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Tim Purtell in the pollinator garden that surrounds his home in the Heights.
The garden around Tim Purtell’s Shelter Island home is a hopping place. And that’s just the way he likes it.
During the course of a couple of hours spent talking with him about his life, his work on the Green Options Committee and childhood memories of Shelter Island in the 1950s and 1960s, we were interrupted constantly. (more…)