04.02.2018 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY Civil rights leader and Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota won the...
01.20.2018 Columns Column: Codger is older This is a big week for birthdays, including Martin Luther King Jr., Benjamin Franklin, Al Capone, Muhammad Ali, Edgar Allan Poe, Janis Joplin and last and certainly least, Codger,...
09.18.2017 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY The RMS Queen Mary arrived in Southampton, England on its last transatlantic crossing. The Soviet Union, under pressure from North Vietnam to help with...
08.09.2017 Columns Column: Shelter Island souvenirs Memory is a tricky thing. I’ll never forget that afternoon on the beach, the setting sun, the waves breaking. Wait. Waves breaking? That must have been Montauk.
05.22.2017 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY Dr. Martin Luther King spoke to a crowd estimated at 5,000 at the University of California at Berkeley urging support of a non-violent peace...