09.21.2019 Around the Island Celebrate Varney and Whitman On Tuesday, Sept. 24, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., the Art/Rich Poetry Roundtable of Shelter Island will present a poetry reading at the Shelter Island Library to celebrate the...
06.05.2016 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Walt Whitman’s Long Island love affair The most famous native of Suffolk County is Walt Whitman and much of the poet’s work was closely tied to his birthplace. “Starting from the fish-shape Paumanok, where I...
09.30.2014 Sports V’girls take big steps at ‘marathon’ tournament When I was a kid, there was a certain stereotyping involved in sports. The slower baseball player was usually made into the catcher. The big kid always played on...