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03.18.2023 News

Pitching in to make a difference: AmeriCorps volunteers at Quinipet

It wasn’t hard to figure out what Allene Shapiro, Jake Balinsky and Naomi Brown had been doing all morning. As they greeted a guest on a porch at Quinipet...

06.15.2021 Real Estate

Living history on a South Midway Road estate: Legendary ‘Kemah’ is for sale

It’s 23 acres of Shelter Island history, from the time the Native people lived on it and used it as an access point for drinking water from Fresh Pond....

05.01.2021 Around the Island

A friendly meeting in a grove of trees; Shelter Island Quakers gathering every Sunday

The Shelter Island Friends Meeting is held every Sunday, as it has been all winter, at 10:30 a.m. at the Quaker monument on the Sylvester Manor grounds, 116 North...

05.24.2014 Columns

Gimme Shelter: Taking a meeting

We were ten minutes into the Sunday service before I realized it had started.

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Pitching in to make a difference: AmeriCorps volunteers at Quinipet

Living history on a South Midway Road estate: Legendary ‘Kemah’ is for sale

A friendly meeting in a grove of trees; Shelter Island Quakers gathering every Sunday

Gimme Shelter: Taking a meeting