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The Great Calverton Pickle Wreck is a Part of Us All

August 13, 2026August 18, 2026 Beth Young

My great-great aunt Marjorie Tyte was on the Shelter Island Express train that crashed into the Golden Pickle Factory on Aug. 13, 1926. It's a story that's been handed down through my family with such tumbled edges that it has blurred into my childhood recollections, in the soup of yarns spun out by my father and his father before him (including suspicious tales of Cary Grant picking up young Hallock

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The Revolution Comes Home to Southold This Weekend

July 9, 2026July 17, 2026 East End Beacon

The celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence is still very much alive in local historians' minds after the Fourth of July this year. This weekend, historians in both Southold and Cutchogue will be reminding the public of the North Fork's role in the fight for independence, during which many patriots here fled to Connecticut to avoid the British occupation of Long Island. On

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With Help of New Grant, Greenport Begins Outreach on Vote to Expand Historic District

February 27, 2026March 22, 2026 Beth Young

The Village of Greenport announced Thursday that it has been awarded a $25,000 grant from New York State Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation to involve the community in its plan to expand Greenport’s historic district on the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places. If successful, the nomination would expand the boundaries of Greenport’s historic district, which now contains around 290 buildings, by about 225 buildings, at the

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Tall Ships, Galas, Innovative Theater Casting & Podcasts: A Modern Way To Celebrate the 250th

January 6, 2026January 13, 2026 Beth Young

Now that we've officially entered the semiquincentennial of the founding of the United States, we're expecting the trickle of information about celebratory plans to flood the East End in the upcoming weeks. What we know today? The Coast Guard training Barque Eagle is coming to Greenport as part of its participation in Sail 4th 250. Riverhead is kicking off its celebrations later this month with a gala at the Sea

Etched in the glass of an educational display at Hallockville Museum Farm are idyllic scenes from the farm’s history, and the nuclear power plant that was slated to be built there.

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Hallockville at Fifty

June 5, 2025June 7, 2025 Beth Young

Keeping the Memory of What’s Been Done Here, and What Might Have Been Fifty years ago, development was coming for a sleepy stretch of Sound Avenue that hugs the spine of the North Fork. While today this corridor is facing the prospect of housing developments and so-called “agritourism hotels,” the plans at that time were far more bleak. Tired of growing potatoes in 1963, some farmers along this stretch of

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Seaport Museum Launches 2025 Lecture Series

March 1, 2025March 17, 2025 East End Beacon

The East End Seaport Museum in Greenport has announced its Arts & Culture lecture series for 2025. Lecture will be presented at the East End Seaport Museum, 100 Third St, Greenport. On Sunday, March 2 at 3 p.m., Southold Town Historian Amy Folk will give a talk on “North Fork & Whaling.” In the days before electric light, lamps filled with whale oil provided a bright, safe, and steady light.

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Amistad Comes to Montauk

August 18, 2024September 6, 2024 Beth Young

In August of 1839, the schooner Amistad anchored off the shore at Culloden Point in Montauk, and a small landing party disembarked in a rowboat looking for food and water. They were no ordinary crew, but a group of Africans who had been kidnapped in Sierra Leone to be sold into slavery in the new world. They had overthrown their captors and demanded they be taken back to Africa, but

Dave Lester painting a decoy in his shop in The Springs. |. Joanne Friedland Roberts photo

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Film & Events Celebrate Bonac

September 27, 2023September 27, 2023 Beth Young

Pictured Above: Dave Bennett painting a decoy in his shop in The Springs. |. Joanne Friedland Roberts photo This October, the Peter Matthiessen Center, formed to build on the legacy of the celebrated author and naturalist who for many years called Sagaponack home, is embarking on several ambitious projects to tell the stories of the interactions, both locally and globally, between people and the natural world. The two-part program “Celebrating

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Montaukett Chief to Lead East Hampton Anniversary Parade as Tribal Recognition Languishes on Hochul’s Desk

September 16, 2023September 16, 2023 Beth Young

Pictured Above: Members of the East Hampton Town Board with Robert Pharoah (third from left) as he was named Grand Marshal of the parade. Montaukett Chief Robert Pharaoh has been chosen as the Grand Marshal of East Hampton Town's 375th anniversary parade this coming Saturday, Sept. 23, as the town supports the tribe in its quest for recognition by New York State. The parade steps off at 10 a.m. on

State Lawmakers celebrated the reopening of the Montauk Lighthouse Aug. 16.

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Celebrating the Reopening of the Montauk Point Lighthouse

August 17, 2023August 17, 2023 Beth Young

Pictured Above: Lawmakers at the Aug. 16 ribbon cutting at the Montauk Point Lighthose. |. photo courtesy New York Governor Kathy Hochul's office. State lawmakers celebrated the reopening of the Montauk Point Lighthouse in an Aug. 16 ceremony, after a two-year-long, $44 million project to protect the site from erosion and renovate the historic lighthouse. Over the past two years, H&L Contracting of Bay Shore performed the work contracted by

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Oysterponds to Celebrate Moby-Dick

July 11, 2023July 13, 2023 Beth Young

The Oysterponds Historical Society will host its very first Moby-Dick Reading Half-Marathon Weekend July 14 through 16, with several days of dramatic readings from Melville’s magnum opus, along with a sea shanty sing-a-long with chowder and biscuits, a kids' whale parade down Village Lane and an outdoor screening of "In the Heart of the Sea." Community members will read representative selections from one of the most acclaimed American novels and there