09.16.2019 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY Willie Mays became the second player to hit 600 home runs. Singer Tiny Tim got engaged to Miss Vicky. “Marcus Welby MD” premiered on...
08.14.2017 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY China downed two U.S. Navy bombers that had strayed into its airspace following a raid on North Vietnam and the only survivor was held...
05.15.2017 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY The wheels of justice turn slowly but in May 1967 the Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee and was the...
09.17.2015 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY President Lyndon Baines Johnson visited New Orleans residents who had taken refuge at George Washington School in the wake of Hurricane Betsy.