abandoned mining shack in the hills above Napa Valley.

Still weak and unable to endure the transatlantic voyage, Stevenson nevertheless found himself on another voyage of his western sojourn, The Silverado Squatters. Travel writing continued to be an important part of Stevenson’s career as he and his family visited country after country, usually in search of the best climate for his lungs.

His biography is like a large suitcase with stickers labeling points of interest: France, Switzerland, New York, England, the Marquesas, Paumotu, Tahiti, Hawaii and finally Samoa.

Stevenson with family at home in Hawaii

Along with his travel journalism, Stevenson proved himself to be a prolific essayist, publishing so many articles in editor Leslie Stephen’s journal The Cornhill that the initials “RLS” in Stevenson’s byline were jokingly assumed to mean “The Real Leslie Stephen” . His essays have a touch of charm, offering Charles Lamb or even Montaigne-style explorations on eclectic topics like dogs, umbrellas, and the pleasures of lounging.

But in the gaily chatty passages, Stevenson favors darker themes, a literary gesture all the more shocking because it seems so random. In one of his signature compositions, “Lanterns,” he fondly recalls childhood excursions in which he and fellow adventurers would hang tin lanterns from their belts to brighten up evening strolls through a small fishing village.

It’s a classic summer memory mixed with dark memories of a local fisherman’s wife cutting her own throat. “She was put up in a little old jail on the main street,” Stevenson mentions in passing, “but whether or not she died there, with wise fear of the worst, I never asked. ”

This vintage Stevenson—personal fears winking at us from the otherwise pleasant hearth of everyday life—and a not-quite-surprising sensibility for a writer whose prosperous childhood was marred by a dangerous illness.

In his writings, Stevenson also continuously explored the curious duality of existence, how darkness and light can be in the same day, in the same life, even in the same person. That vision is also conveyed by Treasure Island, his wildly popular pirate tale in which we’re not entirely sure of the boundaries between heroes and villains.

At first glance, this prose seems like a simple adventure story about a boy named Jim who discovers a treasure map and, with the help of his friends Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney, equips a ship to search for booty.

Treasure Island, Folio Society Edition

Lanky John Silver is on board as a crew member plotting a mutiny and takes the treasure for himself. But as McLynn points out, all the characters, even the supposedly virtuous ones, have been corrupted by their pursuits, though Lanky John seems to be the only one who truly knows his own motives.

This moral ambiguity is just as evident in Kidnapped, another pirate tale that asks us to consider which character—the volatile rebel Alan Breck Stewart or the more coldly reasoned David Balfour—has a more truthful understanding of reality.

Stevenson’s major masterpiece of conflicting values ​​is, of course, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, in which the physician Jekyll develops a cure that splits him in two: the good-natured familiar character and the monstrous alter ego, Hyde. The tale has become such a cultural commonplace that today’s readers may have a hard time realizing how much it shocked Stevenson’s fans in the nineteenth century.

“Published in January 1886, Stevenson’s story quickly became a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic,” writes Davidson. Just a year later, American actor Richard Mansfield launched a sensational production of the novel in Boston. “Strong men flinched, and women fainted and were carried out of the theater,” said Mansfield biographer Paul Wilstach.

“People after Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were afraid to enter their houses alone. They were afraid to sleep in darkened rooms. They were awakened by nightmares. And yet it had a charm of crime and mystery, and they came again and again.”

As Davidson points out, Stevenson did not take full advantage of the fad he created because copyright laws failed to prevent unauthorized theatrical productions from being cashed out. He continued to work as hard as ever, even after settling in 1890 at Walima, his estate in Samoa, a tropical corner that promised rest and relaxation.

Treasure Island. Stevenson with the Samoan leader Tuimaleali’ifano Faaoloi Siuaana I

During his Samoan period, Stevenson led a life as colorful as any character in his novels. He became involved in local politics, campaigning for Samoan rights against the colonial powers. The British government even accused him of sedition when he supported the Samoan chief, but Stevenson was eventually hailed as a peacemaker.

