09.02.2019 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY President Richard Nixon appointed Warren Burger to replace Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The New Orleans Pop Festival attracted 25,000...
07.29.2019 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY Pope Paul VI arrived in Entebbe, Uganda for the first visit by a reigning Pope to Africa. At the apartment of French intermediary Jean...
07.02.2019 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY Prince Charles was invested as the Prince of Wales. 78,000 fans attended the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island. There were 140,000 attendees at...
02.06.2019 Around the Island A night to remember There was excitement in the air as a crowd of community members and families of participants filed into the school auditorium last Friday night to watch the Shelter Island...
01.20.2018 Columns Column: Codger is older This is a big week for birthdays, including Martin Luther King Jr., Benjamin Franklin, Al Capone, Muhammad Ali, Edgar Allan Poe, Janis Joplin and last and certainly least, Codger,...