12.19.2023 Around the Island Gimme Shelter: What’s the good word? It’s time once again for Gimme Shelter to present our annual review of how the English language fared during the year that’s hurrying away from us, and the report...
02.08.2019 Around the Island Island portraits The gallery at the Shelter Island Library features new works of art by Island artists every two months. The portraits exhibition (pictured above and below) was on display through...
12.26.2017 Columns Gimme Shelter: Word police on patrol It’s time for Gimme Shelter’s annual report on how English — the language of Shakespeare, Emerson, Joyce and Professor Irwin Corey — fared in 2017.
07.22.2014 Around the Island In search of a lost Island: New book published The old expression that if you live long enough you become a stranger in your own place applies to Shelter Island as much —more? — than any other place....
03.15.2013 Columns Column: Irish doubles A man took a seat at The Dory on Bridge Street the other evening and ordered a Jameson’s. The man next to him said, “You like the Irish, same...