06.15.2018 News A 10K friendship spanning time and space Having never met, neither one knew what to expect, one arriving in Greenport by train, the other waiting at the station that June morning 18 years ago. But within...
06.03.2014 News Anthropologist returns to Manor for new dig In 1652, Nathaniel Sylvester purchased Shelter Island from the Manhansett tribe, with the intention of producing food to support his family’s lucrative sugar plantation in Barbados. For more than...
10.31.2013 Around the Island Tracking the ghosts of Sylvester Manor She had just started working at Sylvester Manor as a housekeeper, now almost 40 years ago, when Rose Wissemann came in touch with something one afternoon that still haunts...
07.12.2013 Around the Island Island Profile: Mac Griswold, telling the story of Sylvester Manor Life prepared writer Mac Griswold to tell the world about Shelter Island’s historical gem, Sylvester Manor, the pickled-in-time plantation founded in the 17th century and occupied until 2006 by...
01.24.2013 Columns Column: Finding beauty, and yourself, in a tree Here we are again, smack dab in the middle of winter, the holidays a fading memory giving way to the stark reality that spring is months away. The trees...