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North Fork History Project: Slavery, an ignored part of our history
They were here, nearly from the founding of Southold Town in the mid-17th century. Their presence has not been widely discussed or been part of the conversation in either Southold or Riverhead towns,...
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North Fork History Project: When was Cutchogue’s Old House built?
How old is the Old House in Cutchogue? This handsome home, which sits on the Village Green, has long been believed to be part of Budd and Horton family lore, dating back to the founding of Southold...
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North Fork History Project: The Revolution ‘tore families apart’
On the morning of May 23, 1777, 170 soldiers from several regiments of the American Continental Army crossed Long Island Sound from Guilford, Conn., in 13 whaleboats. By approximately 6 p.m., they...
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North Fork History Project: For one loyalist, all would be lost
On a cold day in January 1980, at a public hearing in Riverhead to discuss the future of the Peconic Bay estuary and the proposed preservation of Robins Island, a tall, white-haired man with a...
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North Fork History Project: From growing divisions within Southold, River...
The Jamesport Meeting House, as magnificent a building as stands anywhere on eastern Long Island, was built in 1731 by virtually all the pioneer settlers of what was then the western half of Southold...
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North Fork History Project: An epic saga of East End whaling
She was writing from San Francisco with news of a discovery in her family tree. Way back, three great-grandfathers ago, she wrote, she had an ancestor named Notley Lee. “My mother is from the Lee...
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North Fork History Project: Murders in 1854 shattered a hamlet
Walking in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Cutchogue, it takes only a few minutes to find the section where Ellen Haggerty was buried. It is near the front of the cemetery, behind the life-sized statue of...
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Documentary tells the story of a woman learning her mother’s Holocaust...
When Marisa Fox was growing up on the Upper West Side of New York City, she believed her mother’s maiden name was Tamar Fromer. She was in her 40s when she learned that wasn’t her mother’s name at...
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North Fork History Project: The Wickham murders part two; a field hand exacts...
On the night of June 2, 1854, a Friday, an angry Nicholas Behan returned under cover of darkness to the Cutchogue farm of James and Frances Wickham. He had spent the days since May 30, when he was...
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Column: Discovery sheds light on history of slavery
In 1940, when Southold was preparing to celebrate its 300th anniversary, restoration work was done on The Old House in Cutchogue. During that process, something was discovered under a section of the...
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Column: Grand jury report casts the Catholic priesthood in the darkest light
We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this. We know some of you have heard some of it before. There have been other reports of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church. But never on this...
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North Fork History Project: Artists painted here for solitude In the years...
Wendy Prellwitz paints in the same Peconic studio where her great-grandfather Henry Prellwitz painted early in the 20th century. The adjoining studio is where her great-grandmother Edith Prellwitz...
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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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Documentary tells the story of a woman learning her mother’s Holocaust...
When Marisa Fox was growing up on the Upper West Side of New York City, she believed her mother’s maiden name was Tamar Fromer. She was in her 40s when she learned that wasn’t her mother’s name at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
North Fork History Project: The Wickham murders part two; a field hand exacts...
On the night of June 2, 1854, a Friday, an angry Nicholas Behan returned under cover of darkness to the Cutchogue farm of James and Frances Wickham. He had spent the days since May 30, when he was...
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Column: Discovery sheds light on history of slavery
In 1940, when Southold was preparing to celebrate its 300th anniversary, restoration work was done on The Old House in Cutchogue. During that process, something was discovered under a section of the...
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Column: Grand jury report casts the Catholic priesthood in the darkest light
We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this. We know some of you have heard some of it before. There have been other reports of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church. But never on this...
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North Fork History Project: Artists painted here for solitude In the years...
Wendy Prellwitz paints in the same Peconic studio where her great-grandfather Henry Prellwitz painted early in the 20th century. The adjoining studio is where her great-grandmother Edith Prellwitz...
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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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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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