Seeking info on 1961 labor camp fire in Cutchogue
Early on the morning of Oct. 8, 1961, a Sunday, a fire erupted at the Eastern Suffolk Cooperative farm labor camp at the north end of Cox Lane in Cutchogue. Four residents of the camp died in the...
View ArticleColumn: Historical society’s slavery exhibit shines an overdue light
To say that the institution of slavery that once existed on the North Fork has been overlooked by town historians and local historical societies would certainly be accurate. Wayland Jefferson, a...
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A day unlike any other: Sharing memories on Apollo 11’s 50th anniversary
One of the most astonishing events in human history occurred July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder attached to the lunar module and sank his boots into the soft surface of the...
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Wick Column: June 6, 1944 was an extraordinary day
June 6, 1944, D-Day, is a day that fundamentally changed history and pointed America, and all of Europe, in an entirely new direction. World War II had gone on for nearly five years prior to that day....
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Column: A remarkable discovery of our nation’s past
Last week, a far-reaching discovery was made in a muddy river bottom in Alabama. It is a discovery that speaks to our history, and to the past we as a nation still struggle to understand and, in some...
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Calverton’s Miller Environmental Group sold to financial services firm
In 1999, Mark Miller sat down with his father, Jim, and came up with terms under which he would buy Miller Environmental Group, a business Jim Miller had started 28 years earlier. That year, the...
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Column: Climate change unfolding right before us
Tide levels in Peconic Bay are higher nowadays, and this is having profound repercussions in a number of critical areas. For example, the company that owns the North Ferry, which provides service...
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Perry Gershon says he will run again in 2020
Perry Gershon, who lost a close election to Lee Zeldin in the 1st Congressional District race last November but scored major gains for Democrats, will announce Saturday that he’ll run again in 2020....
View ArticleState amends opioid lawsuit filed in Suffolk County
The New York State Attorney General’s office said Thursday it has expanded a lawsuit previously filed in Suffolk County Supreme Court against the makers of opioid narcotics to include members of the...
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Archeologist Ralph Solecki remembered as ‘pioneer’ of North Fork history
Ralph Solecki was 14 years old in 1931, when his father bought a house on a hilltop in Cutchogue that the locals called Manor Hill. South of the house lay farmland bracketed by woods and salt creeks,...
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Column: You didn’t know him, but he was a player in our history
On March 3, in the tiny South Carolina hamlet of McClellanville, a man named Frank Snyder died. I know this because Mr. Snyder’s niece emailed me last Tuesday night, March 5, to say he had passed. He...
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Column: For Catholic church, just another brick in the wall
The gigantic scandal that is the Roman Catholic Church continues to grow worse, with new revelations of criminal behavior and the sexual abuse of children. With each new disclosure, the church itself...
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History of North Fork slavery largely ignored until recently, historians say
Not long after the founding of Southold Town in the mid-1600s, and more than a century before the western end of the town broke off and became Riverhead, the institution of slavery was part of...
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Column: How did Bill Boken get away with murder?
Why wasn’t William Boken ever arrested in connection with the October 1966 disappearance of Louise Pietrewicz? In light of all that has emerged about this 52-year-old case in the last 15 months, and...
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Column: Anthony Palumbo was ‘a shining star’ among detectives
On April 20, 1979, a 13-year-old Smithtown boy named John Pius was found dead in a patch of woods behind an elementary school. His death had been remarkably cruel: He had been beaten, and stones the...
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Fire destroys part of Northville home on New Year’s Day
The east end of a Northville home, including the garage and a car inside it, was destroyed by fire on New Year’s Day. Five fire departments responded to the scene Tuesday night on Pier Avenue, north...
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Column: North Fork History Project to continue in 2019
In January, our papers began publishing the North Fork History Project, a series of stories showcasing the remarkable history of our area. We began with the massive wall of ice that, as it retreated,...
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Column: Politics and the plight of the St. Louis
“I am the child of refugees. Had my father and his parents not been allowed here, I would not exist.” — Billy Joel The passenger ship St. Louis left the port of Hamburg, Germany, May 13, 1939, with...
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North Fork History Project: 100 years ago, peace came at the 11th hour
William Beebe grew up in Orient, a small-town boy from an idyllic hamlet surrounded by farms and saltwater and reachable by a narrow causeway that made it nearly an island at the tip of the North...
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Column: For Democrats, the Sept. 13 primary for surrogate judge conceals a...
How Tara Scully ended up on the Democratic Party primary ballot for Suffolk County Surrogate Court is a far more important issue than who will next serve on that bench. In late June, Ms. Scully, an...
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