Before the Hamptons existed, Cold Spring Harbor was shipping millions of oysters a week to Manhattan by steamboat. Here’s the food history Long Island forgot.
My Marcellino NY workshop in Setauket sat directly across from the Brewster House, c. 1665 — the oldest building in Brookhaven and a Culper Spy Ring landmark. What that place meant, and why I’m going back.
Before the Hamptons, the North Shore’s Gold Coast estates hired Black jazz musicians to play for white money — and left almost no record behind. Here’s what we know.
Long before the Hamptons became synonymous with East Coast wealth, before the word ‘estate’ conjured…
Before it was a suburban connector, Willets Path was the arterial highway for Canadian whiskey moving from Prohibition-era speedboats to Manhattan speakeasies. The road remembers what the subdivisions forgot.
Before COVID-19, the North Shore fought the deadliest pandemic in history with nothing but gauze masks and improvised wards. Here’s what the town records buried.