03.02.2026 Featured Story Born a slave; died free man on Shelter Island COURTESY PHOTO Lincoln Boys Brigade of St. Mary’s Church photograph, 1908. Albert’s son, Alfred Scott, is on the far right.
02.25.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Profile: Cathy Kenny “It’s organized chaos. Everybody grabs something,” Cathy Kenny said, recounting the experience of fighting her first house fire. Inspired by the life of her brother Sean, a 25-year veteran...
02.25.2026 Featured Story The spy in the family tree: Island author and the Civil War Allison Collard can be an inspiration to every family that amasses a trove of birth and death records, military documents, census forms, and religious certificates, whether in carefully preserved...
02.17.2026 Featured Story When their boats can’t float, Shelter Island sailors glide The winter of 1934 on Shelter Island was cold, cold, cold. Did we mention cold? While Islanders stayed close to their stoves and out of the wind, Shelter Island...
02.04.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Journal: The Cane Mutiny Here I am, a gimpy old widow-woman with a cane, in her 80th year, snowed-in (or was), for the fourth time, in a world that’s imploding hourly. I hear...
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