03.27.2024 News The American Revolution at sea: Shelter Island letter surfaces recounting battles It was a letter, like so many in the 18th century, of Islanders writing back home to a relative, expressing interest in family members, including, “Since I left ye...
10.05.2020 News Links to the living past of Shelter Island: 18th Century letter surfaces about an epidemic If we often think there’s something unique about the times we’re living through, history will just as often wake us from that delusion. Take the case of a 250...
