12.30.2019 News This week in Shelter Island history: Expanding deer hunting program, ice floes in bay 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY The soap opera “All My Children” debuted on ABC television. “Mame” closed at the Wintergarden Theatre in New York City after 1,508 performances. “Hair”...
11.25.2019 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY Scientists at Harvard University announced they had isolated a single gene. Elbert Frank Cox, an African-American mathematician who was the first of his race...
06.24.2019 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY Two hundred people attended the first Jewish worship service at the White House during the Nixon era when the president wanted to encourage religious...