08.02.2020 Around the Island Homecoming/Heights Memorial Sunday, Aug. 2 at Union Chapel Homecoming Sunday is a tradition at Union Chapel in the Grove, celebrated on Father’s Day. It begins the summer season in “God’s Summer Cottage,” as Stewart Herman called the...
07.25.2020 Around the Island ‘It Tolls for Thee’: Union Chapel in the Grove We climb the wooden steps to the bell tower of Union Chapel in the Grove to ring the antique bell, welcoming everyone to pray on Sunday mornings. Even though...
07.19.2020 Around the Island ‘A Quiet Earnestness’: Union Chapel then and now Imagine what Union Chapel in the Grove looked like in 1872. Methodists arrived from Brooklyn to found the Shelter Island Grove and Camp Meeting Association, purchasing 300 acres and...
06.28.2020 Around the Island Returning to its roots: Union Chapel moves outdoors Union Chapel in the Grove will return to its roots beginning on Sunday, July 5 at 10:30 am when the first service takes place outdoors in the Grove. The...
02.10.2019 Obituaries Shelter Island Reporter obituaries: Helme, Williams Jay Ely Helme Jay Ely Helme of Cape Coral, Florida and Middletown, Rhode Island, beloved husband, father and grandfather passed away on January 21, 2019 at 87 years of...