Years have passed since the arrival of the first European explorers, Samoa became the first Pacific territory to gain its independence, and since 1962 it has been solving its own problems on its own.

But more than a century ago, around the 1890s, the natives received unexpected and enthusiastic support from Robert Louis Stevenson, a writer who had just made an exciting journey across the Pacific Ocean: Hawaii, Tahiti and the Society Archipelago, the Gilbert Islands, New Zealand and Samoa.

Admired by his generosity, but also by the charisma of a Scot, they named him Tusitala, or storyteller in the Polynesian Samoan dialect. “Treasure Island” and “The Doctor and the Beast” (“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”) were some of the things he created and told the world that made him world famous.

Treasure Island. Robert Lewis Stevenson’s family maintains contact with the Samoans, some of whom worked at Villa Vailima

The influence he had on island politics and fortunes quickly became provocative and caused successive waves of upheaval: during his stay in Samoa, Stevenson discovered that European officers, appointed to govern the Samoans were incompetent.

After several unsuccessful attempts to solve the problems, he published a “Footnote to History” – a manifesto that resulted in the demobilization of two officers of the colonial powers and which, the author feared, provoked their extradition.

Villa Wailima: Robert Louis Stevenson’s home in Samoa

The house that Robert Lewis Stevenson built in Wailima with the help of many Samoans

These fears were not confirmed. Stevenson even became friends with influential politicians and their families, in particular with US Commissioner Henry Clay Eid. At the same time, he deepened his roots on the island.

Treasure Island. Interior of Villa Vailima

Villa Vailima, a wooden mansion he built on the property he had acquired that housed most of his hideout, withstood the reaction of the then administration and was not damaged.

And, to the relief of the Samoans, also successfully survived a massive earthquake that rocked the archipelago in 2009, measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale.

Bus arrives at Vailima village

Today Villa Vailima is one of Upolu’s most respected and popular destinations, a symbol of its vibrant multiculturalism. The museum located in the villa describes the most important or simply curious aspects of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life on Upolu.

During his stay, Stevenson wrote extensively about life in Samoa and other Pacific islands.

In 1894 he went through a period of depression and inactivity, which he confronted with Weir Hermiston, enthusiastically convinced that it would be the best novel he had ever written.

On December 3, 1894, while he was standing with Fanny on the veranda preparing salad dressing for lunch, Stevenson collapsed and was pronounced dead a few hours later, presumably from a cerebral hemorrhage.

He was 44 years old. Stevenson wanted to be buried on the plateau of Mount Vaea next to the family home, but there was no way up the long steep slope and the tropical heat meant that his funeral could not be delayed.

Grave on Mount Vaeya

Grave of Stevenson on Mount Vaeya

The Samoans carried out the will of the venerable Tushitala. They carried him on their shoulders to the top of the nearby Mount Vaea, where they buried him in a place overlooking the sea.

Burial of Tusital (Robert Louis Stevenson) photographer Thomas Andrew, 1894

“More than forty Samoans, including several chiefs, arrived the next day and embarked on the seemingly impossible task of clearing virgin jungle on the mountainside,” writes biographer Claire Harman. The instant road, Harman adds, “was a feat of love and industry, the last and greatest sign of the respect and affection of the Samoans for their most sympathetic transient.”

His tomb is now the site of a sporting health pilgrimage that Stevenson never had.

Stevenson’s grave epitaph

Robert Louis Stevenson’s life was full of contradictions as strong as any encountered in his stories. He seemed quintessentially bohemian, but was utterly traditional in his devotion to family. He posed as a fun-loving slacker, but he displayed a work ethic that would put the most ardent puritan to shame.

Treasure Island. View of Upolu from Mount Vaeya

Illness prepared him for bed, but he traveled the world and continues to inspire new generations of dreamers. His books are either admired or dismissed as mere entertainment, but such literary sophisticates as Henry James and Jorge Luis Borges considered him a model.

He risked being forgotten in the raging currents and rugged mountains, but eventually died while helping his wife cook dinner. Apparently, Stevenson would not have been surprised by this last, crowning contradiction. “You can row all day,” he wrote, “but when you return after dark and look into a familiar room, you find Love or Death waiting for you at the stove; and the most beautiful adventures are not those we go after.”

