07.02.2021 Around the Island Book signing featured at History Center Farmers Market During this Saturday’s Farmers Market at the History Center, author Jacquelyn A. Ottman will sign copies of her new book, “Connecting from a Quarantine Kitchen: My Shelter Island Pandemic...
11.24.2020 Around the Island Charity’s Column: Making history, and making dinner The Thanksgiving spread at my house this year may be heartbreakingly modest, but I’ll still take pictures of the toy turkey and the mini-marshmallows on my sweet spuds. I’m...
05.04.2020 Around the Island Food: Leave it for leftovers When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Sheltering in place on Shelter Island, where food options can be limited even in normal times, we’re challenging ourselves to be creative...
08.09.2018 Lifestyle Finding a family hidden in the past This past year, Island resident Karen Kiaer undertook what she describes as a “labor of love.” The result is “Ancestors Through My Eyes,” a nonfiction book describing her journey...
07.05.2018 Around the Island Death, life, laughter and poetry Wallace Stevens wrote that “Death is the mother of all beauty.” A century later, in the basement of the Shelter Island Library, Virginia Walker, the new leader of the...
