Eel Spearing and Smoked Eel: A Lost Winter Survival Food of the Peconic Estuary
Cold water has a way of clarifying things. Strip away the noise of summer —…
The Raid on Fort St. George: How Eighty Men, Eight Whaleboats, and One Audacious Commander Changed the War on Long Island
Eight whaleboats pushed off from the Connecticut shore at roughly four in the morning on…
The Wreck of the HMS Culloden: How a 74-Gun British Warship Met Its End on the Rocks of Montauk
Two o’clock in the morning. January 23, 1781. A nor’easter is tearing through Block Island…
When Folklore Meets LIDAR: The Science of Legendary Walls and the Prehistoric Origins of Sunken Cities
Nine meters beneath the cold, fast-moving waters off Brittany’s western tip, a retired geologist named…
The Setauket Slave Cemetery: Why Most North Shore Towns Won’t Acknowledge the Graveyards They Built Subdivisions Over
There are at least fourteen documented burial grounds for enslaved people on the North Shore….
The Ice Harvest That Fed New York: How Long Island’s Frozen Ponds Became the City’s Refrigerator
Before mechanical refrigeration, New York City ran on ice cut from Long Island’s ponds. Peter traces the forgotten industry — and the corporate trust that killed it.