14 interesting facts about Treasure Island

Treasure Island original 1883 edition

One of the most immortal adventure stories of all time, this is a coming-of-age story about pirates, sea battles and treasure hunts. Treasure Island, first published in a weekly literary magazine between 1881 and 1882, was not the first children’s fantasy novel about fighting bloodthirsty pirates.

But with its richly drawn characters, vivid prose and moral complexities, it has become a defining work of the genre and a classic to boot. He also introduced readers to one of the greatest villains in all of literature: the one-legged, lanky John Silver with a parrot on his shoulder.

1. The idea came from a map drawn by Stevenson

Treasure Island on the map. Contemporary illustration

Stuck one rainy summer day in the Scottish Highlands, Robert Louis Stevenson joined his stepson Lloyd at the easel and began to paint. Stevenson sketched out an island that resembled a “standing fat dragon,” as he would later call it in the novel, and began to populate it with harbors, hills, and bays.

History soon began to take shape, with names such as Jim Hawkins, Squire Trelawney, Billy Bones and Captain Smollett. “The next thing I realized,” Stevenson wrote, “I had some papers in front of me and I was writing a list of chapters.”

2. Stevenson was 31 years old, unemployed and financially dependent on his father

Treasure Island. 1889 edition

Stevenson was a sickly child who developed lung failure as an adult (most likely due to a congenital disease such as sarcoidosis). This meant he was constantly traveling in search of drier places outside of his smoky, rain-soaked Scottish hometown of Edinburgh.

He spent time in northern California, New York, the French Riviera and, towards the end of his life, Tahiti and Samoa. His father, a lighthouse engineer, was disappointed that his son did not follow in his footsteps, but he remained his patron and enthusiastically collaborated with his son on Treasure Island.

3. At first he wrote one chapter a day

Treasure Island. Blind Pugh

Captivated by his idea, Stevenson was able to write a chapter in the morning and then share what he had done with his wife Fanny and young Lloyd in the afternoon. Stevenson noted that Lloyd’s enthusiasm for the story fueled his work.

4. To complete the novel, it was necessary to leave Scotland

Treasure Island, illustration of 1889

Somewhere in the 15th chapter Stevenson froze. He couldn’t figure out how to resolve Jim’s story after he dropped him off on the island. After weeks of trying to find the thread again, Stevenson fled Scotland to a small chalet in the Swiss Alps. A change of scenery, which may have also improved his health, brought the muse back.

5. Originally the novel was called “The Sea Cook”

Treasure Island. Illustration by Mervyn Peake, 1949

This name is associated with Lanky John Silver, who serves as a cook aboard the Hispaniola. This no doubt indicated that Stevenson was infatuated with his charming pirate, and recognized the paradoxical nature of the character (the title of chef was oddly human for a villain). The publisher convinced Stevenson to change the title, and for the first time it appeared to readers as Treasure Island: or the Rebellion of Hispaniola.

6. The novel was first published under the pseudonym

Treasure Island. Young Folks Magazine

The publisher of the weekly boys’ literary magazine Young Folks has agreed to publish Treasure Island in 18 weekly issues. Stevenson was pleased with this opportunity, but published it under the pseudonym Captain George North.

He never explained why, although he was probably worried about tarnishing his family’s good name if the story was not well received. His wife Fanny also hated Treasure Island, considering the job beneath her brilliant husband.

Before it was published as a separate book, she wrote: “I am glad that [poet Edmund] W [illiam] Goss loves Treasure Island. I do not like him. I liked the beginning, but after that life seems to go out of it… and it got tiring.”

7. Readers did not like the magazine version of the publication

Treasure Island. Capt. Billy Bones

The story seems to have moved too slowly for the guys who subscribed to The Young Men. As one of the editors, Robert Layton, said, “Week after week they got stuck on the introductory chapters of the novel, which had to do with the inn. They wanted to get to the sea, they wanted treasure hunts.” It wasn’t until Treasure Island came out in book form that the story became popular, reaching a wider audience of more patient readers.

