I graduated from Lehigh University with an engineering degree and spent time in engineering sales until my dad recruited me to manage our family heavy-duty truck dealership.   After we wound up that business, while on vacation in another state, I happened to see a Pennysaver type publication and thought, “I could do that”.

The idea of publishing intrigued me, so I bought some Letraset dry-transfer type (long before the computer relegated typesetting and page pasteup to history), designed a cover, printed up some flyers and went around selling ads.   It wasn’t work, it was fun!   I got a great reception from many Huntington businesses and the ‘Huntington Town Neighbor’ was born.  At first the ‘Neighbor’ was monthly, but to please many of our advertisers, after three issues we took the unorthodox step of publishing every three weeks.
Early in the second year of publication, we started mail distribution of the ‘Neighbor’ in addition to placing it at various township businesses. 

In the Spring of 1981, faced with a huge increase in postage, we were forced to redesign the publication to reduce the number of pages.   Happily, the redesign sparked our first full-cover photographs. 

1982 was the last year of publication.  After that I went on to publish a Long Island business magazine, ‘Connections’ and then the ‘Real Estate Review’, a classified residential real estate newspaper.

You can experience the Huntington community of the late nineteen-seventies and early eighties by reading some of the stories and perusing the ads that marked those years.  Sharing the history of the ‘Huntington Town Neighbor’ with friends of the Huntington Historical Society has proved a very satisfying trip down memory lane for me.  I hope you gain some enjoyment by taking this trip too.

Watch for scans of additional issues that will appear here in the coming months.