09.09.2024 Around the Island Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Grace Noun: unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration … I first met Grace in the early 90’s — beautifully dressed, expertly coiffed, she and her slim, dark-haired...
08.07.2024 Around the Island Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: There’s no place like homes Forty-two years ago, when I found myself unaccountably wanting to move out to my childhood summers’ island, my mother was unaccountably willing to stake me to a down payment...
07.28.2024 Main Story Roll the credits Mermaids, madness and, pardon me, historically correct merde, were all part of “A Deck of Ferry Tales,” presented this past weekend by The Shelter Island Historical Society and written...
07.10.2024 Around the Island Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Do you believe in ferry tales? Capistrano has its swallows; La Jolla, Calif. has its Soupfin sharks; and Shelter Island its ospreys, but in the “iconic returns” department, there appears to be a new, on-Island...
06.23.2024 Around the Island Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Crucible for creativity I remember the first fall I spent on this island as a full-time resident. As I’ve often mentioned in this column, I’d been a summer kid who, as many...
