05.24.2014 Columns Gimme Shelter: Taking a meeting We were ten minutes into the Sunday service before I realized it had started.
08.08.2013 Announcements Manor hosts author of history of slavery on the Island Sylvester Manor Educational Farm will host a book reading by Mac Griswold, author of “The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island,” recently published by Farrar,...
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...
04.28.2012 Announcements Talk set at NYU on slavery, manumission at Sylvester Manor Historian and author Mac Griswald, whose forthcoming book “Slaves in the Attic” documents slavery at Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island, will be talking about her research in a program...