8. John Silver was inspired by Stevenson’s friend

Treasure Island, 1883

Like Silver, Stevenson’s friend William Henley was tall, energetic and very charming. He also had one leg, the result of childhood tuberculosis. After the publication of the book, Stevenson frankly told Henley, who was a renowned poet and editor in his own right, “The sight of your crippled strength and skill produced Lanky John Silver.”

9. The book has references to real pirates and sailors

Treasure Island. Thomas Phillips, Admiral John Benbow, and Admiral Ralph Delavale

Stevenson allude to several real-life pirates, including Blackbeard, William Kidd, and Bartholomew Roberts. Israel Hands, one of Silver’s men who died a bloody death at the hands of Jim Hawkins, was the real name of Blackbeard’s second-in-command.

Treasure Island also refers to British naval officers on the other side of the battle, such as Admiral John Benbow (Admiral Benbow Inn) and Admiral Edward Hawke.

10. The description of the violence was shocking for the time.

Treasure Island. Attack of the Pirates

Consider the scene where Jim watches Silver throw a crutch at the back of a disloyal crew member:

No one could tell how badly he was hurt. Seemingly enough, judging by the sound, his back was broken on the spot. But he did not have time to recover. Silver, agile as a monkey, even without a leg and a crutch, in the next moment was on top of him and plunged his knife twice into this defenseless body up to the hilt. From my ambush point, I could hear him panting loudly as he struck.

11. Stevenson’s father made numerous suggestions, which are reflected in the plot

Treasure Island. Captain Flint Signature

Thomas Stevenson loved pirate stories and gave his son some good advice. He suggested that Ben Gunn, the sailor who landed on Treasure Island, be a religious fanatic rather than a tortured soul, and that Captain Flint’s ship be named the Walrus.

He also came up with one of the book’s key scenes, in which Jim hides in a barrel of apples and overhears Silver’s plan to start a mutiny. When Treasure Island came out in book form, Stevenson’s original map was printed, along with Captain Flint’s “signature” by none other than Thomas Stevenson.

12. Lanky John is one of the true great characters in classic literature.

Treasure Island. John Silver. 1949 illustration by Mervyn Peake

Silver is a complex villain who captivates the reader as he captivates the young Jim. The one-legged captain is quick-witted and often funny, uttering phrases like “shiver my logs!” and carried a parrot on his shoulder, named after his old commander, Captain Flint.

He is a tormented man, a former Royal Navy sailor who lost his leg fighting for the Empire, and there are glimpses of his former integrity, such as when he stops his men from killing Jim after capturing him on the island. But he is ultimately a lost soul corrupted by greed.

Lanky John Silver is the quartermaster, which means he provides the crew with food and drink during the voyage. That’s why the pirates call it “Ham”. Apparently, he is the only person feared by the legendary pirate captain Flint (“Flint himself was afraid of me” (11:13)).

13. Flint died of alcohol intoxication

Treasure Island. Captain Flint

Captain J. Flint was in command of the Walrus. He died of alcohol poisoning in 1754 (he drank too much rum). He is the author of a map called “Flint’s Fist”, which shows the location of treasures on Treasure Island.

14. Dates of writing and action of the novel

Treasure Island. Ben Gunn

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island in 1881. The magazine version was published from 1881 to 1882. Published in book form in 1883. At what time do the events in Treasure Island take place? The date 1745 is recorded in Billy Bones’ ledger, and Stevenson gives the dates 1750 and 1754. According to one source, the novel probably took place between 1757 and 1762.

And one last thing… As you can see, none of the Stevenson Islands has real treasures (with the possible exception of Norton Island, but no one has found them yet.) Treasure Islands on the real silhouette of one of the Stevenson Islands to see where the cross is projected on the site of the treasure, and still try to find the treasure.

Is this possible, or is it better to let the treasures unfold on their own terms instead? How a mysterious map was revealed that accidentally fell out of the chest of an old sea captain, or the peculiar sights of Unst Island, the northernmost point of Great Britain.

