02.21.2022 Around the Island Gimme Shelter: The American test With Presidents Day here, we at Gimme Shelter are back in the business of bemoaning that Americans are woefully weak when it comes to having any real knowledge of...
10.06.2020 Editorial Gimme Shelter: The virtues of justice on display in local election There’s some old political wisdom that no one really pays attention to elections until after Labor Day. This year, at least for local elections on Shelter Island, people might...
06.13.2020 Around the Island White oak, white gold: A history of Sylvester Manor Sylvester Manor has released a statement that in part states: “Two weeks after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the protests and demonstrations against police brutality, racial injustice...
10.02.2019 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Light in October This editorial was originally published on Oct. 6, 2017. We live in a cynical age, one flooded with distractions of our own making and by blowhards in Washington manipulating,...
09.08.2019 Columns Gimme Shelter: Rewards The weather was perfect, in the mid-70s, no humidity, light breezes and blue-black skies above the lights of Citi Field. I was where friends tell friends, “I’ll meet you...