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Column: Getting to know you (a little too closely)
There are birthday celebrations that are given to you, and then there are the ones you give yourself. Always happy to take the wheel, I prefer the latter. A week before my most recent birthday, I...
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Column: The voices on the other side of the dial
The first time I visited my husband’s parents, I noticed that his dad carried a small radio from room to room of their New Jersey garden apartment, tuned to a Yankees game, just the way I carried a...
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Marine biologists, baymen bringing back Peconic Bay scallops
Last week the veil was lifted on a question at the center of both the East End’s culture and its economy: How many Peconic Bay scallops made it through algae blooms, whelk attacks and underwater...
View ArticleColumn: When it’s simply too hot for you to potchke
When it gets very hot on Shelter Island, chickens lay fewer eggs, turkeys call a temporary truce in the battle for reproductive rights and the horses on Midway Road stand so still that if not for an...
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Life lived and lost in the waves of opioid use, remembering Kirstin Zabel
When Kirstin Elizabeth Zabel was born in December 1986, her parents, Donald and Claudia, brought her home to Cartwright Road on Shelter Island. Thirty-one years later she was buried in the cemetery at...
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North Fork History Project: Shelter Island’s place in Quaker history
It was 38 minutes into the one-hour Quaker meeting before anyone said a word. Gathered on the grounds of Sylvester Manor, seated in a wooded glade on a jumble of rough-hewn logs fashioned into long...
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Column: Getting to know you (a little too closely)
There are birthday celebrations that are given to you, and then there are the ones you give yourself. Always happy to take the wheel, I prefer the latter. A week before my most recent birthday, I...
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Column: The voices on the other side of the dial
The first time I visited my husband’s parents, I noticed that his dad carried a small radio from room to room of their New Jersey garden apartment, tuned to a Yankees game, just the way I carried a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Marine biologists, baymen bringing back Peconic Bay scallops
Last week the veil was lifted on a question at the center of both the East End’s culture and its economy: How many Peconic Bay scallops made it through algae blooms, whelk attacks and underwater...
View ArticleColumn: When it’s simply too hot for you to potchke
When it gets very hot on Shelter Island, chickens lay fewer eggs, turkeys call a temporary truce in the battle for reproductive rights and the horses on Midway Road stand so still that if not for an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Life lived and lost in the waves of opioid use, remembering Kirstin Zabel
When Kirstin Elizabeth Zabel was born in December 1986, her parents, Donald and Claudia, brought her home to Cartwright Road on Shelter Island. Thirty-one years later she was buried in the cemetery at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
North Fork History Project: Shelter Island’s place in Quaker history
It was 38 minutes into the one-hour Quaker meeting before anyone said a word. Gathered on the grounds of Sylvester Manor, seated in a wooded glade on a jumble of rough-hewn logs fashioned into long...
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North Fork History Project: The scallop industry has a rich past on eastern...
One offshoot of running a company that’s been in the shellfish business for 90 years is aquatic and historical clutter. Ken Homan’s office at Braun Seafood in Cutchogue is an archive of shellfishing...
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North Fork History Project: Raised in a small town, Joe Theinert died for his...
Five boulders stand outside the American Legion Hall on Shelter Island with plaques bearing the names of hometown soldiers, including 11 who died during conflicts in the 20th century. When 24-year-old...
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