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Near Cuba

For a long time it was believed that “Stephen Island” was a dream, from beginning to end, a treasure trove from beginning to end. This is not entirely true, since the fiction in his famous novel is based on real facts gleaned by the writer from the notes of Morgan, Drake and some other manuscripts at his disposal.

All this was remembered in the 40s of the last century, when an amazing similarity of the legendary island with the island of Pinos (since 1978 – Juventud, the island of Youth), located 70 km south of Cuba, was discovered. The nature of the Treasure Island, its bays and mountains seem to have been written off from the island of Pinos. Apparently, it was here, in the bay of Siguanea, that the Espanyola once anchored. There is also a small island that covers the entrance to the bay, Morrillos del Diabolo, in the novel – Skeleton Island. The name of one of the hills of Stevenson’s island is Spyglass – there is a hill with the same name on Pinos. And Pinos is the only island in the Caribbean where pine forests grow. Stevenson described them in his novel. It is interesting that when in the 40s an unofficial name was already established behind Pinos – Treasure Island and the first treasure hunters began to comb it in search of rich prey, the remains of a log fort were found on the south coast, very similar to the one in which Jim Hawkins and his friends fled from John Silver’s pirates.

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Apparently, Stevenson used the pirate legends of Pinos, who has seen many gentlemen of fortune in his history. For 300 years, Pinos has been a haven for pirates. In its convenient bays, the bottoms of ships were cleaned. On the shore, it was possible to replenish food supplies and drinking water – the island has thermal and mineral springs, so if you wish, you can even improve your health. And, finally, pine forests, so necessary for the repair of ships. The names of its capes and bays testify to the pirate period in the history of the island. Cape Frances owes its name to the French pirate François Leclerc, Cape Pepe to the Spaniard Pepe el Mallorquin, and Agustin Hole is named after the Dutch pirate Cornelis Hol. Even the first description of Pinos belongs to the famous pirate and scientist William Dampier. Perhaps all the most famous pirates visited Treasure Island – Henry Morgan, Francois Olone, Francis Drake, Peter Hein, Rock the Brazilian, John Hawkins, Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard. The latter became the prototype of Flint, whose ominous shadow constantly accompanies the heroes of the novel, instilling horror in them, sometimes transmitted to the reader.

Map from the first edition of Treasure Island

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And this horror is no exaggeration of Stevenson. This subject was so colorful that it is probably difficult to find another pirate about whom there are so many legends. He was under two meters tall, and weighed well over a centner. He excellently owned a boarding saber, and carried 7-8 loaded pistols in specially sewn pockets. Before the fight, Tich drank a kind of aperitif – a set fire to a mixture of rum and gunpowder. His famous beard covered his entire face and reached his waist. Before the boarding fight, he wove ignition wicks into it, which enveloped his entire figure in smoke. When Blackbeard, at the head of his team, jumped onto the deck of the attacked ship, there were few who wanted to resist. For the treasures of this particular pirate, Stevenson sent the Espanyola to the island of Pinos.

For many, Pinos is primarily an island of pirate treasures. Over the past 50 years, probably hundreds of treasure hunters have visited here, dug up the island in all possible directions. True, none of them ever got rich.

At the mouth of the Las Casas River, very similar to the place where Jim Hawkins drove the ship stolen from the pirates, is now the harbor of the island’s capital, Nueva Gerona. This city, founded in 1828, still retains the architectural style of the Spanish colonial era. And in the mountains of Las Casas and the Sierra de Caballos, where the pirates, led by Lanky John Silver, so ingloriously ended the search for the treasures of Flint, now there are marble quarries. The famous pine forests of the island now remain only in its very center. Pirates began to bring them together, and the modern inhabitants of the island, declared something like a Komsomol-youth construction site, were especially successful in this. As for the cave where Ben Gan lived and kept the treasure he found, it may be located on Punta del Este. In one of these caves – Isla – traces of sites were found, probably the most ancient inhabitants of Pinos – the Guanahatabey Indians. The rock paintings covering the walls and ceiling of Isla Cave indicate that it was the ritual center of the islanders.

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