COURTESY ILLUSTRATION The library is hosting a panel discussion on the First Amendment at 5:30 today, Thursday, October 25.
THIS WEEK
FIRST AMENDMENT
The Shelter Island Library is hosting a special panel called “The First Amendment: The Cornerstone of Our Democracy” on Thursday, October 25, at 5:30 p.m. (more…)
Bette Ann Davis DiOrio
Bette Ann Davis DiOrio, 88, of Shelter Island, beloved mother, wife and grandmother, passed away at San Simeon by the Sound, on February 26, 2018. (more…)
BEVERLEA WALZ PHOTO
Father Charles McCarron, pastor of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, speaking at a memorial service for Reverend Canon Paul Wancura in April.
This is the first in a series about religious institutions on Shelter Island.
Every Sunday, members of the St. Mary’s Episcopal Church community gather to sing, pray, catch up with each other and hear the pastor, Father Charles McCarron, reconcile Jesus’s teachings with modern life on the Island — a uniquely Episcopalian approach to faith that he calls “the middle way,” where “newness is held in tension with tradition.” (more…)
Anders Gustav Wallin II, 101, passed away peacefully on April 13, 2018 at the VA Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. (more…)
COURTESY PHOTO | Author Helene Stapinski speaks at Friday Night Dialogues on November 3.
MURDER IN MATERA
Writer Helene Stapinski grew up hearing lurid stories of her great-great-grandmother Vita who had committed murder in southern Italy and fled to America with her three children.
More than a century later, and over the course of 10 years, Ms. Stapinski traveled to Basilicata, a mountainous region in Italy’s “instep” to discover what really happened. (more…)