11.03.2022 Columns Charity’s Column: Once upon a time on Shelter Island, we built affordable housing. It worked. This is a story about what happened the last time the Town of Shelter Island found the money and the political will to help regular people live here. I’ve...
09.09.2022 Columns Charity’s Column: Deer hunting season with a bow starting up White-tailed deer are beautiful animals, tan in the summer with white on their throat, belly and tail, and gray-brown in the winter. They breed in the fall, bear young...
07.03.2022 Around the Island A Fourth of July strawberry shortcake (for Ruby) My paternal grandmother Ruby Robey lived her entire life in Simpson County, Ky., and she taught me to make strawberry shortcake. I think there was something about being a...
07.22.2021 Columns Charity’s Column: Gnocchi quest The struggle to acquire a skill can be a powerful motivation, and when it comes to gnocchi, the pillowy Italian dumplings made with potato, flour, eggs and cheese, my...
07.14.2021 Around the Island A true, funny, inspiring story of 1950s Shelter Island: It all comes down to a ‘Hill of Beans’ On July 23, 24 and 25, the Shelter Island Historical Society will present “A Hill of Beans,” a musical that tells the story of a farming cooperative that sprouted...