08.25.2025 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Playtime, Part II B I was just about to start wrestling this column onto the page, when I heard about our administration’s decision to review several of the museums at the Smithsonian. According...
08.07.2025 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Playtime, Part I One of the very first people I met when I moved here full-time some 43 years ago was Jeannie Lawless. The first thing she asked me, after we’d exchanged...
07.14.2025 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Of lions and lambs In this age of human isolation, it’s no surprise that humans seem to be having the most trouble with intra-specific relationships. We’re much better at forming inter-specific ones. Animal...
07.01.2025 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Prodigal nation I’m starting this on Juneteenth — it has taken too long to include this date in the roster of our national holidays, but it’s there now and has been...
06.17.2025 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Bravehearts I met Karen Haag, founder and director of Bravehearts Camps, at Camp Quinipet, in the drizzle of last Saturday afternoon. Below, I bring you a little of our interview...