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Column: The wheel of history keeps turning
About a decade ago, I spent months talking to the men and women who lived in a farm labor camp that sat by the railroad tracks on Depot Lane in Cutchogue. There were once dozens of these labor camps...
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Column: High deer numbers threaten public health
Not that long ago, many longtime residents and farmers rarely saw deer on their properties. Farmers could maintain their crops without the fear that herds of deer would devour their plants and destroy...
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East End Trivia Contest raises $1,700 for Jamesport Meeting House
Where was Camp Siegfried located? When did slavery officially end in New York State? Who was Benny Hooper? These were some of the questions posed to an enthusiastic audience last Thursday during the...
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Column: A WWII mystery — Who made drawings?
The letters and drawings date to 1944 and 1945, when the writer and artist was stationed in Europe during World War II. There are hundreds of letters and dozens of drawings and, together, they tell...
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Column: From ‘Dunkirk’ to Charlottesville — all in one weekend
Last weekend, my wife and I saw “Dunkirk,” a movie about an extraordinary time in history when German armies pushed all the way to the English Channel in their conquest of France and the Low...
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Woman saved by good Samaritan from Jamesport fire, one firefighter injured
A woman escaped a house fire in Jamesport with the help of a good Samaritan and a firefighter was injured battling the blaze Saturday. Mike Gatto was enjoying the afternoon at Jason’s Vineyard on Main...
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Column: Celebrating a nun’s 60 years of service
Last Saturday night a large group of men, women, children and babies filled all the pews at St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church in Greenport for the 8 p.m. Spanish Mass. Benches at the rear of the church...
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Column: A WWII letter mystery is finally solved
Last Sunday, Kathleen Grimmett of Austin, Texas, was on the Internet trying to find information about her parents, Bill and Billie Lamb. Billie was her mother’s nickname; her given name was Vera. Ms....
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Geothermal heating system installed at Glenwood Village in Riverhead
Some of the region’s top energy and elected officials came together in Riverhead last Thursday to showcase a signature achievement on Long Island: the installation of a geothermal heating system that...
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Reports: Bannon to attend fundraiser for Rep. Lee Zeldin
Stephen Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, is to attend a fundraiser next month for Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley). Newsday and Axios both reported that Bannon will attend the...
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Column: Krupskis’ world — the family and the farm
Albert J. Krupski Sr. was a very lucky man. He grew up on a handsome Peconic farm as the son of Nettie and Julius Krupski. That farm was where the Lenz Winery is today. His grandparents lived on...
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One word describes the shuttered Riverhead armory: spooky
Spooky! The Riverhead armory sits alongside Route 58 in Riverhead in between car dealerships, shuttered and shabby. Built by New York State in 1957 to house the National Guard, the armory closed more...
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Times Review newspapers to begin North Fork History Project Jan. 11
What do we know about our history? Native people — who got the name “Indians” from Europeans — lived on the North Fork for perhaps 10,000 years, arriving from the west in search of new lives as the...
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North Fork History Project: Before anything else, there was ice
In the beginning, there was ice. Eighteen thousand years ago, a massive wall of ice 300 feet thick extended south from the Arctic to what is now New Jersey. There was no Long Island then. There was no...
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North Fork History Project: Long before the ‘first families’
They are a mystery in so many ways. Who were they? Where did they come from? What was the nature of their spoken language? Who were their ancestors? The people who came to what would become Long...
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A packed barn of family and friends says goodbye to Lyle Wells
A standing room only crowd packed into a barn at Martha Clara Vineyards Thursday morning to celebrate the life of Lyle Wells, the iconic and enterprising Riverhead farmer and family man who died last...
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North Fork History Project: When English arrive, Indians disperse
Her name was Sarah. She was 8 years old. Old enough to be sold by her owner in Southold Town to a man named John Parker, who owned a mill on the Peconic River near what today is downtown Riverhead....
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Column: Finding inspiration in ‘The Work We Do’
This week, you’ll want to see “The Work We Do” videos on The Suffolk Times and Riverhead News-Review websites. Both showcase local people on the job, doing the work that gets them up in the morning. In...
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This is an imaginary conversation with a member of a ‘first’ family whose roots in Southold Town — which originally included present-day Riverhead — date back to the town’s founding in 1640. The...
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Column: Remembering the whalers of a bygone era
For Sandi Brewster-Walker, connecting names and histories to the men who worked on whale boats in the 19th century is a passion. In particular, her interest is in making visible those men of color —...
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