09.13.2021 Around the Island Goat Hill — A legend unlike any other 1901: The year Queen Victoria’s long rule ended and Prince Albert — “Bertie” — became England’s King Edward VII; and on these shores, Teddy Roosevelt became America’s 26th President....
08.15.2021 Around the Island Long Island Sounds Friday at the Library: Pop, Rock, Rap From Vanilla Fudge to Billy Joel to Twisted Sister to Public Enemy, Long Island has been the birthplace of many and varied rock, pop and rap acts. The quintessentially...
07.23.2021 Around the Island Shelter Island Library Tent Week returns: Popular events for all ages Grab the guests and bring the kids to the big tent on the Shelter Island Library’s Bateman Road back lawn for a special, post-Pandemic Tent Week — Sunday, July...
04.11.2021 Around the Island An evening of Bliss “It’s time to stow the snow boots and give spring a great big hug,” said the late Bliss Morehead, in anticipation of a previous April poetry reading at the...
01.16.2021 Around the Island Gatsby revisited … again, at the Shelter Island Public Library Bored? Let’s take a trip back to the Roaring Twenties, that era of Prohibition when, ironically, the booze flowed more freely than ever. Fashionable young women — flappers —...