05.15.2017 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY The wheels of justice turn slowly but in May 1967 the Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee and was the...
04.03.2017 News This week in Shelter Island History 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY Martin Luther King Jr. denounced American involvement in the Vietnam War during a religious service at Riverside Church in New York City.
03.03.2017 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY Svetlana Allilueva, daughter of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, defected to the west seeking asylum at the United States Embassy in New Delhi, India,...
01.09.2017 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY Dr. James Bedford, author and University of California psychology professor, became the first person to be cryogenically preserved following his death. His body is...
08.26.2016 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY Sir Francis Chichester embarked on a 228-day circumnavigation of the world leaving from Portsmouth, England, and becoming the first person to do so alone....